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"I AM the True Vine and My Father Is the Husbandman"
I would like to welcome you to the Conclave of the Friends of Christ. I would like to welcome you as friends of Christ.
I would like to read to you the words of beloved Jesus as recorded by John the Beloved, which were given as his sermon on the vine and the branches just before his statement "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you."1
As we consider these words of Jesus to his disciples, who were to become his apostles, we realize that there could not have been recorded in four gospels all the things that Jesus heard of his Father which he had made known unto them. And therefore, we may only look to his progressive revelation with us from the ascended state to complete the message. And so, he promised that the Comforter would come to teach us all things, "whatsoever I have taught you," to bring to our remembrance.
It becomes clearer by the moment why Archangel Gabriel should come to hold the balance for us in the etheric octave. If identity as the integrated personality in God is the key to victory, then that integrated personality must contain the divine memory of the walk with Christ, of friendship with him and with the ascended elders - the brothers and sisters who have gone before us, the saints robed in white.
This memory is our inheritance. When you think about those who have little identity or those who are very young in years whose identity is short, you can see that the full identity and self-awareness is not formed because the memory of life experience, lessons learned, is not present.
To wipe out the memory of an individual by a brain operation, a lobotomy of some sort, is to wipe out, for all intents and purposes, the identity, the integrated personality. One may think, one may reason, but if one has no memory of who one is, one cannot go backwards or forwards in time and therefore one cannot define the present.
Therefore, Jesus came to define the continuous stream of consciousness, God consciousness that is the memory - "Lo, before Abraham was, I AM!" And Jesus had that full conscious memory of himself with the Father in the beginning with the Word itself, by which all things were created. This memory exists for us in our Holy Christ Self. ...
We receive in this octave, as it were, droplets of the nectar that comes from that source of memory and the Mind of God - sufficient for our daily work, our chores, our friendships, our life. Most often we run on intimations, impressions, impulses.
When we work with the Holy Spirit, we find that there is no distance between the action and the knowledge. In fact, only in action do we understand who and what we are and what is the message of God. ...
Therefore you do remember - but the poor power of the brain in this physical octave does not communicate to the outer mind all that the soul is aware of. And therefore understand, there are many levels of your consciousness right now in your soul. You know many things that that mental body does not conceive of, is not aware of. And yet there is a communication, above all, of friendship in Christ, with one another and with Him.
Jesus said, "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
Friendship with Christ, then, which is the invitation of the Lord, is based upon our friendship with one another. When we love one another as Jesus loves us, then we may be called his friend. And if we will lay down our life for one another, not merely for a metaphysical principle of someone's Christ Self, but truly lay down our life for a soul, a soul in distress that needs our light, then are we the friends of Christ. ...
We as lifestreams are vessels for the moving stream of God's consciousness that comes from the Great Central Sun. The stream passes through us. We recognize it as the identity of God. As we identify with it, we become a part of that stream, we identify with it, we become the moving stream of God. And as we go with it, we experience as God experiences in the hearts and souls of his people their burst of joy and multiplication of the Word.
So in the ascended-master consciousness, which we have with the holy angels and beloved Jesus, we do experience what God experiences - ourselves a part of every other disciple, every other brother in Christ, everyone who does fulfill the mandate of the friend of Christ.
Understanding this loyal friendship which is ours, we realize it is a part of the office of chela. Chela does not directly translate from "disciple" to "chela" because chela includes the servant, the friend, and the brother.
Chela, in the Eastern sense of the word, is a trinity of manifestation. And we can in various moments become the servant of God in one another, the friend of God in one another, and the brother of God in one another. And we understand this as the alternative manifestations of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit - or the threefold flame of power, wisdom, and love. And therefore, we find an infinite flexibility in our service.
We understand that these modes of consciousness are actually for the holding of the balance of worlds, the magnetism, the polarity of Alpha and Omega. And this is why we feel consciousness, we feel God, we feel the movements of the earth, we perceive the stars, we identify vibrations - because God is flowing through us, and God gives us a sensitivity that could not possibly be merely the sum of the parts of the faculties of the physical body.
And this is what is so important to realize: that you have a spiritual consciousness that merges and is one with the physical consciousness, insofar as the physical consciousness can contain it. And when the physical is filled and can contain no more light, then to experience those levels of being we must transcend the physical. And for this purpose God gives us the opportunity to leave the physical body and enter and experience, enjoy, and relive the infinite capacity of the soul, once every day when we place the physical body to rest.
And therefore, we constantly have a quickening of the soul memory so that this very presence of the soul in God does not atrophy during physical incarnation so that we would, for all intents and purposes, lose contact with the higher octaves.
This is the great mystery of the flame in the bowl - the soul within the temple anchored in the seat-of-the-soul chakra, the threefold flame of the heart, and the chakras, all of them. It is a mystery of how Spirit can interpenetrate matter, how matter can be hard; it can be concrete, and yet it can be seen, even through modern science, to be nothing at all.
Even physicists are saying there is, in reality, no matter. And when we understand how matter is composed, we see the vast openness, we see there where Spirit can be within us - between and in and around the molecules and in the very center of the atom itself.
Therefore, to have this higher consciousness of identity, we are not so locked-in to mortality, the laws of death and physical limitation. The I that I AM is more than the I that I see! It's more than meets the eye. The I that I AM will endure beyond this mortal form. The I that I AM has ever been. And these are not merely words - this is the Word of the integration of God, of Christ within you.
It is not so much that you repeat the Word, but that you find it in yourself and you hear it speak through you and affirm the divine memory which you are.
And this memory comes to us through the principle of the vine and the branches: "I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman."
The Father, the Mighty I AM Presence, you see behind me, depicted in the chart of your Real Self. "I AM the true vine." The vine of the Father descends and you see the pure Person of Christ. The Father, the Mighty I AM Presence, is the husbandman of the true vine. There is Jesus' teaching on the I AM Presence - crystal clear in the Book of John, who loved much, so very much that he heard the teachings of God directly from the heart of Jesus when he laid his head upon his breast and heard the pulsation of the heartbeat.2
His ear, the mighty orifice of receptivity, heard the inner man of the heart of Jesus.3 And therefore, he received the design of self-knowledge, the matrix. He understood the profound interpretation which Jesus gave his disciples on the teachings of our Father Enoch. John was able to write this because he contained the teaching and understood its mystery.
"I AM the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit."
The branch is the lower figure in the chart. "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away." This "me," then, is the mystical presence of the personal Christ Self that you see in the chart.
The great teaching of the Law of the One is that Christ is One, the Holy Christ Self is One. And this Christ, or Christos,4 this universal Light individualized in us is not separated. And therefore, this Christ in you, me, and everyone, the one consciousness of Christ that is the heart of the Mystical Body of God in which we are, says, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit ..."
The one Christ speaks of all of the branches, all of you together. It is as though the Christ in all of us were speaking with one voice, and indeed is! And this is a mystery of God. It is difficult to imagine one in the place of thousands.
And when we say, "Holy Christ Selves of all mankind," we really should say, "Holy Christ Self of all mankind," underscoring the mystery of oneness and how that great Law of the One can manifest in time and space many times over and still be that one. It is this mystery and the absence of understanding of it that has confused all of Christendom.
Jesus was once the branch. He became the fullness of the vine. Jesus, the Son of man, so fully identified with the vine that he became Christ and we call him Christ. Yet the universal One is the Christ of all of us into which we must enter.
"Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." It seems we can well remember that the branch that does not bear fruit is taken away. But it is a hard thing to think, just in the moment when we are bearing fruit and feel we have done a good day's work and service, that God will come to purge us that we can bear more fruit.
It is a difficult discipline - this path. But, you see, the purging of the branch is the preparing of the branch to merge with the vine; and to do so, that branch must enter in to the same coequality of the friend of Christ - coequality, cobalance, Alpha and Omega.
When the branch, you - the lower figure in the chart - contain the fullness of that Mother flame of Omega, you will stand in a coequal energy polarity with Christ and then the two will be one.
So you must bring to your Christ Self your Christhood in order to have that integrated personality in Christ. Nothing cannot be created out of something, and nothing cannot create something! So nothing cannot go to God. You cannot go to God empty-handed and say, "Here I am, God, take me and make me one with you!"
You say, "Here I am, God, and I know who I AM THAT I AM! I know that I AM on earth the fullness of that Christ Presence. Here I AM, O God. I give to you the gift of my Christhood forged and won because, you have purged me, because you have tended the vine; because, Father, you are the husbandman; because, Christ, you are the vine. So I have become the fullness of my issue."
Does not the fruit itself when planted bear forth the next tree again? So if you are of God and if you are a branch bearing fruit and you bring forth more and more fruit, you see, the goal is to become the whole tree. The goal is to merge with the chart in its totality.
Therefore each day as we bear fruit, we look not for praise, not for a pat on the back, not for someone to say how wonderful we are. We look for and expect the purging that the next day's fruit might be a better fruit. We long for it! We desire to have taken from us that which is not perfect - or if it is a perfect fruit (which it may well be), tomorrow we must bring forth twelve more.
For the Law is satisfied in the glorious multiplication of Alpha and Omega - multiplication by the cloven tongues of the Holy Spirit. That is the law of cosmos. All that you work of God must be multiplied to bless every other part of God, and it becomes one with the Mystical One who is Christ in us all.
"Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." Jesus has defined the chart of the I AM Presence, the Christ Self, the husbandman, the vine, and the branch. Now he speaks of his three years with the disciples - "ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you."
If I were editing the Bible, I would capitalize the W of "the Word." Now ye are clean through the Word - the Word in me that is spoken through me to you, the transfer of that Word. Not mere words have cleansed the disciples, but the Word incarnate speaking as the power of the Logos.
When we receive that Word, we are in the process of self-cleansing. The Divine Self in me and in you is cleansing us of our karma, our sin, our ignorance, the dust of the centuries, because the Word is a living fire. It leaps from God to our hearts! It leaps out of the mouth of the prophets, the Lord Christ, The Faithful and True.
That fire that proceeds out of the mouth of the witness5 is, by definition, in the mouth of the witness; for he who bears witness unto the I AM Presence does have the I AM Presence flow through him, and this is the river of living fire. And it is this Word which cleansed the disciples.
Think of this cleansing process! Take John the Beloved alone, see how he understood this Word. Over ninety years old was he - very disliked by the powers of the material world. They tried to get rid of him. Past the age of ninety, they boiled him in oil and he emerged unscathed.6
And after that experience, he was on the Isle of Patmos and he received the Book of Revelation, which is like the update on the Book of Enoch. It is Jesus Christ, the ascended master, through the angel, through the Christ Self of John, dictating now the Word that we must have to understand. Here is Enoch, here is the life of Christ and John the Baptist, here are the Gospels - where do we go from here?
John the Beloved became that Word. And this is where we do not stop where other Christian ministries do stop. They do not dare to proclaim that the disciple must contain the Word to fulfill his discipleship, that it is not blasphemy to affirm that where I AM the Word is also, by the power of the Holy Spirit, by the power of that living Christ.
We cannot forevermore be servants, disciples, brothers, friends. After the coequality of the flame and the balance, we must enter in to the full inheritance of Christ as it was taught through the apostle Paul.7
The cleansing power of the Word is the very fulcrum of this activity of the Great White Brotherhood - the Word of the saints, the Word of God, the living Word that comes from on high and descends and makes us something more than we were before we contacted that Word.
That is the power of it: to cleanse us. Cleanse us of what? We know not what manipulation there has been of these vessels of clay, the genetic code, the brain itself - cleansing us from the lower evolution, releasing within us the divine capacity to put on the new man who is Christ;8 a cleansing of whatever we have long forgotten yet which resides in the subconscious.
We do not need to know. It suffices us that we know the Word. For the Word contains all the memory that we are. And this is the great hope of healing for all those who have partaken of drugs, for all who have had substance in them knowingly or unknowingly to deprive them of that divine awareness. The Word in us is the divine memory, and the Word will heal us.
I AM the Lord thy God which healeth thee!
I AM the Lord thy God which healeth thee!9
That is your Mighty I AM Presence not only speaking to you but pleading with you to accept your divine wholeness now.
I AM the LORD thy God which healeth thee! Let go, then, of the sense of nonwholeness, nonbeing, noncoequality with Christ. Unless you can contain the matrix of your wholeness, unless you can even hope for or understand that you have a right to be more than mere Homo sapiens, how can you receive the Infinite One where you are? You see, it is a cup that must be formed. ...
"Abide in me, and I in you." O the wondrous sense of Alpha and Omega one with us! The divine Being of God deigning to be in us and we in God. It is scripture that is two thousand years old, and yet when someone not only accepts this teaching but experiences it and becomes it, then, of course, the message of the next chapter becomes applicable.
It results in persecution and mockery. For there is a tremendous jealousy in the demons of hell itself regarding those who truly are locked in the divine embrace, who live in God and God in them. And they cannot be separated, for the branches of the mighty Tree of Life are locked with the very vessel and with the very roots of the tree of the Son of man.
There is no separation of you from your Mighty I AM Presence if you truly live in that Presence and place that Presence first. There is no separation of you from the teachings of the path of the ascended master Jesus Christ - if you assimilate that Word, if you eat it, digest it, become it, and the Word itself is now a part of your body, soul, and mind. ...
"Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I AM the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing!"
That is your Christ Self speaking to you out of the mouth of precious Jesus in the final hours of his physical incarnation with us. That oneness and that love for that Christ, for the branch!
Jesus did not say, "Without me, you may do some things, although you may not do them so well." He said, "Without me ye can do nothing" - zero! And that means daily.
Without invoking your Christ Self, loving your master, your friend, your Lord, and your brother, your guide, your guardian, your Guru, without loving this person who is your own higher consciousness and Real Self, you in these four lower bodies can do nothing.
That Christ Self is the vessel that releases the light that beats your heart. Let your heart stop beating for two minutes, for five minutes - see what you can do. All things you do are by the heartbeat of Christ, by the love of Christ as the issue of the Father.
And yet, so quickly do we fall into the delusion that we may go out and do this and that and receive independent credit for this "wonderful work we have done." And so, there is a clique upon earth of those people who pat each other on the back with such admiration as to what one another has accomplished. Never do you hear, "Glory to God!" or "Praise to the Lord! I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." ...
"Without me you can do nothing, without me you can be nothing." There is nothing we can become without this Beloved. Your days and hours ought to be filled with the intense love of this God, this Christ who is the Lover of our souls. We should all be in the bliss of the new love of Christ perpetually, filled with joy that we are in the presence of Our Lord and our Maker who loves us.
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
When you think about the sands in the hourglass running out - as Jesus knew his time physically with his own was short, he did not mince words. He did not make compromising statements calculated to reduce the level of fear or concern or anxiety of the psychology of his disciples. He did not temper the Truth.
"If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered." There is the statement of Truth. He did not say how long it would take. He simply declared the eternal fiat of the ages: It will come to pass that that individual who abides not in Christ, the living Word, the universal Christ, the Cosmic Christ, the personal Christ, Jesus, the beloved Christ Self, all being the one Light - if a man does not abide in this, he is cast out and withered.
"And men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." And that is the end of life in the eternal sense for those who have had an opportunity for evolution.
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you" - my Word, with a capital W - every word he spoke was a cup of the living Word. That Word must abide in you. The power of the Word of the Guru! ...
Now we see such infinite grace by reason of our acceptance of this living Christ: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you!"
Do you believe it? ["Yes!"] Then let us pray:
Lord Jesus Christ, in the name of our Mighty I AM Presence and Christ Self, we affirm: Thou dost abide in us and we abide in Thee. We hold back nothing. Occupy, then, the fullness of mind, body, soul, spirit - the etheric, the mental, the emotional, the physical body. Abide in us and allow our soul now to ascend the mighty coil of Life and enter into the point of the mercy seat,10 the point of Cosmic Christhood in the I AM THAT I AM.
So we abide in the Father and in the Son, and this is what we ask, O God. This is our will. It is the will of us who have come together in the Mystical Body of God, one and all.
In the concerted prayer of our hearts, O God, we demand therefore the binding of the planetary beast of marijuana! Bind then its perpetuation through the beast of greed and the money beast and organized crime and every individual who gives place to that beast in his temple, in the place of the living Christ!
We demand, therefore, as our prayer of this Holy Thursday, the full power of the Word within us: Abide in me and I in you. Therefore, Lord Christ, go forth with the armies of heaven, The Faithful and True, and wipe out the entire planetary consciousness of death and dying in drugs - heroin, cocaine, PCP, marijuana, liquor, alcohol, nicotine, cigarettes, and every form of these substances that are clouding the mind and brain of our people.
Beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the fire of our heart now goes forth in the meeting of the fire of your heart. And as one, multiplied by the Law of the One of every keeper of this flame on earth abiding in Thee and Thou in him, we say, let the war on drugs be fought and let it be God-victorious! Let the legions of Victory and all saints of heaven, let Almighty God, therefore, send the dispensation through your heart, Lord Jesus, with all the ascended hosts for the binding of this entire momentum of death consciousness on earth.
We ask, O Lord, we sustain this prayer by the fervor of our words, which are thy words fed to us, which we therefore return to you in the science of the spoken Word. And with Thee, O Lord, and with the Lord God Almighty, we declare of this, our prayer unto Thee:
My Word shall not return unto me void. My Word shall not return unto me void! My Word shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that purpose to which I send it forth. In the name I AM THAT I AM, in the name Jesus Christ, we accept the answer to this prayer by our hearts' oneness, by thy promise fulfilled, O Lord.
For we are indeed friends of thine own heart. We are the friends of Christ Jesus, of our own Christ Self. We are the friends of all who are aspiring into that oneness as friends, one with the other.
O God, we lay down our life for that friend. We therefore love one another as Thou hast loved us. Therefore, exalt and multiply that love of this Community of the Holy Spirit.
Expand! expand! expand! the mighty chalice of the Holy Grail that we might contain enough of Thee, O God, that all the world may drink from this cup of Life and know themselves truly as one with Thee.
Make them one, O God, even as we are one. And make them one through our oneness, through the Call, through thy Word in us. O thy blessed Word, we praise thy name, I AM THAT I AM Jesus Christ.
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Mother, Amen. Hallelujah, Amen!
Hallelujah, Amen! Hallelujah, Amen! Hallelujah, Amen!
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you."
It is done because when we ask what we will, our will, as our heart, is one with God's will and his heart. Therefore our will takes on the power of God's will, and because we are the vessel, God releases that will through us.
When God lives in us and we live in him, the oneness itself, the Law of the One, is the means for the answered prayer. This is the great mystery of the Law of the One. It was the original knowledge of the Children of the Sun.
This is the lost inheritance. It is the congruency of ourselves in God that produces his power to change the world. That is the power that all true faithful seek.
"Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples." Bearing much fruit, therefore - having the abundance of love and wisdom and joy, the treasures of heaven and even of earth - we realize is our estate and inheritance.
This light that comes forth through us from God, that "much fruit" which is for his glory is for the glorification of the Father; yet we find that that glory that surrounds us is the very point of the envy of the fallen ones who always persecute the bearer of the Light.
"As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love." I have loved you, says Jesus, in the same way that the Father has loved me. Continue in this love of the Father for the Son, the Guru for the chela, Maitreya for Lord Jesus.
"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." The abiding in Christ, He in us and we in Him, is the abiding in the Love. The Love is a movement. It is that which passes between Father and Son.
The feeling of love which we have is always in contemplation of the object of our love - Almighty God, a baby, a friend, those who are so dear to us. Therefore love, the very impetus of love, is a movement and a divine interaction.
Jesus is saying, Love one another as I have loved you - "As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love." We realize, then, Love is a movement of the Holy Spirit, heart to heart. And it moves between hearts because the Father and the Son, the I AM Presence and the Christ Self, dwell in that heart.
"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love" - Lord, I will abide in your love! - "even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."
Joy is the light of the I AM Presence moving within you. It is also the movement of Almighty God. When you think about it, if the flame of joy goes out - of love, of hope, of trust, of friendship - there is no life, there is nothing worthwhile.
So, you see, that which makes life worthwhile is not because this body is biologically functioning, it's because of the movement. It is the stream of Life, it is the flow, it is the interaction, it is Alpha and Omega over and over and over again in the divine polarity of friends in Christ. Our joy then is full, and we say, in the name I AM THAT I AM:
Lord Jesus, let your joy remain in me! 4x
In the name of Jesus Christ, my joy is full! 3x
My joy is full! My joy is full!
My cup runneth over! My cup of joy runneth over! 3x
So all the world may drink therefrom -
Enough joy to share with everyone! Hallelujah, Amen!
Hallelujah, Amen! Hallelujah, Amen! Hallelujah, Amen!
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The "Welcome to the Conclave of the Friends of Christ" was delivered by Elizabeth Clare Prophet March 31, 1983, prior to the dictation of John the Beloved; published on the 16-cassette Easter album, also available separately (cassette B83067).
Now, my beloved, the night is far spent and the day is at hand. In the morning light, the daystar of your I AM Presence appears. And finally, the soul feels the warmth of My God. And there is a personal identification of the One, and the Son knows the radiance of Aton and the personal love of the seeming impersonal disc that hovers in the sky of being.
Is it not a supreme sense of self-worth that we discover in the person of Ikhnaton,11 who saw the sun yet had the daring to proclaim, "This sun has crowned me king of all Egypt"? Understand that the sun of your Mighty I AM Presence does crown the Christ in you and give to you through that Christ the key to integration with God.
Therefore, many look at the sun. Some see it as a mere phenomenon of nature - the natural man perceiving a physical universe with a nonperception of the overlay and interpenetration of the mighty Light. Even the wisps of light that appear as the Milky Way give a sense of many dimensions in Spirit and Matter.
O beloved, to contemplate the universal God and to realize this God has created all for thee, for thee in a very personal sense! For thou art, in truth, the Beloved. And the beloved Christ in you is worthy of the whole creation. And thy soul is worthy to rise this day, to look not back into that night far spent12 but to enter in to a new inheritance - new only in thy sight. For it is an ancient gift of the Ancient of Days - new only because you have suddenly realized it is the most precious gift of all.
The sense of the personal oneness with our Father, with the one we knew also, Maitreya, is the great gift of love of Jesus. He knew that when we would be no longer with him, we also would need the memory of the walk in a very personal oneness with the Father.
Why, to read some of those passages which we heard him speak - "I and my Father are one. ... I am in the Father and the Father is in me" - you would think that the Father was only the Father of Jesus or that Jesus were his only son. So complete was the allness of this relationship, that we could understand the hand of the Infinite drawing a mighty circle of Life, an ovoid containing only the Father and the Son. And we must discover how to enter that ovoid with them, how to discover the same love, the same nearness.
This Jesus gave to us in the immense understanding of "I AM the open door - I AM the door of the sheepfold. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." The open door to the sphere of Being, true Being - where Life is and only where Life is - is that Christ which he demonstrated and which he was.
So strict was his understanding of this door as the only door, that he gave to us therefore a supreme necessity of finding also that point of contact within ourselves of the Guru Maitreya, of the Cosmic Christ, of the one whom he called Father - God the Almighty One, God the I AM Presence, yes, and God personified in Maitreya.13
Blessed ones, understand the need of the worshiping heart to identify the Person of Christ as the next one beyond oneself (so was Maitreya unto Jesus the one who reflected the fullness of that portion that Jesus was to be in the walk of his own discipleship and friendship with God) - yet one far enough advanced that the worshipful heart may see clearly: "This one is my teacher. This one is my exemplar. This one is the Christ whom I shall emulate and become. I will be like him, for he is like God. I can see him, and he beholds that God whom I would also be with."
Thus, beloved, if one's teacher is so far beyond oneself that one can neither understand his word nor perceive his face, then that teacher is no longer relevant. That teacher therefore is indeed removed in a corner. But mankind must, yea, they deserve to behold their teachers face-to-face.14
Even as we beheld him, so he beheld Maitreya. And when he would become all of Maitreya - "I am in the Father and the Father is in me; I am in the Guru and the Guru is in me" - then, you see, he would perceive the next manifestation of that Christ and move onward in infinite spirals of becoming more of the Universal One.
The worshipful heart in Christ always requires an identification with the elder brother, with the one who is on the next step.
Think for a moment how you send love to the universe, how you enjoy the sunset and the rose color of the sky. But also think that if you were the only one on planet Earth, how you would feel lonely without the friend, the true friend of Christ. This, then, establishes your understanding for the need of the coordinate, the need of the friend - and likewise, the similar need of Christ for his friends.
In this day and hour when many celebrate the Last Supper, realize that this, too, is a blessing of friends as coequals. Understand also, blessed hearts, that Jesus had a need to be together with us in these hours preceding the vigil in the garden, the betrayal, the arrest, and the trial.15
Understand, therefore, that this flame of love is a flame that you must diligently seek. As you love the ascended masters as teachers in the way, as you give love to Saint Germain and to Jesus and to others, realize that the ascended masters hold a presence, a vision, and a personal manifestation in your life so that you might take the cup of love which you are accustomed to giving unto them and give this to your own Christ Self and I AM Presence, which to many of you yet seems impersonal.
Some of you think you know El Morya16 better than you know your I AM Presence. Perhaps it is so. Jesus with us taught us to reach beyond himself, to pass through the open door of his very personal love, to transcend and go beyond the person to the very heart of the Son of God universally manifest.
Through the doorway of the personal Mediator, therefore, enter the great ovoid of Life where the Father and the Son dwell together and enter your heart, there to seal a cosmos all inside.
Blessed ones, you come to hear me speak and you wonder what word I shall bring back of my communion with Him. You have heard on many occasions, as I have spoken, of the dearest and closest love of his heart. That love was for a cosmic purpose. That love was for Armageddon, for all of the hours of trial and persecution that we were to bear.
Is there anything except love that can see you through that dark night of the soul when the karma even eclipses, sometimes to your own self, the identity of your soul? - until, working through that darkness by the single candle, there is the consuming of the past, and once again you walk that path until you are strengthened sufficiently, this time to know the crucifixion and the dark night of the Spirit.17
Realize, then, that the love which I received and which I gave was a love which would prepare me for the great vision of the Apocalypse. You must realize that in order to receive a dictation so grand as this, in order to understand the angel - even the Christ Self of my own higher consciousness who would speak to me, and the other angels who appeared in that experience - I would also have to contain within myself a simple yet profound understanding of that which was entailed.
Realize, then, had I not been fully grounded in his love or in the profound teachings he gave to us on the life and mission of Enoch and his bearing that mantle and that authority of the early patriarchs, blessed ones, I would not have been able to receive that message. He prepared me in life for being his Messenger. He prepared me for a mission of preaching the Word, delivering the light of his heart, and saved this dispensation for the last.
Realize then how powerful is the communication heart-to-heart. Had I not had this teaching, perhaps I should have suspected that something had gone awry - perhaps I was hallucinating, perhaps it was a fabrication or a temptation of the devil.
To know the difference between the spirit of Christ and the impostor, one must know his teaching, one must know him as the Advocate of the Faithful, one must understand the flow of his consciousness, one must understand his heart.
So many of you have been long time in the presence of our dictations, and yet you continue to think that the receiving and the giving of a dictation from on high is somehow a sealed, guaranteed, mechanical process. You are very accustomed to modern technology and not so much accustomed to the interaction of the Holy Spirit.
You see, as you walk the Path you are, in reality, all messengers of some level or other, of vibrations and frequencies. You receive an impulse of some sort and you act. Sometimes it is the divine impulse and you move on. In other moments, darkness covers the land and the cloud prevents your consciousness from a clear perception; and therefore your actions do not reflect Reality, the reasoning of your mind is not that of God, and in those moments you are messengers of other planes of being, other forcefields.
If you will notice the mental process - how you think and draw conclusions and then again how a sudden rush of an emotion will trigger the mind and you may draw entirely erroneous conclusions about life and people - you will see that all those evolving on earth are subject to impulses of every kind. And those who have strength and faith and a knowledge of the scriptures and of divine law and of the science of the spoken Word become more and more fine-tuned as their soul receives the love of the Christ Self and its unerring direction. Thus, beloved, you may see in your own life, even by the process of error, how easy it is to believe that the unreal is real and that the real is not real.
Therefore, the office of the Messenger in embodiment is one that must be sponsored and sealed and insulated from the normal absorption of the collective unconscious by the people of earth. It is a mantle in itself, and it must be ordained. And thus, because it is ordained and protected by the hosts of the LORD, there is a dependability and a constancy. Yet the one who wears the mantle must still be part of and contained in those masters and cosmic beings who would deliver their light and illumination and direction for your path.
Thus, it is an evolving process. The one "so below" does contain the awareness of that which is "above" and learns from the above and also from the world context. The masters, drawing upon the collective body of information of the Messenger, also therefore multiply their penetration and probing of the earth scene.
Therefore, when one receives the impulse of one's Christ Self, one must contain that Christ consciousness even as a point of light in order to have a measuring rod and a standard for saying, "This - not this, but that. That - not this." The fine line of discrimination, therefore, causes you to screen out that which is unbalanced, even insane, coming from sources you know to be not of the light.
The sound mind, the healthy heart is able therefore to maintain a pure stream, to act upon it, and to go in the right way. But those who do not draw the line of the Christ consciousness may find themselves acting out the parts of mischievous entities and falling into the traps of demons, thereby suffering the loss of friendships, the divisions of life, the divorcements that occur at all levels.
Take heed, therefore, and understand that you may become the opening for the Presence of God, the opening for the Christ when you speak, one to the other, words of comfort and enlightenment. Take care that you understand what are the areas of your life where you are most open. The door of your Christ consciousness is open, and there you stand in that doorway. And in that particular area or field, you may deliver a certainty and an expertise that is filled also with the wisdom of the Holy Ghost.
It is better to concentrate on being God's instrument in an area of life where you are comfortable and where you have a certain training at inner and outer levels than to try to be an authority in those areas and subjects where you do not have even the basic discrimination of a studied outlook.
Therefore, understand the mantle. It is the mantle of your Christ Self, and you are in training to wear that mantle at all times. We give you that training and we show a manifestation and an example.
Remember that each and any one of you may be, ere your life conclude, the recipient of a very special piece of information, a work of art, a discovery, a contribution to the world consciousness that comes directly from that Christ Jesus - one with your Christ Self and Maitreya.
The guarding of the mind, the purifying of the stream, the following in all points of the Law will find you, then, I trust, in the end a greater master of life than you have known in all previous incarnations. This is our goal for you and our trust.
We know it takes a lifetime to realize full mastery and even adeptship, and many lifetimes preceding. We are patient, but sometimes you are not so patient - either with yourself or with the Path or with the masters or with the Messenger. You somehow think that all things you have heard and learned ought to be there at the very point of the heart and the step, and that for all you have done you ought to have something better to show for the extremes of effort that you have put forth.
This impatience comes from an absence of perception of the long road behind you and the long road ahead. You cannot compare yourself to another. You cannot know the extent of karma that is given to you to bear in this life or how that karma can affect your heart and mind and ability to act in a practical manner.
Therefore, many make great strides in balancing many layers of the past, clearing the way and negating the necessity of passing through many untoward conditions and relationships which that karma would have otherwise demanded. But for the violet flame and the Holy Spirit and your service to the whole world, you might find yourself far behind and in a different situation - but due to it, you are accelerated! And having missed the very burdens of karma, you do not miss them - and therefore you do not realize just how much you have overcome.
Therefore walk by faith, knowing that the Law is true, that you must serve the Law with regularity in order for the Law to serve you.
Think of how many years I waited for the coming of the ascended master Jesus to my heart. Think, then, beloved ones, that every day is the preparation and every day is the manifestation of some untold glory, some fiery release of Light.
Some days seem very average and uneventful - almost boring in their ritual of sameness. But all of this is preparation and a storing of light in the batteries of the chakras. When that storage of light and balance reaches a certain level, almost like lightning the universe then responds, and many find that suddenly their lives take a turn and they are almost catapulted into world service.
Then you take the activity as a whole, this organization manifesting that mystical body of God, and you must realize that as the collective light of the disciples increases, so the outreach also does increase.
Therefore, with all thy getting, get then this understanding of entering into the ovoid of the Father and the Son, the Guru and the chela, through the heart of Christ. Then in that oneness of a co-relationship as you pursue your apprenticeship with God, you will realize that all that he taught contains the seeds of the ascended masters' teachings that have unfolded. For when you are one and locked in the divine embrace of this Father and Son, it is the magnet of the Holy Spirit, the magnet of the Holy Spirit that seals your soul in the marriage ritual as the bride of that Christ.
I have come in this hour for the sealing of the brethren. I have come for the sealing of the true brothers and sisters of this mandala of Christ. I have come for the sealing of the true friends of the Messengers of our Brotherhood. And I have come also that the betrayer might be judged, and that those who have seized him to take him before the judgment of this world might themselves be judged. As they have done unto him, so it is meted unto them.
Indeed, the night is far spent. And the night of the fallen ones may not last forever, beloved hearts. For the Daystar of your appearing - and yours! and yours! - is brightening the sky. They may no longer hide, they may no longer cover the sun of your I AM Presence or cast a shadow before the walk of Christ with you.
Yes, I come in the celebration of the true freedom of Our Lord. And I contemplate the mystery of that courage and that profound understanding which he had with his own, John the Baptist - that understanding of life itself and the coming of the Light to reprove the darkness.
O how victorious is the victory of Love! How great is the love itself of the victory of the Son of God! This is the hour of the greatest victory that the world has ever known, and yet there are elements of that victory and that life that you have never known or understood, for they have never been recorded.
You have read over and over and over the Gospel accounts of this period of Jesus' life, and yet there is a record that will one day be unfolded that will reveal how in some points, some points, circumstances were not as they have been portrayed. Indeed, the fullness of the picture will then become clear.
In fact, it is not necessary for all that is known by us to be given in order for the individual to perfect his path and to employ the blessed flame of the resurrection. But I must say, many questions that have burdened the hearts of the faithful these two thousand years would be answered if all of the facts surrounding Jesus' mission unto the very end were known.
Thus, beloved, ponder the words of the two men in white apparel who said, "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up? This same Jesus, which is taken from you, shall so come in a like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."18
Ponder these words, and ask the LORD himself: When did he return? When did he come in a like manner as they saw him taken up with the cloud that received him out of their sight?
Meditate, then, upon the ascension of the LORD and you will learn much about your own ascension. And for some of you, the veil may part and you may see beyond the cloud truly the manifestation of the Son of God.
For the Shekinah glory of the Father did enfold him, and in that secret place, Father and Son abide,19 waiting, O waiting, my beloved, to give you the full experience - not merely the vision, but the full experience of that glory.
By the power of the all-seeing eye of God upon you, by the power of Love, so magnetize the eye of God that it produce instantaneously the immaculate manifestation of Godhood where you are, where I AM. Vision is a product of love, and love can only be sustained by vision through the vicissitudes of the Path. Understand how vision is light that allows the soul in love to grow. And love itself enfires and inspires the higher vision.
Thus, beloved, you might say that I am the disciple whom he bade master that line of the clock which you call the ten/four20 - the line of the fall of the Satans21 and the line of the victory of the Self over the lesser self, the line of the obedient and loving in heart in whom the Father and Son do abide, the line of the ruby-ray cross that portends the coming of the Aquarian age and the mastery of the soul chakra by the power of the heart.
Let the sign of the heart be for the transmutation now of all that is past - even the long night far spent. Let the sign of the heart prove whether or not you now contain forgiveness, mercy's flame, and therefore transmutation, and therefore a violet flame of freedom waiting, waiting for you to cast all that is past into the very center of that flame to be no more, to be forgotten and erased even from the record of life.
The beginning of the Path after the night is far spent is the point of the heart of forgiveness. May it be so, as above and so below, within the Guru and the chela. May the cosmic cross of white fire keep the way, then, of the walk with Christ throughout eternity on the road to Emmaus. Emmaus - the path of "Emmanuel unto the sun," unto the Great Central Sun, unto the arms of Alpha and Omega.
In the Light I AM THAT I AM, I, John, by the power of my own Christhood (to which He gave me the key) - I bless you with love and the vision of your own City Foursquare.
Hallelujah, Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
Hallelujah, Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
Hallelujah, Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
O Judah, rejoice, rejoice!
Rejoice, O Judah, in songs divine
With Cherubim and Seraphim harmonious join
With Cherubim and Seraphim harmonious join.
Hallelujah, Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
And in songs divine, harmonious join.
Hallelujah, Amen, Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
Amen
Amen
Hallelujah, Amen.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by John the Beloved was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet March 31, 1983, during the Conclave of the Friends of Christ at Camelot; published on the 16-cassette Easter album, dictation available separately (cassette B83068).