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Chapter 39
Beloved Gautama Buddha - September 25, 1983


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1983
Inspired in
Mark L. Prophet
and
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

39  Beloved Gautama Buddha - September 25, 1983

Vol. 26 No. 39 - Beloved Gautama Buddha - September 25, 1983
Conclave of the Friends of Christ
XV
Making Choices

     Well done, O son of myself - Maitreya, my blessed love. I bid you and each and every one a good evening from the Royal Teton Retreat.

     I am here in the heights of God consciousness midst shafts of victory that descend from the Great Central Sun. And to each and every one of you I send tiny blue forget-me-nots which I blow with my breath as a kiss of love to you from the heart of Alpha.

     For I have taken my journey to his heart and brought back baskets of forget-me-nots as a precious love sign to be remembered - a remembrance from the heart of blessed Alpha. And the center of each one is the kiss of Omega.

     As love increases in the earth, love increases in your heart and in this community - as all things which were from the beginning must be fulfilled, and that which is written is written, and one is taken and another is left.1 And thus the influx of light-bearers replaces the outgoing ones who have chosen not the Light but the dark sun of self-effacement.

     Those who have chosen to live in the shadow of self must therefore understand the beginning and the end of their choices. And those who choose to live in the brilliance of the noonday sun must also understand the consequences of their choices.

     For the choice shall be outplayed and the path of each one shall be known. And those who finish in their course will be a reminder to all of the fruit of light and the fruit of shadow: one wizened and dropping from the tree that shall no longer bear the fruit as a witness of light; the other full and fresh and filled with the divine nectar, able to nourish a soul with one fruit for a thousand years. Such is the fruit of the Tree of Life from the heart of the Buddhic tree.

     Let all understand, therefore, that even as you work, as you rise from your beds, as you retire at night, so all the world is making choices. Be not dismayed or affrighted in the suddenness of turning of events. For, beloved ones, it has ever been thus. And therefore, all the more humble we become that without God we are nothing. Without him we cannot accomplish even the raising of our right hand or our little finger.

     Oh, `tis sweet, `tis sweet to be in the presence of beloved Alpha! One of these days I will take you in my arms and bear you to him and present you as my very special children. One of these days we will take a journey together, but in this hour I bring back to you his message of love, even as I have brought to him your hearts' fervor for the saving of earth.

     I would remind you, lest any fear, that all prophecy concerning light and darkness may fail. It may fail for a very good reason. For the people of God have made strides and accelerated; and therefore, the dark cloud has been dissolved and a new day of opportunity is born. On the other hand, prophecies of good may also fail because people take for granted [that] because a prophecy of good has been given, it will be fulfilled automatically. And therefore, they make little effort to make it happen themselves.

     And thus, you see how the brothers of our band are very short on prophecy in either direction, but choose rather to warn of the possibility of consequences if individuals do persist in the path of unreality, in multiplying maya, or in whiling away the hours when they could be forging a new civilization and castles of light for the descent, perhaps, of the Snow King and Queen.

     For these twin flames once ruled an ancient civilization, tropical in nature, that was where Greenland is today and covered a good part of the North Pole. Blessed ones, when the ages changed and the inversions took place, thus they were remembered for the end of their period as the Snow King and the Snow Queen.

     Thus you understand how the white-fire light may also descend, and that which was once green and lush and beautiful as a garden of Eden, even as a Lemurian paradise, might be covered over with a white-fire/blue-fire energy of the sun. And thus, the age of snow comes as a purification of the etheric plane, purifying even the physical body and preparing once again for a new order.

     Thus, all things in their cycles have a cosmic purpose. And that which was once snow may blossom again and become the pink and the gold and the violet hues and the azure blue and the light of many worlds twinkling, sparkling in tropical waters that show all manner of opportunity of life-forms moving toward the sun.

     Dear hearts, wonders unseen, long forgotten but known in our heart, are a part of earth's evolution. And thus you yourselves, finding yourselves at the fulcrum of ages turning, in the heart of Elohim at the nexus of the sands of the hourglass, on the edge of time and space, reaching for eternity - you, finding yourself poised in Matter, making ready for the ascension, understanding Death and Hell beneath your feet and watching the violent waves leap up to taunt and tempt you - all things you understand and know. Small wonder that from time to time you are distressed!

     But, beloved ones, you who stand between ages - the golden ages past and those to come - you who understand that even the night of the Kali Yuga must one day be spent, you must also look forward, therefore, truly to a coming great golden age and realize that it is yet true that in the twinkling of an eye, in the twinkling of a rainbow-crystal light, there can come to pass a tremendous burst of freedom and joy on planet Earth!

     We desire, therefore, to reinforce in your heart that whatever you may have interpreted as prediction of cataclysm, worldwide or specifically here or there, must not remain in your mind as something that has been stated with ultimate definition or finality by any of our bands but only as a reading of world karma and as a reading of the consequences of world karma.

     At any moment in the day or night, avatars descending from the heights of heaven may bring such illumination and the dispensation of the Holy Spirit be so great that souls of light respond and there is a turning such as has not even been contemplated by certain of the elementals and forces in nature who are so beset by world karma in this hour.

     Therefore, I, Gautama, I who understand so much how the vision of the elementals can affect world conditions, ask you to pray to Cyclopea for the divine image and the divine vision of the all-seeing eye of God, of the golden age and the City Foursquare and the Temple Beautiful to be given to every elemental.

     And if you will place upon your walls and in your homes pictures of majestic beauty and of light and scenes of paradise, you will find that elementals will gather to meditate upon these focuses of light and will go forth to outpicture peace and the purification of the elements - of the seas and the earth and the air. And with some cooperation of hearts of light, there will be a cleaning up of the environment and of pollution.

     But you understand, even in this area there is the momentum of the anti-Buddha forces who pollute the environment and go unchallenged and unchecked, as there is corruption even at the top levels of the government in the misuse and misappropriation of funds where they should be applied immediately to remove the most dangerous hazards to health of the people (not only of this nation but of every nation upon earth) and for the binding and the judgment of those individuals who persist in violating the beauty of elemental life in all of its pristine glory.

     I refer to the majestic whales, to the mighty beasts that must be held as a manifestation of the Holy Ghost and understood, that when life is held sacred in these wonderful beings of light, then, beloved hearts, that life will be transformed by your own Christhood and your own resurrection flame.

     As a matter of fact, the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ with the children of God who have the threefold flame2 now has also imparted new hope to elemental life. And there has been communicated to one and all a new sense of freedom.

     And therefore, I, Gautama Buddha, pronounce therefore the binding and the breaking of the curse of the black magicians over certain beings of the elements who have been held imprisoned and therefore not been able to perform their perfect work for keeping this planetary body a beautiful and safe place for the sons of God. We also call from our level, beloved hearts, as we do engage in fervent prayer for the judgment of the fallen ones who make life miserable for the embodied angels, for elementals (especially those imprisoned), and for the children of God on earth. Our prayers ascend and gather momentum by your own, even as the reverse is true. And therefore, we together, as co-members and joint members of the Great White Brotherhood, do indeed make our impact with the Four and Twenty Elders, the Great Central Sun, and the Holy Kumaras.

     Truly, earth is an experiment in this sector of the solar system and the solar system within the galaxy. And therefore, many eyes are upon this planet - and more eyes than you can truly realize are upon the Messenger and the chelas. For the decisions you make day by day truly show the strength of our God and our Brotherhood. And therefore, we are grateful for you, each one, as you are capable servants, each in your own way.

     Understand that truly we appreciate professional excellence assisting us to make the presentation of the golden teachings of the golden age more and more palatable to the world, more and more understandable. Our gratitude goes out to every heart who has inclined itself now to this activity, who has understood the need, and who has come even to spell the burden upon our co-workers who have labored long to produce a work that might quicken, awaken, and enliven souls of light.

     I AM Gautama Buddha in the heart of the flame of God-gratitude for this year's service and the completion of another spiral of the Messenger's own cosmic clock. Entering therefore the new year of the birth cycle (even as it occurs with the ascended masters on the anniversary of our ascension day), there is an opening wide of the lens of God and a new release and dispensation from the causal body of each one.

     And each one of you, beloved hearts, on your own birthday, ought to celebrate the opening of the eye of your own causal body, celebrating therefore the descent of light and attainment of that new line. In fact, you ought to prepare for at least six weeks for the coming of that opportunity when you can give to the world your earned momentum on the specific line of the clock. And this you may do by preparing, in the act of balancing karma - through the violet flame - of any residual momentums of misqualified substance which would occur as a block and a clogging action to the chakra of that line and to the descent of that light.

     Understanding, therefore, the necessity for the clear channel on the cosmic clock of your service, you may call for the opening of the pathways of heaven from many ascended beings who also have increased their attainment on the very line of the clock in which you serve in your birth year.

     Truly, you must not underestimate the gift and dispensation from beloved Portia of the Flame of God-Justice in the heart of the unascended Messenger, for this could not take place had she not earned it by service. And therefore, contrary to the judgments of the betrayers whose sense of injustice regarding her office is very great, it is because the Karmic Board and the Christed ones have determined and voted that this is the hour for that God-attainment to be placed in her heart, and that, in fact, her acts and words and deeds have embodied Justice to all who have come to this activity, that this dispensation has come forth.

     It could come forth in no other way, for it is never given to an embodied soul to bear a flame of the hierarchy except it have been earned by many, many incarnations of divine action.

     And therefore, in this Flame of God-Justice, in the name of Saint Germain and Portia and my own name as well as that of Lanello, you may call for this heart flame directly out of the heart of the embodied Messenger, who does bear it as the crown and scepter of the World Mother in this year, so that you may understand that through the quality of Justice, all may earn the path of Light.

     And so, you see, through each of the God-qualities of the twelve signs of the clock, a mighty door is opened. These represent, as you know, the twelve gates of the Holy City.3 Because the opening of the door of the Flame of Justice is upon the Messenger, so it is a door through which you also can walk.

     You must also understand that the presence of an intensification of a quality of God does also intensify the awareness of its antithesis. And some are so blinded by the light of Justice that all they see is their own injustice, and they will project this against the embodied servant.

     So it is that one teacher among men wore a mirror around his neck, that those disciples who came to him would see themselves and realize it is always the self that the individual projects into the teacher.4 Such is the wisdom of the wise ones of old. Such is the wisdom of the Brotherhood.

     This dispensation, when understood in its magnitude, will enable you to understand, blessed and beloved hearts, what is the meaning of the opposition to the single person of God - what is the meaning of all of this tumult that is made against her lifestream and against the activity.

     Realize, then, that your own path of Godhood is also surrounded with mighty flames of the purple iris and all of the colors that form God-Justice - from the blue, to the aqua, to the delicate pinks and violets, to the actions of the sacred fire itself.

     Fortunate are we, as it is a great boon to the Brotherhood, that this attainment of the Messenger should also coincide with the dawn of the Aquarian age, thus enabling the feminine counterpart of Saint Germain to act more directly in the affairs of women worldwide, the justice systems, the legal systems, the laws - laws affecting the people, laws affecting states and nations, international law, as well as criminal justice and justice to the youth.

     And thereafter you can see how the petals of Justice, as the multiple petals of many-petaled flowers, will really affect every part of life. For the Flame of God-Justice is the flame of world karma - world karma that is just, overcoming world karma that is unjust. And therefore, every act of misqualified energy is an act of injustice; every right qualification of energy is an act of God-Justice.

     And therefore, you can see the ramifications and understand why the great twin flame of Saint Germain, in her service to his office, should select that Flame of Justice to complement Freedom. For Justice is the perfect complement of Freedom, beloved hearts of light. And those of you who have loved Saint Germain so very much, who have stood by him and by his message, by his disciples and chelas and Messenger in this year of the Dark Cycle of Aquarius,5 the line of Saint Germain, may now give to him the love of your hearts through the Flame of God-Justice.

     Bring Justice to every area of your life, every chakra of your being, every department of this activity, every endeavor of your nation, the work of your hands, your sacred labor. Let each word you speak and song you sing and effort you make for life be charged with the Flame of God-Justice so that in the very act of your service, you may be bringing the transmutation that is reenacted by the mighty scales - showing the balance of cosmic forces in the very light of the Holy Spirit and restoring the great God consciousness of Libra, where so many fallen angels have fallen as to almost give a bad name to that sign.

     And so, beloved hearts, the return of the Flame of God-Justice in all of its glory will see the transition out of the astral plane for many souls. For you understand the line of Virgo, where the God-quality of Justice is positioned, is the last line of the emotional quadrant. And therefore, to get through the place of God-Justice means that you are home free on the line of God-Reality.6 And, in fact, you can only see God-Reality when you have justified your cause by balancing your karma and therefore standing face-to-face with the reality of your own Higher Consciousness, who is the smiling one of universal and cosmic Justice.

     I AM Gautama Buddha. I AM the Lord of the World and I rule in Peace and in Justice, in Freedom and in Wisdom. My heart is an open door of love. And by love, God has fashioned, in the intensity of his light, every attribute which you need, my beloved, to ascend right out of that socket of mortality, right out of that pocket of self-pity and self-delusion and limitation!

     Why, beloved hearts, some of you under the burden of the world are as those poor ones who have been made to dig their graves and have had placed upon themselves - after they have been executed by the Communist ones - the earth, covering over them, which they have first dug out to form their tomb.

     Well, beloved ones, it may come to pass that people who have never had to dig their grave physically or come under these Communist soldiers or the Nazi soldiers should actually enforce upon their own lives a tomb consciousness and a place of limitation, until it seems as though they are in a hole in the ground, and the walls round them are closing in. And then they are closed in from above; and the stifling of the breath and the heart - and life is no more.

     Why, the extinguishing of the self and the burying of the Great God Self need not occur, beloved ones. But I give you this thoughtform so that you may realize that each and every time you do not send forth the light of illumination and tremendous flames of joy and justice, when you are not pushing out, when you are not sending forth the great God that you are, you commit the injustice of allowing the world itself and its darkness to close in upon you as though you were in a nightmare and in a bad dream!

     Now, my beloved, I am certain that you do not intend to do so and that this thoughtform is the farthest from your heart as you contemplate through my own heart the tremendous joy and universal presence of Alpha and Omega and the universe itself as an expansive home of light. Therefore, I have brought it to your attention, not to be negative, but to point out to you that it is the occurrence of those small moments of giving-in, a little bit here and a little bit there, that allows the totalitarian nature of the planetary dweller on the threshold to close in upon one.

     And therefore, you must understand that certain military leaders of the world, even of the West, in NATO and in the United States, have already in themselves and in their hearts pronounced the defeat in advance. And they have said, "If the Soviet Union advances to this area of the world, we will do nothing. We will turn our backs, we will not raise a hand. We will let them have that particular space or state or city, for it is not worth the fight. It is not worth risking total planetary holocaust."

     In this very hour and week and month, beloved ones, there have been those at top levels of the nations of freedom who have already said in their hearts, "We will not fight if the Soviets do this."

     Well, all you need to do is look at the map of the world and realize that it must have been said sometime, somewhere. For there are entire nations being swallowed up by the Communists this day where there has not been a hand raised in the defense of the people!

     What about Afghanistan? What about Cuba? What about the nations in the Far East? What about Cambodia and the threat to Thailand? And what about Vietnam? What about the nations of Africa? What about other areas of the world, though small and unheard of, where forces have moved in - and those who could have turned their backs?

     Why, it happened in Hungary, it happened in Czechoslovakia by prior agreement: "We will not interfere in the internal affairs of the empire of the Soviet Union. We will not interfere in Eastern Europe. We will not stand in the way, for we will live by our accords and our agreements."7

     Blessed ones, such an excuse to not stand for humanity, for light-bearers and freedom-fighters in the hour of their immense courage to stand for the flame of the Buddha!

     I tell you, these were Buddhists in Budapest! - these hearts of light who absorbed in their own bodies the fire of the fallen ones. They stood and they conquered and they became the saints robed in white.8

     And yet, their opportunity for reincarnation was not cut off, for they desired to live again and to fight again for freedom. And they returned again to Hungary, to Czechoslovakia, and to Poland, and they identified once again with the race karma of those nations and showed the courage to stand against the military might of mechanization man, knowing that the Spirit of Freedom is always greater.

     Yet, where are the armies of the LORD who will defend them with noncompromise? Always economic considerations, political considerations, and above all, fear!

     Fear dominates the international scene as those heads of state, those who are the leaders of nations, are themselves worshipers of the anti-Light, have cast their lot and their weight in with that very dweller on the threshold, and have united the forces of anti-Buddha together with the monied interests of the planet against the children of the Light.

     Do they care for the starving millions? Do they care for those who are hungry - the dispossessed and the displaced that will risk anything to move away from being brutalized by the Communist hordes? Beloved ones, it must have been preordained and decided in their council chambers, and I tell you it was.

     Thus, understand: when you allow yourself to receive one shovel of dirt within your own time and space, it is the beginning of your entombment in a grave of your own making. To compromise one square mile of freedom on this planet without an outcry is not the way of the peace of the Buddha! And I state it from Shamballa.

     Do not give up your turf! - neither here nor in any place throughout the planetary body where the Flame of Freedom hallows that ground, where saints and soldiers have walked and fallen and spilled their blood to preserve that land!

     I tell you, beloved hearts, there must be such a fervor and such a cry of freedom that men no longer are fooled by pacifism; they are no longer fooled by the tales of ultimate threat, ultimate horror, ultimate war, and therefore stupefied into nonaction while the armies of the Soviets move on. You should not allow yourselves or your representatives to kowtow to madmen and the insane who threaten international terror and to destroy the leaders of nations.

     Why, I tell you, there are hearts of fire and Christed ones worthy of the archangels, who are embodied - serving in the marine corps and the air force, the army and the navy of this nation and other nations of freedom - to whom the leaders of those nations and the generals of those forces cannot even hold a candle of light!

     It is the very ones who hold the balance of nations who are the youth - the fervent hearts, the bright and shining ones who go through their paces and their marching and their drills - in whom there burns a fire of victory! It is they that hold the balance of power of nations. And yet it is as though Christ were hand-tied, hand and foot, and unable to act or stand or perform his mission. It is as though he had been bound for the entire lifetime of the thirty-three years.

     For, as you know, the little people and those of lower rank cannot act except the ones of higher rank give the order. Thus, the system of hierarchy prevails. And the fallen ones in their cowardice, lest they lose their own life and have not another (for they have been prejudged to the final judgment9), do not give the command, do not give the order.

     As it was once said, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes."10 Blessed ones, bear therefore with me this night the sword Excalibur. For I stand upon the earth and I hold the flame of victory, of defense, and of clear seeing in the matter of the military buildup of nations and that which is necessary, that which is not enough, and that which is too much.

     Above all, every individual heart of light ought to understand, as he understands the path of physical survival in the wilderness, also how to defend oneself under any and all conditions - how to defend one's family, how to defend one's city, one's citadel, one's community and nation. Thus, beloved ones, the posture of survival and of defense must be the left hand and the right hand of preparedness - not out of fear and not out of hatred, but out of the peace-commanding presence of the Buddha.

     Therefore, I AM Gautama and I AM at the head of the military complexes of this nation and of all nations. I AM at the head of the armed forces. I AM at the head of those who command the seas in the navies of the nations. I AM at the head of those who command the air in all the air forces of all nations. And I AM at the head of those who are the marines and who go before the rest to hold the balance in fire. I AM at the head of the armies of the elementals - fire, air, water, and earth. And I AM with the mighty archangels!

     And therefore, if you see me seated in the mighty blue lotus and if you see me as the flying Buddha, as my disciple Milarepa,11 understand that we Buddhas also know where we stand on the line of peace, where peace itself is a fiery flame that swallows up war and where we thrust the light, whereby it is not necessary to fire a shot.

     For the power of love is sufficient to the consuming of all hate and hate creation. And at every level of manifestation, individuals must bear that which is necessary to hold the line of love and bind the forces of hatred unleashed.

     Think in your own heart, beloved ones, how you will do this. I trust you will know it is by the science of the spoken Word and all other necessary precautions that are lawful and expedient for the individual, the family, and the nation to take.

     Therefore, I AM Gautama Buddha and I place my flame of enlightenment and of peace and of the will of God in the very heart of the nuclear-freeze movement to bring the absolute understanding of the path of the Buddha to all individuals who desire peace and yet are misguided and become the implements and the tools of sinister forces and strategists who know how to disarm the greatest nation on earth, who know how to turn back every effort of the white-fire discipline of the military posture that every nation of the free world ought to take as its stance in this hour.

     I AM Gautama Buddha and I rally to the side of Saint Germain! And I call all the forces of heaven and earth to rally also with the World Mother, beloved Portia, beloved Mother Mary, and all instruments on earth. For the World Mother does move forward in the victory of the Light. And the Mother is the key, even as the Mother holds the office of Sanat Kumara.

     The Mother flame in you is the key to the victory of the planetary body, even as the ascension flame and the Kundalini fire is the key to the victory to your own lifestream. By the power of the ruby ray I speak, and it goes forth from my mouth and it saturates you in the holiness of God.

     Armies of the LORD, sons and daughters of the living flame, bear the torch of sacred fire and be free! Be free, I say! Be free! Know the meaning of freedom. Know the meaning of fire. Know the meaning of holding one's freedom in time and space, holding one's freedom and defining the "occupation till I come,"12 defining one's habitation, defining one's place dedicated to the victory of the Great White Brotherhood on earth as it is in heaven.

     I AM the place! I AM the will! I AM the flame and the point of fire that leaps and consumes time and space and is the Infinite One, the Infinite Freedom, the Infinite Home of Light now manifest here!

     Here on earth as it is in heaven, I lower the matrix. And I command forces and molecules to come into alignment with the golden city and the golden age and peace. And I, Gautama, declare that those who pit themselves against peace, those who pit themselves against harmony, those who pit themselves against the Church Universal and Triumphant shall be driven back by their own hatred!

     Those who pit themselves against the I AM Race and America and freedom in every nation - they shall be turned back! For I hold my hand, and the steely walls of light shall return unto them tenfold their malicious intent, their murderous intent, that of the Liar and the lie. And therefore, they shall not hold sway - those who intend to destroy this nation with or without nuclear force, those who intend to enslave its people.

     Let them be driven back! And let those who have blasphemed the name of God, the name of America, and the name of the temple of the saints be found bound by the hosts of the LORD and judged this night!13

     For this earth shall be delivered this very night, I tell you, of certain lifestreams who have moved against the cause of freedom, age upon age upon age. And the weariness of the LORD GOD of Hosts has decreed it. Therefore, their judgment is nigh, even at the very door.

     And realize the fullness and the portent of my message. For it shall come to pass. For I AM the Lord of the World and I am sent by God to announce to you the message of the lilies of the field. "The lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet I tell you that Solomon in all his glory is not arrayed as one of these."14

     Chelas of the living fire of the Mother and the Buddha, so seek thy raiment in the whiteness of the lily, and be arrayed in the glory of thy Christhood. Under the canopy of the Buddha, so grow and fulfill purity's destiny. For I AM destined to keep the flame of the Mother's purity forever and forever and forever.

AUM Buddha.
AUM
Shamballa the Magnificent, I love thee!
The LORD Hath a Controversy with the Nations

     The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; the which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:

     From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the Word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

     And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

     They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever; and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

     Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

     The Messenger Began Reading Aloud at This Verse:

     Therefore thus saith the LORD of Hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

     Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

     And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

     And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

     For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

     For thus saith the LORD GOD of Israel unto me: Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

     Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

     Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

     Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea, Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

     And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

     And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

     Therefore thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

     And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them: Thus saith the LORD of Hosts, Ye shall certainly drink.

     For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of Hosts, Sanat Kumara.

     Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

     A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

     Thus saith the LORD of Hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

     And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

     Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

     And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.

     And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD. He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 25

     Messenger's Comments:

     ... I would like to tell you that Lord Gautama opened the Bible to this reading because he desired his own power to pass through it as his own prophecy. I do not profess to understand or interpret this act of Gautama or the prophecy written in the Book of Jeremiah.

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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 Elizabeth Clare Prophet April 4, 1983, during the Conclave of the Friends of Christ at Camelot.


Footnotes:

1 Matt. 24:40; Luke 17:33-36.
2 See Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 26, no. 32b, Ray-O-Light, pp. 307-9, and Jesus Christ, pp. 331, 341.
3 Rev. 21:12, 21, 25; 22:14.
4 Socrates (469-399 B.C.).
5 Dark Cycle: see Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 26, no. 14, p. 110, n. 3, and vol. 12, pp. 246-53, appendix pp. 263-66. On April 23, 1982, the Dark Cycle entered its fourteenth year, commencing the initiations of the one o'clock line of the cosmic clock under the Ascended Master Saint Germain and the solar hierarchy of Aquarius (God-Love). At the change of the cycle on April 23, 1983, the Dark Cycle moved into the initiations of the two o'clock line under Jesus Christ and the solar hierarchy of Pisces (God-Mastery).
6 The six, seven, and eight o'clock lines form the emotional quadrant of the cosmic clock under the solar hierarchies of Cancer (God-Harmony), Leo (God-Gratitude), and Virgo (God-Justice). Libra (God-Reality), on the nine o'clock line, is the first line of the physical quadrant. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "The Cosmic Clock: Psychology for the Aquarian Man and Woman," The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History, and Religion of America, pp. 173-206, Summit University Press, paperback, (cassettes B7528, B7529).
7 See Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 26, p. 324, n. 5.
8 Rev. 3:4, 5; 6:9-11; 7:9, 13, 14; 19:14.
9 Jude 6, 13; II Pet. 2:4; I Tim. 5:24.
10 Attributed to William Prescott (American Revolutionary), the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.
11 Milarepa (1040-1143), revered saint and poet of Tibetan Buddhism, attained great mastery in the yogic powers, including levitation and flight through the air. See W. Y. Evans-Wentz, ed., Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa, 2nd ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1976), available through the Summit University Bookstore, paperback.
12 Luke 19:13.
13 Rev. 13:1, 6; 17:3.
14 Matt. 6:28, 29; Luke 12:27.