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I AM Lanello in the spirit of El Morya the beloved and of the Master Kuthumi. I come to speak to you as saviours of many souls.
On anniversaries such as these, we even of the ascended hosts do pause to give consideration of the path and the footsteps which were our own. How well I remember my first contact with El Morya in my recent embodiment as Mark - how it was necessary for me to make the transition from a fundamentalist point of Christianity to the acceptance of the Master of the Far East.
His visitation of my soul as a young man truly fulfills the words of Jesus Christ: "You have not chosen me, I have chosen you."1 For surely I, as a devout Christian, would not have sought an Indian guru. And therefore, indeed, the Master cared enough to pursue his chela of old.
He did not represent himself to me in a form that I readily recognized. And I am certain that he thought carefully, for he could have assumed the posture of a Christian saint or a brother, had he so desired. But as is ever the case, the Master desired to raise the chela to a new level, a new consciousness - most importantly, a new way of thinking that would be the necessity for the victory of that life.
After a time I determined, through my own fear and doubt, through the dealing with two thousand years of the misuses of the light of Pisces, to part company, and I bade the Master leave me; for I fell into the trap of believing that he was in competition with Christ and therefore that I was in a state of sin.
On that occasion, when I in fact dismissed the Master, he bowed before me and said, "As you wish, my son." He left off, therefore, his visitations of me and left me alone for many, many years, even until the moment when I, humble of heart and humbled by my own wrong choice, did seek him and call him.
I recount these footsteps, even as I remember the greater darkness of previous embodiments; and with all due compassion toward your soul, toward mine, toward Elizabeth's, I remind you that in many past ages, centuries, and millennia, all of us have been under the limitation of the karma of the world, the absence of enlightenment, bound by the dispensation or lack of it that was available to our hearts in that particular era.
You must realize that a great pall came upon the Piscean age as the karma for the murder of Christ Jesus, or the attempted murder, if you will - the intent of the fallen ones to kill God incarnate, their nonacceptance of him as the living Saviour. His rejection, therefore, brought the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple as early as 70 A.D. - and following, therefore, the dark ages, signifying that there was great darkness over the earth and in the people, an absence of the enlightenment of the Christ while this karma that extended full one thousand years after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was yet upon the earth.
Therefore, beloved, having been born into that karma, all of us, we could not transcend ourselves without a new dispensation and grace superseding that karmic weight. When you think about it and you realize that this nation of the United States of America was founded in the predawn hours of the Aquarian age, you realize that it was the coming of Saint Germain, in the person of Francis Bacon and as the ascended master who lent his momentum of freedom to that of Jesus Christ, that finally enabled this burst of freedom to come forth, this dedication of a nation to the highest principles of individual soul-freedom ever known, that resulted in the founding and the development of this country.
Thus, what you see of science, invention, all that has happened, even in this century in the last fifty years - you realize that it is because of the new dispensation of Aquarius governed by cosmic law mathematically. All the way from the Great Central Sun this light has descended! And the first coils of freedom and light have come in both science and religion. And those who walked in darkness have seen a great light by the grace of the ascended masters. It has never happened before in the entire two thousand years since the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Beloved hearts, recognize, then, how an entire age can be colored by what is done with the Christed One and the messenger of hierarchy. Thus, the tremendous effort of the Great White Brotherhood that is being spent and has been spent to secure not only the teaching but the way of personal Christhood - the path of your own Holy Christ Self, the path of your own union with the Saviour. For it is in the first century or centuries of a dispensation that the ultimate victory is won or can be lost, as the case may be.
The desecration of the light of Jesus Christ is an example of what can be done to thwart the ongoing momentum of the light of Almighty God intended for the seed of Sanat Kumara. Now we see, therefore, that in the last several hundred years the birth of light-bearers, one by one, coming together and forming centers of light until this activity could be dedicated, has been the opening of the door of Saint Germain through various hearts in various nations who have held the hope of Aquarius.
Understand, beloved ones, that this activity of light is in order to secure, preserve, and protect the initial thrust and dispensation of Aquarius. We therefore come together under this tent and in this heart of this land, truly that has been named adjacently as "The Wilderness," prophetic of the Woman, the office of Guru, of Sanat Kumara, and the seed of Sanat Kumara coming to that Place Prepared,2 which indeed it is.
We see, therefore, the outline of the two-thousand-year dispensations as they have gone in the last fourteen thousand years and beyond. We see the impetus of light, and we see that when those to whom it is given seize the torch of their era, there can follow and ensue a tremendous age of enlightenment, even leading to the promised golden age - but that if this light is distorted, squandered, the teaching perverted, the lifestreams indulging in the use of that light for their own private gain or private mastery, or there is the betrayal and the vilification of the instrument, there can come about the aborting, for all intents and purposes, of the full effulgence of the message.
Though the light of Jesus Christ has always been strong in these two thousand years, you must think, beloved hearts, that it might have been much stronger had there been better instruments and had the true Church been the cradle and the instrument of the propagation of his original teaching and life. Many mysteries concerning that life and teaching are still not known to you and not recorded. Thus, beloved hearts, this has caused the setback that has caused such a weight of world karma and the situation in which the nations are in, in this hour.
Let us be sensitive, then, and understand the personal role. Even as I remember myself as chela and called of El Morya, attendant upon the Word of hierarchy, rejoicing each moment when El Morya would contact me to write a letter or dedicate this activity or some phase thereof, my life was lived in that state of Mary's listening grace - I, ever to be the servant of my Guru, desirous of laying the foundations, not always seeing the vast future and, then again, seeing glimpses of it and finally the full vision of what was to be that enabled me to take my ascension and to make that choice which was so difficult for me to make - to take my leave of my own.3
Thus, beloved hearts, there is no question that this is an hour of expansion and of tremendous opportunity. I ask you, therefore, to consider that in terms of knowledge, understanding, and the momentum of decrees, you have gained enormously since being with this organization for many years.
There comes a moment, therefore, when you must make the transition from self-identification as the chela to identification with your Christ Self as the Saviour or Saviouress. You need not wait till you are ascended, for you can enjoy the full mantle of your own Christ Self. Sometimes people make a habit of it - that is, of being a chela, of being in the receptive mode, waiting for the next dictation or the next directive. It can become a way of life (they call it "the perpetual student"), whereas we would have you be a career Son of God.
Thus, I say to saviours of many, I give my remarks not only in continuation of the teachings given this day by my own beloved,4 but in continuation of the Word of El Morya and Gautama Buddha concerning the path of the ministering servant.5 You must realize that, for sheer knowledge and decree momentum itself, you perhaps have more experience and more awareness than I did when I first wrote down the Ashram Notes or began to form those first students under the aegis of the Ashram.
Realize, then, that there are souls who need to be saved for whom you are in this hour an adequate saviour. The idea that long years must be spent and adeptship gained is simply a false idea.
When beloved El Morya called me to be a messenger, I answered with a similar protestation to that of Moses,6 "I cannot speak, I have no art or experience"; this also was the response of Paul to Jesus.7 In each case, as in my own, when one is called, the LORD responds, "Do not take thought what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will put it in your mouth and deliver through you the words that must be spoken."8
You can understand that it is often the untutored who are called because they have no preconceived notion as to how a subject ought to be presented or the rules of order of how to deliver a sermon or a lecture with research and a careful disciplining of the subject matter. There is a much higher discipline and that is of the Holy Spirit. And you have learned that that discipline follows cycles of the cosmic clock and a spherical unfoldment of Truth that may not follow the lines that are most pleasing to the lower mental body - the linear thought process which demands a step-by-step presentation in a neat package, lest that carnal mind respond with a heavy criticism and a judgment.
I received many times this judgment of my life when I was your messenger in embodiment - the criticism of my lectures and even of the dictations as being untutored, in poor English, and not having therefore the authority of the Brotherhood. Many left on this account. They never made it past the twelve o'clock line. And those were the days when even we had no idea that there was such a thing as a cosmic clock.9
Therefore, I said to Morya, and especially did I say to beloved Jesus, "I must first become perfect." And Jesus replied, "We cannot wait till you are perfect, we must have you as our instrument now!"
I say this to you with all earnestness and seriousness because it is a moment of great seriousness to have reached the point of twenty-five years, and much more for my own lifestream, and to realize that the responsibilities for constancy and continuity of that which has been built are very, very great. For the larger the organization, the more depends on good planning and wise use of resources of the people as well as the funds available.
Thus, as it is with a toddler who first learns to walk, the organization at its inception had little to lose by any mistake I would make, and it could be corrected in a fairly short period of time. But today, the wrong move by those who govern, or by the individual chela, can be costly to the extent of creating a serious blow to this which has become the ship of Maitreya.
Now, you are not fools on that ship, and it is not a ship of fools but of earnest disciples. And you who have studied your own life and who are given to introspection, who have had glimpses of past embodiments and are truly enlightened as the dispensation of the decade of the eighties has brought, you understand both the weighty matters of the Law and the Spirit and the lightheartedness of being in the joy of the Heart of the Inner Retreat.
You understand what are the demands upon your life, especially those of you who are in the second half of your incarnation. Though this be difficult to determine, it can be seen by a renewed and heartened determination to fulfill all things for the Light and in preparation of the resurrection.
Thus, beloved ones, I address you as saviours of many, for I desire you to get on with the business of going after those who have nothing. You are as the rich today. You do not have two overcoats, you have at least sixteen - each one representing another part of the Law that you have in fact deliberated and mastered to a certain extent, at least as subject matter, if not in your entire momentum.
Jesus said, if you have two overcoats, to give one to the one who needed it most.10 So, you see, you have much to give away. For some of you, we cannot even add more unto you until you give away that which you have already received, so great is the burden of your riches of the teaching itself.
Therefore, I do not send you forth as from Camelot on a quest, to desert therefore the keeping of the flame of Camelot, which was indeed the reason for its collapse at the time of our beloved Arthur.11 But rather, I encourage you to steadfastly keep the flame of the white fire core while finding that periodic opportunity to go forth and to preach the Word and to transfer the heart flame.
Thus, some who would not think of applying to Second Level ought to do so, and let us determine when it is opportune in terms of the service that must be held here. Others of you may find, even once a month, the opportunity for participation in outreach. Thus, beloved ones, it is not the time to bask in the light but to be reflectors of the light and to send it forth.
I AM earnestly a part of the program of ministering servant, and I have called in this hour the blessing of three new servants of light who are to be called and named minister in this organization.
I ask you, therefore, to rejoice in the calling and the dedication as minister of your beloved Susan Elizabeth Krister. [applause] She has gone forth from our altar at Holy Tree House, blest, to serve at Camelot in a very key hour for our center there, with her certificate of ordination, ready once again to participate in the giving forth of the message.
This ordination, as it has come to pass, is not through the way of ministering servant as an outlined program we have given (in fact, she also will be a student under that program), but it comes as an act of gratitude for service and dedication, and truly in acknowledgment of that certain enlightenment that has come through an honest dedication to the path of chelaship.
We appreciate - we who are the hierarchs of the age now, we who are no longer in the mode of servant on earth or chela below, but masters in heaven and also chelas of other gurus whom you have not met - the charitable response. [We appreciate the charitable response from chelas who receive our chastening as a welcome sign, as a response and a responsibility of love.] We therefore are grateful to see that the chastening is received and received well by hearts aflame with love, and that the suddenness and the quickness of El Morya and the blue lightning of the Brotherhood is truly received with that humility and grace that promises not only change but years of service to the Brotherhood and doors opening one after the other unto the victory.
We have also given our certificate of opportunity in the ministry to a representative of the church outside of the United States. This is the first son called and so ordained from beyond these shores. This dedication and blessing was completed at the July conference for the beloved servant in Munich, Rupert Hoecker. [applause]
This is also given on the basis of the opportunity of continuing striving on the path of chelaship under the program of the ministering servant. As you can well realize, all who are called to be ministers must constantly be learning so that they might have in their hearts the influx of light to give forth in the self-emptying process.
And so this son of light has demonstrated the dedication in the conducting of seminars, the translating of the teaching into German, and the delivery of those teachings in German to his own people - as ingenuity and dedication and many hours; and also, as you might realize, that which is not easy for anyone to accomplish around the world who is established in business - to place his faith and heart and trust in Saint Germain, to leave that business and spend three months at Summit University.
All these things, but especially the knowing of the heart, has brought us to that moment of dedication of Rupert, who himself, for the very sake of the work, had not planned to attend the conference and, without knowing why he was called, was called by Saint Germain - left therefore the field of his work, took a plane, and was present therefore for the blessing of Saint Germain.12
This blessing of the Heart at the conclusion of the conference was necessary in order for him to receive that ordination. Blessed, therefore, are the obedient who answer the Call when they are called and do not hesitate.
Beloved ones, we are grateful. For, you see, when we receive a dispensation for your lifestream, we may not repeat it again and again or coax. We must stand upon the Law, offer the proffered gift, and stand upon your own awareness and love and responsiveness to the Brotherhood to trust in the wisdom of your own inner Christ who knows what is best for you, and also to trust in the messenger who may deliver a message of a requirement of the Law that is not pleasing, that may even cause a bitterness in the belly13 or even the gnashing of teeth.14
Beloved ones, we are not so concerned with a momentary setback at what might be our directive, but we are concerned that you recover from that momentary slip and set yourself therefrom upon the way of the highest plan for your lifestream which we can devise.
I would like you to know that a very simple assignment given to an individual on the Path may have been researched with the Keeper of the Scrolls and the Lords of Karma by several ascended masters for months before that assignment is given to a chela. We are grateful when the chela accepts the assignment, and we are sorrowful when the chela says, "That's not for me. Thank you very much, but I will do what I must do."
And of course, though the chela does not see it, we do exactly what El Morya did to me. We bow before that one and before that one's lifestream and Christ Self and we say, "As you wish, my son." And the research and the file is returned to the Keeper of the Scrolls until the hour when that chela calls, "Nevertheless, Father, not my will but thine be done. Here I AM, LORD, send me!"15
And then our angels, as Listening Angel, run to tell us that that one has reconsidered. And out comes the file and back we come, as in the garb of Gabriel, to announce once again that the road not taken must be taken. And even though it requires some backtracking in life, going back to that point will bear the greatest fruit and victory - many times in half the time because the Law is so merciful and the violet flame so effective.
Beloved hearts, do you understand, as we have seen, that often among the student body, due to the emphasis on the decrees - especially on the first and seventh rays - many people have more light, more faith, more inner momentum than they have actually realized of the illumination plume of their threefold flame?
For instance, with all zeal and God-determination, chelas will stand and invoke the light of Jesus Christ in the casting out of the dweller on the threshold on a certain line of the clock of their own cycles. But they will have no idea how that dweller is manifesting in their life; so much a part of their consciousness has that dweller become, insidious and subtle, that they do not even realize that certain actions and deeds are in fact the outpicturing of that dweller. And whereas the light descends for the casting out of the dweller, they will go forth from the sanctuary and, by sheer weight of human habit,16 continue in the ways of that misconception of who is their Real Self and who is that dweller.
So much therefore is the necessity not only for the Guru/chela relationship, but for the person who identifies with the Saviour to help these souls of light, that I have come to emphasize the need for this ministering servant.
Thus we are most grateful, also, to have one who has applied for that office to also receive it and receive, therefore, that certificate and blessing - your own beloved Timothy Connor. [applause]
And I would say to you, Timothy, that I did not attend Summit University either! [laughter] and that I also have learned and did learn what I knew then by the school of "hard knocks," as they say. I learned on my feet, received the lessons of life, and therefore became a teacher before I was a student.
In this path of service that we have seen over many, many years, you can understand that those who have learned by service have acquired credentials and a mantle that could not be gotten by only being a student of the Law at the intellectual or even the heart level of learning. For the application of the teaching and the interchange with our hearts has gained much for that which you are able to carry of our love and our mantle.
You may not know that I once had an encounter with Timothy and Eileen before my transition. And therefore, you might say that I have called, and did call, by the mere entering of a little store that they operated at that time, and in that very situation transferred my flame - which they responded to when I was ascended, and made themselves available as students and staff members.
Thus, beloved ones, discipleship comes in many, many forms. And I can assure you that those who receive the ordination under ministering servant must also have met the requirement of service - a service that can receive the blows of Light and Darkness and test the mettle, the resiliency of the soul to make a comeback in the face of the greatest Light and the greatest Darkness encountering one's lifestream.
Now, beloved, you must remember that even in the hour of my transition, very little material was available in printed form for anyone who would be a teacher. The work was there as unpublished Pearls, but as far as books spreading wide across the planet, this was yet to be accomplished. Now there are so many books in your hands that you do not know what to read first - so many tape albums of instruction that you almost feel confused when considering, "What shall I learn first?"
Well, of course, as Gautama Buddha said, "We must begin with love." For without love, your knowledge can be at best brittle and incapable of standing the knocks and the sudden changes in temperature and the shock waves that are coming upon the earth.
Thus, a path of service in love and selflessness is surely the way to become the saviour of many. The loving heart, the beautiful heart, the receptive heart, the heart of a soul that says with Mary, "Behold the handmaid of the LORD!" is the heart that is tutored most swiftly.
As I remember sour notes as well as the condemnations of the Betrayer, I am mindful of the parting words of one who left this organization in the past year who expressed all gratitude for all services which we had given to her in time of crisis and trouble, but said that of late the organization had become too impersonal and cited various acts, supposed acts of staff members, that were displeasing.
When Mother addressed her and said it was not possible to deliver the published Word and administer an organization and deal with every chela on a personal level and asked what this departing member suggested ought to be done, her answer was to the effect that that was not her concern; and she did not propose to provide the solution to that problem.
Well, beloved hearts, you can see that nature abhors a vacuum. The chela abhors a vacuum! It is the nature of the chela to fill a vacuum; and thus to take note, perhaps, of an absence of a service here, or this or that, is not to condemn but to fill that very niche that obviously requires filling.
This organization or its chelas may not be perfect, but I perceive many perfect striving hearts whose love is pure, who do all that they can do from morning till night and therefore could not take on that very omission that you consider to be most glaring as you, perhaps from the outside, may analyze this organization. And so, beloved hearts, if you have the wisdom to see a need, I encourage you to have the greater wisdom to supply it. For the supplying of the brother's need is surely and truly the path of the Brothers of the Golden Robe.
It is my heart's delight to anticipate the publishing of the teachings of beloved Kuthumi and Jesus for this order that it might be continued. For the golden robe signifies a nobility of heart that is willing to help all those who are of lesser endowment, as well as a robe of illumination's flame whereby the tutoring of the heart enables you to transfer the teaching that is of the purest love.
It is interesting to note in the return of such a momentous anniversary that, with the acceleration and intensification of cycles, it must once again be stated that "one is taken and another is left."17
There are those who refuse to go beyond the line they have drawn in consciousness. There are those who have taken the teaching and said, "Now I will use this teaching to cleverly disguise the carnal mind or the dweller on the threshold. I will create a niche for myself, I will seek after my survival, I will hide myself in a corner of this or that department of service. I may perform the rituals, but I will not advance beyond this point."
Often this is a condition of fear, beloved hearts. And this fear and its calcification or precipitation out in this hour can be seen among certain individuals. In fact, it has been very clear in the last six months. Certain individuals who have served, sometimes many years, have come almost to a nemesis of fear, where their fears are so great for their spiritual as well as physical survival that they cannot see beyond that fear to slay the dweller of that fear and enter into the arms of the waiting Christ.
You know the Berlin Wall is symbolical of many things. But one thing of which it is a symbol is the wall of one's own self-bondage, self-limitation and fear. You can understand that those who have attempted to cross that wall to freedom have in fact had an initiation on their own personal path of Christhood. They had to surmount their fear of the Soviet army, the East German soldiers, the guards, and all of the terrible conditions that exist on the border that have taken many lives.
It is precisely an example in modern time of the necessity of the soul to say: "I want my freedom more than life! I will carefully plan my road of escape. I will attempt to outsmart that dweller on the threshold. I will give it my best, and if I do not succeed, I will say with Patrick Henry, `Give me liberty or give me death!' I will no longer choose to remain the servant of corruption and the carnal mind."
Thus, some have made it and some have not. But I can assure you that those who have not made it have been received instantaneously upon their sudden death by the angels of freedom and been escorted to the heart of the etheric retreat of the Rakoczy Mansion, there to receive the instruction of the Great Divine Director and Saint Germain, to return to embodiment with a new mantle of their own Christhood as freedom-fighters. They have won a stripe for the overcoming of fear - not through decrees, but through the decree of action through the will of the heart. Thus, beloved ones, there are chelas on many paths.
Now what is the lesson of the wall? One must slay the dweller represented in the guard by outwitting his consciousness. Whatever device, one must make it over that wall - the wall of pride, the wall of stubbornness. And waiting on the other side of that wall is Christ the LORD. The Holy Christ Self of that one takes that soul in arm and embraces that one with the joy of receiving the conquering hero.
Thus, beloved hearts, though there be those in the world who will forsake all for freedom, there are those in this organization who have had the whole teaching who have not dared to take that plunge and to bind that dweller and therefore to step through the wall and see that wall crumble and find on the other side the Master of the Piscean age.
Beloved ones, we do not underestimate the fear, and this is why we call to your attention a fear you can understand when confronting those guards and that certain death, and the mines and the traps and the dogs and all that is there to see to it that they do not escape. The fear that must be slain in order to enter the path of true discipleship under Jesus Christ is a horrendous fear. It is indeed the totality of one's dweller on the threshold - all of the records of fear and doubt and human questioning, all of the records of death.
And the assailants are many, many in the persons of the betrayers who come to incite fear by their vilification and their gossip, by all that they have said against the Light, the teaching, the masters, the messengers. And those who have feared their own self-esteem, those who have feared their own hearts have hearkened to them lest they be fooled, and have succumbed to a very subtle form of the dweller on the two o'clock line of fear and doubt.
When there is no fear and doubt, you cannot be deprogrammed, the light cannot be taken from you, nor can the image of the messengers in any way be tarnished or lost. For you know us at inner levels as Christed Ones dedicated to your own path, and you judge not after the flesh.18
Beloved hearts, therefore, I tell you that it is a great sorrow to us to see those so overcome by their own fear and having such an absence of trust in the extension of our hand, that we must therefore ask them to remove themselves from their service on our staff. For by the failure to cross this line and to surrender that dweller, they cross a line where that fear then precipitates, and they are more and more outplaying the role of the dweller and less and less having a real and actual participation with their own Christhood. Thus they become an open door within the circle of community to the darkness which they have failed to overcome.
This is a challenge and a line that had to be met by Elizabeth in my total absence from this octave. Thus you can understand that the past ten years of her life have been one of meeting the assailants, not only on that line but every line of the clock, who have come with every torment, testing, temptation; and many of these lessons also had to be learned in the school of hard knocks.
Blessed ones, no matter how much we teach or you teach, individuals must learn some things by experience. We condemn no one for this necessity, for every ascended master has gone through the harrowing experience of learning outside of the mystery school what he simply could not understand within it. This is the nature of evolution on planet Earth.
Happy are ye that ye have learned so many lessons prior to coming into this activity, and that you have learned many more lessons as the fruit of our own experience without further suffering. We desire that all of our chelas should learn by our example and especially by our mistakes. But some have chosen, rather than to learn and receive the blessing, to condemn instead, not realizing that a lesson learned is also a point of attainment even if the test may not have been passed. For, precious hearts, the great learning curve is always in the setback experienced by having taken the wrong road.
Thus may it be to you that you will mount as eagles19 and accomplish even a far greater mastery than we have had. May you exceed the masters ascended in your own path, but may you do so with all humility and not neglecting the first steps.
If Jesus, ready for his final incarnation and in that incarnation, could bow before the hierophant at Luxor and ask to be given the first steps on the Path,20 can you not also receive those first steps? Are you too proud to turn back your own cosmic clock, to pick up the dropped stitches of life? Do you not realize that though you may know a lesson in the mind, you must learn it in the heart and repeat the cycle for transmutation of karma, even in those areas where you think you have exceeded that level of instruction?
This is why it is so difficult to retrain the adult mind that has not had the blessing of a certain foundation in interaction with its own Inner Self early in childhood, whether by the Montessori method or some other method of teaching that would accomplish the same purpose. It is because adults do not consider that they should go back and do the exercises of a three-year-old or a four-year-old; for at a glance they "see" the exercise and the mental body takes it in and "sees" what it is. Not going through the exercise themselves, these adults fail to realize that they do not incorporate the spiral in their own being.
Therefore, there is a very wise and real admonishment in going back to the Montessori classroom for some who have not been able to get over, as you say, the hang-ups that are remaining in consciousness over which they place the fingers of the mind and heart many, many, many times, revolving in the etheric memory that which should have long ago been passed into the flame.
All of us on the Path, as unascended beings, truly must yet face the momentums of human habit, even after we have balanced our karma on earth. I am speaking of those of you in physical embodiment who may balance a great deal of karma yet who must remember that with the balancing of karma there does not necessarily follow the corollary of a change of habit.
For instance, eating habits are developed in childhood. The manner of eating is also developed. Many people who become saints do not change those eating habits. They retain them till the end of life, not even considering that there is a necessity or that change is in order, even from the manner of propriety and decency and comfort to others.
These habit patterns follow every area of life. A habit is not necessarily a deep, dark-seated set of karmic circumstances under which you must be bowed down. Take it from me, beloved hearts: you can balance karma and in a twinkling of an eye give up all kinds of habits that are not leading to your perfection, whether habits of emotional expression, of worded expression - everything that has to do with the organization of your life, or what you do on a daily basis from morning till night.
Thus you may think you are a person of this or that temperament, this or that need, this or that way of life, and you may suddenly find that, in fact, it was all only a human habit and that you can just as easily shake that habit as you can take off an outworn garment.
Let us believe in the changing of garments. Let us believe in immediate transformation. Let us believe that the Light is able within us as we put our hearts to the test.
I trust, therefore, you will continue to embrace, to have faith in, and to be the constant hearts supporting this Lighthouse of Love, supporting this action of our sacred hearts, and that you will understand that we are and ever have been under the direct mantle, instruction, and direction of beloved El Morya and beloved Saint Germain, beloved Jesus and, through them, all the hosts of hierarchy that interplay with this magnificent interplay of light and mosaic of the many lifestreams being drawn together.
I trust you will realize that the wisdom of the Brotherhood has not diminished, and that you will attempt to understand decisions we must make for our chelas and not always require an explanation which would embarrass that chela and limit that one to make forward progress on the Path.
It is not our desire to expose or bare the burdens of another. And therefore, when you find one has been given an alternative assignment, you must know that it is for the victory of that soul and for the ascension in the light and no other reason. For there is no power of punishment in our hearts whatsoever, or of revenge or of condemnation, but only an immense desire and a probing of the very heart of Almighty God to discover what set of circumstances, what new opportunity may provide for an individual at any age or hour of his life the best, absolutely the best of all ingredients that will be to that one an inspiration, an impetus to a new thrust, and the complete victory in this embodiment of that ascension.
This is our goal for each and every one of you. If we do not give our personal attention, I beg of you, study our current releases and dictations and books, and pray to me, Lanello, and to the heart of Mother that the answer shall be given you from the teaching itself until you evolve by the violet flame to a greater interaction with us in your service where we may advise you directly.
I promise you this, that if you incline your ear and heart, you will never be without the answer to life's most pressing need - if you will only expect and have faith that Almighty God, in his entire bands of light, is ready, willing in this very moment to give you the answer. Most of all, you must have the receptivity. Beloved hearts, it is like going into the forest: only after being there many days do you hear and understand the voices of the forest.
May you hear angel wings this day. May you hear the rustling of the flowers and their voices of praise. May you also know the rejoicing of elemental life and the souls of this planet, who at inner levels know that The Summit Lighthouse is a lighthouse of love and of hope and of illumination and that its beacon is a path of light that they will follow to your heart.
It is to your heart that they come. O my beloved chelas, whether you have been a chela a day, a week, or a month, I am speaking to you. I speak to everyone here and beyond directly: The chelas are coming to your heart; you are the ones that they will see. They will not see me at first, or even the messenger. They will see you! By your love and joy and mastery and the giving of yourself, they will know that they are Home.
Thus in the name of El Morya, whose grace we bear and revere, I say to you and to all: Happy Birthday, Summit Lighthouse!
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This dictation by Lanello was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, August 7, 1983, at the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Summit Lighthouse in the Heart of the Inner Retreat.