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They come from the East and the West.
They come hungry of heart with burdens to lay down.
They come seeking to win a starry crown!
O gracious ones, the hours of peace, fresh from the hand of God, pour over the earth as an oil of anointing, and our being is illumined from levels of cosmic illumination to new levels by His expanding mind and by the buoyancy of His peace.
The peace of God knows no limitation! The peace of God is an expansive condition of cosmos - of the radiant spheres of other worlds, of systems beyond light-years incomprehensible, charged with the emission of the sacred-fire victory and waves of compassion from the heart of God that has seen the struggled starts of the disciples of light and has assisted them.
Beams through the night glow with greater brilliance than beams through the day. And it is the strange contradistinction of light and shadow that enables the devotees of Truth to appreciate the waves of divine bliss as they contrast those conditions with the world's confusion and abuses of holy Law.
I come this night, then, from the portals of Shamballa. The ivory throne upon which I sit tonight is especially builded in order to convey to the hearts of those who are with me the great love of God for all things both great and small.
Our ivory is not composed of animal substance, but of the power of Light - creating by transmutation's ray and by precipitation's flame the desires of our heart. And yet, we are not without appreciation for the great lumbering beasts that serve the people of India and the Far East and render unto them relief from many heavy loads and burdens.
Elemental life, precious ones, must always be considered. For the things that are formed and the things that were formed are not themselves guilty, in particle or principle, of having rendered unto any harm - except the reflection of that unnatural discord which mankind have imposed upon animal life and also upon flora as well.
The world will someday master the challenges that now beset them upon the Path - when they tire of the wheel of mortal reverberation, when they tire of the battle of the senses. This oxcart pace cannot satisfy cosmic exigencies; it cannot satisfy the deliberations of our councils; it cannot satisfy the waves of peace from the heart of God that would assuage the tears of mankind shed for all the warrings which go on among the members of the body of God upon the planet.
Within religious movements, within the family of nations, within the households of men, the din is great. And the LORD has ridden forth upon a chariot of golden substance to penetrate the illusions and facades of men and to show how the ways of peace must be made known.
I would like, tonight, to chide those among mankind who will not acknowledge the presence of peace and the need to teach it. The simplest conditions which are not appropriated by men which are of virtue must be taught, and mankind must be made to know what is virtue and value.
The diamond, precious ones, is esteemed for its value. Were it to be devaluated in the marts of men, you would find, O gracious ones, that this rare gem would suddenly become plentiful, and the mines would open up and the markets would be flooded with diamonds because it would take many to make up the value of one. Today, there is a certain value in the minds of men to holding back on the sale of these jewels in order to keep the price up in the market.
Understand, then, that a value must be placed upon peace and a value must be placed upon spiritual bread and upon the necessities of spiritual life. The world today is anhungered - and they shall be fed.1 And teachers shall go forth to assuage their thirst with the water of Life2 and to satisfy and gratify their hunger with the bread of Life.3 Not in an opulence of mortal substance shall the battle be won, but by an outpouring of spiritual treasures.
The radiance of the East has gone forth. The enigmas held fast through the centuries have traveled unto the ends of the earth. And how safe they are from prying eyes! For who can understand them, who can appreciate them, who can take from them the resident spiritual power? Only the elect.
As a nut with a shell so hard it resists all cracking, so the spiritual germs of truth have been locked in metaphor, in symbol, in enigma, in mystery, and within the heart of Life. And peace has not been known by men, for they are more concerned with the paltry matters which generate wars than they are with the treasures of God which engender the ways of peace.
The ways of peace they have not known, indeed. Yet ere the year shall complete her cycle and her turning in space and ere the twisting of this age shall be deciphered, events shall come to mankind which shall awaken many. We bring and bear no bitter prophecy - only the fruit of hope and desire for a better world, for a purer heart among the children of men.
Now I would speak of a heart that like a flame burns within. I would speak of a heart whose soft glow has suffused the world with the penetrability of the radiance of peace. I would speak of a feeling that causes men to desire victory! I would speak of a yearning for truth that will not be denied the tablets of God's Law.
I will speak of little hearts made great by basking in His brightness. I will speak of great hearts magnified into cosmic beings because of the vastness of their hope and determination.
And I will say to the years: O years, you are shining pathways of light down which the pilgrims travel to the eternal abode, there to find security and rest for weariness of heart and mind.
There is no way of such delight
As the way of peace.
There is no way of such delight
As to permit strife to cease.
There is no way of such delight
As ends all woe -
As to find that hope so bright,
Whose holy glow
Will pass the portals of the mind and heart
And let the soul of man make fresh start
In overcoming all that ought never to have been -
To accept God-freedom for all men
And see the way made plain
In faith that wipes out fear,
In presence of the Light when I AM here!
O come and now rejoice!
Make bold your heart tonight,
For God's great glow has filled the night with hope
And music sounds her great delight
As bowers fragrant with the peace of hearts
Surround us all with God's own hands of love,
Securing now and every hour
Some new triumph by his flaming power -
Over dust and mud and slime,
The flame of God makes all sublime!
I come in peace! I come in love!
I charge your hearts with comfort's dove.
I AM Gautama from Shamballa afar -
The door is oped, the gate's ajar.
We wait your coming here tonight
To feel our flame of God-delight,
To keep and make your robes all white
By faith and love and hope's delight
And charity that frees us all
And makes the world a new place,
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow!
Thundering, then, down all the cycled realms of time,
With Victory's voice: I AM Divine!
Shatter matrices of evil old
And let our life emblazon bold
Upon the pages pure before you, then -
Keep faith, keep heart, keep love then
Within your mind, a guardian of the Way.
I know no higher word of praise than
"Faithful servant of the LORD."4
He is so blest, adored,
By all the cosmic hosts,
By all the sons of heaven.
Our lives are changed and fashioned by his leaven -
Secure! One loaf, one Eucharist of Light!
I AM a fragrant fragment, scintillating white -
Radiant sunburst splendor, shining fair!
I come tonight to make a holy prayer
Before the Great White Brotherhood at Teton Grand.
I come! I come! All stand!
And rejoice! rejoice! rejoice!
For God has said:
I shall make all things new,5 instead.
Why wipe them out? Why destruct?
When I AM nigh to ever make a new construct -
A rightful act, a purity that comes
To make and keep the world all free.
O thank you for your love, so shining in your heart!
O thank you for the hope - that span to start
A new resolution for the right.
Perhaps this year you'll win the fight!
And if you are denied the total triumph,
Keep right on and know that where I AM
I'll make a little prayer for you, each one and all -
That step by step His hand you'll hold
And up the stairway, glistening gold,
To where the triumph crown lies fair
Upon a silken pillow,
Woven of strands of God's own hair.
His love rays saturate it all!
They are so nigh, thy feet are shod with holy call -
The call that will not be denied,
The call that cannot be denied,
The call that triumphs at your side!
For where you are, there God is, too.
Together, you shall win.
The few who triumph in each day
Must become the many -
This, I pray.
O Brothers of Almighty God, beloved Sanat Kumara, most august Lady Master Venus, members of the great cosmic hierarchy, and heavenly emissaries, our hearts rejoice at your presence here - the glory of your rejoicing before His face.
We welcome each tiny elemental form, each angel being born! We welcome men, one and all. We welcome those who love. We welcome those who wish to learn to love. We welcome all the sons of men, for we have vowed to defend the faith this year as never before!
Brothers, there is a waning in the world of men of faith. There is a waning in the world of men of hope. And there is a condition abroad upon the whole earth which has brought about spiritual famine, manifesting even as material famine in our own India.
Mankind have denied their God. They have denied reality. They have denied purity. They have denied all that God is. And in their denial, echoing down the halls of life, has come the wake of frightful apparitions threatening to engulf vast areas of life with catastrophic conditions.
Now, then, our Brothers, we call to thee for a release of great assistance for the sake of those remnants of our spiritual brotherhood who have gone forth as spiritual teachers to the children of men. We ask that they be secured this night and given especial protection from all harm and destructivity.
We must, above all, keep alive and fan the flame of hope upon this planet in this awful and terrible hour. We cannot permit losses to occur in our own bands of devotees or chelas who are devoted to right action. We must do all to intensify these children of the Light now embodied in mortal form so that they will gain spiritual stature and not lose that wonderful opportunity which has been given unto them.
This is a moment of decision, when heaven must decide to render assistance, our Brothers, beyond the merit of mankind or even of many among our teaching band - who have been caught and snared from time to time by the mortal strands of unholy delusion. We must not permit that they shall then be denied the solace of heaven this hour.
And therefore we plead with all of you who have this Great God Flame within you, burning upon your own heart's altar, to this night give great assistance to mankind in their hours of peril - and roll back the tides of predictability, those conditions which are so plainly revealed to the eyes of the discerning, that they also may recognize that there now has come a moment of the turning, when God shall wipe away tears from the eyes of men6 through the power of great love.
And therefore, I ask you, beloved holy ones upon Venus, to lower the great chalice that contains the thoughtform for the year. [pause]
The thoughtform for the year is a hand - a right hand from above, holding a golden key with three notches in the key and on the side of the key, the letters L-O-V-E - LOVE.
From on high, God's hand holds the key, which is Love, by which all doors may open to every devotee of the Most High. Love is the key that opens every door, and if the doors of the hearts of men are to respond to God, it must be by a great outpouring of divine love this year. And this is the attitude of wisdom. Let him who has an ear to hear, hear what the Spirit saith unto all men.7
Love seeks not herself, but to bestow upon the beloved every gracious gift.8 And the simplicity of love in the childlike way is the key to mankind's victory - to mankind's victory that can open every door.
Therefore, the three notches are defined as making this key capable of opening the doors below in the realm of the material, the doors of mind, and the doors of memory to all that Love can bestow and all that Love is and all that God would make mankind to be.
These simple statements are charged with the essence of man's freedom. Without these statements in action, mankind can but come to naught; and with these statements in action, Love then becomes the key that bestows the grace of heaven upon earth in every age.
This is our will, our brothers.
This symbol form from on high for this year
Is a message old and strong -
A message that casts out fear.9
This, our message, charges all
With power to win, to raise us all!
For those below and those above
Are children of the heart of Love -
They came from God, they go to him,
They are his hope, his future aim.
Upon the sky where God does write,
There is a ray of mighty Light -
Love is written in the air,
Love is written in our prayer,
Love is written full of hope,
Love is written, let none mope.
Love confines not, love is free,
Love is beauty, `tis the key!
Anchor, then, within your soul
Love's great flame to make you whole!
I AM the power that charges light
Through the darkness of the night!
I AM the flame, the lantern high,
I AM the peace from Shamballa's sky.
I came in love, I leave in love.
I came to give, I came to live.
I come tonight to make you right,
To make you Light! Purify your souls tonight.
Accept the challenge of this hour,
Accept the gift of heaven's power.
Accept the key, the way to be -
I AM, I AM forever free!
In peace, in love, in courage rare,
I say, Go forth and conquer there!
For you in Summit realm tonight,
I say, are chosen of the Light.
To Colorado you would go10
To hold His banner - let it glow.
It matters not that you've been frail,
The power of Light shall never fail!
I AM is God in you, I think!
I AM the nectar, quaff that drink!
And watch the soul expand within,
`Twill break the iron bands of sin
And change you in the twinkling eye
To victors in that beauteous sky
Where souls like stars do twinkle bold,
Where souls like stars are shining gold.
We all are one in that great Light -
His star is beaming bright tonight.
Sanat Kumara, Lord of Flame,
We see you go in Victory's name.
This meeting was a wondrous one -
It spoke of grace from out the Sun,
Of days of old when only light existed,
And the power of right.
And now we go to win the world -
A mighty banner I unfurl.
Shamballa rules the earth today
In God's own name and God's own way!
We say to all the hordes of dark:
Depart, depart this very park!
For God is here and here to stay!
I AM Gautama! Peace is my way!
I thank you and I accept your love. And I love you still, and I always will!
Blessings from Shamballa to all the children of the Great White Brotherhood everywhere this 1966 - year of decision, when the Christ manifestation of the golden key of Love is given to man as the challenge of faith in action.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet January 1, 1966, at Beacon's Head Vienna Virginia.
Gautama Buddha holds the office of Lord of the World (referred to as "God of the Earth" in Rev. 11:4). He is the highest governing being of the spiritual hierarchy for the planet - and yet the most humble. At inner levels, he sustains the threefold flame, the divine spark, for those lifestreams who have lost the direct contact with their I AM Presence and who have made so much negative karma as to be unable to magnetize sufficient light from the Godhead to sustain their souls' physical incarnation on Earth.
Through a filigree thread of light connecting his heart with the hearts of all God's children, Lord Gautama nourishes the flickering flame of life that ought to burn upon the altar of each heart with a greater magnitude of love, wisdom, and power, fed by each one's own Christ consciousness.
Gautama Buddha received the mantle of Lord of the World on January 1, 1956, from Sanat Kumara, Hierarch of the planet Venus, who had held the position of Lord of the World since the darkest hours of Earth's history. Known as the Ancient of Days (Dan. 7:9, 13, 22), Sanat Kumara volunteered to come to Earth thousands of years ago, when cosmic councils had decreed the dissolution of the planet. So great was mankind's departure from cosmic law, that the Solar Lords had determined that no further opportunity should be granted humanity, who had willfully ignored and forgotten the God flame within their hearts.
The requirement of the Law for the saving of Terra was that one who qualified as the embodied `Lamb' be present in the physical octave to hold the balance and keep the threefold flame of life for and on behalf of every living soul. Sanat Kumara offered to be that one.
In his April 8, 1979, Pearl of Wisdom, Sanat Kumara told the story of how Venutian devotees volunteered to accompany him and embody among mankind to assist in keeping the flame:
" ... The joy of opportunity was mingled with the sorrow that the sense of separation brings. I had chosen a voluntary exile upon a dark star. And though it was destined to be Freedom's Star, all knew it would be for me a long dark night of the soul.
"Then all at once from the valleys and the mountains there appeared a great gathering of my children. It was the souls of the hundred and forty and four thousand approaching our palace of light. They spiraled nearer and nearer as twelve companies singing the song of freedom, of love, and of victory. ... As we watched from the balcony, Venus and I, we saw the thirteenth company robed in white. It was the royal priesthood of the Order of the Melchizedek. ...
"When all of their numbers had assembled, ring upon ring upon ring surrounding our home, and their hymn of praise and adoration to me was concluded, their spokesman stood before the balcony to address us on behalf of the great multitude. It was the soul of the one you know and love today as the Lord of the World, Gautama Buddha. And he addressed us, saying, `O Ancient of Days, we have heard of the covenant which God hath made with thee this day and of thy commitment to keep the flame of life until some among Earth's evolutions should be quickened and once again renew their vow to be bearers of the flame. O Ancient of Days, thou art to us our Guru, our very life, our God. We will not leave thee comfortless. We will go with thee. ..."'
Thus, they came to Earth with Sanat Kumara and legions of angels, preceded by another retinue of light-bearers who prepared the way and established the retreat of Shamballa - the City of White - on an island in the Gobi Sea (now the Gobi Desert). There, Sanat Kumara anchored the focus of the threefold flame, establishing the initial thread of contact with all on Earth by extending rays of light from his heart to their own. And there, the volunteers from Venus embodied to see Earth's evolutions through unto the victory of their vow.
The first from among these unascended light-bearers to respond to the call of the Lord of the World was, understandably, Gautama and close with him was Maitreya. Both pursued the path of bodhisattva unto Buddhahood, Gautama finishing the course `first', and Maitreya `second'.11 Thus the two became Sanat Kumara's foremost disciples, the one ultimately succeeding him in the office of Lord of the World, the other as Cosmic Christ and planetary Buddha.
At the moment of the transfer of the mantle of Lord of the World on January 1, 1956, Gautama Buddha assumed the responsibility for sustaining the lifeline to Earth's evolutions through his own heart flame. (His former office of Cosmic Christ and planetary Buddha being simultaneously filled by Lord Maitreya.) The office of World Teacher, formerly held by Maitreya, was passed to Lord Jesus and his dear friend and disciple Saint Francis (Kuthumi) in the same ceremony, which took place at the Royal Teton Retreat. While Maitreya represents the Cosmic Christ and planetary Buddha, Jesus holds the office of the personal Christ as the great exemplar of each one's own Holy Christ Self.12
With the Christed (anointed) ones - Gautama, Maitreya, Jesus, and Kuthumi - holding the four sides of the pyramid of the threefold flame of life on Earth, Sanat Kumara, as Regent Lord of the World, returned to his home star Venus. And there, in another dimension of the `physical' octave - together with the other Holy Kumaras (making a total of seven in number), his consort and twin flame, Lady Master Venus, his daughter Meta, Mighty Victory and his legions, many ascended masters, and the light-bearers of Venus - he maintains an intense activity of involvement with the Great White Brotherhood's service on planet Earth.
Lord Gautama presides as Hierarch of Shamballa, now on the etheric plane, an exact replica of what was once the physical retreat. Throughout the ages, the messengers of the Brotherhood, known and unknown, have held the balance in the physical octave for the flame and the Buddha of Shamballa. Thus Jesus, as the anointed messenger of Lord Maitreya, the Cosmic Christ, was the open door through his sacred heart for the light of the Father represented in the persons of Maitreya, Gautama, and Sanat Kumara to be anchored in the hearts of Earth's people.
The Lord Jesus Christ defined his office in the physical octave according to cosmic law when he said: "As long as I AM in the world, I AM the Light of the world." It was this anchoring of the light of the I AM Presence in his heart chakra that enabled Jesus to take upon himself planetary karma, "the sins of the world," in order that souls of light might follow him on the path of Christhood until they, too, should bear in their body temples the light of the Son of God.
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