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One by one, they have come. One by one, I have gazed upon their faces. I have read the record. I have perceived the intent. I have given my love. One by one, they are raised. And yet, the Law calleth forth torrents and multitudes.
The sweetness, the gentle simplicity of the pure God-design is so captivated by the strands of the human personality that it is as though they were bound hand and foot, caught in a mesh of their own weaving from which they cannot extricate themselves.
And yet, as an acetylene torch will cut through steel, so the power of love, the blue-flame power of the holy will of God, poureth forth its radiance and severeth, strand by strand, the fetters of human making until, at last, the soul goeth free as a bird from a cage and soareth into the heavens to reunion, to initiation, to understanding, to bliss. In the stillness of the holy radiance that poureth forth God's love - in the stillness of that love, all form vanishes in a burst of light!
I AM come. I AM come to represent the mighty hierarchy, conferring upon those who would serve our cause a more than ordinary honor - the honor of the ages - anchoring them in the cleft of the rock of ages, extending over them our white mantle, consecrating them to the pure edict of Light.
Understanding floweth forth as a sharp sword, a cutting sword, a piercing sword. It severeth, as it were, the unclean from the clean and divideth clearly the light from the darkness. Initiation conferreth upon all the mantle of the Christ and the holy portion that is every man's allotment of the Holy Spirit.
Be thou still. Be thou at peace. Be thou aware of thy God. It is not in mere words, the release of holy sound, but it is in the release of holy substance that men are made clean by the clean flame of devotion, the clean flame that purifieth and sweepeth away all that is not clear and radiant and pure and lovely, until that which remaineth is God, is Good, the basic Christ Child simplicity.
The holiness of Saint Francis and of the anointed Christ consciousness manifested by Jesus, the World Teachers who stand by my side to serve - these are tested men of God, men of cosmic honor, men of cosmic virtue. These came long ago and were presented to me. And as I gazed at their young faces, I knew then that I beheld an avatar.
And I will tell you something about those who have the office which I hold. Those who have the office which I hold are as thrilled with a manifestation of the supernal radiance of the elect as God would have us be. Our delight is in these tiny things: to gaze upon a face and to know that here is a victor, to initiate such a one into the mysteries of heaven, to place upon such shoulders the clean, white linen, the arrayment of our office. This is an honor conferred upon us, and we are indeed grateful for the manifest opportunity of doing this for all who will come as a sweet child to receive the olive branch of peace and the holy dove descending upon their consciousness.
There was a cry that went forth in the past, but it was negative. It pertained to human degradation; therefore, I shall not use it this day, even though it is recorded and written. But instead, I shall utter the message of its antithesis, of its opposite, of its manifestation as God intended.
Do you remember the shepherd king David? Do you remember the psalms that flowed forth from his heart?
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. ... He restoreth my soul. ... Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow ..., I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff. ..."1
And so, the psalms of David have brought a sweet music to the souls of men, and it has come to pass that the release of his energy has mounted to do honor to the King of kings and the Lord of lords.2 The tensions of the world are lessened, far lessened, by holding the focus upon such holy words, by cherishing the outpouring of his wondrous heart.
And so, I pay tribute today to those lonely souls, as Tabor did this night past,3 and call to your attention that these are not lonely souls in reality but are souls of divine union who have passed through the tests, the trying crucible tests of life, and have attained a manifest victory which cannot be denied by man, nor by their contemporaries, nor by their own families or their friends. I would call to your attention the statement that was made by beloved Jesus pertaining to friendship, stating that whosoever doeth the will of God was his friend and, in a sense, his brother and mother and endeared one.4
Blessed ones, as you go forth to keep the flame of your divinity, you must recognize that some of you are as untried knights by comparison, and some of you are squires in the learning process, desiring to stand as the Knights of the Table Round but remaining yet completely untested and untried.
Were you to come to me today where I am - for I am in the Cave of Light, in Chananda's retreat5 - I tell you that a very special dispensation could be given. For we have summoned a tremendous radiance. And this radiance is to be released tomorrow, in accordance with the divine intent, with the breaking of the dawn and is intended to accelerate its tempo until at the hour of twelve it shall reach its zenith in the time zone where you are. This has been coordinated by the Darjeeling and Indian councils in order to confer upon the students assembled here the rising crest of that holy momentum, releasing it to the heart of America and dispensing it for all nations to drink of the cup of its radiance.
Of course, if you were here today and could bathe in the accumulated radiance, I am certain you realize that it would indeed strip from your being layers upon layers of densified substance until, by its power and pressure, you would find yourselves so much closer to your precious goals.
I regret that I could not open my arms and form a pathway of light over which you all might walk to come here today to partake of this momentum. But I think by telling you of it that some compensation shall be given. For in your thoughts, your mental body and your emotional body can, in a sense, be projected to us here and receive the mighty flame passing through your mental body, through your emotional body to still the feelings of frustration and distress there, to wipe away from your being the cause and the effect and the record of memory that is sordid and destructive, and, by divine discrimination, to enable you to feel the anointing that was placed upon David's head6 and upon the head of Jesus7 and upon the head of all avatars who have ever come to our retreat and who have ever knelt before me as the hierarch that I AM.
O precious ones, my love for you is so great this day that it is as though I would give another million years of service to this blessed planet if I felt that by so doing I could free this generation. And yet, the Karmic Board will not permit it; the Great Law will not allow it. And so we are all tempered, you see, in our moments of high inspiration by the greater wisdom flame of God which demands the best course for all.
Therefore as I speak to you now, I advocate that in the stilling of your consciousness you cognize the meaning of quietness and contemplation and purity. Visualize now with me in a special manner, so that you may have conferred upon you a mighty blessing. Before each one of you, visualize a cube one foot square. This cube is white and resembleth alabaster. At this moment it is like unto a bulb through which a current is not passing. We will in this experience cause it to glow, but not yet. We must first tell you of what significance this cube is.
The cube is foursquare. The cube is indicative of the New Jerusalem. The cube is indicative of the Holy City celestial that descendeth from God out of heaven. The cube is significant of the white stone and the new name that is given to all who are able to receive it.8
The cube represents your potential entrée into that Holy City of God, builded upon the prophets and teachers and avatars of all ages, builded upon the lives of the saints, builded upon the cosmic unity of the Foursquare City, builded upon the initiatic system of the Great White Brotherhood. This great cube of light represents also, then, your own precious contact with the Great White Brotherhood.
This cube is symbolic and factual - factual in the sense that in God's eyes and by his power he may make the largest offering of any relative size according to his desire. And therefore, this cube appearing before you in space, which you hold with your hands, is in essence as big as God would choose to make the New Jerusalem - a place of limitless light and consciousness and purity, a place where all of the saints of the universe and of all universes can abide. Could it then be small? Could it then be too large? It is exactly the correct size.
And as you recognize that this is your portion - your stone in the eternal temple, representative of the crystal-clear perfection of your identity - you will realize that were it surrounded now with mud and slime and human refuse, it would be unfit to place in the temple all bright, all light, all pure, all holy. And therefore, this temple must of necessity be held in spiritual dimensions, for it cannot yet be trusted to the flesh.
Ere the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.9 Know ye not, then, that the aspirations of men and their intents are so frequently cast aside in desperate moments? Individuals have actually forsaken this fraternity without realizing the potential that is within it. This is most unfortunate for themselves and for us, too. For had they remained, they would have had conferred upon them the eternal promises in a greater measure and a greater outpouring.
And yet, this shall not deter the faithful. For in all ages the lonely ones have walked the pathway of initiation. They have understood the meaning of dedication and selfless service. They have understood that they alone must pass through the gate of initiation, that no one upon earth could do this for them, that no other person could substitute.
Mothers have knelt at my feet and pled that they might pass through the most horrible of tests in order that their sons might be given a higher place in the kingdom. But the Great Law would not permit it, and I have turned them away one and all.
All must come alone to this place where they recognize that in their hands they hold their own cosmic destiny, that this white stone that now is before you is a symbol of that potential which lies within you.
El Morya, with all of his mighty love and light which blazes forth through me now also, because I have mentioned his name, is aware of the fact that he could not with all his love push you through and fit you into that temple perfect and beautiful. Only your own God-given free will, continually driven against all the forces of opposition, can hold a perfect balance - the key to your own soul's salvation.
"In your patience possess ye your souls"10 is the power that will enable you to hold the God-design and God-direction that will make it possible for you to enter into the temple that is indeed more within your own hands than in the hands of God, for he has given it to you!
Do you see, beloved ones? It has always been yours. It was the enrichened cosmic design which God entrusted to you in the beginning which has always been there and has never been taken from you, except that it was raised into a higher pattern not only in your Higher Mental Body, but in the very center of the great God flame within your own individualized I AM Presence. And it has descended this day from your own Presence as the gift of life.
It is possible for you to contact that Presence. It is possible for you to contact that perfection. It is possible for you to be fit into the eternal temple and to keep the flame of your divinity blazing - not only now, but ever hereafter!
And for this reason I say to you - as you hold this seemingly inert temple of life which is your own being foursquare within the power of your own hands - know that at one given moment in this service we shall light it with the great cosmic flame. And then, as that cosmic flame blazes in tremendous whiteness and radiance, it shall come to pass that all of you shall offer to your own God Presence this white stone that is your own true reality containing your name, symbolizing your service to life forever. And you shall offer it to your Presence knowing that only your Presence has the perfect key that will enable you to work out your perfection.
And therefore, as you return it to your Presence, all splendid and shining with the holy radiance, you will always remember that you have held this divine treasure right within the forcefield of your own physical hands, and also that it has passed through the hands of your Holy Christ Self and is retained for you within the heart of your great God Presence within the very central flame of God's own heart.
Now, precious ones, the moment draweth close when the angels of initiation shall draw very near. Therefore, I shall ask that music be played, first in a soft manner and then coming to a crescendo where the radiance can blaze forth and awareness can dawn upon your blessed consciousness this day.
You have journeyed here in contemplation of greater light, and you shall receive that light. But the degree that shall manifest shall be determined by determinative factors in your own being and world. All are not the same, and yet we have given to all the same cosmic cube. All are not the same, for all have not cognized the use of that which is within their hands.
And yet, the possibility of equality lies as a gift in the hand of all. As men bear this responsibility and knowledge well, they shall no longer blame another for their own shortcomings or failures. Neither shall they blame themselves, but they shall say to their own God Presence:
I AM ready! In all of the ages that have passed when failures have plagued me, generated by my own lack of understanding, I know that thou wert there and that thou have guided me unto the present hour. Therefore, I stand, waiting my own cosmic initiation. I desire a place in thy great sheepfold. I would be a stone in the temple pure and holy and immortal. I offer myself and all that I AM to thee! Take me and use me, assimilate me and direct me.
And observe, dear hearts, how the cosmic response will generate in your minds a new law acting - a law that will fulfill your design with the speed of light, the speed of lightning, and the power of the angels. This will happen if you expect it. This will happen if you direct it, knowing that it is your Presence that will act through you to bring about the manifestation you crave and desire and want so very badly.
O precious ones, go forward in the Light! Hold thy cube now more closely and draw thy hands together until it is as though thou canst feel this cube and the pressure thereof restraining thy hands, until it is as though thou couldst not place them together, for this cube is the tangible light substance that is within them. And around this cube thy hands may feel the pressure of that immortal life which is the glory of the saints of all ages and the power of the eternal Principle made manifest. [music played]
URIM THUMMIM11
Glow, radiant cube of light
With immortal substance white -
Let thy brilliance flash in fire
And let thy love all hearts inspire!
For Victory's Presence here is manifest
And God himself is blest.
O holy cubes blazing white,
Be offered now to God's pure light;
Lift thy hands, O blessed ones,
Toward the Sun of thy Presence.
O angelic hosts, take up these cubes of light
Glowing with all the light of the firmament.
O Mighty God Presence, thou I AM of all,
By thy light and love we call
For the virtue of the light
And the power of God's might
To manifest in human night
And see that all things are made right.
`Tis God's delight, O blessed ones,
That firms the resolution strong
And arms the heart to distinguish right from wrong
And offer in the name of God so fair
The love and light of a maiden's prayer.
A beauteous soul of joy comes down,
Descending, then, to wear his crown;
And all men everywhere rejoice,
For light and power in God's voice
Shall blaze forth from the mighty Son,
The cosmic being, God's holy one.
And all men are the fullness then
Of that great flame ablazing there,
The answer to the maiden's prayer,
The Cosmic Mother whose love shines round
And fills the circuit with the sound
Of heavenly rejoicing and the chord
That is the fullness of the LORD!
May the Great Sun Prince Michael, Lord of the Archangels, sever from thee, blessed ones, forever, all that is not of the light of God. May the Great Sun Prince Michael be thy special guardian forever. May the Great Sun Prince Michael protect every Keeper of the Flame.
O Archangel Michael, take command of these blessed ones. Give them thy love, and may they give thee their love.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet March 28, 1964, during the Easter class in Washington, D.C.