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The solemn banner is unfurled. It is the banner of joy. It is the banner of perfection. It is the banner of purity.
The night is pierced with the radiance of the instellar light of perfection from the heart of God. There is no need for men to fear or to quiver in indecision, for the decision for perfection from the Mind of God from the beginning was so ordered. It is life and purity as was released from the heart of the creative master of universal Life.
Now come the veiled communicants upon the mountain, ascending one by one and in little bands. Now they come rising slowly, and they buffet their feet against the rocks. Now there is a disturbance here and a disturbance there, and we must spend our time quelling disturbance while the banner from the summit reveals itself with the fervor of the fiery ones whose every hope is for the magnification of cosmic intent.
The purpose of cosmic initiation is to bestow the reality and the vestments of reality upon every individual, that every individual may know for himself the meaning of life and seek it not in the counsels of another. The Most High God has implanted in the seed of man, in his own seed, Veritas1 - all that is Truth. And this Truth must be sought. It must be pursued as though it were the only power in existence! For as long as men seek for all of the issues of mortal thought and feeling which are illusion, reality will escape them - and they do not seem to understand that the dust that is raised in the battle is to obscure the image of the shield of divine perfection.
Let all, then, who would render cosmic service unto God, within the solitary recesses of their own being, commit themselves now unto the domain of infinite reality and understand that the splendor of that reality that shines through the grail of outer appearance is the real. All else is but the disturbance of the dust, pulsed by a wind that is inordinate perchance and often causes men to fear and to doubt and to be assailed by a host of thoughts that are imperfect in themselves.
Let all understand that imperfect thoughts must produce the fruit of imperfection. Only by the perfect thought and the magnification of the perfect thought are individuals able to find their freedom and to understand the need to assert it by the power of the Spirit of Life which bursts within them as the eternal spring!
We, then, who function in those domains of Light and the majesty of Light, assure you that the hem of our garment is available that you may touch it. But, if touching it perchance, and you are healed, and you produce the same unmiraculous cause that caused it to come forth in the beginning, what then? What then? For the purposes of Life must be served. And those who trek out in this nomadic wilderness and assert the unrealities of life - when Life is all around them with the real - will always find the need to summon hope, for it will, perchance, escape them when it is needed most.
We urge all, then, to understand that the building of the cosmic city - whether it be the city of Saint Augustine2 or the city of the New Jerusalem3 - is not the act of a solitary moment, but it is the accretion of holy energy summoned over the span of a lifetime, when the rainbow realities of Life were gathered in preference to the cobwebs of misshapen identity and the sowing of vanity into the cup of being.
Whence, whither, why? What direction shall man take? It is the direction of shaping those holy ends to which he was born, to wit, that he might produce the beauty of Purpose. And Purpose herself is as a virgin awaiting the coming of the heavenly bridegroom4 - the union between the outer manifestation in its readiness to obedience and the Spirit of that obedience that longs to bestow the vestments of immortal life upon those aspirants who are ready and are willing.
And the summoning of the will is vital and important, for the summoning of the will is a tangible reality. And the will is not of flesh and blood; it is the fervor of the Spirit whereby the bones are strengthened, made fat, and the mind infused with that spirit of merriment which is the joy of God that partakes of the elixir that causes mankind to understand that the fountain of youth and abundance and joy is within and that joy is the motor of life which removes from his mind a sense of frustration and dullness.
For we call and we summon to beauty! We call and we summon to unity! We call and we summon to purity! And the past is prologue. And it has no meaning except that it must be redeemed as one holds a rosary and, bead by bead, causes it to pass through their fingers, identifying it momentarily.
So, each deed strung on the chain of the years must be summoned, and perfection required to replace imperfection. And there is no possibility whatsoever that any individual can come to our abode until they are ready and have produced the fusion between the unreality (unrealized man) and the divine God-realized man the fashion of that which is made eternal in the heavens5 - which is the living span that leads from the bridge of mortal consciousness unto the realm of the immortals where the beautiful alabaster cities gleam, not only as the tangible reality of a moment, but as the reality of foreverness.
I speak, then, of the need in this city of Washington to cognize and to understand the getting of understanding.6 For the mind becomes a sieve when it comes to the test, and the precepts and principles of the Christ and the Buddha are ignored in the hotheadedness of mankind as they egoistically pursue their vanity and, forsooth, are more an example of the serpent crawling upon his belly upon the ground than of the winged one - the lifted-up golden serpent that was lifted up in the wilderness as the symbol of the Christ.7
For the Christ did indeed plant his heel upon the serpent's head.8 But so long as the wisdom of man that is foolishness with God9 is used to multiply nefarious activity and to spread the poison of hatred and discord in the world community, mankind cannot build the City of God and cannot understand the fashion thereof.
But we are watching from the towers of our radiance in the immortal heavens and we are bending low, hour by hour, to answer the entreaties of mankind imploring us to intercede according to our fashion in the fashions of the times. But when we come and we bring about an answer to the summoning, behold, it comes to pass that men are lifted up - even as a moth is attracted by the flame - for a moment, and then there is the singeing of the wings of karma and the downfall of the moth into the fiery flame. For the purpose was not salient, the purpose was not victorious, the purpose was not pure! And individuals were not ready to be fashioned. They were not ready to become malleable; and therefore, there continued in their mind and being the turmoil and the unhappiness that was their heritage from the flesh and from their forefathers.
The progenitors, then, of mankind have become those who have fallen from grace and perfection. And behold, the elder race and all that they have had to taught has been ignored in action far too much, whereas the unrealities and the darkness has been gathered around them as though it were a comfortable cloak whereby they could walk and not be seen.
But the eye of God is everywhere! And the eye of God that is seen in initiation is everywhere. And the peering of that ineffable Light into the domain of mankind's consciousness - whereby that Light discovers every secret intent and brings it to light that it may burst into purification and the fount of purity and be washed - must be produced.
For when it is produced, behold! As Magdalene the harlot stood, then, before Christ - before his eye had discovered her sin, and then afterward - behold, she was as one clothed upon with vestments of white linen and her thoughts were pure and she was lifted up.10
Let all understand, then, that the beautiful mission of the Lord Christ (and the beautiful mission of every avatar who has come from the higher mountain) has descended from the summit of consecrated consciousness upon the altar of God to the planes below - to the realm of Tabor,11 to the realm of the Table Mountain,12 to the realm of the common plane.
Into the world has come the avatar, the descending one, the star with its flashing, meteoric power! And he has descended into the world as the Teacher. And behold, he has worn clean and white linen, and the world has rended him - the world has turned aside, the world has preferred to dawdle.
And we come, then, to those who are willing to understand the summoning to the election,13 who will understand that the eye of God that is everywhere is the eye of creative intent to magnify in person all that is of beauty and perfection, to remove the masked persona, and to produce the immortal shining that is within the splendor of the flame of Life that is within thee.
This is the flame that can say, "I live!"
This is the flame that can say, "I give!"
This is the flame Ich dien14
That loves to serve, that loves to give.
This is the flame of hope that ye are -
This is the flame of identity that becomes a star
Radiating out into the world community
The selfsame hope of the Christ,
Of the one Spirit, of the one Mind, of immortal Life,
Of the passion of the free, of all that is of beauty -
And of Light.
From the Light I have come. To the Light I shall return. And the brothers in white who walk with me - they who are aware of the savagery of the world and of this generation - say unto you all: The need for essential unity has never been greater. Nor has the need for consummate understanding of the meaning of life ever been a greater requirement than that which is the requirement of this hour. Let all, then, with open mind and heart, with receptive cups of consciousness, understand the sending that we do from time to time on wings of thought.
With beauteous radiance we send out thought
And when that thought unto mankind is brought
It is the intention of the gods
Not to make man mad
Because they would destroy him,
But to make man glad
Because they would remove in him
All that is of mortal dross
And mend the vessel at any cost,
Restoring it to its own rightful place
Of beauty, love, of perfection.
All of this God is.
All of this the masters are.
And it is given unto you all: it is initiation.
It is the initiation of those splendid moments
That come to you because you are willing
To summon the will that God is instilling.
Hear us now, then, and accept the vibratory action of the will of God which is descending into this city of Washington in the hope that we may yet reinforce in the people of this nation an understanding of their destiny, an understanding of their greatness, an understanding of all that they can do of action to produce the miracle of perfection in the world in this hour, when little children on bended knee do cry out to the God of power and say, "Help us now!"
The world today knows, blessed ones, the turmoil and woes that are descending, invoked from the karmic bands of mankind. The world knows and awaits the descent of that star Wormwood.15 The world knows the cup of bitterness and the cup of woe.
But it is the wish of heaven to end it so much - so very much that as I am speaking to you, the Archangel Gabriel has descended into this room and is flooding his light throughout this city tonight in order that mankind may feel the pulsations of the annunciation.16 For there are today being born, as there are being born every day, countless little babes who have a roseate face of hope within their soul. They come fresh from heaven's own hands into a world, and they seek and demand a higher standard than society has produced.
The Angel of the Annunciation, Lord Gabriel, then, is radiating out from this city to every mother tonight - and every mother-to-be, and to the mothers of the whole world - that great love that speaks of each man finding his place in life and understanding that that is not a place of dullness, a place of strife, a place of confusion, but is a place of absolutism, of perfection, of eternal time that transcends mortal time and mortal space.
Out of the depths thou hast called unto me,17 and I have heard your voice. And I AM come. And with me there is a greater company than all that dwell in this great city. And the forces of Light that are many are serving tonight to free the world from strife and fear and confusion. Will you help me? Will you serve? Will you seek to understand?
God help mankind through your hands and the hands of all who are willing.
Ladies and gentlemen, in the name of the Cosmic Christ and by the power of his might, I salute that flame within your heart.
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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 February 23, 1968, in Washington, D.C.