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The light is upon the mountain. And like snow melting in the presence of the radiant heart of the fiery sun, the light inundates the rocks below and flows downward into the world of men.
Symbolic initiation, the chastening rod of God moving earnestly among men, seeks to bring forth Sons of God upon the earth, that we may tear the veil from the eyes of men that they may penetrate the sacred mysteries of the past and know the joy that once mankind knew before hatred and sinister strategies came into view.
The peace of God that passeth all understanding I am scattering abroad as seeds of light in your midst and pouring the radiance of this scattering as a fire-mist out into the world, in order that the minds and feelings of men may be affected by the memory of the calm moments when the serenity and beauty of nature, as a placid lake, mirrored the sun in the heavens and the passage from the east unto the west that like lightning conveyed to men below the care and concern throughout nature and the elements. In the olden days when storms and rain came not to view, the grass and the green growing things were watered by the loving dew that came down from on high, saturating the grass and revivifying the root structure thereof.
I, Maitreya, am come this day for the same solemn and beautiful purpose of rekindling the awareness of the marvelous locked-in state of consciousness where man is able once again to bathe in the refreshing, cooling streams of a verdant age when peace and harmony existed, when every man was, in effect, a king and every woman a queen, when the sweet presence of God-communion was effortless, when there were no dark and winged batlike creatures coming forth from the fissures in the earth, out of Pandora's box, but only the presence of the angels. And the little flowers blossomed along the pathway.
We recall the day when so joyous was nature that whensoever a Son of God would move down a pathway, the flowers would burst into bloom with the approach of the footsteps of the blessed one. We recall when the birds of the air did sing in sweet melodies, when the melodies were recognizably orchestrated so that it was as though great organs of song and choruses of many voices were manifesting throughout the kingdom of the birds. And the air was laden with the perfume of divine love as narcissus and lily of the valley poured forth in abundance the perfumes of hope upon the air. I come, then, this day to remind you of the great universal drama that is taking place in the world of form. The trial by fire that is coming to the world is the result of mankind's own acts of willfulness. But this willfulness, precious ones, never was the true nature of man. It was, shall we say, a borrowed concept - borrowed from the denizens of darkness. For when, long ago, the blessed, sweet earth became the host to laggard civilizations from other planets,1 there was the taking on of a tremendous karmic veil.
Yet the mankind of earth, born of their own angelic nature and their hearts of love, did, as sons of God, welcome the laggards - those who in other star systems had refused, under the banner of free will, to go onward toward the perfection of God, choosing instead to live their lives as they saw fit, paying homage to the flesh and the things of matter, paying homage to separation of individuals from one another and pride in person and wisdom - which were the luciferian concepts learned long ago in past ages by a distraught and untaught humanity who refused to pay heed to the great eternal laws of universal Love.
Yet love is the nature of God, and love has ever been his nature. Love, then, that is the nature of God, that so beautifully and naturally flows from the heart, was the original pristine purity that the children of the Sun, the blessed children of the Holy One, showed forth.
You have read of this in the sacred writings - how the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all that they chose; and there were giants also in the earth in those days.2 And your hearts have pondered these readings and you have wondered concerning the mysteries of the past. Yet, only a little is told in the sacred scriptures, but much more is told in akasha.3 And the depth of akasha is a great fiery fount of historical accuracy. But who can discern the face of akasha? Who can peer behind the covering veil and bring to humanity the truth that their hearts hunger for?
I AM Maitreya of the mountains and I seek to inundate the plains below with light - light flowing like a huge glacier, glistening white and coming into the realm of men to tell them once again of the "elder days of Art" when the builders, as your poets have said, "wrought with greatest care."4
Now that carelessness has become the natural function of humanity, now that carelessness seems to be in order, it is also in order that we should ask ourselves the question of its origin. How did men, created in the image of God, ever come to a state of consciousness where they could be careless about the precious gift of Life that is given to them? Well, beloved ones, the answer is so simple that men fail to reckon with it. It is a matter of contagion. From one to another spread the diseases of the spirit, of the mind, and of the heart.
From one to another the balm of Gilead flows.5 In the hand of man as a gift lies the grace of God. He can bestow it upon his children, teaching them the graces of the Spirit, or he can allow them to become victims of the callousness and cruelty of the world. They can be schooled either in the arts of the Spirit or in the arts of the flesh. And it is according to these matters that humanity have so ordered their lives as to in this day be in peril, because the peril comes from their own carelessness, their own state of ignorance, their wisdom in things earthly and their ignorance in things heavenly.
Today throughout the world there is an abominable manifestation of cruelty. It is an activity called abortion. And all of the intellectuals of the world, in the main, are beating the drums in favor of abortion for humanity. They are putting signs up in foreign countries; they are attempting to educate the people of all lands so that they will be able to effectively control the gates of birth, denying access into this world to millions of souls yet unborn who have for centuries, in some cases, clamored for the opportunity to once again breathe the sweet air of Terra.
I say to you all: I AM Maitreya the Initiator. And I say that humanity are being tested to see whether they will accept the trust in God that will permit the lords of heaven, the karmic lords, the hierarchy of light to have a voice in the manifestation of living souls upon the planet, or whether they will seek according to the doctrines of Malthus6 to control the rate of birth, the ingress through the gates of life.
I come, then, in a stern and solemn warning to say that great shall be the penalty of those who practice this awful sin of abortion. How many centuries shall they wait who take life thusly? How many centuries after they have passed from the screen of life shall they knock and the door be not opened?
I tell you, life is God. And I tell you that this life that is God is governed by immutable Law, and all of these things should be ordered by heaven. Is it not written, "Whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder"?7 Shall we, then, break these holy vows of marriage by creating destruction and death upon the incoming holy innocents? In ages past they killed them, as they sought to kill the Christ with the sword and slaughtered the innocents in the time of Jesus' birth.8 Today they would put them to the sword before they are even given the opportunity to draw their first breath.
I, Maitreya, say that I stand in support of the truths of the Holy Church that all these blessed little ones of mine should have the opportunity to also learn upon this planet, to be taught by their mothers and fathers, to be taught to reverence God, to be taught to reverence nature, to be taught to reverence beauty, to be taught to reverence life, to be taught to understand the sweet music of the spheres that comes to the mind and heart of man and flows with such delicacy into the world as to create a sense of beauty in the mind of the beholder.
Let the children of men learn to sunder all banal ideas - ideas of shadow and shame, ideas of hatred and lust, ideas of pain and lack of progress. Let them reach a state where they can take their hands, both right and left, and, holding them forth before them, say: These are thy hands, O God. Thou hast made them. Let them be instruments in thy service. Let them be careworn if necessary, but let them be functional on behalf of the Light.
Long ago Albrecht Durer created the masterpiece of "The Praying Hands"9 and revealed to humanity a symbol of service on behalf of not only those who are born but those who are not yet born. A posterity yet to come will ask of this generation, "Where is the dream of freedom man once knew?" And if the dream be lost and perish from the earth and if men fail to understand the sweetness and meaning of devotion, I am certain that those who have been instrumental in destroying the banner of freedom will also be those who will cry out and yearn for it the most.
For you will recall the story of "the man without a country" who said he never again wanted to hear the name of his country, America, and of how he was put on a boat out into the ocean - and no man loved his country more than he.10 For that which is denied mankind - as was said long ago, "You never miss the water until the well runs dry"11 - is certainly that for which they will thirst.
And therefore, I say to all of you who would bend the bow of honest effort on behalf of preserving liberty and freedom: know that you do it not only for yourselves but for little ones yet to come whose hopes, then, as you fail to rally to the cause of freedom, are dashed in pieces. And when the great egg is broken, it will be as the fable of Humpty Dumpty, and humanity will find out that it is broken apart and they cannot so easily put the pieces together ever again.
For centuries of development, back from the time of the Babylonian code of Hammurabi12 through English common law, the Mayflower Compact and other instruments of freedom have created the evolution of freedom that has brought to humanity in this age the opportunities for democracy, for the expression of universal love, and for the reaching out for those cosmic initiations which are also administered to the nations of the world, determining their fate - whether they shall remain voices of freedom throughout all lands or instruments of oppression.
Today, with the world half slave and half free and with the burden ever shifting to the side of oppression, we urge upon humanity a realization and recognition of the sacred offering of freedom. So many of the young people today have taken so much for granted. They do not understand the priceless gift they hold within their hands. If they did, they would summon all the energy of the universe to actually respond to them and determine with all the fire of their hearts that they would reach out into the world of form and perform those necessary acts that would create, by the power of holy energy, a resurgence of the great balm of freedom, anointing the heart of the world and turning every mother and every father into an instructor in righteousness!
O parents, teach your children! O all people, hear the voice of freedom as Maitreya speaks! For freedom melts from the mountains. It pours from the hills. It is light! It is compassion! It is energy! It is hope! It is God! For God is the author and finisher of the faith of humanity. He is also the author and finisher of freedom and liberty.
Let it peal from the hills! Let it rustle in every breeze! Let it complete the magnificent gift that God himself fashioned in the day when he gave to mankind the first breath within their nostrils, and man stood upright and became a living soul.13
So magnificent is the fruit of freedom that I say to you all: You should all feel the beat of freedom within your hearts. Each heartbeat is the impulse of God-freedom within your soul. As you are tethered to him, receive from him the anointing of the fires of freedom and perceive that the very log of destiny is before you. In it you must write with your own energies.
Shall those energies be on the side of the LORD? Shall they be on the side of Righteousness? Shall they be on the side of Justice? Shall they be on the side of Truth? Or shall they be written on the side of infamy and your energies go down the drain into a karmic cesspool, where one day they will return to you for redemption because you have failed to understand the God-magnificence of the gift of Life you bear?
I AM Maitreya of the mountains, and I say unto you: I bring to you today the crux of initiation on behalf of freedom. Will you today determine the course of your future? Then I say, let it be on behalf of liberty for the people of the world. For in liberty, the Spirit of God blossoms. In liberty, light and beauty flourish. In liberty, industry weaves a tapestry of creation and the balm of the LORD is with men.
Peace be unto you and unto all men.
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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 July 3, 1970, during Freedom Rally 1970 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.