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Hail, initiates of the sacred fire in the temple of Helios and Vesta! Hail, Keepers of the Flame!
I rejoice in your gift of the Mother flame, and to be here this day is my great desire fulfilled. In my heart of sacred fire, won't you be seated.
I recall for you now precious moments in the memory of a hierarch of our retreat, precious moments which I have recalled to the messenger this day: the moment when Jesus knelt before the hierophant and asked to be received in the very first steps of the Law when, by the accord of his attainment, he could have requested - and been granted immediately - the more advanced steps of adeptship.1
Beloved ones, I place before you a new meaning and perception of this event. Because you have understood the law of cycles and the turning of the lines of the cosmic clock, you have seen from the heart of Mother Mary how you pass through similar testings and opportunities in each twelve-year cycle as you make the rounds, like a planetary body, through these houses of the sun - through these hierarchies and their temples of light.
Standing now in the temple of the hierarchy of Aries, standing, therefore, under the sponsorship of Helios and Vesta in this light and house of the sun, beloved hearts, I speak to you concerning the very first steps of your soul. For this is the house where you declare:
This day I AM begotten of the Most High!
It is the rehearsal of the origin in God in the Holy of Holies in the Great Central Sun. It is the reinitiation of your soul, the internalization of the divine ego that displaces, step by step, that human ego. It is the replacement of the carnal mind by the Christ mind.
Therefore, in taking the very next initiation that is due to you, each one, according to your entire evolution, you must go over with the fingers of the mind the very first lessons, the very first steps. And as you play these, you will find a few phrases rusty that you must go over - a few notes missing, a few things forgotten.
This is the meaning of the taking of the first steps - not that Jesus had never taken them before, but that he wanted to take them again to be certain of the strength of his soul in all points of the Law, not wishing to assume a mastery not recently rehearsed. He knew what he must face. Wise the Son of God - placing himself first as the child, becoming the child again in preparation for that divine Sonship.
I, therefore, place before you the same reminder: This day thou art begotten of the LORD. This day, my beloved, go back to the first lessons. Mark your lessons, mark your books. They are not idols or statues on the shelf. They must be well-worn. And, beloved, let those marks indicate those points of the Law that have gone unpracticed and therefore unrealized.
Take stock this day in the causal body of the Mother and Lanello. In your heart of hearts, admit the weaknesses. Write them down and take this year for the strengthening in those first steps. Do not continue to rehearse and play the melody you know so well.
We know the virtuoso. We know the accomplishments and the self-mastery of our chelas. You will not fall by these, but you will be found wanting by the sin of omission. Do not think that the strengths will be tested in the hour of the coming of the Christ. It will be the weaknesses - and these are amplified by the sinister force.
You must know the wiles of the devil. If you have so much as a tiny mite of fear in the subconscious, they will play upon it, they will fan its fires, they will pry it open until you find yourselves quaking before something that is nothing! Thus, the distortion in the time of victory, the distortion of evil and maya, blowing up the genie of the fallen one until his image fills the night and the sky, and you actually imagine that fallen one to be more powerful than God!
In all things thou shalt be tested, beloved hearts. It is so clear when you see the path of the avatars. The very day before an initiation is to come, there will be the testing of pride or of ambition. And because they [the approaching ones] are ignorant of the Path and these necessary initiations, they succumb and lose the round in a moment - a temper lost and the eruption of the dweller - and they must wait again another round to receive that portion of the fruit of the Tree of Life that is meet for the next opportunity.
I AM Serapis Bey. In my retreat I keep careful files of every initiate on earth who has declared himself to be on the path of the ascension in this life. I regret that all of you have not made this declaration before me and before your Mighty I AM Presence. For, beloved ones, if the LORD God deems it not meet for you to ascend in this life, it will not come to pass. Therefore, fear not.
Those who succeed as [in the office of] the Divine Helper of humanity are those who make themselves initiates and therefore have the greatest strength and the highest offering. I tell you, there are those who are declared initiates who have been embodying for a thousand years without taking the ascension, and they have made mighty contributions to life. When you declare yourself a candidate, your initiations accelerate. You have the highest calling and the highest expectancy from our octave, and, as such, you are prepared to give the most.
Take heed, then, that your consideration that this life is not your lifetime for the ascension - and, therefore, you need not make it your goal - does not become in itself an excuse, a subtlety of the carnal mind to avoid my gaze, to avoid my retreat and those initiations which would give you the very power you seek to control conditions. But if you desire that power, you must first pass the initiation of power. A little power is given, and then we see what you make of it. Do you squander it? Are you now puffed up with pride as Napoleon was, thinking you can do anything with impunity? Many have failed the test of power.
Beloved ones, the hours move on. All who hear my voice and know my teaching through my own book, the Dossier on the Ascension, ought to realize that the statement by Jesus "Work while ye have the Light" applies to you. You have no idea if you will have a sponsor in some future lifetime when you decide to take your ascension. You have no idea if the retreat or the Brotherhood or the dispensations will be available, if civilization itself will be such that you would even have the ability to find the Great White Brotherhood or any master.
This is an open door in the age. Wise are you who understand that self-mastery, won and gained and retained today, will stay with you as long as you determine to be in the Matter spheres - and will be with you in the moment and the hour when Sanat Kumara calls and when you must come - come up higher, for it is the mandate of your I AM Presence.
Once you have passed certain basic initiations, you will understand well that whereof I speak. You will understand, beloved hearts, the surrender of thy will unto God's will. Up and over the next mountain and the next, you will have a far greater perspective of that which is needful today. And if you accept my call and my Word, you will realize, at that point in the future, how fortunate it was that you heeded my instruction. Thus, the necessity for entering in to thy Godhood is a mighty necessity of the hour.
This, my Word, is the prologue to the message of Helios and Vesta to be given in the Heart of the Inner Retreat.2 We have sent forth the call to the Children of the Sun to be there. We have opened the channels of the media to announce this conference. For we desire all to receive that direct and physical transfer through the messenger of the initiation of Helios.
Let all hear my call and realize that this surely is a once-in-a-decade and once-in-a-century appearing of that Helios. His message is of great import to the earth. And that message must remain a living message in living hearts full of the fire of the Godhead - full and determined to bear it and not allow the candle to go out, not allow the light of Helios to be dissipated.
Therefore, I counsel the wise to be in good preparation, to realize the fruits of fasting and prayer and of strengthening and of spiritual exercise and being mindful of those first lessons of Luxor. This is the desiring of Saint Germain. For, on the foundation of this path of initiation, he also desires to give advanced teachings.
The entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood gives gratitude to the chelas of the sacred fire this day for making possible the release of our teachings at the level they have been brought forth, not only to the messengers but especially to the Keepers of the Flame who have kept the flame of this teaching and therefore magnetized a greater teaching. Beloved hearts, the dispensation would be immediately withdrawn if there were not Keepers of the Flame to keep alive the message in their life and practice and example.
Thus, understand clearly that advanced teachings lower a greater light of the Central Sun - not only a greater intensity but a more complex light. That light, as you know, can cause cataclysm or even insanity in individuals who reject it. That light comes for the rebirth, for Christhood, and for the judgment. We will never send more light than that which can be held and balanced by our devotees. If you will hold the balance for the light, we shall release the teaching.
Let all the world know that the messenger is alive and well and able to deliver that Word and that message. And we are on the very brink of a teaching that will transcend all that has ever come forth and that will make more clear and real the Path to you and the Path to many.
Thus, beloved hearts, I remind you as I have said before: there is no greater avocation or calling or profession than that of the career son and daughter of God. In the temple there is the need for candles lit. And in the world body there is the need for candles lit.
Now, beloved ones, I come with a message from the Lord Jesus Christ, who does stand here this day. His message is a mighty outpouring of love - love from the heart of the eternal Christ. I give you a moment, therefore, to attune your hearts to the heart of Jesus.
The blessed Saviour, the living Christ, the ascended master Jesus, does honor me, a Son of God, to release to you from the heart of Luxor, Retreat of the Ascension Flame, his announcement to you and to all.
This day the declaration does go forth from God the Father and God the Son that the living Christ Jesus is forevermore taken down from the cross and from the very image of the crucifixion. This day, likewise, so reflected in the earth, the Mother of the Flame is taken down from the cross, nevermore to undergo the crucifixion by the fallen ones or the wagging of their tongues or their reviling, "If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross and save thyself!"
Therefore, unto those sons of heaven and sons in the earth who, with the Mother, have offered themselves to be crucified, to be the gazingstock3 and the subject of the ridicule of the multitude and the condemnation of the Sanhedrin and all the powers of Rome, we say:
The Great White Brotherhood, by the hand of Almighty God, has taken this Church Universal and Triumphant, this messenger, and these chelas down from the cross. And therefore, the crucifix shall no longer be the sign upon this altar or any altar - nor shall it be worn, nor shall the image of Christ crucified anymore be the symbol of those who are the victors on the Path of the Resurrection and the Life! [applause]
The blessed Son of God said, "Father, if thou be willing, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done."
Unto the messengers and unto the disciples who have been crucified lifetime after lifetime in a mockery of the real inner temple initiation of the fastening of the soul to the cross of God, I say: This day thou art free to enter into the very tabernacle of God and into the temple of Luxor to undergo the initiations of Almighty God and the Father and the Son, before whom I humbly receive you to initiate your souls. No longer may the fallen ones in despite turn the crucifixion as a divine initiation to the mockery of souls, to the desecration of God incarnate.
Beloved ones, with great joy I have anticipated this hour, for ye have been willing, ye have borne - so the Mother has borne without complaint this mockery, this lying of the fallen ones, this murderous intent, this attempt to defame the life and presence of the Mother, this attempt to desecrate, therefore placing upon the Mother the blame for all of their failures of initiations at the Court of Luxor. For they have passed neither the test of Maitreya nor of the Mother. And all that is left is outer darkness, and therefore they cry out, "Crucify her! Crucify her!"
But, beloved ones, it shall come to pass that upon their own heads their judgments shall remain, and this company of lightbearers and the saints is lifted up above that level of darkness and mockery where the gates of hell cannot and shall not prevail against the Church Universal and Triumphant, against the mystical body of God.
And, therefore, with great joy and victory in the hour of the cycles that have come, I do now remove this crucifix from this altar. And I ask the daughters of the Mother to remove them from the side altars and to receive them.
Thus, beloved ones, a great burden is lifted from these altars. For beloved Alpha and Omega, the Father and the Son do not desire to behold Christ crucified, but him resurrected and ascended and free. And therefore, in the initiations of life, this church and this body have undergone this particular station of the cross as the very testing of the soul in the humility to bear the same burden which he bore.
Now with full God-mastery, I say to one and all: Come down from the cross - the cross inflicted by the world mind and the cross inflicted by subconscious guilt. Take heed that the higher initiation of the cross of the ruby ray is thine own. And in taking this path and this overcoming, beloved ones, you will be on the high road of initiation, bypassing that Golgotha.
In all points of the Law be faithful, and the tempter and the sinister force will not be able to touch thee or to place thee upon that human cross of condemnation, vilification, and the death wish.
Thus, the implementation of this dispensation shall be unto those who make it their own not only by taking to themselves the mantle of the messengers and the mantle of discipleship but also by perceiving that the proving of the prophecy - the proving of the initiation - is unto you! And if you let go of the hand of Christ or the hem of the garment of the Mother, you may find yourself in that vortex of fear and doubt as Peter did. And in that point of nonrecognition of the Godhead, the force will come and tempt you and try you and attempt to nail you upon the cross of sin.
If sin is not real - and the World Teachers have proclaimed it - therefore, the crucifixion is not real either! Thus, as you know it and live it and conquer the foes that themselves would nail you to that cross, you will also enter in to this dispensation which is unto the messenger and the mystical body of God and the Church Universal and Triumphant. It is an initiation that must be upheld by the pillars of the church and the ministering servants in consciousness, that all Children of the Sun may dance round the maypole of ascension's fires and be free.
(Blessed ones, won't you be seated.)
By the sword of Serapis Bey, by the sword of The Faithful and True, by the sword Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur and the sword of Launcelot, I stand. For this sword, as the power of the spoken Word out of the mouth of The Faithful and True, the two witnesses, and the saints, becomes the very foundation for the dispensation which is now given and which could not be given until the hour of the crucifixion should be past.
I raise the chalice of the Holy Grail, crystal chalice of the soul of every Keeper of the Flame, to receive now the descending current of Alpha and Omega.
Note well at this hour and moment and this time that a thirty-three-year spiral of ascension's flame is anchored in this body, in this church, in the mystical body of God on earth and in heaven. This thirty-three-year spiral is for the fulfillment of the flame of the ascension, its initiations unto all, and the building of my house.
Thus saith the LORD: the building of the pyramid of this church and teaching that shall be and is unto the Aquarian age is established this day. It is a white fire pillar of the ascension flame - thirty-three turns in the spiral. It is a living flame within the living body of the messenger. It is the flame that is the white fire core above and below, of Alpha and Omega, of the two witnesses, and all who serve that flame.
By that flame shall you discover the love of community, the building together, for this flame is God's own skyscraper. It is the power of that tower and the rock, and it is the power that displaces Nimrod and his tower of Babel, the entire Babylonian civilization, the Assyrian gods, the Cain civilization.
This flame is for the testing and the trying of the nations, for the setting of the Christ standard of the culture of the Mother in every nation, for the reawakening of souls of light to their destiny on this Path, to a new sense of honor and a new sense of what is the meaning of Christhood.
Beloved ones, our flame is real. It is for thy victory. It is a fountain from which ye can all drink - even here and now, because, my beloved, it is anchored in physical form.
As you serve, you may call, spiral upon spiral, to make this thirty-three-tiered spiral your own. By initiation, by paying the price through balancing of karma and service, you yourself - under the tutelage of Maitreya, the World Teachers, and our own retreat - may raise up that coil in place for the hour of your union with God.
You may imagine that you are building a staircase with Saint Joseph, the miraculous spiral staircase made without hands.4 Beloved ones, when the hour comes, the soul, as the bride veiled in garments white, will ascend this spiral.
May you comprehend the meaning of the opportunity that does not occur in a vacuum but does occur because the Great White Brotherhood serves with the lightbearers of earth, because one and the many stand together to implement that light.
For all you have accomplished, for each one's own steadfastness, for each one not giving in to fear or doubt or the demons of the night that would take you far afield from your service, for each one's determination to stand in the hour of the testing - this dispensation is come.
Many of you have thirty-three years to look forward to and more - some double, some little ones in a cradle, triple. Therefore, can you not conceive that, in all diligence of the Law, it is entirely possible with this sponsorship and teaching and overwhelming intercession of heaven that you could raise up one spiral per year? ["Yes!"]
Why, beloved ones, this is the very present possibility. And for commeasurement, I would tell you that many of you are able to earn it now and are doing so by your love, by your vow, and by the impact of your service on millions. As millions view our messenger on television, as other millions read the books and the works and hear the preaching, as other millions feel the impact of the decrees, the dispensation is that all who are blessed by your effort create a return to you of good karma, balanced karma, blessing and grace.
This is how the work of the Great White Brotherhood and community in this age enables the individual actually to take the ascension in a single lifetime of this dedication - not to say that those so aspiring have not already contributed many, many lifetimes, this one being the capstone on the pyramid.
But the capstone you must have, and you must place it there yourself. And, beloved ones, truly it is an emerald matrix. And you will understand the meaning of the initiation in our retreat that is given as I place in your hand that emerald-fire capstone that you yourself have created out of all of your service of all lifetimes, your devotion, and your love. And you yourself will place that capstone in place.
Thus, beloved, the purpose to which we have come is fulfilled.
The blessings of Gautama Buddha, the blessings of the causal body of the messengers, the blessing of Jesus be upon you.
Now, as you celebrate this day, your Mother with you, so also I prepare for your coming to Luxor to present yourselves as Jesus did - the supplicant to receive the very first initiations on the Path. And El Morya will smile, and Saint Germain will wink and he will say, "Morya, I think we have here soon-to-be avatars and saviours of the world. Let us help them more."
God bless you, my own, my beloved. I AM always your attending Serapis.
Messenger's Communion Blessing
The Victory of the Word Incarnate
Beloved Lord Jesus Christ, beloved Lord Maitreya, beloved Gautama Buddha, beloved Sanat Kumara, beloved Saint Germain and El Morya and Lanello and Godfre, in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Mother, we accept and rejoice that we are taken down from the cross, and we proceed together, O God, by thy body and by thy blood. It is by this sign that we conquer - the victory now of the Word incarnate within us.
So bless, O Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood - so bless, Maha Chohan, our own I AM Presence, Serapis, Jesus - this bread and this wine for the transfer this day of the increment of fire which each one has earned by grace and may go forth with on this Sunday, April 8, 1984, for the victory in life of the Buddha and the Mother.
We thank thee, O God, for thy power of the spoken Word which does result in immediate worldwide transmutation and does therefore consecrate this substance as holy.
To all who believe, I say in Jesus' name: Thy sins be forgiven thee, that in the name of Jesus the world might know that the Son of God does indeed have the power to forgive sin. By the Holy Christ Self of each one, by Maitreya, the Great Initiator, I say: Go and sin no more!
In the service of the LORD God Almighty, O LORD, we partake of thy body and thy essence, for the living fire above to now be physically manifest in our temple. Add to the dimensions of the fire of the heart and the seven chakras as each one is able to receive it. In love with the honor of God, I AM that cosmic honor flame this day, I AM THAT I AM. I AM the Mother.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Serapis Bey was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, April 8, 1984, at Camelot.