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Children of one Father, I greet you in the holy name of the preparatory vibration to your investiture with the grace of divine Christhood. For the world waits for the dawn, for the renaissance of our love. And our love is overwhelmingly made manifest to each of you according to your faith.
I, Maitreya, come to you this night in God's holy name to kindle and to quicken your consciousness and the vibratory action thereof, that you may be a new creature in Christ, in the consciousness and awareness of who and what you are.
We have called you forth out of the land of bondage, out of the darkness into the Light. And beloved hearts, what we long to see manifest in all of the student body - those who are devoted to the unfailing Light of the Christ - is an increase and step-up in the level of the radiance of your own God Presence as it manifests already in your world, but now more fully as you admit it into the sacred precinct of your own God-centered will.
We say: Let the will stand forth and devote itself upon the altar of fealty to the perfection of your God Presence and to the great cosmic release of that ineffable Light which your own beloved I AM Presence is manifesting both now and always, because you are the Light in the eye of God! You are a blessed part of cosmos, of the creative manifestation of universal perfection.
When you call forth your perfection, do so with the authority of Almighty God. For who shall act for you if not yourself, your True Self - that portion of divine manhood which is wholly devoted to the release of the perfection of your Presence in your own practical daily life?
Beloved ones, when you pray, "Give us this day our daily bread," is it not because you expect that daily bread to be made manifest? Well, then, is it not time for each one to recognize at last that the cosmic hour has struck, that all mankind should come into such sweet consonance and perfection as to make them truly brothers in manifestation?
What is it in the world, save Antichrist, that causes brother to sever connection with brother and spreads abroad in the world the shroud of separation and darkness? What is it that draws mankind into the universal magnet of cosmic harmony but your own God Presence? The magnet of your Presence is manifest here now!
I speak to you as a father. I speak to you as a brother. I speak to you as one who has gone on before but who is with you still, because the flame of your true cosmic identity is ablaze within the center of your being. And because that flame is there, I am there also - as is every other ascended being and the universal embodiment of the perfection of the whole God-panoply of manifestation. All are there in the chambers and the recesses of your heart - those beautiful vaulted regions where the power of expansion dwells.
Do you not know that the temple of your heart is the doorway to the love of God? that the great love ray in manifestation literally pours forth to inundate the entire world with that indwelling love for the universal Christ which will change the face and complexion of mankind until they wear upon their face, as within their heart, the smile of God - a smile that is as the smile upon the face of a little child who is willing to walk through the darkness and tremble not, for he knows that on the other side of the darkness - of this current region of infamy which mankind call temporary life - he will find the Light, if he be constant to his trust which God has placed in him, as God is also constant to his trust?
Then, you see, on the other side the beautiful Light that shall never be extinguished shall manifest not only for yourselves but for all mankind. And what a bonanza! What a gift of cosmic love when humanity are gathered together - the entire family of nations under one divine regent, under the living omni- presence of the Son of God.
The time is now when mankind must commence the gathering together for a cosmic purpose. And when we come together with you as we are now doing, it is not alone that we come; for we come also with myriad hosts of angelic beings. And we come also with the great hosts of heaven, the ascended masters' consciousness, to renovate your hearts, to create a renaissance of hearts that men may once again realize the power of cosmic vision!
What is cosmic vision if it is not the ability to perceive? And it is by your new perceptions of your new reality, of your new investiture which the universe has put upon you, that you will begin to perceive at last that you are a new creature in Christ - one who is no longer like unto his former self, being changed from glory unto glory even as by the Spirit of the LORD.1
For the Cosmic Truth that is with you is the omnipresence of God. It comes into your heart as though it were a tiny babe and then it begins the expansion process, for God within you grows within you. God matures within you as you grow up in the understanding of the compassion of your Presence for every part of life.
Life is one. And when men are admitted to the sacred precincts of the Great White Brotherhood, when they come into that sacrosanct area, the holy ground upon which we tread, they will be, each one, a different person. For the vibratory quality of the sacred law of the sacred fire which is within your heart now ablaze will lead you and guide you across the desert sands - the emptiness of life, the failures in life, and the weaknesses of life - to the time of your greatest strength, the time of a new beginning, the time of the dawn, the time when the sun of the eternal Presence comes up with the thunder of God to make you aware of the newness of life in a new and living way.
Why is it, beloved ones, that men and women created in His image, endowed with His power and His ability, are so prone to allow themselves to become pitiful creatures of happenstance and circumstance, learning from one another what is not the will of God or the wisdom of God but what is in reality the corruption of the divine image?
Do you think, beloved ones, that when you are admitted to our presence in the holy mountain and you stand before the great Lords of Karma, you will be able to hide those activities which you have performed that were not actually in unity with God? I do not think so.
So, dear hearts, recognize the need to be able to raise yourself and to rid yourself of those unwanted qualities of darkness and deceit which are the hypocrisy of the present time. For contemporary man has often carried out in secret that which he would never do openly, and this has occurred throughout the entire historical stream.
We come, then, to make you aware of the great panacea of the universal `Christ-I-AM-ity', the great power of universal forgiveness - the power that reaches out to the very point in your heart that is the altar stone of your heart to place there that living flame which will impart to each one, in the name of the living God, the quality of infinite mercy and the forgiveness of sins.
We are eager. God is eager. All of heaven is eager! The angelic hosts are ready and they wait to bring to you the sweet oil of forgiveness that will change every thought in your life to a constructive one, that will change every quality of feeling in your feeling world into a feeling of divine and infinite devotion.
Devotion is like a sweet oil, it is like a sweet incense. It rises before the face of God. It brings the flowers of devotion and the sacred white ash into manifestation in man, that he may understand that some in every age, if they would be faithful to the great Cosmic Truth, could be made ready for the ascension in that manner where their entire body would also ascend.
We want you to understand that we have prepared the best gifts for you - that these are like the lightning that cometh out of the East and goeth unto the West.2 For the mounting crescendo of cosmic love that is the result of mankind's devotion for higher things may not appear to be a reality in the world, for many today do not reveal their cosmic affiliations with our Brotherhood. We find many who desire instead to maintain that anonymity (that quality of life wherein they remain anonymous to all) in which they do not tell all they know - in some cases, not even one iota! And yet, at the same time, blessed hearts, there are those who must speak the Truth unto mankind.
We say unto you that we love you all in whatsoever state you are in. For we do not see you as though you were deeply mired in those elements of human sin, but instead we see you raised to the great cosmic head of universal Christhood, the universal Spirit that was manifest in Jesus. We see the crown of thorns which humanity still presses into the heads of one another and into the head of the living Christ. They do this in ignorance, and we cry out today as in days of old, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!" Let this be your cry also, and let it be a cry of mercy.
"Let forgiveness and love and mercy be unto all generations of them that fear me and love my name," God has said.3 And we who have become the embodiment of all that He is also echo and reecho in the chambers of our minds and our hearts those sacred words and that sacred feeling that is the great spirit of cosmic openness that goeth forth into the world creating newness of life and opportunity for every child of God.
For humanity today, in their era of darkness, are often suspicious and they doubt the very powers of Life that gave them birth. They do not understand how Life today manifests. They do not understand what great pathos there is in the universe, that is the Spirit that spoke of old in the Master Jesus when he said: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered you together, even as a hen gathers her young, and ye would not, O ye would not!4 The lamentations of the Spirit of God are the outcry in time itself against those ill deeds that are carried out by some men without understanding and without grace.
The cosmic fires burn. The cosmic flame blazes. And the great grace of God is carried from the snow upon the mountains down to the cities of the plain, that all men may break this sacred bread in God's name, that they may understand his grace and his love as their own, that they may understand that his grace and love even today does atone for all that man has done, for all that man does. And yet, we provide a new and a living way through his flesh - through the flesh that you wear! For in reality, you have also entered into the kingdom, the cosmic die is struck, and the divine image is perpetuated in yourself.
Deep within the chalice of your heart you will find the replica of the God flame, as in the fiery furnace when the Christ appeared with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego - one like unto the Son of God, and they beheld him. And no smoke nor harm came unto them and they emerged free and unscathed from the flame.5 So will mankind do today if they will but understand the meaning and purpose of the perpetuation of the flame! For the meaning and perpetuation of the flame is so that man may still enter in.
Ho! Everyone that thirsteth: Come and drink.6 Do you understand that the waters of Life are for all? Who are those who deny humanity that for which they also thirst in their souls? Who are those who deny themselves that which indeed will make them whole? Who are those who deny themselves the great power of infinite freedom to sit upon the throne - the three-in-one radiance of the eternal Godhead made manifest within the chalice of their own beings?
Let all come to that understanding, then, where they can lay down their frustrations, their feelings of separation, and that which for far too long has kept them in a separate, unevolved or unevolving state. We are concerned with the evolvement of mankind! We are concerned with those cosmic initiations that will cause men to rise in consciousness and not remain wedded to the same old decaying concepts, which in many cases are the breaking up of crystals which are not of the Light. For the crystallization of various activities within mankind has created that hardness of heart and hardness of being which prevents the manifestation within them of the divine image!
We come to you tonight with that sternness in our being - which means that those of you who profess that you would continue upon the spiritual path, upon finding the great Tree of Life that is in the midst of the Garden,7 should also recognize the dynamic role which you ought to play as you accept the garments of God as your own.
Mankind have no right to be untrue to this Presence of God that is so true to them. They have no right to be faithless when God has invested so much of his faith in them. The perfection of our Presence, the indwelling radiance in the human tents, is encamped round about those that fear him from all generations unto this present one.
O mankind, as there is a great gathering together of the family of nations, as there is a great gathering together and a kindling of the hearts of people, will you recognize your own role in supporting the Light expansion in the domain of mankind? Understand how many are gathered together in the marts of commerce, in the theaters of entertainment, and in the world.
Will you understand how many strange images are being flashed to mankind upon the television screens of the world? And will you understand at last, O blessed humanity, how the great teachings of the ascended masters ought to also vie with them and create in those who still thirst for righteousness, who hunger for righteousness, the desire that they should be full?
For who has brought you here, in the name of God! Why are you here? Why were you brought before us, save that you might find your place in the immortal realms? You were not brought here simply for a little entertainment this evening. You were brought here that you might understand that measure of your cosmic devotion that will kindle the God flame within your own heart and mind, that you may function as a divine emissary in the realm of form to carry that God flame unto your fellowmen.
For when we speak of "breaking the bread," we mean just that - that each crumb of the loaf of heaven should be carried thither and yon as by the wind of the Holy Spirit until those in the uttermost parts of the earth are able at last to enter into our kingdom. For the kingdom of God is for those of the north, the east, the west, and the south. And the flame of God comes from the land of the north; and yet, as the lightning cometh from the East and goeth unto the West, so shall the coming of the Son of man be.
Let the Light from the East arise in your heart. Let the dawn of Cosmic Truth speak to you as never before, and understand: With what measure of devotion you give unto the Eternal One, you shall also receive from his own hand.8
Mankind come with a farthing and leave with a farthing. When they come with the allness of their being, they find the great cosmic kindling within every cell, the multiplicity of the flame of Life in every cell, the energizing of mankind with that great cosmic verve which brings them awareness and the cosmic stimulation which we desire to see played upon you tonight because we flash forth our flame in your midst.
If we step up the vibratory action in these rooms, will you permit it? Will you consent to it? We ask you in the name of heaven, for by your answer we shall determine the great level of our expansiveness in your midst. We will give you an outpouring of the cosmic love of God that we invoke for you now - all of you who consent. We invoke it and we say, "Let it be done!"
O cosmic angels of the sacred fire, gather, then, from every corner of the universe those blessings which compose a cosmic cornucopia, a release of our infinite love in the name of God that shall enthuse mankind with the reality of God and see that he no longer gropes in blindness for the great cosmic hand that reaches through the dark, that commands his life, his virtue, and his cosmic strength to arise.
We say: Arise in the God flame and recognize who you are! Recognize the staunchness of your ability to defend the cosmic law with every drop of your life which is within you:
For the cosmic law
Is an essence white,
An essence bright,
An essence clean,
An essence pure.
It comes to view
And makes secure
The God in man
That makes him pure!
We ask you, then, in the mighty name of the eternal Presence to receive our blessing and to understand that it shall always continue each day of your life and forever, as you enter into that realm of praise to your own Mighty I AM God Presence and call unto your Christ Self and unto me, Maitreya, that you might receive the blessing of the Light made manifest now and forever through you who become the tabernacles of witness, the tabernacles of grace - an oasis in the desert of humankind -
To whom is given
A white stone9 within your heart,
The flame of Life that does impart
Grace for every problem,
Strength for every weakness,
Beauty for all human ugliness,
And the finality of the grace of security
In the foreverness of Infinity.
I, Maitreya, have spoken. And out of the Light have I sent forth more Light. It is your Light I have used - the Light of your God Presence. Will you receive it and be free?
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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 31, 1972, during the Class of Resurrection Lightning in Santa Barbara, California. The next dictation in the series by Lord Maitreya, given May 14, 1972, on the Sons and Daughters of Dominion is printed in the Keepers of the Flame Lessons.