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When Jesus said, "I and my Father are one,"1 he spoke of his union with God and with hierarchy. At the same time as he affirmed his oneness with the great source of Life, with Alpha and Omega, so he affirmed his oneness with myself as his Guru.
There is an important object lesson. For the planes of consciousness that are held in the Christ mind are many, and they transcend all levels of hierarchy unto the focalization of the awareness of God in the Father. Hence, the soul acclaims the Presence of God in and throughout its consciousness: I and my Father are one! By this oneness Jesus completed his mission victoriously.
The mighty oneness of Life is a source of strength to those who yet walk in the valley of becoming and in the arena of time and space. It is often like a lion's den, and the survival of those who love the Christ is often precarious.
It is important for you to realize that when you visualize an ascended master - any ascended being, and especially now your own beloved ascended Lanello2 - that when you say, I and my Father are one, and you see his image before you: instantly the Electronic Presence, the mantle of the momentum of light from his consciousness, is put around you as a swaddling garment and your energies are sealed in the identity of his God flame!
As with all things, practice makes perfect. The identification of your God flame with the God flame of Lanello is important to the success and the victory of your mission. As you call him Father, so he is Father, for he focused the hour of the twelve - the side of the north of the City Foursquare, the initiation of the spiral of Cosmic Christ illumination to the age.
Father, then, is Father in heaven and Father upon earth - Father in all who have endeavored to be the Presence of God to the children of mankind.
I and my Father are one. So this you must affirm and establish that closeness with those in heaven who are closest to you. And then you may go on to say, when you have completed that exercise, I and my Mother are one. And so you draw the power and the momentum of the World Mother into your being - the very mantle of the fires of her immaculate heart and of every ascended lady master who has espoused the cause of the Cosmic Virgin.
This, too, is a mantra that can sing in the heart day and night for the fulfilling of the cycles of the children of God upon the planetary home. Think of the swelling spiral that you can create with just these simple statements:
I and my Father are one ... I and my Mother are one.
Immediately, the balance of Alpha and Omega descends upon you and you feel again the cloven tongues of the Holy Spirit, the twin flames of Life, of being itself, welling up within you to mold each manifestation out of the perfection of Life itself.
I come to you as the Great Initiator, for so I have been called. Not only do I initiate mankind by placing before them the testing of the hour which their souls require to come up higher, but I also initiate light: cycles of light, of perfection, of victory, of illumination - and of victory through illumination - to the race. Therefore, I am concerned this day that there shall be those who go forth among you with the banner of Maitreya, carrying the banner of the Buddhic consciousness and the desire for its attainment among the masses.
You do not realize, precious hearts, how the very decrees of the members of this activity and other activities similarly dedicated have actually raised the consciousness of mankind to the place where today, across the earth, the youth are flocking to whatever teachers they can find - whoever they can find who can give them some glimpse of Truth!
Mankind have indeed been cut free, and one of the greatest single factors in their freedom has been the giving of the Entity Decree.3 For mankind all yearn for the Truth within the heart, within the soul. Only the outer consciousness resists. And why does it resist? Because that consciousness does not have dominion in its own forcefield, for it is invaded and inhabited in many cases by discarnates, by the lower order of astral beings wedded to darkness, by demons and the fallen ones who have pledged to serve the Dark One.
And so, when that decree has been given (it is now ten years that it has been given by the student body), thousands and millions of such entities have been removed from the forcefields of the children of the Light. And immediately they have swung into perfection, into their native desire to pursue the will of God, to pursue the Buddha whose focus at Shamballa covers the earth with glory, with the balance of the threefold flame, with the call of the Father/Mother God to come Home.
I say these things to you, for I am concerned that mankind overcome their fears through the giving of decrees to God. Yes, you must make that joyful noise!4 And make it joyful and make it noisy and let it go forth to reclaim the energies of God!
You have in your consciousness the vision of rapids - of waters in a state of turmoil where there is an adjustment of currents or an adjustment of levels of bodies of water. If you could see on the astral plane this hour, you would see that the waters of mankind's consciousness are in this turmoil, this transition state.
When you then invoke the oil of illumination, of forgiveness and the sacred fire, the blue lightning of God's holy will to penetrate this density, there is a staying action of the hand of Almighty God that rises in the air as the mighty thoughtform for the year5 and releases the energies that declare unto the finite consciousness:
Peace, be still! Peace, be still!
Be still and know that I AM God!
Be still and know that I AM God!
When you declare, then, I and my Father are one, you are knowing that I AM God - that where you stand is the Holy of Holies of God's consciousness. For you stand upon holy ground in the presence of one who has returned to the very heart and hearth of the Creator of Life.
"And Enoch walked with God and he was not, for God took him."6 It is true, precious hearts. In the twinkling of an eye, the very eye of God, we shall all be changed.7 Change signifies progress and the ever-unfolding spirals of the Cosmic Mother.
I am Maitreya and on my banner is the thoughtform of a mighty clipper ship. And that ship, as it comes in with the tides at eventide, comes to fetch the souls of mankind to take them to another shore. This is the change, this is transition. It is made by the energies of peace that form the emotional quadrant.
The waters of Life enable mankind to adapt from one plane of consciousness to another. And so the gathering of souls in the great ship of Life for the journey to another land should be a joyous occasion - not a time for partings and good-byes and sorrows, but a time for rejoicing that some are called to another plane where there awaits another service, another teaching, another life triumphant, another opportunity to expand the glories of the kingdom.
All will one day board that mighty ship. And the return journey is a joyous one, for it is going to that place, that home of light from whence you came.
I tell you, the parting from that home to this shore is far more painful than the return. For when you come into physical embodiment, you come into an area of density and darkness and depression and you come here to the earth to accept the challenge - the challenge of the Light to divide the night and to be the flame of the Mother to all.
Some forget that challenge and that calling. Others experience it as a mighty burning within the heart that never lets them rest until they fulfill that high calling. You are among those who could not rest until you found the purpose of your life. While you are here a little while, then, remember that the LORD hath need of thee. O the mighty arm of strength that is the body of God upon earth, the balancing factor like the rudder of my ship! You are the rudder in the world of form that keeps the ship of state upon its course. You are the electrodes implanted in the heart of the earth for the healing of the nations. How glorious is the opportunity and how thankful you shall be, one and all, that you have served to your capacity.
I say, then, as you contemplate the ascension and the return to the heart of God (which our beloved one has so recently shown before you by his own victory), remember that once ascended you cannot go back to redo those areas of life that you have not tended. Remember that in rising ever higher you will want to know that each pattern that you have left below is a firm and established one that those following after you can find and use for the restoration of souls - not as abuse but as the fulfilling of the plan and the Great Law.
I say, then, stand not in holy awe, in fear and trembling of a life hereafter or of those gone on whom you see not but you will see again. But stand in joy, in cosmic rejoicing that life is eternal and ongoing and that there is a place for all - a home to which they can return, a home where the fires of love do burn.
I am Maitreya and my cape of light enfolds you, each one. I am here to surround you with the love of the angelic hosts. And those who have gathered here this day to minister unto you have asked me to say:
Precious ones who labor in the Father's vineyard, we are here, your brothers and sisters on wings of light. Do you not know that we have also fated our plight with you? Do you not know that we walk with you each hour of the day and night, that we surround you with our light?
We are the angels of Christ, of the Cosmic Christ and the Divine Mother. We have heard your calls and answered - answered to the name of God, I AM, to which we are pledged from the very beginning of our own immortal conception. We cannot refrain to come when we hear that name. We cannot refrain from releasing His flame in your midst.
And so, precious ones, be aware that we are the company of the LORD's hosts - that we, too, are on the march with hierarchy. We are marching with you to lead you to the promised land of God's consciousness fulfilled. We are Light's pinions, Light's minions. And here we do express His nobleness, His honor, and the cosmic honor flame.
I, Maitreya, return you, one and all, to the heart of the Divine Mother. And there shall be a moment in the twenty-four hours which ensue following your hearing of this dictation that you shall experience what it is like to be held in the arms of the Divine Mother.
I and my Father are one! I and my Mother are one!
And lo! I AM with you alway, even unto the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning, as all cycles are fulfilled in the victory of the Light of the Cosmic Christ!
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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 Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, March 18, 1973, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The next two dictations in the series by Lord Maitreya - "The Tutoring of the Little Ones in Precepts Holy" (April 22, 1973) and "The Soul's Declaration of Independence" (July 3, 1973) - are printed in the Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 16, no. 35, pp. 147-50, and vol. 17, nos. 7 and 8, pp. 29-38.