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Your souls are barks1 moving on the stream of life, and the moving stream is the flow of cosmic energy. And as you move, you are not aware of the comeasurement of infinity.
You behold the shoreline. You remember where you have been. With anticipation you look to future horizons. But in the now of the moving stream you discover real id-dentity, real consciousness as a coordinate of that life-force which is within the stream, within the bark, within the soul.
And one day as you journey on in life, you find that the veils of relativity thin. You pierce that veil, you see the great beyond. You see timelessness, spacelessness and you are centered in Being beyond all arcs of finite relativity.
Lo! I AM the Light in the center of the heart, in the bark moving on the stream of time. Lo! I AM you Cosmic Christ consciousness. There is no separation in God. When you reach the level of the Cosmic Christ, you may rightfully say:
I AM the Buddha! I AM God's awareness of Maitreya.
Where vibration is the same, identity is the same. Can you distinguish the drops of the ocean while they remain the ocean? But there comes a time when, for the purposes of Self-realization, God once again separates the drops in the spume and the foam as the wave crashes upon the shores of life. And once again identity, as Spirit-spark, knows the spheres of separation separation, yet a simultaneous oneness.
Do you know that, contrary to some religious teaching, man does preserve his identity in God? For God does preserve his awareness of each manifestation, each drop. And although the manifestation does not perceive the drops in the ocean, yet God is aware of the molecule. He created the formula you have named H2O, and he is aware of the identity of each molecule.
How life is a chimera! Here a suggestion of Reality, here a glimpse, here a shadow and you move quickly to capture the butterfly or the bird or the shadow itself. And suddenly they are gone. God plays hide-and-seek with man. Frolicking in the sunshine, he says: Come and find me.
"Something hidden. Go and find it!"2
Rudyard Kipling caught the idea of God. God as moving among the mountains, God as moving in nature always there, yet requiring that man pursue Him in the tireless search for Reality, for Truth. And then one day God reveals Himself as the flaming Presence within, and man begins to contemplate Reality within a dimension, within another world. And yet, that world is himself all of himself within and without.
Behold, I AM the awareness of God as the nucleus of the hydrogen atom. Behold, I AM the awareness of God in the center of every atom. If I have the consciousness of the Cosmic Christ, then I must occupy the nucleus of every particle of substance. For, you see, God has placed himself there, and in the movement of the Alpha-to-Omega spirals, there the Cosmic Christ is born.
Lo, I AM here! I AM there! Can you capture the Cosmic Christ? You can if you become that Christ. And you can become that Christ now in this age of Aquarius dawning, the age when hierarchy delivers to mankind a do-it-yourself kit: the teaching of how how to do all things yourself until you tire of that ritual of doing things yourself and you come to the place where you realize "I of mine own self can do nothing; it is the Father in me that doeth the work."3
You know the story of the raft. The teaching of the Buddha is the raft, and when mankind desire to go from one shore to the other they use the raft. They have great need of the raft, they pursue the raft, they love the raft. They climb upon it and they journey to the other shore, but when they reach the other side they no longer have any need of the raft.
And so, the do-it-yourself kit is a means a means whereby through ritual, through study, through application, through exercise and diligence you arrive at the other side of the moving stream of life. And there you realize that all of your effort is now rewarded by that special quintessence of life which mankind have called grace. By grace ye are saved, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.4
Following the ritual of initiation of obedience to the Hierarch and to Law is a means of testing the soul, of determining whether or not the soul is worthy of grace. And thus, God has created this plane of Mater with its shadows of Reality interspersed with illusion so that mankind might enjoy the game of life, playing peekaboo with God, then to come to that place where he is granted, by grace, the opportunity to behold Him face to face. Then all else dissolves and man beholds God as himself.
When I come into your midst, I always come bearing the scroll of initiation, for this is my office in hierarchy. I have initiated World Teachers, devotees many who have since ascended. The Keeper of the Scrolls has prepared for me this night a scroll of record for each one of you. Those who have come have come at the behest of the Christ Self; for the Christ Self has discerned that you, in your present consciousness, are ready for initiation.
Upon this scroll is written the account of the last testing of the soul which was not passed a test that was missed. You have had numerous tests which you have passed and some which you have failed. For each and every one of you, because cycle's door is still ajar, there is an opportunity to pass a test before midnight Easter Sunday. And you will be given an opportunity to right a record which now remains on the Book of Life as the outline of cause and effect, of karma.
I come to initiate a spiral within you of awareness of this opportunity. For some, it will be a test of the overcoming of hardness of heart. For others, a very subtle test of spiritual pride. For others, the mastery of emotions. For others, whether or not to judge or to leave judgment to God.
This is an opportunity that is granted to few. That opportunity is the warning of initiation. For it is the law of hierarchy to prepare each one, to bring each one to the place where his consciousness is in readiness for initiation, but not to tell the individual that the initiation is coming. You will always find that you have been prepared for tests in advance abundantly, but the surprise nature of the initiation must be a part of the initiation itself.
Therefore, having the privilege of coming to you with this warning, with this foreknowledge, is a great boon which has been decreed by the Lords of Karma, that you might have the joy and the hope of knowing that you can pass a test and, having passed one test, you can pass another and another and another. For there is a law of multiplication in hierarchy: for every test that you pass, another three can be given unto you.
And so, you see, initiation can become a juggling act. As the juggler juggled before the statue of the Virgin Mary,5 so you may find yourself juggling before Maitreya and still passing all of your tests until the separateness of the tests merge into the one realization that wherever you look, wherever you are, whatever you do all is God and harmony is the law of being.
I draw nigh to you as I drew nigh to Jesus. As I overshadowed him in his mission to personify the Christ, so I come to you to assist you in the personification of the energies of the Cosmic Christ. This is the meaning of the age; this is the meaning of world turmoil.
It is Light descending into the earth that causes fissures in the crust of the earth and fissures in the consciousness of men. For the earthen vessels cannot contain the Light, and therefore they break and they crack and there is travail and there is chaos and war and confusion. For the readjustment and the realignment of planetary forcefields and planetary energies allowing for the great influx of Light must surely have their effect upon the evolution of mankind.
And therefore, when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, know that the end is not yet.6 For the end of the age that comes when the precipitation of the Christ is made plain in this octave will come at a time when certain cycles of the fulfillment of cosmic energies have come to pass.
Work the works of God as laborers in the vineyard while there is time.7 And remember: There were two laborers laboring in the field; one was taken and the other was left.8 One was drawn into the consciousness of the Life immortal; one tarried in the realm of mortality. This, too, is the law of hierarchy.
I AM releasing the energies that form the nucleus for your attainment in this incarnation. These energies can be drawn as skeins of light from a sphere of light which I place now within your heart. And thus, you may draw each day the light energies you require to put on the swaddling garment and to prepare for each initiation on the Path.
The day is at hand when millions among mankind will accept the ascended-master hierarchy as the true teachers of the race.
Pursue your calling. Grow in grace. Prepare to be teachers of mankind. Invoke the flame of Cosmic Christ illumination and watch how the fires of transmutation will intensify how the elements will melt with a fervent heat9 and how the transformation will come about and how earth will be propelled into the golden age of the greatest enlightenment that the planet has ever known.
I seal you in the Light of Maitreya. And I bid you: live the Life victorious! It is the onl Life, the only Way, and the only Reality we acknowledge.
Life, by definition, is victorious!
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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 Friday, April 12, 1974, during the 5-day Easter conference, Convocation of the New Birth, held at the Ambassador Hotel, 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.