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My love enfolds you in the rapturous Light of the One Sent. I am, as you know, as you know me, Kuthumi.
To Play Our Roles We Crossed the Bar
Remember the ancient encounter. For I have been your brother on many occasion; and in each succeeding incarnation we have shared, our souls have moved together to pluck the star of the Divine Light and to pluck the harp of the heart of Maitreya.
Disciples of Maitreya are we - Metteyya - and therefore together we have sought a glance, a smile, a whisper, an acknowledgment that we might know our God is pleased.
Thus, we agreed, thou and I, that I should go with Morya before you to stand in Christ with Jesus and that you would remain to bring up the rear of the troops and your own flaming chakras.
Thus, to play our roles - I the Alpha, you the Omega - we crossed the bar; and you remain, the faithful witness of our cause.
How can I leave thee, devotees of Light and Peace and Freedom and of the heart of that Christ?
Is it any wonder to you that I should become, not only before my ascension in the final hours [as the Mahatma Koot Hoomi] but subsequently, a bit incensed at these Christians and their small-mindedness and inability to perceive his true mission when I myself [as Saint Francis], through trial and pain and the deep affection of the heart, came truly to understand beyond orthodoxy the reality of my Saviour?1
Thus, beloved, I am impatient today for your sakes and for the sakes of those who wait for the cup of knowledge that you bear from our abode. I am impatient with those who attempt again and again to weave their slander, their unreality, and all the rest around such a shining star as the Teaching itself.
Of course, I know the end from the beginning. And I, too, understand the cycles that must be outplayed as outlined for you by Sanat Kumara and Gautama and the living Word in the Great White Brotherhood. But still I long to think of those who, if they had the fruit and the sweet nectar of the knowledge that has become such a daily affair as to be taken for granted by yourselves, might run with it, eat it now to the fullness of the cup, and become for us other servants in many fields East and West.
We press on then. We jump over the bowling balls that are rolled our way, and we stand before you today rejoicing in admonishment and dispensation from Maitreya to our own heart.
My Assignment to Work with You for Your Physical Health and the Healing of Your Psychology
Thus, I come, the joyful student, to announce to you the most precious dispensation which comes from Maitreya, placed upon me by him with all diligence and the same concern for the step-up of your lives. This dispensation is my assignment to work with each one of you individually for your physical health and for the healing of your psychology, that we might swiftly get to the very cause and core of physical as well as spiritual and emotional conditions that there be no more setbacks or indulgences and surely not two steps forward and one step back.
Thus, from this hour, if you will call to me and make a determination in your heart to transcend the former self, I will tutor you both through your own heart and any messenger I may send your way. Therefore, heed the voices - not astral but physical - and watch the course of events. And, of course, when you have the opportunity to receive my word from the messenger, know truly that I use her often to explain to you the intricacies of the blocks in consciousness. For you are so sincere and the sweetness of thy hearts is touching to the soul in a world hardened by war and abortion.
Thus, I come in many guises. And I do acknowledge to you, beloved, that whatever else may or may not be said from the left or the right, our messenger is truly adequate and ready to demonstrate to you the path of your Christhood as we have walked it, as we have attained it.
A School of Hard Knocks and Our Gruff Voice
This is a school, truly, of hard knocks. This is a school where you will hear our gruff voice. Be of good cheer, for our bark is often worse than our bite but proves most useful in eliminating those who are so easily scared away from the fount, who seek favoritism and praise when in fact they should recognize the love of the gruff voice and know that that which is offended is the ego self, the prideful self.
Thus, offense is a grave enemy and ought to be discarded. We use this mode, that those who belong not here may well have their offense and take it and move on their way as the "hurt ones," the "bruised ones," the "injured ones."
Isn't it strange that those who call themselves men, who have gone forth, could be offended by a little woman? Beloved hearts, something is awry! Where has gone the prototype of Western man with all the strength and independence, without botheration from females? After all, are we not the Gurus? Then why allow a little woman to cause so much consternation, so much reaction, so much anger? More is the proof, then, that it is we who act, for how can a little woman perform such deeds of which she is accused?
Seek Not the Human Mother but the Divine
Blessed ones, those who come for favoritism and the personality cult, those who come seeking the Mother, therefore, as the substitute for the human mother come precisely for the wrong reason. This is not a human mother! This is the Divine Mother, veiled in many garbs. You cannot have a relationship with the Divine Mother in any of us unless you first satisfy yourself at the human level, resolve your psychology with human parents, become your own mother and father and keeper, and then enter into a true and lasting relationship with the Divine Mother and the Divine Father.
Now, why do you suppose that the good God made human mothers and human fathers? It is because the tender souls, those reincarnating with a pack of karma on their backs, truly need the humanness of the human mother and father. Thus, these are necessary steps in the planetary home, and you would feel bereft and left out if you were spoken of as that one having neither father nor mother nor beginning nor ending of days.2
Thus, the one who comes in the name of Melchizedek, the Ascended Master and the priest, has initiated the Lord Jesus as a priest forever.3 That priesthood comes through the initiation of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother unto those who have internalized the essential elements of the humanity of the world's greatest fathers and mothers.
I speak, then, of the inner resolution. I speak, then, to you! Those who seek here what they did not derive from human parents, those who seek to prove again and again that human parents will fail by seeing failure in the messengers have not the slightest conception of the Path. Some require tutoring and a study of the true and ancient traditions of the Guru/chela relationship.
Blessed ones, we cannot be unto you both human and divine. Therefore, we have chosen - and chosen well - to represent the divine, since you have so many specimens of the human before you. It is really not necessary that we provide the human link in the chain of humanism.
The Ascension Is the Mark of Achievement
We come, therefore, to provide the link to the Divinity, and we place before you in this mystery school the goal of the ascension. The ascension itself is the mark of achievement, the victory, and the single act that is praiseworthy. If you do not graduate with your ascension, not only will your report card be marked "failed," but so will ours. For the teacher is also responsible - and so is the messenger.
Thus, each one sent comes with a prayer that none of these little ones should be lost save the son of perdition.4 And who is the son of perdition? I tell you, he is not the bogeyman! He is not your worst enemy that you imagine to be nine feet tall. The son of perdition is the dweller on the threshold of your own house. It should be lost and rightfully so - and swiftly!
But it is difficult to become a dragon-slayer when the age of chivalry has long passed. Some find it a bit unpleasant to take up sword and slay the not-self. But in the meantime, while their stomachs are in too delicate a condition (and their egos as well) to perform this act, they themselves are being devoured by the dweller - dallying, marking time, and often drifting backwards with no realization. For in relativity, it sometimes appears one is going forward when one is standing still or moving backward.
Thus, precious hearts, understand that the ascension is the acceptable offering. Those who do not truly want the ascension but want the power of the Light of Serapis Bey ought not to come. But these are the very ones who cannot be convinced to stay away, for they enjoy the lap of the Mother and need make no effort and become most angry when they are sent forth to prove their wisdom in action and thus balance the threefold flame!
They must recognize once and for all that if they had mastery once or twice or thrice in a previous life, that full mastery should have long ago gained for them the eternal octaves of Light. What is wanting is always the absence of balance in the threefold flame. If it cannot be gained here, it must be gained in the wide opportunity of the world for professionalism and self-mastery.
Some things are required of one, and some things of another. Resent not, then, the admonishments we give through the messenger. Our admonishments are only for the shortening of the days for the elect.5 Who are the elect? You are the elect! You have elected to enter a path, in the main, by trust, by determination, and by the elimination of possibilities; for you have wisely observed what the world has to offer. Not knowing, then, what you would encounter, you have nevertheless sought the Great White Brotherhood, sought the Ascended Masters, entered the school presenting itself to be ours (as so it is), and thus come in faith to seek and to find.
I welcome you to this quarter of Summit University in the name of Lord Maitreya. My arms are open, and my heart also. I would take you inside and give to you as much as you are able to take. Thus, enter in to the faith of thy own Selfhood, and we can roll up our sleeves and begin.
"What Does It Mean, This Slaying of the Dweller on the Threshold?"
"What does it mean," you have said, "this slaying of the dweller on the threshold?" Let us begin once again at the beginning for those who have not understood:
Beloved, by free will all have forged action, word, desire. Some of these, as vibration, have been pure and perfect, building individual Christhood and the mantle, the seamless garment. Through ignorance, absence of tutoring, forgetfulness of First Cause and origin in the higher spheres, others of these vibrations emanating from actions and words and desires have fallen; for they had not the balance of flight of Alpha and Omega. They have fallen and begun to form a spiral like a solar system around the solar plexus, the "place of the sun."
Momentums, then, of lifetimes for many thousands of years have builded the antithesis of Self, sometimes entirely unbeknownst to the outer mind who thought itself so sincere and desirous of doing right that in the very desire to do right there has been the mistaken conclusion that the desire should make all things right. Nevertheless, the Law perceives that there is right action, there is wrong action, and the proof is in the causal body - the pure vessel of Light of all good deeds and acts in Matter - and in this electronic belt.
Now, in the eye of that vortex of misqualified energy - in the very eye of the vortex - there is the point of consciousness and identity that emerges as the collective consciousness of all misdeeds. Each time a decision is made that registers as the unreal, a portion of the unreal mind must be used to make it. Thus, the collection of actions has a collective consciousness, and the dweller is the collective manifestation of all that has been in error. It emerges as an identity, a figment, you might say, but a momentum that wields human power to a grave and great extent.
This identity is the impostor of the soul and of the Christ Self. A portion of the soul by free will is invested in the impostor, and a portion of the soul is invested in the Christ. Thus, the battleground and Armageddon is of the soul which, as you know, can be lost.
Now cometh the Christ and the Ascended Masters and their chelas to woo the soul away from unreality, to prove to the soul what is Real, what is Light, what is the eternal Goal. This is your office as shepherds and ministering servants and students of the World Teachers. When the soul is enlightened and quickened and gains awareness through Christ, it begins to be able to see on its own through that Christ intelligence what is unreal.
But seeing is not necessarily believing. Seeing, then, is the first step; believing, the second.
The action to deny that which is unreal is fraught with the burdens of the individual's psychology. And thus, sometimes hard lessons - burning in the trial by fire,6 pain in this world - must convince the soul that Life is more important and therefore that one must let go of certain situations and conditions and beliefs and comfortabilities.
We move the soul as close to the precipice of knowledge of Absolute Good and Absolute Evil as is possible, at the same time to preserve the integrity of the soul and not to cause that one too much fear, too much awareness of the great Darkness within that opposes the great Light.
Thus, beloved hearts, the slaying of the dweller. Not all at once but little by little. And this is something you should be aware of, though you have been told before. Each day, according to the cosmic cycles, a little bit of the head of the dweller emerges above this dark pool of the electronic belt. It is a still darkness, and one can see perhaps the head or the ear or the eye or the nose of this dweller, this self-created monster. You see this, then, in your own actions and reactions. You see it in the musings of the mind - sometimes only a telltale ripple on the surface or perhaps the tail when the beast has dived to the bottom.
Thus, you must listen and watch what is lurking. And as soon as you find a tendency to fear, to be jealous, to become angry or whatever, go after it as the tip of the iceberg! Work at it! This work is truly a profound work of the Spirit. It is not easy always to be on the path of confrontation.
The Path of Accommodation of the Dweller
I come with the message of Maitreya and to amplify his previous messages. For he has spoken of the path of accommodation7 whereby, instead of slaying the dweller, you find ways to go around this side and around that side. And thus, you begin to build the tower of light - you build a great momentum of decrees and service, trusting that somehow, in some way, this terrifying encounter will go away. But it will not go away. And the day you discover once again that all of that goodness is not the acceptable offering is the day when in the presence of Maitreya you once again encounter face-to-face that dweller on the threshold.
You may go far and wide and keep a wide berth from the messenger and never notice the dweller and build a positive human momentum in those outer attainments, whether through yoga or decrees or this or that discipline. And you may be very happy with yourself, and others may be exceedingly happy with you. Of course, this is not the question.
The question is whether your I AM Presence and Christ Self are happy and whether your Teachers will tell you that in the light of cosmic initiation your offering is acceptable. Thus, beloved, to avoid the Masters or to avoid the instrument whereby we may speak to you is to avoid the Day of Reckoning [of your karmic accountability] which has been called, in biblical terms, the day of vengeance of our God.8
Now think of this in the occult9 sense. Who is our God? Your God is the thing which you fear most. I pray it be the Almighty in the sense of awe, but too often fear is of things from beneath10 or of fear itself. Your God is also the thing you hate most or resent most, the thing to which you are tied irrevocably by the greatest intensity of human feelings. These may be good or bad, pleasureful or painful; but there is your God, the one to whom you give deference.
Now listen to the Word: "the day of vengeance of our God." What is the vengeance? It is the terrifying moment when the thing you have feared or hated or loved most (in a human consciousness) has become your master and you its slave, and you find you are indeed not free although you have built a mountain of decrees and service on either side.
Thus, beloved, the mighty work of the ages must be pursued, and we stand with you and we place our messenger before you because of the initiation and tutoring and training and encounter that is needed constantly to assist: To assist your overcoming.
Only you can overcome - we cannot do it for you! And yet, we can deliver the precise Word and the thrust of the sword at any hour of the day or night when it is required. And those who are the true brides of Christ and the wise virgins11 - they will respond, they will know the source, they will move!
You May Know Us through Our Teachings
Blessed hearts, you may not understand or perceive us personally, but you may do so through the dictations and the teachings. And inasmuch as you never know where you will find it, it is important to be ongoing students of the teachings that have come forth. So precious are these teachings that their recording, their organization, is deemed by us often more important than more human conversation with our messenger.
As you can see, if we did not have our books and letters from previous centuries, where would we be to convey the very same instruction? We would have to begin all over again and repeat what we have done. But we have better and nobler ideas to convey and new situations demanding attention. Thus, do not neglect so great a salvation as the written and spoken Word. And value all other contact above and below with our bands.
The Accommodation of Rebellion against the Guru and Disobedience to the LORD God
Blessed ones, understand, then, the accommodation of the aspect of the beast known as rebellion against the Guru and disobedience to the LORD God. Understand that that core rebellion has been the undoing of many chelas, some who were not calculated by us to make it in the first place.
Although we held the immaculate concept, the record of the past was before us. We gave the opportunity in purest hope, in support, and with the full momentum of our Electronic Presence. Yet, beloved, others who have not made it have lost in the race simply for want of this very instruction from Lord Maitreya, which because it has helped so many I give to you again.
The accommodation, then, of rebellion, going to the right and to the left of it, becoming as it were, a workaholic, performing many good human deeds and social deeds, or the performance of ritual and prayer and yoga, the assiduous following of perhaps asceticism or personal discipline or diet - all of these things may be a careful accumulation of human virtue by the individual to avoid [subconsciously, at least] what is the most important step which must be taken: The step of the encounter with that satellite orbiting in the electronic belt that has come between the soul and her I AM Presence - namely, the rebellion against Lord Maitreya or Sanat Kumara or against the Law itself because it was spoken, perhaps, by a very imperfect vessel. This rebellion, then, becomes a block self-perpetuating, for it is set in orbit by free will and it cannot be removed from orbit without free will.
How You Create Your Personal Astrology out of Your Karma
When you place planets in orbit in this electronic belt, you create your personal subconscious astrology and psychology, which are one and the same - focuses of your karma. Now, when you think of the solar system you inhabit and you consider the weight, the volume, and the magnitude of the planets, you can learn the lesson that it is far easier to set a planet in motion than to call it back, even as the words which proceed from your mouths cannot be called back, no matter how great the regret, else it is by the violet flame.
The Necessity for Attainment in the Heart Chakra through the Master/Disciple Relationship
Thus, to remove the planet of rebellion, you must have a oneness with the central sun of your being - the I AM Presence, the Christ Self, and the externalized attainment of the heart chakra. This is why we preach on the Sacred Heart. This is why there is a union of religion East and West through the path of the heart; for all who have ever attained have done so by this sacred fire.
Listen well, then. To recall the planet of rebellion in the electronic belt, you must have an equal and greater force of Light and sacred fire manifest in the heart to counteract it and dissolve it, else you must be holding the hand of the Master or the Guru who has that development and can transmit to you the Light that can keep you above the waves when you would sink as Peter did.12
Thus, the necessity of the Master/disciple relationship. For there is not one among you or those upon earth today (save those who are already in our inner retreats) who can make it alone, who has not in his electronic belt something that requires reinforcement of the Masters who have gone before to remove - to remove, I say, in a timely manner, for we do not have a million years for you to sit and give the violet flame and to pursue these disciplines.
Thus, the Master/disciple relationship has never been more important. And because this messenger has submitted to the most complete and arduous training at inner levels and in the physical octave, taking the lessons from both friend and foe alike, from Masters and chelas alike (not missing those lessons), we can tell you that the instrument is dependable for our purposes to make known to you what are the mandated options that you must consider through free will to take and take quickly for your own victory.
Cycles must not be lost. Tests must not be postponed. And when you see it, call it and move on.
Beloved ones, when the aspect of the dweller of rebellion is not challenged and bound and cast out - and these are steps; for that planet may be bound before it is ultimately cast out, which means it is in submission to your free will and to your Christhood but not entirely eliminated - when it remains, therefore, and you are in the twilight zone of not having slain the dweller and not having entered into complete union with Christ, these are treacherous waters.
We Offer Our Hand in Friendship
In these waters of the astral plane, again you need our living witness and our hand, which we offer this day purely and in friendship and as never before to assist you - to assist you for Maitreya's sake and for your ascension's sake.
The Acceptable Offering Is Christ-Good
When you are in that twilight zone, scurrying about like frightened mice to pile up good karma, yet not facing the problem - the offering of human righteousness and human goodness is not the acceptable offering. If the individual is not willing to take this teaching to heart and to change, then, you see, he will become angry, as Cain was angry when his offering was not accepted.13 He demanded of Maitreya that his human goodness be received as a substitute for Christ-goodness - that the Law be changed for him and, instead of his fulfillment of that Law, that all of this grandiose human goodness should suffice.
And individuals do this again and again, and their schemes and their deeds become more and more grandiose, sometimes encompassing the earth. And they say, "Surely this great good deed, this great endowment, this great act I have done that has blessed millions should be the acceptable offering!"
It is only the acceptable offering when it is Christ-good. What is Christ-good? It is the soul united with Christ who has slain the dweller through that Christ and therefore can say, "This I have done to the glory of God and not as an accommodation for my rebellion, not as a substitute for my surrender, not as my demand that God should take me according to my path instead of according to His."
Depression and Moodiness for the Rejected Offering
Now when the offering that is not Christ-good is rejected, as it always is and shall be, there is an anger that occurs at the subconscious level, which on the surface may manifest as depression. Beware depression and moodiness, for it is a sign of severe problems. Depression is that state of the twilight zone where the individual has neither slain the dweller nor entered fully into the heart of Christ. It is the most dangerous situation of the soul in this octave of the Matter universe. Therefore, you desire to quickly remove yourself from that place of jeopardy.
Some of you have recurrent dreams of walking over very insecure bridges, over deep chasms or through narrow passageways, or of being confined in a box. You may wake up in a cold sweat, you may experience terror in the night. And thus, a lesson is coming through from your Higher Mental Body that tells you that you have placed yourself in a condition that is dangerous, that you must pass through it, you must make a move, you cannot go back and you cannot stand still: you must move forward.
Enter the False Gurus Offering Souls False Fruits
For here the tempter may come, here you may be vulnerable to those who are offering you wares and fruits which are not the initiatic fruits of Maitreya.
Thus enter the false gurus to take advantage of souls who have refused to pass through the initiation of challenging that core rebellion. Now they find a false guru, now they satisfy themselves that all is well. They may keep their rebellion, for the false guru is the embodiment of the dweller on the threshold of rebellion against Maitreya. And they will follow the false teachers lifetime after lifetime, totally suppressing all other awareness of the Light of Christ.
For that awareness would demand and force them once again to the point of the encounter and the point of the choice. Thus, they have a system of knowledge, of education, of academia - all these things to confirm and hold together a system of civilization based upon pride and the development of the human ego, situation ethics, the modification of behavior, and all that occurs in the molding of the human animal.
Now understand how the individual who ten thousand or twelve thousand years ago in rejecting Maitreya made the conscious decision to keep the dweller of rebellion, does react in this hour or in any century when the representatives of Maitreya and the Great White Brotherhood come forth with the true Teaching and the true requirements of the Law. Now the anger that is subconscious, that used to manifest outwardly as depression, inverts and is on the surface in an all-out campaign to destroy the society or the organization or the orifice of the true Light.
The Soul Holds the Balance of Right Choice, Fortified by Prayer and Meditation
Blessed ones, to a greater or lesser extent, now and then the dweller within you rebels against your own Christhood. But the soul may choose. For the soul ultimately, though it hangs in the balance, holds the balance of right choice. Thus, when you do not know the way to go or the right hand from the left hand, pray - pray for attunement and oneness with us.
Learn the steps of prayer and meditation which we have taught in our release14 that you might also be fortified by prayer and meditation as the right hand and the left hand of the presence of the Bodhisattvas who come to reinforce your desire to be all that God intended you to be.
Thus, you see, depression then begets inefficiency, more rebellion, disobedience, until finally there is a clamoring and a clanking in the electronic belt and in the four lower bodies. And unless that individual swiftly choose the Light of his own Mighty I AM Presence and choose to align himself with us, the helpers who can help, that individual must surely make the choice to run for the hills or for the canyons of the big cities where he may lose himself and place himself at the farthest possible distance from the one who can help - if not ourselves, then the messenger.
Some Sense of Injustice, Some Offense
Realize, then, beloved hearts, that all who do this must have an excuse, and their excuse must be based on some sense of injustice, some offense, or some real or imagined fault of our witness or our chelas or our organization. It is a pity, beloved hearts, that personal offense based on a core rebellion should unseat the rider, should unhorse the knight and he thereby lose such a grand opportunity. This work of the ages is a joyous work when you have one another, when you have community and such joy unlimited that is possible in this circumstance with which you are blessed, having this center with all that it portends for your lifestream.
We Come in the Name of Serapis Bey Because the Mystery School Is Required
Why have we come in this century? Why are we here presenting the equation of Life? We come in the name of Serapis Bey, our chief. We come in the name of this Master. We come because it is required that there be a mystery school in the physical octave in this century, teaching the path of the ascension, where the only graduates from that school are Ascended Masters.
It is required that the Path be set, that there not be a mincing of words or indulgences, paid or unpaid,15 but there be the pure and simple Path demonstrated by ourselves and yourselves to keep this earth in its cosmic spin. We are proud in the true, humble sense of the word as we rejoice that there is indeed such a school in this time and space.
The Messenger of Truth Must Meet the Foes of the Message
Beloved ones, I must tell you that when we looked for the messenger who could carry this message and Truth through what would befall that messenger in this century, we looked down this lifestream and found that strength and faith which would not be moved by the gossip or the calumny or the framing or whatever else might occur. For if the message is not borne by one who has the strength to meet the foes of the message with their anti-message, then how can our activity or our knowledge endure?
All qualities you may desire may not be evident in the messenger, but can one individual embody all virtues of God? Why are you here? Are you not here to embody those virtues and talents that might be absent from the outpicturing in this life of the one who stands before you? What purpose would you have if it would not be to complement all that is manifest here? What purpose of the messenger if not to provide you with those ingredients necessary and expedient to your own victory? This is the great beauty of the Great White Brotherhood, lest one having more than her share or his share perceive himself a god or independent of the Most High.
Come, then, to understand that the most necessary ingredients - to stand, and still stand, and to deliver our Word - are present. We are satisfied, and we are also satisfied that you will provide the rest.
Active and Passive Roles of Alpha and Omega Fulfilling the Word and Its Work
We encourage you to be aggressive and active on those particular notes that are your keynote to make this community complete. You understand the meaning of the passive receiver, the Omega who receives the Light of Spirit. The moment you receive it, you become Alpha. And now you are the active ones, now you move into action, now you implement the Word!
Beloved ones, there must be, perforce, workshops drilling in communication. You must be receivers of the Word. Then you must be givers of the Word. This is not yet action. The Word translated by the Holy Spirit becomes an Awareness/Action whereby you move. And suddenly the Word which is the power of the Spirit becomes the Work, the mighty Work that is the manifestation of the Mother in Matter. This is why we capitalize Word and Work - that you might understand the polarity of Alpha and Omega.
It is the Omega cycle that you must triumph in. Thus, the Work counts, for it shows forth the effect of the inner cause of the Spirit with you. Until the Word is received and given, heard, assimilated, and the very result of assimilation is the mighty Work of the ages - you have not completed the spiral! And until the Word becomes the Work, it is either an unfulfilled spiral or an aborted spiral.
Great Is the Cry of Injustice, Short-Fused the Determination to Act
I speak of this because I look across this great nation. People meet and talk. They agree in committee. They form policy. If all of the noble thoughts and desires of the hearts of the good people of the land would come into action, this nation would be a highly improved place. But it is not so.
When it comes to the Omega action, when it comes to the individual becoming the Shakti of the Great White Brotherhood, when it comes to courage and the willingness to stand apart from the crowd, to go against the most cherished belief systems, we find that those who are often most courageous are the fallen ones, for they have a momentum on rebellion and therefore they stand out.
And those who should stand out are quietly in their living rooms watching their television sets, listening to their music, and demanding endless hours and time to pursue their families and all other interests except the demand to save the nation or the youth or to fight drugs or to rescue the little children.
Great is the cry of injustice, and very short and short-fused is the determination to act. Few have the sustaining power to act in exception to their neighbors for very long. Few can stand the ostracization that they receive. That is why we have community, for we are like minds who ought to be attracting more like minds, and may well do so.
The Order of Francis and Clare
Beloved, I underscore and bring to the fore of your attention now our order, the holy Order of Francis and Clare, which has long been the underlying motive and purpose of many who serve here and throughout the field. I wish to inaugurate this order in this hour in a more organized way, that you might identify yourselves, whether on the celibate path or married, with the works that we strove to accomplish in the rebuilding of the Church16 on the cornerstone of purity while being servants to all life.
Obedience, Poverty, Chastity, and the Defense of Mother Church
I would speak to you of our motto, which I would say today as Obedience, as Poverty, as Chastity.17 May I speak upon these for a moment. For the obedience of our order is to the one we call Love - Christ. Obedience to Love in the person of Christ in every Ascended Master and not Jesus alone. Obedience to the inner Light and the inner Calling - the foundation of those who walk in commemoration of the World Teachers.
The Order of Francis and Clare takes its name from a quaint period in history which was fraught with the personal Armageddon and vicious forces every whit as nefarious as they are today. It also harks back to a limited understanding of Christ; yet, in the inner mysteries of our hearts, we knew far more than we dared say.
The order today goes beyond that which it was to a new birth in the Aquarian age. And as you receive the mantle and the perception of the office, you forge that order and create out of it what must needs be. Thus, beloved hearts, chastity itself is purity. It is the purity of the chakras. It is the purity of heart. It is the path of the Sacred Heart. It is the purity of the soul and the purification of body. Above all, it is the transmutation of all past karma. It is the dedication to the path of the ascension by the raising of that Kundalini fire.
Poverty is the self-emptying, that one might be filled. Every day give the light away that is yours to give. Thus, know the true way of Mother Poverty. The emptying that one might be filled is the nature of the Path. Poverty is a love that is greater for others than for oneself.
To these three virtues I add a fourth: it is the defense of the Mother Church.
Also included in this order is the Order of the Holy Child, loved by Jesus, brought forth by Lanello, of which you have heard tell on the anniversary of The Summit Lighthouse.18 This Order of the Holy Child is the defense of the child in all of the seven rays: the protection of the child, the education of the child, the teaching of the child what is love, giving and receiving. It is a path of purity that is the clarity in the heart to pursue the goal of Life. It is a teaching of science and health and abundance, the teaching and the training of the child of the heart - your heart and other children - in the path of service, the path of freedom and the holy orders. All of these things become a part of our Word and our Work.
The Order of the Brothers and Sisters of the Golden Robe
May you then be striving ones. May you remember also that the fulfillment of the Order of Francis and Clare in the etheric octave is now through the Order of the Brothers and Sisters of the Golden Robe.19 It is the golden robe of the World Teachers and of Christhood, and it is the golden dawn of illumination to the earth. Thus I bring the concept of the order in the hour of Jophiel's coming when so much illumination is needed.
Blessed ones, fear not the Path, for it does unfold as a golden robe before you. The love we have known, the inflaming by the Holy Spirit in our communions - all that we share - far supersedes any adversity or persecution or human consciousness you may encounter.
The equanimity and the peace and the joy of our hearts attend you in this hour. I desire, then, in the name of Maitreya to break the bread of Life with you - to serve communion that you might understand that both the Teacher and the Teaching is manifest in communion. It is the communion with Maitreya which demands the assimilation.
Recapitulation of My Discourse
May I recapitulate and remind you that I have spoken in the beginning of my discourse to you today of the dispensation of my help to you in your personal health and psychology to the end that you might know the joy of wholeness, be at peace to freely and swiftly eliminate the unreal portions of the self, to mount then the path of initiation that the flame of the heart might be balanced and shine to all nations as the dissemination of our Light, leading all to the fruit of Maitreya and the necessary initiation which every disciple must have if he is to overcome the most difficult and complex problems of the subconscious or the electronic belt. For the accomplishment of this, I recommend this Order of Francis and Clare, which necessarily includes the path of the ministering servant already announced.
This order is a means to an end and not an end in itself. It is not that we desire that you should become caught up in the sense of the order, but that you might use it as a means, a strength, a unity, a brotherhood and a sisterhood to work through the most difficult challenges and to be supported in the hour of weakness by your friends.
Thus, my beloved, it is not with great fanfare but with the transfer to you of an awareness that your allegiance to holy precepts and purposes, your consideration of vows, is strengthening and serves to take the light of the Kundalini to fashion the sacred arrow which will meet its mark in the infinite realms.
Our Motive, Our Mode, Our Maitreya
The purpose of all we do is your ascension. Understand that in order to rescue your soul, we must outsmart or challenge or even bruise that dweller. And we must cajole and contrive circumstances where the eyes of the soul will be opened and true self-knowledge will be gained and thus right choices be made. The entire purpose of our instruction at Summit University from the heart of Maitreya is so that you, dear chela, might have at your disposal our standards from the Ascended Master octaves as you exercise free will for right action - right Word and Work. Understand our motive and tolerate our means, for we must act in the best way possible to reach you swiftly.
Consider always the motive of the Ascended Masters in any adversity, any clash with a chela or family, any misunderstanding of our teaching or the messenger. Consider the motive and consider that the most important part of any experience you have is not what is flung your way but your reaction to it. Your reaction is the determination of your place on the ladder of attainment. Your reaction enables us to act or not to act. Your reaction to anything or everything shows us the fruit that has ripened in you from all of our prior teaching and loving and support as well as discipline.
Thus, perceive the sine wave building towards events that produce a thrust which requires from you a response. Observe the response and you will observe the highest hopes and possibilities which now are given room to manifest. It is always well to pause and take a deep breath and to consider, therefore, before you speak and before you decide on a course of action.
Thus, all is in the pudding. Let us see now the proof of your pudding, for we will not leave thee. We are here for the stated purposes. And we wonder what wonder Maitreya may have before us when you shall have achieved a new level of community attainment.
With the sign of the East and the hierarch of Light, with the sign of the One who has sent me, I am forever the little bird of Christ, the little bird of Buddha. I speak in the ear, twitter in the tree, make ripples in the pond, and bring you a little piece of bread in my beak.
"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Kuthumi was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, January 27, 1985, at Camelot. The service was conducted by Kuthumi and included teaching on John 6:1-21 and The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, written by the Mahatmas M. and K.H.
A Body Including Legislators, Rulers, Directors of Culture, and Citizens Embracing the Embodied Principles
There is conferred upon the one whose name is written below the title of Advocate.
(Write your own name here. Post by your desk.)
My signature above signifies that I am willing to conform in heart and mind to the sacred precepts of the Order of the Child, spending the required time of one minute daily in contemplation and thought before the precepts below written, also submitting major decisions to these same precepts.
IN REMEMBRANCE of His Words ...
Whosoever shall receive any such little child in my name receiveth me. Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Woe unto him who shall hurt one of these little ones.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto me ...
I desire that my heart shall ever make me aware of the little child, who is always without in the concourse of time and space and who is affected by my decisions and my acts.
In knowledge of the fact that my acts combined with others' do affect the destiny of my country, the human race, and our common future, I do enter wholeheartedly into the below pledge, realizing whether I make the pledge or not, I am still held fully accountable for every act.
I unite therefore with others, that we may make a bond for good, that our common purpose before God, our common heart and mind, will shine forth a golden ray of Light to establish the greatest civilization ever on earth.
Knowing also that if these principles be not adhered to it is possible and imminent that this great civilization, like that of ancient Rome and others, may fall, decay, and decline, I should therefore work for our future without bias.
BEFORE THE GOD of the universe, I promise to be ever aware of the interests of mankind, as an All, and of all who dwell in my country, rather than the few.
I shall seek better government of the people, by the people, and for the people. As I act toward the least of humanity, I have acted toward the greatest.
My thoughts shall be ever mindful of the little child of the future-every little child in whom is the breath of Life. If ever I cannot act accordingly, I shall resign my authority over others.
Conferring upon each advocate of the child of the future a portion of the wisdom of Solomon, who received wisdom of God, may your wisdom be like unto your sincerity, increasing unto the full light of divine wisdom, sufficient unto this day.