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Chapter 80
Beloved El Morya - December 28, 1986

     New Year's Eve Address

     Chelas of the First Ray of God's Will,

     I salute you in the highest of the spectrum of your being, and in the lowest. I salute you in the heart of Christ. I salute you in the soul who has descended to this level of Mater. I salute you in the power of the I AM THAT I AM.

     How many of you can focus at will, at all or one of these points of being? I ask it for a reason. (May you, then, be seated in my love.)

     I come to take you, then, into the lap of the Father. I take you upon my knee but not over it. But, beloved ones, this is not to say that some ought not to receive the New Year's spanking this New Year's Eve.

     Blessed ones, the sands in the hourglass have run out for this year, 1986. I may say to some of you, "Friend, how camest thou in without a wedding garment?"¹ I explain to you, beloved, that when you are a soul passed from the screen of life who must pass through the astral plane, it is then that you require the attainment of instantaneous focalization in the heart of the I AM Presence, in the highest and the lowest of self, and in the heart of Christ.

     The soul in the astral plane who is not able to navigate out thereof following the change called death, the soul who is unable without the Guru or the Messenger to make contact with the I AM Presence in that moment, is most pitiful indeed. This life and every life, beloved, is given to you with our earnest and most loving assistance that you might internalize the Word and reach an attainment whereby you may arrive at the door of the Royal Teton whenever called - whenever the sands in your hourglass run out.

     Some who long hear of this teaching make the fateful mistake of considering that they have it "under their belt" as attainment. Now, beloved, I speak to the child in you as well as to the ripened son of God. And as each one of you is seated upon my knee, as your father I look into your eyes and say, "My son, my daughter, my beloved, hear me well. For `the first shall be last, and the last shall be first."'²

     Understand the mystery, then, of the Sacred Heart. Understand, therefore, that I have come to welcome you to my Inner Retreat, to the inner chambers of my causal body, to my Heart of hearts.

     As I came here this night and found you, so I transmitted to my Messenger upon her arrival the condition of each and every soul gathered here, each and every aura, though not seen physically from this spot. And I showed to her how some have come with a mighty fervor indeed, while others, continuing in the way in which they have always continued, have arrived for the prize of the Buddha's pudding. But they have not attended the Buddha nor nourished him when he would fair faint emerging from the wood.³

     Beloved hearts, it is necessary to remind you at the conclusion of a year that this is Maitreya's Mystery School. Each one stands on his own. Each one must recognize why he has been called, whereto he has answered, and the meaning of such a dispensation as the lowering into the physical octave of Eden once again. Blessed hearts, Eden is a long, long Paradise Lost which has remained in the etheric octave since the sinking of Lemuria and beyond.

     Understand, beloved, that there is an inner path and a standard to be met. Upon the Messenger's arrival here two staff members were disciplined by my direction. Blessed hearts, the Path is not to be taken lightly - nor Death nor Life nor opportunity.

     This year has seen immense victory for this activity. Some have leapt into the sacred fire to find therein an acceleration, a self-transcendence. Inner attainment is not a badge or a visible sign. Nor is it noted by intellectual prowess or emotional bubbling over. It is not easy to tell, one chela to the next, who has the inner light, who has seen his star.

     Thus, some have come with holy auras and some with holes in their auras unaware, for they are warmed by chelas other than themselves, by fires other than those they have built. And they do not tell the difference between their own warmth and the warmth of the Mother or the angels present.

     Beloved ones, the change called death is a very serious initiation. The Brotherhood has attempted to impress upon this student body long year the profound necessity for working "while ye have the Light."⁴ The Messenger has preached it again and again, and the teachings are so readily available.

     In musing upon this dilemma this very week, the Messenger knocked on the door of my heart and said, "Why, El Morya, when they have been told again and again, do they seem not to hear, not to respond, not to know the urgency of their own life's hour?"

     I simply reminded her, "`Many are called, few are chosen.'⁵ Still fewer choose to enter in."

     "But why is this so? Why is it so, Lord," she asked again, "when the teaching has never been more plain?"

     I shall attempt, then, to tell you why. Perhaps it is the substitution of the Messenger's Presence for your own. Perhaps it is, beloved, that you mistake words for fiats of Light internally won. Certainly it is a covering over by yesterday's karma that comes as a wave - almost as a wave of the dirty water of yesterday's laundry. When yesterday's karma is not transmuted, it surely does muddy the spiritual senses and the ears are waxed dull by it. And the soul has a blurred vision.

     Blessed ones, it is simply this - the Word must be internalized. From our viewpoint, there is no other choice than to ascend at the conclusion of this life that is a realistic choice for you. If you would see all that we see, you would know that this is so. But we spare our chelas much of the unknown, for it is the studied opinion of the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood that so much has already been brought to your attention that it is pointless to add unto it greater burdens. For even that which you know has in some instances caused a moment's hopelessness or even depression.

     If you have not dealt with the known momentums of maya of self and planet, why, then, should we open the curtain to the unknown horror of Death and Hell? This is an initiation that has been given from time to time by the Lord Jesus to the saints. Suffice it to say, beloved ones, that those who somehow in their busyness, in their day's occupations, can set aside present opportunities by a certain nebulous consciousness and absence of focalization, shall we say, and can somehow say, "Well, if I do not ascend in this life, I will ascend in the next" - blessed ones, realize what a bold statement this is!

     You see, you are counting upon the human consciousness. You are counting upon a world condition that could change in the twinkling of an eye, where conditions might no longer exist anywhere on a planet, on which you have outstanding karma, that would allow you to fulfill that path - and where the enlightenment of the day may be on the morrow another dark age.

     It is folly to postpone opportunity, for opportunity knocks at the opportune moment for your lifestream. Simply because you hear the knock at the door does not mean that the knock will come every day for the next three hundred thousand years! Do you realize, beloved, that you in fact have no guarantee that the seasons will roll or that the sun will shine in an era as perilous as this one?

     Thus, beloved, those who have not entered the fiery coil of the Mother's garment in an upward moving wind of the Holy Spirit now find themselves at a serious disadvantage. It is difficult to catch up with an Olympic runner, beloved. Best be in form and move when the winds of Morya move.

     What I tell you is this: Hearts among you have attainment, other hearts do not. The Law is impartial, plays no favorites; and a Community of the Holy Spirit is made up of individuals responsible unto God. A Community is also a brotherhood and a sisterhood of chelas supporting one another, upholding one another. But this is only until the child may stand on his own two feet. One dare not take the habit of leaning on another's decree momentum or any other momentum, beloved.

     I come, then, with some advice for your letter writing to the Karmic Board this night or an addendum you might write. It is this - that you might yet appeal to have the opportunity in the new year to make up for the lost time of the past year and years and centuries, that you might press between the discs of the minutes and the hours more violet fire and a penetration into the past. For you see, beloved, with the turning of the year a door closes and another opens.

     What will you do when the door of the new year is three steps higher and you have not fulfilled the steps of the last? How will you be overcomers unto the victory, come what may?

     It is not my desire to make you uncomfortable, and never to cause self-condemnation or an absence of self-worth. I can only tell you that this week the Messenger has seen a former Keeper of the Flame who passed from the screen of life stand statuelike and motionless before the Lords of Karma to receive the rebuke of each and every one of the seven members of that Karmic Board. As though frozen in time as a mother-of-pearl statue, this one was motionless as death yet heard every word.

     When the sands in the hourglass are thus wasted when so great a salvation and a knowledge has been vouchsafed, beloved ones, do you not understand that for [the sin of] nonperformance such an encounter is due? Others who have passed from the screen of life also having this Teaching have crouched and cowered and trembled in fear, and some in anger, in the astral plane until the Messenger unascended and the one ascended should make fiery invocations for the soul to be taken [by holy angels] to a higher place - the soul having wasted so many hours in idle dreams, not centered in the true path of the Great White Brotherhood.

     Blessed ones, I remind you that this is not the Roman Catholic church nor the Protestant church nor the Jewish synagogue, neither mosque nor temple nor Hindu shrine. This is the Great White Brotherhood and the Church Universal and Triumphant! Do not equate former paths as sufficient in the hour of testing. They will fail you, each and every one. Do not attempt to combine the old ways, nor pour the new wine of the Everlasting Gospel into old bottles.⁶

     There is much too much to do in the exercises of the spoken Word and the Teaching than to have nostalgia for the old ways. Those old ways can draw you into the astral plane at the moment when you must rise above all the Death and Hell that is celebrated in one form or another by the religious of every movement - not that it was the founding principle but that religion and religious form has degenerated into the combining of the sympathy of death, the fatalism of death, and even the beauty of death with the original release of Light wherein there was no death at all.

     Let us, then, be lifted up once again in the great blue sphere of Himalaya and of Hercules. Many, many times the members of the Brotherhood have come with their dictations, and you have felt that exaltation. The lesson that must be learned is self-watchfulness. How many moments or hours did you retain that centeredness in the causal body or in the Christ consciousness or in the I AM Presence of the Master? How swift was the "decay rate" when you were subject once again to your mortal terrors or avarice or sympathy with the lower order of things or lust for this and that? How quickly were you overtaken by a spirit of criticism, and so forth?

     Beloved hearts, the highest levels of consciousness are not sustained for you by us but they are given unto you that you might have the foretaste of a vibration of attainment and then gain a co-measurement of your individual absence of that attainment. For you do not experience this Higher Consciousness except through the dictations of the Ascended Masters.

     The Darjeeling Council has been concerned about the dependency of the chelas in an incorrect way upon the outpouring of the dictations without the follow-up, in the week and days after the dictation, of pursuing the Master, hanging upon his words, giving intense calls for the binding of all that is within the individual that prevents him from sustaining the aura of the Master, the message, the vibration, and the love of the Master for a seven-day cycle unto the next week and the next outpouring.

     We desire to make you like us, not for you to become dependent upon us. We desire you to know that in this state of transition through the physical octave, you do need our intercession and we gladly give it. And so does the Messenger. But it is for a purpose. It is for the preparation of your solo. It is for the preparation of an instantaneous contact with the Beloved.

     I speak of the Beloved, the Mighty I AM Presence, and I tell you, if you have not experienced firsthand the breathless, profound, and all-enfolding Love of the Presence - the warmth, the joy, the communion, the intimacy, the sense of well-being, the self-knowledge that you are forevermore locked in your I AM Presence - that though you make your bed in hell, though you descend to the astral plane in or out of the body, in life or in death to balance an old score there, wherever you are, you cannot flee from the Presence because you have with our assistance made the contact.

     I would say, beloved - and I shall make it the first course of your fourteen weeks⁷ with me - that the meditation upon the Presence, the decrees to the Presence, the pondering and thinking upon the Presence, and the love of that Person of the Father is the most desperate need!

     You see the Chart, you say the tube of light decree, you call to the Beloved - but something has kept you from a profound desire to know that Presence "face to face" and to pursue it with the hot heat of an intensity that comes from the self-knowledge that "as long as I am separate from my God, I am in the gravest danger in this time/space continuum where I find myself."

     So I ask the question: How many can at will make the contact with the Presence that comes as a feeling of Love descending - a feeling so powerful as to exclude all other awareness of a planet? Beloved ones, this can be yours. But you must stop chattering, stop seeking so many interchanges with others. Let those in the valleys of the world, cease, then, so much television, so much contact twenty-four hours a day with outer things going on which take your attention from your Presence and make you worry and have that overconcern which makes you incapable of mobilizing your forces to defeat the whole ball of maya that is before you - the whole ball of illusion.

     For a moment in every day you ought to ascend to the heart of that Presence just to know that that Love that was and ever has been and ever shall be is greater than all of this. In that moment's knowingness and communion, beloved, there is the perspective, the co-measurement whereby the fiats offered and given are not given as Don Quixote beating the air but rather as Victors, as the Omnipotent One, as the I AM Presence who has descended, then, into your temple. One moment in the arms of the Presence and your entire life shall change! Your whole life shall be, then, in the Presence of Love's great mastery.

     Blessed ones, our violet flame angels are kept very busy transmuting the anxiety with which many of you charge your decrees. Sometimes you are aware of this anxiety and at other times it is simply a fear and doubt that muddies the subconscious stream, the rivers that actually flow in the depths of the electronic belt. It is hard, then, to remove from the individual the dye and the stain of pride.

     One, then, in a distant city comes to mind. I have shown that one to the Messenger and the Messenger has said, "What can I do to show that one the folly of his pride?" And so I have brought that person and aura closer to the Messenger's eye and gaze to let her see for herself that when pride is a stain that stains all of a man's being, when it is, as you might say, homogenized throughout, when there is no point of reference within the individual of something apart from the prideful sense, then there is no place whereby the Teacher may thread the eye of the needle - that is to say, no point of entry into the world of the individual to say, "Look, receive the Holy Ghost. Be delivered of your pride." It is like the leopard and his spots. Some are the totality of their human creation.

     This brings us full circle to the message of Maitreya from last New Year's conclave stating that some choose to embody the dweller on the threshold, some choose to embody the Christ. The choice to the right or to the left is clear. It can be met, it can be dealt with. But, beloved, the choice to be in the middle and to think one has chosen the Light or the Dark - this is the prideful state that goeth before the Fall.⁸ Call it mediocrity or lukewarmedness, call it insensitivity or indifference - blessed hearts, it is extremely difficult to deliver a serious student on the Path or a sometimes student on the Path from such a state. For that one believes he is in and of the Light while at the same time he continually indulges the sloth of his own human ignorance.

     Beloved ones, it is not the mere repetition of decrees. And this is a fallacy in itself - "If I decree long and hard enough I must arrive." This is the fallacy also of the Christian who says if he will believe on the Lord Christ he will be saved.

     There are some entertaining ridiculous and heinous psychic concepts who have been on the Path many years, who have tumbled in the astral plane and think they are of all men most knowledgeable. They will write to the Messenger to guarantee their psychic interpretations of life as being out of the mouth of the Master by assuring the Messenger that they decree anywhere from one to twelve hours a day, thinking that if they decree eight hours or ten hours a day they must be right!

     Beloved, there are many paths of folly and illusion. And this is why, even immersed in the Teaching itself, only a few will enter in. This is not a game of hopscotch where one, two, three, hop! and you are in the etheric retreats and next you are resurrected and next you are ascended! Life is not so, beloved. And contrary to what you may have thought, you do require self-mastery and mastery of the sacred fire to arrive at the gate.

     This is not a somber path. It is a joy-filled one unto those who are Self-centered and who hear our words and pray to understand and embody their meaning. But it is not a gay path. It is not a superfluous or superficial path. Thus, it is a path of happy hearts who are happy because they know the I AM THAT I AM within the heart. And they have sought after and gained the sensitivity to know when that Spirit has fled from them because their actions are an offense to the Spirit.

     Yes, it is possible to offend the Spirit, but not by the human foibles and mistakes that so many line up according to rules. The Law may overlook much, even when all others point the finger at an individual. But I will tell you what the Law will never overlook.

     It will never overlook the withholding of love from thy brother. It will never overlook an impure heart. The impure heart will not enter in. It will not overlook the Liar and the lie. It will not overlook those who see a brother's need - who see him toiling in the day and the night and then walk away to their own pleasure and conceit.

     The Law will not overlook one who separates himself from a path that is clearly outlined. The Law will not overlook one who elevates himself in spiritual pride and soon falls prey to the psychic. The Law will never overlook one who does not receive any of these little ones as the Christ in arm.

     There are sins that can be brushed aside by the hand of God, and then there are sins that are not forgiven. Some have always wondered, "What is this sin against the Holy Ghost that is not forgiven until it is forsaken, and in some cases never?"⁹ Beloved hearts, it is the violation of the flame of Life in any form - failure to feed my sheep when they are hungry and naked and in need, failure to be sensitive to world pain and world need, taking instead the Teaching exclusively unto one's private life and development.

     Beloved hearts, this is a path of Love. It is not human love. It is the Love of the Presence that must be experienced and then it will flood from you unerringly to the children of the Light. And it will come from you in the sternness of the Ruby Ray - in the rebuke whether of the righteous or the unrighteous when they go out of the way of Life and venture into the outer courts of Death.

     Blessed hearts, the Christed one attuned to God does not fail to give his life to save the soul that is lost who comes to his attention. He does not turn his back. He does not count the cost. The Law does not overlook those who take the Light and, as James said, consume it on their lusts.¹⁰

     Let us, then, enter the new year desiring to know the heart of Portia, the Goddess of Justice. And for this reason, I counsel you that you deal justly with your God and not be so concerned about human justice or a sense of injustice as to how you have been maltreated and how you deserve more of this and that.

     Blessed is he that seeth his brother's need and supplieth it.¹¹ Blessed is he that showeth his brother how to supply his own need. Blessed is he that does receive the Teaching and transfer it to the poor in Spirit. Blessed is he that does not pamper himself or his ego but is renewed continually by his Love tryst with the Presence.

     I desire you to have - and I shall so train any chela who knocks on my door - to have conscious and continuous contact with your Mighty I AM Presence and to have it, whether conscious or unconscious, in the physical body and at the change called death. When you can reach that point, there is safety in your life and lifestream. There is safety for come what may.

     Blessed ones, you have heard it said that at the point of the balance of 51 percent of your karma there is the opportunity for the ascension. And you have heard it said that the reason this is decreed by the Lords of Karma - that you may balance the remaining 49 percent from the ascended state - is that following the balancing of the 51 percent there is the initiation of the soul's descent into Death and Hell and to the astral plane. And few have returned from that descent. So alarming was this condition, especially in the Western world, to the Lords of Karma that this dispensation was proposed and granted by the Cosmic Council.

     Beloved hearts, strange as it may seem, for the chelas of the will of God it is not so difficult to reach the point of the 51-percent balance, given that this is a son or daughter of God who has diligently striven lifetime after lifetime. Thus, it is important to be conscious when one is beyond that mark. For there are some who in descending into the astral plane to take those initiations beyond that point have in fact succumbed to a suicide of a spiritual magnitude or taken the left-handed path.

     How can this be? It is because of the strong delusion of Hell itself and all of its hordes that play upon and prey upon the untransmuted substance and the bedrock of the dweller on the threshold that does not easily give way to the sweeping winds of the Holy Spirit that have blown away the lesser debris. One cannot emphasize enough to one's chelas the intensity of this delusion nor the difficulty of the choices of right and wrong, for they seem to converge at a razor's edge where the wrong answer seems right and the right seems wrong or both seem correct.

     Blessed ones, happy is the man who arrives at that point of the balance of karma who has also diligently pursued self-mastery. You have heard it said that to balance karma does not necessarily make for attainment. At a certain point this is not true but at early stages you may literally have so much devotion to the violet flame and service that you may balance karma without attention to the detail of an accompanying self-mastery - a governing of those conditions which are easy to overlook, especially when there is not a Messenger or the Guru present to point them out to you.

     So, beloved, pray for vision, for enlightenment, for purity of heart; for nothing can be hidden or withheld from the pure in heart. Contemplate, then, the mystery of purity of heart - guilelessness, a spontaneous championing of the true cause of all of one's fellows. Blessed ones, purity of heart is much, much more than form or mores. It is profound indeed.

     Let none construe any of my words as license to set aside the letter of the Law. For the spirit does not replace the letter but it accompanies it, as they go hand in hand. But let all construe from my words that the letter of the Law will never suffice for the entering in. For this entering is achieved by a grid which is filled with Light [emanating from your Christ consciousness] by you through the living Spirit of the Law.

     Thus, beloved, many have gathered, desiring to be here for what they consider to be a momentous occasion. And so it is. But I tell you, beloved, the most momentous occasion of all that is recorded in all of Cosmos is the moment when the soul, transfused, transported, transformed, is infilled with the I AM Presence and does never separate out again, for the fusion is won.

     If you would desire to know of an example of one who has walked the earth fused in the heart of the I AM Presence, a guileless one of honor and love for all, one meek and humble who could know pain and be subject to his own human foibles, mistakes - if you would desire to understand the profile of one fused to the Presence before the hour of parting, I direct your hearts to the man they called Mark Prophet.

     You can know him better in his voice, which modulated with the voice of the Presence. Never have you heard a voice so close to your I AM Presence as the voice of Mark. Upon the decibels of sound you could traverse that voice to the heart of your own Beloved. Contrast it to the shrill sounds and voices strident of the earth and you will have a comparison.

     Blessed ones, I return you to the point of the Mark and the point of his Origin - how he came through those lifetimes and came to this one bearing yet such a heavy burden of karma, the burden of the planet itself, and how through the heart of Mother Mary he transcended all - not to present to you the perfect computerized man, impeccable in all his ways, but to present to you, beloved, the one gift and the one example: purity of heart. Entering by the door of the purity of his heart, you can rise to the power and the attainment that was wrought by that purity.

     I would suggest, then, that as the discipline of Darjeeling, those coming to the Mystery School beginning at midnight know that we shall begin with the purification of the heart. For our path is the path of the pure in heart who see God through the Sacred Heart of Jesus and his saints.

     I seal you with my awareness of your individual Christhood. I seal you but you must retain the seal and strive to know that Christhood which I am beholding with Mother Mary in the diamond heart of Life not Death.

     The Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood saluteth thee! We are real! So must you strive to be.

     I AM Morya of the First Ray. Come where I AM, if you dare!

     Messenger's Comments:

     Let us think now upon the harpstrings of the Mind of God - so many, many strings, their sounds. Let us allow them to resound through our temple that their sound might tell us something of the presence of God. Let us be seated as we hear the singing of the harp of Tara.

     ["The Harp That Once through Tara's Halls," played]

     We send our gratitude to beloved El Morya, the first of the Chohans, whose dictation is the last of this year, 1986. And we are profoundly grateful for the Father's heart-to-heart talk with each one of us, which we feel so personally as his only child, his beloved child. When he speaks, we are all alone with him. We know he loves us, and because he loves us, he warns us. His warning is a comfort. It is a strong comfort of love that sends us back to the reason we entered his heart in the beginning.

     Beloved El Morya told me that the absence of dictations this fall was an experiment of the Brotherhood to see how each chela would fare - how each one would respond to the need of Christ in brother and sister here and at Camelot and wherever there are Keepers of the Flame.

     El Morya also showed me that in the course of the year, usually in the spring at graduation time, in June, or at the time of the meeting of the Lords of Karma at summer solstice and at winter solstice at the Royal Teton Retreat, final exams are given to all chelas - very specific tests to be passed, usually on the very element that has held them back.

     I have marvelled in counseling chelas at how many do fail their tests and do not expect to be tested. And Morya has said to me and to them through me time and again, "You have a right to be tested. You have a right to expect to be tested, to prove your mettle. You have a right to pass your tests. And we have a right to expect our chelas to come up higher."

     Another test given to the movement at large is in the delivery of the Word that is written, once again to see who will understand it as the Body and Blood and the sacred Communion of the Messengers and the Masters and who will understand how to assimilate it and who will understand how they can ascend through the eating of the Body and the drinking of the Blood of the Christ in the Great White Brotherhood released in their written or their spoken Word.

     And so, we have much to be thankful for, grateful as we are to be able to hear these words and admonishments and to have a wide opportunity of a year ahead of life in this octave that we might renew our courses and be about our Father's business.

     At this time our staff is prepared to serve to you our beloved Buddha's delight. You, then, are being fed as the bodhisattvas. It is time also to finish your letters to the Karmic Board. Sometimes we think we can write them later and burn them later, but it is well to burn them at New Year's Eve, so we'll be collecting them after this break. ...

     God bless you. You surely have been sealed by beloved El Morya, whose eye is on your victory. We look forward to returning for Gautama's dictation.

     Onward, Courage!

     Onward, courage!
Then blame not the Bard
When the wind and the gale
Sweep o'er the moor
And bow down the sail
For the ship shall move on
And the port be obtained
If the courage be high
And the will be maintained!

     "The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom"

     This dictation by El Morya was delivered through the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1986, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Montana, USA.

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On December 6, 1985, Archangel Michael told us that the propagation of AIDS "is the greatest threat to the survival of the true genes of the Lightbearers" and that the Lords of Karma and Cosmic Council will not allow the seventh root race to embody if those on earth today "no longer have the genetic material to bring in a golden age and a golden-age race." They have said with absolute determination: "We will not allow the seventh root race to embody on this planet unless there is promise that they may have the full flowering of that which they are." (1986 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 63-64)

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Volume 29, Number 16, footnote 5. OPEC and the oil market. Within two months after Archangel Uriel's dictation, oil prices plummeted 51% from $27.06 to $13.26 a barrel. This is a sharp contrast to the drastic increase of over 1,800% in oil prices from 1971 to 1981 in a market largely controlled by the powerful Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cartel. "Over the past decade," reported Newsweek on March 7, 1983, "OPEC engineered the largest transfer of wealth in history. It threw the economies of the industrialized countries into chaos, and brought some Third World nations to the brink of ruin. It contributed to the unmaking of two U.S. presidents, and left deep scars on an American psyche that took pride in self-reliance." OPEC was formed in 1960 by 5 nations - accounting for almost two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves and 85% of its petroleum trade - whose stated goal was to stabilize prices through controlling oil production. Today OPEC consists of 13 nations (Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Algeria, Indonesia, Libya, Ecuador, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates and Gabon). The first major price increase came in 1971 when 23 oil companies signed an agreement with OPEC raising the price from $1.80 to $2.18 a barrel. Shortly after the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, OPEC raised oil prices to $5.12 and Arab producers imposed an embargo against the U.S. for supporting Israel. In January 1974, OPEC capitalized on the crisis and more than doubled prices to $11.65 a barrel. A gas shortage ensued - although some observers, such as Christopher Rand, have claimed that there never was a shortage and that the oil industry, despite public displays to the contrary, actually welcomed the embargo and profited from it (see Rand, Making Democracy Safe for Oil [Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1975]). Following the 1979 Iranian revolution and resulting gas shortages, OPEC raised prices to an average of $14.59 a barrel. By May 1981 the average price was up to nearly $35. Steadily increasing oil prices had a number of negative economic consequences, including higher consumer prices and unemployment, and were a factor in the economic recession of the early `80s. In addition, banks, professing to be confident of high, stable oil prices, loaned billions to developing nations so they could meet higher oil prices, helping to create the so-called "debt bomb." Cartel prices are notoriously unstable, and by 1981 several factors - principally conservation, energy efficiency, use of alternative energy sources, and a global recession - combined to decrease demand, creating a surplus and gradually lowering prices. In 1983, Nigeria, burdened by heavy debt and other domestic problems, became the first nation to break ranks with OPEC and dropped its price $5.50 to $30 a barrel. OPEC then agreed to set prices at $29 per barrel, its first official price cut. Thereafter, oil producers competed for shares of a declining oil market and by 1986 all efforts to control the falling oil price deteriorated into an all-out price war. Some analysts think a sustained drop in oil prices will benefit the U.S., Japan, and other oil importers by stimulating their economies, creating new jobs, increasing productivity, and perhaps decreasing the U.S. trade deficit. But there are also potentially grave repercussions. International banks, which loaned billions while oil prices were high, face potential bankruptcy because of the inability of oil-exporting countries - such as Mexico, Venezuela, and Nigeria - to repay their massive debts, and bank failures could trigger a cataclysmic economic crisis. Knowledgeable Washington officials believe that the Federal Reserve would never let major banks fail. Rather, they would artificially create enough credit to cover the losses. This, however, would set in motion a cycle of inflation that would be a problem of the same magnitude as the debt. It has also been suggested that a war might be engineered in the Middle East by the U.S. in order to curb oil production and raise prices, and thereby maintain economic stability.

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Volume 29, Number 16, footnote 10. Map of the City Foursquare. The Ascended Masters have called North America the map of the `City Foursquare', the Place Prepared and the Promised Land for the reincarnation of the seed of Light of Abraham. The tribes of Judah and Benjamin and some Levites have reincarnated among the `Jews'. The other ten tribes of Israel have reincarnated among the Gentile nations of Europe. The half-tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, are peculiarly tied to the United States of America, Great Britain and the Commonwealth nations - i.e., the English-speaking peoples. However, neither term, Jew or Gentile, can be correctly applied to the seed of Light of Abraham, who descended from the Ancient of Days, Sanat Kumara. For those who are of the I AM Race, being endowed from on High by the Mighty I AM Presence with them, are correctly called "Hebrew," or Ibri in Hebrew, meaning "one who passes over" (from the crossing of the Euphrates by Abraham, c.1950 B.C.). Ibri is possibly derived from the Hebrew Eber, which means "the other side" or "across," and may have also been used in reference to the descendents of the patriarch Eber. Abraham, who descended from Eber, is the first in the Old Testament to be called "Hebrew" (Gen. 14:13). Some scholars believe that the biblical word for Hebrew, Ibri, is equivalent to the Akkadian Habiru, or Hapiru, which is found in ancient texts (c.2050-c.1000 B.C.) throughout the Near East. The term Habiru denoted a social class of people who were "wanderers" or "outsiders" living a rootless existence. According to theory, the biblical Hebrews may have belonged to this larger class of rootless people and thus would have been referred to as Habiru by the more established groups of society. Some who are called `Jews' and `Gentiles' today are in fact the reincarnated seed of Light of the twelve tribes, and some are not. Thus, by their fruits we may know the true heirs of the promises, whose Light has now been scattered amongst every tribe and nation and race and religion on earth. And the Light-essence of their consciousness in the Law of the One is the sign of their spiritual inheritance as sons and daughters of the Most High God.

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Volume 29, Number 21, footnote 8. The sponsorship of Saint Germain. After his ascension in 1684, Saint Germain was given the dispensation by the Lords of Karma to return to earth and manifest in a physical body. The Comte de Saint Germain appeared throughout the 18th-century courts as the "Wonderman of Europe." His goal: to prevent the French Revolution and establish a United States of Europe. Though the royalty admired his miraculous accomplishments and were always willing to be entertained by him, they were not easily prodded to relinquish their power and move with the winds of republican change. They and their jealous ministers ignored his counsel, and the French Revolution ensued. In a final attempt to unite Europe, Saint Germain backed Napoleon, who misused the Master's power to his own demise. The opportunity to set aside the retribution due an age had thus passed and Saint Germain was forced to withdraw. Of his experiment on the continent, Saint Germain once said: "Having failed in securing the attention of the Court of France and others of the crowned heads of Europe, I turned myself to the perfectionment of mankind at large, and I recognized that there were many who, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, would indeed be filled with the concept of a perfect union which would inspire them to take dominion over the New World and create a Union among the sovereign states. Thus the United States was born as a child of my heart and the American Revolution was the means of bringing freedom in all of its glory into manifestation from the East unto the West." Saint Germain stood by George Washington throughout the Revolution and during the long winter at Valley Forge. He inspired and directed the writing of the Constitution and anointed Washington first president of the United States. In the latter 19th century, he assisted the Masters M. (El Morya), K.H. (Koot Hoomi), and Serapis Bey in the founding of the Theosophical Society. In this century, Saint Germain went before the Lords of Karma to plead the cause of freedom for and on behalf of earth's evolutions. He offered the momentum of the violet flame garnered within his heart chakra and causal body as a momentum of light energy to be given mankind that they might experiment with the alchemy of self-transformation through the sacred fire. Though the knowledge of the violet flame had never been given outside the retreats of the Great White Brotherhood, the Lords of Karma agreed to release it to a certain nucleus of devotees, and if the experiment proved successful they would illumine the masses as to its use. In the early 1930s, Saint Germain contacted his "general in the field," the reembodied George Washington, Guy W. Ballard, whom he trained as his Messenger. Through Guy and Edna Ballard, he founded the I AM movement and released the dispensation of the violet flame. When mankind en masse failed to respond, the Lords of Karma told Saint Germain they would not give him "another allotment of energy for mankind to take and to dissipate and to waste." In Saint Germain's own words, "after seventy thousand years of sponsoring various endeavors for the enlightenment and the freedom of mankind ... my wings were clipped. And I had but to stand and hope that some other hierarch would come forth to implore a dispensation of Light for humanity, for souls of Light." In 1958, El Morya, on Saint Germain's behalf, founded The Summit Lighthouse for the release and publication of the Teachings of the Ascended Masters and the establishment of the Community of the Holy Spirit in the Aquarian age. Saint Germain anointed Mark and Elizabeth Prophet as his Messengers and sponsored the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity. Mark L. Prophet ascended Feb. 26, 1973, and Elizabeth Clare Prophet remained as the embodied Messenger. On Sept. 3, 1973, Saint Germain announced: "As a result of the swelling of the Lightbearers and the swelling of the ranks of students of Light united in this activity, as a result of the expansion of the Mother flame through the Ascended Master University [Summit University] and the Community of the Holy Spirit and these endeavors in which you are jointly engaged for the victory of the Light, I have been given again a dispensation from the Lords of Karma! Thus I may once again step forth and pledge to you the energies of my causal body for the freedom and the victory of the Light in this age!" On Jan. 1, 1981, mindful of Saint Germain's long-standing desire for a stronghold of Light in Europe, Archangel Jophiel and Christine announced a dispensation for the reversing of cataclysm and war there. July 29 to Aug. 1, 1981, the Messenger conducted a conference in Ellecom, Holland, once again anchoring physically in Europe the causal body and flame of the Master, who extended to devotees of freedom in Europe a final opportunity "to form a ring of light, a union indivisible, indispensable to our Cause." (See also: dictations given in Flevohof, Holland, 1986 Pearls of Wisdom, nos. 1-4.) On July 1, 1984, Arcturus and Victoria announced the beginning of a 72-week vigil to "create anew an original leaven, a momentum of freedom which will give to Saint Germain the balance for all of those endeavors for which he has secured grants from the Karmic Board in the last 400 years. ... That culmination of your service in the 72 weeks for planet earth can lay before the Lords of Karma, through the violet flame, through your invocations, the paying of the last farthing of all that has become the debt of Saint Germain," who therefore will "once again be permitted to go before not only the Lords of Karma but the Great Central Sun for a brand-new dispensation of Light." In February-March 1985, the Messenger and her Stump Team carried Saint Germain's message for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness to Australia, the Philippines and Hawaii. On Oct. 13, 1985, two days before the Messenger's departure for her Stump to Europe, Canada, and New York, Saint Germain blessed the Team and said: "If you so multiply my Presence as I would and as I have taught you, so you shall earn for me the return of that jewel which I long ago laid upon the altar of God in behalf of Europe. Thus having that jewel returned, I may act once again with greater dominion in the physical octave because it is your will that I might intercede. ..." Beloved Portia then announced: "The Lords of Karma and the Goddess of Liberty this day do give to Saint Germain from the Cosmic Council that which is unexpected unto him. That mantle he has sought to earn by this mission, we give in advance that he might have the wherewithal to do greater works through you. And so we respond to the dedication of the European Keepers of the Flame and those of the Isles. Blessed ones, Archangel Zadkiel and Holy Amethyst place this purple robe upon Saint Germain in the gratitude of all of cosmos for his service untiring and for your response to that service and for his movement through the earth." The Stump concluded in New York on Nov. 17, 1985, the final day of the 72-week vigil. The Messenger delivered a dictation by the Goddess of Liberty, who announced that the last vestiges of the untransmuted burdens of Saint Germain were "swiftly passing into the flame" but asked that we continue the vigil, intensifying it in the coming fortnight "to immerse the planet in violet flame." In a dictation given at 1:00 a.m. on Dec. 31, 1985, Arcturus and Victoria told us, regarding our mutual responsibility "taken on in the name of the God of Freedom," that there was "yet time to give that action of the violet flame to complete all that the Lords of Karma require." The Messenger invited all to join in a violet-flame vigil, which began immediately following the dictation and continued for 23 hours until the beginning of Gautama Buddha's New Year's Eve address at 12:05 a.m., January 1. Gautama's joyous announcement of the complete balancing of Saint Germain's debt is the capstone of a long series of initiations given to Saint Germain and his chelas during the last 400 years.

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Volume 29, Number 23, footnote 3. Dark Cycle. See Kuthumi on Selfhood - Consciousness: The Doorway to Reality (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12), pp. xi-xii, 10, 30, 246-54, 263-66. On April 23, 1986, the Dark Cycle will enter its eighteenth year, commencing the initiations of personal and planetary karma accrued on the five o'clock line of the Cosmic Clock under the solar hierarchy of Gemini. The flame of God-Wisdom on this line may be misqualified through envy, jealousy, ignorance of the law, spiritual blindness, and mental density. The five o'clock line polarizes with the eleven o'clock line of God-Victory under the hierarchy of Sagittarius. God's energy may be misqualified on this line through resentment, revenge, retaliation, and idolatry. In his December 28, 1985 dictation - "The Descent of the Mighty Blue Sphere: A Fourteen-Month Cycle in the First Ray of the Will of God" - Serapis Bey warned that in the Dark Cycle of Gemini/Sagittarius, earth would face the backlash of the dark ones "for all of the Light that has gone forth in the last twelve cycles of the clock." He said that beginning April 23, 1986, "you ought to expect the revenge of the fallen angels against the Light and the Lightbearer. And you must understand that the wall of blue flame and the sphere of blue flame is given unto you [in order] that when the Darkness comes it may instantaneously be deflected and go back to its source. ... Do not underestimate the meaning of the Dark Cycle of the returning of mankind's karma and of the karma of the fallen angels, who have in this hour great envy and jealousy of the Lightbearers and the sweet children of Light. And their momentum of revenge has been smoldering as resentment for aeons." For more information on the Cosmic Clock, see Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "The Cosmic Clock: Psychology for the Aquarian Man and Woman," in The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History, and Religion of America, Summit University Press, pp. 173-206 (also on 8-cassette album Shasta 1975, cassettes B7528, B7529); The ABC's of Your Psychology on the Cosmic Clock: Charting the Cycles of Karma and Initiation, 8-cassette album (A85056), 12 lectures; "Charting the Cycles of Your Family According to the Cosmic Clock," on 8-cassette album Family Designs for the Golden Age (A7440), single cassette MTG7421; and "Childhood Stages of Development: Karma, Christhood, and the Cosmic Clock," on 4-cassette album The Freedom of the Child (A83131).

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Volume 29, Number 31, footnote 10. In November 1985, Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, in ill health and besieged by criticism at home and abroad for corruption and cronyism, announced that he would call a special election to prove his popular support. Marcos' political opposition, which was not unified at the time, did not seem to pose a threat to his reelection. His announcement came in the midst of increasing U.S. pressure for economic, political, and military reforms to eliminate the corruption that had been fueling a growing Communist insurgency. In the election, held February 7, 1986, Marcos was challenged by Corazon (Cory) Aquino, widow of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., whose assassination in 1983 had shocked the country and intensified anti-Marcos sentiment. In the campaign, Cory Aquino emerged as the leader of a new, surprisingly powerful grass-roots movement, soon to be known as "People Power." During the election, Marcos supporters engaged in widespread fraud and violence which involved vote buying, intimidation, falsification of voter registration lists, assaults on ballot-box guards, murder, and tampering with election returns. On February 15, the National Assembly declared Marcos the winner, according to the official count. Aquino also claimed victory, based on the tallies of the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections. She called for a nonviolent protest campaign by the people, which was endorsed by the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church. On February 22, two key Marcos officials - Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and deputy military chief of staff Lt. Gen. Fidel V. Ramos - denounced Marcos, demanded his resignation, and pledged to support Aquino. Enrile, Ramos, and 300 soldiers seized Camp Aguinaldo and Camp Crame, which they made their headquarters, and called upon the remainder of the president's cabinet and the 200,000-man armed forces to defect. Jaime Cardinal Sin, archbishop of Manila, summoned the clergy to use their "spiritual power" to bring their parishioners into the streets to form human barricades protecting Enrile and Ramos from possible military retaliation by the Marcos regime. Marcos threatened to "let the blood flow" and to use force to "wipe out" the rebellion, but tens of thousands of Filipinos flooded the streets of Manila in an unprecedented three day peaceful revolution that turned back even tanks and troops. Nuns fasted and prayed for three days and nights and exposed the Holy Sacrament in their monastery. Statues and other images of the Blessed Virgin were set up at key positions. In a remarkable act on February 24, rebel forces, largely civilians including nuns and priests, seized the government-run television station, Channel 4, cutting Marcos off in mid-sentence during a press conference in which he was declaring a state of emergency. The same day, President Reagan asked Marcos to step down and indicated he would grant him U.S. asylum. On February 25, in two separate ceremonies, Aquino and Marcos both took the presidential oath of office. The same evening, after vowing he would never abandon the Philippines or his office, Marcos fled the country with his family, ending a tyrannical and corrupt reign that had spanned two decades. Corazon Aquino became the new president of the Philippines, just ten days after the judgment pronounced by Archangel Gabriel. In the words of Cardinal Sin, "The force of the Filipino people stormed heaven with prayer and got answered with a miracle." As the Los Angeles Times (27 Feb. 1986) commented, "One of the world's longest-serving dictators had fallen with relatively little bloodshed."

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Volume 29, Number 34, footnote 1. Philippine economy. Since the fall from power of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos (see Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 29, nos. 31 and 32, pp. 306, 316, n. 10), Marcos and his wife, Imelda, have been living in exile in Hawaii and face numerous charges of mismanaging billions of government dollars. The Aquino government is suing Marcos for the return of $5 billion to $10 billion he allegedly plundered from the government treasury during his 20 - year reign. As a result of corruption, economic favoritism (known in the Philippines as "crony capitalism") and mismanagement, the nation, once regarded as an Asian boom country, has been in a prolonged slump and is in its worst shape in decades. Rather than concentrating on industrial and agricultural development, the Marcoses spent billions of government dollars building luxury hotels, ultramodern convention and cultural centers, casinos, a never-used nuclear power plant, monuments and statues of themselves, and lavish mansions and private palaces for their family. When the Marcoses fled the country, Imelda left behind in the presidential palace 37 clothes racks holding more than 1,000 gowns and mink stoles, over 2,600 pairs of shoes, hundreds of imported leather purses, and boxloads of jewelry, gold coins, and art treasures. One elderly woman who subsequently toured the palace lamented, "That is all the money of the Filipino people that she spent on all these clothes. She forgot about us - her people." In 1985 the nation's per capita income dropped to about $600 a year - the second-lowest in the Asia-Pacific region - and the economic growth rate declined to - 3.5 percent. The foreign debt currently exceeds $26 billion, and unemployment affects almost half of the nation's 21 million workers at least part of the year. As Father Mariano Saraos, a priest in Marcos' birthplace of Sarrat, put it: "Most of the people here are poor - only the top government officials are rich." Though the nation has the agricultural resources to feed its people 10 times over, there is widespread malnutrition, extreme poverty in the countryside, and vast slums around Manila. After the 1983 assassination of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino, many middle- and upper-class Filipinos left the nation taking with them millions of dollars that could otherwise have been used as capital for industrial development. The growing armed Communist insurgency, with an estimated 15,000 members, has increased in power and influence fueled by the problem of corruption and the nation's devastated economy. In response to an appeal from the Aquino administration for additional aid, President Reagan has pledged to increase U.S. economic aid to the Philippines by $150 million, thus raising his proposed aid package to $500 million for the fiscal year.

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Volume 29, Number 45, footnote 8. John 5:2-4.

O Lord Jesus Christ, my Lord and my Saviour, we come to this altar this day in such gratitude for thy presence, that thou hast taken unto thee thy great power and hast reigned.

We thank thee, O Lord, for this thy Church Universal and Triumphant. We thank you that thou hast founded this Church upon the Rock of individual Christhood. And in this week we have seen thy promise, O Lord, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. O God, we are grateful that we have lived to see the day of our liberation and that we might move forward in this Light.

We send gratitude to the hosts of the LORD and the mighty archangels for our deliverance in this long battle and in this trial in which those with avowed determination to destroy us have not prevailed. Thou hast prevailed, O God. Now prevail in our hearts that we might know the meaning of Church as the individual endued by thy Spirit.

Give us thy Holy Spirit, O God. For each and every one of us does now claim thy wholeness as our own. Send us forth, O LORD, with Archangel Raphael and Mother Mary, Saint Germain and thy hosts to be healers, not only of souls but of bodies.

Make us one as we are one, O God. And send thy angels to protect and direct us that we might complete this battle for the LORD and obtain that victory of freedom of religion in America for all.

In thy name, O LORD, bless this gift of our offering - offering our supply and our hearts and ourselves this day to renewed dedication to thy Work.

Let thy Word in us, O LORD, become thy Work. We decree it and we accept it done in the name I AM THAT I AM Jesus Christ. Amen.

Edward and I would like to express our gratitude to each and every one of you who have stood with us in this long trial giving of your heart's devotion in prayers and dynamic decrees. We are grateful for God's protection and that we can be here today in this sanctuary worshiping God together.

It is a day of rejoicing and of all God seriousness as we commune together to meet that which has been presented to us as the next challenge.

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Volume 29, Number 51, footnote 9. Tower of Babel. Gen. 11:1-9. In her Pearl of Wisdom of October 5, 1975, Archeia Charity explained: "It was the release of the intense action of our love that confounded the language of those who sought to build a monument to mammon. And the LORD God, through the Archangel and Archeia of the Third Ray, `scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth,' and they left off the building of their city and their tower. And it was called Babel, for their rationalization became as the babbling of voices who have not the understanding of the heart." See "The Fire of Love Descending to Implement the Judgment" in Vials of the Seven Last Plagues, Summit University Press, p. 40; or 1975 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 18, no. 40, p. 208.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.

Surely He shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation;

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him My salvation.

Psalm 91

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Volume 29, Number 57, footnote 4. LORD Zadkiel. The angel of the LORD, YAHWEH, the I AM THAT I AM, also known as the angel of His Presence, is the manifestation of the LORD, even as the LORD who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush personified Himself in the Person of His Angel identified as Archangel Michael. The Seven Archangels are often referred to as "LORD" instead of "Lord," signifying in this four-letter abbreviation for YAHWEH (YHVH, or LORD) that the LORD is manifesting himself as Zadkiel. Hence, the name LORD Zadkiel gives the meaning "the LORD as Zadkiel" or "the LORD in the Person, or personification, of Zadkiel." Similarly, the title the LORD Christ gives the meaning "the LORD in the Person of Christ," whereas the title the LORD Jesus Christ gives the meaning "the LORD, or I AM Presence, who appears in the Person of Jesus, the Christ." Those who acknowledge Jesus as the incarnation of the Word should technically write the word Lord as LORD when referring to his Person, thereby affirming him as the embodiment of the I AM Presence and the Universal Christ, hence the avatar, "the incarnation of God," of the 2,000-year Piscean dispensation. To refer to Jesus merely as the "Lord" is to diminish his office since this term - although it has come to be a synonym for God or Jesus when the L is capitalized - denotes a ruler, master, or the head of a household, whereas the capitalized "LORD" indicates one is referring to the Hebrew letters YHVH, which stand for YAHWEH, or the I AM THAT I AM. (See The Alchemy of the Word: Stones for the Wise Masterbuilders, s.v. "Angel of the LORD," in Saint Germain On Alchemy: For the Adept in the Aquarian Age, Summit University Press, pp. 358-59.) In conformance with common usage, our system is to use "Lord" in reference to God and Jesus unless "LORD" would be understood by the reader. However, since the inscription on Zadkiel's retreat reads "The Order of LORD Zadkiel," we preserve it here, hence the foregoing explanation.

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