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Chapter 57
Beloved Lord Maitreya - September 4, 1988


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1988
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

57  Beloved Lord Maitreya - September 4, 1988

Vol. 31 No. 57 - Beloved Lord Maitreya - September 4, 1988
FREEDOM 1988
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The Gift of Self-Knowledge
Fire of My Fire: Become All That I AM
Most Gracious Ones of My Heart,

     Seldom in the course of embodying the noble mien of the Cosmic Teacher does one encounter a group of devotees so prepared, so willing to enter into the heart of the Cosmic Christ; [therefore,] this welcome you afford me in the West is a highlight in my service.

     Thus, I come; for a cradle has been provided not alone by Gautama or the Divine Mother or Sanat Kumara but by hearts self-prepared, determined, even by those who by the standards of Eastern paths may not have, "apparently," spiritual qualifications to be the abode of Maitreya.

     We see with inner eye. The rough-hewn or the outer crudities do not discourage us when we see a fire that burns clean within. Yet this is not to say that we do not then come to tutor and to refine, for what is Buddhahood but refinement of all [that] with which the newborn child of God has [been endowed].

     There are wise ones in the earth. There are kind ones. Refinement, including the balancing of karma, is all that stands between these jolly-good folk and the bodhisattvas1 who are the inheritors, as are the bhikkhus2 and the nuns, of a tradition that does establish certain givens as being most certainly and most obviously a part of the Path.

     Prepared, then, are ye by the Ascended Masters, by the Divine Mother, by the Messengers. Now, then, through you I would shorten the distance between my heart of hearts and the heart of an unenlightened humanity.

     Beloved ones, one tender smile is surely worth a thousand frames of the face of Maitreya. The loving, overflowing, pure heart's giving - does this not convey the Maitreya beyond the veil? I desire you to be myself, not in pomposity or pride (now self-styled initiators of lesser mortals), nay, but to remember that by the grace of the one who has sent me you yourself might be my vessel.

     You say, then, "But you have not yet appeared to us, Maitreya. How can we be thyself appearing to others?"

     Yet I have so many times appeared to you.3

     Will you not, then, first and foremost take up the study of all of my dictations [which I have released] even through these two disciples, your Messengers?4 Will you not search them to discover the keys of this age that is known in some quarters as "the Age of Maitreya"? Then will you not see that all others [of the spiritual hierarchy] who have released by the Holy Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood the vast Teaching set forth have also been my Messengers - the Ascended Masters, the angelic hosts?

     Can there not be even a treasure mapping of these teachings? Can there not be a choosing one by one of a single gem of a virtue to embody, come what may? Can we not be together a mass of crystalline substance as one body, one forcefield, truly endowing and instilling the consciousness of the Universal Christ to a planet?

     Blessed ones, the higher the spiritual vibration, the greater the railing and the revenge of forces of unreality. Blessed ones, therefore seal the circle! Seal, then, and guard by scientific prayer this place that has been prepared.

     Truly, our religion must include the [hallowing of the] place beneath our feet whereby we direct into the earth currents of the heavens. And how greatly are they needed, these life currents, restoring streams of immortality that may quicken the dried-up selves in the earth.

     Life is about to know and receive such an increment of mercy through the heart of Kuan Yin that that mercy shall bring an enlightenment, an awareness, an understanding, a self-knowledge. Is not the greatest gift of mercy, the most merciful gift of all, the gift of self-knowledge? We count it as such and as the greatest treasure, the only treasure that can be retained: Self-Knowledge, Be-ness - [truly, know thy self] as a being of fire.

     I would woo you to the courts of Maitreya. Come and find me, beloved. I shall not tell where I hold court to deliver my mystery teachings in the etheric octave, for I desire those who have the magnet of my heart to find me as one would find a treasure without a map - only by lodestone attracted to lodestone.

     But I place in your heart, in this hour together, fire of my fire. I dip into this fire, beloved - a gold and pink and white fire - I dip into it, and in the multiplicity of my Self and Presence I place [it] into an urn (which I have by your leave already placed upon the altar of your heart) - a beautiful gold and pink and white fire. These colors merging, beloved, produce many hues.

     Therefore, [visualizing this fire] as petals of roses, fiery roses with dewdrops, you shall know that when you meditate upon this fire through the call to the golden pink glow-ray, you shall be drawn unerringly to my abode. And you shall know that the requirement of approaching me by a congruency of vibration has been met by all whom you find in my abode. The golden pink glow-ray is the entrance to the realm of the Buddhas.

     Blessed hearts, there are yet today eight Buddhas in incarnation on this planet, and the ninth again.5 Thus, beloved, it is not entirely [in] the [correct] measure of prophecy that all of the earth this day is waiting for my physical incarnation. Think you not that I am in the heart of these Buddhas? Indeed I AM.

     Nevertheless, Buddhic attainment is of the vast spheres of the causal body, such that you would not necessarily recognize one of these blessed ones should you encounter them.6 Yet, beloved, you shall surely know the Buddha in the way when you expand the golden pink glow-ray of the heart, becoming thereby tender, sensitive, loving in a beautiful sound of Love - love as appreciation for the soul, for the spirit, for the vastness of potential and being, but above all [as] appreciation for the God Flame.

     In gratitude for the God Flame that is your threefold flame, serve to set life free. Kindness always comes forth from gratitude. Selfishness emits from the state of the ingrate who receives again and again and demands more and demands more again as though Life and Hierarchy and Mother should supply all wants and needs.

     Blessed ones, to forget to be grateful for the gift of the flame of Life means that you can be capable of riding roughshod over another's tenderest moments and feelings in this insensitivity.

     "The Keeper's Daily Prayer"7 is given [to you] by the blessed ones, by the beloved Nada, that you might neglect not profoundest gratitude, daily memory that you are and shall be eternally yourself because the flame of Life as divine spark beats, beats, beloved, and leaps, burns and blazes within you. All else may fade but the flame burns on, and out of the flame is [heard] the Call, the call to the soul: "Come Home to the heart of Maitreya."

     God calls you to the level of my being as the safe habitation, the biding place - all other stations, mystery schools, universities of the Spirit leading to the securing of the security of Oneness with the heart of the Universal Christ. From that place, having once attained to it, you need never descend or depart. Thus, it is true Freedom and [the] true Freedom that I hold for thee. And I hold it, beloved, as the champion of your beloved Saint Germain, all Masters of the Seventh Ray and age.

     I come, then, the proponent and the advocate of all who shall supply the mosaic of Aquarius with the rich manifestation of the Seventh Ray, its alchemy and religion, its inner self-government.

     O the journey of Aquarius from the center of the earth to the center of the Sun, may it be thine!

     May you treasure that which is immutable and begin to let go of those things that by time shall pass away, by space shall pass away. Heaven and earth ultimately shall pass away, but my Word as thy God Flame shall live forever.8 Be not satisfied until this Flame grow and grow, envelop thy soul, make permanent this soul potential, and raise you as a plucked immortelle to levels of permanence and permanent joy.

     I AM in the mystery of the Word's unfoldment within you. I rejoice that you have entered the heart of Kuan Yin as you have entered the heart of Mary, that both sides of thy being, both sides of the brain, so nurtured [by the Divine Mother] East and West, might embody the ageless wisdom. In the heart of Kuan Yin you are truly ferried in this prajna boat.9 Thus, I AM the Flame, I AM the Boat, and I AM in the heart of the Divine Mother.

     I come to seal you, to secure you, to see to it that though karma and karmic waves may rise to assail, though forces sinister may for moments prevail, your soul in devotion to the God Flame, amplifying the golden pink glow-ray and the whiteness of the Mother, might know that sense of security of Oneness that trusts:

     I shall endure.

     I shall prevail.

     I shall self-transcend.

     I shall shuffle off this mortal coil.

     I shall live in the Flame of God forevermore.

     I shall build my house as the Buddha house of the spheres of the secret rays of the golden pink glow-ray of God-gratitude whereby and whereto I become appreciative of all Life and of the circumstances of all Life

     [of all lesser manifestations of that Life which is God].

     Through this gift of fire from my heart you may become all that I AM sooner or later, as you will it, mindful that the Sangha does not exist without the living chalice, that the Dharma does not exist without the living chalice, that the Guru-Chela relationship does not exist without the living chalice.10

     I enter the heart of the dewdrop. Come and find me.

     This dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered by the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Thursday, June 30, 1988, at FREEDOM 1988 in the Heart of the Inner Retreat at the Royal Teton Ranch, Montana. In the darshan with the Cosmic Christ prior to the dictation the Messenger gave teachings on the Ascended Master Lord Maitreya and reviewed traditional Buddhist beliefs about Maitreya. Darshan and dictation included on 2 audiocassettes, B88092-93, 2 hr. 44 min.; dictation included with those of Archangel Raphael, El Morya and Kuthumi on videocassette HP88054, 2 hr.

     1- I AM calling today for thy Golden Pink Ray
To manifest round my form.
Golden Pink Light, dazzling bright,
My four lower bodies adorn!
 

     Refrain: O Brotherhood at Luxor and blest Serapis Bey,
Hear our call and answer by Love's ascending ray.
Charge, charge, charge our being
With essence pure and bright;
Let thy hallowed radiance
Of Ascension's mighty Light
Blaze its dazzling Light rays
Upward in God's name,
Till all of heaven claims us
For God's ascending flame.
 

     2- Saturate me with Golden Pink Light,
Make my four lower bodies bright;
Saturate me with Ascension's Ray,
Raise my four lower bodies today!
 

     3- Surround us now with Golden Pink Love
Illumined and charged with Light from above;
Absorbing this with lightning speed,
I AM fully charged with Victory's mead.

     And in full Faith I consciously accept this manifest, manifest, manifest! (3x) right here and now with full Power, eternally sustained, all-powerfully active, ever expanding, and world enfolding until all are wholly ascended in the Light and free!

     Beloved I AM! Beloved I AM! Beloved I AM!


Footnotes:

1 Bodhisattva. 1988 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 31 no. 26, p. 216 n. 4.
2 bhikkhu [Pali, from Sanskrit bhiksu]: Buddhist monk, religious mendicant.
3 In the darshan prior to Lord Maitreya's dictation, the Messenger read the story of Asanga, fourth-century Indian philosopher and monk, who after twelve years of meditation finally received the encounter with Maitreya. When Asanga asked the Master why he had never appeared to him during those twelve years, Maitreya replied that he had been there all the time but Asanga had not seen him because he had not yet developed great compassion.
4 Dictations by Lord Maitreya and others: "A Study in Christhood by the Great Initiator," 1984 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 27 nos. 6 - 63, pp. 53-582; "On Initiation," 1975 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 18 nos. 49 - 53, pp. 263-84; "Teachings from the Mystery School," 1985 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 38 no. 41, pp. 489-500; no. 43, pp. 521-26; no. 45, pp. 533-48; 1986 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 29 nos. 10 - 23, pp. 67-218; no. 36, pp. 343-48.
5 Nine Buddhas. In a dictation given November 4, 1966, in Los Angeles, California, the Goddess of Purity said that "out of the great flame of cosmic purity just two years ago there were born upon earth nine children, Buddhas from the heart of the Father. ... It was intended that by the power of the three-times-three these holy children should bring to mankind the great consciousness of God-purity held by your beloved Lord Gautama. I come to you this day with a message that should make your hearts awaken to the need for more decrees. Since the birth of these holy children, one has passed from the screen of life, for the surroundings of that child were so impure and so lacking in the flame of purity, inconducive to bringing forth the Light within that heart, that he died as a flower cut from the vine. And so eight of these holy innocents remain upon the planetary body." The ninth Buddha was subsequently reborn in Madras, India.
6 Inasmuch as Buddhic attainment is spiritually manifest in the vast expansion of the spheres of the causal body as a Universal God consciousness, it is not readily apparent to the uninitiated by sense perception when a lifestream has the stature of Buddhahood.
Golden Pink Glow Ray
In the name of the beloved mighty victorious Presence of God, I AM in me, and my very own beloved Holy Christ Self, I call to the heart of beloved Serapis Bey and the Brotherhood at Luxor, beloved Lord Gautama, beloved Saint Germain, beloved God and Goddess Meru, beloved Sanat Kumara and the Holy Kumaras, the Cosmic Being Harmony, the Seven Mighty Elohim, the Seven Beloved Archangels and their Archeiai, the Seven Beloved Chohans of the Rays, beloved Lanello, the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother, elemental life - fire, air, water, and earth!
7 "The Keeper's Daily Prayer": in Keepers of the Flame Lesson 1 and Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness (Section I).
8 My words shall not pass away. Matt. 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33.
9 prajna boat [from prajna, Sanskrit, transcendental wisdom, insight, divine intuition]: boat of wisdom, the vehicle or means by which one crosses the ocean of birth and death, the means of attaining nirvana. The fifth vow of Kuan Yin, taken from the Great Compassion Heart Dharani Sutra and included in Kuan Yin's Crystal Rosary, is "I desire/I vow to quickly board the prajna boat" (see 1988 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 31 no. 46, p. 373 n. 13). In Buddhist tradition, Kuan Yin is sometimes depicted as the captain of the "Bark of Salvation," ferrying souls across the rough sea of their karma to Amitabha's Western Paradise, or Pure Land, the land of bliss where souls may be reborn to receive continued instruction toward the goal of enlightenment and perfection.
10 In Buddhism, the Three Jewels in which the disciple takes refuge (i.e., turns to for protection and aid) are the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha. The Buddha is the Enlightened One; the Dharma, the Teaching of the Buddha; and the Sangha, the Community, the congregation of monks, nuns and lay devotees, the Buddha's spiritual family. The Three Jewels are given as a verbal formula in which each of them is preceded by the words "I take (my) refuge in the ... " or "I go for refuge to the ... " In Tibetan Buddhism, the following words are added before these three statements: "I take refuge in the Lama (or Guru)" because the Guru is the one who has embodied the Three Jewels as the representative of the Buddha and the transmitter of his Teaching. It is taught that the term "Guru" encompasses not only the embodied Guru but also all Teachers who have preceded and come after Gautama Buddha. It is also taught that the Dharma is the 'burden of the Lord', and that it is the responsibility of the chelas to live (embody) the Teaching, to spread abroad the Teaching, and to defend both the Teaching and the Teacher as well as the worldwide Community who comprise the 'Body' of the Buddha on earth.