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Chapter 65
Beloved Jesus Christ - December 31, 1989

     The Lord's Christmas Fiat 1989

     Now cometh the Lord with his saints! Now cometh the Lord Sanat Kumara with ten thousand of his saints this the fourth day of the Christ Mass.

     I, Jesus, come to you; for I say, the way is cleared. From this day forward, one by one the saints of the etheric octave shall occupy till I come¹ in full God-manifestation, when the saints of the earth shall all have been raised to that level of the etheric manifestation that was the Garden of Eden.

     One by one the saints descend to occupy. For with this clearance this day, beloved, there is a line that has been drawn and this [is the] sufficiency over the mark of the 51 percent [whereby the saints may occupy the earth]. Thus day by day there is the occupation of earth.

     Blessed ones, there is room for only so many saints on the head of this pin called planet earth. Therefore, as the saints occupy, the seats of the fallen ones are taken. And they must vacate their seats and defer to the saints. For I declare this day, "The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof!"

     Therefore I say to you, O ye saints abiding in the physical octave, who are the Mystical Body of God, welcome your God, the Lord Sanat Kumara, who has tarried, who has occupied, who has not failed you but who has fulfilled his eternal Word! [8-second standing ovation:]

     Hail, Sanat Kumara! Hail, Sanat Kumara! Hail, Sanat Kumara! Hail, Sanat Kumara! Hail, Sanat Kumara! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen.

     Therefore, my beloved, know this, that your heart is becoming a crystal chalice for the fire of God to burn on, to burn strong. The threefold flame is indeed the gift of the divine spark. Yet you have seen the portrayal of myself where the threefold flame does enfold my entire being. This is the sign of the Cosmic Christ, beloved.

     And one day after you shall have made of your present threefold flame a chalice for the God Flame, you will know as the years, the decades and the centuries pass, even unto your Ascended Master activities once you have graduated from this schoolroom, that you can also experience the fullness of that God Flame through and through enveloping you. Beloved ones, thus in equating with the threefold flame, know the meaning of the word of Moses unto you all: "I have said, Ye are gods and all of you are sons of the Most High."²

     In this lily of my threefold flame, I love you, I caress you, I enfold you, I heal you, I dispel all fear and doubt. For I AM come, the Good Shepherd, and I come to feed my sheep, who are becoming head sheep and shepherds themselves.

     (Therefore, beloved, be seated in the glory of Sanat Kumara.)

     Blessed hearts, I explain to you; perhaps you may pity. Thus understand the Messenger, for in the days and hours preceding these clearances there is a pressure pressing in upon the four lower bodies [and] the chakras of this one. For these fallen ones whose time is up know that their time is up, beloved.

     They know not when the fiat of the Lord shall take them, but they surely do know when the sands in the hourglass have run out for them. And therefore they have a pretty good idea that the one who will be making the call effecting their judgment in this octave will be none other than the Messenger, who does occupy in my name the office of Vicar of Christ on earth.

     Thus, beloved, the pressing in does take place and therefore we send reinforcements, but it is up to the individual. It is up to the Messenger in embodiment to establish that co-measurement and that balance and yet to carry on the day-to-day responsibilities.

     Understand the signs and know, beloved, that the ultimate pressure of the sinister force upon these bodies and this lifestream does come in the days and hours before you assemble, before you gather and before we release in written form what the night's labors will be.

     Thus, when the labors are performed, there is a release unto all, not only unto the Messenger. And once again there is a clean white page until in a number of hours following that clearance there does come again the buildup of that which must be taken [from the astral plane] in the following weekend.

     So, beloved, it is a moment of great joy and great release, for there is a cosmic cube fulfilled and the City Foursquare has gained new dimension and strength in its foundation as it is abuilding here at the Inner Retreat.

     Fear not, beloved. Fear not, beloved. For the Light is come and the facilitation of all things is at hand. Fear not, beloved! Fear not, beloved, but know that thou too art appointed of God to be the instruments of this work.

     And it is the mighty work of the ages and the purpose unto which the Messenger has descended into octaves of the earth long, long ago. It is the purpose to which you who have come from angelic bands have descended. It is the purpose to which you who have come as the 144,000 of Sanat Kumara have descended to this planet. All have come for a mighty purpose.

     And others who have in past embodiments and [on] other planes been duped by the fallen ones have also come that they might call forth the judgment upon those who have traduced them and taken them out of the way. Others who have come, beloved, are those who have graduated from the elemental kingdom and become those initiates on the path of the children of God.

     Thus there are many strains of Lightbearers who have come from various segments of this Matter universe at various times to be at the crossroads [of planet earth], beloved, assigned and appointed by Sanat Kumara to play their respective roles in this hour.

     And thus, your voices and your prayers are carefully recorded by the angels of the Keeper of the Scrolls. And your every prayer and fiat is recorded. Volumes [consisting] of spindles of gold make up the record of your life that may be read on the day of [your soul's] ascension. [These are also read] on the day of the review of the candidate who may graduate [from earth's schoolroom] through the alchemical marriage³ to the Holy Christ Self and [proceed directly] onward unto the ascension in the Light.

     Know, then, beloved, that every jot and tittle of the offering of the heart, as drop by crystal drop of sacred fire flows from you in this cause, does count [as positive karma], does build [your momentum of Light]. And pretty soon you see the mighty River of Life pouring forth from your Ascended Master Light Body that is already in position in the octaves of your I AM Presence and Causal Body.

     Candidates for the ascension one and all, I, Jesus, address you. You may say, "How so, my Lord?" You are candidates because you have chosen to place yourselves in this court this day and at this Mystery School. And at one time or another in this life or in previous embodiments you have taken hold of my garment, you have begged me to show you the way. You have taken hold of that golden thread and maintained the contact with my heart through the ups and downs and the perversities of your karma.

     And, beloved, because you have desired with the correct desiring of God's desire within you to follow that path to the ascension, you find yourself within this circle, the circle of the mighty solar ring that I have drawn. Therefore you shall be considered a candidate for the ascension until you decide not to be a candidate for the ascension. Therefore, I come to tell you, do not sink below the level of the mark of those who are accepted as qualified candidates.

     I receive you one and all. For I am also as the hound of heaven and I go after my own and I go after the wolves who would overtake them, who would howl at them and eat them and [then] devour their Light.

     Blessed hearts, my sheep know my voice.⁴ And therefore you are my own, and any number of you are the one for whom I have gone after, leaving the ninety and nine.⁵ Yes, I have gone after you and I have brought you through many lifetimes to this moment when you could see and know and understand - the inner eye somewhat opened, the inner ear hearing the inner sound, the soul knowing the vibration. I have shepherded you, beloved. I have also paid the price. For in order that your spiritual senses might be quickened I, Jesus, have taken upon myself some of the stripes of your karma.

     Now I say to you, beloved, you are securely here. You have made the contact. You have tied yourself to my Sacred Heart. Thus, I am asking you this day to consider the following, that you might take back unto yourself in these remaining days of the year and throughout the New Year's conference the karma that I have borne for you. For, beloved, you yet remain under the dispensation of Hercules, who may carry your karma.⁶

     But I say to you this, if you will take back that [karma] which I have borne [for you these two thousand years], for which I have paid the price, and balance it yourself and thereby grow in the stature of your Christhood, freely asking Hercules' assistance when needed, then, you see, I may leave you as the ninety and nine and I may now go after [those] other [ones], even as many as a thousand other souls who need [me to] bear their burden, that I might quicken their soul senses that they might hear my Word above the din of the press and the detractors and all those who attempt to cast shadows and aspersions upon this Community, this Messenger and Teaching.

     So you see, beloved, in the process of [doing] this so little a thing that I ask you, [for you also have the violet flame,] you are also becoming world saviours; for in a sense you are allowing me to bear another's karma. Thus you yourself do bear it, do you see?

     Blessed ones, I say it is [for you] so little a thing. For when you have such a presence and a force united in this one place [to accomplish the labors of Hercules], you can make light work of balancing that karma [by such cosmic good deeds as these and by] encircling it [with Astrea's circle and sword of blue flame]. And remember this, through [your karma] you have a key and a tie to the world and the places where that karma was made. Thus you have an authority to go after the judgment [by the Lord Christ] and the binding [by Archangel Michael] of those forces that got you into that trouble and into that mess so long ago whereby the thread of contact with Hierarchy became so thin that it broke.

     Thus, beloved, consider this [my request to you] this day and answer me in writing out of all due thoughtfulness [whether you will take back unto yourself the karma I have borne for you] and then we shall continue our labors through New Year's Day, beginning at the beginning of this conference.

     And, blessed ones, remember there is the day of the twenty-seventh, of the new moon, which bears a labor in itself if you can make it [to the court] on Wednesday. Let the blue lightning of the Mind of God therefore come forth! For that shall be our labor, to deal with those forces [so] that they do not in any way bring excessive burden to this Community.

     Understand, beloved, that the message of the Second Coming of Christ is a message of resurrection unto the Lightbearers and of judgment unto the seed of the wicked. It is a message and a gospel - of judgment and resurrection. And those resurrected disciples of the Lord, beloved ones, are they who sit with me in glory and in the glory of this court as you assemble together. For surely the glory of the Lord is upon you! And in that glory you fulfill my words to the disciples: Know you not that you shall sit and judge the twelve tribes and that you shall judge also the fallen angels?⁷

     This prophecy has come to pass and it is accomplished by the Holy Ghost. Thus, beloved, as there is the judgment of the fallen ones who have taken the Light of the sacred fire, of the threefold flame of the Lightbearers, you see, as their time does come and as the judgment is lawful, that Light is returned to you and your resurrection does increase. For they have inverted the power of the resurrection and the power of the I AM name and the power of my own name to perform their ungodly deeds.

     Therefore, this night before you shut your eyes [in sleep] read the Gospel of Jude. It is only one chapter, beloved, and you should remember it and let it be inscribed in your heart; for there [you will find what] I gave to Jude [to record as] the description of the fallen ones [two thousand years ago and] in this age. And in the coming labors of the conference I shall name those types that are described, even those apostate preachers and princes who come in this hour. Let it be done, then, beloved ones, that you deal with every category of sin and of the sinners who are of the fallen angels (and not of the children of the Light) that are recounted in that gospel.

     Blessed ones, I come in the name of Enoch. I come in the name of Sanat Kumara. I come in the name of the first parents and the last. I come in the name of the God and Goddess Meru.

     I come in your name, beloved, for I carry your names with me in my heart and inscribed in gold in my little book. For I also have a little book and those names, as they are in that gold writing, do have the quality of registering daily the state of your consciousness and your need, the levels of your ups and downs.

     This [reading] then registers upon my Causal Body, upon my Ascended Master Light Body, and I send needle rays from my heart that reach you with the antidote for that condition of consciousness that you may be in that may be slightly less than the fullness of your Christhood. This, beloved, happens instantaneously as the cosmic cross of white fire is the transmitter of the Mind of God.

     Thus understand how the Shepherd knows his sheep, even as the sheep know the Shepherd. I am tied to all upon earth who have touched the garment, even the hem of the garment of their own Christhood, through any religion, even a religion that does not acknowledge my name or victory. Unto them who truly approach their Holy Christ Self, I, with Kuthumi, am able to minister in an extraordinary way. We preach the mighty Word of the living Christ, Maitreya.

     Thus as World Teachers we are continually sending needle rays of enlightenment that when there is a state [of] compromise [with the Holy Christ Self] the individual may soon learn what is the cause of that condition and what is the true way [to our heart] and may reason in his heart, as [it is written], "Come now, let us reason together, saith the LORD. Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow."⁸

     So, beloved ones, know that [in] that great truth is the understanding of the transmutation of sin as karma; and the violet flame is surely the cosmic antidote [for sin, for karma]. Transmutation comes because the mind has seen the source of the error, has acknowledged it, has taken hold of the wrong desire to be involved in that error, has banished [both the wrong desire and the error] and has willed to go forward with strength, with character, with determination and with the promise to God to put all these things, these lesser things, behind him and to embrace that Christ.

     Beloved hearts, when you make that decision [to forsake sin and the sinful sense], sometimes I am no farther than ten feet before you. It would require two strides for you to be in my arms. Then do not fear to take those strides, those leaps, beloved. For I say to you, when you do make that decision to put the lesser things behind you, I strengthen you directly by the Body and Blood of my being, by my Sacred Heart, by my all-enfolding Love. Your decision opens the door.

     So long as you are in a state of indecision, "Shall I or shall I not put this thing behind me this day?" so, beloved, you are alone in your valley of indecision. It must be, according to the law of free will, that you have a foundation of self-determination before an Ascended Master can add unto you his own great God-determination and momentum of his Causal Body.

     Therefore I say to you all, my most cherished ones, make all things right in your life! Make all things right in your life! Make all things right in your life. And you do know right from wrong. You know it in your heart. You know it in your Christ Self. I will strengthen you once you have firmly set your feet on your path of self-determination.

     Is that not the way of all the avatars? Is it not the way of your becoming the Bodhisattva? Is it not the way, beloved? How can there be anything else [but self-determination] when you meet the aggressor in the way? For the aggressor may cause you to tremble, even as Saul would cause David or Samuel or others to tremble! Blessed ones, [the] feedings from hell [of the fallen ones] are so intense that they are as a reservoir of darkness, of livid anger and insanity. Believe me, I know.

     And thus, when you stand in the presence of one who happens to be the tool of hell against your life, it is no small matter. And ere you may even [speak] the word of challenge, you may find yourself trembling and your speech itself halting and trembling. And you say to yourself, "I am not thus weak! Why is it that I so tremble?" And the answer is, beloved, that you have come as a shorn lamb to challenge the force of Antichrist. And yet the sinister force is organized and they array all their fallen ones and their hosts behind that one. And so you creep away, feeling that somehow you have no attainment at all and [that] you have failed your test.

     Beloved ones, it is only a [matter] of coming to grips with a sense of co-measurement of how much Light you must have in your aura, how much of the Great Central Sun Magnet in your heart, how much Light you must carry [in your chakras] so that you are not the one who is intimidated but it is the fallen one, as well as all of the powers of hell behind him, [who is intimidated. The fallen ones] are intimidated by the presence of the Christ, but they have their bag of tricks to put their own weakness back upon the Lightbearer.

     Fear not. I AM with thee. I am with thee in the heart of the Inner Retreat. I am with thee in the heart of the Western Shamballa. I am with thee in the heart of Glastonbury and every place where the altar to the known God is erected.

     You no longer worship the unknown God,⁹ beloved, for you know your God. And knowing your God, you are confident in all things. And knowing his law, you know how you are protected by that law, pruned by that law, prepared by that law, drawn back to sanity by that law.

     You trust the Law as you trust the Immaculate Heart of my Mother. You trust the Law, beloved. For you know that it is just, that it is impartial and yet that it embodies the mercy that makes allowance for many infirmities, even while it is strict with child-man, who does test the waters and the limits of his bounds.

     The strictness of a law, beloved ones, is the salvation of many who may hear the word of Morya and may come into alignment swiftly and know the love of God and therefore fear not but straighten themselves out and become pioneers and then wayshowers.

     It is not easy, beloved, but it is indeed possible. It is indeed possible, else how would all the saints in the realms of glory have made it? Are they better than you? I say nay! And some of them when they were given their ascension did not even have the attainment that some of you have who are here in embodiment. Yes, beloved, there are saints among you. There are saints in heaven. And the manifestations of Hierarchy are unequal, whether an individual be in embodiment or not; for the body per se is not the sin [or the virtue] of the individual but the uses of the body as the instrument of Absolute God-Good or Absolute Evil.

     There is nothing in between the two except Christ the Mediator, and I AM that Mediator, beloved. I AM that Mediator! And therefore, while I am in the way with you, come and take comfort in my heart. For you can embrace the fullness of the Godhead dwelling bodily in you,¹⁰ even as you can reject all that has tied itself [to you] through the dweller-on-the-threshold of the unconscious, of the fallen ones, of the Watcher.

     Now, beloved, make no mistake. It is they who are trembling. And yet they become frantic and hysterical and, thus, they always seek to turn the tables and to project into you all of their own folly and insecurity. When you feel these vibrations, beloved, say with your jaw in place, say it, beloved:

     My Christmas Fiat

     This is not me! This is not of myself. This is not of my true nature even in this octave. This is not of my Christ Self. This is not of my God.

     This is an invader in my temple. I will seek the opening. I will shut it and seal it. I will seal the place where evil dwells! And I will see to it that I do not accept these clever projections, O so subtle, that invade the emotional body and that tell me that they are myself.

     I disown everything that is less than the Christ in me this day. This is my Christmas fiat! This is what I say as a disciple of my Lord Jesus Christ! I disown anything and everything in me that is not of the Light of my God and my True Self. For I know who I AM. I know who I was in the beginning. I know who I shall be in the ending. And nothing that has coated me over in the in-between stage can remain any longer.

     Let it melt in the sunlight of Helios and Vesta!

     Let it melt in the noonday presence of Alpha and Omega!

     For I AM THAT I AM a Son of God in the earth this day. I AM THAT I AM one in the heart of the Two Witnesses,¹¹ in the heart of Padma Sambhava, in the heart of my Jesus Christ, my Lord Maitreya, my Lord Gautama Buddha and my Lord Sanat Kumara. I am one in this chain and this lineage of the Hierarchy of God,¹² and therefore I shall clean escape this entire unreality.

     Vacate, ye fallen ones! I AM here to occupy. And I occupy with the fullness of my Causal Body unto the coming of my Lord Sanat Kumara and his saints. And I shall even practice the multiplication of my Causal Body and my own Electronic Presence. And therefore I shall not only occupy one seat but also two seats and three and five and ten. I shall place myself all over the earth wherever there is a vacancy, that not another fallen one may enter.

     Let them be gone! For the saints are marching on. The saints are marching on! And I AM a part of that body of the saints in the earth and I do take my stand. And this is not my last stand; for I shall stand again and again and again and again as long as necessary until there shall be the redemption of all of the love and the giving and the sacrifice of Saint Germain and Portia, until this earth is returned to them by the strength of my Lord with me.

     So I vow this this day, for I AM done with the world! I have experienced it. I have drunk its cup again and again and again!

     And I have also given to the fallen ones too much of the Light of the Divine Mother. I will go after it. I will seize it from them. They shall not take from me that four-leafed clover of my balanced pyramid in manifestation.

     I AM the threefold flame in the etheric quadrant. I AM the threefold flame in the mental quadrant. I AM the threefold flame in the desire body. I AM the threefold flame in the earth quadrant. I AM THAT I AM.

     I AM the fullness of the thrust and the might and the courage and the strength of the emerald ray of Saint Patrick. I claim him as my own. For with him I raise the staff and the sword and I clean these serpents out of the angel land, yes, the angel land America, Britain and every place where the angels have gone in the earth.

     So I AM here, O God, in the profound gratitude that I have this body of flesh. I will not curse it! I will not loathe it!

     I will love my body, for the Divine Mother in me loves that body. I will love that body, for the Father in me loves it. I will give it eternal life. I will give it the stream of my life descending from the heart of God. I will watch as it does become immortal before my very eyes.

     I will experience the transfiguration in this my day. I will present a living chalice. And the LORD God shall take me into the mountain of Maitreya and I shall know in this life the meaning of the transfiguration. I shall prepare to it!

     I shall call upon my Lord Sanat Kumara and he will answer me. He will not forsake me in trouble. He will not leave me alone. He will not fail to comfort me, to deliver me, to heal me, to renew my soul and to restore it.

     For I AM THAT I AM my God in manifestation.

     I shall show the cosmos the purpose of creation itself. I shall show the cosmos why we have descended to this level in the very cup of the V itself and its lowest descent.

     We have come, O God, to demonstrate to what level the soul may descend, even in congruency with the astral plane and Death and Hell itself, and yet rise - and yet, even before rising, to be in the astral plane the fullness of God in manifestation.

     Therefore, I will with Jesus bring my God into manifestation in the very depths of Death and Hell until there is no more room in Death and Hell for these fallen ones to occupy those thirty-three levels!¹³ They shall have no place to go; for I shall bring the brightness of the glory of the Lord there, protected by the Seven Mighty Archangels.

     And therefore they will simply have to find another place to go! For Death and Hell shall be swallowed up in Victory and cast into the lake of sacred fire!¹⁴ And if they wish to be spared, they will have to quit that Death and Hell themselves and follow the example of my Lord and my Saviour.

     Therefore, I will preach to them! I will challenge them! I will charge them to bend the knee before the Cosmic Christ, before the coming of the Lord Sanat Kumara. For the Clock is ticking for all of you in the astral plane, and therefore he does come with ten thousand of his saints.

     Hear them! They are shouting the battle cry. They are singing hosannas. They are crying out hallelujahs!

     For they are in all phases of Armageddon, from the first day unto the last. They come and they are numberless numbers. And the saints of God that surround the glory of the Great White Throne do gather and there is a Communion and a Oneness.

     At this point, therefore, in the altitude of the earth, in a place consecrated by the Divine Mother and the Buddha, there is that meshing of the etheric octave in the earth, and the earth therefore is transformed. And thus there is an overlapping where there is the meeting ground [of heaven and earth] in the Retreat of the Divine Mother, in the Western Shamballa.¹⁵ And, yes, even in the physical earth of this ranch there is that place where saints unascended and yet in the etheric octave may move with saints in physical embodiment unascended. And there is also the meeting ground for those who establish the contact at the etheric level between those in embodiment and the Ascended Masters.

     This indeed does take place, beloved, and at first it does take place unbeknownst to you. You only sense their presence, but you know the vibration and surely you know that I am at your side. By and by there is the thinning of the veil and this is the hope of the glory in this octave, that your eyes shall see even with the inner sight and then with the physical sight the coming of the Lord in glory ere you make the transition from this embodiment! I promise you this if you prepare yourselves well and make it a point of your own spiritual exercises and disciplines.

     Come forward, beloved. Do not lapse back any longer into the old man or the old woman¹⁶ of the last and the prior embodiments.

     I AM Jesus. I AM the Saviour in the midst. I give my life for my sheep. I give all of my life. And I am determined that as these saints that you are self-perfect and seek redemption, seek salvation itself, they shall create such a force of Light and a magnet that those who are not quite here but almost, not quite in tune with this vibration, will begin to come; for they [will] sense the fire in the mountain of our God.

     Behold the Ascended Master Moses, whom you have called God Ling. Behold him in your midst this day, for he was once your deliverer and your saviour. And some did support him all the way. Some did backbite and go against his word.

     Behold the one who did plead for you before the LORD God, did plead for you that the LORD God would not send the karma of your deeds upon you with such fury. And time and time again his implorings did offer, then, that which was necessary for the mitigation. Therefore you may know Moses as a mediator between God and man, who has stood in your midst and saved your very lives, forestalling the judgment of deeds and works.

     Blessed ones, behold this Messenger of God who comes also to lead you to the Promised Land. And in this case, beloved, the Promised Land is the etheric octave itself. And the Promised Land beneath as the Place Prepared is also that which is promised to those who tarry in the earth.

     Thus, going to the mountain, looking on the other side and seeing the Promised Land but not entering in, this was the fate of Moses. I say to you, beloved, you stand on the mountain and you look beyond. And somehow in the mists of the sky and the moment of dawn or dusk you see into the etheric octave, you see the Promised Land.

     I say to you, beloved, set your sights upon it also. Determine in your heart that you shall arrive there at the conclusion of this life. See it and know that when the karma is paid in this octave and life, you shall receive the reward of being able to proceed to the next level of the promises of God, which are surely fulfilled.

     There is absolutely no limit to that which you can attain to in this life. Why, beloved, some of you have attainments you know not of as you strive as humble servants and look not to your achievements but only to what else you might do to lighten the burden of Community, of the Messenger and of the Masters.

     Therefore, it is true, no man knoweth his own measure, and it is well. For the suffering servant, the humble servant and the burden-bearer, surely does awake in the glory of the garments of the Son of God. And as I have promised, to him that overcometh I will give the crown of Life.¹⁷

     May you be overcomers in all things because you can, because you know the Word with Brahman in the beginning, because you have the fiat of Light, because you have all the resources and the teaching.

     Beloved hearts, with so great a gift of salvation, it is incumbent upon you to exercise it, to make use of it, to fulfill it. For who has the greater sin, the one who has no knowledge and no contact who does not overcome or the one who has all knowledge and all contact and does not overcome? I think it is obvious, beloved.

     The gift has been given and you have gladly received it. Now sense the weight of the responsibility of this gift as though you would hold a large piece of gold ore in your hand. The weight of it, beloved, is not only its worth but its responsibility.

     Therefore, responsible ones who love the law of God and obey the behests of Divine Love without murmuring, may you surpass by far those murmurings in the wilderness and give glory and gratitude to God daily for all that you have rather than grumblings for that which you do not. For you do indeed have everything if you perceive that the gift of my heart to you this day is the All.

     This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Christmas Day, December 25, 1989, 3:08-3:51 p.m. MST, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. [N.B. Bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Jesus' direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.

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Volume 32, Number 2, footnote 2. The meditation music played before Cuzco's dictation was "Chorus Mysticus," the finale of the monumental Symphony No. 8 by Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler. First performed in 1910, it was dubbed the "Symphony of a Thousand" because of the number of voices and instruments involved in its performance. The text of Part I of the symphony is the medieval Latin hymn Veni, Creator Spiritus. Part II is set in the closing redemption scene from Goethe's poetic drama Faust. In Goethe's work, Faust, a scholar who does not find satisfaction in his intellectual pursuits, makes a pact with the Devil: if he ever gives in to slothfulness or says of any moment in life, "Linger awhile - thou art so fair," the Devil will win his soul. Faust goes through a number of inner struggles in his life and when he dies the Devil's demons attempt to seize his soul, believing the Devil to have won his pact; but Faust is victoriously borne to heaven by a choir of angels who say, "He who exerts himself in constant striving, him we can save."

Harold C. Schonberg writes in The Lives of the Great Composers that "every one of [Mahler's] symphonies can be described in terms of unrest, struggle, aspiration." This is summed up in Mahler's "Chorus Mysticus" when the heavenly chorus sings, "All that is transitory is but a symbol; all inadequacy here is fulfilled; the indescribable here is done; the Eternal Feminine leads us aloft." As Michael Kennedy explains, "The concluding Chorus Mysticus, beginning in a hushed whisper and ending in a mighty blaze of sound, sings of the Eternal-Feminine drawing mankind towards heaven. ... At the end, in an instrumental coda, Mahler brings back the Veni, Creator Spiritus theme from the symphony's opening but with its rising seventh expanded to a ninth as the brass triumphantly affirm the faith in both man and God." Mahler's unique effect is achieved by his masterful use of musical dissonance alternating with resolution through progressive modulations (key changes). The rising motion created by this compositional technique is supported with gradual additions of voices and instruments, producing layers of sound that build to a magnificent crescendo. Mahler's purpose, writes Kennedy, "was to emphasize the link between the early expression of Christian belief in the power of the Holy Spirit and Goethe's symbolic vision of mankind's redemption through love." The music and voices of "Chorus Mysticus" represent "the twilight zone" of Faust (and all souls) who experience the inner struggles of life but who through constant striving are "victorious in the noonday sun" as they make their ascent to heaven at the conclusion of their lives.

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Volume 32, Number 8, footnote 18. Causal bodies of the God and Goddess Meru and of the planet Hedron over the Royal Teton Ranch. On December 25, 1986, Jesus announced that the God and Goddess Meru had "placed themselves within golden white spheres" over the Royal Teton Ranch "to be sustained above it as their Presence with you." See 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 80, p. 633 n. 19; 1986 PoW, vol. 29 no. 78, pp. 681, 682. On December 31, 1986, Gautama Buddha announced that the causal body of the planet Hedron, a "golden sphere of a paradise that was beyond all necessity of human pleasure" built by the Lightbearers of that planet long ago, was being transferred over the Inner Retreat and Royal Teton Ranch. See 1987 PoW, vol. 30 no. 1, pp. 1-3, 10-12. Crystal Chalice of Elohim. On June 27, 1987, during FREEDOM 1987 in the Heart of the Inner Retreat, Archangel Chamuel and Charity revealed that "a tangible chalice is being formed, tended by Paul the Venetian, by Nada, by angels of Love. ... When the chalice shall rise to meet and greet the Elohimic level, then shall Elohim pour into this chalice that which ye seek, beloved. Truly, and truly I say, it is the purging, purging of all impurity: Light, then, solidifying and codifying the Word within you." Beloved Alpha explained on July 5, 1987, that the building of the chalice "must give to us entrée to earth twenty-four hours a day by the Spirit of Elohim. And by that Spirit of Elohim, the Cosmic Spirit of Freedom shall also descend." Calling for an intense decree vigil to the resurrection flame by Keepers of the Flame for the completion of the chalice, the Messenger explained that this chalice, "as a `funnel' of crystal light," would be "the perpetual open door for Elohim to work through all true Lightbearers of the world. This is the key to the real victory of the golden age under Sanat Kumara." On August 17, 1987, the Divine Mother Kali announced "the fulfillment of the chalice in the Heart of the Inner Retreat to the Elohimic level." 1987 PoW, vol. 30 no. 31, p. 302; no. 32, p. 310; no. 37, p. 374; no. 38, p. 383; no. 44, pp. 417, 418; no. 47, p. 443; no. 50, pp. 456, 459; no. 51, p. 461.

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Volume 32, Number 18, footnote 6. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the oldest-known book of Chinese medicine and the foundation of the macrobiotic diet based on the yin-yang principle, describes a ten-day rice gruel fast as the first remedy for disease. Ronald E. Kotzsch writes in Macrobiotics: Yesterday and Today that The Yellow Emperor's Classic "asserts that food is an important means for treating disease. It says that in `medieval days' the sages treated illness first by diet, usually prescribing a regime of rice gruel for ten days. If this treatment was not successful, then the roots and leaves of medicinal plants were used to harmonize the energies. Acupuncture and moxibustion were employed only as a last resort. If the emotions and the will of the patient are stable, says the Classic, then cereals alone can effect a cure. Grains have a special importance and power as human food. Water and grains are the root of life and 'death comes only when they are exhausted.' In particular, rice is mentioned as a vital and harmonious food." The Yellow Emperor's Classic is attributed to Huang Ti, the legendary Yellow Emperor (born c. 2704 b.c.), but was probably not written down until about 500 b.c. The Yellow Emperor is believed to have ruled China during a golden age and is considered the ancestor of all Chinese people. Lord Lanto, working under Sanat Kumara, is said to have inspired The Yellow Emperor's Classic.

A ten-day brown rice fast may be too severe for those who have not already practiced the macrobiotic diet for some time. Such a fast is not recommended unless you get good macrobiotic counseling, know the body's signs of yin and yang, and know how to break the fast. Instead, you can try a rice fast for one or two days. Eat as much pressure-cooked brown rice as you want. You can follow this with a couple of days of rice and vegetables with a light miso soup as the body gently comes off the rice fast and adapts to a greater variety of vegetarian foods. The longer the rice fast, the easier you should make the transition. It is wise to wait a week or more after the rice fast before eating fish, if this is part of your regular diet. Because of the past diets people have been on, reactions may vary from severe to mild to none at all. El Morya's advice is: Go easy, be well informed, proceed with caution, know when to stop.

Recipe for pressure-cooked brown rice: 1/2 teaspoon good sea salt to 5 cups of rice and 8 cups of pure water. Wash rice and put in pressure cooker. Add water and bring to a boil. Add salt and place cover on pressure cooker. Bring cooker up to pressure then reduce flame to medium-low. Put flame deflector under cooker and cook for 45 min. Remove pressure cooker from flame and let sit for 5 min. without opening, then remove rice from the pot so it doesn't keep cooking. For regular daily use of brown rice when not fasting, use 1-2 teaspoons of salt per pot according to personal taste and need.

Recipe for bancha twig tea (also called kukicha): If the twigs you have are not already roasted, you should roast them in a dry skillet for 3-4 min. Place 1-2 tablespoons bancha twigs in a pot with 4 cups of pure water, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5-10 min., or 10-15 min. for stronger tea. When tea is finished steeping, remove twigs from the tea and let them dry. Twigs can be reused a few times, adding some new twigs each time.

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Volume 32, Number 20, footnote 5. The initiation of the descent into hell. It is a Christian belief that between his crucifixion and resurrection Jesus descended into hell where he preached and brought salvation to souls imprisoned there. Christian tradition states that this was not "hell" as the state of eternal punishment for sin but a realm where all the dead abided. The tradition of Jesus' triumphant descent into hell, also called the "harrowing of hell," became a part of the Church's theology as affirmed in the Apostles' Creed, the statement of the fundamental tenets of Christian belief that in its earliest form can be traced back to the second century. The Roman Catholic version of the creed states that Jesus "was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead." I Pet. 3:19 states that Christ "preached unto the spirits in prison."

In his exegesis on this verse in The Interpreter's Bible, Archibald M. Hunter points out that "exegetes have differed about the interpretation of every word. ... The simplest meaning is that our Lord descended between his passion and resurrection, to preach to certain spirits imprisoned in Hades. ... But who were the imprisoned spirits? Just possibly the fallen angels of Gen. 6:1-4. Much more probably Peter meant the spirits of the rebellious generation who perished in the Flood." Hunter says that the early Christians may also have been concerned about "the fate of those who had died before the gospel was preached. ... Christ went down 'in the spirit,' says Peter, into Hades, ... in order to offer salvation to sinners who had died without hearing the gospel and getting a chance to repent. ... In the apocryphal Gospel According to St. Peter (ca. a.d. 130), among the wonders attending the Crucifixion we read the question, 'Hast thou preached to those who have fallen asleep?' To which the answer was heard from the Cross, 'Yes.' And in the Middle Ages the harrowing of hell was a common theme in popular poetry and theology." (The Interpreter's Bible, 12 vols. [Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1957], 12:132, 133.)

In a dictation delivered on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1969, through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet, Jesus said he had come to exhort us with the same sermon he had preached to "the rebellious spirits that in the days of Noah were disobedient unto God. ... I preached and repreached and spoke again and again to each soul that I could find there who was in chains of bondage and despair. Many gazed upon me with dullness in their eyes, the dullness of despair, the centuries of timeworn care and fear and doubt. The very light of God seemed to them [to be] put out and I sought to rekindle it then as I do today to rekindle it in you God's way." Dictation on 4-audiocassette album Only Mark 16, 90-min. cassette B88148; entire album, A88146, 6 hr.

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Volume 32, Number 29, footnote 5. Demonstrations for freedom in China. Following the April 15, 1989 death of ousted Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang, regarded by Chinese students as a supporter of greater freedom and democracy, hundreds of students gathered at Beijing University for a demonstration that grew into a people's movement for political reform and the most serious challenge ever faced by the Chinese Communist government. On April 18 several thousand students chanting democratic slogans marched through Beijing and demonstrated in Tiananmen Square, the political center of China. On April 27 more than 100,000 people, including Chinese workers, marched 10 miles from the university to the square. Students in Tiananmen Square began a hunger strike on May 13 and within days more than one million people rallied in the streets of Beijing in support of the 3,000 strikers. Demonstrations spread to Shanghai and at least 33 other Chinese cities as people from all levels of Chinese society joined the students in demanding greater freedom of the press, free elections to fill leading positions, an end to governmental corruption, and dialogue between leaders of the government and the student movement. The massive demonstrations coincided with a May 15-18 visit to China by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev - the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years.

On May 20, Chinese leaders declared martial law in parts of Beijing. Troops were stationed around the city, ready to crack down and attack protesters. In a show of solidarity with the demonstrators, masses of Chinese people surrounded the troops attempting to move to Tiananmen Square, halting military transports and preventing the soldiers from reaching the center of the demonstration, where 100,000 people had gathered. In Shanghai, troops were stationed nearby tens of thousands of protesters but did not advance. It was reported that on May 22, 100 military leaders signed a letter stating that the army "will never shoot the people."

Meanwhile, Communist Party hard-liners headed by senior leader Deng Xiaoping and Premier Li Peng were locked in a power struggle with the moderate faction of party chief Zhao Ziyang. By May 26 the hard-liners had taken command and placed Zhao Ziyang in custody. As the number of protesters in the square dwindled to fewer than 10,000, student leaders considered ending their historic occupation of Tiananmen Square. The arrival of a 30-foot sculpture resembling the Statue of Liberty, dubbed the Goddess of Democracy, helped to embolden the students to continue the protest.

In the early morning hours of June 4, the seven-week standoff between the government and students ended in the worst day of bloodshed in Communist China's history. Ten thousand soldiers stormed Tiananmen Square hurling tear-gas canisters and firing their assault rifles and automatic machine guns indiscriminately into the crowd. Some protesters fought back by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails but within a few hours the army had gained control of the square. The Goddess of Democracy statue was demolished. An estimated 500 to 7,000 Chinese had been slaughtered by their own countrymen - crushed by advancing tanks, felled in the square, or killed in their sleep when soldiers rampaged Beijing neighborhoods. The real count will probably never be known since there were reports of mass cremations of corpses.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, the hard-line government of Deng Xiaoping denied that a civilian massacre had ever occurred. At a press conference, one official praised the nearly 100 soldiers and policemen who gave their lives in putting down what was called the "counterrevolutionary insurrection." Determined to extinguish all vestiges of liberal sentiment, Beijing authorities raided universities and detained students and teachers. National television broadcast mug shots of wanted "hooligans" and provided hot line telephone numbers for informants. Arrested students were paraded through the streets with placards detailing their crimes. On June 21 and 22, 27 people were executed for allegedly beating soldiers or destroying state property. The New York Times reported on July 17, 1989, that "the Beijing Evening News suggested that 3,586 people had been sentenced by the end of June for counterrevolutionary crimes."

The U.S. press called the government's propaganda campaign the "big lie." However, many Chinese outside the capital with access only to state-run central TV believed or professed to believe the government's story that the crackdown and suppression was justified. Some cooperated with authorities by betraying family members and others suspected of criminal activity.

Chinese reprisals were strongly condemned abroad. With each act of repression, the U.S. imposed new sanctions on Beijing. These measures, which included banning arms sales and high-level diplomatic contacts and applying pressure on international lenders to deny new loans to China, conveyed disapproval without causing a complete break with China. Both Democratic and Republican congressmen criticized the weak response of the Bush administration, complaining that it did not reflect the outrage of the American people. As the crackdown continued, dissident students and intellectuals were being smuggled out of China by an antigovernment underground. Some student leaders were mobilizing for a democratic movement in exile.

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Volume 32, Number 35, footnote 12. The term "subconscious" is defined as the mental activities just below the threshold of consciousness which can be easily brought to consciousness; the aspect of the mind that is an entity or a part of the mental apparatus overlapping, equivalent to, or distinct from the unconscious. Some psychoanalysts use the term to describe a zone between the unconscious and the conscious. As summarized by Robert M. Goldenson, in psychoanalysis the term "unconscious" is used to denote "the portion of the mind or mental functioning which contains the memories, wishes and impulses that are not directly accessible to awareness, but which have dynamic effects on thought and action. Freud maintained that there are two types of mental contents stored in the unconscious: certain infantile, or `primordial,' wishes and impulses that have never become conscious, but which appear or are represented in dreams, fantasies, magical thinking and gestures; and material, such as memories and drives, that has become conscious for a time but has been expelled from awareness." Modifying Freud's concepts, Carl Jung theorized the personal and the collective unconscious. Jung postulated that the personal unconscious "consists of experiences which were once conscious but which have been superseded or forgotten, as well as ideas and wishes which have never been strong enough to make a conscious impression. Some of these memories, thoughts, and feelings may split off from the main body of the psyche, due to traumatic experiences or internal conflicts, and form a constellation or `complex' of their own. ...[The collective unconscious] is the residual of the racial history of man and his animal ancestors. ... It is an accumulation of predispositions and potentialities which in its totality forms the frame of reference with which we view the world. Jung calls these structural components `archetypes.' ... They arise from historical experience and constitute the inherited foundations upon which the whole structure of the personality is built. In a word, each individual's psyche reflects the wisdom and experience of the ages" (Robert M. Goldenson, The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior: Psychology, Psychiatry, and Mental Health [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co., 1970], 2:1344; 1:652, 653). The Ascended Masters teach that the subconscious is the repository of the "electronic belt," which contains the cause, effect, record, and memory of human karma in its negative aspect; the unconscious is the repository of the archetypes of the Absolute Evil of Death and Hell. The collective unconscious is jointly held by the human race; the individual, or personal, unconscious is the result of personal actions.

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Volume 32, Number 37, footnote 20. The screen at Darjeeling. El Morya reveals in his book The Chela and the Path that at his retreat on the etheric plane over Darjeeling, where the soul can journey out of the body during sleep to be tutored, there is a screen on which is projected past events in the life of the disciple. Describing this procedure, El Morya says, "It is time to enter the chamber designed with blue and gold motif where there is a screen and seats arranged in theater style. For to understand your path, your very personal path to salvation, you must have the perspective of your past and how you have created the present - both at personal and planetary levels. Come then; and let us see how we shall, in the magic of the flame, discover the designs of your soul destiny. We enter the chamber now and take our places before a large semicircular screen on which there will be projected the experiences of other incarnations in the full dimensions that are portrayed from the akashic record. ... Now scenes of life in ancient Thrace appear on the screen, and we find ourselves in the marketplace of a forgotten city in the land that is now Turkey. ..."

Commenting on El Morya's teaching, Mark and Elizabeth Prophet write in Lords of the Seven Rays that there next unfolds on the screen "a most intriguing tale - a scene of the pathos of an ancient karma come full circle in the lives of the viewers, to whom the Master also revealed the efficacy of the violet flame which they observed clearing the records on the screen right before their eyes. With such a profound insight as to the outworking of cosmic law, Morya's students return to their physical body consciousness determined to `make things right' - and you do too. For the Lord of the First Ray promises: `The lessons learned by the soul out of the body during sleep are not lost but become a part of the composite of subconscious self-awareness, surfacing just enough to prick the soul memory and prod it to decisive action."' See The Chela and the Path, pp. 38-42; Lords of the Seven Rays, pp. 304-5.

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Volume 32, Number 38, footnote 2. The 14-month cycle of Serapis Bey in the Third Secret Ray. On December 29, 1978, Serapis Bey announced that at winter solstice December 21, 1978, a 14-month cycle of initiation had been inaugurated whereby we could increase the white sphere of our Causal Body and balance an extraordinary amount of personal and planetary karma. Since that time, every 14 months has marked the start of another 14-month cycle commemorating the soul's initiatic journey through the successive spheres of the Causal Body. The Causal Body is depicted in the Chart of Your Divine Self as concentric spheres of Light surrounding the I AM Presence, the upper figure in the Chart. During each 14-month cycle we have the opportunity to increase one sphere of the Causal Body (and balance the karma made on the corresponding ray and chakra) by calling for its amplification and multiplication by ascension's flame and by the Great Central Sun Magnet of the Fourth Ray, which corresponds to the center (white) sphere of the Causal Body.

After seven successive 14-month cycles of initiation through the seven outer spheres of the Causal Body (white through blue), Serapis Bey announced on February 28, 1987, the inauguration of the first of five 14-month cycles in the five secret rays. The 14-month cycle in the sphere of the Second Secret Ray began April 25, 1988; the 14-month cycle in the sphere of the Third Secret Ray was initiated on July 4, 1989.

Serapis Bey has explained that the goal of each 14-month cycle is for you as a disciple of Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha to pass through the 14 stations of the Aquarian cross of the Woman and her seed (Rev. 12:4, 5, 17). The 14 stations of the Aquarian cross provide a path of initiation for the Divine Mother and her sons and daughters that is parallel to the 14 stations of the Piscean cross fulfilled by Jesus. The stations signify the 14 events that occurred in Jesus' life during his Passion on Good Friday from 1. Jesus is condemned to death to 14. Jesus is laid in the sepulchre. They represent not only the testings and trials of the chelas of the Ascended Masters but also the personal and planetary karma that Lightbearers are bearing in their bodies in this transition from the 2,000-year dispensation of Pisces to Aquarius.

In order to deal scientifically with these challenges, which come to us daily, students of the Ascended Masters chart the 14 stations on the Cosmic Clock according to the principles of cosmic astrology taught to the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet by Mother Mary. Thus, each month during Serapis Bey's 14-month cycle, the chela is working on one of the 14 stations corresponding to one line of the Cosmic Clock. The 1st station is charted on the 12:00 line (or 12:00/6:00 axis), the 2nd on the 1:00 line (or 1:00/7:00 axis), etc. The 13th station is clocked on the 12:00 line (or 12:00/6:00 axis) and the 14th station on the 6:00 line (or 6:00/12:00 axis).

If you were not aware of Serapis Bey's 14-month cycles of initiation or feel you have not taken the greatest advantage of the opportunity they afford those on the path of the ascension under the hierarchs of the Ruby Ray, you can ask the hierarchies of Light to give you, according to the will of God and the discriminating intelligence of your Holy Christ Self, the initiations of each sphere. Thus in your calls and invocations to God and your decrees to the ascended hosts of the Lord as well as in your daily service to life at home or on the job, you would be spending 14 months in each sphere of the Causal Body, one at a time, starting with the center white sphere and proceeding outward through each successive sphere. You would be taking these beginning initiations simultaneously with the initiations of the current 14-month cycle - but only one missed 14-month cycle at a time along with the current cycle, beginning with the earliest one missed. For instance, someone just starting would begin with the current Third Secret Ray cycle and the first cycle through the white sphere of the Causal Body.

For additional information on the Cosmic Clock see: Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History and Religion of America, pp. 173-206. The ABC's of Your Psychology on the Cosmic Clock: Charting the Cycles of Karma and Initiation, 8-audiocassette album, 12 lectures, 12 hr., A85056. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, June 29, 1988, "Seminar on the Cosmic Clock: Charting the Cycles of Your Karma, Psychology and Spiritual Powers," 4 audiocassettes, 5 hr. 50 min., A88087A; accompanying packet of study materials, including the color "Diagrams of the Cosmic Clock," #2368. "Diagrams of the Cosmic Clock" may be ordered separately, as well as the Chart of the "14 Stations of the Aquarian Cross." For a further listing of teaching on Serapis Bey's 14-month cycles and the secret-ray initiations, see 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 29, pp. 229-30 n. 7.

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Volume 32, Number 38, footnote 4. Vajra is a Sanskrit word rendered as thunderbolt or diamond; adamantine; that which is hard, impenetrable; that which destroys but is itself indestructible. It is also a scepterlike symbol of the thunderbolt, representing the adamantine nature of Truth. It is taught that the vajra cleaves through ignorance and therefore symbolizes the indestructible nature of the Buddha's wisdom and the victory of knowledge over illusion.

Serapis Bey was also referring to Vajrasattva, a divine being in Buddhism, called a Buddha by some and a Bodhisattva by others, whose name has been variously translated as "Diamond Being," "Diamond Nature," "the Indestructible-minded One," or "the Adamantine." Vajrasattva is described in The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion as: "Vajrasattva: Skt., lit. `Diamond Being'; in Vajrayana Buddhism, the principle of purity and purification. Vajrasattva embodies the capacity to eliminate spiritual impurities of all kinds, particularly neglected commitments toward one's teacher and one's own spiritual development. Vajrasattva is a sambhogakaya manifestation; he unifies all the five buddha-families within himself in the same way that the white color of his body (in iconography) unifies all the five colors. With his right hand he holds a dorje [a vajra] to his heart, which signifies his indestructible essence. His left hand, holding a bell, rests on his hip; this is an expression of his compassion. The hundred-syllable mantra associated with him is used in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism for purification of the mind" (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989; p. 398).

According to Lama Govinda, Vajrasattva "is the active reflex of Aksobhya, or that side of his being which is turned towards the world. In Vajrasattva the highest reality of the Dharma-sphere is reflected and rendered conscious on the individual plane. He is the active ray of the 'Wisdom of the Great Mirror'. ... He is the Vajra of the Heart, the immutable, indestructible - the spiritual certainty that flows from the direct experience of reality, in which all Wisdoms are fused into one by the flame of an all-embracing feeling of solidarity ... and the urge to act for the benefit of all living beings" (Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism [New York: Samuel Weiser, 1969], p. 187). The two aspects of the blue Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya and the white Vajrasattva are sometimes combined into one being called Vajrasattva-Akshobhya. The mantra Om! Vajrasattva, Hum! is given to purify all defilements and obscurations.

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Volume 32, Number 44, footnote 7. Mental and emotional problems may also be related to biochemical imbalances, such as those caused by hypoglycemia, candida, food and environmental allergies, and hypothyroidism.

Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is a sign of imbalance in the glandular system - the pancreas, pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands. This is usually caused by the consumption of a diet high in refined carbohydrates, such as white flour, sugar and other sweeteners, including honey, fructose and fruit juice concentrates. Excessive coffee consumption in addition to lack of proper sleep and exercise will also aggravate this condition. In addition to a wide range of physical problems, hypoglycemia has been associated with aggressive personality changes, rapid mood swings, hysteria, depression, anxiety, phobias (including claustrophobia), compulsions, violent temper tantrums, introversion, nightmares, lack of mental alertness, confusion, apathy, forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, irritability and uncontrolled crying spells.

Candida albicans is a yeast microorganism normally found to a certain extent in everyone's gastrointestinal system. The taking of prolonged or frequent courses of antibiotics, birth control pills or cortisone (or other immunosuppressant drugs) often allows for the uncontrolled growth of candida beyond its normal limits. Such unchecked growth eventually results in a number of toxic substances being released into the bloodstream that can weaken the immune system and can cause a wide variety of mental, emotional and physical problems, including food allergies. Mental and emotional problems that have been associated with candida overgrowth include agitation, anxiety, poor concentration, confusion, depression, food cravings, hostility, hyperactivity, hyperirritability, lethargy, memory loss and the aggravation of schizophrenia.

Food and environmental allergies are the general terms that describe a variety of mental, emotional and physical problems that can develop when an individual is exposed to foods or substances in his environment to which he is sensitive. Common foods known to produce an allergic response in sensitive individuals are milk, corn, wheat and eggs, but any food can be a problem. Some environmental allergens (substances that induce allergies) are pollen, formaldehyde, perfumes and exhaust fumes. Mental and emotional symptoms that have been related to food and environmental allergies are similar to those of hypoglycemia and candida.

Hypothyroidism is a disease in which there is inadequate production of thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland. Every cell in the body is dependent upon thyroid hormone to produce the energy it needs to carry out its own unique functions. An inadequate level of thyroid hormone is associated with a broad spectrum of problems, many of them physical; the mental and emotional conditions associated with hypothyroidism are irritability, hostility, mental sluggishness and dullness, suspiciousness, delusions, inability to concentrate, introversion, failing memory, temper tantrums, contrariness and depression.

If you think you may be dealing with any of the conditions listed above, we recommend that you consult your personal health practitioner for more advice. The following books are also recommended:

Sugar Blues by William Dufty

Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton

The Yeast Connection: A Medical Breakthrough by William G. Crook, M.D.

Candida Albicans: Could Yeast Be Your Problem? by Leon Chaitow

Food Intolerance: What It Is and How to Cope with It by Robert Buist

Detecting Your Hidden Allergies by William G. Crook, M.D.

Nutrition and Mental Illness: An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry by Carl C. Pfeiffer, M.D.

Solved: The Riddle of Illness by Stephen E. Langer, M.D. (on hypothyroidism)

The macrobiotic approach to understanding the relationship between psychological problems and weaknesses in various organs is explained in the book Macrobiotics and Human Behavior by William Tara (currently out of print). He gives the following summary of the positive and negative attributes associated with different organs when they are in their strong or weakened states respectively:

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Volume 32, Number 46, footnote 7. A stupa (literally "hair knot") was originally a monument erected over the relics of Gautama Buddha and other great saints. Today stupas are highly symbolic structures that are the focus of devotion in Buddhist monasteries or temples. Stupas may contain sacred texts and other sacred objects. One Buddhist text recounts that Gautama Buddha told a disciple that stupas should be constructed not only as monuments to the dead but as monuments to the living - to a Buddha and "a true hearer" of a Buddha. Thus the stupa is more than just a memorial for the worship of Buddhas or saints; it is a supreme symbol of the path of the attainment of enlightenment, the goal of every Buddhist. The component parts of the stupa symbolize the qualities or disciplines that produce the awakened state of mind. Eight different types of stupas commemorate the eight major events in the life of Gautama Buddha and stupas have been erected at sites that played an important role in Gautama's life.

A stupa usually has a hemispherical or cylindrical shape; the basic architectural form takes on special features in different countries throughout Asia. In Tibet stupas are called chotens, or chortens. "The three-dimensional form called choten ('offering container') is regarded in Tibetan Buddhism as a symbol of the body, speech, and mind of the Buddha. ... The symbology of the choten is based on Mahayana doctrine. The four lower levels stand for the four positive states of mind of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. A secondary pedestal on top of this has ten further levels that ascend to the middle part of the choten; these represent the ten stages (bhumi) of the spiritual development of a bodhisattva. The middle part or 'body' of the choten symbolizes the awakened mind (bodhicitta) and in certain cases contains the image of a deity. Above this middle part rise thirteen umbrella shapes of different sizes; they represent various methods of propagating the Buddhist teaching (dharma). On top of these umbrella shapes is a five-petaled lotus, symbol of the properties of the five Buddha families (buddhakula) [each headed by one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas]. The pinnacle of the stupa is composed of a sun disk resting on a crescent moon, which symbolizes the cosmic grandeur of the teaching. [Above this, at the very top of the structure, there is a flaming drop.]" (The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion [Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989], p. 340.) The interior ground plans of stupas of the Vajrayana school of Buddhism are designed to represent the mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.

The different levels of the chorten also correspond to the five elements, which are symbolized by a specific bija mantra, color and form (shape). Lama Govinda writes of the symbology of the chorten: "The cubic forms of the lower storeys correspond to the element 'Earth', the round central part to the element 'Water', the conical (gilt) upper-structure to the element 'Fire', the umbrella above it to the element 'Air'. The flaming drop of the element 'Ether' rests on the vessel with the 'Elixir of Life', which crowns the honorific umbrella." (Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism [1960; reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1969], pp. 185-86.)

The stupa is also said to represent the temple of man or the Body of the Buddha. One Pali text says, "The stupa is the Buddha and the Buddha is the stupa." Govinda explains that in some Nepalese stupas, for instance, the structure is decorated near the top with painted eyes to suggest "a human figure in the posture of meditation hidden in the stupa, the crossed legs in the base, the body up to the shoulders in the hemisphere, the head in the harmika [kiosk or altar-like structure at the top]. This also corresponds to the psycho-physiological doctrine of the centers of psychic force [chakras] which are located one above the other in the human body and through which consciousness develops in ascending order. ... The [crown chakra] is symbolized by a dome-shaped or flame-like protuberance on the head of the Buddha, and by the cone-shaped Tree of Enlightenment which forms the spire of the stupa." (Psycho-cosmic Symbolism of the Buddhist Stupa [Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1976], pp. 84-85.)

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Volume 32, Number 46, footnote 13. On October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m., 17 days after Cuzco stated that it is "the hour of earth changes," an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck the San Francisco Bay area. The quake caused the collapse of a mile-long span of the two-tiered Interstate 880 freeway in Oakland as well as major damage to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and damage to some 60 buildings in the Marina district of San Francisco. Sixty-five people were killed, over 3,000 were injured, and at least 44,000 sought refuge in shelters in the area. Property damage has been estimated to be over $8 billion. On October 18 and 19, 1989, a series of earthquakes jolted northeastern China in mostly rural areas west of Beijing. At least five of the quakes registered 5.0 or more on the Richter scale, the strongest one measuring 6.1. Twenty-nine people were killed and an estimated 60,000 left homeless. On November 15 and 16 a storm system that traveled through 14 states in the Midwest, the South, and along the Eastern Seaboard produced hailstorms and tornadoes with winds up to 250 miles per hour that killed at least 30 people, including seven schoolchildren in New York, and left at least 1,000 people homeless.

Between September 17 and 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo, with winds as strong as 135 to 160 miles per hour, struck a dozen Caribbean islands and then hit the U.S., traveling through the Carolinas and Virginia. It was one of the ten worst hurricanes to reach the U.S. mainland in this century. In the Caribbean islands 33 people were killed and more than 150,000 left homeless. Property damage there was estimated at $2 billion dollars and the resort economies of many of the islands were devastated. In the U.S. 28 people died and property damage was estimated at $4 billion.

On July 9, 1989, two earthquakes each registering 5.5 on the Richter scale struck the Izu Peninsula of Japan, triggering landslides and injuring at least 18 people. The quakes were the strongest of 20,000 tremors that occurred on the peninsula in the previous 10 days; more than 400 of these tremors were felt by residents. In July an underwater volcano erupted offshore from the resort town of Ito, located on the Izu Peninsula.

On January 23, 1989, an earthquake estimated at 5.4 on the Richter scale struck the Soviet republic of Tadzhikistan, which borders on Afghanistan and China. The quake triggered a massive mudslide that buried one village and damaged at least two others; an estimated 274 people died. In Soviet Armenia on December 7, 1988, an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale flattened cities and towns in the region, killing 25,000 people and leaving an estimated 500,000 homeless. It was the most severe quake in the Caucasus Mountain region in 80 years.

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Volume 32, Number 55, footnote 4. These are some of the warnings of the possibilities of war given in dictations through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet.

Paul the Venetian, July 5, 1968: "But as the scriptures record so beautifully and delicately: And they were eating and they were drinking and they were marrying, and they were giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the coming of the Son of man. ... Your Blessed Virgin Mother Mary prays with me, for the state of the world is most horrendous and fear is in many hearts and a quivering of destruction. And we do not wish to amplify it, but we must alert the students of the Light that the time is indeed ... short. Your beloved Messenger who stands before you has little idea himself as to the solemnity with which I am speaking these words. This is as much a surprise to him that I am saying this as it is to some of you. But, strange as it may seem, I was chosen tonight and for this conference to sound out the note of warning."

Mother Mary, July 3, 1972: "Tonight I have been selected by the hierarchical Masters of the Karmic Board to present to you a solemn warning that upon all mankind will destruction come. In some cases, even the good will suffer side by side with the evil, for it is not always possible to exercise cosmic discrimination. ... The elementals have communicated recently with one another and they are preparing to execute cataclysmic strands of destruction that have only begun in the world order. And this shall come to pass unless the teachings of God shall be fulfilled in the hearts of many men and women."

God Meru, October 13, 1972: "There may be, indeed, a kindling of wars and rumor of wars, of earthquakes in divers places and a shaking of the consciousness of mankind as a vindication of the wrath, or that which has been called and is the wrath of God, as the chastisement of the Great Central Sun against mankind."

Jesus, November 23, 1972: "And behold, Truth shall first live in the hearts of many; for Truth is needed and must be restored, else terrible activities shall come forth upon the earth that mankind little dream of. And they will kindle once again out of the ancient akashic records and from the astral levels those Pandora activities that are winged destruction to mankind: pestilence and disease and warfare and darkness."

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Volume 32, Number 58, footnote 2. Pearl of great price. Matt. 13:45, 46; Gospel of Thomas, logion 76. In the context of religious mysticism the "Pearl" is the symbol of the soul. See "The Hymn of the Pearl," a poem in the Gnostic text the Acts of Thomas, which describes the sojourn of a prince sent forth by his parents to Egypt to capture "the Pearl that lies in the Sea." The story symbolizes the journey of the soul, who, having descended from the etheric octave, loses the memory of his origin and mission and merges with the realm of sleep. Responding to the call of his Divine Parents, he emerges as an awakened one, redeems himself and his soul, and becomes the saviour of his brothers and sisters who have met the same fate in Egypt (which represents the sensual and material, the domain of delusion and death). He finally returns to his Home of Light and fulfills the ritual of the ascension.

From the moment of his awakening, knowing that his soul is naked, the prince enters the path of redemption, weaving his Deathless Solar Body day by day. This is the wedding garment his soul must wear if she is to enter in to (1) the alchemical marriage (the soul's permanent bonding to the Holy Christ Self) and (2) the ritual of the ascension (the Christed one's permanent fusing to the I AM Presence). Having "sold all that he had," i.e., having balanced his karma and having increased thereby the rings of Light around his soul (below) and around the spheres of his Causal Body (Above), he has "bought" with the price of trial and testing and arduous initiations on the Path the "one pearl of great price." As Paul said, "Ye are bought with a price" (I Cor. 6:20; 7:23). As all know who have gained their souls' reintegration with God, known to Hindus as raja yoga, both the chela and the Guru pay dearly for the salvation of one pearl, one soul, unto eternal Life.

On October 4, 1987, in New York City, the Messenger delivered a lecture on the lost years and the Lost Teachings of Jesus, which included a reading of "The Hymn of the Pearl" and the commentary on it from Gnostic Scriptures Interpreted, by G. A. Gaskell. Following the lecture the Ascended Masters Jesus and Himalaya gave dictations in which they commented on this poem (see 1987 PoW, vol. 30 no. 56, p. 494; no. 57, pp. 502-3, 506 n. 14; dictations on audiocassette B87074). For further teachings on "The Hymn of the Pearl" see Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Introduction II, "The Path of the Bodhisattva: The Historical Maitreya," in 1984 PoW, Book II, hardbound volume, pp. 25-27.

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