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The Karmic Board would speak to you this day. Therefore I AM come, the spokesman,in the fullness of the flame of Mother Liberty. For I too am the instrument of the Flame, yet as instrument I AM that Flame. I AM the servant of the Light, yet I have long [ago] become that Light. And I AM the chalice of the flame of God's Liberty, and therefore I AM called the Goddess of Liberty. And it is so that I AM.
I would, then, that you also would identify with the stream of Light passing through you. Though you claim yourself the instrument, you must also claim yourself the Light! Though you claim yourself the servant of God, so you must claim your God-free being!
Thus, the Liberty flame that you serve must be the Liberty flame that you are. And there is no separation between Almighty God and the Light-emanation of his Son. Therefore let there not be a separation by a sense of self apart from God; for in this ye do err and in this ye do fail the initiations that the Lords of Karma send to you, each one, and send to you repeatedly.
Therefore be seated in our presence. For we would seal the teachings thus given with the understanding that unless you identify yourselves as God-free beings and act the part until you become the part, you will forever be the divided self. Therefore know the razor's edge, for many have fallen on the razor's edge of this teaching. The teaching is that no man can claim he is God, and to do so is to follow the betrayal and the fall of Lucifer.1
Thus, beloved, while claiming the Godhead dwelling bodily in you,2 even as that divine spark is that God, you must recognize that the shell, the outer shell of selfhood that has not yet attained the ascension, must be subordinate to that Flame and not rise up in its pomp and circumstance and claim a coequality with that God Flame it has not yet become. But in the very same instant it must acclaim and claim that God Flame; for you see, if it does not, it shall truly be overcome by the force of anti-God [either within or without].
Thus, in claiming that full Godhood, you must know that you do so from the point of the Inner Christ and the True Self; and that portion of the unredeemed self must remain humble before it. Recognizing, then, a part of the self to be in the relative condition, do not seek to exalt it above the stars of God. Recognizing the part of self that is God, claim your Godhood. And know the difference.
For the absolute affirmation of the absolute God [where you are] is necessary to defeat the forces of Evil (with a capital E) and of the Evil One (with a capital E and a capital O), for these have turned inside out the absolute power of God that they have been able to wrest from the children of the Light in their stance of not being on guard.
Thus, to deal with Absolute Evil in the earth, you must know and you must acquaint now yourself with Absolute God-Good, the Mighty I AM Presence. You must walk in your Mighty I AM Presence and claim that Mighty I AM Presence as here and now! You must have no thought or fear or trepidation that when the Mighty I AM Presence descends into your temple you will be overcome. You must not dally in the woes of the lesser self and in its self-pity in this hour or in its self-condemnation as you see the sun and the moon in polarity.3 You must recognize the forces of Antichrist who would defeat the Father-Mother God manifesting within you!
This is the Divine Science of which we speak, the Divine Science of God whereby you know God and you know God face to face; and every time you say the word "I AM," it is with profound love and reverence. And you may take now the lei of flowers and toss them about your neck,4 knowing that the Inner Guru is able to raise you up, knowing that the Inner Christ is there, yet knowing that the little one of God, [the soul that is] the shorn lamb, yet needs the Shepherd, yet needs the Messenger and the Teacher in embodiment.
It is important to hold this balance, beloved. For those who are out of balance [in their four lower bodies] and out of alignment [with their Mighty I AM Presence] go either into the depths of despair [in their sense] of worthlessness or into the heights of claiming that they [in their lower self] are God [in manifestation] long before they have that [Christ] attainment. This is because of the misunderstanding of the geometry of God.
And I come to lecture you on this subject this day! For you take as an excuse the remains of your karma, even the dregs thereof, to declare that God is not where you are; and [as a result of your declaration,] you have the excuse to claim all sorts of other problems and [limiting] conditions and [negative] circumstances. And on the other hand, you will dive into the Divine Science, claiming the All of God but pasting it onto the human to put a better face on that human5 and finally allowing the human to step forth as God, superior to all other beings.
If you will put this matter to rest, if you will ponder my words, if you will think on them and apply them daily, you will continually be affirming:
Lo, the I AM THAT I AM is God in me where I am,
And naught else has any power this day!
Thou the All; I the nothing.
And when you say, "I the nothing," [the "I" of which you speak] is the lesser ego. It is the not-self. It is the debased self, which must surely pass into the flame day by day, yet not all at once else the opportunity to overcome the human by the soul should be lost.
Thus, the mantra of Jesus6 is surely the key to this process:
Thou the All where I AM THAT I AM.
I the nothing where Thou art.
For I am in Thee, one with the All-in-all!
This affirmation of being will get you off the line of your indecision, your nondecision, your inability to act [and] to fulfill [and] to realize who the Word is and what is the word that is given - to accept it, to make it happen and to go on.
Shall we longer weary the Messenger with such dictations? Shall we longer weary the cosmos with the repetition of the human consciousness? I trust we shall not, beloved. For the Lords of Karma stand before you, arms folded, saying:
All right, you have piped your tunes. You have asked and asked and asked again, and we have given. Now, when will we be able to trust you to maintain [God-Harmony at] the level of the heart, [at] the level of the Christ, [at] the level of Christ-obedience to the inner voice and to those around you to whom you must give obedience in the order of this organization and in the order of the planet? For some are always above you; some are always beneath you. Thus, you must give and take [in] the divine order [and in the human order of hierarchy] and know that through the heart of Christ is the threading of the needle.
Blessed ones, we must now deliberate and we must determine what [dispensations] we shall send forth in answer to your letters7 and in answer to your calls. And it is time, therefore, that we must know that we can count on those who ask, that when they receive they will not be overcome by the Light that flushes out the Darkness in them [or by the Darkness as it comes out] and does temporarily put them out of balance.
Recognize the [alchemical] process, as you have been told. Look for it. Wait for it. Greet it with the cry and the shout of victory and of the peace-commanding Presence! Roar like a lion at [your own human creation] and show us that you mean business and that you are not going to take another year and another round on the treadmill of the same old human consciousness! I tell you, if you are not tired of it, we are tired of it! And we shall have it no more. Just remember, beloved, there is a very, very short time to meet these challenges.
I will say it again, for it needs saying, though it has been said during this conference: Desire your God-mastery. It is lawful as long as you do not raise [up] the human as tyrant, as long as it is the God Flame that [you raise up to] displace that human tyrant. So it is lawful to desire [your God-mastery] and to get it to the glory of God and to determine you will have it each day and that you will not forever and forever again dip down into the sorrows of Satan as seeds planted in the folds of your garment like briers and burrs that cling to your clothing as you pass through the woods.
May you know, beloved, that this day the Karmic Board is poised and ready to use any servant of God anywhere on earth, in any church or out of church, as long as that servant does glorify God and recognize who is God, who is servant in the Guru-chela relationship and what is not God in the human self and who is the demigod of the dweller-on-the-threshold that must be cast down as the idol that is no more.
We reach out. And if the word [for how we feel] could be translated into human [terms, for it can only be approximated], then I would say it and I would confess it: The Lords of Karma are "desperate" this day to find [in you] those souls who will not waver at the first winds of their human creation returning as karma, who will know that all of the vast Teaching [we have given] and all of the Light [we have sent forth] is to the end that when you meet [your human creation], you shall defeat it!
Blessed ones, we must have souls who will not be moved, because if we are to give the Light that is needed for the turning of an age, we must have those who know that first and foremost their divine calling is to keep that Light in God-Harmony. And because some have lost their harmony again since the last dictation on the subject, I come again. And I come as the Goddess of Liberty. And I tell you, beloved, there is a responsibility when you place yourselves in this court and [you] hear our dictations and [then you] go out and still continue in your old ways.
And now I come, and you understand that when a Cosmic Being does speak to you, as I have and hold by the grace of God that office [of Patroness of Liberty] on behalf of America, [you are accountable to guard the Light and the Teaching in God-Harmony]. For if I had not chosen to manifest my God-Harmony against the hordes of a universe who assailed me when I was up for that initiation to be awarded the mantle of a Cosmic Being, [the mantle] of the Goddess of Liberty, then, beloved ones, I tell you, not one of you would be sitting here this day!
I had to fight that fight in the aloneness of my own God-free being to prove that I could wear [the mantle of] a cosmic momentum of Liberty and keep that flame for the earth and hold it intact and not allow it to be trampled upon and therefore not give so much as an extra drop of it to any of those among the sons and daughters of Liberty who could not bear it.
If I had not passed my test, beloved, Saint Germain could not have been sponsored [by the Karmic Board] to sponsor America and bring forth the flame of freedom to found the Aquarian age. What high hopes are in the hearts of all the Ascended Masters! Yet, I tell you, this would not have come to pass [had I not passed my test]. There was a day and date in cosmic history when I and I alone must pass this test;8 [there was] no other candidate. And [I knew, for I had been told by my sponsors, that] upon my victory should depend what dispensation should come to planet earth.
Blessed ones, do not wait until the test of your becoming a Cosmic Being is upon you to decide to get disciplined about this subject. For the day may never, never come unless you begin today [to pass all your tests9] and determine that you are able to hold [on to] the Light where you are - for the office [of Keeper of the Flame and chela of the will of God that] you hold - and to be a being of noncompromise with the human consciousness.
There is too much of a sense that "we ought to compromise, we ought to come down from the level of such a high and holy calling. We ought to be as other people and look normal and natural, and then the world would accept us." Well, I tell you, the world will never accept you as long as you give allegiance to the Light!10 And if you want acceptance from the world, then go out and have the world, beloved. For I tell you, it is a losing game, and often it is the very affliction of the psychology of the Lightbearers that [makes them] think they must set aside the Light and cover it over and hide it under a bushel11 so that these fallen ones will come and admire them.
Well, they will not admire you. They will spit upon you, as they have always done. You are not of them! When will you discover that? You must separate out. [You must separate yourselves out from among them!] And you must know that if there be persecution [of the Lightbearers], there will also be victory when you [the Lightbearers] stay together. For hanging together is the only way, for hanging separately makes you ultimately vulnerable.12
I tell you, beloved, there is some sort of [an astral] haze upon [some of] you that makes you think you are not chelas worthy of the highest initiations or that makes you postpone into some far distant future the day when you do meet Maitreya. And then there are others of you who babble like babbling psychic brooks with all of your taking of information supposedly from [the Ascended Masters], and you are so deluded and drowned in the astral plane that Morya has actually instructed the Messenger not to even comment on it because your identity is so caught up in it that only you can extricate yourself. Yes, this happens to be true! And I am sad to say it.
Therefore, to those who have the fiber and to those who have the will, I say: This day hath the Lord begotten thee!13 This day have the Father-Mother God stood in the Great Central Sun as I speak to you. For they honor the office that I have, beloved, and they honor the Lords of Karma and they desire to honor you also.
There must be a profound soul-searching. I believe that it has been said enough, and I fear lest we will not be allowed to speak again. Either you determine that you are going to carry in harmony the Light that you call for, [or] else you will not receive it. And if you do not receive it, you may lose and lose mightily.
Therefore I have said we are desperate. We should not be desperate! For there are enough individuals who have heard our call and our cry who should be here and who should be ready for me to pass the torch [to them]. After all, it is July 4, 1990. The day has rolled around again and passed. I AM ready to pass this torch. And I look. And I look. To whom shall I pass it?
The haze that is upon you is that you think someone else will be there to do the job while you go your rounds in this world. Look again, beloved. There is no one else who will ever be able to do your job. You can fill your place in the universe by the star of your Causal Body, by the fervor of the Eastern adepts - and you do not need to make any journeys east or west, north or south to find them, for the adept is in your heart and the voice of God is with you - you can fill that space, that vacuum in Cosmos, with your star, else [that space unoccupied] will remain a black hole.
There is a space for all, and God gives you that opportunity until the hour when you no longer desire immortality or victory and you cease trying. Every day is a day of trying and succeeding and of the conquest of self. All of you do have heart for this but [somehow] you allow something, some vibration, some momentum, some astral substance, some toxicity in the body and the brain to depress the fervor of the fire of God [within you].
This planetary pollution that affects the children of the Light and makes you less than the proud bearers of the cosmic flame of Liberty will only get worse before it gets better. Therefore do not count on better days but let the body be purified so that you are not compromised by the pollutants that come even from the four planes of Matter.
I AM your Mother and I AM the Mother of all those who have been exiled, some by their own karma, some by being ostracized by the fallen angels. And as it is the celebration of the conception, which many call the birthday, of a nation,14 you might say that my dictation is the cosmic spanking that all of America needs. Yet many of these Americans would do better if they knew better. How will they know better? They will only know better if they see the example in you of that cosmic honor flame of a Thomas Becket or a Thomas More.
Helios and Vesta knew well what they did when they assigned El Morya to take you in hand. For chelas of the will of God must be restored to the sense of honor, the honor of God, the white flame of purity, and never, never compromise that honor before God or man. Keep your word, beloved.
I dare say that it is those who do know and [who] do not do better who ought to receive the spanking, and therefore I AM here speaking to you today while I cannot speak to the whole of a nation. You must understand that you are the cauldron of sacred fire of alchemy of Saint Germain, and from that cauldron there must be the refining of the whole of a nation lest it perish.
May you take your stand for the youth of the world. May you shore up the mind. May you not forget the level of discipline that is required.
As the Holy Spirit, the Maha Chohan, could not deliver to you on Pentecost that which he would have [liked to have] delivered [because you were not ready to receive it], so I say the same of you this day! May this day be a day of contemplation of how you shall emerge from these twelve days, a cycle for every day of the Cosmic Clock and a dictation for every day. See how you emerge [out of the old being that was you] into the new being [that is you], the resurrected self. For it is the one who is born again - not out of flesh or out of blood but born out of the Spirit of the I AM THAT I AM15 - the one who is truly born again who shall receive the new heaven and the new earth!
I AM the Goddess of Liberty. The Karmic Board remains in deliberation [as to what dispensations we may grant to the student body of the Ascended Masters' chelas worldwide]. The conclusion of our deliberations will be based on what is your final word [delivered] to us by midnight tonight.
I seal you in the love of the Cosmic Threefold Flame of Liberty, which is yours to claim with every breath you breathe.16 May you celebrate the mantra of the threefold flame and live forever as God and no longer as mortals.
This dictation by the Goddess of Liberty was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, July 8, 1990, during the twelve-day conference FREEDOM 1990: "A New Heaven and a New Earth" held 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 the Goddess of Liberty's direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
I found the Teachings in April of 1987 when I discovered and read Lords of the Seven Rays. I attended the Freedom '87 Conference and stayed for the Chohan Retreat, a special two-week course that was open to newcomers.
I left the Ranch with a determination to become "The Best First Ray Chela," as Archangel Michael had instructed us in his recent dictation. I knew this would require a lot of changes in my lifestyle. For starters, I had to stop smoking cigarettes. I had been smoking at least a pack and a half a day for over 30 years. I had attempted to quit numerous times without success. I usually broke out in a rash or developed some sign of serious emotional strain.
I had managed to stop smoking for one week while I was at the Ranch, but then I became extremely agitated to the point where I couldn't sit in the tent for more than 45 minutes at a time. I had to resort to leaving the Ranch once a day, smoking three cigarettes in a row. Then I could return and be fairly comfortable and livable for the next 24 hours, until the beast would raise its ugly head once more.
I rented a cabin in Allentown, Colorado, for the month of August. It was 9,000 feet elevation, primitive and peaceful. It was the perfect place to do my daily ritual of decrees. I was giving 40 Michaels, 40 Cyclopeas, 15 minutes of Suryas, 40 Arcturuses, 40 Astreas and about an hour of decrees from the white section of my decree book at random, plus the newest 12-page Archangel Michael Preamble, which we had received just before I left the Ranch.
One morning, in mid-August, as I awoke I heard a voice say to me, "Fast today and don't smoke." My response was, "Okay, I can do that for one day." I was attempting to limit the amount of cigarettes I was smoking, keeping it under 10 a day and making constant calls to be able to stop completely. I reached for my book and began my daily decrees.
About an hour later I began to crave a cigarette and decided to make some herb tea to get my mind off of smoking. On my way out of the room I paused and began to leaf through the white section of my decree book. I came upon an entity decree by Lanello. I had never noticed this decree in my book before, but I can still envision it. It was a long narrow decree, one page in length. It focused on the nicotine entity.
As I was saying it, I realized Lanello was standing next to me. It wasn't so much a sense of seeing him as it was an extremely strong sense of feeling his presence. He was holding a sword and began cutting this large slug off my body. It started at the crown of my head and wrapped around me all the way to my feet. It took several slashes to cut it off completely.
The craving for a cigarette was gone. I kept repeating the decree to make sure the craving didn't come back. I have never desired a cigarette since, nor have I experienced any negative reactions, agitations, rashes, raw nerves, etc.
I have no idea how that decree got into my book that morning. It was never there before that day and it has never showed up again. I was later told that it had been out of print since the 1970s.
I will never forget my first conference, Freedom '83 in the Heart. I had been in the Teachings for just a few weeks and had never attended a live dictation. Being of a somewhat skeptical frame of mind, I did not embrace the Teachings wholeheartedly and enthusiastically, even though I attended services regularly and joined the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity. I maintained a wait-and-see attitude.
Before I left for the conference, a Keeper of the Flame I met at the Washington, D.C. Teaching Center told me that if I had doubts about the reality of the Ascended Masters, I should first make a call to the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood to prove their existence to me before I passed judgment upon them. She then related an experience she had after making this call that convinced her of the truth of the Teachings and the authenticity of the Messenger. Perhaps her testimonial will appear in this column at some future date.
So, I made the call and went to the conference. Being unfamiliar with protocol during dictations, I did not know that one had to be quiet. When, in the course of Serapis Bey's dictation, he announced "I AM Serapis Bey!" I said to myself under my breath, "Serapis Bey!" Immediately, the master shouted "Silence!" After that, I became absolutely still and went into a state of profound meditation with my eyes closed.
A little while later, I happened to glance at the Messenger, and above her, filling the space over the altar, were row upon row of white-robed angels with stern faces. They were standing ramrod straight in perfect formation and rapt attention like an army of soldiers listening to their general. I blinked my eyes and they were gone. I had other experiences during that conference and later, but that one glimpse of a legion of Seraphim was enough to convince me of their reality, the existence of Serapis Bey and the Ascended Masters, and the fact that Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the bona fide Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood.
N.B. Testimonies of disciples of Jesus Christ and the Ascended Masters stating their witness to the power of Truth in their lives will regularly appear in this column in the Pearls of Wisdom. If you would like to witness to the power of Truth in your life brought about through the Ascended Masters and their Messengers, we welcome your testimony for publication. Your letter will be kept on file in our archives but your name will be withheld from this page to protect your privacy and your progress on the Path.