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Come recently from the Central Sun, I am here with seraphim of God and cherubim for the redeeming of souls gone astray in this city and across the earth.
Los Angeles is indeed the soul of America; therefore all souls of this world identify with this City of Angels. And through this soul chakra of a nation, beloved, I may call Home many who are magnetized by angels and repolarized by seraphim of God to the Magnet of the Central Sun, the source of Life, the I AM Presence.
The Spirit of the LORD be upon you as you are able to receive it. This Spirit is the essence, the fire and the heart of God. Drop by drop and increment by increment, so does this Spirit come upon you. And as you imbibe it, so it becomes a part of you.
And then the question remains, so asked by the soul, whether you are able to retain [this essence, this fire, this heart of God] and build upon the foundation [of the transfer of Light] or whether you will lose it for the many holes you have allowed to become a part of your garment.
Let there be the shoring up of individual identity! Let there be the calling upon the LORD!1 Welcome the fire of God! For as you call to seraphim, to me and to others of heavenly bands for that fire, know that the Cosmic Christ through the Sacred Heart of Jesus does temper that fire and does see to it that you do not receive more than you are able to keep as a flame of comfort upon the altar of your heart.
The flame of the Holy Spirit is a flame of comfort, a flame of enlightenment, truly a flame of great power and great light. Those who desire this flame must desire it with all desiring and therefore let other wants and fears and doubts be consumed by it.
This fire is the pearl of great price.2 To receive it you must appreciate its value and therefore be willing to part with many things of this life so that you might enter in. Precious hearts of fire, I breathe upon you the breath of the Holy Ghost that I might fan this fire.
As you have heard the teaching that one and all shall receive the trial by fire, I urge you to understand how this does take place in daily life. Once you enter the path of service, a true and profound heartfelt service to all life whereby you sense yourself the Servant, the Helper, the Intercessor on behalf of all you meet, and you leave aside for a season private interests, private loves that are not shared with the many, then it is that you embark upon the path of the fiery trial.3
Life accelerates. There is much, much more to do in the twenty-four hours than you feel capable of doing. You look around you and it seems you are the only one who is there to do the task.
Where are all the others? Where have they gone? You stand alone with God and eternity and you determine, because you see the vision of your mission, to intensify the release of fire for the fulfillment of holy purpose.
Sometimes the flesh is weak and the spirit strong4 and you keep on. In other hours you rest in the arms of Divine Love for surcease and the recharging of your forms in needed and sensible rest. Your waking moments are filled with the desire to impart to His own the fire that God has given you that they might be quickened and no longer dulled, dulled of [spiritual] senses to the presence of so many angels and co-workers of Light invisible.
I AM the Maha Chohan. I have brought initiation to those who have called it forth. Now I would warn you. Some, whose parents in this life and other embodiments have not prepared them for a role of sacrifice, desire to run from this place when they feel the intensity [of the Light] mounting. But, beloved, it is well in that moment not to run but to step aside, even apart from oneself, to be an observer.
See how the fire brings you nose to nose with challenges, trial, adversity. See how your sword is sharpened by seraphim! See how you become the master of moments, how you learn to overcome aggravations and the subtle draining of your Light. See how the intensity of service is the Refiner's fire prophesied by Malachi.5
Surely, who shall stand in the day of the LORD's messenger when that fire descends? You shall, beloved! For you shall know the end from the beginning. You shall know that the fire is the [essential] part of the process whereby you put on immortality and shed the skins of mortality. You shall understand that without fire there is no re-creation, no ascent to higher octaves.
Those, then, who resist the fire, the stress, the impelling, the acceleration lose their momentum [on the spiritual path]; for they consider that they might not be quite in their right minds as they see all others taking it easy on a schedule of a forty-hour week, et cetera, or not working at all.
Yes, some have found the means to beat this game of life and to do it with the least amount of effort. They have no fuel in their rockets! They are not supercharged with a Light that will carry them beyond the astral plane, whether at night or in the transition of death.
You are building momentum for the challenges of today and the future. Therefore, do not measure yourself against your fellows. Had any avatar or saint done this, he should have disqualified himself from the running and moved again with the sea of cattle, the mass consciousness.
When you are passing through the trial by fire, loved ones and even those on the Path may not sympathize with you. It is the path of the lonely ones. But that great company of saints in heaven have all gone through it and now they are in the company of the great multitude of the heavenly hosts.
Thus, beloved, I give you tips for this experience: [The key is] not to be overcome no matter what is asked of you, not to lose the smile of good cheer, not to be bowed down but to take respites that are needed and to truly know how to draw upon and pull down the fire of your I AM Presence. You may assist yourself in doing this by touching the crown of the head and calling to God to let that Life flow through you that is limitless, that is the Infinite One and the stream of Divine Reality.
Do not attempt to make it through the trial by fire on the batteries of the lower self. They cannot contain the fire necessary for the fusion of soul with Spirit of God. Therefore you surely must open the arteries, open wide the crystal cord and let your life function, then, on the perpetual flowing stream of God's Life in you, God's Mind in you.
Establishing the connection tighter and tighter, you shall pass through. You shall know the fierceness, the ferociousness of dark forces pounding against you, attempting to move you to destroy yourself, to cast yourself down, to demand miracles of God that are not possible - as when Satan told Jesus, "Command these stones be made bread" and "cast thyself down, for surely He shall give his angels charge over thee." In all of the testings of the soul to use the powers of God for human ends, Jesus spoke with the fierceness of the Son of God, "Get thee behind me, Satan!"6
Therefore you will not be tempted into suicide or self-defilement. You will not be taunted by demons who lure you here and there to pollute the stream of your blood with substances not of God but of the fallen angels. You will have a mind of your own. You will know you are about the business of your Father-Mother God. You will never again seek to impress other parts of life with your bravado or being one of the crowd, yet you will be with all your fellows a presence of joy and love that is irresistible.
Let your fiery trial be an inner experience as you seek to hold the harmony of God on the surface, as you are not moved by outer conditions, as you do not respond to the taunts of devils speaking through men and others untethered to the Light.
Yes, beloved, when you call to me for assistance and initiation and I give it to you, do not forget you have called, do not back away from the very fire that will implement and be the implementation of your Victory. Yes, beloved, remember you have called and do not fear the intensity of the Immensity. You shall pass through if you have heart.
Decide in this moment that the mind that is you, which is the Mind that is God, which is one Above and below, is greater than any mind of Darkness that would tempt [you in order] to divert you into lower streams that flow into the astral plane and will take you with them. When you decide that your mind one with God is the strongest and most powerful mind in cosmos, I say, you shall not be moved again!
Now, use this Mind of God that is in you because it was in Christ Jesus7 to determine your destiny, to decide your direction, to keep your decision to walk with your God and never again compromise your honor, your principles, your Godhood.
Do this, beloved, and you will find your feet stepping in the footprints of a Thomas Becket or a Thomas More or the many saints who have gone before. Do this, beloved, and no mind shall be able to influence you, to take you away from your altar's vows or your prayers in the heart of the Blessed Mother. Let your resolve be firm and you shall pass through the fiery furnace.
Inasmuch as these initiations shall become widespread, the Darjeeling Council upon the direction of Helios and Vesta, God Parents of this solar system, have determined to bring to your attention that you [are called] to live the life of one whose path has become the path of Agni Yoga, the yoga of fire. Thereby you will be an example as well as hold the balance for others who may be taken by surprise, may be swept out of the way by storm or flood or tornado - whose karma does come upon them, for the [garnering of the] fire [of the heart] did not precede that descent of karma.
Speaking of the rim and the initiations of the rim,8 stay with them, beloved. You shall pass through.
Long ago in [her] previous lifetimes, I communicated to this Messenger the secret of a pilgrim's victory. It is this, beloved: place one foot before the other and keep on keeping on! Let thy footsteps weave a spiral round the Mount Olympus as you rise level upon level and reach the goal of Christ. When all else threatens to overcome you, remember: place one foot before the other and nothing in heaven or hell will be able to stop you from your Victory.
Keep on keeping on, O souls of Light. For some are nigh being fused to the Holy Christ Self, to the heart of Jesus Christ.
Keep on, beloved. You bear burdens of world karma for the Lord as the Lord bears burdens for you. I speak of the Lord, the Holy Spirit. You bear the burden of the Holy Spirit itself, beloved, which is an equivalency whereby you may balance and be able to deal with world karma.
Now, if you run from the Holy Spirit and resist that sacred fire, which you imagine incurs obligation, then you run into the arms of hell without being clothed upon with the very fierceness of the fire of God's heart that would enable you to conquer Death and Hell.
Thus, when it is your time, beloved, seek God in his holy mountain. Go forth endued with fire and fear not the world or anything in it nor the astral plane nor death nor darkness nor dying.
Clothed with the Holy Spirit, you will meet challenges and have joyous victories and spread a Light that all shall see. Without it, you may find yourself a naked soul cast into outer darkness, for you have refused the wedding garment.9
Truly it is the hour of a daily Pentecost, of cloven tongues of fire descending upon you. Receive them. Let them quicken the tongue, the breath, the mind, the heart, the soul, the spirit.
I AM the Maha Chohan. I walk with you as long as you remain true to the calling of the Holy Spirit.
May you abide in peace, the peace that passeth understanding,10 knowing that your Lord and your Lord's angels are with you always. My beloved, go with God, for God is going with you this day.
This dictation by the Maha Chohan was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, February 17, 1991, at the Los Angeles Hilton and Towers. The dictation followed the Messenger's lecture "The Phoenix Mystery: Karma and Reincarnation." In it she taught on the legend and spiritual symbolism of the mythical phoenix. She discussed Agni Yoga, the yoga of sacred fire, and read from the works of Helena Roerich. In extensive teaching on the initiation of the trial by fire, the Messenger included examples from the Bible, the Hindu epic the Ramayana, and the writings of Saint John of the Cross. She also gave examples from the lives of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas Becket and Thomas More. The Messenger discussed the violet flame and how it works and explained it as the key to successfully passing through the trial by fire. She also gave teaching on the "etheric double," a layer of energy that surrounds the physical body. Using "Seraphic Song" (or "Rêve angélique") from Kamennoi-Ostrov by Anton Rubinstein, the Messenger led the audience in the Seraphic Meditations of Serapis Bey and Justinius from Dossier on the Ascension. The lecture, Seraphic Meditations, and the Maha Chohan's dictation are available on videocassette (218 min., GP91032) and on audiocassette (226 min., A91042). [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under the Maha Chohan's direction for clarity in the written word.]
When I returned to the ranch with my flock of sheep one cold winter night I was ever grateful to the Divine Mother for another day of joyous service. I put my flock down by the creek so they could nestle in close, out of the wind, as it was 40 below zero.
I stood and looked at them and prayed for the solar ring to encircle them for their protection and health. The sheep walk round and round each other and squeeze close together before they lie down. This gives them greater warmth. I thought it looked like a small group but decided that it was because they lay so close together.
At that moment a voice of incredible sweet love said to me, "You have lost 187 sheep. Go out and find them." I took my flashlight and went in search. I returned unsuccessfully at midnight, grateful to get in out of the cold.
The next morning I heard the voice again tell me to go out first thing and find my lost sheep. I let the flock out to eat and went in search of them. After searching for half an hour I finally heard one of their bells ringing. They were just getting out of their snowy beds. I counted the beds in the snow and there were 187!
I am ever amazed at the detail and perfection of the Divine Mother. She who has the problems of the planet to care for has time for a humble shepherd in the sacred hills of Montana. I witness to her absolute love for each and every one of you. I promise you that if you will pray to her in your heart, she will bring you home.
The Divine Mother is incarnate in our beloved Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet in the 1990s, as she was incarnate in Mother Mary, Kuan Yin and many Ascended Lady Masters. The Messenger is the most humble, wise and loving being I have ever met.
Before I found this Path I lived in the woods, praying eight hours a day, meditating and studying the Bible. I prayed to Mother Mary to take me to where I could be of the most help to our beloved planet. In 1971 she directed me to the Summit Lighthouse, which was in Colorado Springs at that time.
Two years later I attended the first quarter of Summit University in Santa Barbara, California. The Great White Brotherhood had begun a three-month retreat for earnest seekers to study the universal teachings of Lord Maitreya. At Summit University I sat at the feet of Guru Ma. I witness to her absolute love, as she allowed me to sit in her aura for three months even though I had a mental block and got the worst marks of anyone I ever knew.
I joined the staff of Church Universal and Triumphant seventeen years ago. I am grateful, O God, that you have allowed me to serve this close to the Divine Mother on earth. I see miracle after miracle at the Community of the Holy Spirit.
As I shepherd our sheep under the stars of the "Big Sky," I champion your right to come home to the sacred land of the Royal Teton Ranch and the Montana that I so dearly love.
This is my testimony that the Light of God reveals itself to all those who are of the Light who are receptive to his Word and that God chooses his own when the time is right.
I was born in Quebec, P.Q., Canada, where people speak French. I was raised in French and never had an opportunity to practice the basic English I learned in school. This is the case for many French Canadians. Other French-speaking people around the world have even less of an opportunity to learn English than we do in Quebec.
When the Teachings of the Ascended Masters came along in my life, it was an incredible feat to try to understand an English text. I had to look up every two words in the dictionary! Even then, I couldn't make much sense of what was said! Nevertheless, this didn't stop me from pursuing this path. I would look at the pictures, see the quality of the publications, listen to the music of Excelsior and the bhajans. I knew that this was for me and that it was very special - I had never seen or heard anything like it!
The first song I heard (still my favorite to this day) was "Arise Shine, for Thy Light Is Come!" I would play it over and over and over, and each time was more delightful than the last! During its playing I could but visualize the vision the Masters revealed to me: legions and legions of angels shining as white lights on a Christmas tree. Everything was light - pink and white and yellow light. And the presence of angels was like veils of light ascending and enveloping all with their love. Sanat Kumara was also there, unseen but very present in this realm of light and sound. Ah! words alone give a very faint description of these octaves of light!
Then, I heard the voice of the Messenger on a tape. (I had never heard Mother before this point.) I couldn't understand much of what she was saying but I knew that it was good. You know a tree by its fruits, and you know the Truth when you hear it. This was pure. This was holy. This was profound. This was selfless. This was, in one word, Christlike. This was how my sweet, sweet Jesus talked. This agreed with my belief that Christ is within me, within you and that the Christ in me recognizes the Christ in you.
I was raised Catholic but I never went to church because to me it was "empty" and it didn't mean anything to me. What I liked was to read Jesus' words and works. Then I could really feel his presence with me. And this presence I recognize in the Messenger. I recognize it in everyone in this community and I recognize it in every Lightbearer who comes my way.
At one point, as I was receiving the Keepers of the Flame Lessons, I almost decided to stop because they were too hard to understand. But, by God's grace, the Christ Light and Truth of these Teachings was greater than my hesitation. Today I am eternally grateful to have "stuck with it" and to be where I am now serving the Masters with all my heart and love and joy.
We know that it is the desire of the Brotherhood to have the Teachings translated in every language and I am confident that this will come one day. But to all the foreign students of the Ascended Masters I say: Don't wait until the Teachings are translated into your language to pursue the path because God has picked you now, as you are one of his own beloved sons and daughters. It is truly a blessing and a joy to make the effort of learning English as you bask in the Light and Love and Holiness of the Teachings of the Great White Brotherhood.
Que Dieu vous garde. Le Seigneur soit avec vous partout et toujours ainsi que le Saint-Esprit.
I am a witness of the Light within you all,
Back in 1983 when I had been on staff about 3 years it was necessary for me to have major surgery which required rest in bed for about 1-1/2 to 2 months while recovering. As I had been extremely active all my life, I found this to be profoundly difficult. Feelings of unworthiness pressed upon me and even feelings that I should leave the Community because I was not able to serve or give anything. The condemnation was so heavy that I could barely utter a prayer.
In my distress, I decided that I needed to talk to someone so I called Marla, a close friend and co-worker. Her son picked up the phone and I asked to speak with Marla. He replied, "Just a minute, I'll get her."
In the background, the Aesop tape from Incarnations of the Magnanimous Heart of Lanello series was playing and was perfectly audible. While I waited for Marla to come to the phone, I listened to the tape. Within a few minutes I was laughing so hard that I was crying. I became so absorbed in the lecture about the life of Aesop that I did not even notice that Marla had not come to the phone. Finally, it dawned on me that it had been quite a long time and she may not be coming. After I hollered her name a couple of times into the receiver I left the phone off the hook and lay down and listened to the lecture. Marla never did come to the phone.
The story of Aesop and the contact it gave me with Lanello's heart totally transformed me. Immense joy and gratitude flooded my whole being to replace the despondency. I was so enveloped in Love that decrees sang from my lips! It was really extraordinary.
But to complete the story, I have to tell you the finale. The next day when talking to Marla I mentioned my experience to her. She listened attentively and then replied that she was home all day but that the phone had never rung. And she'd never heard the Aesop tapes before nor did she own the album or have it in her possession!
Direct line to Lanello's Magnanimous Heart! Praise God for the ever-present Guru!
"O Love that will not let me go, To thee my very life I owe." The words of this song were etched upon my soul and would inspire me upon a lifelong quest - first to find that Love and then to become it.
A beautiful young lady glides gracefully across a meadow in slow motion to embrace her handsome male counterpart while strains of "Some Day My Prince Will Come" echo in the background.
It's the standard Cinderella fantasy that TV and magazine advertisers use to convince us to purchase their products. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, marry and live happily ever after. It's the "American dream," but for me it seemed to be the "impossible dream."
Love was an illusive quality I was always searching for but never quite found. I thought love was something that just happened to you automatically when you grew up, something predestined perhaps.
As a child, I compared my family to those I saw weekly on TV, such as on "Father Knows Best," where parents were always wise and loving and all problems were solved in 30 minutes or less. Unfortunately, my parents fell painfully short of this ideal.
I eagerly anticipated my teenage years and the long-awaited experience of dating, sure that the love I was seeking would unfold as it did within the pages of 'Teen magazine. Again I was disappointed when none of my relationships ended with us living happily ever after.
When I turned 21, I continued looking for love in all the wrong places, namely bars and nightclubs as friends assured me I was bound to meet Mr. Right at the next happy hour. Becoming disillusioned with the bar scene, I decided to focus my energies on helping others. After all, I was told, it's when you're not looking and least expect it that Love finds you. I would later find this to be true but it wasn't much comfort at the time.
When I graduated from college I took a job in a hospital. Surrounded by doctors and medical students, I was sure love would blossom as it did daily on "General Hospital."
By now, almost everyone I knew, including Rhoda (on TV) was married and part of a rapidly growing family. I began to become concerned. I believed that marriages were made in heaven but perhaps there had been some mistake wherein God's cosmic computer had somehow overlooked me. I feared I may never make that love connection.
Though I had vowed never to resort to technology in matters as personal as love, I began to think perhaps a more rational, scientific approach might be the answer via computer dating. But alas, Mr. Right was nowhere to be found in the data banks of a computer.
A cartoon I found said it all. It was a picture of Noah's ark with the animals boarding two by two. It was raining and Noah was anxious to get underway. Next to the gangplank stood a lonely little unicorn looking quite forlorn and wearing a sign that read "Mate Wanted."
With my biological clock ticking away, I came under increasing pressure to lower my standards. "You're looking for a relationship that doesn't exist," they'd tell me. "Why don't you just find a nice guy and settle down?" However, the path of least resistance was not the path I was destined for - my soul would not let me settle for anything less than the real thing.
Disillusionment turned into despair and as each succeeding love affair ended, I asked myself, "Is that all there is? Surely there must be more to life than this!"
Enter El Morya through his book The Chela and the Path. I was finally ready. The book came to life as I read it and I experienced for the first time that spiritual love my soul had long been searching for.
I had found the Path and now there was only one life to live, the spiritual one. I learned how Sanat Kumara had come with 144,000 Lightbearers from the planet Venus to keep the flame of love on earth. Surely this must be the origin of that love my soul remembered!
Later would come another book and another spiritual awakening, bringing me one step closer to that dream of Love and my becoming of it. My real-life Cinderella story was about to begin with the Holy Spirit cast in the role of fairy godmother, and Prince Charming more than I had ever hoped for.
At Summit University, I learned about the concepts of karma, reincarnation and twin flames and began to understand why love had eluded me all of my life, or seemingly so. Today, through the help of the Ascended Masters and their Teachings, the relationship everyone told me couldn't exist is becoming a reality day by day.
The love I'm experiencing now goes far beyond the romantic fantasies of my youth. It's a love great enough to transform not only myself but an entire planet.
O Love that will not let me go ...
Now that I AM one with thee
Still let me serve to set Life free
Thy way divine to others show
To see this planet here below
As it was meant to be.
I want to testify to the power and reality of the dictations we receive through the Messenger. In 1988 I was at the European conference in Lisbon and Fátima, Portugal. It was a very memorable experience.
I was helping with registration and almost everything was going wrong. There was a lot of confusion and most of the time I felt as though all of my four lower bodies were being stretched in different directions! It was some initiation just to get things organized - plus many of the people who were helping came down with a very nasty flu virus.
However, as soon as it was time for the dictations, everything changed. Many times I just didn't feel ready to receive the Light of the dictations but as soon as the meditation music started, somehow all the stress and concerns and fatigue would be lifted clear away. I could then enter the experience of the dictations.
And these were wonderful dictations! I remember particularly the dictation by Thérèse of Lisieux. During the meditation I was lifted out of my body into a state of indescribable bliss. Then when she spoke, she referred to lifting us up. I just wondered how the experience could be so wonderful!
Several days later in Fátima, Mother Mary spoke and again I had the same experience of bliss. Everything was very quiet. It was as though the world had stopped to hear Mother Mary speak.
All of the dictations were very special and left me with a great reassurance that though we face great initiations individually and as an organization, we are still able to return to the bliss of our union with God through the dictations, the decrees and all the Masters have given us.
One final point - in Portugal I really saw how Mother truly serves us and the Masters. I experienced her great love for myself and all who were present there and I saw her tireless dedication. At one time we were informed as we were eating dinner that Mother was waiting for us to come back so she could give Mother Mary's dictation. So everyone finished their meals and, sure enough, Mother was calmly sitting on the platform waiting for everyone to be seated so the dictation could start.
I am grateful for these experiences and also for this opportunity to share them.