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Hallowed be thy name, I AM THAT I AM.
As a Master of invocation, I now pronounce your inner name,1 the inner name of each individual Keeper of the Flame - the name written in the Book of Life, the name that keys into your great Causal Body, the name to which your soul responds.
Thus, by millions of flashing rays that come forth from my spoken word, I pronounce the names of the sons and daughters of God in the earth who are to ascend in this life. It is the call impelling each one to his God Presence. It is the release of the engram of Light. It is a magnet unto the soul that correlates with the very seed atom of Being. It is impetus. It is acknowledgment. It is the flame of Being.
"What's in a name?" they say. I, Lanello, say to you everything is in the inner name. That is why it is not pronounced except within the Temple of Life under the Great Hierophant. There it is spoken, beloved, in the precincts of the chamber of Light, where you are one with others who are ascending.
Thus, I have come to affirm your inner name with the name of God. Therefore I say: Hallowed be thy name, I AM THAT I AM.
Most gracious hearts, it is good to be with you on this anniversary whereon we find ourselves defending the line of woman and the Woman and her seed and the Mother and the Divine Mother who comes to earth in the person of the World Mother.
It is an hour, beloved, when a great dispensation may be released through your hearts [as you make the] calls for the definition of the feminine principle of Being in man and in woman.
All the more reason why you should become experts in the ancient teachings. All the more reason why a book on the lost teachings of Jesus on women's rights must be sent forth. It is that woman herself may come into her own dignity and return to the pedestal upon which God has placed her as the bearer of his own on earth.
Let this planet, then, come to the understanding of the great Shekinah glory, the great living presence of the Divine Mother that does shine forth from the I AM THAT I AM above you. You abide in feminine being and cosmos. You are nurtured and suckled by the Blessed One. You are that Mother in manifestation.
Let all the world know the great meaning of Mother as you manifest the great qualities of fierceness, of determination, of uncompromising stand for Truth, being consumed by the zeal of your LORD, the full Power, Wisdom and Love of the Trinity, being consumed by the fire of God and consuming with it all that is unlike God.
May you truly understand and be the embodiment of Sarasvati and of Lakshmi and of Durga and of Kali and of Parvati and of Sita and of all those great divine beings who are the epitome of the beloved Vesta, the beloved Omega. Let the fire of the great desiring of God as Mother burn in the solar plexus!
The Mother will come to you to resolve all schism in the four lower bodies, in the soul and in the spirit. Be the Mother, beloved, and know that that Mother Flame in you - adored, obeyed, deferred to at all times - is the key to the ascension flame: for the ascension flame is the consummate manifestation of Mother.
There in the temple of Serapis Bey, where your name has been heard this day, there one day you shall step into the flame, your own flame merging with that flame, and you shall step out of that flame fully fused to the I AM THAT I AM.
May you willingly accept your trials and the trial by fire. May you run to greet the flame as you greet the dawn and the sun of a new day. May you know and understand, beloved, that to run into the fire is to greet our God, who is indeed a consuming fire.2 Many have come to this place on the Path.
May you know and understand the great teachings of Serapis Bey, of the Maha Chohan, of the beloved Helios and of [each of the Ascended Masters] who have set forth [their teachings in] the dictations given in Los Angeles. May you not in any way turn your back on those tests and trials [that they have outlined]. May you not grumble. May you know that the fire shall purge you and try your work3 that you might enter that living flame and retain your God-identity.
Blessed ones, the very same flame burns on the altar of the sacred fire before the Four and Twenty Elders and there [at that altar] are brought before them the fallen ones whose time is up. They too must stand in that flame. They are consumed by it. There is nothing left of them, beloved, for they have not qualified a single erg of God's energy with the God Flame. Thus, the white fire is truly the all-consuming fire of God and the God who is the consuming fire.
Understand, then, that you will not be allowed to stand in the flame of Luxor until at least 51 percent of your being is worthy to be made permanent and does have that harmony which is the key whereby this "merger" can take place.
Thus, beloved ones, my direction to you in this year is that you must enter into the oneness of God and insist to your soul and to your four lower bodies that you will not compromise this path and this goal. For as you stand on the six o'clock line4 and claim the full power of the hierarchy of Cancer, of Serapis Bey, of the tremendous Light of victory, know that you will receive many of the temptations that were placed before Jesus and Gautama Buddha.5
You have descended to the point of the base-of-the-spine chakra in this cycle and it is for you to raise up [the Mother Light] and to seal it at that point of the third eye.
I have come to lend you my mantle and my Electronic Presence this year for your absolute God-victory in raising up that Mother Flame, [which is the] ascension flame, that you might see what wonders of God can happen through you, can work through you, can be for the fulfillment of all promises, can be when that Kundalini is raised.
[For the raised Kundalini brings about] the transmutation of certain karmas that you have put behind you but that are not wholly consumed cause, effect, record and memory because of the absence of intensity of the fire in the heart, in the third eye and the other chakras.
Let the zeal of your house eat up all that is less than your Christhood!6 This fiery zeal is meant to be garnered in the heart. It is meant to be sent forth as a ray that shoots from the sun to dissolve inequities before they may even touch the circle of your tube of light.
Therefore I say, go with fire! Go with Moses and Zarathustra and Melchizedek! Go with priests and priestesses of the sacred fire and know that this fire is the key to your mastery in this body, that this fire is the Mother rising to greet the Father.
I desire to see you in the flesh the indomitable ones, indomitable spirits of the living God! I desire to see you have such a co-measurement with me and other beings of fire that you may be vessels for us for certain hours of the day as you are able to take that level of fire with you.
O it will clear the mind! It will scour the soul! It will open the heart. It will make all of your chakras blossom as the rose. It will give you balance. And above all, beloved, it will give you the one thing that is most needed and that is common sense.
Blessed ones, you must have the ability to think, to reason, to draw conclusions and to make sound decisions. This is wanting and it shows an absence of the development of heart.
I cannot stress to you enough how necessary it is to go over and again with the fingers of the mind Saint Germain's Heart Meditations7 and other devotions. The fire of devotion to God is what breaks the barriers that confine the threefold flame and reduce it to its smallness. There are barriers that are like steel that move against that threefold-flame development and these are out of the unconscious and the subconscious mind, [rooted in] the will that is not tethered to God's.
Know this, beloved: there must needs be a pressure of the burning in the fire of the heart until suddenly there is a snap and one of those iron bands is broken and you can nevermore return to that lesser state of density or stubbornness or pride or self-centeredness, et cetera. You have now passed that barrier and the flame can expand.
It will take place during dictations at the Easter conference. It may take place during your decree sessions. It will not come without the assistance of an Ascended Master. And if an Ascended Master, any one of us, is to assist you, beloved, we must know first and foremost the commitment of your heart to the will of God and to the voice of that will that speaks in your heart.
To be lovers of the will of God is to forge very strong links, making a chain from yourselves to the heart of the Great Central Sun out of the slender thread of contact that now exists, which can easily be broken [and therefore must be strengthened daily]. May you know infinity of purpose and may you translate it into daily, hourly, moment-by-moment practicality!
We are grateful that you are not deluded or impractical metaphysicians. We are grateful that you have the courage to face your karma, to work through it instead of casting it aside, denying it - practicing denial or avoidance. We are grateful when we see souls who will set their jaws with great determination and look into the teeth and the eye of the challenger and say:
Thus far, no farther!
You have no power over me!
You will not longer move against me!
You will not tear me from my God, not by any means,
whether by storms of fire or hail or by earthquake
or whatever the [sinister] force may conjure up.
You will not take me from my love tryst with my God!
O blessed ones, what joy [we have in] beholding you in the embrace of God and what downtime we face when you remove yourself from that posture, from that stance of integration with sacred fire!
Therefore I would speak to you of my plans for God's Messenger, my twin flame and your Guru present with you. I would tell you, beloved, that your Messenger may at this or any time maintain the embodiment of the Dharmakaya, which is the I AM THAT I AM, the I AM Presence and the Causal Body.
This is the proper level and focal point for a Guru. Retaining that position of attunement, the Messenger, then, may hold the ultimate balance for each and every one of you. This is the lawful office that she must bear.
I have come today to tell you that some among you, and ofttimes many among you, by various ways and means insist upon pulling down the Messenger not only to the level of the Christ Self but to the level of your own human consciousness. This, then, does deprive you of the highest fulcrum and balance of Power, Wisdom and Love that the Messenger could afford you.
It is no longer a time when you should think that it is necessary for the Messenger to be involved in all particulars of your life. It is a time, beloved, when you must rise to the level of your Christhood that you might walk and talk with her and receive those teachings and disciplines that the disciples received from Jesus as he walked with them on the road to Emmaus.8
The Messenger can retain this level of attunement with me twenty-four hours a day for the next fifty years if necessary. I pray you understand that you must allow it, for the chelas must give their leave to their Guru to be Guru. You see, it is the chelas who do decide whether or not to accept that mantle, to interface with it, to be blessed by it, to be purged by it, to be rebuked when they desire not to be rebuked, to be counseled.
Blessed ones, I have yet to deliver through my Beloved the major portion of the Teaching that we would leave upon this planet. Her mission is by no means through nor have we ceased to deliver what must be given.
I say to you, beloved, if you could blink your eyes and in that moment the Messenger would disappear and be no longer here, you would instantaneously close ranks and do all those things that the Messenger does and do them well; and perhaps some of you would do them better, except for the delivery of the Word and the dictations and the writing and the teaching.
And so, beloved, understand. You may have a Messenger at the human level (and that is an inadequate level) if you insist that she perform so many human tasks and get involved in so many human circumstances. Or you may have a divine intercessor who may make invocation for you, who may intercede for you before the altar of God, and you may know that that Light shoots forth to you from the physical anchor point and the physical level of the anchoring [of the Light in] the chakras [of the Messenger].
It is a choice to be made, beloved [ - whether the human, or the divine intercessor - ] and you must recognize that your souls desire this,9 your hearts desire this, but the lower levels of untransmuted consciousness, even the carnal mind of yourself that sometimes enslaves you desires also to enslave the Messenger. The dweller-on-the-threshold would use you to continually ensnare the Messenger in the minutiae of life.
But if you [of your own volition] would turn to, or if you were turned to, the Ascended Masters' Teachings as the students of Mary Baker Eddy were turned to the Bible and to Science and Health, and if you would make them your living fount of contact, if you would study the Pearls and know the releases and dispensations, you would have through them direct access moment by moment to the calls and the work of the Messenger.
I come, therefore, this day in the heart of Sanat Kumara, in the heart of the [six o'clock] line of the Mother to liberate the Messenger. And I ask you to join me in this liberation and I ask you, those among you here and in the field who have the qualifications, to rise up and take positions of responsibility in this Community here in Montana and throughout the world, knowing that if you are not qualified for a job, you can qualify yourselves, you can study, you can burn the midnight oil learning how to be the very best person who is needed for the situation at hand.
Blessed ones, it is the great dilemma of life. But I can tell you, as has been presented to the Darjeeling Council in recent weeks by the Keeper of the Scrolls, Saint Germain and El Morya, there have been Messengers in the past who have come and who have been used by their followers for lesser purposes; and because they could not fulfill their true calling and reason for being, they were not able to remain in embodiment.
I cite the historical record, beloved, and I show you the logic of this. I speak to each and every one of you, for you have a serious and vital mission and a role to play in this Community and for the Ascended Masters, [and I ask you to] think of yourself imprisoned in former states of family or relationships or karma in this life itself or in past embodiments. Think of how you languished and your soul was in mourning, for you could not be who you truly were or who you were intended to be to fulfill [your mission]. Think of this, beloved, and understand how the very denial of one's reason for being can become the death of the spirit of a man and of a woman.
This Messenger serves with you to assist you to fulfill your reason for being as quickly as possible. You may be in certain jobs and circumstances that you do not feel are stimulating or creative. I would remind you that you are there for karma, for the testing of the mettle, for the resolution of psychology and many [other] reasons. But when the time is right and all in the mandala play their parts, you will rise to that point where you, too, can do naught else except fulfill your ultimate mission.
Do not be weary, then, in fulfilling the necessary requirements leading to that place. Understand as you look at the life and lifetimes of this Messenger that she has been willing decade upon decade and lifetime upon lifetime to fulfill any position, any service that has been needed no matter how lowly.
It is the hour, then, when we from the ascended and the unascended state can bequeath to you and the world the profound teaching and a great deal of it that will surely last through the age of Aquarius for many souls who [through this organization] will find freedom from the locked chain of orthodoxy.
As Mary Baker Eddy wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, so we write the key. We write down the Everlasting Gospel. The most important role of the Guru is counseling - counseling that will give individuals the key to life. Another important role of the Guru is to come to the altar [to offer] invocations of healing on behalf of [chelas and all servants of God] who would come to these services. Such things of such great blessing can be yours if the instrument of the Messenger is released to do them and others will take up the rest of the responsibilities.
Blessed ones, realize that there is a permanent enmity between the Guru, the Messenger, and your own untransmuted self, your carnal mind and dweller-on-the-threshold. Thus there is ever the war going on in your members.10 Either you bind and defeat and put beneath your feet that lesser consciousness, else it will use you as a tool to exercise its tyranny over the Messenger, saying, "I will only speak to the Messenger and no one else will do. I will only accept the Messenger's word and no one else's."
You see, beloved, [in this state of consciousness you] therefore make the demand that the Messenger leave that mountain and come down to deal with the day-to-day problems of [your] life. Now, if this is the system we follow, and we have followed it for a long time, I will tell you that though the Messenger should be in embodiment a thousand years, there would never come an end to the plots and ploys of the sinister force to create problems in the lives of the members of this Church to bring the Messenger [down], to tear her away from that most important assignment[of delivering the Word and the dispensations of the Great White Brotherhood in this age].
Thus, my beloved, I say to you, it is an hour when all of cosmos demands that greater teaching go forth and that you go forth as mighty teams conquering Death and Hell and cutting free the Lightbearers. For this purpose you must grow beneath your own vine and fig tree.11 You must develop an interdependence with your own God-free being while strengthening the tie to the Messenger and the Ascended Masters. You must see that it is incumbent upon you to expand the fire of the heart.
You do not know what a dependency you have at this time upon the human flesh-and-blood person representing the full manifest being of the Messenger at inner levels. You do not realize that you must also prepare for the day when your Christhood may become the key, the unique key to the expansion of the Brotherhood's flame in your community, in your home, in this valley, in this state.
It was easy for the Messenger to see her responsibility when she began the Path, for I did tell her that I would leave her in a very short time. In addition to that, there was a paucity of youth in the movement, practically none, and very few members at the earliest beginnings. And therefore it was obvious to our Elizabeth that she must excel, she must put behind her her human consciousness or the time would run out and I would no longer be there. Under the pressure of this trial by fire, therefore, [she did receive from] Morya and me the most difficult of disciplines and soul testings.
Understand this, beloved. The need was apparent then but it is not so apparent this day by your very numbers. But numbers do not indicate strength nor the quality of the heart. And yet in the presence of great numbers it is easy for people to think that that great strength is there.
The only strength you can count in this Community is the strength of the individual. If the individual member is not strong, the body is not strong. If the liver, the kidneys, the lungs or the heart is not strong, the body will not be strong.
Blessed ones, the individual to whom I refer is you, you the individual. Close your eyes and visualize me speaking to you alone in the Grand Hall of the Grand Teton Retreat. You and I, beloved - [then] you alone in the cosmos, you suspended [in light].
Now consider all the evolutions of earth beneath. And you are one and God is one where you are. And through your heart God can reach all; and if you close the door to your heart so that God's ray of light cannot pass through you, millions of evolutions will be lost.
I speak to you Truth! And I can assure you that I have no "Messiah complex." This is reality, beloved. This is the meaning of the trial by fire. Suspended alone in cosmos, you make the choice to be all that you are else perish, swallowed up in oblivion. Either cosmic space is to be filled by your singular Causal Body, else that cosmic space will be to you oblivion - and you and it will collapse. This is the geometry of God where you are.
I have taken our Elizabeth into realms beyond this Matter universe and I have stood back to allow her to experience being alone in all of cosmos. She experienced absolute peace where others would crumble into a sense of terror and horror.
Whether or not you can expand the flame of your heart to fill the cosmos of your present forcefield or systems of worlds depends on whether you decide that your Godhood, your Mission and your Presence is unique to all the universes and that without you many will be lost. This is why it is good to walk alone, whether in the woods or in the mountains (where you know you are safe), to experience your aloneness, all-oneness with God, and to sense that you are as important as the brightest star or the dimmest and have that equal potential.
Blessed hearts, my request of you is to let your Messenger be your star so that you may become your star also. With this understanding, beloved, you will allow there to be a trailblazer before you and you will know that as you do not set limits on the Messenger you will not set limits upon yourself.
It is the same equation. Can you become the Christ if you do not confess that Jesus is that Christ? I tell you nay! You cannot. Unless you can recognize in our Lord and Saviour the supremacy of Being, of God in manifestation, you will never achieve it in yourself - because you must first become his mirror image. You must first realize that Christhood by reflection, by polarity, by locking in to his being as his disciple.
Whatever you desire to attain on the Path, beloved, you must see it in a role model. You must see it, beloved! If you can see the Ascended Masters, if you can visualize what we embody, you can become it. But in humility you must say, "That one has attained and is presently in full manifestation of that quality. I am a beginner. I will devote myself to that Ascended Master until I become all that he is." This is the meaning of Hierarchy.
The gods who want no Gurus, beloved, are the fallen angels. They are the self-styled gods and they are yet out to ensnare your souls, to entrap your spirits and to do so by tricking you into retaining your sense of idolatry of self or of another.
Yet, let human loves be divine loves. Let us love one another. Let us love the God within one another. Let us care for the human and let that Divine Love meet the human need but let us let our attachments be to the Infinite. Take care not to worship the person, the personage, the personality. Take care to see beyond the mask, to glorify God and to ever retain the undergarment of humility.
Beloved, Helios does walk the earth yet; and beloved Vesta, always a part of Helios, is therefore here as well as in the sun. Helios moves in wondrous ways, sometimes with heavy heart, sternness, imparting what Light can be received, assessing the totality of the world situation.
I remind you that Helios stated in his dictation that he would answer prayer for a fortnight.12 You should not limit yourselves to fourteen days of calls but [you] should continue to make the call and thereby perchance, per opportunity Helios in his tarrying will also continue to answer your calls.
I did tell the Messenger on the twenty-sixth day of February that I would end the war. It was almost unbelievable in that moment yet, beloved, this is [accomplished] by the sign and the coming of Helios. Yet the war was not ended that the enemy might retain forces, implements of war and the ability to live again another day to rise up to complete the intended destruction of America.
Blessed hearts, it is a time for great calls and prayers to Cyclopea that the leaders and the people will see [what is at stake], that the Soviet involvement in this war will be exposed. The war was ended, beloved, by your prayers and the prayers of many around the world for the sparing of life. I desire you to know, beloved, that your calls have reached the very throne of God and that the mitigation of what could have come about in this war has been great, very great.
Many, many lives were spared, beloved. This is an example of the power of God in you when you are determined, as you have been determined (some of you as never before) in your decrees for this situation.
These decrees and your hearts' fervor and your love for the sons and daughters of God on the battlefield have also resulted in the completion of the entire labor on the Middle East. ...[29-second applause] Its [completion] was necessary in order for matters to draw to a conclusion. Thus, beloved, keep the vigil that the peace may be as victorious as the war was victorious.
I give you a statement that the beloved El Morya gave to the Messenger some weeks ago. He said, "You be the optimist and let me be the pessimist." To which the Messenger heartily agreed, for the Messenger did say, "I do not make a very good pessimist."
Therefore we say it to you, beloved. It is not the sky that is the limit, it is the stars who are the limit! Only you put the limits on God. And you are stars and your fire is unfurled with my pronouncing of your inner name in the halls of Luxor this day.
Blessed ones, as you, one by one, who have not already qualified yourselves as candidates for the ascension do so, I shall return to Luxor and pronounce your name at the moment you are received as that candidate. Therefore I say, do not shirk the responsibilities of karma. Dig in! Transmute it! Decree for all you are worth because all you are worth is the fire that you call forth by your decrees. It is the only permanent part of being - that which you have made permanent by fire.
Thus I say to all of you, you have passed through a long night in this year, [you have] been tested. You have seen the consequences of the Dark Cycle in your own life. Recognize [this fact]! Look at it squarely! Attempt to measure increments of density that have increased in your being so that you can position yourself not to be caught off guard because you are not as sharp as you were a year or two years ago and things are not quite as easy and the mind is not so easily in the point of attunement to make right decision. You must compensate for these things!
You have seen what this company assembled here can accomplish. I say, beloved, it is my profound advice to you that you do not let seven days pass that you do not attend one service here, preferably Friday or Saturday night, to literally saturate yourself with light and fire.
I can guarantee you this: the time you take to be here will eliminate much time [that can be] wasted when you do not have that fire in your rocket for the coming week of challenges. And you will find delays and breakdowns and accidents and the going over of things again and again as you are hit by retrograde planets, [bearing a karma revisited that will visit again and again until you utterly transmute it,] et cetera.
Blessed ones, there is much wasted time for an absence of high and holy attunement. Therefore choose your night, be economical and go and travel in groups. And give your all for yourself, for your victory, for your ascension and for the swift overturning of the forces of Darkness that have entrenched themselves in this state.
You have made such a difference in the war of the Middle East that even the commanders are wont to exclaim that the minimal loss of life in such a war was miraculous. [This is the result of] the calls of the chelas of the Ascended Masters worldwide. This has been the focus of our Mother's heart constantly day and night.
El Morya has told her that during this period 90 percent of her being was engaged at inner levels and only 10 percent in the body. If you therefore find at times the Messenger to be "absentminded," as I was "absentminded" in many of my years as a Messenger, you will understand that moment by moment and hour by hour there can easily be an absenting because there are circumstances that she must be involved in even while she yet has the physical tie through the physical body and through you.
Blessed ones, this combination of our chelas staunch worldwide, of ourselves ascended, and the Messenger betwixt - this is the unbeatable combination and the forces of Darkness know it. And therefore they have tried every trick and ploy, through whomever and whatever situation they can activate, to put down this Church, to embroil our best servants in fighting legal and financial battles.
Blessed ones, this opposition has come to you also.
[As you are] in the presence of my mantle this day, I ask you to close your eyes and meditate in this moment, to feel and see at inner levels the great glory of God and the heaven that has come down to you and the powers of the heavens, of the Cosmic Beings and Ascended Masters. See yourself in the universe with stars, you yourself suspended as stars.
Take a moment to realize how great is the power of God, how great is your voice, how you can cease the struggle with personal problems and break through, break through your psychology, beloved, by studying those books we have recommended and taking counseling when needed.
Sometimes you need a professional to take your hand and walk you through those subterranean passages of the unconscious or the subconscious mind. And then seeing is believing, and all of a sudden the whole ball of wax of a certain affliction that has been with you for lifetimes can be dissolved because you have this co-measurement of [yourself with] the universe around you, which I give you now.
You are literally suspended in heaven in this moment! The Masters you know are among you and with you and the stars are bright. You sense in this moment your own Ascended Master God-free being, which may be your complete and total reality within a decade, twenty years - five years, fifty years. I say why not be it now? Why not be that Master now? You can, beloved! Only the limitations superimposed by the carnal mind stand between you and your Godhood in the flesh.
I ask that you see to it that those things that stand between you and your own Godhood do not stand between the Messenger and her mission. This I implore you, beloved, and I think you can see and understand how the one who will benefit most is yourself when you give [her] that freedom. The nonfreedom, beloved, the hanging on is only based on fear and anxiety. And this is why I show you your great God-reality now.
If fear does sometimes torment you, watch your diet and give the call "Strip Us of All Doubt and Fear!" Blessed ones, [fear] is a dastardly state of consciousness, one in which nothing can be accomplished. We cannot reach you in your states of anxiety or imperil, [wherein] you are in a vortex almost as though [you were] drowning. [Fear] is the greatest enemy of a nation or a people.
And that fearlessness flame is surely blazing high in this hour among those who went forth [to the Persian Gulf], who did see the goal and did conquer. We pray that their conquering will be a permanent one. Many things remain to be resolved but this has truly broken the Vietnam syndrome and America is no longer fearful to draw a line and to take a stand. It is true, beloved.
Now may you invoke the power of Cyclopea to expose the illicit and deceitful occupation of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states by the Soviet Union and [the crimes against] every other nation on earth that has been subjugated by World Communism. Now is the hour when the Messenger shall proclaim to the world that there must be an equal application of the right to independence on the part of every people upon earth.
Blessed ones, let the world's eyes be opened, for your decrees and this karmic circumstance have surely turned the entire situation into a lesson that must not be allowed to be lost.
Therefore, optimists, stars, those who are missionaries because you have a mission, whatever it is: I send you under the banner of the World Mother, the banner of Maitreya and my own banner, beloved. I say with joy and encouragement and a sense of freedom and new life that no thing that assails you has any power over you.
I say, go forth to conquer self, society and the world! Go forth and do it, beloved!
You are not substandard human beings. You cannot be treated any longer by the powers of Darkness as anything but fearsome foes in battle and Christed ones who are the victors. Make mincemeat of them, beloved! They do not have the momentum in their sails save that which you give them by negative thinking and that which they get from the Twelfth Planet.
Therefore, on with the labor on Moscow and the Soviets, for those fallen angels have not been cleared at all, neither have the conduits. So, beloved, there do remain [numbers of] fallen angels [on the astral plane who would entrench themselves and do harm to children of the Light]. Lest they multiply, beloved, may you act.
I am your Lanello and this is a great victorious year, for it is the year of the victory of the Divine Mother in my Messenger and my chelas. [60-second standing ovation]
This dictation by Lanello was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, March 3, 1991, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana, in celebration of the eighteenth anniversary of the ascension of the Messenger Mark L. Prophet on February 26, 1973. Before the dictation the Messenger and congregation viewed the film Mary Baker Eddy: A Heart in Protest. Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Christian Science movement in the nineteenth century, was also embodied as Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha. She is now the Ascended Lady Master Theosophia, Goddess of Wisdom. The film documents the evolution of Mrs. Eddy's ministry and her concept that Jesus' healings demonstrated spiritual law. It portrays her perseverance in overcoming poor health in her early life as well as in meeting later legal and media attacks and opposition from organized religion. It provides insight into the final incarnation of Mary of Bethany and how she carried forward Jesus' revolution for woman. (Prod. by Northern Light Productions with The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1988, available at Christian Science Reading Rooms.) Following the film, the Messenger spoke of her experiences in Christian Science. The service and Lanello's dictation are available on videocassette (177 min., GP91041) and on audiocassette (183 min., A91055). The videocassettes of the service and dictation are also available separately: service (117 min., HP91041); dictation (60 min., HP91043). [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Lanello's direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
I would like to witness to the unique sponsorship of the Church Universal and Triumphant as I have experienced that sponsorship directly.
I am a practical person. I am not prone to visions or fancies. I have always avoided people who said they could see my aura, predict my future, etc. I considered these people to be psychic, and I was not interested.
I was attracted to the Ascended Masters' Teachings because I was searching for a spiritual discipline that would make me feel holy. I had tried yoga and meditation and prayer - all of them were fine but they were just not enough. Then I found decrees.
I was living in Vermont. One day I went into a little bookstore and found The Science of the Spoken Word. Soon, I was using the decrees in the back of the book. From the moment of that first decree, I knew that this was the spiritual discipline I had been looking for. Never had I felt holiness like I felt when I decreed.
It took a while before I knew there was an organization or church associated with the books. I was simply thrilled to read the teachings of the Masters and do their decrees. I had read some teachings from Theosophy, so I could relate to Kuthumi and Djwal Kul and El Morya and Saint Germain, but I wasn't so sure about "Mark and Elizabeth Prophet." I did not know who they were and, frankly, for probably a year I wasn't the least interested in finding out. I did my decrees alone because I did not know anyone associated with the Church.
About a year and a half after I read my first book, I was home for winter break (in a suburb of a large city) and decided with some hesitation to visit the Church's local teaching center to see what kind of people were in this group. I had never been much of a joiner but the decrees were so great and the Masters had explained how much more effective decrees were when said with others, so I went.
I attended a service with fifteen or twenty people decreeing and I was converted. It was the most powerful experience of Light I had ever felt! Within two months I had dropped out of school, moved to California and was working on outreach at the Los Angeles Teaching Center.
About a year later, I applied to become a communicant of the Church and was accepted. For those of you who do not know, when you become a communicant of the Church, there is a formal ceremony. Mother makes invocations and imparts an initiation of the crown chakra.
Well, it just so happened that on the day of my initiation I was terribly sick. I had the flu or something and felt just lousy. The ceremony was at the Ashram of the World Mother. All of us who were becoming communicants were lined up waiting for our names to be called. I think I was probably hunched over.
When my name was called, I walked up to Mother and knelt. As she began making the invocation, I was suddenly transported to a cloud and there, standing in a receiving line, were Lanello (with his big, magnanimous heart that made me feel so tenderly loved), Jesus, Saint Germain, El Morya, Gautama and others. Behind and above them I sensed the entire Celestial Host. I remember walking down the line and each of the Masters welcomed and congratulated me. While this was a sober experience, I felt like I was on cloud nine - literally, perhaps.
Now flash forward a few years. I have gone back to school and received an advanced degree. I am working in my first post-graduate job and making more money than I have ever made. I am on top of the world and my ego is real pleased with my success. But after a couple of months things stop going so well. I start feeling depressed and unhappy. People at work are mean spirited. Weeks pass into months and I am getting more and more down. Emotionally, I feel like a black hole is engulfing me. I am decreeing, but not as much as I used to. I just don't know what is wrong.
Finally, I am reaching the end of my rope. One night before I go to bed I kneel before my altar and I pray fervently to God to show me what I am doing wrong.
That night I slept very soundly and the next morning I woke up with one word emblazoned across my mind's eye: TITHE. Sure enough, though I had started out my new job tithing every month, after a few months I had stopped. Debts I had incurred during school were pressing and when I paid bills each month I convinced myself it wasn't necessary to tithe.
In that moment when I woke up with the word TITHE written on my eyeballs, I knew that I had broken my commitment to the Masters. I had broken my commitment to big, beautiful Lanello and Jesus and Saint Germain and El Morya and Gautama. They had sponsored me in their Church and blessed me with wonderful blessings for many years, but in the moment of my worldly success I had broken my commitment to them.
It is true that our tithe ties us to the Masters. It is how we show the Masters we are serious about our love. There are few greater proofs of our love than when we dig deep into our pocketbooks each month (even when it hurts) and tithe.
I had forgotten the key: always pay your tithe first - before all other bills. As soon as you deposit your monthly paycheck, the first thing to do is write a check to the Church for 10 percent of it. God always returns to us tenfold what we give, and I have found that there is always enough to pay those other bills.
From that morning forward I have tithed. I feel like the blessings of light and love are mine again. I am no longer depressed but feel the deep joy of an inner silent communion with the Masters. I have not seen the Masters since that precious day when I became a communicant of the Church Universal and Triumphant, but their presence is with me ever.
Thank you, Mother, for your stewardship, your love and your willingness to stand for Truth when so many jump to criticize and condemn you. Thank you for welcoming me into this wondrous Church Universal and Triumphant.