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A Mighty Seraphim Assigned to the Keeper of the Flame
Hail, most holy seraphim of God!
Hail, ye witnesses unto the Truth, even the Cosmic Truth!
I am indeed Serapis Soleil. I am the one come to call you to the moment of your ascension. Thus the fire of ascension's flame is present. And you may project yourself to the moment when that ascension flame shall envelop your form, and your soul (already fused to the living Christ) shall enter the glory of the flame that truly is the Light of the Divine Mother.1
Thus, out of the Shakti of the living Word thou didst descend in the beginning, and unto the Shakti of the living Word thou shalt ascend in the ending. This is the prophecy of the Life everlasting unto all who can receive it and would drink of the cup of everlasting Life.
As no man or woman can see God and live any longer as mortal man or mortal woman,2 so if you ask a seraphim to give you to drink of the elixir of Life, remember there is no turning back to the former state or estate. Therefore the cup is withheld until you, by striving, shall enter in to the fusion with your Holy Christ Self.
Prepare for the LORD's day! The LORD's day is the day of the judgment of all that has chosen that which is unreal. Prepare for the LORD's day by choosing in this hour the reality of your I AM Presence.
I come, then, as seraphim gather here in almost numberless numbers. I have called my seraphim from out the center of God. From the rings of light of the Central Sun, led by Justinius they march; and they come for the protection of all servants of God upon earth.
You may be surprised to discover the devout and profoundly holy ones who are not Christian or Jew in this life but Moslem or Hindu or Buddhist, Parsi - Zoroastrian. Whatever their calling, whatever their tie, beloved, there are holy ones of God in all communities of the religious. Therefore know that seraphim are without religious discrimination and they come to protect hearts of Light who have already established by their daily devotions a cord of light reaching up into the Infinite One.
The engines of war are sounding. The rhetoric of war is spoken daily. And the desire for war, not peace, is lodged in the hearts of many. Therefore, let that which men have invoked be manifest as their decree, for the Law is the Law. And if the evolutions of the earth will continue to allow the fallen angels to dictate the terms of war and peace, then I say, even the seraphim should shield their eyes from the holocausts that will continue to ensue.
Ye who are then counted among children of God and sons and daughters of God and even angel servants come to earth to minister - I, Serapis, say to you that your heart must be the focal point of a fire infolding itself3 that can be used by the forces of the Great Central Sun Magnet to draw the people of Light of this earth into a consummate union of oneness of purpose, ideal, motive and vision by the All-Seeing Eye of God.
This All-Seeing Eye does pierce through in this the Fourth Secret Ray cycle of the fourteen-month cycles.4 By the heart of Amitabha,5 so the All-Seeing Eye of God does penetrate. You may understand, then, what a great boon is upon you, beloved, that you may have the opportunity for that two-eyed vision to become one. Surely this is the cycle of preparing the Light of the sacred fire, preparing the chakras for the raising up of the Mother Light.
Many shall perish for want of vision. I trust none of you shall be counted among that many. The day will come when every man and woman and child must see for himself, must pierce the chaos and the Old Night revisited upon earth.
May you be in the holy place when you require that vision. May you have the discriminating wisdom of the beloved Amitabha, and may the discriminating heart of your Holy Christ Self separate the tares from the wheat of consciousness. And may that wisdom itself utterly consume, by the passion of the Lord Amitabha in you, all passions of the flesh, of the desires, of the mind and the memory.
Let there be, then, the setting aside! Let there be the use of Archangel Michael's sword! Cut from yourself the ties to the underworld lest you be sucked into it by a force beyond your own. Simply take the sword, use it as demonstrated by the Messenger and declare yourself free from those pulls from beneath.
Plunge that sword into the demons, into the grotesque forms that linger at the partial openings of the mouths of the bottomless pit in this state and elsewhere upon the planet! Be free from those ties, beloved, for your victory is very close; yet by your own measurement [it is] at times very far, simply by your neglect to be it.
I have listened well to the study of the psychology of Zailm concerning reincarnation and karma.6 Study this well, beloved, for some of you, ere you are called to higher octaves, will not have more than this opportunity that you take day by day for resolution.
The sands in the hourglass fall for all, yet no man does know in the outer, nor woman, how many grains are above, how many below. Seek resolution so that when you come to our retreat you will not need to remain two hundred years in the lower etheric octave dealing with those things that can be accomplished [today] by the fiat of your spoken Word and your allegiance to the Word you have sounded. Believe that your fiat does invoke the full power of the Godhead and accept your freedom, beloved!
I come to you late in the cycle but not too late. I did not speak at the turning of this cycle on September 4, for had I spoken, beloved, you would have had locked in to your four lower bodies this Fourth Secret Ray. At that hour you were still as shorn lambs; and, beloved, you were not prepared to receive such an intense fire as is the Fourth Secret Ray.
Since its wisdom is the antithesis of the passions and the misuse of the sacred fire and since you have not diligently sought the binding of the dweller[-on-the-threshold] that represents all of those momentums, it was considered [and decided] by the great Cosmic Council, who has sent me this night, to forestall the locking in of that secret ray into this body and Community.7
The hour has come, then, beloved, that if this secret-ray cycle is to bear fruit of victory and God-mastery for some among this planetary body, there must be the locking in. Hence we have called for your petitions for forgiveness8 and this is a conference for inner resolution.
Blessed ones, this cycle is in the planetary body. It will work its work but some must anchor the pillar of fire that it represents. Therefore I ask you to pursue the highest calling of the Fourth Ray under my guidance, tutelage and sponsorship. I offer you sponsorship guardedly, yet I do so out of profound compassion for your state. I desire to assist you in the raising up of ascension's flame, and I desire to see you not crumble beneath the weight of this secret-ray planetary initiation.
Ere these fourteen months have passed, beloved, you will see events outplayed in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, and you will understand how turmoil does indeed ensue when this Fourth Secret Ray band is in play.
Therefore, I ask that you signal our seraphim in this hour if you desire the true locking in to your chakras of this ray. I ask you not to fear or falter, yet to also be realistic.
You who know you are faithful, you who know that you take recourse in God and that you continually stand on the battle line in this court and in your homes, accept with trust and confidence that you can bear this ray. And as you so signal that you would receive it, I shall give you then the special protection of my mantle. Yet my mantle cannot protect you from an out-of-alignment state, nor can it protect you from any karma that you should make. My mantle will give you the strength to keep your vows and to move on.
I will tell you that locking in to this Fourth Secret Ray band will be a great assist in your overcoming of all adversaries of this Community and Church, Messenger and chelas. It is necessary for the victory. I will also tell you that to ride this ray at its crest in this hour and to continue with all diligence will allow you to arrive at a certain level of the passing of initiations that will enable you to increase your attainment and ability to draw forth supply and all that you need to go on in the fulfillment of your mission.
Thus, it is a ray for which there is no substitute, a cycle for which you will wait again another fourteen cycles. Therefore understand, beloved, that coming into this ray in this hour is expedient if you are prepared for the challenge.
I say it can be done! I have confidence that you can do it. But you must show forth the will, the discriminating wisdom and the love to do so. I pray, therefore, that my warning to you will not make you so timid that you will not even come forward to accept this challenge.
A certain karma is upon the nation and the nations in this hour. I pause to contemplate it and also to contemplate what this world would be like without our chelas and Keepers of the Flame. Your decrees were never more necessary to hold the balance for those who yet need to discover this path and to do so quickly.
Keepers of the Flame who hear my words, know that your decrees are vital for your own victory and that of the planet! Your observation of the cycles of the fourteen months is essential also.
I ask you now to stand and be counted, [those of you] who shall receive the locking in of the Fourth Secret Ray band for the fulfillment of his mission, her mission and that of this Church.
Holy Justinius, receive your troops! These I present to you in the persons of our beloved Keepers of the Flame. They come to receive you. They stand in honor of your seraphim legions of Light. They do not rush in as fools where angels fear to tread, but they take their stand with a realistic appraisal of earth's conditions and the forces of Darkness.
Therefore, I, Serapis, command you, Justinius, and all hosts of the Spirit-Matter Cosmos to guard all who do stand knowing full well the challenges that lie before them! Beloved seraphim, place now your armour upon them, each one, from head to toe!
Chelas of Serapis Bey, I call you. Receive, then, this armour and see yourselves being dressed by loving servants of the Most High God, seraphim who bow to the Light within you and will magnify that Light by your LORD, your Mighty I AM Presence.
May you pause each day - and never be without this visualization when you invoke your tube of Light - to see, then, your seraphim attendant dressing you again from head to toe in armour of Light that will deflect from you all harm directed against the holy office you have chosen, which is to embody the Fourth Secret Ray.
I ask you to visualize this armour for your children and for all other Keepers of the Flame who will similarly take their stand to receive the locking in of this Fourth Secret Ray. Do not call it forth or visualize it for any other, for this is unto those who are understanding of the necessity to move forward with the planetary initiations. Any and all Keepers of the Flame in good standing who in the future may hear this dictation may also stand to receive this ray and to receive the armour for their stand.
I suggest that those who will may enter in to a forty-day period of celibacy but only by free will.9 I desire to assist you in the path of the raising up of the Mother Flame. You may pursue hatha yoga or other exercises for the balancing of the energies in the four lower bodies - Djwal Kul's breathing exercise10 and other meditations that I may choose to release to you.
Keep the Flame for the Lightbearers gathered and gathering in the Middle East and elsewhere upon earth!
Beloved, the Fourth Ray, as the white sphere of the Causal Body, is very close to the five secret rays. May you extol its virtues and embody them. May you remember [my words] and call for the clearing of the memory of all Keepers of the Flame who have heard me. This is a very special moment, beloved.
Now then, you are fully dressed in your armour. And thus has come the moment of the locking in of the Fourth Secret Ray to you and to all others who at inner levels in etheric retreats have heard me, beloved, for they also make their choice. Some shall return to their physical bodies, which they vacated for this night's soul travel in [their] work with our Brotherhood; others are there between embodiments.
Thus there is, in fact, upon earth a mighty force of Lightbearers and devotees from all walks of life who now receive this locking in. And as there is a locking in, beloved, there is, as it were, on the astral plane a trembling of the earth and an earthquake; for the adjustment is great for those in embodiment to carry this Light.
I trust you will give yourselves the remainder of this conference to adjust to its vibration, to use violet flame and calls to the Fourth-Ray Elohim, Purity and Astrea, for the rebalancing of your systems.
Indeed, beloved, this is a moment of great comfort to the Maha Chohan, to Gautama Buddha and Sanat Kumara. As you have labored long in this lifetime and borne much, we have labored aeons with the evolutions of earth. And though the harvest from the total population may seem small by percentages, we count the harvest of those who take their stand for the Mother Flame in this hour to be considerable, for we count [the harvest] from among those who have the qualifications to begin with. This percentage, of course, is far greater than [if it were taken from the] total population.
Thus, our gratitude is profound. We are gratified to know that in such an hour of Darkness so many in so many different areas, moving through the cities, moving about in the earth (not in retreats but fully dealing with the challenges of world karma daily), have yet preserved a spiritual path and calling and are fiercely dedicated in that which God has led them to in this life.
Of course we desire to see them have the full cup of the violet flame and the initiations of the ascension. Therefore we do look forward to Summit University [Winter Quarter 1991] and we ask you to take advantage of the Messenger's invitation to be present on [Saturdays and] Sundays for special training in ministerial service, outreach and in helping brothers and sisters wherever you find them.
Now, beloved, there is a sealing of your chakras and a sealing of the rays. [21-second pause]
Guard the heart most precious. I, Serapis, place spheres of Light around your heart for increased protection in all the days ahead.
May you consider yourselves holy. May you fill the role of holiness. May you see across the helmet of the seraphim that you wear the inscription "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD!"11 May you carry a flame of holiness. Let your conversation be "yea, yea" and "nay, nay,"12 affirming God and not [otherwise] even allowing the mouth to be opened lest the lesser vibrations pass through. When you are present with seraphim, beloved, you are in the presence of holiness.
Each one of you receives, then, the presence of a mighty seraphim with you unto the hour of your fulfillment of [your mission in] this life - unless you somehow violate that presence and that tie by word or thought or action. These seraphim have rejoiced at this assignment, beloved, and they come to you with great devotion, knowing you personally and knowing you well.
Remember, one of the gifts that the seraphim have [received from God] is [the ability] to place their Electronic Presence over you, to lock in to your entire four lower bodies and to bring about a gentle healing and spiral of wholeness, the mending of the tears in the garment, the weaving and the reweaving of the Deathless Solar Body.
May you rejoice at such sponsorship and may there be a true change in your attitude and outlook, in what you allow to occupy your mind and your time, your space and your feeling world.
We desire you to rise, not a single notch but three feet this night. Visualize it, beloved, and may it be so. We desire you up the spiral staircase, far out of reach of the denizens of the lower darkness.
This is my mission in coming, beloved. My gratitude to all Keepers of the Flame who have made possible this dictation at all.
O winds of God and of the Holy Spirit, take dominion in the earth this night! I, Serapis Soleil, have spoken and my fiat shall be fulfilled!
This dictation by Serapis Bey was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet at the conclusion of the December 29, 1990 Saturday evening service during the six-day New Year's I AM the Light of the World Conference held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. The service and dictation are available on 120-min. videocassette, HP91010) and 90-min. audiocassette, B91007). The videocassette includes the Messenger's lecture "Serapis Bey's Fourteen-Month Cycles," Part II (see note 4 below). [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Serapis Bey's direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
When I first heard about the Ascended Masters in an organized form, it happened from three different sources at once, Church Universal and Triumphant and two ladies in my own country, who both claimed to receive messages from the Ascended Masters.
I bought books from all three sources and read them carefully. One of the ladies linked the Ascended Masters to UFOs and her writings had a distinct vibration of spiritual pride. The other lady used the Masters to say that if two people really loved each other, sex outside marriage was OK. Since I knew she had an affair with another man, it was easy to see the self-justification.
I had sufficient experience with New Age organizations to know that the human ego and spiritual progress are incompatible. I had enough problems with my own ego and the last thing I needed was to become a follower of someone else's ego!
When I read the books from Church Universal and Triumphant, I immediately felt the difference in vibration. It was obvious that Mark and Elizabeth Prophet were Messengers, not editors, and that through them the Ascended Masters were talking to me in the most direct way possible in this world.
A couple of months after I had started using the decrees in a serious manner, I had the following experience. I had a special decree room with an altar and the pictures of the Presence, Saint Germain and Jesus. Saint Germain's picture was very dear to me and I would often meditate on it. One evening I felt so uplifted and full of joy after my decree session that I didn't feel like going to bed. I happened to look at Saint Germain's picture and suddenly the entire room was filled with an intense white light.
The light vibrated and the vibrations looked like rings. These rings seemed to grow from behind me and gradually filled the room until the only thing I could see clearly was Saint Germain's face on the picture. Then the rings closed in even more and I could only see the eyes.
In a flash the eyes of the picture disappeared and instead there appeared a pair of the most radiating eyes I have ever seen. They were filled with an expression of joy and the sense of humor that is so typical for Saint Germain in his dictations. I felt a beam of love for my soul shoot forth from the eyes and it was of an intensity way beyond anything I had ever experienced.
The vision itself lasted only a few seconds, but I was so filled with light that it took almost a half hour before I was able to go to bed. To this day I have no doubt that I looked directly into the eyes of the living Master and I know the meaning behind the expression "I shall pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
When I first entered the teachings I was extremely skeptical and evaluated everything I read very carefully. But I intuitively knew that the real test would be whether or not Mother was what she claims to be. And I felt this would be revealed to me as soon as I saw her in person.
The first time I saw her was in October of 1985 when she gave a lecture in Copenhagen. I was sitting in the first row and when she entered the stage, she paused for a moment to look over the audience before she began to speak. At that moment I felt my heart expand and in a split second, I saw Mother enveloped in a sphere of intense golden light. I instantly felt a great burden being lifted from me and I knew in my heart - at that point within that is beyond any doubt or interpretation by the outer self - that she is indeed a true Messenger and a true Guru.
During my work/study program at the ranch I happened to help decorate a new room for our group. I was looking through a stack of pictures and came across two pictures of Mother. One of them was ten years old, but the other one was recent. When I saw the two pictures side by side, it flashed in my mind that there was a tremendous difference in vibration. The old picture showed a mortal person, but the new one showed the embodied Christ!
I later remembered how Saint Germain in a dictation in 1985 described how Mother had gone through a direct confrontation with the forces of Death and Hell. He described this as the final initiation before a person has overcome the human and united with the Higher Self.
So, although the two pictures actually showed the same person, there was a tremendous difference in spiritual attainment. By God's grace I was allowed to see this difference and it was a very startling experience. It greatly expanded my understanding of the teachings and gave me the most profound inspiration to come up higher on the path.
Since then I have often looked at Mother in person and have had numerous confirmations of my first observation. During live dictations I have had a couple of visions similar to my experience with Saint Germain's picture. It is like the entire hall is filled with intense light, sometimes white, sometimes golden, and it focuses all attention directly on Mother's face.
Looking into her eyes during a dictation gives me the feeling that I am looking directly into the eyes of the Master dictating. Thus I can honestly say that the light I see in Mother is the same light that was embodied by Jesus and all true saints through the ages. This is not something I believe, it is an inner knowing that is beyond doubt. It springs from that point in the heart where the outer conceptions of true and false have become obsolete.
This does not mean that I set Mother up as a god or that I compare her to Jesus. I simply see that she has followed the command to "let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Through her devotion and the diligence in her service, she has reached a point where she is able to embody in a mortal form the "Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world."
Knowing Mother's life story and knowing that she was not born as a unique being, but has worked her way to her present attainment, is the most profound comfort and inspiration I can imagine because it gives me the knowledge that I too can use the teachings of the Ascended Masters to win my personal victory. Not that I should copy Mother and live my life as she has done. I have my own personal path to follow and I must carve it out through trial and error just as Mother has done in her service.
Contemplating her example has made me realize the truth in the Master's words, "What man has done, man can do," and it has given my life the purpose and direction I have been searching for since my early childhood!
Looking at her and feeling the light she is radiating has also made me realize that El Morya is right when he says, "The trek upwards is worth the inconvenience," because I would be willing to sacrifice anything of the outer world to attain the peace and love for God I sense in her.
Someone recently asked me what was the number one benefit I had experienced from the Ascended Masters' teachings. The answer came to me instantly. But in order to explain it, I will have to give a little background information.
I grew up in a Protestant country with a state church which obviously has not been able to keep people's religious interest alive. For most people in my country, religion is not a part of daily living, but is looked upon as a tradition which is tolerated as long as it doesn't interfere with people's lives. The majority of the population are very reluctant to talk about religious matters and "God" is almost a forbidden word.
In my early childhood I had a very clear feeling of having a Divine Presence with me always. I would spontaneously talk and pray to the Presence as to a good friend. When I reached my teenage years I had become so affected by the general attitude in my country that I had lost most of the contact with my "inner friend." I was in the peculiar situation of being a deeply religious person (for is a religious person not one for whom God is a living reality?) who was afraid to worship God through any outer activity!
The teachings I had received about Jesus had been instrumental in this. I knew God from my own inner experience, but I could see no link between this living reality and the picture of God and Jesus painted by the state church.
The idea that Jesus was the only son of God and that he was above and beyond all others never made sense to me. Instead it created a resentment in me. I could never understand why God would send Jesus into the world and say, "I send you my only son so that when you see his perfection, you will realize what terrible sinners you all are and how much you need to repent. But remember, no matter what you do, you can never become like him!" Certainly the God I knew from within would never have done a thing like that.
I have no doubt that these very painful inner conflicts could have remained unresolved for a lifetime if it had not been for the Ascended Masters' teachings. After having known and practiced the teachings for a few short years, the conflicts are gone and Jesus has taken on a new and meaningful place in my life.
I now realize that Jesus was not an exception but an example to follow. To me this is no degradation of Jesus or his mission. I honor Jesus as a unique being who set forth a magnificent example for us all that will always be the most profound inspiration imaginable. He truly is my Lord and Saviour.
To me his most important words were, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do. ..." This one sentence makes his message a personal inspiration for me by stating that I can walk the same path he walked and embody the same Light he embodied. This has made me realize the inner meaning of accepting Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. Thus I can accept Jesus from a point of inner understanding rather than outer (blind) faith.
Another profound effect of the Ascended Masters' teachings is the realization that Jesus did not die and vanish from the earth two thousand years ago as the church in my home country claims. He is very much alive today and more willing than ever to assist me on my path. This realization is not a matter of belief, but a result of direct experiences with the living Presence of Jesus. The most dramatic example is the following experience.
On the first day of the summer conference at the Royal Teton Ranch in July of 1989, I was sitting in the front row directly facing the big altar picture of Jesus. Mother was on stage giving a lecture and as I was looking at her I felt my heart expand and I very clearly experienced the intense light streaming forth from her Presence.
As I was taking in this light I realized that it was a universal light coming from a higher octave and that she did not produce it, but was the open door through which it was flowing. The thought came to me that it was the exact same light that was embodied by Jesus and I felt my attention being drawn towards his picture. Then the entire hall seemed filled with a light that was more white than white and all I could see was the face of the picture.
Suddenly the painted eyes disappeared and instead I felt I was looking directly into the eyes of the living Master himself. I was fully conscious and at first I began praying to Jesus to help me overcome problems in my outer situation as well as in my own psychology. I felt how a weight was gradually lifted from me and even my body seemed to be lighter.
Then my mind became more still and I felt Jesus was talking back to me, but not with words and to this day I am unable to put words on the experience. But I know I received directions, advice and comfort that was beyond what my outer mind could comprehend.
This communion lasted perhaps ten to fifteen minutes and I know that burdens were taken away from me and old habit patterns in my psychology disappeared and have not come back. But most important of all I felt the profound love of the Ascended Master Jesus Christ for my soul, and while I was enveloped in that love I remember feeling as if my entire being was centered in one point and from that point I cried out to Jesus, "Help me to love God as you love him!"
At that moment I felt a ray of light shooting forth from Jesus' heart directly into my heart chakra and the last remnant of resentment towards God was melted away.
So the number-one benefit I have experienced from the Ascended Masters' teachings is this: the Masters have opened up my heart to God and have given me a childlike innocence in my relationship to God and Jesus Christ that is truly the greatest blessing I can imagine.