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Chapter 67
Beloved Jesus Christ - December 29, 1991

     The Lord's Christmas Day Address 1991

     Yes, I AM come. And in this hour of my coming I enfold the earth in the rose of my heart. Let its petals reach to your innermost being, for I touch all who keep my flame of Love. Therefore may you be as kindling wood!

     So receive the flame of the Christmas Rose and know, beloved, that without compassion there is no saving of the soul that is lost, there is no wherewithal within you whereby you might reach out and convey the current of Love that will rescue some poor wretch caught in the briers of the astral plane, perhaps by no fault of current karma but of the ancient struggle of the forces of Light and Darkness.

     Be assured that some who are caught in the brambles, beloved, may be noted as the tireless warriors who go forth to slay the fallen ones that others might form rings around the Central Sun, chorusing paeans of praise to my heart and the heart of God. Therefore, beloved, point not the accusing finger at the one who is soiled for the very fray.

     Yes, the battle goes on at many levels, and the best of the sons and daughters of God descend on Christmas Day for the binding of the fallen ones and the seed of Satan whose hour is come: for it is Christmas.

     Yes, beloved, I wish you a very, very holy Christ Mass in this hour. And I come to celebrate with you the birth of the one Christ in your heart, one by one by one. I come to adore the Body of God that is one, yet individualized.

     And I am seeing with the full power of my being the emergent Christ of yourself/myself, for we are one. And all life is one and God is one! Though there be a billion times a billion rays of light of that Christ, there is but one.

     I come to celebrate that birth or perhaps its new conception and ongoing gestation. Whatever your level on the Path, beloved, I take my rod, even as the rod of Aaron become the rod of Joseph, [and I measure your progress this day].

     Yes, the rod, beloved, it is the measuring rod.

     Where are you this day?

     Where is the line that denotes progress?

     For the lines increase from birth unto transition.

     I desire to see you come to the full turning of that rod, which in my hand becomes the shepherd's crook, great symbol of the raised sacred fire of the Kundalini. I desire to see that budding at the base of the brain and continuing to the point of the third eye. It is a challenging road, beloved, for the fire does bring to the surface those things that must be cast into the flame, consuming as it rises, rising as it consumes.

     Thus, measure your rod, beloved, and know that the rod of Aaron does portend the hour when you take dominion in your Christed being of all things in the earth; and with my beloved Mother you place the moon beneath your feet and you are no longer pulled this way and that by the emotional body of the mass consciousness or the tides of the sea. And when there is no more night and no more tide, you will behold the tideless sea:¹

     Therefore the stillness of the desire body! Therefore the empowerment by the desire body within all of the chakras!

     Thus, fulfill the vows of Kuan Yin and know that these are more than words. When you desire and vow a certain desiring and a certain vow, be mindful that by the law of mathematics [this desire and vow] are exclusive and do exclude many other activities that are no longer compatible.

     Therefore, it is indeed well to call upon the All-Seeing Eye of God and to pray each day for the return to that single-eyed vision which you had in the Beginning, before the descent into duality.

     Therefore, your seeing this day is by the power of seeing that you have invoked,² that you have become. For your seeing eye is the extension of the Mind of Christ, even as your physical eyes are an extension of the brain and the mental body itself.

     Therefore know that each and every day as you return to that point of the One by the celebration of the Divine Mother within your temple, you see new vistas, new horizons, the entire circumference of your being. You gain a vision of a past, present and future that are not a time line but spherical being unfolding - unfolding even as the Christmas Rose.

     And so, my beloved, by expanded awareness of your Christhood this day, which is the meaning of winter solstice, may you thereby gain an expanded awareness of earth's evolutions,³ the levels of consciousness and how you may direct light rays directly to the hearts of many whose hearts have already been kindled by myself, by Lord Gautama, Lord Maitreya, Lord Sanat Kumara, Lord Krishna.

     Yes, beloved, step-by-step here in physical embodiment you nourish, you water our garden and you increase the Light-manifestation in yourself for the supreme purpose of having that wherewithal to extend to others. Let the sacred fire be contained.

     Be the observer, then, first of yourself, of the inbreath and the outbreath. Let there be the balancing and calming of the forces, the observing of the breath, the observing of the mind. This is to sense yourself in the very heart of your Holy Christ Self. And this Holy Christ Self does descend upon you in moments of joyous devotion, in the hours of Armageddon when you wage supreme warfare against the demons and discarnates, who are of the Antichrist.

     Yes, beloved, being the observer and maintaining the point of inner poise may be accomplished this day by you, but on the morrow it will be a new level and a new challenge, greater by far than the last. This is how it will be until you shall have attained absolute union with the absolute God.

     The testings come but, oh, what joy to know that up that spinal stalk, up that ladder, you can achieve greater and greater adeptship within these four lower bodies, therefore joyously demonstrating to many that the path that is followed does bring joy and mastery and is not the via dolorosa. It is not a sorrowful way!

     But that [path] does not exclude the pain and the trial of overcoming. It does not exclude the wrestling with the lesser self and the hordes of hell. All these things come to pass.

     But what? You have the entire Spirit of the Great Brotherhood to reinforce you, and Cosmic Beings all the way back to the Great Central Sun. No test is given without a mighty force of angels to reinforce your will and your determination.

     Blessed hearts, engage your teeth in the struggle and surmount it and know the supreme bliss of union. This union you can accomplish daily - daily, I say! Do not postpone it!

     The bliss of union with the Godhead through your Mighty I AM Presence can be touched and known by each and every one of you daily. And the time for the cutting off of the day and the entering in to the heart of God without fail is just before you retire and close your eyes to dream the dream of God's love, to journey to temples of Light higher and higher in the etheric octave, even before you make your ascension.

     Doors open to you as you build upon a foundation and do not lose what you have built as children do who play and build their towers and knock them down. This tower that you build must be sturdy. It must be well designed and well sealed.

     Know, then, that once a day you must stop the cycling [and recycling of the mind], the turning and the turning and the turning, else you will find yourself winding a coil of the stresses and tensions of life around your spinal cord. For that momentum must [one day] be collapsed by your entering in to the heart of eternity.

     For this reason, there comes to you at this conference the mighty one, the Lord Krishna. Prepare well for his coming! For as you prepare, so shall you receive and so much, much more.

     Each of the Masters who will speak to you lays a foundation for the next while giving you that momentum for this quadrant of the year⁴ and momentums also for the decade and for the two thousand years.

     There is not an element of the Word of God spoken in this octave through the Messenger that does not commence cosmic cycles that are infinite, just as the stone thrown into the cosmic sea will have a never-ending circle of ripples that carry the message of the vibration of the stone to all of the worlds of cosmos.

     Rippling across the sea of light, then, is the Word which was in the Beginning with God - the Word that you are and the Word that I AM speaking. Therefore I said it then and I say it today: Heaven and earth may pass away, but my Word will not pass away.⁵

     The Word of God lives on because it is God. You give voice to the Word and you are that Word incarnate. That is the goal, beloved!

     Crumb by crumb, the loaf, the whole loaf, is imparted. Each day, Communion served gives to you a morsel of my Body and the wine of my Blood. If you will receive me, I shall become thee, thou shalt become me.

     In this hour, then, contemplate the assimilation of my Word as my Body and my Blood, of my Word as Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending of the cycles of your being.

     Yes, beloved, it is an hour to contemplate that in this finite plane there is a beginning and an ending. There is a b. and a d. on every tombstone, but you are not confined within that frame of time.

     Time is the friend and the enemy. Use it wisely and you will break its shackles and be eternal. Use it poorly and you will be buried with the corruptible form and find yourself in the astral plane.

     Make use of the hours and break their chalice. Let the hour become infinity in those moments when you enter God undisturbed in the quietness of your room, as you sit upon your cot and contemplate the source of being.

     This is the key I give you to meet all challenges of the day and of many lifetimes. To know that communion, beloved, is to remember the bliss and the Law of the One, to be stripped of all wrong desire and inordinate seeking for those things that are not of God.

     When you desire God and know God, very little else concerns you. It is the absence of God Self-awareness that takes you into the byways and blinds you to this and that pull - pulls from the astral sea, pulls from the lunar vibration.

     Yes, beloved, I have come to call you many times. Many times have I come. But on this day I simply call you to the heart of God. And I ask you to pause and discover in a very real measure that oneness, that you might never again be moved from the bedrock of your divinity.

     In this octave, O beloved, be that God and be not satisfied until you touch that God! You will know that God has touched you when you feel the suffusing glow of compassion and the joy that transcends all adversity and every means used against you by those who are caught in the web of the astral sea.

     They have many ploys. But if when they knock, you simply say, "I am not there, I am not here," [you give them no point of entry]. Therefore, you do not answer the door, you do not answer at all, because they are not knocking on the right door.

     When they rise to the level of the door to the kingdom of God and you are in that kingdom, you may then challenge the spirits, test them to see whether they are of God⁶ and dismiss them. For even fallen angels will attempt to mount to your throne of oneness in the Godhead.

     Yes, beloved, I do not speak mere words. I speak to you of a mystery and of a path and of a searching and of a finding.

     I speak to you of pursuing God until you are wrapped in God, you are bathed in God, you are chewing morsels of God consciousness, you are sipping nectar of God. I am speaking of an experience that you must have by your own seeking, your own pursuit, your own determination that you will not rest until you have this bliss!

     Yes, beloved, it does require the giving of that love which God has first given to you, multiplying it by the flame that God has placed in your heart. It is being willing to go wherever I call you, to perform whatever task, to do it in the Lord's name - to do it, beloved, for you know it is a means to an end and you know that I reward and that my reward is with me and that I come quickly⁷ - very quickly, when you meet the requirements of the Law for the harmony of your own being.

     It is for this bliss and this contact - known in all levels of being, yet desired - that one thirsts. It is for this, beloved, that pilgrims and saints and holy men and women have given their lives, have laid down their lives, have become martyrs, have been unwilling to stop until by absolute determination to fulfill the work of the Son, they entered into the Word of the Father.

     Do not stop short of this sipping of the nectar of God each day. For often it is right there, ready for you to take, but you close your book and enter into something mundane, scarcely noticing my angel already extending the cup and yet having to withdraw it, for you have taken your attention from the Godhead.

     I speak of empowerment again and again. I speak of love as the true empowerment. There is none other except that which is taken inordinately for selfish gain. True power is love and love is the power that quivers a cosmos, whereby the voice of a child so endued can be heard on distant star.

     So it is said and so it is true: That which is spoken in secret shall be shouted from the housetops.⁸ There is no end to sound. It is bad enough to hear oneself complain against the universe once. How would you like to hear the echo of your complaints in the never-ending reverberation of a seemingly infinite physical cosmos, which is truly not infinite? God forbid!

     Blessed ones, you should cover your ears and resolve not to allow any misuse of the spoken word or thought or feeling or act to any longer defile so great a beauty as the cosmic void.

     I show you the midnight of my coming, and I show you the sky and worlds beyond, illumined by thousands upon thousands of stars and bodies. How you have wondered before this sight as a child! And with childlike wonder you still consider the heavens and all that they contain.

     I say to you each one, be the Christmas star! Let your star shine as your Causal Body in heaven, as your great Dharmakaya. Let it shine! Let it draw nigh to you as you draw nigh to it!⁹ Practice the Presence of God by daily making your vessel the biding place of the I AM THAT I AM. Do this, beloved.

     As you belong to God - and I have said ye are God's¹⁰ - so you are also that God-manifestation. Let not time or space or self-condemnation or sense of worthlessness take from you the true joy of this day, [nor the joy] that because I have come in this two-thousand-year cycle and come again from ancient cycles, there is the reconnecting of your heart to the heart of the living Christ if you seek that path of initiation.

     [This day,] there is the reigniting of the flame in those who seek the rekindling of the flame. [This day,] there is the present possibility of that return to the paradise lost, to the great golden age whence you have descended at great cost and loss to yourself.

     Celebrate, then, that God called me but celebrate also that he called you and that your star can rise. It can be a nova and through you the great Lord may contact many. Do not lose sight of this perspective; for if you do, beloved, if you lose the vision, you will forfeit so great an opportunity as has not come to you in many ten thousands of years.

     I proclaim to you: It is the hour of the union of twin flames at inner levels, of the union of great spheres of Light for a cosmic purpose. As you are "alive" (as much as one is alive in this condition), "alive and well on planet earth," you have the great, great opportunity of being the anchor point of your own Causal Body and that of your twin flame and, through the twain, to draw forth the Light of the ancient Gurus back to the Great Central Sun.

     May you take the great teaching that has been given and rejoice that this is the day of the Christmas Rose for you and your Beloved. Wherever each one of you is on the Path, there is a fusion of Causal Bodies for the great, great purpose of the fulfillment of your mission. Remember this and be one-pointed.

     I am Jesus, your brother, your friend, your teacher, avatar of the age, desiring so to strengthen you that you might be unto the many what I have been unto you. Keep on keeping on, beloved, for your track is direct to the star of great, great hope.

     I seal you in this hour that you might rejoice yet more hours this day in what it really means to be the Christmas Rose.

     I bestow upon each one of you the kiss upon the forehead of the Christmas Rose. To the little child within you, to you yourself, in each year of your life on each birthday, [I give the kiss of the Christmas Rose and] I seal you, each and every year unto the present, beloved.

     Know that my love is sufficient unto you to resolve every unresolved problem - a spiritual problem, a problem in the psyche or in your psychology, a problem of the mind or the heart or the desires. This kiss, beloved, is there for you to accept and, with it, to accept the healing of the experiences of that year of your life.

     Those books that the Messenger has recommended to you I recommend also. They will assist you to travel through some of the labyrinth of the subconscious. But you need not travel through all; for by and by in the records of the former self of this and previous embodiments, you will come to the key, beloved, you will discover what it is! And in that mighty key that is your own Christhood, that mighty key, beloved, you will collapse all the rest! And you will not need to journey any longer.

     Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have arrived at the key. For you may have the key in your hand, beloved, but unless it is in your heart, unless you truly have become that person that is truly you, you must continue and continue.

     For the real discovery will result in the assimilation of my Body and my Blood.

     Take, eat. For this is my Body. This is my Blood.

     [Holy Communion is served.]

     Messenger's Benediction:

     Beloved Mighty I AM Presence from the heart of God in the Great Central Sun, we ask that every word of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ be sealed in our hearts, planted as a seed to blossom as the Christmas Rose.

     We are grateful for this Community, O God, and the circle of thy oneness. May every day be the blossoming of the Christmas Rose in our hearts as we recognize the call to become the Compassionate One, the only means whereby we might be instrumental in saving souls.

     In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother, Amen.

     This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. The Messenger and congregation gave the "Watch With Me" Jesus' Vigil of the Hours and A Child's Rosary to Mother Mary prior to the dictation.

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Volume 34, Number 4, footnote 5. In December 1990 Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan appointed a committee to devise a plan for reintroducing the Rocky Mountain gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park and the central Idaho wilderness area. The committee, composed of representatives of state and federal agencies, the sheep industry, and environmental groups, is to report its plan to Congress by May 15, 1991. If the plan gains the support of at least six of the ten members of the committee, the required environmental impact study will begin and within a few years wolves could again be roaming the park, after an absence of 60 years. Wolves were hunted and exterminated as a pest predator in much of the United States in the early part of this century; and the gray wolf is now on the endangered species list for the western United States. Rep. Wayne Owens (D-Utah), who introduced bills in 1988 and 1989 to return wolves to Yellowstone Park, has said he is pursuing the wolf legislation because "Yellowstone is the largest near-perfect ecosystem in the temperate zones. All it lacks is its chief predator - the wolf." Another supporter of the reintroduction of the wolves, David S. Wilcove of the Wilderness Society, says, "Many of us feel it's a moral imperative and a biological imperative." Opponents fear that the wolves would not stay within the boundaries of the park but would migrate and attack cattle and sheep, threatening the livelihoods of ranchers and sheepgrowers. The Defenders of Wildlife organization has raised $100,000 to compensate livestock owners for their losses caused by the wolves. Hank Fischer, a Montana-based representative for the group, has stated: "Basically, we would be asking livestock operators to bear the brunt of wolf reintroduction. We want people who support wolves to pay the bills for the wolves and take responsibility for them." If the wolves are brought into Yellowstone, it will be the first time a major predator has been returned to a U.S. national park. John D. Varley, Yellowstone Park's research director, says, "I'm continually amazed at how symbolic Yellowstone is. These wolves are going to be the most famous wolves in the world." The Messenger comments that wolves have been on earth as an outpicturing of the subconscious and unconscious patterns of the race in order that mankind might see the products of their own consciousness.

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Volume 34, Number 19, footnote 2. Mantle of the presidency. The office of the President of the United States of America is a spiritual office in the Hierarchy of the Great White Brotherhood. The one who is elected to this office is intended to have the mantle and sponsorship of the Brotherhood. On November 8, 1987, the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet delivered Saint Germain's message pronouncing the Lord's judgment on Ronald Reagan for his abdication of his responsibilities as the president of the United States. In a dictation given February 26, 1988, Archangel Gabriel stated that the spiritual mantle of the presidency had been withdrawn from Ronald Reagan and that "he no longer walks holding the mantle of Saint Germain." On July 3, 1988, four months prior to the election of George Bush as the next president, Alpha and Omega said in a dictation: "By the time we address you again, the head of state of this nation shall have changed. Leaders who have betrayed will be displaced by still others who shall betray. Inasmuch as there has not appeared in the land one who could bear the mantle of that office at the level of Christhood required (and unless by some miracle one should displace the candidates who have lined up), we say that the Mantle of Alpha, the Mantle of Omega, of Saint Germain and Portia shall not descend upon the next holder of that office. As in the days of Israel when all looked for the Messiah and the birth thereof and parents prepared themselves as initiates on the Path, so in this day every chela of El Morya, out of compassion for his heart and Presence and burden, ought to consider himself in preparation to receive that mantle. ... All must look to the heart, all must look to the Holy Christ Self and say, 'I will prepare myself to bear this mantle or perhaps a portion thereof. I must represent my nation under God and somehow bear physically the virtues required of one who enters the office of the President of the United States.' Spiritually speaking, beloved, see yourselves as candles on a giant cake, each one bearing that office; for the office itself must not perish from the earth." (See 1988 PoW, Book I, pp. 244, 250 n. 14; Book II, pp. 529-30, 538 n. 18.) See also El Morya, December 31, 1987, "My Candidacy for President of the United States of America," 1988 PoW, Book I, pp. 1-8.

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Volume 34, Number 38, footnote 5. The following article from the Chicago Tribune (printed in the Billings Gazette, August 10, 1991) tells of the formation of the national Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion and of their concerns about a 1990 Supreme Court ruling that could jeopardize religious freedom.

New Coalition Fights for Religious Freedom by Michael Hirsley

Catalysts for change sometimes have humble and unlikely beginnings. And change sometimes means changing things back to the way they were.

That's precisely how and why a new coalition was forged to fight for religious freedom in the United States.

The national Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion did not band together out of vague or abstract concern about the future. Members feel religious freedom is in jeopardy now, as a direct result of a specific U.S. Supreme Court decision, rendered in 1990.

Its initial effect was at the fringe of America's religious fabric, inhibiting religious practices of American Indians that were distinctly outside mainstream culture.

But when the justices ruled in a case called "Oregon Department of Human Services vs. Smith" - denying two Native Americans' unemployment compensation claims after they had been fired as drug counselors due to their use of peyote in religious rituals - the Supreme Court alarmed and activated a much-broader religious coalition.

The new allies range from the conservative National Association of Evangelicals to the liberal National Council of Churches, and include both conservative and liberal Baptist and Jewish organizations.

What frightened them most about the "Smith" decision was a majority opinion, expressed by Justice Antonin Scalia, that the Constitution's 1st Amendment guarantee of free exercise of religion does not require governments to prove a "compelling interest" in order to enforce a statute that restricts religious practice.

Contradicting a quarter-century-old standard, Scalia said that requiring proof of compelling interest was a "luxury" this pluralistic society cannot afford.

"It used to be you knew where the line was drawn, but the Supreme Court has moved the line," said a congressional staff member.

The Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion is working with U.S. Rep. Stephen Solarz, D-N.Y., to re-establish that line by enacting a Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Explaining the broad involvement of American churches in what began as a minority-religion issue, associate general counsel J. Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, said:

"The Supreme Court has set a new general-law precedent that can be applied to any religious practice, from drinking wine to baptizing children.

"For example, a church could defend itself easily against a suit to outlaw its baptisms. But it becomes a lot harder if the court says swimming is OK but no one can hold another person's head under water.

"Then, full-immersion baptism would be a lot more threatened."

For skeptics who don't believe that after-effects from the Supreme Court ruling could spread insidiously like a cancer among American religions, there are troubling signs: Since it was issued 16 months ago, the Smith ruling has been cited in cases against Laotian Hmongs who object to autopsies as violations of their religious beliefs; Amish buggy drivers who cite religious beliefs in refusing to display fluorescent orange traffic warning signs; and Catholic and Protestant churches seeking exemptions from zoning laws or historical landmark designations and regulations.

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Volume 34, Number 51, footnote 3. El Morya's diamond and spiritual momentums pledged on the altar. On one occasion, July 3, 1965, El Morya announced that a giant transformer of God's will was being built in the etheric plane to "radiate out to the entire world the good will of Almighty God as an intense and divine holy purpose." El Morya said, "I have taken out the large diamond which I wear in my turban and I have pledged it to the Lords of Creation, that I shall not wear it again until such a time as this activity of this forcefield of good will has accomplished at least 50 percent of the purpose for which it is brought into creation." Thirteen years later, on June 24, 1978, El Morya announced that 50 percent of the purpose to which the transformer was brought forth had been fulfilled. He said, "The Lord God has returned to me the diamond that I had treasured, given to me by my own Guru. ... You have won for me another opportunity to place the momentum of my Causal Body upon the altar of humanity." The Master also announced that he had established the transformer of God's will congruent with the Ashram of the World Mother in the heart of Los Angeles: "There it shall accomplish, it is my prayer, the balance of its purpose, which is to reinfuse the cities of America and every nation with the momentum from the Great Divine Director's Causal Body of God-government and the inner blueprint of life." (See Morya: The Darjeeling Master Speaks to His Chelas, pp. 298, 301-2; 1978 PoW, pp. 297-99; and El Morya, July 4, 1978, on 90-min. audiocassette B7879.) On another occasion, March 24, 1974, against the backdrop of the Watergate investigations, El Morya said: "My turban is flying high and I say, I will unroll it as the scroll and the spiral of that Light which God has given me as the diamond. And I place as collateral that diamond of his will upon the altar of God until America is free once again to breathe the fiery air of the Holy Spirit." In a dictation given October 12, 1974, El Morya said, "I stand before you to pledge anew my Light and the diamond of my Light to Saint Germain, our commander of freedom."

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Volume 34, Number 58, footnote 1. The mantras of Kuan Yin are recorded on Kuan Yin's Crystal Rosary: Devotions to the Divine Mother East and West, 3-audiocassette album of hymns, prayers and ancient Chinese mantras that invoke the merciful presence of Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, and Mary the Mother of Jesus. Cassette I: "Ten Vows of Kuan Yin," taken from the Great Compassion Heart Dharani Sutra. Cassette II: "Kuan Yin Mantras for the Woman and Her Seed," using sacred names, titles and mantras of Kuan Yin arranged according to the fourteen stations of the Aquarian cross. Cassette III: Mantras to the "Thirty-Three Manifestations of Avalokitesvara as Kuan Yin." (Total time: 4 hr. 40 min., A88084); includes 40-page booklet. Booklets also available separately. See also "Special Purpose Kuan Yin Mantras," no. 650 in Church Universal and Triumphant Book of Hymns and Songs. For teachings by the Messenger on Kuan Yin and her mantras, see:

"The Ten Vows of Kuan Yin for Our Discipleship under Maitreya," in 1984 PoW, Book I, Introduction, pp. 35-42.

"The Path of the Divine Mother East and West: Mother Mary and Kuan Yin," Part I, February 14, 1988: Teachings and mantras on the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Merciful Heart of Kuan Yin; thorough introduction to Kuan Yin as the Compassionate Saviouress; on audiocassette (3 hr. 47 min., A88059).

"The Path of the Divine Mother East and West: Mother Mary and Kuan Yin," Part II, April 17, 1988: Teachings on the Person and Principle of the Divine Mother as Teacher, Initiator, Comforter - from Mother Mary, Isis and Kuan Yin to Tara, the Shekinah and the Hindu Feminine Deities; on audiocassette (4 hr. 30 min., A88055).

"Teachings, Meditations and Mantras of Kuan Yin and Mother Mary," April 2, 1988: Foundational teaching on the ten vows of Kuan Yin and Kuan Yin's mantras arranged on the fourteen stations of the Aquarian cross; on videocassette (4 hr. 8 min., GP88042) and on audiocassette (4 hr. 10 min., A88052).

"Kuan Yin's Miracle," May 8, July 1, October 8-9, 1988: Teachings and meditations on the mantras of the thirty-three manifestations of Avalokitesvara/Kuan Yin; how to use the mantras for spiritual healing; on audiocassette (5 hr. 12 min., A88068).

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Volume 34, Number 64, footnote 10. Leaven hid in three measures of meal. In Matt. 13:33, Jesus spoke the following parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." There has been much scholarly controversy concerning this verse. Some interpret the leaven as representing the Gospel's penetration into the world, while others see it as indicating apostasy in the Church. In his commentary on this verse, the Reverend C. I. Scofield says: "Leaven, as a symbolic or typical substance, is always mentioned in the Old Testament in an evil sense. ... Leaven is the principle of corruption working subtly ... and is defined by our Lord as evil doctrine [as in the `leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees,' Matt. 16:6, 11, 12; Mark 8:15]." He interprets the parable of the leaven as constituting a warning that "the true doctrine, given for the nourishment of the children of the kingdom, would be mingled with corrupt and corrupting false doctrine, and that officially, by the apostate church itself." We disagree with Scofield's teaching on this matter. Leaven (from the Latin levare `to raise') is a substance, as yeast, used to lighten dough. Leaven, or yeast, will leaven both good bread and bad - both the nourishing bread and the poisonous bread. As The Interpreter's Bible points out: "Although Paul and the rabbinical writers always use leaven as a symbol of evil influence and teaching, Jesus does not hesitate to employ it to describe the kingdom. ... The three measures are three seahs, a very large amount. This perhaps calls attention to the vastness of the world, which the kingdom must transform, secretly and irresistibly. ... The kingdom of Christ is silent and imperceptible, like yeast. ... But the kingdom, though silent, is yet dynamic. It is a yeasty ferment. It is a quiet revolution. No area of earth is left untouched by the redemptive trouble of its coming. ... In your heart and mine, and in the customs and institutions of our time, the leaven is at work. We should not fear the gentle agitation or the persistent change. The spirit of Christ is yeast in our world." (See The Scofield Reference Bible, p. 1016 nn. 3, 4; and The Interpreter's Bible [Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1951], 7:417.) The Ascended Masters teach that the leaven is the fullness of the Christ teaching and consciousness. The universal Christ consciousness must enter three planes of being - the etheric (memory) body, the mental body and the desire body. When sealed in these three planes of being (the three measures of meal), the Christ consciousness and teaching leaven the whole loaf of our physical consciousness, the planet and the universe.

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