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Chapter 42
Beloved Lord Maitreya - October 11, 1992


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1992
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

42  Beloved Lord Maitreya - October 11, 1992
    42.1  I AM the Witness - October 11, 1992

Vol. 35 No. 42 - Beloved Lord Maitreya - October 11, 1992
FREEDOM 1992
"Joy in the Heart"
XVII
To Restore the Christhood of America!
Return to the One God
The Question Is Not Can You but
Will You Turn the World Around?

     I AM Maitreya. And I come to restore the Christhood of America! [33-second standing ovation. Congregation gives the salutation:]

     Hail, Maitreya! Hail, Maitreya! Hail, Maitreya!

     Hail, Maitreya! Hail, Maitreya! Hail, Maitreya!

     I AM Maitreya in the heart of the Goddess of Liberty, in the hearts of all Cosmic Beings, devotees, Lightbearers in all octaves.

     I AM that Maitreya. I AM that Cosmic Christ. And I come first and foremost to restore you, the Lightbearers of America and the world, to that God-estate of your individual Sonship. Oh, hear me, beloved ones, and come with me to that place of your Christhood! [14-second standing ovation] Please be seated, beloved ones.

     Now visualize the secret chamber of your heart, a beautiful altar set by your Holy Christ Self and high priest. It is a magnificent altar and it is erected according to the style and design and preference that comes forth out of your own Causal Body of Light. Should you see this altar with your outer eye or your inner eye, beloved ones, you would say, "This is just what I wanted!" And so, beloved, you did "want"0 it until you saw it. Now you no longer lack it, for [you see that] it is indeed your very own altar, tended by your very own high priest.

     Beloved ones, I say to you, rise to the standard of the Christ in you! (Remain seated but let your soul rise.) Rise to the level of the true person that you are, to the true dignity and honor that life has given to you. Oh, such a mighty bestowal!

     Walk, then, in the dignity of your Christ Self and use the mantra of Padma Sambhava. Use that mantra, beloved ones, and let it ring in your soul and your heart! This mantra is sufficient that you might be obedient to Lord Gautama each day.1 Give it thirty-three times and celebrate your soul's ascent each day to the secret chamber of your heart, to the altar of being.

     Life is empty when you do not do this. And yet when you do not do it, beloved, you do not even know just how empty your life is or how full it can be when and if you enter in to [the practice of] keeping your appointment with Maitreya, with Gautama Buddha, with the Bodhisattvas. Give it thirty-three times, beloved ones:

     Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum!

     In the victory of the God Flame, become who you are and no longer walk the earth allowing yourself to be subdued by any human consciousness, any carnal mind, any individual who would have you, whether your soul or your body or your wealth or your wife or your children, et cetera. Beloved ones, judge, then, by the judgment of your Christhood: Why do individuals approach you? And if they approach for the reason that is the right reason, then give to them of the life and living waters of your Christhood.

     Daily - I say, daily - merge with and celebrate your Holy Christ Self and your threefold flame. The songs to the Holy Christ Self are truly inner hymns of the heart. They are beautiful. Sing them! Give the mantras of the threefold flame, especially "Keep My Flame Blazing!"2 Oh, if you only knew how often you are in danger of snuffing out that threefold flame, you would sing that mantra daily!

     Beloved ones, if life is not permanent here, then nonpermanence and its nonpermanent state ought to give you pause and serious concern. And if you are in a wrong place in consciousness, you should understand why you have anxiety [or, if you don't, why you should]! Why, I would be anxious myself if I had not forged and won that link that is the tie to my Guru, if I had not made my peace with God, if I had not confessed my sins and written my letter of confession asking to receive a penance.

     Beloved ones, it is necessary that you see yourselves aligned as anchors of God in the earth, the mighty anchor showing the cross of Christ, anchoring [the power of God. Because] that anchor, beloved ones, is the power of God in you whereby you walk right on the right path and you walk straight and you raise the Christ up in you.3

     And all who desire that Christ, all who have the capacity to see that Christ will love you and will come unto you because you raise it up. And then again, beloved, because you raise it up, all who have enmity with Christ, all who hate that Christ will revile you: they will persecute you, they will do it again and again.

     And I, Maitreya, say to you, So what! [10-second applause]

     Be tough! Be tough students of Maitreya and understand that this will continue until that Christhood becomes as fearsome as vajra! vajra! vajra! vajra!4

     So, beloved, when you become that Christ Presence, the majority of [your persecutors] will flee! And they will flee rather than persecute, for they have been forewarned by that mighty aura [of your Christ Presence] that extends and extends.

     Beloved hearts, this type of pain is not to be avoided. This type of pain must be dealt with directly by the fire of the heart, by the love of God, by the violet flame and the violet flame Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.5 After all, beloved, there is not anyone in this congregation this day who does not have personal karma.

     Therefore, recognize that many come that you might accelerate the balancing of your karma. Do it now! I have a plan for every one of you. You have a destiny that I will help you fulfill. Let's get on with it! Let's see that acceleration!

     If you cannot find any karma descending upon your head today, then give the violet flame and let the violet flame go out and meet tomorrow's karma and the next day's karma and the next year's karma and clear the way until the entire circumference of your universe is cleared of that karma and you are free to act purely as the bodhisattva.

     And in the givingness of your heart and in the expansion of your heart and in the guarding of your heart for the little ones who need you, for the Lightbearers who will call to you, beloved ones, do not give away one erg of Maitreya's energy, of your Holy Christ Self's energy to those individuals who are a bottomless pit, who will swallow it up, who will drink and drink and drink from your fount until they are full and you are dry.

     Now, what kind of a circumstance is this, I say?

     It is not good.

     So, you are given Light to increase your strength. You are given Light against the day when you do meet the Adversary personally, the embodied Antichrist. Therefore, let there be the concentrate of Light so that you are ready - ready to heal, ready to rebuke, ready to love, ready to be who you are when God says to you, "This day, my son, this day, my daughter, step forth on that dais on that stage and proclaim to the world the word of your own Christhood!"

     O America, I, Maitreya, call to you today! I call to the souls of the good people, the God people. Rise to the level of the Sacred Heart of your Jesus Christ! Rise to the Immaculate Heart of your most beloved Mother Mary! Rise to the Immaculate Heart! Rise to the Immaculate Heart! Rise to her heart and love her, for she does contain in that heart the divine resolution for this nation and every nation under God.

     And when I say I will restore America to her Christhood, I am speaking of America as the I AM Race and [I am speaking of] the I AM Race embodied in every nation, in every race, in every area of the planet.6 I come to restore that Christhood in you who have let it go down. And some of you have let it go down to the very ground and you have lost that Light.

     I AM Maitreya. I come in the name Vishnu. I come in the name Krishna. I come in the name Maitreya, Maitreya, Maitreya. For I AM THAT I AM Maitreya! And I AM in the heart of all Buddhas. And therefore, all Buddhas rejoice as they take their positions around the earth, and there is such an antahkarana of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas this day circling the earth, beloved ones! You would see, therefore, if you could see, the spacecraft vanish, disappear in absolute fright. They have flown! Blessed ones, understand this: they do not come nigh the Buddhas.

     You are the Buddha. The seed of Buddha is in you. Water it, raise it up, become it! Do not delay. Your greatest problem as students of the Ascended Masters is your procrastination of your Godhood, which is here and now a cosmic reality!

     Now let me say: Watch yourself this day and tomorrow. See what your actions are and what they are not. Pattern them after the actions of the great avatar, after what you know very well Jesus would do, Krishna would do, Lord Gautama would do. Watch yourself and see how close, by the vibration of the love of your heart, you can come to your idea of what is that true Christ-manifestation of yourself.

     First and foremost, be kind. Simply be kind. Be kind in word. Be kind in the generous giving of yourself. Be kind in your thought toward others and not critical. Be kind in your feelings. Be kind in your demeanor. And think of kind things and helpful things to do. You are in a positive spin when you make kindness, as the quality of the Buddhas, your first and foremost thrust whereby you encounter, meet and talk with people.

     Let kindness, then, become compassion. Let compassion fulfill the law of the Bodhisattvas. And let compassion be unto the Lightbearers and let sympathy not descend in agreement with the dweller-on-the-threshold or the carnal mind of anyone. If the scheme is wrong, it is wrong. Say so and be done with it, and do not toy with a compromise of the Law. If something is right, and it is right, then stand for it. And be certain that you know which is which.

     Beloved ones, the first point of restoration of the Christhood of America, [the place where] the I AM Race of the world [gather], I say, is the restoration of right music and right sound. Music and sound can carry the heart and the soul to the octaves of their source. Great music has come forth out of the higher octaves in all centuries. And very good music has come out of these planes that is the Ascended Master music that you use.

     Beloved ones, it is not a question of denying rock music and rap. It is a question of displacing it - displacing it, I say! [17-second applause] [Listening to] rock music, rap and every other kind of dissonance out of hell, I tell you, is an addiction, a very deep addiction. And it becomes the addiction of the Kundalini that is driven downward instead of upward.

     How do you liberate a soul from that addiction?

     Well, beloved ones, I will tell you the same story [I have told you before] and I will tell it again and again: There is a false hierarchy that has purveyed this dissonance out of Death and Hell in the earth and purveyed it unto the children in their midst.7 And that false hierarchy can be bound and taken by the call for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold, by the call to the Dhyani Buddhas and the Buddha of the Ruby Ray, and by the Ruby Ray calls. Yes, beloved ones, the fallacy is to think that the situation is insurmountable.

     Return to the one God!

     How many gods are in this room?

     ["One!"]

     One God, absolutely omnipotent. And therefore, you see, that one God, as in the person of Elijah,8 can swallow up all of the false gods, all of their attempts to deny the living God and the true God. One God is all. One God is powerful.

     And the many voices that come out of the fount of your Holy Christ Self can now overflow [that fount] and go directly into the core of the seed of the wicked and their entire false hierarchy out of Death and Hell. And believe you me, the personages of Death and Hell, down to the very thirty-third level, are listening to me now and they are listening to this Messenger, and they are trembling in your presence because they know that you have the key to the undoing of their grip-hold on the youth of the world! [32-second standing ovation]

     They are already taking counsel against you to create an antidote to the very power of God within you. Listen as I tell you what it is.

     It is, beloved, simple forgetfulness - forgetfulness that God is in you, forgetfulness of the power of the Word, forgetfulness that you are one with the Messenger, who embraces you with all of her heart and soul and mind, and therefore you cannot be divided from God, forgetfulness that decrees work, forgetfulness that you are a part of a worldwide body that is called the Great White Brotherhood, that you are one, as you are a Keeper of the Flame and you keep that flame, with all Ascended Masters, Archangels, Cosmic Beings, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Elohim, elementals and the very tiniest angel, your own body elemental, and that you are one with each other through the heart chakra. You are one, beloved! [10-second applause]

     This, then - this, then, is the plot: to allow you to believe the lie of separateness, aloneness, apartness. "The problem is so great, what can I do about it? I might as well not decree. The problem is too big for me."

     Well, indeed, it is too big for the lesser self. But with God - with God all [Congregation joins Lord Maitreya:] things are possible! With God all things are possible! With God all things are possible!

     Remember Igor, the unknown saint who kept the vigil with the blessed Mother of Jesus during the Bolshevik revolution.9 Blessed ones, that single isolated saint keeping the flame and keeping the tie to the Blessed Mother did prevent untold millions [from perishing] who would have been engaged in bloodshed and would have [indeed] perished.

     Think what you can do when the aura of God merges with your own because you are right with God, you are right with your soul and the Masters, you are right with the Messenger, you are right with Love and, through the mantra, through the decree, you are congruent with your Mighty I AM Presence.

     No matter what it takes, no matter what you have to turn your back on, no matter what habit you have to give up, I say make it your business, every Keeper of the Flame, this year to see to it that you cut all ties to anything that is a tie to Death and Hell, including all of that sugar! [12-second applause]

     Forgetfulness, separateness, aloneness, "the decrees don't work" - these thoughts are hammered on the brain and the soul. Worthlessness. "I should be normal. I should be doing other things that other people do. I should have a balanced life."

     Well, I tell you, beloved, souls are dying every day, bodies are dying every day. And the Mother of the World is praying daily for those souls on the astral plane. You are praying, the Messenger is praying. But, beloved hearts, many die because they entered the road of the downward spiral of this music of Death and Hell and therefore were pulled down into every kind of drug, every kind of addiction, including sexual addiction.

     Beloved ones, consider the youth of the world: by the time they are twenty or twenty-two they are spent and look the age of forty. What is this world coming to?

     I say it is coming to Death and Hell. And I say, God in you is the power to reverse this spiral. And when you get a hold on that dweller-on-the-threshold of this false music, you will begin turning around everything else.

     Beloved ones, there is no exception here. You have come to Maitreya's Mystery School. You have come to the Heart of the Inner Retreat. I have given you an instruction. I pray you, do not make the karma of failing to call daily for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold and the entire false hierarchy of Death and Hell, of rock music, rap music and all of the rest, including the drug culture.

     [10-second applause]

     Now, beloved, consider the meaning of the scripture from the Lord Christ: "With man nothing is possible. With God all things are possible."10

     You see, if you are not in the God-manifestation and in the God-vibration, you are not "with God." Things go wrong, they don't work. Schedules get off. You are here when you should be there and you encounter all kinds of opposition to what you are trying to do. The telephone is ringing off the hook. This one wants this, this one wants that. Yes, beloved, it is because you haven't taken time in the morning to be that God-manifestation. I speak to the recalcitrant ones who have denied their early morning calls for many years.

     Blessed ones, with man nothing is possible. Let the son of God reject the human and become the God-man from the point of awakening to the point of falling asleep. Then all things will be possible to him.

     Write out your map. List what you determine will happen in your life. Pour your energy into those specific pots. Nourish theLAST PG Vflame, repeat the call, see the blueprint, expect miracles and [by hard work] pull down the substance to make it happen!

     You know the teachings on the precipitation of supply, of projects and of all that you need to make your ascension. Apply the teaching! We cannot apply it for you, but we can answer, through you, every call you make.

     Thus, beloved ones, no more forgetfulness of self, of who you are and who the ones on the left-handed path are. Make no mistake. Try the spirits11 of people in embodiment. Try the spirits that whisper in your ear to confuse you.

     Yes, beloved ones, you are capable of turning around the world. The only question is: Will you do it? ["Yes!"] [21-second pause]

     [Congregation joins Lord Maitreya in the sounding of the Om:]

     Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

     Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

     Yes, the judgment has descended. The fourth woe12 is integrating with the people and the people are angry.13

     Yes, clean out what is before the eyes of all people through the motion-picture and television industry! Clean it out with Hercules and Amazonia! Lend your arm of the power of God to put down these fallen ones who re-create fallen Atlantis, Sodom and Gomorrah, and even worse, and put it before the eyes of children and people. This is the pulling down of the Goddess Kundalini. It does cause depravity, insanity, perversion and the death of the soul.

     By the same reasoning [of the Solar Logoi], by the same power one with God, be this body of Light! O beloved, prepare yourselves to be brides of Christ, to be communicants of Church Universal and Triumphant. It is a level of commitment that is not too hard for any of you, and yet that solid commitment enables you to have greater strength and the strength of a greater chalice - the chalice of the Bodhisattvas and the Buddhas, which you become a part of as you uphold the descending Light of the Church of heaven made manifest in the Church on earth.

     Who and what is the Church?

     You are the living Church, each one of you the temple of God. That is the only true Church on earth. When many souls of Light have [the consciousness of] the temple of the living God and determine to come together and make themselves white cubes inthat temple, then the edifice begins to rise in the etheric octave, which it is doing. But for some of you, the white stone14 is missing; for you think you will lose something rather than gain if you so declare that level.

     That level of declaration, beloved ones, is not to a human church but it is saying: "I am a part of the Mystical Body of God of the living Christ and the living Buddha of planet earth. I desire to anchor that presence and that body and that Light tangibly and physically. [This is] a commitment I desire to make in this octave [as I declare myself to be a communicant of Church Universal and Triumphant]." See, then, how the true spiritual siddhis15 come to you when you come into alignment more and more each day with your God.

     Beloved ones, it is surely the hour and past the hour to concentrate certain services for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold and the false hierarchy of Death and Hell through abortion, abortionists and the abortion laws. Abortion is first-degree murder of God within the womb of the Mother. I ask you to rescue mothers and fathers and children from the big lie that abortion equals rights - constitutional rights. This, beloved, is the turning inside out of the entire intent of God from the Beginning.

     As you have been told, beloved, so it is true that abortion is the critical factor in this nation and all nations, for it does create such a karma that wherever it is practiced it makes that nation vulnerable. May you quickly deliver the earth of this false notion and the diabolical lie that what is wrong is right - that it is right to kill the child in the womb. [It is not right:] it is murder,beloved. And so the karma for such action [is the karma of murder].

     Let the enlightenment go forth! Let the illumination go forth! Let the victory flame go forth! Let us not see on the astral plane fields and fields and fields of white markers, marking the place where souls have been denied life. Let us see these records cleared! Let us see all souls who have ever been aborted in this century have [their day and] their opportunity to come into life, to know God, to fulfill their reason for being and deal with their karma.

     I AM Maitreya. I seal you in my heart. I AM the warrior this day and I go forth with legions of Bodhisattvas, with Karttikeya.16 I go forth for the rescue of all life and I say, beloved, help me! Help me and let us have this victory! We have to have it!

     [29-second standing ovation]

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     This dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, July 4, 1992, during the ten-day conference FREEDOM 1992: "Joy in the Heart" held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana.

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     Mantras for Healing the Economies of the Nations

I AM the Light of the Heart
I AM the Light of the Heart
Shining in the darkness of being
And changing all into the golden treasury
Of the Mind of Christ.
 

     I AM projecting my Love
Out into the world
To erase all errors
And to break down all barriers.
 

     I AM the power of infinite Love,
Amplifying itself
Until it is victorious,
World without end! (9x)
 

     Mantra to Helios and Vesta
Helios and Vesta! Helios and Vesta! Helios and Vesta!
Let the Light flow into my being!
Let the Light expand in the center of my heart!
Let the Light expand in the center of the earth
And let the earth be transformed into the New Day! (9x)

I AM the Resurrection and the Life of My Finances

     1- *I AM! I AM! I AM! the Resurrection and the Lifeof my finances! (3x) Now made manifest in my hands and use today! *(33x)

     2- *I AM! I AM! I AM! the Resurrection and the Lifeof Church Universal and Triumphant finances and my own! (3x) Now made manifest in my hands and use today! *(33x)

     3- *I AM! I AM! I AM! the Resurrection and the Lifeof the tax-exempt status of Church Universal and Triumphant! (3x) Now made manifest in my hands and use today! *(33x)

     4- *I AM! I AM! I AM! the Resurrection and the Lifeof my finances and the U.S. economy! (3x) Now made manifest in my hands and use today! *(33x)

     I AM free from fear and doubt,
Casting want and misery out,
Knowing now all good Supply
Ever comes from realms on high.
I AM the hand of God's own Fortune
Flooding forth the treasures of Light,
Now receiving full Abundance
To supply each need of Life. (9x)

42.1  I AM the Witness - October 11, 1992

Vol. 35 No. 42 - I AM the Witness - October 11, 1992

     I AM the Witness

     The Mercy of the Law

     In October 1991 I had a gynecological exam, including extensive sonogram X rays of my pelvic area. The doctor told me that I had benign fibroids. Other than that, the results were entirely normal. In April of this year, I had another pelvic exam. The gynecologist told me that everything checked out normal but that she could feel something unusual on my ovaries. When I questioned her on this, she said that since I just had a pelvic X ray in October, she was at peace that there were no abnormalities in my reproductive organs.

     I was just about to accept her statement when an inner voice said: "You need to go for another pelvic X ray." Accustomed to receiving the occasional strong and clear message from somewhere within me, I answered the doctor with firmness: "I should go for another sonogram to make sure it is nothing to worry about."

     She looked at me, first surprised at my strong statement and then relieved. "I agree," she said, "I would feel better too." The first part of my miracle story is that I was given the grace to receive and hear this message.

     The sonogram revealed that I had a growth on each ovary. One was 6 cm x 3 cm and the other one only a little smaller. The radiologist showed me the pictures and told me that he would fax the results to my doctor in the morning. He looked very serious and indicated that there was a possibility that the tumors were malignant.

     By noon the next day, an associate of my doctor who was looking after her patients in her absence, phoned and scheduled me to see her the same day. She told me that I needed surgery immediately. Since we knew from my previous check-up that these tumors grew to this size in just a few months, it could be assumed that they were not benign.

     The gynecologist explained that cancer of the ovaries is a very aggressive cancer and, unless it is detected in its earliest stages, the survival rate is slim. In stage one it can be overcome by a total hysterectomy. In the later stages it is fatal 80 to 90 percent of the time. She told me there was a 50 percent chance that I had cancer and that I might have to have a complete hysterectomy.

     I felt an immediate rapport with this doctor. During the preoperative planning, she assured me that if I were her sister, she would not advise me differently. The operation was scheduled for one week hence. As I did not have the same confidence in my regular gynecologist, I felt that God had guided all these events so that they would unfold at the precise moment when everything would be in place, including the right surgeon.

     Upon hearing of the gravity of my situation, my husband and I were very concerned. My first reaction was fear of having cancer and the possibility of death either from the disease or during surgery (which the doctor had pointed out was a possibility). I could actually sense the death entity around me.

     I knew I had to talk to Mother and ask her for a call of intercession. When I phoned her and told her my problems, her compassion and love made me feel secure and safe. Mother proceeded to make powerful fiats on my behalf. Instantly, I felt my entire body chemistry changing. I knew that healing was happening in my reproductive organs right while she made the call.

     Mother continued her call, commanding the tumors to stop growing that very instant. She prayed for hope to my ovaries, hope to the uterus, hope to my entire body. After I hung up the phone, I was in a state of total peace. I knew with a certainty that the tumors would not grow anymore and that immense healing had taken place. I was filled with hope, love and gratitude.

     A week later when I awoke in the recovery room, my doctor told me the good news that I did not have cancer. She had removed my right ovary, which had been destroyed by endometriosis, and a very large fibroid from my uterus. The left ovary had a normal ovulation-cycle cyst and no signs of a tumor could be detected.

     My hospital stay lasted four days. Every time I woke up during the night, I saw the image of the monstrance from the altar at King Arthur's Court at the foot of my bed. It radiated brilliant light, covering my bed. I have a very strong belief in the power of the monstrance. As is recounted in the story of Saint Clare, the Saracens were driven back when she held up the monstrance. I knew that Mother had placed the monstrance at the foot of my bed as a protection and that she was with me all the time.

     Later Mother told me that El Morya had stated that my situation was karmic and that if I had not been transmuting my karma at an accelerated pace, I would have passed from the screen of life. (I have been in the Teachings twelve years and on staff five years.)

     It is now three months after my surgery and I feel healthier and stronger than I have in many years. I am witnessing to the power and authority of Mother to intercede on behalf of her chelas and her commitment to assist them to fulfill their divine plan. I am grateful to Mother and Lanello for numerous instances of personal intercession and healing and especially for teaching me how to balance karma through the gift of the violet flame and service to the Brotherhood.

     I know that there is no better or more important friend on the Path than our most beloved Mother. My gratitude and love to her always.

     P.S. I urge all women everywhere, regardless of age and health, to have regular medical pelvic exams every six months. As I can attest, sickness and karma can come upon one quickly and without warning.

Bibliography

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Volume 35, Number 42, footnote 12. In Hindu tradition, Karttikeya is the god of war and commander-in-chief of the army of the gods. He is also known as Skanda, the son of Shiva - and as Kumara, "the holy youth." In the Chandogya Upanishad (7.26), Skanda is identified with the Vedic sage Sanat Kumara. According to Yogic teachings, he represents the power of chastity. Margaret and James Stutley write in Harper's Dictionary of Hinduism that he was born when Shiva, who, "having attained complete mastery of his instincts, applied his sexual energy to spiritual and intellectual ends." This is illustrated in the many legends that tell of Karttikeya being born motherless and from the seed of Shiva that fell into the Ganges. Veronica Ions writes in Hindu Mythology: "There on the banks of the river arose a child as beautiful as the moon and as brilliant as the sun. This was Karttikeya. As he appeared on the bank of the Ganges the six Pleiades, daughters of six rajas, came to that spot to bathe. Each of them claimed the beautiful boy, and each wished to give him the breast; so Karttikeya acquired six mouths and was suckled by all of his foster-mothers." Vasudeva Sarana Agravala explains this myth: "The power of the virile seed, preserved through penance and complete chastity, is called Skanda or Kumara. So long as, in the practice of yoga, complete control is not attained, Kumara is not born, and the mind is ever put in check by desires, that is, the gods are defeated by the demons." Legends say that Karttikeya was born specifically to slay the demon Taraka, who symbolizes the lower mind, or ignorance. Karttikeya is often depicted holding a spear (which represents illumination) and riding on a peacock (which represents the ego). Karttikeya slays ignorance with his spear of illumination. According to one story, a demon whom Karttikeya defeated cried, "Your weapon has shattered my ego!" A. Parthasarathy writes in Symbolism in Hinduism that "the wielding of [his spear] of annihilation symbolizes the destruction of all negative tendencies which veil the Divine Self." In mystic tradition, Karttikeya is known as Guha (cave) because he lives in the cave of the heart. (See Margaret and James Stutley, Harper's Dictionary of Hinduism: Its Mythology, Folklore, Philosophy, Literature, and History [New York: Harper and Row, 1977], p. 282 n. 3; Veronica Ions, Indian Mythology [London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967], p. 88; Vasudeva Sarana Agravala, Kalyana, Siva anka, 1937, p. 501, quoted in Alain Danielou, The Gods of India: Hindu Polytheism [New York: Inner Traditions International, 1985], p. 299; and A. Parthasarathy, "Subramanya-Karthikeya," in R. S. Nathan, comp., Symbolism in Hinduism, 2d. ed. [Bombay: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, 1989], p. 151.)

Footnotes:

0 Want here is used in the sense of lack. Want [from Old Norse vanta, akin to Old English wan `deficient']: to be needy or destitute; to have or feel need; to lack.
1 Gautama Buddha assigned us "to give the mantra daily." See vol. 35 no. 41, pp. 523-25.
2 Hymns, songs, mantras and decrees to the Holy Christ Self and threefold flame in the Church Universal and Triumphant Book of Hymns and Songs and Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness:
hymn 29 "Introit to the Holy Christ Self"
hymn 30 "Call to the Threefold Flame"
hymn 31 "Christ, Light My Way!"
hymn 32 "Light of the Threefold Flame"
hymn 33 "O Mighty Threefold Flame of Life"
song 34 "Balance the Threefold Flame in Me"
hymn 35 "Holy Christ Flame"
hymn 36 "Keep My Flame Blazing"
song 37 "Deep in My Heart"
devotion 0.06 "O Mighty Threefold Flame of Life"
affirmation 0.07A "I AM the Light of the Heart"
decree 20.03 "Balance the Threefold Flame in Me"
mantra 30.01 "Keep My Flame Blazing"
invocation 30.02 "Introit to the Holy Christ Self"
3 See Gautama Buddha on "The Thoughtform of the Anchor," vol. 35 no. 20, pp. 249-72.
4 Vajra is a Sanskrit word rendered as thunderbolt or diamond; adamantine; that which is hard, impenetrable; that which destroys but is itself indestructible. It is also a scepterlike symbol of the thunderbolt, representing the adamantine nature of Truth. It is taught that the vajra cleaves through ignorance and symbolizes the indestructible nature of the Buddha's wisdom and the victory of knowledge over illusion.
5 Bodhisattva (with a capital B) refers to an advanced disciple or initiate; bodhisattva (lower case b) refers to a disciple. The day that one decides to enter the Path - to stand, face and deal with his karma - he becomes a bodhisattva.
6 The word America is composed of seven letters, which form the words I AM Race. The term "I AM Race" refers collectively to a group of souls from all nations who have one thing in common: they all have an I AM Presence and threefold flame.
Mantras for Healing the Economies of the Nations
I AM the Light of the Heart
7 As recorded in The Forgotten Books of Eden, the children of Jared were lured down the Holy Mountain of God by the sensual music of the children of Cain. Jared was a descendant of Seth, the son born to Adam and Eve after Cain slew Abel. See "Prologue on the Sons of Jared" (taken from the Second Book of Adam and Eve), in Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil, pp. 353-63. A reading from the Second Book of Adam and Eve on the sons of Jared is included on the 8-audiocassette album Enoch, A8295; also available separately on 90-min. audiocassette, B8295.
8 I Kings 18:17-40.
9 Igor's vigil for Mother Russia. See 1988 PoW, Book I, vol. 31 no. 33, pp. 253, 254 n. 3; and 1972 PoW, vol. 15 no. 53, pp. 217-18.
10 "With God all things are possible." Matt. 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 18:27.
11 I John 4:1.
12 The fourth woe. See vol. 35 no. 33, pp. 437-38.
13 Rev. 11:18.
14 Rev. 2:17.
15 Siddhis [Sanskrit, roughly translated as "perfect abilities"]: supernatural powers acquired through the practice of yoga. These include clairaudience, clairvoyance, the ability to read thoughts, knowledge of previous births, levitation, dominion over the elements, and the ability to make oneself invisible.
16 In Hindu tradition, Karttikeya is the god of war and commander-in-chief of the army of the gods. [4]