Superior Index Go to the next: Chapter 8
Print Files: A4 Size.
My beloved children, I welcome you to the heart of God and to the heart of Shamballa. Be still and know that the God Flame within me is the God Flame within you. And where you have lost that flame, I place the mirror image of my own flame in your heart that by that image you might build anew solid foundations out of the flame of the Divine Mother; for therefrom do spring the threefold flames of that divinity from the Beginning.
You who know my heart, know that I am a practical Buddha. And as I hold the office of the Lord of the World, surely I do bring to you the practical understanding of what is taking place in your own psyche, in your soul and mind and heart, in your life, in your karma - what is your position on the Path.
I bring to you as well my spherical awareness of matters pending in the earth. I give you a special sword, beloved, to use to pierce the millions of veils of maya that are a smoke screen for what is really taking place in the earth.
Zarathustra has accompanied me this night and likewise Melchizedek and many Ascended Masters who are adept in the use of the fire of God. And we are lighting fires of rainbow rays in hearts of devotees and in many across the miles of earth. We are seeking to poke holes through the levels of maya with fire and with the sword.
The sword we give is one that you can wield in your finer bodies. And when you use the physical sword of Archangel Michael, this sword shall also be superimposed upon it. Use the sword of the mind, beloved, to assist many in seeing clearly what is and is not reality on planet earth.
As you are now in these moments entering the new year, I must wish you a new year of enlightenment, a new year, yes, of the ode to joy - the joy of enlightenment, the one-pointedness of the desire of the heart desiring God, and truly the compassionate love, which is the means to the granting of all of your hopes and all that faith allows through the action of charity.
Yes, beloved, it is a wondrous thing indeed to enter the new year sensing one's own maturity, one's own becoming of age, and certain elements of the Path, parting the way of struggle and opening the New Day for the adept that you have determined to become.
I welcome your letters and so do the Lords of Karma.1 We are eager to assist you, to give you more insight, spiritual sight and true vision.
Call upon the powers of your God Presence! Seek the empowerment of your Christ Self! And if you have not the good karma to carry these powers, then invoke them in the name of God and ask that your Mighty I AM Presence and Holy Christ Self shall act for you and in your name to right the wrongs of the civilizations of this planet.
There are many inequities in the earth but, beloved, do not make the mistake of thinking that you are powerless to address these. For the power of the Word of God is infinite. The power of the devotion of your heart harnesses that Word. Therefore, the single call of the single devotee can result in the turning around of issues of major proportions that have defied solutions for centuries.
Yes, the Holy Spirit, the Maha Chohan, has come to you and blessed you with great love this night. And you have learned to appreciate how high is the vibration of so great a love and how great must be the inner stillness to receive it. Yet fret not, beloved, for there is no love lost in a cosmos that shall not return to you in its own good cycle, even as you, in the meanwhile, become such a great magnet of comforting love.
Yes, beloved, you live in planes of being. You live in compartments of time and space. But you do know that the permanent atom of your being, the portion of you that is God-Reality, is the all-power of God in manifestation. Therefore, since you make the call in the name of that God-Reality, so understand that it is fulfilled and multiplied by the eternal Word.
Hasten, then, to the altar of God.
Where else shall you hasten to but to the Lord, who has the Word of Life?2 - to the point of the flame of the sacred fire, there to be at peace, to be willing to let the walls strip you of the nothingness that you need no longer so that you can be the fullness of that somethingness that is the eternal suchness, the Be-ness, yes, even the flame of the mind of Buddha.
See the flame that burns before you3 and realize that a single flame is a part of the great conflagration of worlds. And the conflagration of worlds has also begun, for this is the signification of the change into the new year. [And it is because] the forces of Light are gaining a great hold in the battle that the conflagration has already started.
A mighty torch has been lit this night by Sanat Kumara and that torch is placed in the sheaves of the earth and in the sheaths of the earth.4 Thus, layers are being consumed even as the sword does cut and continue to cut those veils of illusion.
And a fire burning is the fire of God, a sacred fire, a violet flame, if you will - flames in all dimensions and vibrations. Alchemy is taking place. Let it reach your heart. Let it reach your body and your mind.
Yes, beloved, the Holy Spirit will perform a mighty work in you if you place yourself at that point of availability, that point of oneness, that point of the childlike heart, that point of trust, simple trust in God.
Oh, the industriousness of the saints! Oh, those who have the activity of the Lord and of the Divine Mother! Yes, action bears much fruit.
Waste no more time in idle chatter. I need that energy, beloved, and so do you. Many fiats must be given ere the danger is over. And you must continue to know that the enemy never gives up and never concedes your victory.
As El Morya says, take nothing for granted. But determine that your heart in the will of God shall become as steel and more, aye, the diamond of the vajra5 of the Buddhas. Yes, beloved, such a will and a determination has won many a battle but, of course, the action must thrust through.
Now then, are we not pleased that the Divine Mother in such a stance of the white fire of the wrath of God does come to rescue her children and to defeat the false hierarchy of fallen ones?
Many cosmic moves are being made by our God, and these moves have come about for the return of momentums that have a very wide cycle in the cosmos and that are coming full circle to pass through the earth. Signs and wonders of great glory in the heavens appear even as Darkness and the Dark Ones rage. And the devotees who are in tune with the alchemy of worlds understand this process, oh, so well.
The thoughtform of the year, beloved, is also the Great Tao. But within the Tao are the worlds within worlds of turning, all of the points of manifestation in seed form in dots of Light that shall go forth to become worlds in themselves.
Thus, the manifestation of balance of cosmic forces is the key to the victory in this year and decade and age. When you hold in your heart and body this balance of Light within Light, then know that the power of God that can manifest in you can work wonders beyond your sense of self.
Set aside that sense of self and develop the sense of the God Self. And know, then, that angels of the LORD God of hosts will surely come to you personally, each one. Their means of entry is your settlement with yourself and your God of the imbalances, the injustices and all compromises of the Great Law.
By love you can do this, beloved, for in love you truly have no other desire but God. Your mind may tell you otherwise. The subconscious and unconscious records may scream for recognition. Yet, beloved, in the heart of your being and in the soul unencumbered by the carnal mind, there is that one true love and only that love and only that desiring for God and God and God. And, beloved, that one desiring is the opening of the great stream of Life.
Balance is represented this year in the thoughtform of the scales as well as that of the Great Tao and other symbols that convey to levels of the mind keys to the unconscious that tell the soul that this is truly the year for Divine Justice in every way. Thus those riders, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, are even now bringing forth the judgment that is Divine Justice, which does separate out the soul from the momentums of the Wicked One.
Yes, justice and balance and the Alpha-to-Omega and the in and the out of the divine breath - all these things you must come to know in the temple that God has given you. And there in that temple there does burn the flame of Life.
What do you think? Do you think God is mocked by the mockery of the Soviets or those out of the West who compromise with them, who have believed the Lie and whose judgment will be just?6
God is not mocked! The true chela is not mocked! And you will see the turning of many worlds.
But above all, beloved, let the call descend from your God Presence and let the call ascend from your heart to God for defense at every level and for the All-Seeing Eye of God to both quicken the Lightbearer and expose the misery of the miserable ones who have no relenting in their pursuit of war and world domination.
Almost daily the reports come forth that the Soviets, whether separate or together, continue to amass weapons, to build their machines of war and their rockets. Yes, beloved, it is true. The preparations of war are observed by the intelligence sources of the West and by the Brotherhood of Light.
Yet, those who are led by Darkness and not Light in the leadership of this nation and many nations are determined to deny the facts in favor of their own favored image in history. They shall go down in infamy for their betrayal of a world. Small comfort to those who shall experience that compromise unless all rally to the call that Saint Germain has declared [to see to it that there shall be no compromise, but only the cutting of the rope of the betrayers].
Yes, moment by moment the battle is being won. If there is such a thing as "in the nick of time," beloved, you ought to invoke it. For that will be the nature of the victory, if you indeed have the total victory that we desire for you.
Rest assured that none of you who calls shall be without many legions of angels to do the bidding of the Word of God through you. Rest assured, however, that this victory is in your hands. And we, in one sense of the word, have our hands tied; for we are not the players on the stage of life today as we were yesterday. That role is reserved for you.
Of however small importance you may deem yourself vis-a-vis your fellows and peers, I can assure you that you who have the flame of the altar of God and the power of the spoken Word are truly a part of our bands, having representatives and friends at the courts of heaven. We do everything but do your job for you and we are grateful when we may enter by intercession in answer to your call.
Angels of far-off worlds who serve the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the Christed ones on the Second Ray of God's illumination - they are moving toward the earth, beloved; for they have been called to make their appearance for the remainder of the decade. Archangel Jophiel with his beloved consort, Christine, does act as the welcoming committee for these legions.
I cannot even tell you the rejoicing in the earth of the angels of the Second Ray, who now have tenfold their own numbers to reinforce them in all that they must accomplish for the youth of the world, for the enlightenment of the people, for the transfer of knowledge of what is and is not real in the land, for the rescuing of so many from self-ignorance, self-imposed and self-willed.
Blessed hearts, this is the great boon that will make possible the balance of the Tao and of justice and of cosmic forces within you! It is the assignment to planet earth, for an indefinite number of decades, of these reinforcements of the Second Ray. And, oh, how they are bright and filled with hope! How they come to enter a world of such ignorance to dispel the five poisons,7 to introduce those who have an ear to hear and a heart that is ready to the Buddhas of the five secret rays and to the path of the Bodhisattvas!
They come with the great hope with which all of our bands have come to earth, beloved. And we rejoice to see the freshness of their spirits not yet burdened with nor bowed down by so great an assignment on planet earth as the dispelling of ignorance itself.
Have not all of the Buddhas come for that purpose, and the avatars and all to whom you call?
And have you not also come to that purpose?8
Yes, to light a candle in the dark where you are.
Glory unto God, beloved, that Alpha and Omega have so responded, that these angels have responded! And many of them have come and their dispensation has been granted by the very response of many to the call of Omri-Tas and Saint Germain.9
They see illumination's golden flame as a parallel lifeline to that of the violet flame. Thus, beloved, you may rejoice now in such a great boon as this and become a part of Jophiel and Christine's welcoming committee this night.
Won't you stand and offer them your blessings?
[Congregation makes a joyful noise unto the LORD.]
May you see, beloved, much illumination coming forth on many matters. This is a time for exposés of all of the cover-ups in the many fields and branches of human knowledge and science and education and medicine and health and so many areas, beloved, which, though they seem to be advanced, are yet in their infancy.
Whatever happens to be your field of endeavor, your calling in life, these angels and their legions of Light can open doors and doorways into octaves unprobed by most of the people in embodiment today. By making contact [with them] through the yellow sphere of golden illumination's flame of your own Causal Body, you can open doors of retreats and of heaven with these angels.
We are convinced that the Lightbearers in the earth who will respond will become the leaven in the entire Mystical Body of God that will heal the breach in religion and the misunderstanding of one to another and the prejudices and the denial of one to another of that freedom to enter in to the same flame of illumination of the original founders of the world's major religions.
Think of all the avenues of ignorance whereby the people suffer in mind and heart and body and soul for want of what could be theirs. Think of these angels, beloved, who have such great hope and such oneness in the crown chakra with all other Lightbearers of a cosmos that they should desire to come to assist Saint Germain and you to clear the way for the golden age by that golden flame, yes, the golden age of Aquarius. See how there are some in a cosmos who plan for a golden age even before a victory is won.
Rejoice, beloved, for there is hope, hope in the beginning of this conference and hope in the ending.10 Yes, there is hope for each and every one of you and especially if you should truly take to heart and to body the teachings the Messenger has presented.11
You know, beloved, it is most dangerous to take and leave, take this and leave that, thinking that sometimes our representative is right and sometimes she is wrong. Beware of this, beloved, and rather seek by a novena to your Holy Christ Self to have your own Christ Mind quickened that you might also better have the discrimination that does not come through the lower mind.
Beloved hearts, the illumination you have received in this lifetime through this activity is a blessing to your soul forever. I, Gautama, commend you to the compassionate heart, that having so great many gifts of salvation [daily], you [may continually] give them away before your pack becomes more filled than that of Santa Claus and you can hardly carry it around.
Give gifts away, beloved, for they fly back to you multiplied many times over! Oh, in gratitude give of yourself and watch and see how you become the more refined self and the Greater Self!
Oh, such a joy of bequeathing to a world the flame of illumination! It has been my joy for many aeons, beloved. This day and night may you enter the joy flame of the bodhisattvas, who have made it and are making it on the Path because of their devotion to Kuan Yin and the quality of mercy. In seeking balance of the Tao in your heart and mind, therefore, beloved, remember that to give mercy is to open the door of mercy from God to your heart as never before.
Oh, the merciful heart of Kuan Yin! Is it not the opening of the way to Amitabha? And if to Amitabha, then, of course, to all the rest.
Let this be a joyous year, beloved. Let it be the most joyous year of your entire life in all eternity because you have illumination, because you have the promise of balance, because so many angels have come to your world this night and because of a thousand and ten thousand things that you have to be grateful for.
Go forth with joy, beloved, and the "Ode to Joy." Let us hear, then, the balance of that piece where we left off when we began.12
I hold you to my eternal heart, O beloved, each one of you precious to me. When I take you to my heart, beloved, I impress upon you the imprint of my heart and the message that returns:
"I love you. I love you. I love you."
I AM with you in a most practical way day by day.
And Love is practical, n'est-ce pas?
Be at peace, beloved. No matter where you are or what you do, peace is the key to the solution of the problem. And I AM that peace with you. Amen, beloved.
This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1991, during the six-day conference The Rapture of Divine Love held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. During a candlelight vigil which began shortly before the dictation, the congregation sang to the Lord of the World and meditated upon a statue of the Buddha superimposed upon scenes from the Inner Retreat. An excerpt from the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was played as the meditation music before Gautama's address. Dictation available on 90-min. audiocassette, B92012. [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Gautama Buddha's direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
I have delayed writing my eyewitness ("I witness") account of what the Ascended Masters and the Messengers have meant to me since I became a Keeper of the Flame because it is so difficult to select from the many wonderful and soul-enriching experiences.
In the first place, I, like many others, had reservations about the Teachings, which went so far beyond what I had learned from traditional Protestant Christianity. At my very first conference, I wondered about these strange and new (to me) beliefs - about the power of the spoken Word and the hosts of heaven being available to us. As I was pondering all this, I felt a hand on my shoulder and heard a voice, which my soul knew was the voice of Jesus, say: "Here is food for you, Kathleen." I rejoiced that the only Master I knew at that time had confirmed the Truth I sought.
Through the years, I have consistently "tried the spirits, whether they be of God," and I have always found the signs that led to my soul's confirmation. Like many Protestants, I had been denied the comfort of the Mother of God. Yet the very scriptures on which I was raised revealed to me that God is both Mother and Father and that we are created in the image of God, male and female (Genesis 1:27).
Mother, both you and Mark have shown in your lives the purity and integrity, the devotion and commitment that you encourage us to practice in our lives. I remember Mark putting frozen fruit in a food processor on the patio at La Tourelle in Colorado Springs and asking each person at the conference which flavor he or she would like. I'll never forget his beaming face as he served in this humble way only minutes after leading a worship service and delivering a message from an Ascended Master. This is only one example of the many times I have witnessed his humble devotion to service.
I witness to the many ways in which you have demonstrated the role of Mother. When the children were little, it was not unusual for you to have one of them on your lap in the chapel while Mark was giving a lecture. Between sessions, you and Mark often walked around with a child in your arms or clinging to your hand while you conversed with the conferees. You always treated all children with love and respect.
On one occasion a group of us were gathered to decree and you were about to light the candles when Erin (who was about four at the time) entered the room. You gathered her up in your arms and let her help you light the candles and blow out the match before she left with a staff member.
Your actions showed how understanding and loving you are. I thought then, "What a good mother!" You loved and accepted her, you allowed her to participate and help, and you required her to go to her duties. You provided an example that I have striven to follow.
I witness to the truth of the teachings that the Ascended Masters have given to us through the Messengers. On countless occasions, when I have been faced with a dilemma over what course of action to pursue, I have given decrees and asked guidance from the Masters. I have always been given indications of the path I should take and each time it has proven to be the right course.
I witness to your integrity in refusing to allow people to idolize you. I have taken to heart your constant reminders to follow the Masters by doing what they do and to become the Messenger and the Master where we are, following in their footsteps.
I witness to the joy that I experience through having a host of friends in heaven and on earth on whom I can count for support when faced with any of life's challenges.
Thanks to the Messengers and Church Universal and Triumphant, I know that "I am never alone but always all-one with God."
- Your chela on the path of personal Christhood,
When the Pupil Is Ready the Teacher Appears
Approximately one year before contacting the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, my life began to change. I became more attuned to solitude. I had the desire less and less to see friends, go to dinner, movies, museums, etc. I began to spend more and more time in my room studying the beautiful art books I had collected.
Well, one day I looked up from my book to see - as I had never seen before - a magnificent, luminous being made up of tiny points of light. He was shining in rainbow hue. At that moment his head was bowed but he began to raise his head and then smiled at me.
I never in this life saw anyone so beautiful. It was his smile that touched my heart. His vibration felt like pure Love and Peace. I was in a timeless moment. His vibration conveyed that he was contacting me and that was why my life was changing.
Afterward I ran to the other room, shouting to my roommate, "It must have been God! It must have been God!" My roommate was totally speechless (and probably still is).
Six months later at my first conference and first New Year's in the Teachings, I beheld the photo of beloved Lord Maitreya and recognized him as the one who came for me. Truly, I am grateful.
I Witness to the Law of the Tithe
The church was United Brethren, the home church of the denomination. It was on the campus of their school, Otterbein College, the first coeducational college west of the Allegheny Mountains. The communicants were retired missionaries from Africa, China, Japan, India, as well as college professors and students from foreign mission fields, and local people of a town of three thousand and the surrounding farm community.
I do not know if my folks tithed; I know they were generous with time and money to the church. From the time I was a teenager, I helped with church dinners and listened to the women talk as they prepared food. They often spoke of the hardships and pleasures of missionary work - fascinating stories. They discussed the various aspects of Christ's teaching that they were striving to embody in their families and as individuals, and the results attained from the efforts. One of the women was an ordained minister but she was never allowed to preach from the pulpit.
Because it was the home church, it conducted large conferences but there was no local lodging. The guests were bunked with professors and administrators of the college. College pay was dreadfully poor and it was a real hardship for some to provide food when they were required to house guests for any length of time. (When Otterbein College provided for an Air Force ROTC unit on campus, the Air Force captain made more money than the president of the college!)
My Girl Scout leader and her husband, the physics professor, tithed. That apparently was not the usual, as she was the only one I ever heard witness to it. I especially remember one time when this couple was required to house guests for a weekend. On that Friday morning, there appeared on the back step a bushel basket with two chickens, eggs, bacon, flour, bread, butter, vegetables - everything needed for the weekend. I knew this had meant much to her, for her eyes misted as she spoke of it. She could hardly speak and had to lower her head.
As a result of her witnessing, I made up my mind that tithing was one thing I would do when I married - and I did. Not one time have my husband and I missed. In our various crises, the financial problems have solved themselves - life insurance, car, vacation, college tuition, long separation due to TDY (temporary duty), as my husband was military. With college tuition increasing, I could see no way to have enough for the next quarter, but the interest from our savings increased proportionately and somehow our finances figured out to the penny!
In the military, everyone knows your exact income. I noticed that those who were well-organized and tithed seemed to be in better financial shape than most. But these were accused of having an outside income!
Twice I tried unsuccessfully to explain tithing to a group of church friends in the military. Truly, it is necessary to become a separate people, even with all of the barbs. Tithing has to be experienced and it has to be witnessed to.
- Grateful for my forty-four years of tithing,