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The Most Important Duty of All:
To Practice and Preach the Word of God
Twenty-First Anniversary February 26, 1994
I come to you out of the East from the Eastern Shamballa - "Great Shamballa of Eternity" - built in regal style on an island in the then Gobi Sea by devotees such as you who went before Sanat Kumara from Venus. They came for the establishment of his retreat and his reign in the earth whereby he would elevate the mankind of earth to a restored status through the threefold flame.
I have been in retreat at the highest octaves of the Eastern Shamballa.1 There I have remained that my aura might be imprinted with the thoughtforms, the language of the Spirit and the geometry of the Mind of God, which is inexhaustible. Wherefore I now place on this date and in this hour2 over this retreat in the northern Rockies the accelerated matrix for Maitreya's Mystery School.
As El Morya has sponsored me and my beloved, so then, you are also sponsored. This retreat was a bold adventure taken on by Maitreya3 after he did assess the lifestreams who have become a part of it even before they came and were led here and after he did assess the lifestreams who would make their way here from the four corners of the earth, lightly and joyously pursuing their dharma and balancing their karma, as you are also doing.
Many paths lead to this Summit, and more paths are being carved by the footprints of those who are on their way. Therefore, make straight thy paths,4 remember thy First Love, and remember that true union with El Morya is the key for every soul who affixes himself and his star to the chariot of the Lord Morya El. He is our sponsor. And how he has taken from his Causal Body gifts of the Spirit he has won and treasures of Light to bring you forward again and again!
This Mystery School under Lord Maitreya is intended to bring together the highest religious traditions of East and West, even those traditions that have come to you through the understanding we have brought to you in our dictations - traditions that had continuity even in unrecorded past golden ages.
The Middle Way is Lord Gautama Buddha's answer. There is a middle way in all things. Extremes to the right or to the left cause a burden upon the entire Community. And I speak of the Community worldwide, for all who are a part of Church Universal and Triumphant experience the Sangha where they are. In their actions they experience the Dharma, the Great Law that translates to them their life's calling, their duty (dharma) and their reason for being.5 And, of course, Lord Gautama Buddha ensouls the earth with his mighty aura and does reinforce the threefold flame in your hearts.
Precious ones, life is always at a turning point. And therefore, to so say that this Community is at a turning point is only to say the proverbial, because unless there is movement, there is neither growth nor life but only death from stagnation. The question then becomes: What is the direction for the community of the sannyasins who live here and those who practice the Law where they are so that they are also counted sannyasins?
The understanding can be found only in true and unadulterated love. The Buddhas have taught us, one and all, of the four pathways to the center of the heart of God - the path of sacrifice, the path of surrender, the path of selflessness, the path of service. Each of these four does bring you to the mastery of the four quadrants of being, your four lower bodies, that you might balance the four sides of your pyramid of life.
Sacrifice, surrender, selflessness and service are the jewels that come under the Three Jewels of the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. These jewels you carry close to your heart. They are indeed rubies.
Some of you have received, whether you reside here or in the farthest corners of the earth, rubies from the heart of this great Buddha or that great Buddha. You carry them in a pouch in the secret chamber of your heart. And some of you have won other stones of light for merit, whereby your hearts magnify the flame of God not only by the threefold flame but by these precious jewels that contain extraordinary light - more light than you can bear in your chakras, you see.
Now then, we come to the scene of karma balancing by chelas here and around the world. And in the steps and stages of life, some have come to the gift of marriage and the gift of family, and these are necessary aspects of your karmic path.
Karma yoga is the best yoga of all.6 There is something to be said of each of the yogas. But you walk the path of Saint Germain and of his Lady Portia and of the Lords of Karma and therefore you know that the equation is so much karma in one hand, so much time left of this embodiment in the other. And thus your goal is to strive for the 51 percent mark, to hold the line of that mark and then to exceed that mark.
When you have such a great calling and opportunity as you do to serve directly under the Ascended Masters, you can pass through light-years, as it were, of karmic circumstance. You who are serious in the probing of your psyches and the bringing to resolution of all situations within and without in karmic relationships - you who have the gift of the violet flame and Community and a sponsoring Guru - have such an opportunity as you would not have conceived possible in centuries past!
For over centuries and centuries and centuries, you have waited for the moment when you might be liberated to walk a spiritual path, to reestablish that cosmic connection that could not be broken except by yourself, by your free will, and at the same time to be able to fulfill the lawful desires that come in the stages of life as outlined in the Hindu tradition.7
So then, beloved, much good has come of Lord Maitreya's experiment. Yet on the other hand, there are some who have lost the vision of the Mystery School. "Where there is no vision, the people perish. But he that keepeth the law of I AM THAT I AM, happy is he."8
Therefore I say, without giving your calls to Cyclopea at least weekly, you may miss very important elements of your path that may only be uncovered by your inner sight. If you are too much involved in the world, you are involved in two-eyed vision and you stand to err in many things.
The Middle Way for the Community, then, is the path of love and the path of understanding what you have just heard in the readings from the Gita of the dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. Your engaging in the sacred path of karma yoga is the sealing and the guarantee that while tending to karmic circumstances, to family, to child rearing, you are not compromising your personal and private walk to the Great Central Sun. Thus you fulfill your dharma and not another's.
What Lord Maitreya would see here is a successful community where those who enjoy the gift and the privilege of marriage do not lose sight of the Path but cherish the sacred fire, conserving that sacred fire for the need of the hour. And the crucial need of the hour, of course, is enlightenment, the opening of the crown chakra.
Everything you do is lawful when you do it to the glory of God, when you do it through sacrifice, surrender, selflessness and service. But there comes a time when if you do not have a teacher, if you cannot weigh the pros and cons of everyday matters and balance the issues of your life, you can, without even realizing it, stray from the central purpose of your life: why you are here, what is the flame of your calling and what you are trying to prove according to Maitreya's formula.
Maitreya desires to see a community of those who pursue the Path either as sannyasins on a celibate path of nonmarriage or as devotees who marry and have children. He desires to see balance in every walk of life and in each of the castes that are set according to the Hindu tradition.9
So, beloved, let us not fail Lord Maitreya. Let us see the experiment succeed wherein Western and Eastern devotees, those from all over the world of varying traditions, can be at home on a path that is stern enough to keep all on the way to the Central Sun and yet free enough to allow all to make free decisions that are in keeping with the standard of Divine Love that meets the human need.
Blessed ones, it is because you are rising and because this Community is about to be made world known and to receive many, many pilgrims from many places that you find yourselves wrestling with the dweller-on-the-threshold of all forces opposing the four ruby jewels that you receive one by one for merit for victorious action on the ruby ray path. And so, it is time that you should immediately recognize when the warring in your members gets out of control in this direction or that direction.
The safest and most wonderful guarantee that you have of being God-centered is this altar of the Holy Grail - and its extensions that you have created in your centers and homes throughout the world. Coming to this altar daily, even if your workload is heavy, entering here and kneeling for fifteen minutes midst a busy schedule, reconnects you to the flame of the ark of the covenant that burns brightly on the altar at the etheric level.10
That flame reinforces your threefold flame, reinforces the God-dominion of your Christhood within you and protects you from straying too far from the center of life whereby you find yourselves frustrated on the periphery, your frustration then leading to annoyance and annoyance leading to anger and anger leading to an out-of-control state of consciousness.
There are many levels of lifestreams here. And by the grace of Saint Germain and the marvelous violet flame and the presence of Omri-Tas, you, beloved ones, have the ability to preserve a sense of equality amongst yourselves. For the violet flame in your aura is a factor of equalization.
Though some have much more karma than others, those with the heaviest karma can befriend, commune with, identify with and rejoice in those who have the least karma. That equalizing factor is found nowhere else except in the communities where the violet flame is known and invoked, extolled and loved.
Why, beloved, you can see how preposterous it would be for you to go back to the days when you might have been in a commune or some organization where the members embodied many noble principles but had not the gift of the violet flame or its transmutation and no sponsoring Ascended Master directly working through the leader.
So you see, beloved, even those who are still burdened with the crudities of this life or past lifetimes can secure refinement of the spirit and of the soul and of the mind and of their speech and of their livelihood in a community that is sponsored by the Great White Brotherhood, specifically this Community.
Now then, beloved, the violet flame intertwined with the ruby ray is a rod, and this rod is a stirring stick. And so when you reach a level where all is peaceful, your life is in order, you are in control, you have a certain level of happiness, you enjoy your work and there are not too many problems except those which the idle mind can conceive of and create out of nothing, along comes your Holy Christ Self and stirs up the fires and the ashes on the grate.
So into your electronic belt comes that stirring stick, the rod of the ruby ray, to turn over the wet leaves smoldering at the bottom of the pile. And your Holy Christ Self says, "It's time to bestir yourself, for I perceive that you need a new fire and a new kindling."
And all of a sudden in this peaceful world you have secured for yourself, sometimes with lock and key (not willing to budge another inch or to climb another foot up Himalaya's mountain), you find yourself overtaken by the wisdom of your Inner Self. For the wise one, your Holy Christ Self, your Teacher and your Initiator, comes to tell you that he will not allow you to rest in an illusory peace that is a relative peace, a surface peace but will show you that beneath that peace there is yet the warring in your members.
This stirring of the ashes of karma on the grate of the electronic belt is outpictured, then, in circumstances, in relationships, in very difficult situations that you never anticipated would come upon you - some tragedy, some illness, some sudden turn in the road of life that you call fate. And without warning it seems that everything in your life comes tumbling down and you must begin again, like Milarepa, to build from the ground up on a more solid foundation. Sometimes your Holy Christ Self will require you to build from scratch again and again and again if you are responsive to him and do not rebel against his stated goal for you: to come up higher.
You cannot remain where you are, in a static condition, a self-satisfied condition, and truly be a vessel of the light of Maitreya in his Mystery School. Fear not the challenge, but remember the words of Krishna: It is your dharma that you must fulfill and not another's.
If you were a pianist and that was your dharma, would you be content to play the same piece over and over again all day long? I trust you would not, beloved, even though it be a complex piece you had mastered. The newness of life is the daily challenge.
And I tell you, beloved, some of you do not yet distinguish between your own dweller-on-the-threshold, your ego, and the reality of who you are in your Christhood. Unless you are able to separate the unreality of your tyrant-ego dweller from your reality in Christ, you will be in defense of that dweller, thinking that it is your identity. And you will justify yourselves, whether it be through pride or argument or anger or the sense that someone has insulted you.
You will justify yourselves or your actions because you think, "This is me being threatened, being insulted." But, beloved, it is your dweller-on-the-threshold that is insulting the real you! And it is you who insult Maitreya by not binding that dweller!
What will the Lords of Karma and the Holy Kumaras say to you when you stand before them at the end of this life and see lying on the conference table all the tools you needed to overcome all untoward conditions that came upon you to test your mettle?
The Lords of Karma, one after the other, will say to you, "Well, you could have used this tool or that tool," until you finally come to the place where you have to admit sadly that, yes, you had everything you needed to overcome every test in this lifetime, to meet every initiation with joy, with victory, with determination, with astuteness of mind, with inner prayer and groanings and appeals to the Holy Ghost within your very own heart.
Yes, there may be groanings of the soul, beloved, yet you always know that the test is never too hard for you to pass and that you can pass it because you have so many tools at your disposal. As Paul wrote: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."11
Thus, we desire to bring here many souls of Light who have disciplined themselves in other traditions, such as those who have mastery in meditation or service, such as the sisters who serve with Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
Yes, beloved, this little woman had the courage to stand before the president, who is pro-choice, and to challenge all those who deny life through abortion and to champion the right to life of the unborn.12 This is something, beloved! Such courage denotes one who is an emissary, in her own right, of the Brotherhood - one who is fearless to stand before the leader of the most powerful nation in the world and to make that one uncomfortable. And suddenly the consciousness of the whole world changes because they have listened to the Mother of Calcutta!
This, beloved, shows the power of the sacred fire and of fohat that it is possible for you to garner in every chakra, that is possible for you to release even in quiet yet firm words. You are all mothers and fathers, even if but of your own inner child. Yet in the larger sense you are fathers and mothers of the world.
This Community must represent itself in you, the individual members, wherever you live on earth, in the embodiment of the great principles of the Eightfold Path taught by Lord Gautama Buddha.13 There is much you have to offer in the science of the spoken Word to those who are of the Eastern tradition. Padma Sambhava himself did prophesy that he would send in future centuries those to whom he would entrust the Word and the Teaching, which would be new in that time.14 And so he did entrust to your beloved Mother the teachings for this time.
There is great communion between Saint Germain and Padma Sambhava. For in the science of mantra, which you practice in the science of the spoken Word by giving your dynamic decrees, you have received the ancient tradition taught by Padma Sambhava for this hour.
Thus, a new teaching that is designed for the new dispensation of Aquarius is in your hands. And this tradition must be passed as a torch to those who are adherents of the world's major religions. As you become more and more familiar with their customs and traditions, you will find the perfect way to present this new teaching.
So in every century Padma Sambhava has sent his representatives. But I tell you, the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood has united behind this Teaching, this Cause. We have placed tremendous stock in the practices of this Path and in the way it has been taught by our Messengers in this century.
If you would like to practice these teachings but you cannot practice them by the hour, at least practice them regularly daily. Fifteen minutes in the court three times a day is worth far more than nothing at all. You need to come into the sanctuary and give your chakras a spin. Whether you are at the altars you have set up in your homes or at the altars you have set up in your sanctuaries, the Chart of Your Divine Self and the focuses of the Ascended Masters make you one, without time, without space, as do the great Ashram rituals that Morya gave to me.
These rituals, beloved, also make all Lightbearers throughout cosmos one, something that is almost incomprehensible and is incomprehensible to the human mind because the human mind simply does not venture that far. But your Christ Mind, your God Mind can show you the infinity of the web of light that connects all Lightbearers who maintain a certain standard in their prayers and rituals.
Blessed ones, that is the crux of my message. When you fall beneath a certain standard, then you literally drop out of the web of light, the antahkarana, which is your cosmic tie to the community of the Great White Brotherhood, worlds without end. There is a sustaining light and a sustaining presence that keeps you one with our bands, and here below that light and presence must be sustained by you.
Who else can sustain it? God will not win your victory for you and thereby make of you an eternal robot. No, you must sustain that level of contact with your Holy Christ Self and that light that is necessary and sufficient to support the restoration of your soul to oneness with that Christ. This is part of your work - the work that is your dharma.
So in the dharma, then, is the concept of duty - duty to understand that no human father or mother, no Ascended-Master father or mother can do your work or your dharma for you. If this is difficult for you to accept because others have done for you in your life what they should have allowed you to do for yourself, then you must cure yourself of being spoiled! For heaven will not spoil you. Neither will El Morya. He will spank you. And you will be happy for his spanking, for his spankings are waker-uppers!
Then you must say to yourself, "To what did El Morya awaken me?" He has awakened you to the awareness that some of you have allowed yourselves to become institutionalized right within the context of community or to become addicted to a socialist system. You may have come from a socialist country where the government or someone else sheltered you from the challenges of your life, of your karma, of your burdens, or you were buffered by this or that insurance policy or workmen's comp, et cetera.15 But now you must get in the driver's seat, where taking responsibility for every measure of your life is important!
Beloved ones, since the beginning of this dispensation not a few have at first excelled and then exceeded themselves in the practice of the teaching and in the service of El Morya. But then they have wearied in well doing and allowed themselves to fall by the wayside. Their roots were not deep and they did not fight for the Light to be encased in their bodies and souls and minds and to displace the Darkness.16
I have recently given to the Messenger at the level of her higher mind an overview of the status of those who are in the Community here and throughout the world. And as I was giving this overview, El Morya stepped forward and struck out four names on the list of chelas at headquarters. The Messenger watched and saw the Master draw the line through these four names, though she was not allowed to see the names in her outer mind.
She realized that four members of this Community had gotten into a state of consciousness of being off center from the God Presence and had allowed themselves to move to the extreme right or left and to forget first things and first principles. Unless these individuals, who will have to find out who they are by their own pondering of their own hearts, take measures to return to the path of the Middle Way, they will not remain as candidates for the ascension in this life, though they would have been perfectly capable of making their ascension in this life. As it stands presently, then, their names have been struck from the list of candidates in this Community.
We showed this to the Messenger because we are deeply concerned, deeply concerned that any of you here can rationalize as to why you are here, not understanding that it is for the path of karma yoga and that you engage in karma yoga through service to the Guru El Morya, which you balance with all the other responsibilities of your life.
If you are one who finds it difficult to manage his time, his energy, his hours in or out of the workplace, I suggest that you consult a fellow chela who is an expert to show you how to structure your day, how to handle interruptions, phone calls, et cetera, and how to allocate certain times of the day for certain duties and responsibilities. There are some duties that you must take care of early in the day or the night before because others depend on you to give them direction first thing in the morning.
Blessed ones, the organization of your day, even through the use of the Franklin planner,17 can prevent you from failing without ever having realized that you have failed. I do not say that you have failed but that some of you are moving toward the line of failure by not looking squarely at priorities.
You need to set the priorities of your life and realize that throughout the ages the members of communities of the Holy Spirit have put God first, union with immortal life first, and yet they have apportioned their time so as to allow them to do many other things. They have been able to take care of the responsibilities of karma, of family, of community, of their work in the community without neglecting the most important duty of all - the practicing and preaching of the Word of God.
This is the Lenten season. This is the opportunity for fasting. As you determine what you may fast from in the line of victuals, think what you may fast from in the line of possessions, of preoccupations not connected to your dharma, of distractions here and there, of too many desires.
For if you want too many things, you will divide yourself and dissipate your energies. You will do nothing effectively and not focus on the project that the Lords of Karma in conjunction with your Holy Christ Self assigned you to do - that you know you must accomplish and that you will never accomplish unless you focus all of your energies on that lifetime project and make up your mind that, come what may, certain things must be set aside in order for the work to be accomplished.
There are periods of laughter and dancing and merrymaking. There are periods of communing with nature. There are periods of hard work. We in this organization have always been project oriented. We work hard together as a team. We pull together to produce a product, a book, recorded teachings that we release to the field, decree tapes, hymns, songs or bhajans, and we work until our work is done. Then we take our lawful rest and our lawful re-creation.
Think of this as teamwork. When you are in sports you work together, you practice as a team and you know that when the moment comes that you must perform you play as a team and you play to win. And so, there are times when you build up to a mighty crescendo of energy and that energy is released for a cause, for a victory, for a challenge to yourself to rise to a new dimension of consciousness and new levels of sacrifice and surrender. And there are other times when life is at a steady pace and you can count on time off and you can count on doing things that you want to do that are contributing to your spiritual path as well as to your "re-creational" needs.
I therefore ask for balance in the name of Gautama Buddha and in the name of Lord Maitreya. I ask you to understand that each one of you has a soul and that that soul is known by every lifestream in embodiment on earth. It is not only the Messenger who is a wayshower.
When people make their decisions whether to go the way of honor or dishonor, there is a process that goes on at subconscious levels. Each soul is able to see the souls of the highest and most dedicated people on earth as well as those of a lower nature. At inner levels of their being they can survey the religious communities of the world and see the standards the devotees keep and the condition of their souls.
If the standards of those devotees and the condition of their souls are not of the highest levels they could be, then the rest of humanity has the excuse of saying, for instance, "Well, if these devotees who are connected with Elizabeth Clare Prophet have this as their standard, why should we reach any higher?"
So you see, beloved, it is like the proverbial handkerchief that I used to pull out of my pocket to demonstrate the principle. [Messenger holds up handkerchief.] This is the handkerchief. I am holding it up at the center; the four corners are at the lowest point. The center represents the one who has the highest attainment. As I raise the handkerchief, the first to rise is the highest. And as that one goes up, so all of those who are part of this cloth of humanity rise also.
This simple example illustrates that the humanity of your time can rise no higher than the highest among you, but they can fall lower than the lowest of the low of those who are not even in this Community. You see in the concept of the handkerchief that all are dots making up the whole, each at his own level and standard. There is no separation. Community is one. There are castes, there are levels of attainment, and at inner levels you all recognize this.
And so, those who have much, of them much is required. As Jesus said: "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more."18
You have much, beloved; of you much is required. And the greatest gift that you can record upon the ethers of the planet is the example of your discipleship, the example of joy in discipleship, joy in the Path, joy in the Mystery School, joy in self-giving, joy in the great dispensation you have of family, joy in marching to the drumbeat of the Holy Kumaras, fulfilling your desire to go straight to the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.19
You cannot measure anyone, beloved. Some have come into embodiment very close to their ascension. They may not have needs that others have. Let all respect one another and one another's dharma.
And as a closing word, I would like to say on behalf of my beloved that from time to time accusations come to her from a number of sources that she is a workaholic. This is very sad, beloved. I do not know anyone who has greater rejoicing in our work than your Messenger. Some of you may easily equal it, but to have greater rejoicing than the joy of the Messenger in bringing forth the teachings and loving you, I cannot imagine.
To say that the Messenger is a workaholic is a critical remark because it implies that on the spiritual path work has limits. If the Messenger crosses over some arbitrary line of doing "too much work," she is then referred to as a workaholic. Well, you see, beloved, no man knoweth the measure of himself; but no man knoweth the measure of another either. I can tell you that the work of the Messenger is always done in joy and self-givingness. Therefore it counts for merit.
Has she ever thought of merit? Not in the least. For her the motivation is the joy of the doing and the joy of delivering our teachings to the world. Now, beloved, when you can come to that place of joy in giving yourself without counting the hours or counting the income, you will also have that merit stored up in your Causal Body.
Thus, heed the words of the Gita. It is a treasure for all time. If you study it, you will self-correct, you will tie into the heart of Krishna, you will not stray to the outer periphery of your aura and then become vulnerable because you are not guarding the soul and the centeredness of the soul.
Do not criticize our workers. Do not criticize our staff. Voices from many directions do this, beloved. They criticize our staff for their service and their long hours. Why should this be so except it be that those who are doing the criticizing are not able to measure up and therefore they must put down that which is holy in the hearts of our chelas, they must condemn, they must ridicule. And, at the very worst, they may try to stop others from joining this Community or encourage those who are here to leave.
Beware the voices of the dweller-on-the-threshold of those who are half in, half out, half human, half beast. Beware of those and have compassion for them, for truly they suffer. For they do not exorcise from themselves their critical eye, their gossip, their condemning of others without having walked in their moccasins.
Remember this, beloved. It is unfortunate that those who are members of this Church can actually criticize our Messenger and our staff, however imperfect they may be. Criticism is not in order but to stand side by side with those who labor and labor not in vain but for a higher glory - to stand side by side with them and help lighten their load.
God knows we need more staff members to accommodate all who would come here. Therefore I make an appeal around the world: Consider serving in this Community, even for six months, to walk side by side with our staff, to learn how this Community functions, to take up the light of your former calling and to bring down the Light of your I AM Presence.
It is true, as Jesus' words are true, and it is a teaching that was given to Betty Eadie20 in her out-of-the-body, near-death experience: "Judge not lest ye be judged."21
The teaching given to her was that no one can know the depths of another's being. You do not have the records kept by another's recording angel - or even your own, for that matter. Therefore you cannot judge another lifestream any more than you can judge yourself. You can pray for those who need prayers and uplift those who are burdened. But you never know when you meet a beggar or someone advanced in a professional career whether that one has come into life to set an example for others and to bring out in them loving-kindness, givingness, patience and long-suffering and the many virtues that we all ought to be aspiring toward but sometimes do not because we forget that those virtues are the making of our victory.
I have many things in my heart to tell you, but I close with my beginning. I have spent considerable time in the highest octaves of the Eastern Shamballa with Lord Gautama Buddha and the Holy Kumaras that I might bring to you in my aura the geometry of Maitreya's Mystery School.
I would also remind you in closing of the teaching that many of you were taken out of the original Mystery School (many thousands of years ago when Maitreya walked and talked with you and your twin flame in the Garden) by the false-hierarchy impostor of your twin flame. That event, beloved, caused a cataclysm, as it were, in your divine plan, which has had ramifications even to the present hour, whereby you have become addicted - and I do call it an addiction - to someone who was and is the impostor of your twin flame. And you have not been able to shake that addiction in all of these thousands of years since you and your twin flame were in the Mystery School and then had to leave because one or the other or both went after the false-hierarchy impostor.
This is a challenge that each and every one of you must squarely face. I charge you to meet it. For you will go nowhere on the path of life until through the study and probing of your psychology and the acceleration on your spiritual path you can extricate yourself from that impostor, to whose life you may now find yourself inextricably bound.
So, beloved, there is pain. But you can know the pain of bliss and enter the heart of Maitreya. You can bear any pain, beloved. A lifetime in this earth is like three days in the tomb and then the resurrection. When you are home free and victorious, all of the pain and the struggle and the wars that you have fought and won will be as nothing, for you will stand in the glory of God and of the Lamb seated upon the throne.
I am in that place, beloved, yet very much a part of this earth and very mindful that most people on earth do not hear us, do not see us. We need you to teach them. And the only way they learn, beloved, is by example.
Embrace the Middle Way. Be free. Be joyous. Be happy.
[The Messenger: El Morya would like to speak to us briefly. You can remain standing before the presence of our beloved Master.]
This dictation by beloved Lanello was delivered by the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, March 6, 1994, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana, in celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the ascension of the Messenger Mark L. Prophet on February 26, 1973. Before the dictation, the Messenger read passages from chapters 3, 6, 17 and 18 of the Bhagavad Gita (see Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 37, no. 11). The dictation and reading are available on video-and audiocassette (includes the dictation by El Morya, which followed): Videocassette: 1 cassette, total 1 hr. 53 min., HP94012. Audiocassette: 2 cassettes, total 2 hr. 58 min., A94036. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Lanello's direction.]