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The night is far spent and the day is at hand.1
Thus let the night of your karma and your karmic condition pass into the flame that you might be free from its shackles to welcome the Daystar from on high.
Thus know that directly overhead, no matter what the position of the physical suns or the planetary bodies, your I AM Presence is the Sun Presence, the replica of the Great Central Sun, the personal presence of Father-Mother God.
Now I come to you in the intensity of the Spirit, but I also remind you that there is the Impersonal Impersonality of God and the Personal Personality of God. There is the Impersonal Personality and the Personal Impersonality.
Let these facets of the Godhead become known to you.2
We are not static but we are engaged in the movement of the spheres of your Causal Body. We are engaged in the movement of these systems of worlds, moving through the vastness of cosmic space. We are on a mighty starship. We move together and light-years pass by.
Understand, then, that the moments in time and space are cubicles for the resolution of consciousness and not much else. They are a stopover as you descend into lower densities to reconcile your accounts, pay your debts, leave some thrust of momentum of light and journey on.
Yet journey not on before you have served with the Chohans, with the Lord and Lady Meru and Helios and Vesta to right the axis of consciousness of a planetary home and, alas, to see the self-destruction of those who have denied the Spirit for so long that they are almost not members of the race of humankind.
Thus, beloved, from the lowest to the highest of her evolutions, earth's schoolroom reveals multiple planes of consciousness.
I call you, therefore, to preach the Word - the Word of the Great White Brotherhood, the Word of the Ascended Masters. This Word, beloved, encompasses ages far past, for we have brought to you in this century records of teachings that have not been before the general public for many tens of thousands of years.
Thus, I say, be the open fount for those who comprehend and can dwell at these levels, even with some misery and yet pressing on. As the Niagara Falls of the crystal fire mist descending over the crystal cord comes into your life, let it pass on through. Let it go forth as seven fountains and the eighth, as streams issuing from a hundred and forty-four vessels throughout the body. Be the instrument and let the light flow! Let the teaching flow, and be accurate in its delivery.
Precision is a word that connotes the state of being with and in the Holy Spirit, the preciseness of the Mind of God, the preparation of the vessel, the very careful separating of the Real from the Unreal. Yes, beloved, there is sternness in my mien because so great a salvation, so great a power can come that ere you are ready to receive it and be its instrument, you must know a far greater discipline of the mind, of the spoken word and of the feelings.
It is time that some of you tended to the weeds in your garden and pulled them out by the roots. Yes, beloved, you can change old habits if you want to, but there must be the will.
When there is the will and when there is the fusion of your soul with my flaming reality, then you have teamwork. Then you have a chela who has made the grade with the Seven Chohans (or at least with three of them).
Then I may take you under the wings of the Holy Spirit and bring you to that point where one day you yourself feel that you are of supreme usefulness to the millions of the earth by prayer, by dynamic decrees, by deep groanings of the spirit3 as you come into conformity with the Mind of God and of the Holy Christ Self.
Surely you know that there are some in the churches and throughout the earth who have elements of the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit does not limit its offering to those of the Christian faith. Beloved ones, the followers of Christ do not have all the elements; for the disciplines of the Holy Spirit that are found in the East in the long traditions of the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas are sometimes too hard for devotees in the West. Almost as children, they play and splash in the fount of Divine Love and thus have that joy of the Spirit, yet not its full mastery.
The teachings you have, all that has come through the Holy Spirit from the Ascended Masters and Cosmic Beings, do give you the opportunity for such self-mastery. But you must take the opportunity as an exercise of free will, as an exercise of commitment to your own Inner God and not to another, as an exercise that shows your recognition that he who would desire the manifestations of the siddhis, the powers,4 must begin to be self-disciplined.
The disciplining of the mind can be found in the practice of meditation. The disciplining of the emotions must be found in interaction with others. There is no more certain way to gain mastery of the emotions than to have to mingle with people from all walks of life and to always prefer to impart the flame of love and of charity toward those who do not have the flame of harmony.
The choice is always there - to be pulled into the morasses, the cesspools, vortices, quicksands of negativity or to shun them. And always remember the words of your Lord: "What is that to thee? Follow thou me."5 In other words, forget it. Let it go. Do not become further engaged as you see your energies escalating and, with the escalation, the loss of your God-control.
There is no more important achievement for those who desire the Holy Spirit and its gifts, even one at a time, than to be able to offer to others perpetual love, perpetual comfort, perpetual sweetness, perpetual helpfulness, compassion and charity.6 Charity is a word that means self-givingness. As Mother Teresa has said, "Give until it hurts."
Now I come to you. And you have had a foundation of the perceptions of the Holy Spirit and of the Lord Christ by one and another and many whose lives have been touched. So great a salvation can be found in but a thimbleful of the Holy Spirit that can come upon you. Think, then, and say to yourself, "I shall not neglect so great a salvation7 as the larger circle of awareness that my God has revealed unto me through this path of the ascension, this path of the resurrection, this path of eternal life."
Oh, study your own scriptures, the scriptures given to you week after week in the Pearls of Wisdom! Study the scriptures, internalize them and continue the march of self-transcendence. What is self-transcendence day by day but a footstep a day bringing you nearer to the initiation of the transfiguration.
The transfiguration is when the Light of the Cosmic Christ descends to fill you, and the power of the Holy Spirit and the Father-Mother God, until every atom and cell of your being is a vessel of Light and those who are near you see the glistering white even of your garments.8
This initiation is preparatory to the crucifixion, the resurrection and the ascension. Beloved hearts, you pass through the initiation of the crucifixion because you have experienced the transfiguration. Therefore change your garments daily and see how the garments of God contain greater and greater Light.9
Understand that, infilled with Light, you can endure a planetary crucifixion and attain not only eternal life and immortality but renewed life in embodiment, such as Jesus did whereby he lived through his eighty-first year, ascending from Shamballa.10 You can undergo these initiations that come to the sons and daughters of God and yet remain in that place of equilibrium which you have made your own.
Life does not need to be an emotional roller-coaster, especially when you carefully watch over your physical body and your selection of foods. When you are centered in the sacred fire, beloved, you seek foods that are also centering. You are not moved. For there is a greater love, there is the understanding of the Great Tao and a cosmic perception, a profound unity with life. And yet, truly you arrive at the awareness of God in you, God around you and all about you, God through you, God as the reality of selfhood.
Would you not desire to cease suffering in the ups and downs of returning karma and the vicissitudes of the stock market of life itself? Oh, I know you would, beloved! It is within your reach. It is within your grasp. But vigilance is its price, along with surrender to the laws of God.
Some of you have very little to correct in your worlds to find yourselves truly in alignment with me. As the Messenger has expressed, do rid yourselves of condemnation. It is a most heinous sin, especially when you practice it against yourselves. It is truly a sin against the Holy Ghost.11
And so, beloved, some who are the prisoners of their momentums of criticism, condemnation and judgment and gossip from so many centuries scarcely can extricate themselves from these momentums, nor do they desire to do so. I tell you, they have a long course to run in the human consciousness.
But you have run that course. You are tired of it. You would rather be in the presence of the Holy Spirit and therefore you are willing to surrender those elements of the human personality that keep you hidebound to this octave. No other can do it for you, beloved.
As you look at my portrait, realize that this path of love must be a disciplined path. For love is something that can move all over the board according to people's consciousness of what is love.
Love is preparing oneself to give love. Discipleship is the key. You cannot see yourself, find out about yourself, turn yourself inside out and resolve the riddle of identity and personality. Let one who has gone before you help you. In the hierarchy of the Brotherhood there are messengers ascended and messengers unascended.
Truly, beloved, seek counsel when you need it, pray for guidance and do not be lured by promises of outer riches or glory or this or that. Value above all the intimacy which you may have with the Holy Spirit - and, as one has said, "Be willing to pay the price for it."
Some long for intimacy in the human sense of the word. Yet who indeed in the human octave can satisfy the longing for the profound intimacy that the soul can know only in her oneness with the Holy Ghost? As the Holy Ghost wraps the soul in the swaddling garment, that soul knows the intimacy of the Divine Mother, the Divine Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, who can love and love again and forgive and forgive again.
Some in the human octave share intimacy only on their terms. And if they find they are disillusioned with this or that one, then the cords of that intimacy are shattered. Not so with God.
Do you not think, beloved, that the most precious moment or moments in your life have been when you have received true and profound forgiveness, in the spiritual sense of the word, from someone you respect who has kept the calling of God?
Is not the forgiveness of a friend the greatest gift that you can receive - the knowledge that someone has loved you enough to forgive you?
If fellow friends and brothers and sisters on the Path can extend forgiveness to one another, think what so great a salvation and so great a gift this Good Friday does bring to you, beloved. It is the opportunity to receive the Lord's forgiveness from the cross when his Body is broken for you, when his Blood is shed for the remission of sins and the repentance and forgiveness of many.
As you have felt your heart so full of love and such a contriteness when others have forgiven your faults, can you not also share Christ's cup of mercy with millions?
Nothing is too hard for the Lord. Yes, you can learn to let go. You can learn to let go of all things in your human personality that are not of Christ. And you can let go of all who have wronged you and you can learn to forgive their wrongdoing.
Praise God for the initiations and the strength you have gained - your confidence in the Lord's presence, that he will not fail you as long as you keep your covenant with him, as long as you give him your trust and obedience.
Now I release to you fire of Good Friday, the violet-flame mercy of the Son of God.
[The Maha Chohan releases the gift of Good Friday - the violet flame.]
Showers of mercy soften hardness of heart, nonforgiveness. I pray you, one and all, if you have not forgiven brother or sister or enemy or friend or family or distant lifewaves and evolutions, do not leave this altar this night until you have knelt before your I AM Presence and taken the first step on the Path.
That step is forgiveness: to be humble enough to receive God's forgiveness, to be strong enough to go and sin no more, to be loving enough to forgive your brother as God has forgiven you. This is the first step on the spiritual path and the first alchemy of your life. Until you are able to take this step and to disembowel yourself of those momentums of hardness of heart, you are not a true chela on the Path.
This is where the Path begins. It begins with the withdrawal of acts of sin and the conviction that, empowered by God, you shall go forth to the best of your striving to sin no more, to confess when you falter, to receive penance, to be penitent and to know that God wipes the stain away and wipes it fully when you have balanced the karma of the wrongful act.
There are some among you who say they cannot forgive. Let them fast and pray and know the Lord. And then let them see his glory and experience that glory as shafts of forgiveness flashing forth from their hearts that have truly loved, for their hearts have truly been forgiven by the Lord.
These are preparations for Pentecost. Mark them well, beloved. Cease from being proud talkers and boasters. Keep the vigil of an inner silence of communion. Keep the vigil of listening to the inner voice, which chatter overtakes and muffles. Keep the vigil, develop the inner ear, listen to God.
Remember the adage "Wise ones speak few words." Ignorant ones never cease in their talking, mostly about nothing of consequence, nothing that has to do with the co-measurement: "I AM here; the God Star is there. I intend to reach it and I shall reach it in the course of my soul's ascending."
Stargazing is recommended for chelas and their children that they might gain a sense of co-measurement with the infinite. Then all things come into perspective.
The flame of the Holy Spirit that we impart to you opens a path of discipline that you can walk, that you can be victorious in. "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."12 You have been given much in many past ages. Thus, God holds high the rope that you must jump over. You are worthy of the high rope and you have much in your background that qualifies you to be victorious.
Others who have received less because they have given less are in another school. Do not envy them, do not mock them, do not belittle them. Your dharma is your dharma. And the Law requires you who aspire to union with God to bring all things of this life and past lives to conclusion, to resolution.
Though you have the dispensation of being able to ascend in this life after having balanced only 51 percent of your karma, the Karmic Board recommends that you realize that at no time in the history of the mystery schools or of the Great White Brotherhood has it been easier for you to balance 100 percent of your karma. And this by the very grace of the Teachings and the use of the violet flame and the sacred fire that is available to you through your invocations.
Think about graduating from earth's schoolroom magna cum laude, beloved ones. Think of that! And think of all that you can give and do when you decide that daily transfiguration is the way to my heart and the way to having perpetual accessibility to the Holy Spirit. Think about the highest that you can achieve. Think about what is possible to you today and tomorrow. Act on it. Then increase your capacity.
The world has need of many who will preach the message of the Great White Brotherhood accurately. The world has need of many who will strip themselves of bad habits in the four lower bodies, come clean, purify themselves and wait for the angel to place the hot coal upon the tongue13 that they might be cleansed, purified and readied to be apostles and prophets and teachers,14 wayshowers.
Yes, beloved, it is a glorious time. It is a time of warring in the members of your own psyche and warring throughout the earth, and yet it is a glorious time! It is a time when there is so much opportunity to give of oneself and to care for life, for children, for the spiritually needy. It is a glorious time, a time when you can reach the entire world with the message of salvation. It is a glorious time when you can live free to follow the religion of your choice.
I call to your attention a scene in the life of Moses. Moses was empowered by the Spirit of the LORD and that Holy Spirit was upon him. And the LORD did speak to him and did say: "Go and summon the seventy elders that you might not bear the majesty of the Holy Spirit alone and I will apportion to those seventy elders that Spirit which I have placed upon you. Thereby you will have assistance." And so the seventy elders were called and they gathered and they each received a portion of the Holy Spirit from the mantle of Moses.15
Thus, I summon in this hour, as directed by the Lords of Karma, seventy of you to come out from among you to prepare yourselves on the path of the Holy Spirit. I trust that you who are called will not misuse your apportionment of the Holy Spirit and, most importantly, that you will recognize that evenness of temperament is a must.
I trust that you will keep your allegiance, your faithfulness to your calling. I trust that you will come into alignment at a level that you will maintain until your victory in this life that you might be role models for those who look up to you and that you might also bear the burdens of the Messenger. This you have already been doing but now you may be empowered by one-seventieth of the mantle so that the Messenger's stay in the earth might be prolonged.
As Jesus sent the other seventy to go forth to preach the gospel in his name,16 so God called the seventy who would share the burden of the LORD in the mantle of Moses. Think of this, beloved! There are some of you in this Community who are not far from merging with the office of the elders of the people under Moses. The office is an outline. You step into the outline, and if you wear it well, you should disappear into the outline, you and the Holy Spirit having become one.
This is an opportunity for ministers and lay brothers and sisters alike. Consider it, beloved. For some of you, the level of achieving this is very near but it requires your attention to the details of self-mastery and a profound and inner commitment to bearing the mantle of the LORD.
Some of you have listened well to Kuthumi, to El Morya, to Mother Mary17 and pursued the resolution of the issues of your psychology. Others among you have not cracked a book or attended a session where you might learn something of the mechanisms of the human psyche.
I would tell you that if you desire to be a part of this seventy, you must get going and get into this study of the workings of your subconscious mind, entering into therapy sessions with recognized professionals who are in your midst. What a pity that some, after all this time, have not seen this endeavor as a useful and necessary adjunct to their ultimate success on the spiritual path.
It is so important, beloved, in the moment when you are ultimately tested and your mantle is tested and your commitment and trust are tested that you should not falter and fall because you have not resolved levels of your psychology, whether known or unknown by you.
Some cannot be known. They are of past lives and are hidden in the folds of nonmemory, inaccessible to the outer mind yet accessible through the assistance of a qualified therapist. You may feel anger, you may feel that you have a deep-seated out-of-alignment state with God, but you may not know the cause.
You may reject yourself, your guardian angel, your Holy Christ Self or those who love you most, because of the distortions of your own mind that come through the unresolved issues of the unconscious mind. These wreak havoc with your four lower bodies and in turn your conscious mental state.
If you leave these matters undone, then when we send you out into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil, as Jesus was,18 we cannot be certain that you will pass your test, even though it is on schedule according to the timetable of your lifestream.
Some in this Community have failed the test of human pride. What a pity! They will be on that rung of the ladder of initiation for lifetimes to come if they do not seriously deal with the fatal flaw of pride and the burden of karma they make by denying they have any pride.
So, beloved, the LORD God presses very close to you. And the pressing in of the angels of the Holy Spirit is now a part of the ritual of this service.
Feel the angels pressing in upon you. The first thing that you feel is tender love, a glowing warmth, being wrapped in that swaddling garment. Then I, the Maha Chohan, increase the intensity, and that which was a comforting love now becomes slowly discomfiting, uncomfortable. "It is too much," you say, but I press on.
For you see, beloved, only by being tried in the fire of Divine Love can you come to comprehend what is the nonresolution whereby you say you love God and you surrender to him yet when the pressure increases and the love around you intensifies and becomes the ruby ray you cry out and say, "Do not press any more, Maha Chohan! I cannot deal with any more than what you are giving me now."
This resistance, beloved, may come upon some but not all. For there are those who have seen the latticework, the trellises upon which the roses climb, and they have long ago become that latticework so that the love of God should pass through them for the purging and so that the fires of God should then consume and release those records that go back and back and back.
Remember, therefore, that consciousness is a grid, just as time and space is a grid. Just as space is far greater than the components of an atom or a molecule, so those open spaces of the latticework of your being allow God's love to pass through to reach the depths of your being for transmutation.
When you resist the Holy Spirit, beloved, you quench that Spirit.19 When you resist the Holy Spirit, you then have, in place of the latticework (whereby you open yourself completely to God and to the needs of your fellowman), a steel plate that allows nothing to pass through. Even the love of God descending from your I AM Presence for transmutation of the deep-seated records that have become as hard as bedrock cannot pass through. It is indeed difficult to access such records when you have sealed yourself off from the fount of God's loving Presence.
Think upon these things. Visualize this beautiful latticework in your inner being with climbing roses and bluebirds of happiness. This is what we would see in your electronic belt, displacing all the beasts of prey that you have created out of your own selfishness or anger or nonforgiveness or hardness of heart or simply dense, ignorant ignore-ance of the perpetual presence of the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit is able and ready to elevate you to the life of one anointed, as the ancient prophets were anointed, and to an even greater anointing.
All things are possible to you in the Holy Spirit. Hasten the day, beloved! Make thy peace with thy God and do not be moved. Accept correction, no matter how it is given or by whom. Learn your lessons from friends and enemies, from the Teachings, from life's experiences. And, above all, learn the lessons your own karma is there to teach you every day.
So, gently now I release the pressure inasmuch as some of you have asked to be released. Know, then, that if you have felt the pressure of too much of God's love that you cannot digest, internalize or use to clear out the issues of the psyche, then you have unfinished business and much work to do on yourself before I can trust you to keep a goodly measure of the Holy Spirit, for which you call. If you are in this category, I strongly recommend that rather than calling for the gifts of the Spirit, you call for the disciplines of the Path and go after the subconscious and the unconscious realms of the mind until these vessels are so clear that even the Holy Spirit may dwell there.
Think of what empowerment will be your option when you shall have cleared those records and when these mighty vessels of consciousness are emptied to be filled forevermore only by Divine Love. When you shall have achieved that, beloved, you will know that your ascension is a realistic goal. You may take it after you have balanced 51 percent of your karma or you may have as your goal the balancing of 100 percent of your karma in this and succeeding embodiments. In that case, you may reembody (i.e., reincarnate) so that you might be an example of an unascended master, such as the many examples who have gone before you.
The mysteries of the Holy Spirit are beyond all telling. But I will tell you this one telling, beloved: If you cannot succeed in maintaining the joy of the heart through the vicissitudes of life, if you cannot maintain that equilibrium of being always in the heart of your Christ Self, then you have a ways to go. It is the up and down of departing from the Christ and descending to lower levels of the electronic belt that keeps you from the steadiness and the steadfastness of trustworthiness in the Lord.
This my message to you, beloved, together with the teachings and the readings I have directed the Messenger to bring you,20 must give you much to ponder.
Thus, I am a Person at the four quadrants of the Clock, north, south, east and west. I can come in each of the manifestations - totally impersonal, totally personal or somewhere in between. Thus, learn to read the signs and the seasons. Learn to read the consciousness of your body elemental. Learn to read that which is not apparent regarding your own soul (i.e., psyche).
In the silence that is golden, then, keep the trust, keep the love. Make your application to be an elder to bear a portion of the Spirit of the LORD, which is the Holy Spirit, and know that this Church Universal and Triumphant, this movement, is moving on. And you shall journey the world around and preach the gospel and I shall be there, and as you conquer self, you will know the reality of our oneness.
I shall not indulge you and I shall not give you any crowns that you have not earned. I shall give you the same training I gave to the Seven Chohans and they will continue to train you as my representatives when you require special tutoring in difficult subjects pertaining to the ascent of the soul.
This Church is the church of the Brotherhood for the delivery of this Word and this message for all those who are ready to be examples of the path of the ascension. Those who leave in dishonor imagine that the Church is going down. Make no mistake about it: It is going up, up, up! And you are going up with it.
I AM your Maha Chohan.
I AM with you.
Do not leave me.
I will not leave you.
Meet me halfway.
I seal you in sacred fire and I personally give to you in this hour the blessing of our Lord's Holy Communion.
The Maha Chohan releases the sacred breath of the Holy Spirit.
Receive ye that which you are able to receive.
[The Messenger: Let our Communion servers come forward. Let us sing to our Lord the Maha Chohan, the Representative of the Holy Spirit to Earth's Evolutions, "Blest Holy Spirit, Lord Maha Chohan." Hymn number 178.]
Blest Holy Spirit, Lord Maha Chohan
Blest Holy Spirit / Lord Maha Chohan
Thou, Son and Father / God, the Three-in-One
Thy substance flowing / Through each one's lifestream
Sustains thy channels / To all life redeem.
Thou art to all the / Comforter divine
Sent by the Father / To our worlds refine.
We feel thy Presence / Hold us close to thee
'Til we ascend to / That blest Trinity.
Come, Holy Spirit / Through each earnest soul
Expand thy Light and / Raise us to that goal
Of the ascension / Love's eternal home
One with God's Presence / Nevermore to roam.
Here shall our Light shine / Like unto the sun
Guiding all men / Until God's will be done.
Comfort and truth with / Peace and freedom blend
Thus Life's beginning / Now and without end.
Blessing of Holy Communion by Our Lord the Maha Chohan
By the power of the Cosmic Trinity worlds without end, I, the Maha Chohan, bless this bread and this wine. Accept the transubstantiation whereby the bread is the Body of our Lord, whereby the wine is his Blood.
So receive this gift of the Son through the Holy Spirit sent by the Father-Mother God. Take, eat. This is his Body which is broken for you, each wafer a crumb of the Cosmic Christ Being of the Lord and Saviour of this age.
So accept the avatar Jesus the Christ, the essence of his being entering your temple now, and know as you retire that the Christ Jesus lives in you. Commune with him this night in prayer and remember that the Sabbath is for the celebration of the holiness of God in your members.
I, the Maha Chohan, bless you and seal you.
Come forward and receive the bread and the wine as he said: "This do in remembrance of me." Amen.
This dictation by the Maha Chohan was delivered by the Messenger, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, on Good Friday, April 1, 1994, during the five-day Easter Retreat 1994. On Holy Thursday evening, the Messenger read and gave teachings on chapter 1 of the book Good Morning, Holy Spirit by Benny Hinn. On Good Friday, in the service before the Maha Chohan's dictation, she continued her teaching on the Holy Spirit, reading Psalm 51, Joel 2:28-32, I Thess. 5:19, I Cor. 12, and excerpts from the book The Anointing by Benny Hinn (pp. 3-8, 10, 22-26, 56-69). The Messenger's teaching from Holy Thursday and Good Friday and the Maha Chohan's dictation are available on audiocassette: 4 cassettes, total 5 hr. 32 min., A94042. (Or you may order the dictation separately: 1 cassette, total 80 min., B94045. The dictation will also be available on videocassette after April 25.) Benny Hinn's books may be ordered through Summit University Press: Good Morning, Holy Spirit (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1990); The Anointing (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1992).