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Capture the Mantra in Your Heart
Now in the light of the Buddha that you are becoming, that you are self-realizing, I may enter into certain precepts, recepts0 of being, compartments of consciousness. Partake, then, of the Buddhic light and know that the path that you are on is the path of the golden rays of the sun of wisdom.
I ask you to be certain that you secure each gain at both spiritual and human levels. Explore the terrain that you now claim as yours in the Buddhic Mind and see where you yet have weaknesses, flaws in the diamond of self.
These can be purged and transmuted only through an enlightened awareness of self and such profound determination to be the conquering one and to complete all those commitments you have made to Divine Reality and to finish the course with that sense "I have given my all and my best, and I know that my all and my best are an acceptable offering."
Do not come to the altar, beloved, saying you have given your all and your best when you have not tried, when you have not been willing to go through the deep pain of conquering the self and gaining such a momentum of the splendor of the Victorious One, your Holy Christ Self, that you truly do know what is your all and what is your best.
I say, then, from this day forward move gently with us. Move gently into the world and know yourself as a citizen of the Great Tao, of the Great Dharmakaya, the Great Causal Body of all Buddhas as one.
Know that it is step by step that the Path is won - not in grandiose measures, not in lunging forward and then having no foundation upon which to place one's efforts. The certain and sure footstep is the Way.
Many are in awe of Buddhic attainment and believe that they are not even close to that attainment nor will they be for many lifetimes. This is the distance that theology has placed between the least of the disciples of the Sangha and Lord Gautama himself and even the Dhyani Buddhas. We would erase this distance today. So long as you contain a crumb of Buddhic wisdom, you have cracked the door. From Darkness to Light you may step.
So value each crumb as a jewel. And as I have said, secure it, protect it, preserve it, build upon it, exercise it with mantra, with the fiat Vajra! With this you invoke a mighty thunderbolt from on high.
Shun all ego-strutting! Shun ties to the denizens of the underworld who will empower you overnight and give you the glitter and glamour of success in your field.
When you look into your heart of hearts, you must know that these successes are ephemeral and transient. They have naught to do with the true God-success gained by planting one's foot upon the rock and holding that place and not giving that place to Mara but daily maintaining the 360-degree watch of keeping the citadel of consciousness open to God.
Be the ones who anticipate the dark emanations and intents of Mara and the forces of Evil. Banish them with the power of mantra that you secure by conviction, by faith and belief in its repetition. For mantra is a science and you prove it each time when in deep meditation you recite the mantra of your choice 108 times, as our Buddhist devotees do.
Mantra - whether in the form of Ascended Master decrees written in English or formulas in tongues of the East - is empowerment. But only if you know it.
Mantra: when you have made one or many your own, it is as though you possessed the secret of a universal weapon that could annihilate all evil in the world while not touching a single point of good embodied by a single soul.
How can warfare of such crudity as that which is waged upon this planet compare to the banishing effects of mantra? The simple mantras you can pen on one sheet of paper can deliver you unto enlightenment if your heart is right with the Buddhas.
As you capture the mantra in your heart, your heart sings the mantra back to you and the mantra itself sings to you so that you hear from your innermost being the pure voice of your soul reciting that mantra. This is in no way autohypnosis. This is the power of God within you. And by accepting that power, you authorize it to enter your world through your recitation of the mantra.
Many of you have memorized complex formulas of chemistry, physics, mathematics and other disciplines. Understand that this is what the mantra is - a complex formula. And the greatest gift that the Buddhic one Mark Prophet has given to you is the gift of the mantras he has written down as those dynamic decrees for the Western devotee and for all devotees who may wish to translate these to their mother tongues.
Above all, whichever mantra becomes the key mantra of your life, the keystone in the arch of your being, you must make it your own and you must know its power. You must know the power of your being when you have so internalized the Word that the Word is speaking the mantra in your heart.
Not a few of you have found yourselves waking up at night reciting your violet flame decrees or your calls to Archangel Michael. And you have seen how you have encountered the forces of Mara not in your dreams but in actual encounters on the astral plane. And these forces have fled at the sound of the mantra you were reciting while engaged in the warfare of the Spirit.
Every now and then individuals come along and say, "We will rewrite the decrees; they do not make sense," or "We will write our own decrees, for we, too, have talent in poetry." Recognize that it is not mere poetry that makes a decree but science and poetry and the inner engrams1 of the Word.
These were yet in the Causal Body and in the chakras of Mark Prophet from ancient days of Atlantis when he was a master of invocation and a priest of the sacred fire. Therefore, through these hieroglyphs2 and glyphs3 of the mind held in the aura of this saint - this very human saint who moved among you - various members of the ascended host did dictate through him the formulas for total world liberation that you now have recorded in your decree books.
And so I speak of ignorance. If you are ignorant of the power and science of mantra so that when you use it you think, "Well, ho hum, today I shall give my `Heart, Head and Hand Decrees,' I shall give my required fifteen minutes of violet flame decrees, I shall give my required protection decrees," and so forth - if you say "ho hum" as you recite your Astreas, having no sense of co-measurement with the vastness of the Causal Bodies of the Seven Elohim, who merge as one with the Divine Mother Astrea to banish from your cities untold millions of discarnates and demons who should have long ago decimated your ranks and this Community - then you will not experience the full efficacy of your decrees.
You see, beloved, when with a fully enlightened mind you take each cadence and line of a mantra and you endow it with the fervor and sacred fire of all of your chakras, you can surely move worlds, you can surely make the difference in the future of earth and her evolutions.
If there is one realization I should hope that you would take with you as you go to your homes and deal with your personal karma and the karma of 1994, it is this: that at all times it is the mantra itself as a masterful formula of masterful beings, such as the mantras dictated to your Messenger Mark Prophet, that will clear you and your household of all burdens and all enemies.
It is your belief, your faith and your scientific understanding of the worded formula itself, born out of the original Word in the Beginning with God who was and is the Divine Mother,4 that is the power to see you through to your victory in this embodiment.
Many of you look to yourselves and say, "How can I, a sinner, how can I, who am not consistent in my service or in my decrees, even hope to arrive at the level of discipleship where I may make progress in this life?" I tell you, banish all such notions!
Accept yourself as a child of God. As Mother Teresa would say: "Each one is made in the image and likeness of God. Therefore, you and all children of God are worthy of love. All have a right to love." Such is the message of the Mother of Calcutta and such is the message of the Divine Mother.
As you recognize yourself in that image and likeness and give no power to your own sin or to another's, so you will enter in to the joy of the mantra and you will see the power that will come to you. But then there will also come the testing of Mara, who will say to you: "See what power you have with the mantra. Now use it against this one and that one who has wronged you."
Ah, beloved, beware of this! For if you accept the temptation of Mara and engage in wishing and willing the death of others, you will surely have a heap of karma descend upon you as though a giant cosmic garbage truck had let out all of its refuse on your head at once. This will be the accumulation of your karma of many thousands of years.
Err on the side of being humble and conservative and loving toward all. Read the scriptures! Read the scriptures and every word of your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and of his apostles in the Gnostic gospels as well as in the New Testament. Read these words, beloved, and you will see just how many laws the Saviour has laid down for your protection against unrighteousness.
Therefore I come by the power of wisdom to banish unrighteousness, the incorrect use of the laws of God. Therefore resist temptation and know that Mara is always waiting behind the rock, behind the tree to catch you fallen asleep to insert some needlepoint of error into your very flesh that you scarcely even sense.
This is a time for diligence and vigilance. It is a time not to be moved. It is a time to give fiats in imitation of your first Mother of the Flame, Clara Louise, in the fierceness of the fire of Serapis Bey and of Amen Bey, her twin flame.
In that fierceness which she demonstrated in the earth, her fiats would travel across the planet as she stood in defense of all children, many of whom are now in embodiment and in this very court thanks to her decrees and prayers. Become mothers and fathers of the world quickly, for the world quickly needs thy intercession.
Thus, be not fooled. Be ever the alert one whose mind is tethered to the farthest reaches of inner and outer space. Be the watchman on the wall guarding the Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha - the watchman who does see the enemy before he should overtake a living soul or a single member of this Community.
You have indeed been given great empowerment, not only by the science of mantra but by the science of the dictations themselves as you have sorted out the mantras that tumble out of the deliveries of the Ascended Masters. So understand, beloved, that when such empowerment is given and given at large to all who come to our gates, some who are not developed spiritually may find themselves very quickly overtaken by a spirit of pride as they feel the power of God come upon them.
Go not the way of the tempter, I say. But let all recognize, even the very newest students, that when you have the forces of Light, the armies of the LORD working with you and through you, it is surely a time to be on guard and to always enter by the gentle way.
So, beloved, these are my thoughts this day. And I utter them because I see what you do not see, and it is the future - the future that is tonight and tomorrow and the next day.
You may think you are done with 1993 and all years and centuries past, but of course you are not done with them. For the records of earth's evolutions remain in the earth since those who are the spiritual leaders of the people have not taken the teachings of Saint Germain or the violet flame and given them to their followers.
Therefore much karma remains and that karma can fall upon you inadvertently simply because you are at the wrong place at the wrong time, out of alignment and not attuned with your inner being.
There are minefields everywhere and not merely in nations where warfare continues today. Thus the minefields of planetary karma can prevent you from fulfilling your choicest and most urgent goals.
My message is a message that you have heard before. I plant it as I would plant a tree to grow in a barren wasteland. I plant it in the field of your mind, and I say let this tree grow and let it be a bountiful tree. Let the birds of the air come and nest in the branches of this tree. Moreover, let your own tree of life bear much fruit that you may then give as a gift of yourself to others.
Examine yourself, beloved. If you are not able to give of yourself, then I say you are not yet in the fullness of the compassionate Buddha. Thus liberate yourself by mastering the unresolved issues of your psyche and of your spiritual path as well as all your human doings, and see to it that you do nothing that will cause grief or shame to your beloved El Morya.
In this, then, I stand with you one and all, for I am truly aware of all things that shall come to pass in your individual lifetimes. And I am aware that among you those who hear me well and who will make very firm resolves this day shall pass through unscathed as the fires of hell reach the surface of the earth in many places. Those who take lightly my words will find the going to be very rough. For without linking your chakras to the path and science of mantra, you will not have the stored power in your chakras to meet the day of the enemy of your being.
In either case, I shall be there. And to those who take my advice, I say it shall be a matter of a simple quickening for us to protect you. And to those who have not built the words and signs and sounds of mantra in their auras, I say it will be more difficult for us to reach you, for you will be lower in the astral plane.
And so you see, as you have been taught, we may descend only so deep into the astral plane, only as far as our chelas descend to balance their karma by preaching to the rebellious spirits and by reciting our mantras. Thus, we are all limited by cosmic law as to the depths of darkness to which we may descend to rescue our disciples.
My New Year's dispensation, then, on behalf of the Dhyani Buddhas, is the clearing of the records and the burdens of all devotees of Light whom Sanat Kumara ordains may receive this dispensation. Thus, where it is possible you shall indeed have a clean white page upon which to write the writings of the Buddha of your heart, the Buddha of the Ruby Ray.
May you take this opportunity of the New Year, beloved, for very few souls upon earth have this dispensation. Yet, I say those who labor long in the Father's vineyard receive their rewards not only in heaven but on earth as well.
I AM profoundly touched by the grace of God and I bless you for the Good. I rebuke you for that which has not been the Good and I say:
Come up higher. You are made of better stuff. Now show yourself to the Lord of the World that he might see how you have been transformed by his mighty dispensation.
This dictation by beloved Amitabha was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, January 2, 1994, during the four-day conference The Buddhas in Winter, held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. In the service before the dictation, the Messenger gave teaching on the Five Dhyani Buddhas and read an excerpt titled "Protective Power of Mantra" from Mother of the Buddhas: Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra by Lex Hixon. This book is available through Summit University Press. The dictation is available on video-and audiocassette. Videocassette (includes the dictations by Amoghasiddhi and Sanat Kumara, which followed): total 80 min., HP94010. Audiocassette (includes the service before the dictation): total 90 min., B94010. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Amitabha's direction.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
The Pearls of Wisdom Are My Bread of Life
This morning I realized I could not continue to survive if it were not for the Pearls of Wisdom that I receive each week. They are indeed like food - oh, my goodness! - they are the Bread of Life.
So much of what I read in the Pearls these days continues to steer me to the renunciation of my former self and reminds me that eternal vigilance is required to keep the dweller-on-the-threshold away from the seat of authority in my being. Even as I write, I am made more sure of the blessedness of these recent teachings.
Coming and going, into and away from the Ascended Masters' Teachings for so many years has been painful. The Lord Sanat Kumara recently spoke to us concerning this in his July 2, 1993 dictation (Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 36, no. 48). From his words, I received courage and strength when I needed it. Sanat Kumara said:
I am here for one purpose: it is to assemble those of you who have the sense of having had an almost indefinite past on Earth and who now have the deep desire to saturate the earth, and every footprint you have made upon it, with violet flame ... .
There is peace in the assurance that you all have - perhaps recognizing it, perhaps not - gentle, enfolding angel wings comforting you, leading you on and telling you again and again: "Our God is worthy. Be ye therefore worthy unto him. Our God is worthy. He shall not forsake you."
I cannot find words to express the inner knowing I possess at this moment that I continue to have opportunity by God's grace and only because of his grace.
I pray that I can continue to ride this wave of hope and that one day I will be able to visit you at the Royal Teton Ranch.
Thank you so much, Mother, for loving us as you always have and for helping me to find the forgiveness I need to express not only to myself but to one and all.