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Beloved Who Are Light in the LORD and Walk as Children of Light -
I especially want the students of the Light everywhere to attain a conscious awareness of the real meaning of transfiguration. To have this experience is a blessing of great magnitude! Think of it, blessed ones - only a comparatively few unascended beings have ever experienced it! Nevertheless, it can be called forth from the Great Law by the faithful living in a high state of God consciousness.
When your devotion to Love reaches a certain intensity, the yearning of the Light for itself automatically moves the light within each cell to expand from the center outward in concentric spirals to contact the divine radiance present in the very atmosphere. This takes place, beloved, when the Presence of the All-Father issues the command.
Some do not fully comprehend what the real meaning of this blessing is. Simplicity is necessary in order to grasp the principle and fix it firmly in mind; but when this understanding comes to you personally, it is not through a mere conscious willing but by the direct gift of the Father himself, your own beloved I AM Presence.
Blessed one, the ascension is the final sacred rite that enables you to enter into your eternal God-estate with beloved Jesus and those of us who have won our freedom; when it takes place, the change is permanent and the victory is complete over everything human. Therefore, transfiguration is made possible to unascended beings as a prelude to their being raised into the high estate of the ascension.
Every so often we hear people say they prefer to remain in embodiment or to reembody upon earth because they know that someone has to do the work and anchor a focus of light among mankind for the Ascended Masters to work through. It is true that we need calls from your octave in order to take action in your world or to intercede on behalf of humanity - for cosmic law demands that the call which compels our answer be forthcoming from unascended mankind in physical embodiment. But, blessed ones, far too few from this planet have won their ascension victory, and the whole world is waiting for the sunrise when thousands ascend in one day to fulfill their God-destiny!
Do you know what it will mean to our dear earth and yours when so many attain their victory? The increase of our ranks, the swelling of the cosmic chorus, the soul-touching gratitude and praise poured out to God the Mighty I AM Presence by the ascending ones - going forever out of mortality into immortality, out of all shadow into the glory and comfort of the absolute Light of God1 - will be beyond words to describe.
The net gain of light to the cosmos and all sentient beings is incomparable! Why, every molecule of matter is charged with the currents of the ascension flame released through the ascending ones! Those who witness their everlasting victory in the rapture of Love may then claim the mantle (attainment) of their brothers and sisters who have advanced beyond mortal dimensions (for the laws of mortality could no longer bind them).
This transfer of light, as in the scenario of Elijah and Elisha,2 can take place only if some make the 'sacrifice' to "come up higher" and others remain to "teach men the Way." While both fulfill the law of the Master/disciple (Guru/chela) relationship, their mutual acceleration impels the remnant through the Doorway of Light.
The momentum thus generated as each lifewave, each graduating class, ascends will provide a continuing upward pull until one day in the not-too-distant future (as cosmic cycles are reckoned) all earth's evolutions will be ascended in the Light and free, and earth herself shall ascend into golden octaves of light and peace - worlds without end. May you invoke the divine timetable for your ascent, for God knoweth the hour of your translation.
I want to convey, then, to those who now see the transfiguration as the next step in their soul's fiery destiny, the first essential to becoming transfigured as beloved Jesus was: it is obedience to the Voice and the Law of your own beloved God Presence, as applied by your Holy Christ Self - the Teacher - to meet every situation and test, human and divine.
You see, some students do not feel the need or the desire to surrender their will completely to God, thinking to retain, by right, some control. Blessed ones, in examining the cosmic record of centuries, I have never found one case in which human control exceeded or even equaled the wisdom and perfection of God-control and God-guidance. And I do not think I shall!
However, the most humble, ordinary-appearing persons may be vested with such a radiance as the result of being God-guided that even the worldly, steeped in human concepts, can sense that there is something very special and wonderful about these devotees who do surrender their will to God and are blessed in return with the power of the greater will.
This investment of God (notice, I say "in-vest-ment") is an act of the supreme guiding intelligence that controls every star in the sky. Here God's investment becomes man's investiture as the Father invests the power of his will in his sons and daughters who surrender their will to him and vests them therefore with a mantle of authority and responsibility to expand his kingdom below as above. This precept is still taught by Jesus in his parable of the talents: Thou hast been faithful (i.e., obedient, responsible, trustworthy) over a few things, I will make thee ruler (a co-creator with me) over many things.3
Thus, obedience is the first simple step that must be taken. It is the threading of the eye of the needle for God's handiwork to come - cosmic Selfhood, divine, illumined, free. Truly you create yourself by allegiance (obedience) to your inner blueprint and the Voice within who so lovingly guides you into all Truth.
When working in harmony with God's will, you must consciously think on Light from a divine standpoint. By and by, quite suddenly, you will find your whole being feeling lighter. This is because what you think on, you shall become. In this case, through thinking on God's light you are becoming that light in action everywhere you move.
This is an automatic process which can attune your mind to God's Mind as well as tune the mind like a spiritual instrument, a divine harp, to harmonize with every other 'instrument' in the cosmic orchestra. When the light streams radiantly forth in a brilliant outpouring of harmonious music, and heavenly choruses travel on lightbeams from your God Presence directly into your world and affairs, you will know that the Initiator draweth nigh.
At first you will begin to develop the sense of the transfiguration as Jesus did, and then you will begin to know, as he did, that this sensitivity to the daily transfusing light of the Presence, this attunement with the flow of the creative Word, is an experience drawing you nearer unto the Father, your own God Self, and to the full-orbed initiation of the transfiguration through beloved Lord Maitreya.
May it be so! I bless you with this knowing. May your heart make it plain!
[Taken from the book version, Corona Class Lessons.]