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Most Gracious Ladies and Gentlemen,
I greet you in the bonds of immortal love as the eternal fires of my heart blend with your own. Receive the strong embrace of my lifestream; for I embrace you each one, and I welcome you to the victory of purity, to the purity of victory.
I AM here and I AM there! I AM in heaven - and oh, the glories of heaven - and I AM on earth, here in the heart of my twin flame. And lo, I AM everywhere in the Consciousness of God.
Oh, the newfound freedom of the ascended state! How I have looked forward to telling you that life begins not at forty, not at eighty, but when you ascend! My rejoicing cannot help but be tempered in part by the loss that some have felt of my physical presence. But as I gaze upon the children - upon my Sean and my Erin, my Moira and my Tatiana - I see the courage of hearts united in faith and I am relieved of what burden of sorrow that I might have.
And I desire to divest you this night also - and those who shall hear my words in the field - of all burden of care and concern for my passing from the screen of Life; for I AM here to tell you that all is in divine order. For the hour came and is now for the retiring of the Witness, the withdrawal of this Witness into the white fire core of the secret rays. And according as it is written in the Book of Life, so it was accomplished that my time was fulfilled. And I am gratified to know that one who came to me twelve years ago did prepare to take my place and now stands where I once stood before you.
Precious hearts, when I think of what might have been, it might have come to pass that I should be called Home and there would be no one here to take my place. Many things could have happened; for I would have been called Home whether or not the Everlasting Gospel had been published, whether or not the activity had been successful, whether or not the good news of the Ascended Masters' teachings had been spread abroad across the face of the earth.
And I knew twelve years ago that my time was short, as you have been told; but I say it again to assure you and to allay your fears. The means that was used to effect my transition was deemed the best method by the Lords of Karma for the least pain to loved ones, to myself, to all concerned. Although she has not yet the total awareness of our inner communion prior to that event, Elizabeth did know and was aware as much as it was possible to make known to her that I would be going on.
I remember our last supper together in Santa Barbara - just the two of us as we sat together dining in the love of El Morya - and he dined with us this night. And it was the communion of the three M's - Mark and Morya and the Mother - united for so long in the service of the Light. We shared our cup together, and it was a special hour that God had provided for us midst the turmoil of service and the closing hours when the life was being withdrawn from my physical body in preparation for the ascension.
And so as the eternal tides of the sea roar - the sea that is so dear to the heart of Elizabeth - I proclaim to you the mighty sea of Life that carries the soul unto a new Bourn, a new Home of Light where angels sing and where there is that great rejoicing in the communion of saints and the hosts of heaven.
As I have thought this night upon the many subjects on which I would choose to discourse, I have drawn the conclusion that it is always the most expedient to speak of practical things, even when the heart would sing to the poetic cadences of the music of the spheres. For I am concerned that you wear my mantle - those of you that I have known for so long, for so many embodiments. And therefore I have enlisted the service of my angels over these past weeks, thinking of what I could do to bring you my joy; and I have asked the angels to sew you a replica of my cape - my blue cape that I have worn even in the physical octave. And I have asked my angels to place that cape upon your shoulders this night, and it might very well come to pass that you shall feel even the fabric of that cape as it rustles around your ankles and around your arms.
Yes, I have fashioned a blue cape for each one of you; that is, my angels - they have taken the fashioning that I have given to them and styled a most noble garment complete with hood like the monks of old. And so before this service is concluded, these angels are going to place my cape upon you that you might also go forth wearing the momentum of my victory in many past embodiments, which I have taken forth from my Causal Body as a momentum of Light to give unto you.
And so let us then talk together this night as though I were sitting by the fire in the family room and you were gathered around me for an informal talk about life, about the world, about where we are going together. For whatever happens, come what may, we move forward together. For this group, this noble company of souls, is a part of the vast mandala of hierarchy, of the children of God who have been together for generations of Light.
And so as the fire crackles in the fireplace in Darjeeling, so I look into the Flame and I consider our fiery destiny. I consider the destiny of a planet in the throes and upheavals of great change. Turmoil within and turmoil without is the order of the day. And as I have made known to you in two Pearls of Wisdom, which K-17 and I dictated together, the state of the world, the affairs of the nations are of prime concern to the Darjeeling Council, to the Council of the Royal Teton, and to the members of this retreat in embodiment.
Our concern is first with the lack of the cosmic honor flame in governments across the nations of the world. Our concern is that in the absence of the keeping of that flame, all forms of distortions of God-government have manifested. I do not wish to alarm you, and yet I cannot fail to warn you. Times are gravely critical, far more so than it appears on the surface. In fact there is a surface quiet across the earth; and it is a quiet not of peace, but a quiet before the storm.
And what is that storm? And what is its nature? So you ask me, as I have asked the Lords of Karma. Mankind have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.1 There is no alternative. Perhaps there might be an alternative if suddenly great numbers and masses of people should come to the feet of the Ascended Masters and immediately begin to give forth the invocations that you have so faithfully given over the years.
All things are possible with God,2 and hope is always present. But we in the Ascended Masters' octave must also deal with the practicalities of life, and the practicalities are these: Mankind have not turned toward the Light in generations and centuries and millennia past. And the handwriting on the wall, which is the projection of their human consciousness into the days ahead, does not indicate that they will, as they have not, change their basic natures of selfishness and self-seeking.
I was there when Abraham asked the Lord to spare the city for ten righteous men,3 and I know that within your hearts this night you would also do the same. Whatever the number is that the Lord requires of righteousness today, I am certain that He would spare the earth her travail if it were possible. There is no desire on the part of the Godhead to punish mankind, but the Law requires a balance; and so it is the balancing of the energies of Life with which we are concerned.
The coming of the Dark Cycle on April twenty-third, 1969, was a foretelling of the coming of the darkness of mankind's own karma. And so on the fourth anniversary of the coming of the dark cycle, there shall come upon mankind a renewed opportunity to deal with darkness. Opportunity, yes; travail, yes. Mankind will have a new impetus of their returning karma as a result of the freeing of the elementals of some of the burden that they have borne for humanity far too long. Mankind will have the opportunity to transmute that darkness. The question is, Will they transmute it or will they identify with it and thus go down with their own returning karma?
Only time will tell. And the Ascended Masters will not make predictions of dire calamity; for they would not be the authors of a spiral through prediction that must be fulfilled because of the momentum of their God-awareness. Nay, I tell you the Ascended Masters will not put their energies into the fulfillment of negativity. But they will warn; they will say to their chelas embodied, "Prepare, be ready for the time when anything can happen."
There is always the universal threat of nuclear holocaust, of nations destroying nations; for Russia can well destroy the United States today, as the United States can well destroy Russia. Although their powers are not equal, both have enough to do the job. And then there is the rising threat of darkness from the mainland of China. O China, land of illumination, how thou art fallen as Babylon is fallen, is fallen, the mighty city!4
Precious hearts, there is always the question at hand of cataclysm of many sorts. All types of disturbances in the earth's atmosphere, man-made, create disturbances within the earth - earthquakes in divers places and storms, all types of manifestation. And yet, as Jesus said, "The end is not yet."5
Jesus prophesied the end of an age and the end of a cycle, as you have been told, when the Everlasting Gospel would be preached in every nation.6 It has come to pass as the fulfillment of my life that in this past year the gospel has been preached by us personally or by the book going across the earth in libraries and in the hands of students. Yes, the Everlasting Gospel has been preached in every nation, and it is foretold that then the end should come.
What is that end? That is the end of the Piscean Age, but is it also the end of the established order? Can I answer all of these questions for you? I dare not; I must not. For I must place hope before you; I must say that one with God is a majority and that he that is absent from the body is present with the Lord.7 You are counted among those who love not their lives8 in the body, for you are concerned with the immortality of the soul, else you would not sit in these rooms day after day to hear how to attain that immortality as it is explained to you here.
And so, precious hearts, I look to long-range plans. I look to the future, to the glory of the wonders of purity and victory made manifest within each one of you. And beholding that glory, I am concerned with your immediate present, your present state, the state of your consciousness, and your ability to fulfill your divine plan. The ability to fulfill the divine plan is greatly based upon determination, the determination not to procrastinate till the morrow those things which you know one day you must accomplish ere you leave this physical temple.