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Heart Flames Dedicated to the Balance of Love, Wisdom, and Power,
When the Apostle Paul declared your body to be the temple of the Holy Ghost,1 he also saw that the day would come when many among mankind would be raised up to be the instruments of the Paraclete,2 quickened to deliver to the age a mandate of the glory of God incarnate. The age which he foresaw is upon us. And the time of the appearing of the Holy Ghost in man and in woman draws nigh.
As John the Baptist went forth to prepare the way for the coming of the Christ in Jesus, so I come to you in this hour in the power of the spoken Word to prepare the way for the coming of the Christ into full, balanced manifestation within you. The balance of which I speak is the balance of the threefold flame, which is the spark of your Divinity that burns upon the altar of the heart.
This spark that is the threefold action of the love, wisdom, and power of the Father/Mother God is the sacred fire that burns on the altar of the temple of the Holy Ghost. It is the fire of Life which you must keep as a Keeper of the Flame. And when that fire is adored as the very living Presence of God himself, then and only then does your body become the actual dwelling place of the Holy Ghost.
In this the second week of our instruction on the putting on of the garment of the Lord, we concentrate upon the need for the students to prepare the body temple for the coming of the Holy Spirit. And we show you how you can present yourself a living sacrifice3 on the altar of the Lord.
The threefold flame is the core of your identity. And around that core, the Father/Mother God has coalesced the energies which provide for your self-conscious awareness of God as Spirit and of soul as your living potential to become the fullness of God in manifestation.4 Jesus and others who have walked the homeward path have become the fullness of the Christ in outer manifestation by balancing the energies of the threefold flame within the heart.
In the beginning when you were created in the plane of Spirit, this flame was a Trinity of God's consciousness. But after the descent into form and the subsequent fall from levels of perfection through misuse and the misapplication of the gift of free will, the aspects of the threefold flame no longer manifested in balance. With the loss of the balance of love, wisdom, and power came the loss of the Christ consciousness, which then receded to the level of mediator, acting as a go-between between the imperfection of the outer evolving consciousness and the perfection of the great inner God Self.
The four lower bodies of mankind no longer mirrored the fullness of Christ-love, Christ-wisdom, and Christ-power. And man forgot that his outer consciousness was but the instrument of the inner fire and the inner equation that was and is the threefold flame. Thus the spark of Life that kept the flow of Life moving in the temple foursquare, while unbalanced in its manifestation in the world of material form, had a counterpart in the Holy Christ Self - the real identity of man and woman. Within the heart of the Holy Christ Self, there remained the perfect outpicturing of the threefold flame as it was intended to one day come forth into manifestation in the body temple.
Now, as we look to make of the devotees of the sacred fire among mankind instruments for the stepping through the veil of members of hierarchy, we must turn our attention to the giving of that needed instruction which can assist every soul to draw forth from the Holy Christ Self the balancing action of the threefold flame that will magnetize, even in the plane of Matter, the perfection of the Sacred Trinity.
Therefore, in the seven-day period in which you study this Pearl of Wisdom and apply its teaching, which comes to you at the behest of the Darjeeling Council, will you not meditate in equal measure upon the flame of love in the giving of self without reserve, upon the flame of wisdom in the application of the mind to the higher teaching of the law, and upon the flame of power through obedience to the covenants of our Maker? And I ask that you make invocations to the Lords of Karma that there might be revealed to you those impediments which remain in your outer personality at subconscious as well as conscious levels which prevent the flow of a threefold flame in balanced action in your world.
When these conditions are revealed to you, you ought to follow the sacred ritual of writing them down in your own handwriting and then submitting them to Almighty God in the rite of true sacrifice whereby the supplicant places upon the altar of the sacred fire every aspect of himself which is unreal, hence unworthy of being perpetuated in the flame of Life. This is that true sacrifice which must be practiced if the redemption of the Holy Ghost is to come upon the devotees in this age.
There is great significance in ritual. And the ritual of consigning to the flame those conditions of consciousness which are made known to the aspirant by the Higher Mind is one important means of stripping the outer self of its illusions. This ritual leads to greater awareness of the True Self and enables the disciple to narrow the gap that presently exists between the outer evolving consciousness that is in the state of becoming the Christ and the full-orbed presence of that Christed One.
As this gap is narrowed through invocation and application to the sacred fire and through service to one's fellowman, the goal of oneness with Reality is approached and the possibility, ever present, of ultimate victory is more clearly at hand. Our goal, then, in this series of Pearls of Wisdom is to draw the outer consciousness into greater alignment with the soul and the Christ Self, that man and woman in this age might walk the earth in the full, breathing awareness of the vitality of being sons and daughters of God in the highest sense - joint heirs5 of the Christ consciousness here and now!
Now, I recommend for your study in conjunction with this dispensation a Trilogy on the Threefold Flame of Life written by my illustrious teacher and friend the ascended master Saint Germain. For indeed the key to self-mastery is the glorious fulfillment of light's Trinity - as above, so below. For the glory of the sun and of the moon and of the stars of which Saint Paul speaks6 is this glory of the spark of Life, that precious seedling God has sown throughout the vastness of the Cosmic Egg as a focal point for the spiraling of Divinity into manifestation in form in the body of the Mother.
Paul speaks of celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial and the glory of the celestial as one and the glory of the terrestrial as another.7 So it is that there is a translation of energy: the same energy which manifests as Father in the plane of Spirit coalesces as Mother in the plane of Matter. And yet the glory and the radiance of this energy manifests according to the frequency of God's consciousness appearing as Life in these several dimensions of being. The translation of the energies of Spirit to form - the womb of Mater with its manifold dimensions of time and space and levels of consciousness occupying this hallowed space you call your native universe - is but the accord of the Father/Mother God to provide opportunity for evolution for billions of lifestreams. These streams of life are the individual identities which emanate from the Sun Source center of being, created by God to expand self-awareness of the Divine One.
All of life is God. All of being is God. All of consciousness is God. We come to understand him in his many facets as we understand the law of the translation of energy whereby God can identify himself as inert matter, as flaming flame of the one Life, as elemental, angelic being, cosmic hierarchy, even as he is the essence of the planes of fire, air, water, and earth in the body of the Mother.
There is, then, a translation of energy from Spirit to Matter, even as you observe in the passing of loved ones the translation of material energies to the plane of spiritual being. Moving on the scale of the dimensions of Matter, mankind enter physical existence and depart therefrom - all the while yet remaining in the plane of Matter until evolution and self-mastery are complete, until that hour and that moment when there is the quickening of being for the final translation of the body of the Mother which merges with and becomes the Spirit of the Father. This final translation is the return of the soul to the plane of Spirit in the ritual of the ascension.
We come to intensify. We come to magnify hearts yearning to be free - hearts yearning to prove the consciousness of God here in this body, to fire this body and be fired by the energies of the Holy Ghost, then to be made a permanent atom in the being of God and to return to those octaves where there is limitless opportunity for expansion in the timeless/spaceless dimensions of Spirit.
"He must increase, but I must decrease"8 - the words of John the Baptist referring to the tender regard in which he held the Master Jesus. As mankind behold the creation and query within themselves as to the purposes of that creation, they must understand that it is the fire of the heart that must be increased in the plane of Matter, and sin and the sense of sin in the separation of the outer self from the Source which must be decreased. In direct proportion to the increase of the measure of the flame of Spirit that is anchored in the form will be the progress and the initiation of the disciple on the Path. The threefold flame of Life vibrates at the level of Spirit. It is the focal point of God as Spirit in manifestation in man, whose soul in the present hour yet occupies a point of contact in time and space that is for the realization of God as Mother.
To make you one with us in all planes of being is the goal of our communication. And our love for evolving humanity is so great that if it were possible, we would lay down our very life for the salvation of all. "Whosoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever loses his life for my sake shall find it again."9 Thus we seek to enhance the life of God. Losing ourselves in service to untold billions, we find that as we nourish the fires of Divinity here below, so our life as God individualized in Spirit is increased here above.
As you hold the contact for hierarchy upon earth, we increase that contact in heaven. And all of the evolutions of God - as above, so below - move forward in the cosmic spiral of a destiny that was preordained from the beginning. A destiny that is the freedom of the sons and daughters of God to choose to be the manifold expression of the threefold flame of Life.
I AM yours for the salvation of a planet and her people,