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To You Who Are Waiting to Receive His Mantle and His Flame,
There comes a time in the life of every disciple of the Christ when he must be found ready to receive not only the mantle of his master but also the flame of his very flame.
When Elijah ascended into heaven in a whirlwind,1 he did so with the certain knowledge that his disciple Elisha would carry on his mission in his mantle and in his flame. Elisha saw his master taken up in the ritual of the ascension. And he could perceive the wonder and the glory of his reunion with God, for he dwelt not in the consciousness of sackcloth and mourning. He "took hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces" as a symbol of the breaking of the limited cup of his consciousness and its exchange for the masterful consciousness of Elijah. Thus, having shattered the modes of his former identity, he was able to take up the mantle of the prophet that fell from him. And immediately he smote the waters with the challenge "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" In response to his command, the waters parted hither and thither and Elisha went over - showing his dominion in fire and water, air and earth.
In this episode there was imparted to Elisha not only the mantle, transferring the momentum of his teacher's consciousness of self-mastery, but there was bestowed upon him the unseen gift of the Holy Spirit, the flame of very flame - the very heartbeat of Elijah. And so, Elisha partook of the body and the blood of the ascending one - the same Alpha and Omega spirals that later, in another life, the disciple now become the teacher would impart to his own disciples, saying: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."2
Are you ready, blessed ones, to drink the blood of the hierarch and to partake of his flesh? Do you know the meaning of this Sacred Communion wherein the disciple assimilates the essence of the sacred fire which is not only symbolized by the blood but which actually flows in the blood of the Christed one? Are you ready to be a cell in the body of your Lord? Do you sense that you are a part of the body of the Mother? Do you love enough to give your body to the master? Are you joyous when he is joyous? Do you laugh when he laughs? And do you feel the pain of the world as he knows that pain? Then you are coming closer and closer to the flame. Then you realize there is more to this putting on of the garment of the Lord than the transfer of the mantle.
There is a merging with the flame of being that must be accomplished - and that can be accomplished only as you love the teacher even more than your life and as you feel no separation but a part of the whole of his consciousness that has already merged with the Whole as the drop merges with the ocean. Hence you claim no selfhood apart from the teacher. And you come to the inner meaning of the calling of the disciple - and that is to be disciplined to the place where you become the living, breathing awareness of the Presence of the teacher. In fact, then you are the teacher. And when this transition takes place, you will know that you have moved on the scale from the level of disciple to the level of teacher. And by so doing, you have liberated the teacher for higher service in the ascended master octaves.
As I mentioned to you earlier in the series, we desire to transfer to the devotees an increment of the flame of the Holy Spirit as we are merging our auras with your own. We have shown you a number of methods as well as practical exercises for the putting on of the garment of the Lord, for the purifying of your energies in meditation, and for the offering up of the pearl of consciousness to the Presence, that you might receive in turn the pearl of great price from the heart of your Presence. The rituals of the sphere and the fiery core within the sphere - and of the drawing within, in the great inbreath, particles of being for a concentrated bursting forth of energy - are intended to lead you nearer and nearer to the goal of receiving an increment of the flame of the Maha Chohan.
Some of you, because you have been preparing for many years for this initiation, will experience that transfer with the final release in this series. Others will take my Pearls and study them and pore over them until the quickening comes, as on the day of Pentecost. Then the wind rushing through the tall pines or the palm trees will signal a presence that is more than that of sylphs. It will signal the presence of the Maha Chohan. To be "all with one accord in one place," as the disciples were on the day of Pentecost,3 means to be found in harmony with the Christ in every one of the members of the body of God. It means to be found in the likeness of the geometry of the law of harmony. It means to be transparent for the flow of fire.
The cloven tongues of fire that sat upon each of them are the twin flames of Alpha and Omega; and they signify that each one has partaken of the blood (Alpha) and the body (Omega) of the Christ. These cloven tongues, as the wings of the Spirit which alighted upon Jesus like a dove when he went to be baptized of John in Jordan, are the seal of the love of the Father/Mother God bestowed on this "my beloved Son, in whom I AM well pleased."4 Being one with the Christ of every member of the body of God, the disciple who has received the flame of the Holy Spirit is able to speak with other tongues - not only the tongues of men, but also the tongues of angels - as the Spirit gives utterance to the affirmation of the Word in every facet of the jewel of the Christ consciousness as it is reflected in angels, elementals, masters, and the sea of humanity.
Paul said that to affirm that Jesus is the Lord can come only by the Holy Ghost.5 Indeed, it is the Holy Spirit that reveals to every heart the true nature of man and woman to be the Christ. And without that Spirit you can neither see, nor feel, nor hear, nor touch, nor taste that Christ - whether in the teacher, in the Mother, or in yourself.
To each of the disciples is given a gift of the Spirit. This comes about as the Holy Spirit quickens within each one a specific aspect of the causal body. This is released by divine decree as a dispensation of light - a descending pearl of great price, if you will - which bursts in the consciousness and illumines the mind. And so Paul saw the diversities of operations as being "the same God which worketh all in all."6 And he preached to the early Christians of the oneness of the body of God and of all being baptized into one body: "Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free, we have been all made to drink into one Spirit."7 And thus there is no schism in the body of the Lord, as the members have the same care one for another as they do for themselves.
And thus the gifts of the Spirit become the flame that enhances the sacred labor of each part of the body as "to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will."8
This, then, is the communion of the Lord in this age. And this is his communication. If you will merge with one another in love, in bearing one another's burdens and in exchanging those burdens for the light causal body of Jesus the Christ himself - then the Holy Spirit will come to you. Do you understand that no one man, no one woman can contain the allness of that Spirit in the plane of Mater? Only in the ascended state can the fullness of that Spirit be realized in being and in individualized consciousness. Here on earth, then, the ultimate requirement for the getting of the Holy Spirit is the joyous communion and the love-flow between the members of the body of Christ as Keepers of the Flame serve together with one accord (with one vibration) in one place (in one consciousness), daily merging their energies in the giving of the Ave Maria - the praise to the Cosmic Virgin that arcs the worlds with the resounding "Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee!"
As they serve together as the staff upholding the office and the mission of the messengers, as they serve one by one in the fields that are white to harvest,9 laboring a labor of love for the Lord - they are found one in consciousness. Thus they are one at a certain plane of the Christ mind where they converge in the canopy of the Lord's host hovering over an infant humanity in the manner of the covering cherubim who keep the flame of the ark of the covenant. And so as Keepers of the Flame around the world merge the energies of their daily devotions, their service, and their selfless love, they are found to be one on the line of the Christ mind. And there on that line they find the geometrization of the mind of God to be the release of the afflatus of the Holy Spirit.
Wait patiently upon the Lord, all ye who would know him. For he will surely come. He will surely come.10 Although you are separated by the miles, by mountains and oceans and a diversity of occupations - remember that as you serve the one God in demonstration of the law of hierarchy, by that same law you must be found one, not only with those who are of like mind in this age but with all others in all past ages who have ever returned to the oneness of the flame. This oneness is the same whirlwind into which Elijah ascended. It is the movement of the consciousness of souls striving at a certain tension, a certain frequency and vibration. And until that plane is reached, you will not know what it means to be a part of the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood which functions as the arm of the Holy Spirit at both unascended and ascended levels.
There is always so much talk about the amalgamation of new-age groups and the coming together of Christians and others in an ecumenical spirit to the glory of God. This is indeed a worthy goal. But may I say that in all of my experience upon earth, I have found that the only true unity that has ever come about has been the unity of the Christ mind. And therefore hierarchy allows the sheep to be scattered over the hillsides of the world until they come together through the door of the sheepfold because they know the voice of the Good Shepherd.11
And the only way that that voice can be known is through the presence of the Holy Ghost. Therefore, we instruct. We send forth our Pearls to the farthest reaches of the earth. And step by step, one by one, the disciples come into that Christ awareness which magnetizes the Spirit - and which in turn is increased by the Spirit that is magnetized - until those who are ready are brought into the levels of organization where cooperation in a spirit of harmony is the next step on the ladder of attainment.
Hierarchy is no longer willing to bring into organizations sponsored by the ascended masters those who are discordant or those who introduce spirals of disintegration through the rot and the decay of the untransmuted ego. For the body of God must be integrated. And this means the meshing of gears from one disciple to the next until the highest initiate unascended meshes the gears of consciousness with the ascended hierarchy. And so our organization upon earth is a succession of wheels moving with wheels and the hum of a giant motor that is, so to speak, a geometrized version of the body of God. But this is not the mechanization concept. This is the automatic integration of all souls who are one in Christ by the Lord's Spirit with the very fires of creativity that are the essence of God's being.
Now, precious souls, prepare for our final releases which will be complete with number fourteen in this series. Prepare yourselves with fervent devotion for this oneness in the body of God by rendering service unto the least and the greatest among your fellow servants in the Cause. Commune in love. Move in love. And let your conversations be in love. And let us see if we can - for a moment and then for a succession of moments, moving into the hours and days of the Lord's cycles - hold the body of God at a certain pitch of the Christ mind so that countless numbers who read my words will be prepared with one accord in one place for the reception of the Holy Ghost.
I AM with you always, even as I AM everywhere in the consciousness of God in manifestation within you.