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Let us then speak of the New Atlantis. Let us speak of the rising of continents. Let us speak of the rising of souls, the rising of magnificent temples and of the City Foursquare within you.
I say, let all that opposes this dictation and my flame on earth be put to naught and go down. Roll back! Roll back! Roll back! and let the fire of freedom now blaze!
Let souls then dedicate themselves to the formation of colonies of light, cells on earth dedicated wholly and invincibly to the victory of perfection. You have been told how the dispensation was given by the Lords of Karma for me to found an organization earlier in this century dedicated to the I AM and the unfoldment of the law of the I AM. When mankind en masse failed to respond to that teaching, the Lords of Karma said to me: "Saint Germain, we will not give you another allotment of energy for mankind to take and to dissipate and to waste and then for you to bear the responsibility because you have sponsored some among mankind."
And thus after seventy thousand years of sponsoring various endeavors for the enlightenment and the freedom of mankind, you might say that my wings were clipped. And I had but to stand and hope that some other hierarch would come forth to implore a dispensation of light for humanity, for souls of light. And thus that hierarch came forth - Morya, Lord of the First Ray - to sponsor activities of light, to train the messengers, and to bring forth the power of the spoken Word for a new dispensation of illumination and love in the Law.
Thus The Summit Lighthouse was born out of the devotion of Morya to the flame of freedom. And thus as souls rallied to the defense of the light, of the will of God, of the messengers, and of this activity, they created a wellspring of light, a reservoir of energy that could be shown to the Lords of Karma, you might say, as collateral for new dispensations to come forth.
Thus I stand before you this hour, and I say to you that as a result of the swelling of the lightbearers and the swelling of the ranks of students of light united in this activity, as a result of the expansion of the Mother flame through the ascended-master university [Summit University] and the community of the Holy Spirit, and these endeavors in which you are jointly engaged for the victory of the light, I have been given again a dispensation from the Lords of Karma! Thus I may once again step forth and pledge to you the energies of my causal body for the freedom and the victory of the light in this age!
It is my profound privilege to stand before you in this place dedicated to the Mother flame long ago and in the New Atlanta to anchor my fire of freedom. And this dispensation, which as you see it unfold, will be for the freedom of America, for the staying of the hand of the dark forces, for the bringing-in of the kingdom of God. This is a beginning, a glorious beginning! But that beginning must find fulfillment and culmination in the continuing dedication of the Keepers of the Flame, of students of light everywhere, not necessarily aligned with this activity, but aligned with the Great White Brotherhood in some form or manner.
And thus I say, as the dispensation goes forth, it must be expanded; for it is like a mighty firecracker on the Fourth of July! [applause, audience rises] If it is to have the full release, the full increase, the successive explosions which are the potential of this mandala, then each of you must play a key role in releasing that fire and helping mankind to climb up higher! I thank you for your rising tribute to my flame. Won't you please be seated.
Thus the emancipation written on the mighty scroll of life is also the emancipation of Saint Germain! For now I am free to render the full release of my causal body for the salvation of the earth! And I say, time is short! For the forces of darkness who have determined to put down the light that is America before her two hundredth anniversary must be dealt with summarily by the fires of freedom, by the fires of Astrea! And even now cosmic beings are coming to the fore surrounding this place, and they come in defense of my flame and my dispensation! For they, too, have witnessed how my energies in the past have been dissipated; and thus they have come forth to defend the light within you, to defend the Christ, and to augment the dispensation granted to me by the Lords of Karma!
Thus in addition to the release of my honor, my devotion, and my will, cosmic beings coming down the highways of the years, cosmic beings who have not come forth in assistance to Terra in hundreds and thousands of years are coming forth this hour! Do you understand the great portent and the great moment of this dispensation, precious hearts? Do you understand how a few gathered together in my name and in my flame over the years could produce this response from heaven?
Do you not see then how the love of all of hierarchy is simply waiting, waiting to be released? And with the slightest ovation from mankind, and with the certainty of discipline among the devotees, and with the commitment now of the other seventy also who shall be present in Santa Barbara for the first ascended master university - with all of these commitments of souls willing to bear the light, heaven can respond, heaven will respond, heaven is responding!
Thus you never know in what hour your hope will be redeemed, your hope will be expanded, and the fires of hope will precipitate as Cosmic Christ manifestation and as the City Foursquare! Thus I say, the dispensation of this energy will be used to spread abroad the teachings of the ascended masters to all people everywhere in every language, in every country, in every nation upon earth. So the flame of freedom will blaze according to the will and the love and the devotion of torchbearers, of yourselves!
Thus I have given you myself! I have given you my all! This is my gift! This is my proclamation this day!
I stand in the center of your being! I stand in the center of the Great Central Sun! And I shall stand in the center of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday of this week. I shall stand in your midst as you salute the Spirit of Abraham Lincoln, the Spirit of Freedom of mankind from every form of slavery and bondage! So I, Saint Germain, will lend my flame to the city of Washington for the restoration, the purification, and the regeneration of the government of the United States of America!
I AM your defender of freedom for eternity!
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SAINT GERMAIN. Keepers of the Flame Fraternity (3). In the Keepers of the Flame Lessons, the ascended masters set forth the instruction whereby, through earnest application and selfless, obedient service, the disciple may move toward the goal of the ascension at the conclusion of either this embodiment or the next. Thus the necessary balancing of karma and fulfilling of the divine plan through one's special service to life, called the sacred labor, is clearly outlined by the ascended masters. In addition to receiving graded monthly instruction dictated by the ascended masters to the Messengers Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, the chela is taken in his soul consciousness to the etheric retreats of the Great White Brotherhood, there to receive special training under the chohans (lords) of the rays, who make up the spiritual governing board of the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity. As the disciple applies himself earnestly to every precept set forth in the lessons, Lord Maitreya, the Great Initiator and representative of the Cosmic Christ, gives to him the same initiations which were given to Jesus the Christ, Mary the Mother, John the Beloved, and all who have overcome the world. For a free brochure on Saint Germain's Keepers of the Flame Fraternity, including your application form, please write The Summit Lighthouse, P. O. Box 7000, Pasadena, CA 91109.
SAINT GERMAIN as Samuel the Prophet, of the tribe of Levi, priest and initiator of the prophetic order in Israel. His life is recorded in the book of I Samuel (eleventh century b.c.), beginning with the story of Hannah, wife of Elkanah. According to the tradition of the law, Hannah accompanied her husband each year to the house of the Lord at Shiloh where she prayed earnestly and wept because she was barren. After many years of sorrow and supplication, Hannah made a vow before the Most High that if she would bear a son, "I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life." And so it is written that "the Lord remembered her" and she brought forth a son and called him Samuel (meaning "his name is God") "because I have asked him of the Lord." As soon as the child was weaned, Hannah took him to the temple as she had promised and presented him to Eli, the priest. Even as a child, Samuel ministered in the temple before Eli, for his sons "were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord." Once while Samuel was sleeping, the Lord called to him. Thinking that it was Eli who spoke, Samuel went to the priest and answered, "Here am I," but Eli said, "I called not" and sent him away. "Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him." Again and still a third time, Samuel was called by name until Eli "perceived that the Lord had called the child" and told him how to answer. "And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, 'Samuel, Samuel."' Then Samuel answered, "'Speak; for thy servant heareth."' So God spoke to him concerning Eli and his sons: "For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not." And so it is written that "Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him ... and all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord." At that time, Israel went against the Philistines and when they were overcome in battle they said among themselves, "Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh." So they took the ark to their camp and "all Israel shouted with a great shout." Now the Philistines heard the cry and they understood that the ark of the Lord was with the Israelites and they were afraid, saying, "God is come into the camp." And so they fought with great determination and defeated Israel, slaughtered 30,000 men, and captured the ark of the covenant. Then it is written that "the glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken." But wherever the ark was held, the people witnessed disease and destruction and so it is written that "the men of Kirjathjearim came and fetched up the ark of the LORD ... And it came to pass ... that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord." Samuel spoke to the people of Israel, telling them that if they returned to the worship of the one God, He would deliver them from the continual attack of the Philistines. "Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only" and as Samuel had prophesied the Philistines were subdued, Israel regained her lost territories, and there was a lasting peace. "Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life," traveling extensively throughout the land. But as time went on, he grew old and the people of Israel rose up and demanded of him a king "to judge us like all the nations." Samuel was troubled at this and prayed to the Lord who answered him saying, "They have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." Despite the solemn warnings of Samuel as to the arrogant oppression of kings, the people were insistent. And so God sent Saul, a Benjamite, into the city where Samuel was prepared by the Lord to receive him as king. After Samuel anointed Saul with oil, he sent him into the company of prophets so that "the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them." Then he gathered together the people of Israel and showed them the king whom God had chosen. And "Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel." Now "the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel," and "there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul." But when he was called of God to "go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have," Saul was disobedient and spared the best of the spoils. So God spoke to Samuel and said, "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king ... And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night." Samuel went and spoke to Saul and rebuked him saying, "Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king." Through Samuel, the Lord appointed David in his stead. Saul became fiercely jealous and sought to kill David. Therefore David fled to Samuel's house at Ramah and abode with him until the prophet's death. Now the Philistines again gathered their army against the people of Israel and after Saul saw the strength of the enemy he was afraid, but "when Saul enquired of the Lord, the LORD answered him not." So he went to the witch of En-dor that she might call Samuel up from the grave to speak to him. And Samuel himself came from inner planes to reproach Saul saying, "Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?" And Saul told him "I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more." And Samuel said unto him, "The Lord is departed from thee ... because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord." And he prophesied to him that "the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me." And so it came to pass at Mount Gilboa that Saul was slain, and "there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. ... Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh," and the elders of Israel anointed him king. "And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him."
SAINT GERMAIN as Joseph, chosen by God as the protector of Jesus and Mary. Joseph was of the house of David, a descendant of the greatest kings of the tribe of Judah and the most illustrious of the ancient patriarchs. Much of his life with Mary and Jesus is recorded in apocryphal writings. According to Matthew's Gospel of the Birth of Mary, she was three years of age when her parents, Anna and Joachim, presented her at the temple at Jerusalem to be raised by temple virgins. When Mary was fourteen years old the high priest made a public order that all temple virgins "as they were now of a proper maturity should according to the custom of their country endeavour to be married. To which command, though all the other virgins readily yielded obedience, Mary the Virgin of the Lord alone answered that she could not comply with it. Assigning these reasons, that both she and her parents had devoted her to the service of the Lord and besides that she had vowed virginity to the Lord, which vow she was resolved never to break." The priest, being perplexed, commanded "that at the approaching feast all the principal persons both of Jerusalem and the neighbouring places should meet together that he might have their advice, how he had best proceed in so difficult a case. When they were accordingly met, they unanimously agreed to seek the LORD and ask counsel from Him on this matter. And when they were all engaged in prayer, the high priest, according to the usual way, went to consult God. And immediately there was a voice from the ark and the mercy seat which all present heard, that it must be inquired or sought out by a prophecy of Isaiah to whom the Virgin should be given and be betrothed; for Isaiah saith, there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a flower shall spring out of its root, and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and Piety, and the Spirit of the Fear of the Lord shall fill him. Then, according to this prophecy, he appointed that all the men of the house and family of David who were marriageable and not married should bring their several rods to the altar, and out of whatsoever person's rod after it was brought, a flower should bud forth and on the top of it the Spirit of the Lord should sit in the appearance of a dove, he should be the man to whom the Virgin should be given and be betrothed." But Matthew tells us that Joseph, being advanced in years, "drew back his rod when every one besides presented his. So that when nothing appeared agreeable to the heavenly voice, the high priest judged it proper to consult God again, who answered that he to whom the Virgin was to be betrothed was the only person of those who were brought together who had not brought his rod. Joseph therefore was betrayed. For when he did bring his rod and a dove coming from heaven perched upon the top of it, everyone plainly saw that the Virgin was to be betrothed to him." Then while Mary was living in Nazareth and Joseph, her betrothed husband, was "building houses abroad, which was his trade," Archangel Gabriel appeared to her and announced the birth of Jesus. It is to blessed Joseph that we are indebted for the preservation of the life of the infant Saviour when Herod sent forth the command for the slaughter of the holy innocents. For "behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word." (Matt. 2:13) Now Egypt was to them "a foreign, unknown country, without help or acquaintance" according to St. Crysostom. It is recorded in the apocryphal Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ that when the holy family arrived in Egypt, the "country trembled" and the idols fell to the ground. Jesus performed many miracles while in Egypt those three years. And "when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life. And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel." (Matt. 2:19-21) Then the holy family returned to Nazareth, where Jesus served with Joseph as an apprentice, his first wood carvings setting the example of the Father principle and the mastery of the masculine ray. According to the Gospel of the Infancy, "Joseph, wheresoever he went in the city, took the Lord Jesus with him, where he was sent for to work to make gates, or milk-pails, or sieves, or boxes; the LORD Jesus was with him wheresoever he went. ... On a certain time the King of Jerusalem sent for him, and said, I would have thee make me a throne of the same dimensions with that place in which I commonly sit. Joseph obeyed, and forthwith began the work, and continued two years in the king's palace before he finished it. And when he came to fix it in its place, he found it wanted two spans on each side of the appointed measure. ... Jesus said to him, Fear not, neither be cast down; do thou lay hold on one side of the throne, and I will the other, and we will bring it to its just dimensions. And when Joseph had done as the LORD Jesus said, and each of them had with strenth drawn his side, the throne obeyed, and was brought to the proper dimensions of the place." It is believed that Joseph passed on before the miracle at Cana, with Jesus and Mary at his side to comfort him. For this reason, Christians throughout the world pray to St. Joseph for solace in that hour. St. Joseph is called the Saviour of Egypt, for it was through his intercession that the people of that country were once preserved from great famine. St. Teresa chose St. Joseph the chief patron of her order. Of him, she says, "I do not remember ever to have asked of God anything by him which I did not obtain." The feast of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19.
SAINT GERMAIN as St. Alban. Although the faith of Jesus Christ was brought to England during the time of the apostles, it was not until the third century that Roman persecution began in that country, probably during the terrifying reign of emperor Diocletian. St. Alban was the first of the Christian martyrs of Britain. Alban himself was a pagan who served in the army in Rome for seven years. Upon returning to his homeland, he met with Amphibalus, a fugitive priest who appeared at his door seeking refuge from Roman soldiers who demanded his life. Alban admitted him into his home and was so edified by the holiness of the stranger that he inquired into the tenets of his faith. As Amphibalus related the story of his own conversion, Alban's heart was opened to divine grace and he was filled with love for the Saviour and an immediate understanding of his word. After several days, a report was given to the Roman governor that Amphibalus, a renowned evangelist, was with Alban and thus a warrant was issued for his arrest. Perceiving the intent of the soldiers who soon arrived at his home, Alban exchanged clothes with Amphibalus so that the famed teacher might escape to carry the message of Christ far and wide throughout Britain. Wearing the robe of the priest, Alban presented himself to the soldiers who bound him and led him away. (To be continued in Pearl No. 49.)