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O light from the heart of central suns of far-off worlds, light of manus, light of freedom's banner now within the heart of devotee unfurled, I, Maitreya, come in the Ritual of the Great Interchange.
There is a sphere of light within my own soul that represents the path of my chelaship under the Lord Sanat Kumara. Hand-in-hand Gautama and I would go through meadow and forests, climbing to the heights of the Himalayas - not in search but in surrender unto the Eternal Guru, the Everlasting Star, that Light whom we knew as the very Person of heartbeat.
We would follow the beating of our hearts to its logical conclusion in the heart of the Ancient of Days where so many devotees have found succor and a flame and the place of rest in preparation for going out once again on the path of initiation - that is, initiation according to this world and all that it contains, even the crosscurrents of lifestreams and races and fallen ones and types of personalities that are the antithesis of the Godhead. Thus the way of soul elevation upon earth includes this path of soul testing by the very presence of the rebellious ones. And it provides the initiatic stream of our Brotherhood emanating from Sirius, from the retreats of the Himalayas, and the etheric citadels of the Brotherhood.
Therefore, beloved hearts, there is a path of initiation that is reflective of your own individual attainment of light regardless of this world or the next or wherever you may abide. This path of initiation has to do with light: the alchemy of light, the equation of light, the mathematical formula of light, and all that you contain in discipline, order, harmony, wisdom - and, most of all, intense love for the Source.
Your own Great God Self is like unto the Secret Love-Star. It is a secret until you have truly climbed the starbeams back to the Source, there to discover the mystery of the ages. And the secret is no secret anymore.
Hearts afire with the love of God, this inner path spiraling up, up the ladder of the five secret rays carries you to the very center and to the pinnacle of the I AM Presence. The initiation of outer worlds demands that those who climb to the star of the mighty I AM Presence descend once again to release that light in measured cadence and according to the calculus of the Spirit for the judgment, for the sacred fire, for the rolling back and the stripping of the fallen ones of their misuse of the sacred fire.
Thus there are terms and conditions of servitude within the Great White Brotherhood upon earth. These differ from those of other planetary homes. But nevertheless the science of the Spirit from within, the science of the inner attainment, is the same. And therefore there are classes in the retreat of the Serapis Bey and the seraphim where students gather from many systems to learn of the inner path of the ascension.
There are other classes where students also gather from this system and beyond to learn of the particular circumstances which require an astute and an intensely compassionate application of the law of grace. Some individuals who attend these classes from other parts of the systemic worlds, here to study the condition of earth, from time to time take incarnation to experience in a more direct manner the testings of life in the outer conditions of the nations of earth.
Now then, you have assembled at this quarter at Summit University - truly a university of the Spirit sponsored by the Great White Brotherhood - to sit at the feet of the Goddess of Justice.1 Therefore I, Maitreya, consider it just that you ought to realize that some among you have embodied from out of the classrooms of Serapis Bey to study and to master the conditions of earth so that you could return to other planetary homes where there are also dire conditions in this leg of the Kali Yuga, this very dark cycle of returning karma.
Some who have attended these classes have now been upon earth a second, a third, even a fourth incarnation. For as it happens, pitifully and sorrowfully, some forget the mission, the nature of the encounter, and become all too attached or embroiled in the conditions of earth. Thereby making karma, they press on another and another embodiment.
Blessed hearts, I have stood before Serapis Bey, I have stood before the Lords of Karma to sponsor you that you might disentangle yourselves from this evolution, gain the mastery, and (now that you have spent some time here) to also accelerate the inner walk with God and thereby insure - through the balancing of karma, the use of the violet flame, and the certain knowledge of the path of the ascension - that in returning to finish that unfinished business in other planetary homes you might be assured that the door of heaven's gate is open and you also might ascend after a concluding and glorious, victorious incarnation for the fulfillment of that cycle.
Now this is a most unusual circumstance at Summit University. And it has occurred because I have made a study of certain lifestreams upon the planetary body and I have determined that there are deserving souls who have become embroiled and enmeshed in the conditions of earth.
Considering the maya and the bombardment of the senses from the hour of birth and beyond, it is understandable. And yet I must say in all defense of the Karmic Board and the ascended masters that all who have sojourned with earth for these various purposes have come well trained and aware, but little by little have been enticed away from the strait and narrow path of cosmic purpose.
Thus these circumstances and others which have caused to be assembled at Summit University this group of lifestreams have to do with the light - most intense - of the heart of beloved Portia herself and her own desire to transfer to you a living flame that you might bear into the midst of a crowded world that often seems most lonely.
Dear hearts afire with love, I would part the veil. I would open the way that you might touch the hem of the garment of Kuthumi, of the Lord Christ Jesus, and others. I would even accelerate the light now, that you might have imparted to you a fragrance of the auric emanation of your own twin flame.
It is our desire to enable you to feel a greater proximity to the elder brothers and sisters who are indeed just beyond the veil. We are so very near. And the warmth of our love would caress you - if your attunement were not so much with the world and its absence of that love.
Our desire is that you seek in God, your own mighty I AM Presence, the solace for human grief and every human need. For thereby you could, if you would, in short order dissolve some of those binding conditions that cause you to feel enslaved and truly tear from you the heights of God's own consummate love.
Thus I commend you to the heart of the Buddha even as I stand before you. For I draw close to you, even to your very midst, and I accelerate the interchange whereby you now receive the sphere of light which contains the record of my own discipleship with Gautama under the Lord Sanat Kumara. For as I have pondered the sweet mystery of Life which is the chela in the heart of the Guru and the Guru in the heart of the chela, I have desired that you should know truly what is the path of Life whereby you put on concentric rings of the aura of the Buddha, of the aura of the Mother, and begin to experience in actuality that mighty figure-eight flow of Being.
O my beloved, I would draw you intensely and tenderly into my heart. For of all of the words that have passed through your heart during these weeks together, it is the word of love, the tenderness of the Good Shepherd, and the realization of this perfect love that casts out the entire sphere of human creation - the whole ball of wax, as you might say.
Think, then, of the wax melting in the sun. Realize that those who have attempted to fly using wax to attach their wings truly will not fly,2 for the wax - symbolical of the maya of the ego - will always prove insufficient to the task. You cannot fly to the sun on human pride, the wax of ambition.
Beloved hearts, it is not even lawful for you to claim "my right" but to realize that the motto of the kings "God and my right" has to do with the right of the Christ Self within you to reign.3 The human consciousness imperfect has no rights or privileges except those accorded to it by the mighty I AM Presence, even as the soul has access to the exercise of free will. Realize then that your right to be and to express free will is always by grace. And this grace is afforded moment by moment by moment by the free will of the Lord God Almighty. It is not something that is yours to keep by right but by grace. And grace is always contingent upon the state of consciousness of the individual.
Grace, as that element of the Holy Spirit, descends only to the level of a certain frequency of vibration of light and consciousness. And as long as the soul is attuned with that level, that soul is draped in the grace and the graciousness of the Person of God, of the holy office, and of the garments worn. But when there is the subtle slipping away from that office and from its vibration, so it is as the slip of the cup. And therefore there are moments when those who ought to be in the grace of Almighty God lose that grace. And it is then that they cry, "My right!" and they claim the authority which is not theirs except when they are under the shadow of their own Christ Self who is indeed the most gracious King of kings, the Immanuel - the "God with us."4
Blessed hearts, consider then the scales of justice. For we, too, were initiated on the path of justice by the ascended lady masters. Consider these scales and consider the balance of the Path.
The Path contains the requirement, on the one side, of obedience unto the Law - obedience unto the Law as the Word of the Guru who embodies the Law. Realize then that the requirement of the chela is not obedience to a set of blueprints or to a code of conduct or to a set of regulations and rules or commandments of life, but rather obedience to the spoken Word of the Gurus in the unbroken chain of the Word incarnate whereby the pronouncements of the Word have also been collected and codified.
But, beloved hearts, one must never lose sight of the fact that the Law itself - as stated, as set forth - is the manifestation of the Word. Therefore, balancing the obedience to the Law on the other side of the scale is intense love for the teacher - intense love for the Person of God whereby one is infused with the light to be obedient to the Impersonal Personality of the Law itself on the other side of the scale.
How easy it is to tip the balance in favor of love for the Guru! But when this is out of balance with obedience to the Law, the scales tip. And then, you see, suddenly you find yourselves rocked into a state of idolatry where nearness to the Guru or love of the Guru replaces the work of the ages, the mighty work whereof Jesus spoke: "The Father worketh hitherto, and I work."5
Thus the balance of the Law is revealed as the Person - the personal and the impersonal manifestation. And if perchance you should leave off loving the Person of the Word in every ascended master as well as in the embodied avatar - then, beloved hearts, your devotion would quickly degenerate to that legalism and that humanistic assessment of the Law whereby the mechanical, rote performance is deemed sufficient. And therefore once again the scales are tipped. For without the daily renewal in the heart of the Guru of devotion and of love, the Law itself becomes an empty shell no longer charged with the original light and intent of the Word, the spoken Word, of the one that spake it in the beginning.
If indeed the Law as a writing were sufficient, the angels would merely deposit books upon the altars of the mosques and temples and sanctuaries of Life. Indeed it would not have been necessary for the manus to come to the planetary systems and to inaugurate the cycles of their dispensations with the pronouncement of the Word itself.
Realize then, beloved hearts, that in those eras of the Law when the Guru is present and when the speaking of the Word and the hearing of the Word is the sole communication that is allowed and, because souls have not descended from the Christ mind, they are aware of that spoken Word - there is less departure from devotion of the Person and Impersonality of the Law. For these reside in the single light of the Initiator. And therefore there is a concentration upon the center of the scales as the Tree of Life6 itself, and one enters into the unity of the Word as Person and the Law that is codified. And thus no longer twain but the balance of Life itself becomes - by the Law of Correspondences - you, the chela, sitting directly neath your own vine and fig tree as the mighty I AM Presence7 with the intercession of the intermediary, the Christ mind itself.
Beloved hearts, there are few if any among mankind today who can sustain an untainted at-one-ment with the mighty I AM Presence without deviating from this singular balance of devotion to the Person and the Impersonal Spirit of God. Therefore there is yet the need for embodied messenger, embodied Guru. Realize therefore that all things contain the essentials of cosmic purpose, even our gathering here together today.
Mindful then of your heart's longing to perfect your immortal destiny, mindful then that some have reached barriers (albeit self-created), I have come to widen your capacity to experience God and Life truly as these are in balance - as above so below. Realize that "God and my right" signify the presence of the mighty I AM Presence and the Christ Self. And never ever was it the intent of the hierarchy to impute to the imperfected human self this ordination of authority. Rather by grace there is the dropping of the mantle upon each individual that that individual might enter into that office and grow in the grace of the office.
How quickly some have trampled upon the mantles of their Gurus. How quickly some have trampled upon their own.
Beloved hearts, I desire in answer to your call to give you the opportunity to accelerate in a holy office. The office of which I speak is the office of chela. Do you understand that to be a chela is to be called of God unto discipleship? One cannot claim the mantle of the chela, but one may aspire to it and serve lovingly toward that goal.
Your acceptance as a chela by a single master of the Great White Brotherhood is certainly to be desired and highly prized among those who study in our retreats. For you see, when you are received vis-à-vis the ascended master in the one-to-one relationship of the mighty figure-eight flow, it is a signal that there is trust in the heart of the master - sufficient trust to place a portion of himself within your heart and then to begin the weaving of the figure-eight action and the mighty flow of light. Your interaction with this dispensation and your adoration of the Person of the Guru will give to you a most fitting opportunity to come into alignment with your own God-free being at the behest and sponsorship of one who is God-free and ascended.
Realize the immense opportunity at hand. Realize that there must be a certain coequality twixt the Guru and the chela - even though it is the Guru whose name is spelled with a capital G signifying that the greater portion of Godhood rests within the Guru and that the chela, always spelled with a lowercase c, is yet in the process of putting on the skeins of light. But, you see, even a single point of Godhood conveyed by the Guru results in a sort of balance, if you will, whereby it is God who is in polarity with God - although it is the God that has been invested into your heart which you make your own by your soul's attunement with your very own Christ Self, your mighty I AM Presence, and the Guru himself.
Now, beloved hearts, in the ceremony of this interchange I desire to place with you the sphere that contains the recordings of my chelaship. This sphere I make available to your Christ Self in its entirety.
Let each one then submit to the rule - by Law and Love, by Person and by Word - to his own beloved Christ Self. Let it be an unmitigated love. Let it be uncompromising. Let it accelerate. For by that love you will melt the successive sheaths of this sphere of light and there will pour unto you, the soul on the Path, another circle of initiation, another world of Maitreya, another layer of the mantle of the office of chela.
To occupy the office of chela is the most noble and the highest of all activities upon earth! I say this because there is yet human questioning and doubt and confusion in the hearts of some as to whether to do this or to do that. Beloved hearts, all of the education you need, in the outer sense, and all of the training can be gained by you as a part of your direct chelaship under the ascended masters which perforce must also be monitored and directed by the embodied messenger.
All that you need in the way of preparation for the mighty work of the ages upon this planetary body and perhaps on other systems can be acquired and fulfilled while you are in direct service to the Guru in embodiment who represents the essential Mother flame of all ascended masters, thereby providing you with the link to any of our bands. For truly the one common light of Mother is both our source and the object of our devotion. Thus we have raised up Mother flame and Mother heart to represent a wide span of consciousness of the Great White Brotherhood in order to accommodate the many paths and evolutions and directions which are upon the varied lifewaves of this earth.
Realize then that the closer your proximity to the Word, the more intense your initiations. Knowing this you must realize that even this sphere of my own chelaship will accelerate the cooking out of your subconscious of that substance which ought to, by all rights, be put into the flame. Thus it is, you might say, a calculated dispensation - calculated to give you opportunity but the moment that opportunity should be misused, the immediate withdrawal of the sphere so as to cause you the least uncomfortability, karma, and proximity to the Light which, once its fiery coils surround you, is also relentless in the pursuit of darkness even as Truth swallows up error.
And the serpent swallowing its tail must always result in a higher and higher manifestation of God's being, for the Law of Transcendence is fulfilled. For as the LORD GOD partakes of my body, of my blood, truly there is the acceleration to the next ring. For the serpent cannot swallow its tail without transformation that comes from the assimilation of the very essence of the Holy Spirit itself. And this is a great mystery.
Let those who have ears to hear, hear what is the message of the Spirit unto the souls of light who are the churches8 in this hour.
My beloved, I would not have you misinformed nor would I have you misunderstand the purpose of the first level of this university of the Spirit. We describe it as the opening of the temple door - the opening of the door of the heart, the opening of the door of the Christ Self of the individual soul. Truly it is the first step on the Path. Therefore let it not be that some of you consider with this amount of light and teaching you have all you need until the hour of your ascension.
It is true, as our messenger has said, that the teaching itself is a sufficiency. For behind the teaching and every word that is spoken is a great sphere of light containing infinite wisdom and the science of its application. But, beloved hearts, the mere hearing of the teaching is not the transfer of the ability to open the door to these spheres - or, as we would put it, to melt the sheaths of consciousness behind the Word.
It is following the Word and its vibration back to that very source of the Sun behind the sun of manifestation that is the Path. Therefore let those who cherish Maitreya and the ongoing path of initiation draw close to the love of the Mother's heart and realize this opportunity to serve in many arenas of life across the planetary body and yet to serve in direct alignment with the messenger.
There is a difference then. Some choose to go forth with a little knowledge of the Law to become a law unto themselves. The serpents have taught this. They have encouraged the proud to take what is given and to go forth to become greater than the instrument of the Law, to discard the instrument, and to think that with a little getting they will indeed conquer. These have erred and taken upon themselves an immense karma for the letting down of lifestreams who ought to have been connected or reconnected to the original fount instead of left to depend upon those who have not occupied the holy office of chela and therefore have not had the Spirit of the Word or the instrumentation to convey that Spirit.
The messenger has told you of the event of suicide and warned of this very circumstance. To be cleansed is one thing, but the requirement "Go, and sin no more"9 must be held to as joyously as the original desire to be made whole. Thus, beloved hearts, let it not be said that those who have sat with Maitreya, with Portia and Saint Germain and others of our bands should go out and then play the game of "guru," considering how much wiser they are than those unschooled in the mystery school of the Brotherhood.
I must expose to you thoroughly the tendency and the penchant of the human mind to do just that. And I must reveal to you this temptation and also counsel you that truly you have only entered into the beginning of the Law.
The pursuit of the path of service will unfold for you petals of the Mother's heart that cannot be wrested, that cannot be discovered, that cannot be taken but only acquired by blessed assimilation through that closeness and oneness of love that is never idolatry but always the love of the greater and greater light shining just beyond the veil.
O beloved hearts, let your love indeed go to the Mother - but let it pass through. For she is also an open door to octaves fair. Let it pass through swiftly, contacting succeeding chains of hierarchy.
I long for you to behold in some moments of teaching how being upon being of light, tier upon tier (as frequencies accelerate) of angels overshadow the release. And there is an acceleration of the Person of the teacher until you could behold the fullness and the glory of her own ascended master light body in octaves fair where etheric retreats and students of the light receive the very same message by the frequency of the Word of the I AM Presence.
No wonder that some of you recall inner retreat experience sitting at the feet of the messengers learning those lessons of Life that perhaps your ears could not hear in this level of densification! Indeed you are learning at inner levels. Indeed your higher bodies are participating. Indeed your souls come and go to the inner retreats. This is why it is called a university of the Spirit!10
Beloved hearts, this term has naught to do with the world's conception of a university according the degrees of this world. You have not heard of degrees being awarded, for there are none that can be given. For the degrees are of the Spirit and spiritual and they are worn with great honor as you receive them at inner levels.
And you know as I know, and one day your entire consciousness will have that awareness, that you have indeed accelerated. And in the hour of your ascension you have gained, so to speak, golden bars of merit that have not been won by many other lifestreams and even saints who have ascended11 because they did not have the opportunity to be a part of my own mystery school and to receive the direct initiations by the spoken Word from one in physical embodiment. For it is only by this method that we are able to curb the tendencies of the serpent mind, [that] we are able to encourage and to correct a certain wobbling in the four lower bodies that occurs when there is even the slightest vibration of being out of alignment.
Our messenger is sensitized and most sensitive to our vibration. And therefore the rebuke for outer conditions is always rooted in the rebuke of inner vibration, the intangible - that something that must be dissolved, even as it has crystallized in the astral or mental body, in order for you to penetrate higher octaves and higher vibrations.
This is an ongoing process, day by day. And this is why we have applauded and assisted El Morya in the extension and outreach of this organization in order to provide chelas with this opportunity to serve, in a world sense, and to accelerate in the course of service by having that supervision that is so necessary to point out the unwindings of the human consciousness as these come forth in the course of service itself.
Life must be outplayed - the Great Superconscious Being, the Monad of Life, as well as the subconscious. And it is the outplaying of these spirals, beloved, that enables you to view the passing scenes of Reality and unreality. I give you then, my hearts, the key to objectivity on the Path. This key is in my Person and in my own Path which, by the grace of the Universal Christ, I made my own - and by that grace alone.
For I know well what is humility. And I can tell you, beloved hearts, humility comes when you sit at the feet of Sanat Kumara. Humility comes when you hear his heartbeat within the chamber of your own heart and then you hear his heartbeat as the great magnet of Almighty God magnetizing your own heart. And then, lo, the moment when your heartbeat and his own is one and there is only the one beat in unison of Life - as above so below. Beloved hearts, that humility comes when you feel yourself enfolded by the mystical love of Sanat Kumara.
These gifts of God are to be cherished more than all else. These gifts of God, my beloved, come by the soul's inner penetration and interpenetration with the fiery coils of the Initiator. Let those who do not consider themselves prepared for interaction with the sphere of my chelaship merely give me the sign of their decline and I will graciously withhold it until another cycle of turning when you are ready.
Beloved hearts, readiness for confrontation with any part of God is certainly a most serious science of the soul. It is a part of the seraphic science. For the seraphim themselves are the great confronters of man's identity and of his soul. Mighty seraphs welcome the opportunity to confront the soul of light on the path of life.
Blessed hearts, remember love. My love impels me to give you all that the Great Law will allow. My love impels me to understand the present plight of your soul, the dilemma of your inner being in contradistinction to the outer manifestation - even the dilemma of your karma.
But I AM Maitreya. Each and every one of you knows me well. You know my face, my footprint, my vibration. You have heard my comings and my goings in the inner temples of the Spirit.
I say, then, this is a most august occasion. For it is an hour out of a cosmic cycle when I may sit with you as we have not sat together in this group for many an aeon. It is an hour when there might pass between us the secrets of the heart, confessions, and affirmations of good. It is an hour when I may be myself with those students who have dutifully and, in most cases, lovingly prepared themselves for my coming.
I send a single ray of hope to every heart on earth that is affiliated with the heart of this messenger by devotion to the flame of Life. I send forth a ray of hope for progress on the Path, for increasing God Self-awareness.
I send hope now to those who have not tied themselves to the Great White Brotherhood. And through my aura the Great White Brotherhood extends its outreach into the earth - gathering, gathering unto itself those whose hands reach out to touch our garment but who cannot quite reach. Thus I extend the rope of hope. And the hand may grasp it and hold, then, that which is Real - that which will not steal from them their own Self-consciousness in God. O dear hearts, how we long to see upliftment and a ceasing of all struggle and a healing of the wounds of the nations and understanding replace misunderstanding.
Hearts of light, come into my own.
There is a little bird, snowy white, in a little golden cage in my heart chamber. He sings a song of love and The Song of the Homing.
This little white bird is not imprisoned but entered the cage voluntarily and shut the door, desiring to be an adornment at the altar where the chela may come to meditate - the chela whom I have chosen, not who has chosen me. This snowy white bird sings the love song of twin flames. And, do you know, he sings the keynote of each one's I AM Presence as that chela approaches the altar of initiation in my heart.
Most blessed outcropping of the Holy Spirit, most blessed being of light, this little bird understands the mystery of chelaship and would illustrate that happiness of soul to be in the birdcage yet totally free to fly to the heart of the I AM Presence of anyone, even from here to the Central Sun, to meditate upon the keynote, to learn it, and to sing it in adoration of that Monad of Light and of that soul becoming the Monad.
When therefore you meditate in this hour, here in the sanctuary of the Holy Grail, I ask that you visualize the snowy white bird in the golden cage as you hear him sing the song of love of your own God Presence I AM. Let this little bird teach you the mystery of perfect love and perfect service and, my beloved, perfect freedom within the disciplined environment of a cosmic grid. You see, whether that grid be planet Earth or another world or the sea or the sky or the earth or your favorite place or your most unfavorite place, Camelot or the cities of the nations, Serapis Bey's retreat or your own untransmuted human creation - that cosmic grid represents your opportunity for service unto victory.
Contemplate the little bird and then determine whether it is "God and my right" as your own private interpretation of the Word or "God and my right" as your own mighty I AM Presence and Christ Self that will become the leading authority in your life, the leading authority as the mighty Lifestream that not only connects you to the Great God Star but pulls you in year by year as you, the soul, are the anchor and God himself is the great mother ship.
O hearts of light, indeed you are anchor points - under the sea of the astral plane and in the heart of the earth - of the great, great light of the mother ship of our Brotherhood. So it is that the clipper ship is my symbol and the symbol of your soul's journey in time and in space.
There are no coordinates in the sea itself. Thus the ancient mariner charts by the polar magnet, the North Star, and other heavenly bodies. Thus when charting your course, beloved hearts of light, you must realize that it is not the corks bobbing on the sea that can ever be the coordinates of your journey - incompleted spirals and imperfected ones. Rather move through the sea by the light of the stars. Remember Maitreya and remember that the way is clear and the starlight is like crystal. And when there is confusion or illusion, it can certainly be consumed by the violet flame and by the pure in heart.
Let those who would know Portia and Saint Germain now undertake the self-disciplining of the soul that leads only to the Divine Whole of love and love and love.
In the fullness of the joy of Opportunity, I commend you unto the Guru and the Law.
NOTE: The above dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered to the Mesenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet at Camelot on December 4, 1980, at Summit University.