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Chapter 3
Beloved Jesus Christ - January 18, 1981


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1981
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Beloved Jesus Christ - January 18, 1981

Vol. 24 No. 3 - Beloved Jesus Christ - January 18, 1981
Christmas Message 1980
The Hour of the Sword Is Come

     I come not to send peace but a sword. It is the sword of my Father and I bear it in the name of my Mother.

     I AM come into the very heart of earth in this celebration of my birth. And I let the sword of the Cosmic Christ, even beloved Maitreya, descend.

     I come not to send peace but a sword!1 Therefore know that those who give lip service to my name while denying my coming in the hearts of these little ones shall know the meaning of the sword in this hour, in this year, and in this decade.

     How well I remember the misuse of the altar and the temple of my Father. They made it a den of thieves.2 Thus in this hour I come to overturn the tables of the moneychangers in the halls of science and of religion and in the very hearth and home where the little child is aborted.

     I, Jesus, come again with my Christmas message and I deliver unto you this mandate of Almighty God: The karma will fall upon this nation, surely as I stand, unless this people shall rise up and take command of the ungodly slaughter of the holy innocents.

     I have spoken in his name. I have dwelt in his tabernacle. I have slept at the feet of the Almighty, and I have awakened to give praise unto my God - I have entered the nirvanic light into the eternal rest, and I have come forth for the mighty action. And I touch every heart - those who call themselves followers of me and those who do not. For the hour of the sword is come.

     Therefore, my beloved, do not take lightly my word in this hour. For I tell you: This is the line. Thus far and no farther! The fallen ones shall not mock Life or its essence or its purity or its precious element of love.

     My beloved, the sacred law is written in your hearts. Why will you not obey it with that pure God-intent instead of manifesting as the twig that is bent out of the way of righteousness?

     This is an hour when you will see sacred fire descend. And you will see the manifestation of plague, and you will see the manifestation of war, and you will see the manifestation of the Death Rider3 and the opening up of the bowels of the earth and the very spirits of hell coming forth.4

     Beloved hearts, unless this planetary body be purged of unrighteousness, where shall the righteous appear? Unless those false pastors5 of my people be exposed through the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness,6 unless the light of Almighty God descend to tear from the fallen ones their masks and their masquerades, where shall the Christed ones and the Buddha appear?

     I AM not here with sweet words. For you can imagine them yourselves in your heart. You have heard them spoken without spirit and without love. And you have accepted the mechanization man for your leaders - even for your spiritual leaders. You have allowed them to bring into the temple of my Father their rock music, their drugs, and their perversion of the sacred fire, their consorting with demons in the name of the Holy Spirit.

     I AM standing at every pulpit, at every altar of my churches throughout the earth. And some are even empty on this Christmas morn while they revel in their merriment! Do they think that God will forever wink? Beloved hearts, in the twinkling of an eye they shall be no more.

     Have they not read what is in store? Do they think the prophets are old-fashioned? Do they think that somehow that Holy Spirit that spoke long ago is in a state of decay? is no longer relevant to the hour?

     They have put out those with the Holy Spirit from my temple. And they have allowed those who are the agnostics and the doubters and the nonbelievers to enter the pulpits and to denounce my God flame where I AM.

     Lo, I AM come into this land! They have called me by their lips. Now I come for the purging of their hearts! And they have not known the meaning of the sword. Therefore, I say, let it go forth!

     Angels of light are relieved that ultimately there can be the separating out of light from darkness and the binding and the judgment - no more then to strive with flesh,7 no more then to indulge those who flaunt the law and continue to flaunt it.

     Those who have the most precious teachings of all, those who have had the way made plain through my brothers and sisters in the ascended octaves, ought the more to consider themselves at the hand of the LORD'S mercy for their own disobedience, their own ignorance, their own setting aside of the highest teachings while they have gone here and there in the marts of entertainment or the cult of success.

     Let all who call themselves Keepers of the Flame realize that even the death angel will not bypass those who have abused the violet flame, who have continued to flaunt the law and then to invoke forgiveness as though somehow they were dealing in a fantasy land and a fairy world where we are not really real.

     Well, beloved hearts, either we are real or we are not! And it is very simple. I AM here, I AM real. El Morya is real. The Great Divine Director is real. And we have not come to steal a single identity but to reinforce Life!

     Indeed the meaning of my birth is the availability of Personhood in God, of the descent of Christ. Let all other gifts be set aside and let them pursue the highest gift. For it is the pearl of great price,8 even the great causal body of Almighty God. And it is offered to you as the hand of God even offers to you a world, saying: "Take dominion over the earth! Take dominion over life! I give it unto thee." Therefore let us take dominion over these fallen ones who are murdering our children.

     Beloved hearts, I AM here with a fervor of my Life and I pour it into your waiting vessels and I say: I wait no longer. You can wait no longer! It is the hour for the overturning of the tables of these fallen ones and it is the hour when you have the full reinforcement of the archangels.

     Will I remain silent when a world reeks with hollow mockery and does nothing that could be done very simply to release those hostages in Iran? As they cry out to me, I cry out to the people: Do you not see how your leaders have betrayed you, how they fear their own exposure and therefore do not act in concerted alliance?

     I rebuke the leaders of NATO! I rebuke the president of France and the heads of state of Germany and those nations who have refused to do exactly what ought to be done! - to cut off Iran from all commodities and supplies, to take intense action against these fallen ones. How can you dally? How can you be divisive? How can you not act in support and in the cosmic honor flame of the United States of America whose lifeblood delivered you from the toilers and the spoilers in World War II and beyond?9

     Blessed hearts of light, this is a gross selfishness that is manifest. And these leaders are the fallen ones and I declare their judgment. And I say in God's name I AM THAT I AM: They shall not pass!

     Those who have refused to act against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan by denying to that nation more wheat, more technology, more of anything and everything they want - I say: Theyshall not pass! They are judged! And the blood of those whohave been lost in Afghanistan is required of them in this hour. And they shall not pass! And I send the sword of my Father. Watch and pray.

     Do you understand that the very presence of Soviet troops aligned on the border of Poland is enough to cause all nations of the earth to cut off the Soviet Union? That is a threat, as surely as the threat to Cuba.

     Where is the spine? Where is the Kundalini? I will tell you. It is lying in a bed of wickedness! It is spent upon surfeiting in pleasure.

     And these fallen ones, I say, their day is done! - they and their house. Let the children of the light cry out with a mighty shout! Let them invoke the judgment of God, for the hour of that judgment is come. They shall not pass!

     And the Lord God Almighty will not allow it - will not allow the encroachment upon our light, our activity, our messenger, and our chelas of the mockery of the Word, the mockery of the testimony of the Lamb. Therefore I AM come. And my Electronic Presence contains the momentum - the momentum of the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood.

     I represent the hosts of the LORD. I come as the Prince of Peace, and my sword shall ultimately ring with peace throughout the earth. And there shall be peace. And that peace shall be a resolution and not a covering over and not a hiding of sin or a misuse of the light - not in Ghana, not in any area of this activity.

     We will come, we will expose, and we will reveal that the foundation of service of Life on earth is the flame of purity and of individual Christhood. And this is the Rock upon which we build. And we reject those stones who have not allowed themselves to pass through the furnace of the Lord God Almighty for the purging of those elements of Antichrist. You cannot slip into the temple and allow yourself to become a part of its building when you have not passed through the fires of initiation.

     There are none who are counted my own save those who will enter by the door of the personal crucifixion. There is no way that you can come around or under or over the law. You must pass through the very gate of the nexus of the living Christ.

     This is my message and I will not have it flaunted! I am undaunted in the will of God in this hour and I move with the fury of the intense white-fire purity of the wrath of the Almighty.

     And therefore I descend and I bring the message of thecoming of The Lord Our Righteousness10 and the overturning ofthe false pastors and those who have perverted the wayof the true shepherds. Let the hirelings be judged!11 Let there come the hour of the mighty rods, the rods and cones of the Almighty.

     Beloved hearts, there are instruments of power which the Lords of Karma and the ascended hosts may insert into planetary bodies and worlds when the moment and the hour for the intense release of the judgment is come, I tell you, by the hand of Elohim. In this Christ Mass, as I speak, Elohim of God insert into the earth those rods and cones that are for the stripping of the fallen ones of their misused light - for the judgment, for the acceleration of light unto the righteous, and for the bringing in of the great golden age.

     Beloved hearts of light, you have seen the signal of the passing of an era. You have seen the signal of the coming of the judgment of the fallen ones who have opened up the very pits of hell with their rock music. Let them be dismayed. Let them have their sympathy. Let them cry in their beer. I tell you, they will weep. And there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! For it is the sign of the judgment of serpents.12

     Do you think that the LORD GOD will stand by and allow the Satanists to take over this planetary body in their murderous intents, in their blood rites and rituals, in their misuse of Life as it is my Life in the holy child? I tell you, Nay!

     God is alive and well on planet Earth. And the future of Earth is in his hands. Contrary to all appearances, the Light is ongoing. The Light is in his stars appearing within you.

     Therefore I demand response! I demand a leaping into the sacred fire as you would leap into a mighty waterfall of cooling light descending! I ask that you leap into the very sacred fire, that you assimilate it, that your word become the very flow of this infinite light to earth, and that therefore there come an era of God-justice and a turning back of crime.

     Beloved hearts of light, when my legions in embodiment, serving as best they can, spend hours and days and nights pursuing those who have murdered, only to turn them over to the courts and find that they are released once again on society to murder again - what do you think? It is discouragement, it is hopelessness, and it is the beginning of the crumbling of society itself when that law and that order is not kept.

     This people have allowed drugs to enter their marts. They have defended their freedom to have all manner of license and misuse of the sacred fire and the perversion of the life-force - defending homosexuality, defending lesbianism as though it were of God, and attempting to lead the children of the light into these activities.

     Is it any wonder there is murder and crime in the streets and insanity? It is the abuse of the Mother flame. And they shall not pass! And all who remain silent and all who are led in these directions - they will pay the price and they will be swept aside with the coming of the wave and with the coming of the sword.

     Do you not think that I cry out? I indeed am crucified anew when I see the killing, the slaughter, and the murder of my own in senseless manifestations of war. In the very midst of the prophecy of Isaiah for the birth of the Child - there was war, there was bloodshed, there was the threat of the enemy of light. Has there ever been another condition?

     As my Mother has told you, study well the conditions and circumstances of the war of the Nephilim13 and their councils. For, beloved ones, there are more among you that have known death by Herod's sword than I would care to enumerate.

     Beloved hearts, if you have paid the ultimate price embodiment after embodiment, I tell you - and it is so - you are entitled in this hour to know the protection of the Great White Brotherhood and to realize that you have given that sacrifice and you are come again to live under our protection.

     We cannot give it if you do not invoke it. We cannot descend unless you speak our name. But the karma is there, the good karma, to rejoice in that grace which is due your lifestream whereby you can know God face-to-face, enter the arena of life, and be the instrument of the separation of the tares and the wheat.14

     Legions of light are on the march.15 And when you see the infamy against elemental life, when you see a single soul risk his life for the freeing of 600 porpoises caught and ready to be slaughtered16 - is there not one among you who will risk his life for the freeing of those children about to be aborted as soon as they come forth from the womb?

     Beloved hearts, elemental life cry out as they are aborted. Children of the sun cry out - and I demand that you give answer! And I demand that those who are the insane fallen ones, who appear to be the leaders of this planet, give their accounting in this hour!

     You will watch and you will see as my Word is released, for it is the certain Word of the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood reflecting the very altar of Almighty God. For emissaries of earth and saints of the inner church have appealed before his very throne in my name. You have seen demonstrations upon earth. I tell you, the saints robed in white have demonstrated in this hour for the utter desecration of this Christ Mass throughout the earth.

     Where, O where is Christ born in this hour? Let him be born within you! For unless he be born, there is no Life in earth, there is no manifestation of Sanat Kumara.

     Let there be the binding of the fallen ones. Let there be the binding of the seed of Satan, for the prophecy is written. You need only read and run with the many, many promises of victory.

     I AM Jesus. I come to nourish the children of my heart. I come with the strength of cosmic love. Fear not, little flock, I carry you in my arm, I enfold you in the light of my mantle, I carry you beyond harm, I carry you far, far beyond the alarm of the fallen ones.

     Precious hearts, can you know how - simultaneously - the peace, the profound peace that comes with your alignment with God and your obedience to his will, can be established in you, even as all these things must also come to pass? Beloved, in my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.17 I seal you now in the mansion of my own causal body that you might dwell there - dwell there safely while in the very midst of the battle. Beloved hearts, fear not.

     Some of you postpone the choice of your own reckoning with Truth and with Reality. The battle is upon us. There is no thought yea or nay. All will take up the sword. All will fight. All will prepare themselves as God has given you potential and mind and heart and resources.

     So I say, You will prepare! You will enter into the divine calling!

     Let the seed of light descend. Let the divine potential be welcomed. And cast aside all resistance to the inner God-man.

     When you enter the war and you see souls literally being destroyed, when you see body temples desecrated, when you see the flow of the abundant life in this nation hoarded, misused, manipulated for profit, for filthy lucre, by Arabs, by multinationalists, by those who have no God in them - will you turn your back and go away with your loved ones and say, "Let us enjoy another lifetime. Let us not look"? I say, you will not!

     You will assail them and their bastions in Wall Street! You will tackle the international bankers! You will turn over the tables of these moneychangers! For if you do not, beloved hearts, then the golden age will not come.

     Look at those who have been selected. Do you think that they have the elevation of Christ within them, serving in the cabinet and as department heads and in agencies? They have, beloved hearts, at best, human experience. But it requires more than human experience. It requires the all-power of heaven and earth.18 And therefore, I give it unto my messenger.

     Let them say what they will! I give it. I deposit it in her heart. And I say to you: I have raised her up and I have raised you up to be with me a mighty people! We are determined that this body of light shall serve as the anchor point for the armies of Sanat Kumara.

     Let us be up and doing! Let us not allow them to taunt, mock, blackmail, abuse, and make folly of this nation. Let those within it who do not honor the cosmic honor flame understand that the hour is come - the hour is come and the descent of the sword into the marts of pornography, into the very focuses of prostitution and the misuse of the sacred fire in motion pictures illustrating that misuse throughout this city and every nation.

     The judgment descends. They are overturned. And thearmies of fiery salamanders, sylphs, gnomes, and undines are ready. And they follow with Archangel Michael, and they don their helmets and their blue-flame swords. And, beloved hearts of light, you can scarcely tell them from blue-flame angels! for they have so identified with this cosmic purpose of the deliveranceof the Divine Woman and the Manchild.19 You would rejoiceto see them! And therefore I open the veil that you might see theseelementals as they troop in mighty formation with the legionsof the seven archangels.

     The Christed ones are here! The hosts of the Lords20 are here! And they will not allow this infamy to pass. They will not allow this desecration of my Father's house and his kingdom to pass. Therefore let us see how the children of the light and the sons of God will respond, for you must give that mighty thrust and that Call.

     Beloved ones, I challenge you with the full fire of my Sacred Heart to speak the Call into the face of every injustice as you have never done before and watch how God will show you the outcome of your invocation. And you will see them go down, even as the light of God that never fails can arrest a plague of locusts upon an entire nation.

     So the God of Israel is in the midst of his people! That God is upon us. Let them rise up! For opportunity is at hand as the sword that I bear, as the sword that I wield, as the sword that goeth forth out of my heart, out of my mouth. It is the flaming sword! It is the sword of the Faithful and True!21 Thus you will see that mighty sword, as thought form, going out of the mouth of Gautama Buddha, of Sanat Kumara, of Lord Maitreya.

     Truly the hour of the judgment is come. Truly those who have wearied in this message of the judgment may not weary much longer, for they themselves will know the meaning of it. Therefore set thy house in order, my beloved. Let each and every one be a part of angelic bands and when weighed in the great scale of Life not be found wanting.

     Let us rejoice! For our rejoicing is in the deeper mysteries of God. Most would not hear my message. They prefer to dwell upon an event that took place 2,000 years ago. We live in the present, not in the past. We live in the moment. We live in the light of God. We live in the eternal and progressive revelation of the Holy Spirit.

     Lo, I AM the fullness of that Spirit unto ye all and unto my people everywhere! And by the fire of the Holy Spirit, I AM come to heal the brokenhearted. I AM come to heal and make whole those who are mine and of my very soul, born with me in the beginning of the Word.

     I search them out. I send out the line of my heart. And every one of mine own is touched in this hour. And I reinforce that love, O the love of the Father and the Son, as we come to dwell in each little one - those who keep our Word, those who love, those who understand that my commandments are the very bastions of identity.

     O love that will not let me go, O love that would bestow upon mine own that nectar of the Spirit, O precious child - for one precious child born into the midst of community, I tell you, the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood would gladly lay down its life.

     The Brotherhood is nigh. The Brotherhood is determined that these little ones shall not be desecrated, shall not be decimated or know the discouragement of the apostates, the atheists, the rebels against my Father.

     They hated without cause.22 And they continue to hate without cause. And their anger against the Mother is even greater than their anger against the Father. For it is Mother who is in the Matter cosmos, who is in the very earth - exacting the requirements of the law as Guru, exacting the judgment, demanding proof and testimony of their use or misuse of the sacred fire.

     It is Mother who exposes. Therefore behold the hatred of the Virgin Mary. I strip it! I expose it! I uncover the ugly recesses of the subconscious! And I call to the Elohim Astrea and legions of light: Bind these interlopers! Bind the invaders of the temple of all mankind! Bind the hordes of war and demons and death! Bind them in my name! For I AM Jesus. And in that name shall all evolutions of earth know the fullness of the light of the eternal salvation and of the second death.

     Beloved hearts, it is the hour. And therefore let none mistake, let none think that somehow the light of our prophecy has gone out and that we are not speaking the effective Word. Beloved hearts, this Word pushes out. This Word is saturating your very bodies to the core. This light is the light which composes your atoms, the very stuff of which you are made. It is the substance of Life.

     And as this light that I give you now is assimilated in your bodies, there is an accentuation of light. There is a forcing out of the pores of being of those subliminal rebellions against the Spirit. And as this occurs in your temples with some uncomfortability, know that for the fallen ones it is not a simple uncomfortability. It is the very annihilation of their seat of mockery and scorn and condemnation. And therefore there is upheaval. There is overturning. And there is earthquake in the earth.

     In this hour, my beloved, there is a mighty action of Virgo and Pelleur. And that very readjustment in the etheric plane has reverberations in the mental belt, in the emotional body, and in the physical body. For I will not leave this earth as I have found it! I will not leave it. And I will not leave you comfortless.23

     And my comfort in this hour is the mighty sword. And as I hold it before you, my beloved hearts, you know that the standard is raised and the ensign of my people is raised up.24 And the sword is the sign of the teaching of the science of the Word. And it shall be a sign to all nations that there is a way out and that way is by Christ within you, by Immanuel born.25

     And there are some who deny him in toto. They deny his Spirit, his flame, his joy, his birth. They do not want him in their temple. And I tell you, even these very ones are forced to receive him. For they are born into the families of the fallen ones - even the children of the light, even a son of God - to confound them, to rise up and to raise the sword and to cleave the Real from the unreal in the generations of mankind upon this earth.

     Thus, beloved hearts, where they have denied him within their own temple, their own karma has dictated that they labor and travail to give birth to him - only to see that little one arise with the hand, the right hand of authority. And the light shall descend and they shall mourn and there shall be mourning of the tribes of the earth for the coming of the Christed ones. For they shall not be stopped. They shall not be stopped, beloved hearts.

     Our ways are not the ways of the fallen ones. Ours are the ways of infinite power. And even the power of God is justified, even as wisdom is justified in her children. Therefore let the children of the Mother rise and defend true wisdom. Let them seize now the holy light and the torch of the Goddess of Liberty! Let them seize the true wisdom of the ancient texts and of the light of Sanat Kumara. And let all of Israel and Judah know the real inheritance of my people and the real teaching of Immanuel who is come.

     Beloved hearts, ignorance shall no longer remain. I set a torch to it. And it begins to burn.

     Watch, then, the burning of the layers of ignorance. Watch the burning of that trash literature that ought never to be precipitated in Matter. Watch the judgment of the Oromasis and Diana and the fiery salamanders. For this is the hour of the victory of our God and this is the hour of his vengeance. Therefore in these final months of this cycle of the Dark Cycle,26 you will see what is the meaning of the vengeance of our God.

     Hold fast what thou hast received! Hold fast unto the light and do not forget my word! Do not forget my release. For I am giving you the light in this hour to meet the Adversary for an entire year!

     Therefore tarry in the temple and know that on this day - I AM Jesus, I AM your LORD and your Saviour, subject unto the Lord God Almighty even as ye are all subject unto him. And I have come to see to it that your lamps are filled with oil27 and that you invoke the light that will also see to it that the physical oil of this nation is protected and that the energy of Almighty God flows freely unto this people.

     I AM come, therefore, giving you increments of light for your chakras. See that those candles do not go out. See that you do not squander this light in any form of unrighteousness, any form of riotous living - should you be so tempted. Beloved hearts, you will need every erg of energy that I am transferring to you that I have gained as grant from my Father, from Alpha and Omega in the Great Central Sun, from the supreme mighty I AM Presence of all Life.

     I have secured it. I give it to you. And until the hour of my return in the Spirit of the Christ Mass in 1981, I expect that you will respond in my name to the Adversary, that you will have the courage to speak out and know that as you speak out and rebuke and chastise and even bring the mighty sword of the Word to bear upon these fallen ones, that you will always have the reinforcement of my Electronic Presence, you will always have access to sufficient light and power of heaven and earth to defeat, to roll back, and to silence their blasphemy against the living Word.

     Therefore use it wisely. For the hours of intensity of the battle always appear in the month before winter solstice, and that is the hour when you require the last morsels of light held in the very flasks of your own inner laboratory of the soul. Therefore that which is received in solstice is for every day of the coming year. Treasure it. Use it. It is the most precious commodity of Life.

     We are intense in this hour because Sanat Kumara is intense. Therefore let us meditate upon the intensity of our God and let us not let the light of true prophecy go out in the land.

     Where the Spirit of the prophet is, where the Spirit of the messenger is in the heart of the chela, there the entire mantle of the Great White Brotherhood is upon you. Where there is true inner alignment and not mere lip service, where there is the willingness to be divested of all filthiness and uncleanness, where there is the willingness for the exposure of the lie of self-deception - there the true Spirit of prophecy will flow!

     Early seek counsel while I AM here. Early seek light while ye have the light. And do not be as the betrayers, sorting out a mechanical righteousness to this side and to that of an apparent (apparent to their eye) human consciousness in the messenger.

     Beloved hearts, they have their day and they have their hour which is the hour of darkness.28 Let them speak and let them be silenced by God. For by their expression of their own uncleanness they, too, manifest the acts, the decisions that result in their own judgment.

     It is written that they will wax dull and therefore not be able to receive the truth lest they should repent and be saved. It is written that they will believe the lie and that their damnation will be just.29 It is not just merely because they have believed the lie, but because they themselves are the fabric and the seed of the liar. What they are is their judgment. What they do remains proof of what they are.

     We come to bear witness to the Light in your heart. You require that witness. The messenger requires that witness.

     I AM the affirmation of the I AM Presence and the living Christ indwelling in ye all - all who submit unto that Light in purest love. I AM the ever-present witness. I AM walking with you on the road to Emmaus,30 which is the road to your own divine plan fulfilled on the path of initiation which I have walked.

     I will not leave thee, my beloved. I will not leave thee in ignorance of what is coming upon the earth. I will not leave thee in a state of confusion or unknowing. I will not leave thee without the comfort of truth. And in this hour, truth is a sword. Thus be comforted in knowing. For when you know, you can act; and your actions will fulfill the requirements of the law.

     Make haste to the Inner Retreat.

     I seal you and I seal my place in the cosmic cross of whitefire. It is indeed a joyous Christ Mass on earth and in heavenin the heart of all who are of the mystical body of the eternalChristos.

     In the name of my beloved Mother and my beloved Father, I salute you, child of my heart.

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     NOTE: The above dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered to the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet at Camelot on Christmas Day, December 25, 1980.

Bibliography

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Volume 24, Number 3, footnote 9. During the Carter administration, the leaders of Western Europe began to chart a course increasingly independent of United States foreign policy. By the Venice Summit of June 1980, the U.S. seemed to have lost the position of dominance in the Western Alliance, with West Germany and France exerting greater leadership. (See "Carter's Impact on Europe," U.S. News and World Report, 7 July 1980, p. 16; "Fencing with the Soviets," Newsweek, 7 July 1980, p. 16.) One of the major areas of disagreement between U.S. and NATO leaders cropped up over the U.S. plan for economic sanctions against Iran. President Carter called for an embargo on April 7, 1980. Heads of state in NATO countries, particularly France and West Germany, were reticent to apply sanctions. The Carter administration threat to blockade Iran or to take direct military action persuaded the European Common Market nations to declare on April 22, 1980, that they would impose sanctions if no progress was made in the hostage negotiations by May 17, 1980. Then on May 22, 1980, 45 days after President Carter had made the public request for our allies to join the U.S. in imposing sanctions against Iran, Western European nations imposed a watered-down version of sanctions which, by one estimate, affected only 8 of Europe's $1.1 billion monthly trade with Iran. West Germany and France are major trading partners of Iran and had much to lose by the embargo. They were unwilling to jeopardize their own well-being and agreed to sanctions only under duress and with considerable misgivings. (See Norman Kempster and Don Irwin, "Carter Severs Ties with Iran, Adds New Sanctions," Los Angeles Times, 8 April 1980, p. 1; Oswald Johnston, "U.S. Urges Allies to Back Iran Sanctions," Los Angeles Times, 9 April 1980, p. 1; "France," Intelligence Digest, 23 April 1980, p. [2]; Scott Sullivan, "The Shaky Alliance," Newsweek, 12 May 1980, p. 48; David Fouquet, "EC Scowls As It Starts Iran Embargo," Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 1980, p. 10; and James A. Phillips, "Iran, the United States and the Hostages: After 300 Days," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, 29 August 1980.)

Footnotes:

1 Matt. 10:34.
2 Mark 11:15-18.
3 Rev. 6:8.
4 Rev. 9:1-11.
5 Jer. 2:8; 10:21; 12:10; 23:1, 2.
6 Pallas Athena announced the onset of the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness in her dictation at Higher Consciousness: A Conference for Spiritual Freedom June 30, 1976; cassette B7650. The messenger defines the Coming Revolution as "our involvement with the heavenly hosts and their cooperation with us, as prophesied in the Old and New Testaments at the end of the millennium when 'there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation. ... ' It is the hour of the coming of Archangel Michael, the protagonist who leads the armies of light against the rebellious ones. ... It is time for every injustice to be challenged - not by the bloodbaths of prior revolutions, but by the acceleration of atoms and molecules of consciousness to the plane of the Universal Mind. One in that Mind, one with the hosts of the LORD, we can say with Jesus Christ, 'All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth!"'
7 Gen. 6:3.
8 Matt. 13:45, 46.
9 During the Carter administration, the leaders of Western Europe began to chart a course increasingly independent of United States foreign policy. [1]
10 Jer. 23:5, 6; 33:15, 16.
11 Jer. 23:1-4; John 10:11-13.
12 Matt. 8:11, 12; 13:47-50; 22:11-14; 24:48-51; 25:29, 30; Luke 13:24-28.
13 Nephilim [Hebrew Nephilim "those who fell" or "those who were cast down," from the Semitic root naphal "to fall"]: a biblical race of giants or demigods (Gen. 6:4). According to scholar Zecharia Sitchin, ancient Sumerian tablets depict the Nephilim as an extraterrestrial superrace who "fell" to earth in spacecraft 450,000 years ago. The ascended masters reveal that the Nephilim are the fallen angels cast out of heaven into the earth (Rev. 12:7-10, 12). They are of the lineage and descent of "the Watchers" revealed in the Book of Enoch.
14 Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43.
15 Rev. 19:14, 19-21.
16 On December 23, 1980, Patrick Wall, a Canadian environmentalist, made a daring underwater raid to free about 650 dolphins earmarked for slaughter by Japanese fishermen. Wall, wearing a wet suit, rode a rubber boat into the Futo harbor (Izu Peninsula, about 60 miles southwest of Tokyo), dived into the sea, and untied the net, allowing the dolphins to escape. "I did it," Wall said, "because I felt sorry for the dolphins destined for the killing as Christmas drew near."
17 John 14:2.
18 Matt. 28:18.
19 Rev. 12:1-8.
20 Each of the seven archangels is referred to as "Lord."
21 Rev. 19:11-16.
22 Pss. 35:19; 69:4; John 15:25.
23 John 14:18.
24 Isa. 11:10, 12.
25 Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Matt. 1:23.
26 The Dark Cycle of the return of mankind's karma began on April 23, 1969. It is a period when mankind's misqualified energy (i.e., their returning negative karma), held in abeyance for centuries under the great mercy of the Law, is released according to the cycles of the initiations of the solar hierarchies for balance in this period of transition into the Aquarian age. April 23, 1980, commenced the twelfth year of the Dark Cycle (initiation under the hierarchy of Sagittarius and their God consciousness of victory). On April 23, 1981, the initiations of the karmic return will continue to mount under the hierarchy of Capricorn.
27 Matt. 25:1-13.
28 Luke 22:53.
29 Isa. 6:9, 10; Matt. 13:13-15; II Thess. 2:10-12; Rom. 3:8.
30 Luke 24:13-16.