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Chapter 4
Beloved Lord Ling - January 25, 1981


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1981
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Beloved Lord Ling - January 25, 1981

Vol. 24 No. 4 - Beloved Lord Ling - January 25, 1981
The Class of the Archangels
God Has Sent the Seven Archangels for the Rescue of the People of Light on Earth
I
Let My People Go! -
That They Might Sacrifice unto Me
Moses on Freedom of Religion:
The Right to Enter into the Ritual of the Science of the Spoken Word

     Light of the eternal will, lead me still in the paths of righteousness.1 O light, light of the will of God, I AM come once again with the Word of our LORD, Sanat Kumara: Let my people go! - that they might sacrifice unto me.2

     Blessed hearts, the desire to sacrifice emits the radiance of understanding. Therefore the desiring unto the LORD unto his servant Moses that I AM, that I was, is the realization that if this people would be free from the bondage of the Egyptian misuse of the light of the Mother within the base chakra, even the white fire core of every sacred center of Life, then they, too, must be willing to give up something - to surrender and to sacrifice.

     It was a testing of Pharaoh whose heart the LORD hardened3 by the accelerated descent of his own karma. It was the testing of the children of the light. Would they hearken unto Moses and Aaron? Yea, they invoked the judgment upon my own head, wherefore the LORD continued to prove and reprove them.

     Therefore the plea for freedom is the plea to enter into the ritual of the use of the ruby ray. For it is the light of blood, the light of the rose cross, that flows from the heart of the Christed One who is in the very act of sacrifice unto the LORD. This sacrifice is sacred ritual of the priesthood of the order of Melchizedek.4 And it is necessary as the instrumentation of freedom as the souls of the people move from bondage - enslavement to a cult of death and sensuality - into the cult of life, truly the life of Sanat Kumara.

     Blessed hearts, it is an oft-repeated quote, this quotation spoken even by the LORD unto me: "Let my people go!" And therefore I am envisioned as a deliverer of people unto freedom. Seldom is the second half of the sentence repeated: " ... that they might serve me - that they might sacrifice unto me."

     Therefore the purpose of going out into the wilderness a three-day's journey is to remove one's self from the effluvia of the cities of the world, from the forcefields of the lower astral vibrations - to set one's self apart, truly separate, individed unto the LORD, there to sacrifice. And in this hour the enactment of the sacred ritual is through the science of the spoken Word. Therefore truly the sacrifice of light is the purging of light from darkness by the affirmation of the name of our God I AM THAT I AM. Praise our LORD, Sanat Kumara!

     Recognize then that I come once again to demand religious freedom for my people: the right to enter into the ritual of the exercise of the science of the Word.

     Even so, beloved Saint Germain has cleared the way and laid the foundation of this mighty freedom whereby yet in this hour in this nation people may gather together in great numbers and speak the praise unto the LORD. But when the LORD grants unto them freedom from their taskmasters, do they go and fast and pray and enter into service? Do they understand the true meaning of sacrifice, of the self-emptying and the purging light and the cleansing that must precede the fulfillment of the divine plan and the promised land?

     Blessed hearts, when they have freedom on the day of the Sabbath they make merry in their indulgences and they pass the hour in the marts of the world, engaged whether in commerce or exchange of goods or contemplation of the turning-over of their own money unto a greater and greater accumulation of wealth, else they indulge themselves in all manner of surfeiting of the senses and worshiping not the golden calf but the shimmying of their own bodies and the lusting after the anti-God in the worship of the male and female principles as they pursue their sex cults and orgies as surely as they did in Egypt.

     Beloved hearts of light, wherefore shall we deliver this people when they themselves are taken up with the cult of death - of the Egyptian consciousness come again? Blessed hearts of light, who will hearken unto the Word of the LORD? Who will hearken unto God incarnate in the messenger as I was that God? 5EN Even so, the living God is raised up in your midst in the Person and Presence of Sanat Kumara, a mighty pillar of fire that is truly congruent with the vessel that I use to deliver unto you the Word.

     Therefore the Moses and the Aaron, archetypes of the Guru and the chela. Therefore the God-man and the incarnate Christ. Therefore the instrumentation of light and the activator of the Word of the LORD.

     Understand this principle then of the master and the disciple and see yourselves as that Aaron, multiplied by the A of Alpha as the greater A and the lesser a of the alpha particles that you are - and see how many Aarons there will be to stretch forth the rod of Moses5 when the command is given for the staying action upon the Egyptians and upon the fallen ones out of the Middle East who are the manipulators of the light and the oil and the gold of the people in this hour.

     Beloved hearts, I cry out the Word of the LORD: Let my people go! - that they may sacrifice unto me. Understand then the bondage of the seed of the wicked. It is an economic bondage whereby they toil and continue to toil and therefore, in that binding of the economy, they are not given the hours lawfully unto them for the sacrificing unto the LORD. And if they be idle, they then are called upon by the fallen ones to once again be engaged in their cults of indulgence or success.

     And, beloved hearts, such is the taxation, such is the gross burden upon the people that they are forced to toil longer and longer. And therefore when they are given freedom, they yet dance and play as did the children of Israel in the absence of my own presence when I was upon the mountain with the LORD.6 Realize then that though a people await deliverance, their consciousness is not prepared to receive it.

     Thus we recommend the separating out - the going into the wilderness, the establishment of the Inner Retreat - for the fortification of this people in fasting and in prayer and in a way of life that is distinctly separate from the downward spiral of this death cult of indulgence. Realize then that the journeying of the soul is also the journeying in time and space and in the inner planes of being, the arrival at that point where all other distractions are silenced and the communion with the heart of the Great Guru, Sanat Kumara, becomes of all matters most preeminent, most important in the life of the individual.

     Realize, beloved hearts, how the fallen ones are jealous of the time and energy and space of the children of the light. And therefore they increase the burden, requiring that they shall make bricks without straw.7 Beloved hearts of light, this is the withdrawal of the essential commodities in the mainstream of life in the nations. It is the withdrawal of the essence of energy and of the essence of gold itself so that the people must build their buildings, erect their civilizations, and multiply their light without the necessary physical manifestation of those elements that are required.

     Beloved hearts, this also, this deprivation, is a weaning process whereby the Lord God Almighty allows this deprivation so that the children of light will lean upon the arm of the LORD and not exclusively upon materialism - that they will enter into the alchemy of Saint Germain and recognize that all necessities of life can truly be drawn out of God's heart. Even the daily manna which they were fed in the wilderness8 can be unto them in this hour both the spiritual and the material food for body and for soul and for mind.

     It requires miracles, blessed hearts, for this escaping out of the consciousness of death. And I AM here! I AM here in the full panoply of light of Sanat Kumara that you might be touched and infused with a spiral whereby the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood is truly intent upon the deliverance of the children of the light in this age.

     Let us come to the understanding, then, of the multiplication of this manna and of this body of God - even of the multiplication of the Person of Christ, as Aaron was, in ye all. Your rising to the level of your own Christ Self shows the advancement of accelerating spirals that has taken place since those hours of Egyptian bondage. Truly the prophets have come. Truly there have been many incarnations. And the Avatar, the Lord Christ, the Saviour, has delivered unto you the imminence of your own Christ Presence. And therefore this raising up of the multitude of the people to the leaven, to the level of the true priesthood, is designed wherefore you may enter into the initiations so necessary for you to be that Aaron consciousness where you are.

     Therefore I raise up the messenger as I was raised up, as it is written, to be "a god unto Pharaoh."9 What is the meaning of this? It is the meaning of the descent of the I AM Presence in the messenger and the descent of the Christ Self within you that therefore the fallen ones and their Nephilim10 consciousness might have in Matter the focal point even of Sanat Kumara, even of JEHOVAH, that when the Word is spoken and the judgment call is given they may know that the God of very gods is in the earth dwelling once again in his people.

     This dispensation is opportunity. Recognize that it required the freewill consent of Moses and of Aaron. And without the consent of the people, even in their grumbling, to follow them, the souls that represent the sheep of our pasture on the hillsides of the world could not be delivered. Therefore understand the necessary elements of this trek and journey of life.

     It requires then the I AM Presence, the Christ Self, and the souls of the children of the light acting in concerted harmony even in the mighty line of flux as the light descends as you view it on the chart of your own Divine Self. These personages represent also offices that must be kept holy in the earth. And therefore the holiness of the aspiring one, the lower figure in the chart, is the obedient consciousness who will follow the true shepherds who have become priests after the order of Aaron.

     Recognizing then the progressive attainment of the priesthood, you may enter into the full consciousness of your Christ Self and move from the priesthood of Aaron unto the disciplines and the initiations of the priesthood of Melchizedek. Realize that these offices, when filled, present unto the LORD and the angelic hosts vessels of the LORD'S appearing in the earth, vessels for his signs and wonders.

     It is the hour of the consummation of Israel and the fulfillment of all that is to take place in the promised land. And therefore look not for miracles outside of thee. For miracles there are. And there were times when Pharaoh did not accept the miracles, and there were times when the children of Israel also rejected those miracles as the signs of the LORD'S appearing.

     Blessed hearts, there have been pharaohs among you as there are pharaohs in the world, self-appointed princes in the land - those who see themselves as rulers of the people without God. These are everywhere to be found and always found where least expected in citadels of power - spiritual wickedness in high places of church and state.11 Be not dismayed. Be not dismayed.

     Recognize then that when the LORD is determined to separate out his people from among them, he hardens their hearts; and the descent of their own karma prevents them from accepting the Word either of the God-man or of his prophet or of the Christed ones. Thus it is a self-inflicted judgment accelerated by the will of God, by the will of JEHOVAH, by the LORD our God, who does indeed accelerate or decelerate the Law according to his own signs and choosings and dispensations.

     Therefore though the Law, as the Lord Jesus Christ, is "the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever,"12 the Law is ever the rod in the hand of the LORD GOD himself and that Law as that rod is wielded by the supreme free will of the Godhead. It is sent forth, it is withheld - according to his will and not according to the whimsy of man.

     Realize then that the instrumentation of the Law as the rod is also unto you as you exercise your own free will and as your free will is reflective of the will of God. Then there is a consonance, and you will see your own mighty I AM God Presence and your beloved Christ Self, as the true manifestation of Alpha and Omega within you, acting to fulfill the mighty will of God. And therefore with me you may implore dispensations of mercy unto the people as well as the instantaneous descent of their own karma.

     When your free will is not exercised according to the will of God, then you are, as it has been said, out of alignment. For even Lord Gautama taught this law of being out of alignment with the will of God, and this as the cause of great suffering.13 And indeed it is a suffering when you cause to be suffered within yourself that state of consciousness that is neither here nor there - neither hot nor cold.14

     Understand then that the influencing of the will of God is upon you when you affirm, when you sacrifice, when you serve, when you employ the freedom that is God-given to increase light where you are. Then there is a rushing - a rushing of water and wind and elements of alchemy, even from the heart of Saint Germain and Jesus Christ and of my own God flame! Then there can be light increasing in the earth and then there can be the action of the separating out.

     And you will see how the children of the light will shine as the stars15 and how the fallen ones in whom there is no light will have withdrawn from them that light. And therefore in them the light will go out and they will appear as dark stars, even as black holes in space. If you could see at inner levels their chakras and their auras, it is as though looking into an abyss. And therefore they are likened unto these dark stars - wandering stars to whom is reserved the mists of blackness forever, as it has been written.16

     Blessed hearts, we come out of consideration and contemplation that in this era of earth's history the cycles repeat themselves. Therefore it is well that you understand the meaning of those events that took place as we were required to cease the misuse of the sacred fire of ascension's flame.

     After all, it was Egypt - physically and metaphysically. It was indeed the mystical presence of the initiation of the people out of the temple of Luxor, out of the light of Serapis Bey. And the black priesthood of Egypt had learned to manipulate that energy. And therefore, in imitation of the miracles of God, they did perform their work.

     Hearken unto this and remember! For there are many charlatans and many psychics in the world today who can perform these signs and wonders. And thereby they call upon the name of the LORD, yet the LORD is not nigh unto them! Thus the miracles of the representatives of God are for believers and they are not flaunted before the fallen ones. Thus you must be careful and judge righteous judgment17 when considering where is the flow of true light and where is its counterfeit.

     Beloved hearts, there is very little difference to the untrained eye of those initiators who claim to initiate the people in the third eye or in other chakras and the real transfer of light from Sanat Kumara. Without the purging and the cleansing of your own chakras, you yourselves - without this training and this path and this teaching - would not necessarily discern the difference.

     Now you have a greater light. Now you have a greater perception. And therefore I trust that you will also become infilled with your own Christ-potential to tear the veil from those sheep who are yet abiding at the level of devotee, who yet stand beneath Almighty God and invoke his light. And yet, for some, they invoke the light of the unknown God.18 And therefore they are tempted to go after those self-proclaimed gods that are loud in the marketplaces and that sell their wares as though they were a commodity to be bought with the very money of the land.

     Dear hearts of light, you well know what is the Path, what is the necessary discipline to receive the nectar of the inner chakra of the crown. Truly this nectar of light that comes forth descends because the Mother light is risen as the ascension flame within you. Truly this light, this nectar of the crown that is for the opening of the third eye, that is for the clearing of the way of the ascent of consciousness, cannot be bought.

     When the prophet bade the people to come to the fount and drink "without money and without price,"19 he was speaking of the mighty ascension flame of his own God-free being, of Sanat Kumara who was upon him, even upon your own messenger Lanello. Blessed hearts, this raised-up sacred fire, this ascension flame flowing in your midst, is the Mother light. Therefore let there be the gathering of my children. Let them drink of this light!

     O blessed hearts, it is the water of Life.20 It is the energy of God. It is the Sacred Spirit. And it does flow from this fount of my Being. And in this light ye are filled and the Grail sparkles with that light. And therefore the soul is raised up. And if it will give that necessary service and sacrifice, it will come into alignment with the Christ Self and therefore be unto all people that shepherd and that priest under the order of Aaron.

     I come then that that light in you might increase and that the lesser self might diminish. I come then also to wrestle with the serpents - the serpents of the carnal mind that have sought to enter, as sine waves of energy misqualified, into the very fabric of the soul and the subconscious.

     I come to those who have set themselves in a convenient mode of chelaship, who have designed for themselves their relationship to the ascended masters and to the messenger and have carefully set themselves apart that their interaction with God and with his hosts might only be with that portion of their being and world and life in which the presence of God is convenient. And they have carefully wrapped and put aside even the elements of the subconscious, the human consciousness, that become the difficulty on the Path. For here is the necessity for striving. Here is the necessity for travail to give birth to the fullness of the Light. Here is the necessity for confrontation.

     O beloved hearts, that serpent mind - until it is cast out - reserves for itself that position of power. And it is most clever. It is most subtle. And therefore it is kept well hidden behind the smile or the garments. And some of you, beloved hearts, do not realize that when you wonder why things do not go as you think they should in your life or on the path of attainment it is because you have actually withheld from submitting to the Great Guru those elements of consciousness, those islands that represent the courses of rebellion and disobedience, those mountains of pride and ambition, those peaks of pride from which the ego gazes in the lofty manner to survey the empire of the mind and the desire body and all that it can successfully manipulate in others and in the world.

     Beloved hearts, this is no Path! Better there were no Path at all than the chelas of the light come forth and use the violet flame to their own convenience to clear the debris of the day, to make human existence more comfortable, to heal their diseases. Blessed hearts, is it not a state of gross illusion when the invocations are given to create a walled-in life, a sealing of the self within the glorious light of God - sealing off those portions of consciousness that are no part of God's kingdom, no part of his grace, no part of his permanent being? It is gross delusion, beloved hearts! For, you see, when you cut yourself off from those very elements within the subconscious, from past karma, that must go into the flame, you are denying to yourself the real path of the ascension.

     This is a burden upon my heart and it is a burden upon the heart of the messenger, truly. For those individuals who will set themselves about much work without the necessary sacrifice, using work as the replacement for sacrifice or surrender, may enter into a mechanical consciousness and into all of which the Great Divine Director has warned you - of this monstrous plot of the evasion - the invasion of heart and mind of mechanization man.21

     Realize that it is the alternate path. It is the byway that is taken by those who, once the flame reaches the bedrock of being, are not willing to cast themselves upon the rock of Christ and be broken.22

     Therefore I speak - as I inaugurate this Class of the Archangels - I speak because it was my office to clear the way for the coming of the archangels unto the children of Israel. And the path of initiation that I gave unto them, beginning with the Mother light and moving unto the crown, was a path that was necessary in order that they might receive the successive initiations of the seven archangels within their chakras.

     The Karmic Board has waited many a year for the opportunity that has now been granted to dedicate an entire conference to the archangels and to their release of light. I come then on the eve of their descent into your midst that I might explain to you these requirements of the path of chelaship under the archangels.

     Truly you have known the seven chohans and you have known a master here or there in numbers of previous incarnations. Truly you must realize that one of the subtleties of that carnal mind is karma dodging. It is a dodging of responsibility for this most necessary confrontation of the entire consciousness. Let us see then that you might come to this gathering and to this communion with your own New Year's resolution to realize that the Path is not for entertainment but it is for the ascension.

     El Morya and Serapis Bey have delivered through the messenger those most necessary disciplines and teachings and a tremendous outpouring of love, all conspiring together in the flame of God's wisdom to bring you closer and closer to the moment when you could take that leap into the sacred-fire pool of your own Christ Self.

     How many of you remember the first time, when you were a wee child, that you had the courage to jump into the water or to jump from a high diving board and how long you contemplated before you took that first giant leap - not knowing what would be your experience in the depths of the water? Beloved hearts, so it is good to have physical experiences whereby you can relate to the conquering of fear - fear of the unknown.

     I must ask you, after all, what is unknown about the I AM Presence or the Holy Comforter or the God of Israel or of Sanat Kumara?

     These are not unknown to you. They may be unknown to the fallen ones. But they once knew them also, beloved hearts. They once knew the hosts of the LORD and the many manifestations of God. But they have gone their way, and there is no way that they will jump into the sacred-fire pool. But ye are sons of light and children of the Most High, are ye not? ["Yes!"] Then, beloved hearts, you must become as wise as serpents and harmless as doves.23 You must become as wise as the serpent that has confounded you and convinced you not to submit the totality of being unto the flame.

     Our dear Mother of Israel, Mother Mary, has given to you her dissertation on the signs of the appearing of His stars,24 truly the events that always surround the incarnation of the Word. She has transferred to you the dispensation of the exchange of family mesmerism for your integration with the divine family of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and of the Mother and of all those personages of the Godhead incarnate who occupy - truly occupy till I come25 - those facets of Divinity that are represented in the four quadrants of being. For all human relationships come out of the four personages of the Godhead, and each in his own hour and day fulfills the representation of these four.

     Thus, beloved hearts, when these four personages as Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Mother are covered over by the masks of the human consciousness, human personality and false attachments and that false family mesmerism with which we must deal - realize, dear hearts, that then there is not the true manifestation of the Path and there cannot be the true manifestation of the Path!

     No matter how long you determine to cover over that which you have desired to be the will of God, if it is not the will of God, it cannot become the will of God by mere thinking, by mere willing, or even by decreeing.

     You must begin with the stone which the builders rejected. You must begin with the stone of your own Christ consciousness. And if you will build, then build upon that Light and then you will behold the alchemy of Saint Germain whereby the alchemy of Saint Germain will indeed accelerate and increase the expansion of Light within the original matrix because the original matrix is something with which the Holy Spirit can work.

     And therefore you will work and the Father will work.26 And your work will not be the work of mechanization man, frantically trying to enter into the kingdom but never entering in. Thus it is better not to try when your trying becomes so trying that you end in crying and nevermore understand the true God consciousness that eliminates all self-pity and rises into the glory of the compassion of the LORD!

     Precious hearts, trials are the extenuations27 of trying without ever succeeding. Once you succeed in your God-victory, the trial is replaced by a living flame.

     Thus let us examine consciousness. Let us examine what is being withheld from the Mother flame. For if you are to rise from the base of the Mother flame unto the skies and have the initiation of the seat-of-the-soul chakra, of the solar plexus and the desire body, of the heart and the secret chamber therein, of the power of the Word and the third eye and the crown - do you not understand that you must succeed in the initiations of the Mother light as the very base of the building of the pyramid? And your own Christ Self will not allow you to erect the sides of the pyramid until you have built a firm foundation in this white light.

     The white light of Alpha and Omega - as Guru and chela, as Sanat Kumara and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas - is truly the white fire core of every chakra. Though you may invoke all other flames and the violet flame as well, there comes the hour when the seven chakras cannot expand to the full glory of your mighty I AM Presence and causal body because the foundation is not built, because the Mother flame is not the goal of your life, because you have not placed the ascension over family or wife or child or relative or anything that would keep thee from thy God.

     Blessed hearts, I trust that we need not present an apology for this explanation of family mesmerism. For all know that in every dispensation of light, it is the holy family out of which the light descends. It is the true understanding of that holy family that I bring and the responsibility of every member thereof to keep his vibration at the point of one of the four cosmic forces. Then and only then can the family endure.

     Therefore let every member in the body of God, as a member of the divine family, recognize his responsibility to keep that office and to review the mighty teaching of Sanat Kumara given to you by your own Lanello in the passing of the hour of Christmas Eve unto the day of the Christ Mass.28 For these teachings are integral. And dictation by dictation we present to you the requirements of the Law of Love, of Oneness. Therefore, let all recognize the immediacy of responsibility as the spirals move onward, as the journey continues - new vistas, new scenes of wonder and light, and also dark passages through the astral plane.

     Blessed hearts, how the individual will respond to these scenes and passages through which the little children must also pass in fear and wonder when they journey to Disneyland - the response, beloved hearts, tells all: not the light in the eye or the eagerness to begin the journey, but how does the wayfarer fare as the journey becomes hotter or colder or more demanding day by day. Day by day the light must descend, and each one must find the proof of the law of his own being. Each one in Christ must reprove those islands of consciousness that cannot endure the morrow's journey, the uphill climb.

     Mentors of the Spirit, O blessed mediators of each one - I address the holy, most holy Christ Self. I implore now intense ruby-ray compassion for the melting of fear, pride, doubt, and faithlessness in these souls. Let them be purged. Let them understand that the following of my light up the mountain is truly for their own encounter with Sanat Kumara.

     The archangels gather upon the mount. The sons of light as ascended masters gather upon the mount. Therefore it is a three-day's journey into the wilderness for fasting and for prayer that you might also move up the spiral of the mount. For God expects a recompense. God expects the rising souls. God expects the remnant to behold him as he is. He does not expect that he will descend into the astral planes and the marts of the world to find the devotee, but rather that the devotee will come and find him where he is - even in the heart of every chosen one of God.

     I AM Moses, called Lord Ling. And my incarnation in the East for the fulfilling of the Law sustains in me the great leaping, joyous flame of wisdom. Wisdom in her perfect presence as the emanation of the Most Holy Mother is the joyousness of the child and the entertainment of the wise sage.

     Truly the vastness of the starry body of the Mother is in my heart. And therefore because of this, I AM of all most happy and called the God of Happiness. My happiness flame is wisdom's sacred fire. Take it again to the children of Israel, for they yet mourn and they lament and they weep and they wail. For they know not that I have caught the dragon's tail, even out of the East! I have entered into the whirling sacred fire of the T'ai chi. I have bound the serpent in his den. I have bound the cockatrice.29

     Beloved hearts, there is nowhere that I go not in defense of the children of Israel. And I come with a light. Therefore pursue the wisdom of the Mother and set aside the limitations of the lesser aberrations of the mental body. Let the mind be infused with the mind of Christ!

     O Christ Jesus, thou Saviour, thou Holy One of God, I bow before thy Light as a testimony unto this people that out of the East and the West and in the fiery core of the Mideast there is the acknowledgment of the Divine Mother in my heart - and of the Son and the Mother, as Madonna and the Manchild (ever the symbol of the turning of the cycle of 198030) becomes the sign unto this people that the hour of the fulfillment of the promise is come.

     Behold The Lord Our Righteousness31 in the midst thereof. Behold, behold, my beloved, now the onward journey of the Israelites - and, in the process of that journeying and that pilgrimage, the path of initiation unto Luxor and the judgment of all misusers of the light of Purity.

     In her name I AM free to sacrifice for thee unto our God this day. Join me and know true freedom.

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     NOTE: The above dictation by Lord Ling was delivered to the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet at The Class of the Archangels, December 28, 1980, at Camelot. Preceding this dictation, the messenger read Exodus 5-8.


Footnotes:

1 Pss. 23:3.
2 Exod. 5:1; 7:16; 8:1, 20; 9:1, 13; 10:3.
3 Exod. 4:21; 7:3, 13, 14, 22; 8:15, 19, 32; 9:7, 12, 34, 35; 10:1, 20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 8.
4 Heb. 5:1-10; 6:20; 7.
5 Exod. 7:8-25; 8:1-19.
6 Exod. 32.
7 Exod. 5:5-19.
8 Exod. 16:2-35.
9 Exod. 4:10-17; 7:1, 2.
10 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.
11 Eph. 6:12.
12 Heb. 13:8.
13 In his first formal statement following enlightenment, Gautama outlined the key discoveries of his six-year quest. His subject was the Four Noble Truths. The First Noble Truth is that life is dukkha 'suffering'. The Second Noble Truth is that the cause of this suffering is tanha 'desire' - the will to private fulfillment. The Third Noble Truth is that desire is overcome by mastering the egoistic drive for separate existence. The Fourth Noble Truth is that the way to the overcoming of self-seeking is through the Eightfold Path.
14 Rev. 3:15, 16.
15 Dan. 12:3.
16 Jude 13.
17 John 7:24.
18 Acts 17:23.
19 Isa. 55:1.
20 Rev. 21:6; 22:1, 17.
21 See the Great Divine Director, "The Mechanization Concept," Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 8, pp. 9-142.
22 Pss. 118:22; Matt. 21:42-44.
23 Matt. 10:16.
24 Mother Mary, "Signs of His Stars Appearing," December 24, 1980. Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 24, pp. 1-16.
25 Luke 19:11-13.
26 John 5:17.
27 extenuate: 1 a: to make light of; b: to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of by making partial excuses: mitigate; c: disparage 2 a: to make thin or emaciated; b: to lessen the strength or effect of.
28 See Lanello, "The Positioning of the Chelas on the 360 Degrees of the Circle of Life: Meeting the Requirements of the Law at the Ascended Masters' Round Table," December 24, 1980. Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 24, pp. 17-30.
29 Isa. 11:8; Jer. 8:17.
30 Refers to the thought form for 1980 of the Madonna and the Manchild. See Gautama Buddha, "I Will Be in the Heart of the Little Child," December 31, 1979. Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 23, p. 4; cassettes B8016, B8017.
31 Jer. 23:6; 33:16.