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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
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Hail, mighty hosts of the LORD! Hail, children of the One!
I AM Uriel Archangel. I descend into earth and I plant my feet upon the ground. And a fire springs forth, marking the place whereon I do stand in the name of Almighty God. For the LORD hath sent me this day to deliver also the living Word as the justice, even the judgment, of the true and righteous God.
I AM Uriel of the Sun, and I AM in the earth and my heart is a magnet of sacred fire. And therefore, I anchor the light as I AM the presence for the receiving here of the arc of light from the Central Sun.
I form in the earth a magnet of Love, the magnet of the ruby ray. I form in the earth the magnet of the resurrection fire. And therefore, O children of earth, hear my call! For I have answered the LORD this day. And you have answered the LORD this day. And therefore we together find ourselves on the way of Emmaus,1 one as friends of Christ - drawn to his heart by the fervor of our love for his soul, for his spirit, for his life, for his precious heart. Therefore does He take us to himself, and we discover together the mystical Body of God whereby Elohim, archangels, masters of the path of East and West can commune through that Sacred Heart of Christ on, you would say, an equal footing - enjoying, therefore, the true meaning of all saints robed in white, even that Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood of which ye are a part or aspire so to be.
And may you keep on aspiring! For as we have won our place in the sun of God and the Central Sun, you also may know the meaning of being that member in the Body of God on whom the Lord Christ does count.
Therefore, you realize that that walk to Emmaus, that walk on the road of life, beloved hearts, signifies the coequality of friends of Christ. It does mean that you are no longer servant.2 No longer does it become a choice to be or not to be that brother of Christ, that sister of the Master. No longer can you say, "I may win, I may lose, I may fail, or I may have a victory this day." This is the level of servant, where a forward step may also be followed by two or three backward.
I AM Uriel and I tell you, the initiation of the path of friendship in Christ is that the friend is dependable, reliable, loyal, and always, I said always ready, always present, always there to uphold that flame. When Christ himself, even in the Cosmic Christ of the cosmic walk of the fourteen stations of the cross, is bowed down underneath that cross, the friend is there for that equalization of the weight.
And therefore, there are hours when the mighty balance of Alpha and Omega - Alpha within the LORD, Omega within the friend - changes in its balance and a greater weight of light and of world karma may be held by the friend while the Christ incarnate does bear an more3 than ordinary weight of planetary and systemic evil on behalf of that friend who, therefore, can and shall and will perform the works of God on earth.
Therefore, friendship becomes a state of coequality and joint-heirship, which itself, when tried and proven true, does inherit the mantle of brother and sister of the very heart of the living Christ - of Jesus, of Maitreya, of Gautama, of the saints and masters and elder brothers and sisters who have internalized and externalized that Word.
Therefore understand, beloved hearts, friendship is not only a commitment of love, it is a responsibility. It is the realization that, by and by, that Christ incarnate may even lie in your arms. And you may become the one responsible for the continuation of the life of that one because the friend is the friend in God that does not fail.
Therefore, men and women of the sacred fire, sons and daughters of the journey of life, I AM Uriel Archangel: Archangel of the Sixth Ray blazing a trail of your Christhood and leaving my footprints as living sacred fire burned into the very earth so that when you place your feet where my feet have walked, you may have the virgin soil, the purified place, and receive only the vibrations of an archangel whose devotion forevermore and evermore and evermore is unto the heart of Christ - Christ above, Christ below, Christ in the Infinite One, Christ in the little ones here on earth, Christ to the right and the left, Christ before and behind, Christ in every manifestation of the living God that has drawn the life-force to that point of coequalization of the heart-flame whereby that heart-flame is indeed a burning bush of sacred fire of individual Christhood!
I AM Uriel. I have wept over the persecution of my LORD and I have rejoiced in his infinite resurrection. I AM THAT I AM, and my legions of angels are determined this Eastertide, these five days now, to touch the hearts of all people upon this planetary body - young and old, Jew and Gentile, Christian, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Confucian, and all those who walk in the disciplines of the I AM THAT I AM and are of the I AM Race.
For we are determined that the Great Mediator, the Cosmic Christ, Lord Jesus, and the personal Christ Self shall have purified vessels and quickened consciousness in the people of God whereby they shall know that there is an internalization of that Word, they shall know the victory of the Light!
O I AM THAT I AM! I AM Uriel, my beloved! And I have come now to teach you a lesson concerning the people of that infamous city of Ai.
Beloved hearts, understand the mission of Joshua who himself, as you know, was the blessed soul in a previous incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ whose resurrection we celebrate in this hour - Joshua, the beloved of God, given the assignment from the LORD with all of the hosts of Israel, all of the children of the Light, all of that company of light-bearers led by the LORD's Spirit and my own presence in their midst.
For I AM Uriel and in my mantle and in my heart is the obligation of the LORD truly to manifest the judgment of all evolutions of Antichrist, worlds without end. Therefore I am the sponsoring one of your own Christhood on the Path, which cannot enter into the fullness of the resurrection flame until it pass that very initiation which was passed by Joshua as it was read to you from the eighth chapter of the book bearing his name.
Understand this, precious hearts. The people of Ai - these were the aliens known as Nephilim4 and their slave creation. These were the ones who had arrived long ago from other systems of worlds even beyond this galaxy. These were the ones who had encamped themselves around the great fire of the chakra of the Middle East and the land promised unto the people.
Therefore, before the land could be taken, Joshua must have the courage to go forth to slay the Antichrist, to slay the carnal mind and its duplication over and over in the masses of these fallen ones. Not only this, but the city of Ai was a forcefield of such darkness, such misqualified energy, radioactive and otherwise, and of such sin and the worship of the false gods that it required that the city should be burned in order to purify and consume and see to it that no child of the Light should ever, ever set foot upon that ground unholy and unhallowed and therefore that ground which had been sinfully abused by its inhabitants.
Blessed ones, it is a hard saying to understand the meaning of the word of the LORD unto Joshua and the ambush of this people. Therefore I come to teach you, by the Holy Spirit, the interpretation of that very physical event which took place, that you might understand what is the message for men and nations this day, what is the message for the remnant of Israel, the nucleus of sacred fire of a people who must be the ensign5 - that is, the sign, the direction pointing the way by the mighty spear of the Law, pointing the way of victory.
Come now, let us reason together, saith the LORD. The one who must be Christ, the one whose soul must fully enter that Christ Self and that Word, as the soul of Joshua was so destined to do, must meet the enemy and overcome that carnal mind. First within the self, the synthetic image must be slain by the power of the Maha Chohan, by the power of the Holy Spirit. And this is a ritual of the sacred fire.
In that day and age, the initiation was physical. In this day and age in the Aquarian cycle, you understand a new dispensation of the Spirit so that these initiations cannot be transferred verbatim and literally. For we would not have you go forth in ambush to bind a supposed city of alien beings or of fallen ones, nor to burn their territory. For this, my God and my great LORD, would be, blessed hearts, a violation of the mighty light of transmutation, of freedom's flame from the heart of Saint Germain.
Therefore lift up your heads, lift up your gaze to the Mighty I AM Presence and realize that now we must enter into a symbology that is by no means metaphysical. It is very physical but it is a spiritual penetration, it is a sacred fire burning.
And therefore, you see, these inhabitants one by one, each one representing an image of the synthetic self, must be slain and none left. One by one, every specter of the `old man'6 within you must be slain. This day you see the not-self in its selfish aspect; on the morrow you see it in another guise and another mien. Understand then, O holy ones of God, that the faces of the synthetic self take on a multitude of images. And each and every one must be slain by you by the power of the judgment of Christ, who is also in you.
Therefore, we see that there yet remain upon earth these evolutions, in this hour, of the Nephilim gods and their mechanization man. These evolutions are here and there across the earth, and they are being bound by the mighty archangels in this hour. And unto me is given the assignment for the securing of this mandate of the LORD. Therefore it is unto you to give the call for the binding of the not-self that the true Christ may appear and spring forth as lilies blooming on the hillside, even in the hour of the resurrection.
You must understand, then, that it is the image of the shadowed self, the shadow itself, that is consumed by the sacred fire. And absolutely no interference with that physical life is required which is not lawful or in keeping with the laws of God and man, reflecting the point of the Law in the center of the circle.
And therefore understand that there comes an hour, in the defense of life and in the defense of nations, when it is a lawful act in the sight of God and man, in the name of self-defense and the preservation of the Union, for those who are the hosts of light to enter into that war that is yet a necessity on the planet. But, beloved hearts, it is not a requirement for the individual to take upon himself the selective or the general removal from life of any people. For this is a temptation to which the Christ must not, cannot descend.
Then there are the laws of the land that reflect the code and the dispensation of Noah for the preservation of life, whereby these laws must involve capital punishment and the death sentence when those who have taken life and are not in any way penitent and come under the designation required of the law do pass from the screen of life, as we have explained to you before from the heart of the Lords of Karma and the Great Divine Director.7 In this instance, this form of execution comes about as the ultimate lesson to the soul - who may swiftly reincarnate and learn the lesson of this foul crime of murder or the taking of life.
Blessed ones, the new beginning is the only hope for such individuals. And the only lesson whereby they may be deterred from the same crime again is to know the loss of their own life. But, beloved hearts, in many cases, those who pursue this crime of the Satans8 - these ones, beloved, are not of the Light and therefore they pass through the second death9 once they have passed from the screen of life.
Now, therefore, except in those very specific cases where cosmic justice does allow, the lesson and the initiation of this point of the mission of Joshua must fall upon you as the power of Light and the Mighty I AM Presence within you to expand and expand and expand through your heart so that the eternal Life of Almighty God dwelling in you does consume in this world all that is death and the death consciousness, all who may be the living dead - but this according to the cycles of God's own decree.
For the most part, unbeknownst to you, unbeknownst and unrealized, the flame in your heart does become a flame of God-justice! And this is the hour of the transfer of that flame to the heart of the messenger and the hearts of the chelas alike. For the moving onward of the birthday cycle of the messenger does embody, then, the flame of God-justice from the heart of Portia, twin flame of Saint Germain.
And you must understand that it is the flame itself, blazing now in full glory in this heart and touching your own hearts wherever you may receive it to increase and balance and expand your threefold flame, that is the only lawful means for the initiate on the path of the ascension to deal justly with those evolutions such as the evolutions of Ai, which did indeed pollute and desecrate this planet aeons ago - importing here their science and their genetic engineering for the manipulation of life.
Hear then the word of my heart, and hear then the meaning of this dispensation. It is a twelve-month cycle and ought to remain forever in the heart of this messenger and in your own as you claim it. It is the flame of God-justice of the eight o'clock line of the eighth of April. And you will understand the meaning of this initiation of Joshua on the line of the forty and four. You will understand the meaning of the sacred fire. You will understand the great victory of the God flame.
My beloved hearts, then realize that the burning of the city is another question in itself. For the burning of the city signifies that every square inch of earth must be purified, purged, transmuted and cleansed, exalted and accelerated in its vibration by the violet flame of Saint Germain, by the violet flame of Zadkiel and Holy Amethyst, by the resurrection fire of the Lord Christ and our own hearts, Aurora10 with me now.
Therefore by the resurrection flame, by the violet flame, understand that the cities may be transmuted. Understand therefore the will of God in the removal of the inhabitants therefrom in order to enact the cleansing. For if the carnal mind be not slain by the judgment call, if it be not bound by the flame of justice in your heart, then as soon as the city is cleansed, you see, the very ones who polluted it in the beginning - going scot-free, as you would say - are yet there to reintroduce the old patterns and the old ways. Blessed ones, it is a twofold exercise - your call for the demagnetization of the cities of the earth. First, upon entering, call therefore for the binding of the fallen ones and the synthetic self amongst and in the inhabitants, the binding by the true power of Christ and the mighty archangels.
Call unto me in the name of Jesus and I will answer and I will seal! For by the dispensation of this hour from the heart of Alpha and Omega, you see, there can be a more permanent binding and sealing of the dark ones of the dying race. And therefore as they are sealed, the mighty action of the violet flame, the mighty action of the resurrection flame can perform the perfect work of the Cosmic Christ, of your own Christ Self, of the Master Jesus standing tall upon the hill overlooking the city - and in the heart of it, in the flow of the rivers and the waters through the city and in the key points of the focuses of light.
Therefore, take as your visualization for this clearing of the cities of the earth this particular statue of the living Christ, the statue in marble that is upon this altar. And let it become the focus, then, of this which must be accomplished by all who would walk the path of Joshua unto the mighty victory of King David, unto the eternalization of the flame in Jesus Christ.11
Most beloved ones, most precious ones, we desire to see a mighty configuration of light. We desire to see the Electronic Presence of the Christ superimposed and replacing the dark ones and their dark decision-making, replacing the hordes of night and the discarnates that work through them from time to time without warning, striking against the bastions of freedom and against the purposes of Almighty God, nation by nation. Note well how the synthetic self is prey to the sudden moves of the sinister force, even the false hierarchy that comes from beyond this system of worlds.
Understand then, beloved hearts, that your position on earth may be that which mine is this day. For my purpose here is to establish by my Electronic Presence, my aura, and the light within me of the resurrection flame, a permanent magnet upon this altar of Jesus' flame which I adore, of the Spirit of the Resurrection in the Great Central Sun, and to give you the opportunity to equate with this forcefield, with my own Electronic Presence - to call to me, Uriel, at any hour of the day or night:
O Uriel, make me now your Electronic Presence burning bright, through the night and through the day. Make me, then, the magnet of the Central Sun, arcing into the earth by the very sacred fire of your heart those currents of Almighty God that are necessary for change and for the turning of the worlds!
Therefore when you make that call, I will place my Presence with you. I will quicken, as I am able, according to your own containment of the Spirit in your chakras, according to the conservation of light within you; I will multiply by the power of ten whatever is there - in balance, in alignment, in poise, in peace, in the heart of the threefold flame, and in your chakras. I will multiply it by my Presence, by the power of ten, for your exercise of the Word.
Now is that not a mighty gift from Alpha and Omega, blessed hearts? ["Yes!"]
Now rise, blessed ones, as my angels place their presence with you. For they are considerably stepped-down from my own vibration, in this moment only, that you might begin to feel, to know what it is to walk in the very footsteps of an angel of the resurrection flame, what it is like to be on earth an anchor point for the Spirit of the Resurrection in the heart of the Great Central Sun, what it is like to focus then that current of everlasting light on behalf of the imprisoned elementals, on behalf of the children and all who walk in the darkness of the Cain civilization.
As you stand now, spines erect and feet firmly planted in the earth, know that one of my angels stands with me and with you, as it is your free will to accept in this hour. And if you do accept my angel then, say then:
In the name I AM THAT I AM, in the name of Archangel Uriel, I accept the angel of the resurrection where I AM!
["In the name I AM THAT I AM, in the name of Archangel Uriel, I accept the angel of the resurrection where I AM!"]
Now you have a mantra. Now you have a mantra of co-service with the legions of the sixth ray. What a joy to know your friend in Christ is an angel who has loved him on the sixth ray of his own heart for aeons and aeons! And therefore you will know, as your heart and soul nestle in his garment and presence, you will know then that he will keep thee in the way until Christ Jesus himself does appear at your side, walking and talking with you as on the road to Emmaus.
Blessed hearts, now understand that this power of the flame of the resurrection, of the angel of the resurrection, and of my heart is for that twofold mission - for the binding, then, of the not-self wherever it does appear, within or without, and for the transmutation of the cities that that purified place may never, never, never be requalified by the human.
And you will find that devotees in the white fire core of every religious body will feel! my presence this day and your own with my angels. They will feel a drawing into their heart, into the very center of Christ, and they will have a resurrection of their perception of our presence - with our messenger, with our disciples, with those who are the students of the ascended-master law.
There will be a perception of the aura of light. There will be a clearing of the way for souls of light to cross over the bridge of samsara - to cross over the bridge and leave behind the illusions of the mayic condition and to enter, then, just a little bit into the etheric vibration and the etheric octave whence the City Foursquare shall descend, where there is a singing of the saints in this moment and a playing of the great organ and the mighty sound of voices and of harps.
And therefore, there is a tremendous praise given unto the LORD in this hour. And you will see and know that Christ is come into this temple as I stand and as I AM this day!
I AM Uriel of the Light, and I send you to overcome the Adversary and every foe and foreigner of the I AM Race by the Power of Light!
Overcome by the Power of Light!
Overcome by the Power of Light!
And never be tempted to stray from this fiat:
Overcome by the Power of Light!
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."This dictation by Archangel Uriel was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet March 30, 1983, during the Conclave of the Friends of Christ at Camelot; published on the 16-cassette Easter album, scriptural reading and dictation available separately (cassette B83065).