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In the name I AM THAT I AM: in the name of the Lord God Almighty I AM THAT I AM, in the name of the Son Jesus Christ, we come together this day, O God, in celebration of the victory of thyself in form in the wondrous presence of the Lord Christ victorious, now entering the Holy City.
In the name I AM THAT I AM Jesus Christ, we also enter the Holy City, and we sing praise and hosanna in the name of God. In Jesus' name, we summon the hosts of the Lord. We summon the great company of saints. O enter now in this communion with us, enter in to the communion of hearts of the Mystical Body of God. Seven mighty Archangels and Elohim, commune with us now. Make us one, even as the Father and the Son is one within us.
O mighty Threefold Flame of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit now blazing in our hearts, we call forth this light to burn upon the altar of our being, even as upon this altar of the sanctuary of the Holy Grail. [Messenger lights ten candles on the altar.] Make us each one now the chalice that might receive the blood of Christ, even that is released in the hour of his crucifixion. Let us bear now the blood that is the essence of Alpha and Omega with him unto the sons of God, the children of the Light throughout the earth.
Make us vessels, O Lord, white and clean, tried by the sacred fire and the trial by fire. So let the fire try every man's work of what sort it is. Let the sacred fire come forth, then, as we prepare this day in the victory of Almighty God for the Passion of Our Lord. Make us worthy vessels then, O God, to keep the flame this Holy Week for the victory of Christ in the nations, in the New Jerusalem, in the very body of God on earth.
We come together for a mighty purpose, O God, that we might be used as his heart, his hands, his feet on earth. Let our mind now be endued with the Mind of God which was and is in Christ Jesus, bequeathed to us by the promise of the Comforter.
Therefore, let us stand as pillars in the temple of God, holding the balance for the victory of sons of God who are called in his likeness. Let the victory, then, of Palm Sunday be multiplied over and over again.
Lord Christ, now enter this city of Los Angeles and every city and nation in the earth in this hour. We summon thee, that Christ be victorious in the leaders of the nations, in the multitudes, in the people, and that the fire of Christ, as the rock of David, shall go forth to confound the wicked and their seed.
Let Christ then be victorious over Death and Hell and over the logic and the perversion of the Logos of the fallen ones that also assailed him two thousand years ago in his entry into Jerusalem.
Lord Jesus Christ, confound them! Confound their challenge of the living Word within us as we share with thee this day thy glorious mission in the new age.
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Mother, Amen.
Shout unto God with the Voice of Triumph
O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth this day.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet. He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved.
God is gone up with a shout, the Lord I AM THAT I AM with the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth: sing praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness. The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted. (Pss. 47)
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass. (Zech. 9:9)
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way and said unto them,
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem: and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again. (Matt. 20:17-19)
Beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour and true nourisher of our souls, we invoke thy mantle this day, thy victorious Light, that we might also be victorious in thy name, that we might stand in the cities to challenge also those things that are not in the way of the holiness of God - even as thou didst, O Lord, on this thy holy day of victory. So anoint us and prepare us as knights and ladies of the chalice of the Holy Grail to do thy work in this age - not merely to honor thee with our lips, but to be one with thy Sacred Heart.
In this hour of world challenge, we come together in the great spirit of victory of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And our great gratitude to him and to Almighty God today is that because he triumphed, because he lived, because he was willing to drink the cup of the Father, we also can face the same world forces of Antichrist, the same challenges within and without the temple of our God, and Christ in us can and shall win.
Without his triumph, without the triumph of the Lord through Moses, without the triumph of the Lord through his prophets and the great avatars out of the East, without the Son Jesus Christ who came to quicken, yea, even to transfer the Flame of Life unto those in whom the divine spark had gone out - without this cosmic history that is gone before us, we would have no hope today, beloved, to confront the Adversary, to challenge in his name. For in whose name would we challenge had he not come?
The great revelation in my heart, the great stirring of the Holy Spirit many, many years ago was the perfect understanding he gave me - that Jesus Christ personally came to save me.
This wonderful moment of Eastertide - when even the birth of the newborn babe, Christ, is celebrated at the spring equinox - reminds us of this wondrous gift and the glorious promise that as
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS lived in Jesus, so that Lord lives in us. And our souls may elect, as his soul did by free will, to enter in to the great oneness of the Son of man. (Jer. 23:6)
And so, by the authority of his name, by the authority of his flame, we also can conquer. And life has hope and beauty. And the beautiful lilies of the Resurrection and the calla lilies of the spring remind us that God is a white fire in our midst, is the glory of illumination in the center where the crown of Christ and the Buddha delivers to us not only the victory but the understanding, the illumination, the great wisdom, the practical path of our victory over every injustice that confronts the world, every confounding of truth in the nations.
The entire momentum of war, the penetration of Central America, drugs in our nation, all that assails the temple of the Most High God in our youth, God shall overcome and he will - in the name Jesus Christ, in the name I AM THAT I AM which has been made holy again and again by his servant sons in heaven and on earth.
O how we are joyous this day! We are joyous that one dared to go before us. One came and gave his life East and West and in our hearts so that in our day, by Christ and Christ alone, we could face that Adversary and win.
O such a mighty shout unto the Lord, such a mighty perseverance of his soul! Listen how he entered into that city - that city which was kept by the fallen ones, the dark ones that moved against the Light.
Here he came, received by the multitudes, and here he was the ultimate threat; his popularity was so great that the Jewish "politicians" feared greatly for their position with the people - lest he displace them. Had he not denounced the scribes and Pharisees for sitting in Moses' seat but not doing his works? (Do what they say, but don't do what they do.)
The high priest was concerned lest his authority in the temple should be challenged. And so, those who were the authorities in the Jewish community, the Sanhedrin - Annas, Caiaphas, and the rest - were also agitated lest the people rise up and crown him King of kings and Lord of lords. And Herod Antipas, "that fox," being the political animal/god that he was, would rather have him as dead as John the Baptist, than alive as his chief rival for power. (His own father, Herod the Great, had killed all the male babies at the time of Messiah's birth, determined to thwart his mission.)
Yet he sought not a temporal crown. "My kingdom is not of this world," he said. Therefore, the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ is the seat of Higher Consciousness, the seat of the Inner Man. (Eph. 3:16) And when he rules there, we in his name may go forth to take dominion over the earth, which Elohim pronounced to us in the beginning.
The purpose for life and for incarnation is to take our dominion over these planes of time and space. Therefore, we do rejoice together that God picked for him Jerusalem, the crossroads of the world, the place of the gathering of the greatest darkness - so great that he seldom slept within its walls.
And how the great Light was come. None of them received him - not the mayor of the city to give him the keys to the city, oh no. Not the chief priests in the temple. Not the authority - no. But the multitudes received him.
And so, the story is written by Matthew,
When they drew nigh unto Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples, saying unto them, Go into the village over against you and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her: loose them and bring them unto me. And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.
All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion - speak unto the soul of the people of Jerusalem - Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
And the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them, and brought the ass and the colt and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. (Matt. 21:1-7)
A mighty contrast to this hour of Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals and Mercedes and Rolls Royces driving up with the important people. They arrive in all of their grandeur, in all of their glory. Yet, he desired to come and underscore the difference between those fallen ones and the humility of the Son of God that needs no trappings, no trumpets of Rome, no fanfare, no flags, but only the heart of fire.
The foal of an ass. His mother rode the ass in the hour of his birth, and he, such a devotee of the Mother flame, would also come giving glory unto motherhood, giving glory unto the humility of God himself incarnate.
The light is so great, it needs no ornament. He came to confound them. Not upon an ass but the foal of an ass, a young colt. And therefore, this new life also represented Him as the Son of God and the Son of the Divine Mother, paying tribute to the mighty power of the Word of the Cosmic Feminine. By the power of the Mother, he triumphed; and in the name of the Father, he was and is the Son.
And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in the way.
And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David:
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest! (Matt. 21:8, 9)
He who came in the name of the Lord came in the name of Yahweh - the very one who revealed himself to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. The people understood that this Christ embodied that Mighty I AM Presence, that Lord God. They called him "Lord" because he knew that he was the incarnation of this Word, this name of God, this lost name that is the rightful property and inheritance of all generations of light-bearers.
He came in that name. And therefore, they said, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord" - the name of that Lord, that Lord who was embodied within him. It is God to whom we give the glory.
The people understood the nature of the incarnate Word. They had seen him preach and heal and perform those miracles. They had seen him as the manifestation of the Lord Christ. John the Baptist had proclaimed him to his disciples.
And therefore, they knew that the promised Messiah had come, and they knew it by the Holy Spirit. For the Bible says that no man can know Jesus Christ except by that Spirit. (I Cor. 12:3) We cannot know him intellectually, we cannot know him emotionally; we know him by the vibration of the Holy Ghost. And this is why our sermon today deals with the acceptance and the rejection of the living Christ.
This is what we see on Palm Sunday. He is victorious! The victory of his mission is fulfilled. He has done all things that the Lord God has required of him, and he will begin the seven days of the Passion Week. But this is the day of triumph, this is the day of the Lord God Almighty with him, and this is the day of the acclaim of the multitudes.
Now we will look at who has accepted and who has rejected. And we understand that he himself is sharper than the twoedged sword - the same sword that proceeds out of the mouth of The Faithful and True that leads the armies of heaven at the end of John's Revelation.
We see that this sword cleaves asunder the real from the unreal. It is a separation of the sheep and the goats. It is a separation of those who are from above and those who are from beneath. (John 3:13; 8:23, 42-44) It is a separation of the Watchers and the fallen angels from the children of God. And this day they are clearly seen. And the events of the Passion Week that follows delineate by their unfoldment who is who in the Book of Life, who is on the path of righteousness and who is on the path of unrighteousness.
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? (Matt. 21:10)
Who is this? The presence and the power of the Mighty I AM Presence in him bodily.
They must know. They must define his Identity. They cannot ignore him; the power of his Presence is too great.
And therefore, those who are for him and those who are against him must find evidence whereby they may declare that he is the living Christ or he is not, in order to justify their deeds which do follow them.
And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. (Matt. 21:11)
The multitudes represent the souls of God who are untutored, without the full attainment of the Christ dwelling in them bodily, yet these souls recognize and acclaim the living Word. They are the pure in heart which see God; they are the multitudes as the sheep on the hillsides of the world who await their Shepherd. Yet they are easily moved because they have not the full wisdom of the Christ.
They are not wise as serpents and harmless as doves; they have not gone through the path of discipleship, of apostleship, the path of initiation. And therefore, the same multitudes may cry at the end of the week, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" when they receive the venom of the fallen ones who desire to kill him.
Therefore, we understand that the multitudes require the Shepherd of the Christ in Jesus and of the Christ in our hearts, of whom we pray longingly and lovingly for the fullness of that One to come unto us. We understand that the multitudes need the acceleration of light and the Path also, that they may have the discrimination which even was found wanting in some of the disciples before the week had ended.
But in this moment, they cannot be deterred. They see the Glory and see the Light; they feel the victory and they do remember their healings. Therefore, they proclaim him: This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
Jesus went into the temple of God. In the very moment of his entry into Jerusalem, he realizes that the victory must be sealed and defended. And Christ who is the victor within us will not overlook, will not pretend that he does not see injustice, but will use the mighty power of his victory for the defense of God the Father, for the defense of these little ones. Jesus is the warrior of peace on this day of Palm Sunday.
How many of our leaders dare to be unpopular with the powers that be by going into the temple and casting out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrowing the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves?
Jesus said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves! (Matt. 21:12, 13)
How many of those who desire to be thought wise among the clergy this day will go into the churches and the temples and challenge the liar and the lie and the murderer of Christ this day, the murderer of Christ in the hearts of the holy innocents? (John 8:42-45)
How many dare to take a stand against the murder of the holy innocents? How many take the stand to challenge corruption in the churches and the misuse of funds and the buying and the selling of souls, and all that goes on of materialism and the mispreaching of the Word whereby the children of God do not learn that Christ lives in them and is the power to heal here and now?
Where is the one who is God-victorious on Palm Sunday who will stand in the temple of our God and throw out the moneychangers? Had this been a human victory, had it been a material victory like we see in those who are the leaders of the world, they would have gloated and feasted in the praise of the multitude and received the congratulations of all of the powers that be, even of those who are the spiritually wicked in high places, those who are the originators of the darkness of this world. (Eph. 6:12)
Therefore, we understand that the victory of the Spirit is one victory; and the victory of this world and of its politicians and of those who seek favor among men is another victory. Christ our Lord has shown us the difference. We have the great glory and the independence in this nation that we must not and need not bow to any man, to any organization, or to any authority that is placed above Christ.
We may preach the Word, we may sing unto the Lord, and we may understand that were he present this day - this day of Palm Sunday - he would also release the very same challenge both in church and in state, and therefore he would be sought by the very same ones who sought to kill him then!
The world has not changed. Though they call themselves Christian, though they call themselves Jew waiting for the Messiah, they would not receive him in the full fury of this day. For they have entered into a softness, a sympathetic vibration with their own sin and their own guilt and their own human creation. And therefore, the compromise of the original message is with them.
From the most fundamental among them to the most liberal, there is the failure to challenge by the Holy Spirit. The challenge of Jesus Christ was never by human condemnation, it was never by human self-righteousness, but it was only by the sacred fire of the Word which consumes that which it challenges and therefore delivers unto the people a mandate: Choose you this day whom ye will serve. (Josh. 24:15) Serve the King of kings and Lord of lords who will always triumph, or serve those who have taken unto them the temporal power of this world in church and in state, who, sooner or later, will always fail.
The great triumphal entry into Jerusalem today is the coming of the One who may separate us individually from our misconceptions, who may show even the blind the way to see, who will preach even unto the seed of the wicked and show them the error of their state of consciousness, that they may leave their fallen state and once again embrace the living God.
He is the great separator and the mighty sword - not to destroy and not to punish, but to show: on this side is Reality, on this side is unreality, and I will not place my seal upon infamy in the temple by failing to challenge that which is taking place here.
And therefore silence is agreement said Thomas More in his trial. Silence is agreement. When we remain silent concerning world conditions, we say, "I agree," and so it is written on our own record. But when we challenge it in our hearts by the fire of Christ, we know he sends his legions of angels, his Palm Sunday angels, his angels of victory. And the angels perform the work that we do not have to do in a sense of self-righteousness. It is the rightness of heart and the fire of heart within us that delivers the world.
Praise the Lord I AM THAT I AM Sanat Kumara for the mighty angels and hosts of the Lord who are summoned and who do carry out the edicts that the Lord Christ himself speaks in our heart!
The blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. (Matt. 21:14)
Had they accepted it, the ones who bought and sold in the temple would have understood his judgment and his rebuke also as healing. For healing is the resolution of divine wholeness within us. And therefore, he challenged that which was not whole - which, because of greed and desire, sought to make a profit in the temple. And those who were blind he healed also.
Therefore, we understand that many times the healing that we also need will be the rebuke of Christ that will separate from us the illusion that we did not recognize without his Presence.
We need the presence of our beloved Christ Self with us in the name of Jesus, to show us when we also allow ourselves to indulge in those unreal states of viewing the world as a place of lack where we must continually get and get more, and then descend into compromise in order to have more and more of the things of this world.
Is that not the foundation of the reason for compromise in every area of life - that we lack the fullness of joy and happiness, and therefore in order to get it ("since God does not give it to us," we reason), we must go and break his law in order to have what we think we need?
Thus we see that the absence of wholeness is at the very foundation of all sin and disease and death. The absence of wholeness is the point of Jesus' healing and his rebuke throughout these passages. This scripture reveals what he chose to do in the hour of his victory. Therefore, think today what you shall choose to do and to be in the hour of your victory. For this is the hour of your victory because it is the hour of the victory of your Lord and Saviour.
He is the great Guru of the Piscean age. We are his disciples. When Our Lord is victorious, we are victorious. When he suffers, we suffer. When he is crucified, we are crucified. And by his stripes we are healed. When he is resurrected, we are resurrected. And when he ascends in Glory, we ascend with him, Amen. "Amen."
And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the son of David, they were sore displeased and said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea. Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise? (Matt. 21:15, 16)
In another account of the Gospels, when they rebuked him for allowing his disciples and the people to praise him, it is written that he said: If these should hold their peace, the very stones should cry out!
Thus we see the contingency plan of God the Father in the Son - had there not been one individual to praise him on the day of his victory, the very stones, elemental life, would have burst forth in praise and song. For God would have the rejoicing of our hearts this day. And he would work that work one way or the other.
Therefore, Jesus would not accept the Watchers' condemnation of the children offering praise unto the Father and the Son within his temple. For he knew that praise went unto the Lord, the Mighty I AM Presence, and never for a moment would he lose his balance and accept the idolatry of the people. Yet they - the chief priests and scribes - were the idolaters.
And that is why they accused him. They did not see Jesus through the eyes of the Holy Ghost. They saw him through their own conniving and twisted logic and evil eye. They saw him as a rabble-rouser, a revolutionary, someone threatening their citadels of power.
They saw him as a false prophet. They saw him not as the Messiah come - and everything that would race through their minds that they could imagine about him, they imagined - so that they would not have to bend the knee and confess that he is Christ the Lord. They could go another two thousand years and say, "Messiah never came, and therefore we do not have to obey him. We do not have to be disciples of Christ - submitting to his disciplines. We are Abraham's seed and we are waiting for the Messiah."
There are Christians today who profess that he has indeed come, yet they, too, are still waiting for Messiah to lead them into the temple. Thus they speak of the Second Coming by way of procrastinating their own rapture with Christ which can occur at any moment that they so choose to be crucified with him, to place themselves in the tomb with him, and to rise with him on the third day.
Therefore, everyone finds an excuse to say, "Christ has not yet come" or "He came two thousand years ago and I missed him, and therefore I am still a sinner. I cannot do it because he is not here." To the carnally-minded and the idolater, Christ is always in the past or the future - this is the procrastination of the human consciousness.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever! (3x) (Heb. 13:8) Which means that Christ is with us and in us, that he is here to prove that because we believe on him, we may go and do the works that he did and greater works, as he promised. (John 14:10-14) Jesus Christ in us today has the courage and the heart and the fire to challenge the moneychangers in the temple, has the fire to heal the blind - especially the spiritually blind who will not see the glory of the Lord, the Mighty I AM Presence, as that Immanuel, God with us. (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:23)
Those who do not see the kingdom of our God, these are healed by Christ in us. And the physically blind are healed by Christ and only Christ, for only he can heal. But the truth is, he can and does heal in this hour.
Therefore, he spoke to them of the perfected praise of the holy innocents, the babes and the sucklings, the innocent of heart - the multitudes.
And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there, in the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus.
Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away. (Matt. 21:17-19)
You see, Jesus was hungry, to be sure; and it was the duty - yea, the dharma - of elemental life to offer the fruit of their consciousness and their labor to the Son of God. He was also hungering for the encounter with the servant of Light who would be the bearer of the fruit of the Christ consciousness. He had given and would continue to give, but he expected his followers to also give of the fruit of discipleship to the Guru. He longed to be with those who were like him. He was searching the world for those who had not lost the ability to bring forth the fruit of God consciousness in their season.
He cursed the world consciousness of evil that caused even the fruit-bearing trees and plants to be blighted and barren. He pronounced the judgment on the unfruitful tree of the Nephilim, the fallen angels who had been cast out of heaven into the earth, and the Watchers who descended lusting after the daughters of men, whose infamy is recorded in the Book of Genesis at the time of Noah. (Gen. 6:4, 5)
Jesus was pronouncing the judgment of our Father Enoch on his day of victory - of the fig tree that had no fruit - symbolical of those who bore no fruit of the Christ consciousness, not because they could not, but because they would not. They had challenged God and rebelled against his Christ. And the Self they condemned was the same Self which God had originally placed within them as the Image of Himself, even the Hidden Man of the Heart. (I Pet. 3:4) Thus "Self-condemned," they had put out the light of the Christ (i.e., that Light who is Christ) within themselves.
Who were the chief priests and the elders of the people, the scribes and Pharisees - who were these challengers of Christ on Palm Sunday? They were the ones who had no Light in them. For, had the Light been in them, they should have recognized the same Light in Jesus. They are called by the masters of the Far East the "extinguished self."
By their own free will, they had extinguished the divine spark which they once had with God in the beginning. Yes, this they had done. By the very process of the denial of the Christ in the sons of God - "with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again" - they had effectively put out their own flame. And therefore, now they could bear no fruit. The disciples understood - and yet, in a sense, they did not.
For when they saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
And Jesus said to them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain - this mountain of adversity, this mountain of world karma, this mountain of world dilemma of war everywhere, this mountain of World Communism, this mountain of the capitalist monopoly conspiracy, nation by nation, you will say to it - Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea of sacred fire, and it shall be done.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. (Matt. 21:20-22)
Beloved Lord Jesus Christ, we lean upon thy heart and thy Word this day. We say, therefore, unto these mountains that the gods have placed in the world to confound the children of the Light; we say unto the mountain of the manipulation of our economy; we say unto the mountain of World Communism and the swallowing up of the land and the people of the earth by world totalitarian movements;
We say unto the manipulation of the international bankers; we say unto the manipulation of life and light and abundance, the divine economy and the governments, the manipulation of labor and management - the manipulation of the sacred labor of our hearts and of all those who work to keep the flame of America burning bright;
We say unto the mountain of opposition to our livelihood, to our free enterprise system, to our commerce, to the people of this nation who are without jobs; we say unto this mountain of opposition to the Christ Child aborning in their hearts, we say unto the mountain of world karma:
Be thou removed! Be thou removed! Be thou removed!
And be thou cast into the sea of sacred fire!
And be thou cast into the sea of sacred fire!
And be thou cast into the sea of sacred fire!
And it shall be done in the name of Jesus Christ!
And it shall be done in the name of Jesus Christ!
And it shall be done in the name of Jesus Christ!
By the Flame of Victory from the heart of Jesus, by the great causal body momentum of your light, O Lord, this day, increased now in these two thousand years, so multiply the victory of your Word within us. Let this Word go forth until it is accomplished through and through by the hearts and heads and hands of the many light-bearers and children of the sun throughout America and the world, by the instrumentation of the angelic hosts, elemental life, mighty Archangels, and Elohim.
Let the mountains of adversity against the people of God be removed and let them be cast into the sea of sacred fire! (3x)
We accept it done in the name I AM THAT I AM. In the name Jesus Christ! In the name of the saints robed in white who are the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, we accept it done this hour in full power!
It is done, it is finished, it is sealed!
It is done, it is finished, it is sealed!
It is done, it is finished, it is sealed!
It is done, it is finished, it is sealed!
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Mother, Amen. "Amen." And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or of men? And they reasoned with themselves saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men, we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
And they answered Jesus and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. (Matt. 21:23-27)
It was self-evident. The authority of the I AM Presence was with him. He had no need to proclaim it. They knew it and he knew it.
When Moses feared to go and speak to the children of Israel in Egypt - when God spoke to him out of the burning bush, he spoke unto God and said, "What is thy name? When I speak to the children of Israel, whom shall I say sent me? They will want to know. What is my authority? What are my credentials? Who am I that I should go forth and lead them out of Egypt?"
"Tell them, I AM hath sent you unto them."
What is thy name? "I AM THAT I AM - I will be what I will be, I will reveal myself in the course of events."
Moses had only to say, "I AM hath sent me unto you." Moses must say, "I AM hath sent me unto you." It is the command of God. He must have the fearlessness and the trust to rely not on outer credentials but upon the authority of God only. He must live day by day, letting the Lord prove who he was by his Power, by his Spirit, by his Intercession, by his Deliverance. (Exod. 3:11-14)
The Acclamation of the Master's Christhood by His Disciples
"Whom say ye that I am?" Jesus asked his disciples. He wanted to exact from them a statement of his identity, that they might have their own confirmation burned in their hearts in the hour of this great temptation, in the hour of the great condemnation of Jesus Christ by the powers of Rome and the powers of the synagogue, when his own would fear for their lives and be tempted to deny him.
And they answered: Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God. They saw by their witness that he was who he was; they saw by the Holy Ghost. And therefore Jesus said, Simon Bar-jona, flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto you, but my Father - my Mighty I AM Presence - which is in heaven. (Matt. 16:13-18)
And he blessed him because it was the testimony of the Light, the testimony of the Holy Spirit. And therefore, it was true.
Had Peter made the pronouncement of Jesus' Christhood by a flesh-and-blood perception, by an intellectual or emotional perception, it would not have been blessed. But upon the rock of his confession, upon the Christ consciousness itself, he would build the foundation of his church. And that foundation of his Christ consciousness and ours (through THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, our Holy Christ Self) is that which is impervious to the gates of hell which could not prevail against the living Church sustained by the living Vine.
The building of the Church is the building of the holy temple. The mystical Church is the grail, the Holy Grail where you are, which is the vessel of Christ. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against that Church, that Light, that kingdom of God that is within you.
Therefore, he has no need to reveal to those who challenge him what is his authority. He is not interested in proving to them his Christhood. The revelation of his Christhood is specifically for the disciples, the initiates, those who can see with their own eyes, who are fearless to proclaim it, and who will follow him all the way through that trial and crucifixion. He does not stoop to the defense of himself to the fallen ones, but he puts back upon them their challenges and their questioning.
The next teaching is given by Jesus to illustrate, then, the acceptance and the rejection of the Son of God.
Parable of the Two Sons: I Will Not; I Will
What think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first and said, Son, go work today in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented and went.
And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: but he went not.
Whether of them twain did the will of his father? Which one obeyed the father and did his will? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not; but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. (Matt. 21:28-32)
This is a theme that runs from the prophets through Jesus through the Apostle Paul - that those to whom the Word of God was given rejected it, and therefore it was sealed in those who were not the good sons, who had not professed to love him nor to follow him nor to do his will. The Word of the Lord was sealed in those who at first had a chemicalization against the Word - reacted against the will of the Son, but by his light were healed and therefore afterward said, "I will do thy will."
This shows that those who say, "I will not do it," are making very plain their preference. "I don't want to work for you today, God. I want to do what I want to do." They have set their words, they have heard them, they have played out their own free will. Now they know what their will is - and that is very important for a healthy psychology.
Upon reexamination of the consequences of their choice, and in their heart's consideration of the loving Father, they say to themselves, "That's not right. God is with me, I see his Christ, I love him `more than these.' I will work for him today. I will go and do his Work even though I told him I would not. And I will do my best because, by free will, I have made my Father's will my own."
These are the ones who are saved - not those who say, "Yea, Lord, yea, Lord. I will, I will ..." with their lips, because they know the right answers, because they have been trained in their catechisms, their rituals, their orthodoxies, but have not the fire of the Spirit. They say, "I will. I will follow you. I am your servant," but they do it not - not in their actions, not in their vibrations, not in their thoughts, and not in their feelings. Their desire is really not God's desire. They are the real despisers of the Word. Better they should wax cold so they can wax hot. Their ambivalence is both a failure to exercise free will and a failure to surrender.
By this parable Jesus shows that both sons come through the same family - the seed of Light, the seed of darkness. This explains why Jesus said that he would come to the family not with peace but a sword, to divide the family and set one against the other. It is for the separation of the tares and the wheat in the family circle of karma. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. (Matt. 10:34-36)
We see again and again the teaching of the parable of the tares and the wheat - the entwining of the consciousness of Light and darkness and only in the end are they separated out. But before the end, each one reveals his path.
We see light-bearers and we understand where they have come from, how they live, and where they are going; we see the seed of the wicked, and we see their path; and we make our choices. God preserves the two until the final Judgment so that you and I, beloved, may make daily choices, lest we forget that there is indeed a path of error that some on this planet follow and there is a path of Truth. We must choose by examining the results of both.
Therefore Jesus shows the acceptance and the rejection - the acceptance by the children of the Light, the rejection by those who challenge his authority and yet cannot answer him. And he shows that following the Lord is more than an affair of physical, flesh-and-blood conformity to a doctrine or to an orthodoxy. The following of the Lord is by the heart and by the works of the heart - by the fruit of Love.
There are some in church and state who profess to do the works of God, but they have no fruit. In fact, death and destruction follow in their wake, even though they may quote Mohandas Gandhi or Christ or Krishna or Buddha or Confucius. They quote all the right quotes, they wear all the right clothes. But where are the works? Where are the fruits? Where is the vibration of the living Word? Where is the change, where is the alchemy in their lives, in their communities, in their society?
Jesus is giving us this valuable teaching because he is soon to be taken from us. He wants us to understand these teachings. And so, we tarry in the temple today not merely to celebrate his march into Jerusalem, but to contemplate his works and his teachings.
What was most important to him to say before the beginning of his Passion? What did he want us to know before his burden would become so heavy, walking the fourteen stations of the cross?
He gave us an alert, a watchfulness, an awareness of states of consciousness. He was a master psychologist. He knew the psychology of death and the dying race, and he knew the psychology of the ascending ones and the light-bearers, and he came to save his own.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower and let it out to husbandmen and went into a far country.
And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one and killed another and stoned another.
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard and slew him.
When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. (Matt. 21:33-41)
Here Jesus again gives the teaching concerning the Watchers. For it is these fallen angels incarnate who have murdered the Christ, the Son of man, in the prophets, in the avatars, in the saints East and West for tens of thousands of years.
He is showing that it is one thing to murder and destroy the servants, but it is quite another matter when it involves the murder of the Christ, even the Manchild aborning within the heart of every child of God. When there is the murder of that life which is God, when there is the hatred of that Christ light, when the warfare looms larger than flesh, when Christ is murdered by the disinherited and the disenfranchised, the perpetrators of the crime against God and humanity receive the final judgment that is written in the Book of Enoch. This is why it is written in the Book of Revelation that those whose names are not found written in the Book of Life pass through the second death, which is the death of the soul. (Rev. 20:14, 15; 21:8)
The soul that has the motive and intent, the soul that does indeed murder the Christ therefore brings upon his own head the same judgment. When he murders the Christ in another, he murders the Christ in himself. And the light of Christ goes out within his temple - by his own deed.
There is total darkness in the hour of the crucifixion of Jesus, and there is total darkness in the temple of the murderer - the one through whom the murderous intent of the Watchers is enacted. And the light does go out, and the Angel of Death extinguishes the candle of self. And that is why that individual is known henceforth as the "extinguished self."
Inasmuch as there is a momentum and a conglomerate of karma, that extinguished self may even reembody, but he will not reembody with a divine spark but as a human momentum, as a psychological entity, and walk the earth, as Jesus said, "full of dead men's bones." (Matt. 23:27) And there is no light in that house; it is but a shell.
Jesus reveals in this parable what is to take place this very week. The heir of the Father has come. His reward is with him. The people and the authorities of the city of Jerusalem ought to rise up and give to him his tribute - the fruits of their sacred labor in his Father's vineyard. By his right and by his attainment, they ought to acknowledge him as the heir of his Father now fully clothed with his inheritance, his Christhood, as above so below.
God consciousness ought to reign in the city, but instead they murder him, knowing the ancient law of the shedding of blood of the Son of God. For with the shedding of blood is the release of Light, and they seek to steal the Light-inheritance of the Son of God in order to perpetuate their murderous ways another two thousand years.
This is the intent behind the intent of the crucifixion. However, the blood that is shed is captured in the Holy Grail at the cross and it is for the transmutation of world karma, holding the balance and atoning for our sin these two thousand years. Now in the dawning age of Aquarius, we ourselves have the opportunity to understand this Path of Personal Christhood as we become, initiation by initiation, the joint-heirs with Jesus of the divine Sonship (Rom. 8:14-17; Gal. 3:26-4:7), to drink of his blood, to eat of his flesh (John 6:53-58) - which is to take in the light of Alpha and Omega - and ourselves realize that now is our day of victory.
Now is the day we are joint-heirs with the living Christ. This is the day that God enters the city of Jerusalem, the City Foursquare that is our own individual temple. And because our soul with the multitudes proclaims him King of kings and Lord of lords, he then rules in our individual city, our individual world. Christ is enthroned within us. We place him on that throne, and for us he dethrones the symbolical carnal mind, the human ego that equates with the authority of the Pharisees and Sadducees, the intellectual mind that rejects the humility of the Christ within us at the same time that his humility is the all-powerful One.
This is our reason for gathering together this day in Los Angeles in this holy place - to realize that the message of Palm Sunday is that we receive Christ the Lord into our temple.
Jesus said unto his disciples: Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Therefore, the builders of the Cain civilization, those who have builded without the living God, they have rejected the chief cornerstone of the Christ. In its place they have put a stone of superstition.
In the name of Jesus I AM THAT I AM, we accept the white stone of our Christhood. We accept the foundation of our true spiritual building. We have the courage to tear down all that is not one with that Light and its vibration in ourselves - to ask God to tear it down, that he might raise up in us that temple made without hands, eternal in the heavens.
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God - i.e., the consciousness of God, the Threefold Flame in your hearts - shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Now he is speaking to the authorities of the city. He speaks to the Pharisees, he speaks to the chief priests. "Because you have rejected the Christ, therefore the kingdom of God" - which means the consciousness of God - "shall be taken from you."
We have all met the powerful of the world; and we have all been astonished, even aghast, that there is no God consciousness within them. Yet theirs is the power of the prince of this world. Now we understand why the kingdom of God was taken from them - every one of them had murdered Christ sometime, somewhere.
Whosoever shall fall on this stone - this white stone of the Christ - shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. Thus the white stone of Christ is with us.
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. (Matt. 21:42-46)
This mighty message of Jesus is repeated by Paul. Paul was imprisoned on account of his faith in God on behalf of the Jews.
And it came to pass that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them,
Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Paul, for the hope of Israel, was bound with the chains of the Romans. Even Pilate said, "I wash my hands of the blood of this innocent man." Paul and Peter came to deliver the Word of God unto the Jews. What happened? They also suffered the same fate as their master, rebuked again by the Pharisees and the chief priests.
And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Jerusalem, out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee. Therefore, they denied it.
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against. And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets, from morning till evening he spoke unto these Jews.
And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. The acceptance and the rejection of the testimony of the Lord - through Jesus, through Paul, through Saint Stephen, through the martyrs of the ages - some fall to the right, some fall to the left.
They all hear the same Word preached. Some are vexed in their spirits and they stone Saint Stephen, and some believe and are converted. In the conversion, that same Christ who entered Jerusalem victorious enters their hearts and is victorious, and they are the new creature. And the old man, with the doubt and the fear and the mortal questioning and the records of death and the deadness of the law without the Spirit, is put off. And the new man is put on and lives in them.
Some believed the things which were spoken and some believed not. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers - God had spoken through Isaiah unto the fathers of these Jews - saying, Go unto this people and say, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not perceive:
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart, and should be converted and I should heal them. (Acts 28:17-27)
These exact words are found in the Book of Isaiah; therefore we understand that it is God who causes some to accept and some to reject the Lord. It is God in us as his Holy Spirit that confirms the Word. We of our own selves - do you realize it? - do not have the power to perceive Almighty God unless he allow it. We do not have the ability to see the risen Jesus Christ except God reveal him to us.
There were in those days, moving among the people, disguised as their own flesh and blood, those fallen angels, described in the Book of Enoch. Those Watchers embodied as the power elite among the Jews, among the Gentiles, and among the rulers of the Roman Empire. God did not desire them to be converted (i.e., turned back) to Christ; for they were never Christ's in the first place: therefore they would hear and understand not, and see and perceive not. God would not bequeath to them the spiritual senses that he gives to those who have kept the flame.
Those who have been the Keepers of the Flame of the Word have kept the divine spark. They have not put out the kingdom of God within themselves, thus they will know him who comes as the bearer of that kingdom.
The heart chakra of the people waxes gross with their own karma of hardness of heart. Their hardness of heart becomes so great that they have no sensitivity of heart to feel the vibration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Their ears are dull of hearing, they have no inner hearing, they do not hear the voice of the Hidden Man of the Heart - the Holy Christ Self - speak to them, for that Man has long left off speaking in their temples. Their eyes are closed, "lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart, and should be converted and I should heal them."
God is expressing through Isaiah, through Jesus, and through Paul that he, the Almighty One, also has free will; he, too, has a preference. He has the right to decide who shall and who shall not receive his grace. He has the right to judge the murderers of Christ. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away the light of forgiveness, healing, and peace.
Paul knew it, he saw it. From morning until night he spake of the wondrous kingdom of God and of the Ascended Master Jesus Christ. The Master was Paul's Teacher. And the same One who met him on the road to Damascus who had converted that Saul, this living Ascended Master Jesus Christ spoke through Paul by the Holy Ghost to those Jews.
What greater testimony could there be? They did not receive him in life in the flesh and they did not receive his Word through Paul.
In the full power of the Lord's Spirit, Paul delivers the judgment of the Ascended Master Jesus Christ in the following words: Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it. And when Paul had said these words, the Jews departed and had great reasoning among themselves. (Acts 28:28, 29) They functioned only in the mental body but not in the higher Mind of God to perceive him as he was, for they had not the Mind of Christ Jesus with them.
You may see there that the chosen apostle of Jesus, Paul himself, is the instrument which declares: "You who will follow and perfect the letter of the law and not receive my Spirit, you will then be rejected. And I will give my Word and my presence to those Gentiles, to those who had not the promise of the seed of Christ in the beginning. They will hear me; they will accept me." And it is written in the Book of John that whosoever would receive him and believe on his name - I AM THAT I AM Jesus Christ - he had the power to make them Sons of God. He, the embodied avatar, had the power to transfer to them the flame of Christ.
This is why at the end of every age, in each two-thousand-year cycle, the Christ must incarnate: for the Judgment of the wicked who repent not of their wickedness; for the Resurrection through the transfer of Light - Christic Initiation - of the prodigal children of God who have squandered their inheritance, are burdened with karma, and would now return to their Father's kingdom on the Path of Personal Christhood.
And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him. (Acts 28:30, 31)
This sealing of the protection of Paul after many harrowing experiences shows that God also chooses the time of our ministry and our work and our great overcoming with joy. Therefore let us seize the opportunity, while we have life and light, to work the works of God on earth.
This wondrous teaching of Jesus opened the whole world to receive and have that Threefold Flame be rekindled anew.
What shall we say then? says Paul to the Romans, That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. They had faith that God would endow them with his Light.
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone.
The stumblingstone which we watch for in this week is the temptation to try to make ourselves perfect by following the letter of the law, the ritual of the law, even the ritual of the dynamic decree, without the Spirit of Christ as the Saviour and the God-victorious One in us - to take only the law and not the Spirit, to try to perfect the Path even by the outworking of the law of our own karma.
We may work good works and attain grace thereby, but we know that grace is a gift of God. It is the gift of Christ with us, which God may reward us with or not. Therefore know, beloved, only God can give to us the Light and the Salvation, and not we of ourselves.
As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Rom. 9:30-33)
This is the great message of Palm Sunday. It is a study in the psychology of those who receive and those who reject the Victorious Presence.
Hail to the victory of the Light! (3x)
Christ in you, the hope of glory. Those are Paul's words. (Col. 1:27) He knew our hope was Christ in us, not leaving Christ in the past or solely in the figure of the man Jesus. For Jesus Christ has reignited in you, your consciousness of (your conscious awareness of) your beloved Christ Self. Christ in you, the hope of glory.
In the name I AM THAT I AM, we affirm:
Christ in me, the hope of glory.
In the name I AM THAT I AM, we affirm:
Christ in me, the hope of glory!
Christ in me, the hope of glory!
Christ in me, the hope of glory!
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
Elizabeth Clare Prophet dealt with the subject of this teaching on "The Acceptance and the Rejection of the Living Christ" in her sermon delivered on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1983, at Camelot, prior to the dictation of the Maha Chohan, "The Fiery Trial," Pearls of Wisdom, vol 26, no. 37b, pp. 419-28 (cassettes B83063, B83064).
We are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
The Light of the Son of God be with you, my beloved. By that Light are the worlds framed and identity is realized.
The Light of God now extended through the Son to thy heart and temple is for the bearing of the torch that will lighten consciousness, individuality, the mind, the heart, the soul, and even the past, the present, and the future of God's own being revealed within you.
The acceptance of the Son of God on this day of days must be understood, for the acceptance of Him is the beginning of the Path where all these things shall also be fulfilled within you.
For it was in this very hour of the triumph that the two sons, represented by their mother, came to Jesus seeking the promise that they might sit with him on the right hand of God. And Jesus' response was, "Are you able to drink the cup which I drink? Can you bear the burden that I bear?" And these two sons, James and John, said, "We can. We will. We shall."
Did they know fully the path of salvation, of bearing the sins of the world, and of the crucifixion? Therefore Christ said to them, "The cup which I drink you must drink also, and indeed ye shall drink of it. But it is not mine but the Father's to judge concerning who shall sit upon my right hand."1
Understand that the way of discipleship with Christ Jesus is indeed to follow his footsteps by drinking the whole cup, by learning the path of bearing world karma - taking unto oneself joyously that world energy of condemnation of the Christ so that these little ones might have time and space to grow and wax strong in the LORD.
These little ones of whom I speak, beloved, are those new to the under- standing. They have read the sweetness of the message of Christ from the little book. They have not known the bitterness as yet in the belly.2
The bitterness is a world alchemy. The bitterness is when the Light touches the darkness. The bitterness is in the very process of transmutation, when the Light must be fed constantly by the heart filled with joy and confirming the Word with us.
You know me as the Maha Chohan - I, the ascended master to whom it is given to bear the office of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, I come in the person of that Holy Spirit with a mighty comfort and a truth.
For Truth is indeed comfort, beloved hearts! And the enlightenment of that love is the way of understanding the true path of righteousness - not a self-righteousness, but the willing to work the works of God as his righteousness (not thine own) and to give unto him the glory.
Christ is willing to receive any one of you with him upon the right hand of the Father. For your lawful place is with Christ and in him, and he in you. Therefore, to fulfill the requirement of the Law of Love, of the Holy Spirit itself, is the goal of your path.
Cherish his example and words daily. Understand the assimilation of the bread and of the wine. Understand the communion of Alpha and Omega and realize that it is in the assimilation of the true flesh and blood of Christ Jesus that you put on the identity of your own Christ Self - not the mere hearing of the Word but its assimilation, not even in the rejoicing in the Word but in the assimilation.
For many rejoice in the word of Truth. Many give praise when they feel the Spirit of the LORD. But when they depart from the temple, their hearts are once again cold. For they do not keep the flame that is the gift of the altar - even the Flame of the Ark of the Covenant that has been with the people of Israel (of all that is Real) and with the seed of Christ from everlasting to everlasting.
The flame is here to kindle hearts, to increase the devotion of your soul to that which even now burns brightly yet smally on the altar of the heart. The flame must increase and the "I" of the ego must decrease.3
Let the flame, then, which I bear of the Holy Ghost increase in this moment (for a great moment in your life) the intensity of the fire burning in your heart. For I AM the Maha Chohan, and the authority God has given to me is to kindle by the fire of the Holy Ghost,4 even by the trial by fire,5 a new birth of light and God consciousness within you.
Understand, my beloved hearts, that in the way and in the Path it is necessary that when the fire come to increase, it also try the work which is the fruit of your life - the actions and the deeds and the words themselves.
The fiery trial, then, does try that work to see if it will endure. And if the work be not of God, therefore there is a temporary suffering of loss, the loss of an identity that is built not upon the true works of God but upon those works which have been done for the fattening of self, for the fattening of the ego.
Therefore, realize that these are consumed as a great mercy to your soul - that you might see those things in your life which have truly blessed God in manifestation in his beloved children and you may see those other works whose ulterior motives excluded the living God. And therefore, that accomplishment was not the true attainment of a living Christ - which I say ye are and ye are intended to become, to assimilate and be in this very body temple!
Let the soul reach up now and grasp that hand of the blessed Christ Self and realize that this true identity is the image out of whom thou hast been made a manifestation in these planes of Matter. And the soul, the living pool of the water of the Mother, here does reflect the face of living fire who is the God in and with you.
The message of the Holy Spirit must be and shall be - this Eastertide and forevermore to the people of God - that because the Great Mediator, the Christ in you, lives, because he is with you, you can make permanent that self which is yours, yours given as the great experiment of God in free will. It is the ultimate experiment. For by giving free will, God has guaranteed you the daily choice to choose life and not death.6
The covenant of free will given to souls gone forth in the Matter spheres guarantees that the individual may choose to be or choose not to be one with God. Therefore, you see, God desires not to receive unto himself those who have come by coercion, by hypnosis, by brainwashing, by threatenings, by fear, by false doctrine or false teachers.
God desires the heart filled with joy and love to him to prove that love by words and works, not in one lifetime but in many lifetimes of opportunity. And as the mountain becomes more steep, the love is tested to its fullest: How will you outpicture that love? How will you make the decision to be or not to be each day for the saving of the soul of one whom God loves?
For only you can be God in the physical octave! Only God in you, as you allow it, can save another one from the despairs of nonexistence through the subcultures of the fallen ones. Only God in you can be that heart so needed to go after that which is lost, having lost the memory of the One, having lost the beauty and the joy of Light.
O my beloved, how we see the opportunity to work through hearts and hands cleansed by the purifying waters of the crystal stream of the I AM THAT I AM!
You, beloved students of the Buddhas in Winter,7 I love you with my heart's love. And the burning love of my heart which cherishes each effort made is here and now ready to place upon you a blessing of my hand, a blessing of my heart that will seal and crystallize the good you have gained, that it not be taken from thee by the toiler nor thine own unguardedness or self-ignorance.
I cannot guarantee for thee all or the fullness of that protection, for unto thee also free will must become the opportunity to say, "I will hold that which I have received," or "I will let go." Therefore, the determination to be wise and to keep the watch and to see and know the way - the gift of a knowledge of the Path itself and the daily shuttle of the mind, the lever of the heart that says, "Yea, LORD, come into my temple," or that says to one of these little ones, "Approach me not." That daily lever of decision must always remain your own, inviolate - yours to be or not to be the fullness of that which you perceive of God!
The heavens will open, and the mighty opening of that heaven will reveal to you the face of your own I AM Presence - if you call upon the LORD, if you will it so, if you acknowledge and affirm on earth that you are a joint-heir with the living Christ8 and have the right to see God face-to-face and to live as he is, to live as he does, to live in the perfectionment of the flame of mercy toward all life.
I AM the Maha Chohan. The saving grace of the Holy Spirit is unto the uttermost9 of every living soul. And in the course of that saving grace, the fire of the Holy Ghost must consume the fig tree that has no fruit.10 And therefore, the withering of that tree of life that does not bear fruit but in fact bears an evil fruit11 - the binding of that tree is also the work of the sacred fire trying the works of men and nations.
It is out of the mercy of God that the unfruitful ones are bound, that Shiva! - as is the expression of that Spirit in the East - that Shiva! then might be the consuming fire of the Third Person of the Trinity out of mercy to these little ones, whose very life should be squeezed out by the entangling fibers and roots of the flowers of evil and of those weeds which choke out the fresh aspirations of life.
Therefore, pray the Lord of the Harvest.12 Pray him, therefore, who has whitened the field of the consciousness of the light-bearer, that he will also bind the wicked and their seed and make way, truly make way for the entry of the Christ in you in Jerusalem this day - Jerusalem, the great archetype of the City, City of the Angels, City Foursquare that ought to be builded by sons of God on earth as the kingdom come as it is in heaven.
Therefore, beloved, each tree of life, each green bough that you are, each one therefore that becomes the branch of the vine of Christ13 can be seen, can be known, and can deliver the mighty fruit of the vine - even the grapes that represent communion, forgiveness, and restoration to life everlasting.
Opportunity is at hand. The gates of the City swing wide, even that gate where his return is promised to Jew and Gentile alike. For the triumphal entry of the LORD in Jerusalem this day is for the saving of all souls - Moslem and Jew and Christian and those not of any faith.
For this is the hour of the healing and the burning of the way of that consciousness which will not give in to the dissolving fires of love. Therefore, he who does not surrender the hate and hate creation of the living Son of God will find that the works that are based upon the nonsurrender of that hatred will also be consumed in the trial by fire.
Understand that you have gone forward to welcome that fiery trial. As you invoke the violet flame with a fervent heart, you are asking God to consume all that is less than his divine plan for you.
And therefore, when the Holy Spirit come to deliver unto you that trial by fire that must come to every man, as it is written, you will find that the severity of the trial will not be as it is to many who do not expect it, who have never heard of it, who have not prepared for it because the false pastors have not preached to them by the fire of the Holy Spirit that there is truly a day on the path of discipleship when every man must face and see his hands and their works, and must have revealed to him the secrets of his own heart that even he has covered over because many of those secrets are wicked and not of the Light.
Each one must come long before the judgment to this sort of reckoning. And many of you have seen adversity, calamity, even death or disease or the loss of limb suffered by people in this nation and abroad. And those who still stand, then, must give pause and consider, "Why, O God? Why, O God?" "How long, how long will the Watcher triumph?"14 And therefore, that reckoning is a great, great mercy of the Law, for it gives the individual the opportunity to see his soul.
You know of those who have died and been brought back, those who are near drowning and were restored. And they repeat the story of having seen their whole life pass before them, and the story of seeing the inner worlds and the inner planes of angels and masters. And therefore, their life has turned around and they have been made humble by the Presence of God, by a knowledge of past and future and opportunity and what life really is beyond the body and beyond this plane. And they have become utmost servants of the Most High wherever they have found their own perfect walk.
And at the conclusion of that life, they have been able to bring the real fruit, the only fruit that can be delivered to the heart of the great Guru Maitreya - the fruit of striving, the fruit of glorification of God and his works, the fruit of feeding the hungry and healing the sick and cleansing the lepers. Therefore they come and their offering is acceptable, and therefore they move on in the stream of entering in to God's consciousness.
Had the fiery trial not come, blessed hearts, had they not had to face life and death or ultimate financial ruin or loss of a loved one, they would never have paused in the way of enjoyment of this world to stop and consider that all things in this world are finite.
And even the opportunity of breath must one day come to an end - when I, the Maha Chohan, stand over each one to receive back the breath of Life, breathed through the nostrils of every living soul15 in each incarnation at the moment of birth, and [at the moment of] the rekindling of the threefold flame in the heart chakra, physical, of this body temple created for this opportunity of life.
And of the hour of the return of the great fire breath I would speak. For in that hour, it is too late. It is too late to go back and undo, to make good, to speak words of love and kindness to those so in need.
And therefore, because it is too late, yet the heart is sincere, God has long ago devised the method of the reentering of the soul into a new body and a new temple after experience at inner levels in the retreats of the Brother- hood. There spending time with the master teachers, the elder brothers of the race, and the sisters who have become one with the Mother, the soul is prepared to go back and finish the unfinished business, to make good - to sow and reap where the sowing and the reaping has not been fulfilled as previously directed.
Blessed ones, reincarnation, as a law of cycles of opportunity of consciousness, is the great mercy of the Godhead, the great mercy of Jesus Christ and your own Christ Self with the Word in the beginning! Before Abraham was, I AM THAT I AM.16 This mercy, therefore, does not leave the soul to ultimate damnation or ultimate glory with no steps in between to correct the mistakes of the Path.
Beloved hearts, you who are mother or father, you who have loved people or children, you yourself would forgive many times over before you would give up on any individual. This is the nature of God as love within you.
If people, even ordinary people, can be compassionate and tolerant of one another's ups and downs, do you not think the Lord God Almighty should also have a similar love and tolerance, forgiving to the uttermost by saying, "I will give to you once again the inheritance, the mantle of the prodigal son. I will send you back again. You may try another time to fulfill my word and my works."17
Now, blessed hearts, think of this. If you were God and you would receive unto yourself the self of God, the person that you are in this moment - for most of you have much unfinished business in this life - now, if you were God and you were to receive that one after a sudden calamity had taken that one from the screen of life, would you not receive that one with ultimate love and care and concern? Would you not, as God, even re-create a whole world, a whole planetary body so that that one manifestation of yourself might go forth again to prove and exercise free will and to arrive at the point of ultimate submission and assimilation of the Christ flame?
Beloved hearts, it is good to place yourself in the place of God, for then it becomes clear that the severity of the doctrine of hellfire and damnation and the hatred with which it is preached, inciting fear into souls - yes, I said the hatred with which it is preached by many, many of the false pastors this day across the world - does not represent the true and the living God! It does not represent his Christ!
For the message of the final judgment and of these conditions is sealed for the fallen angels and the seed of the wicked. But it is not sealed unto the sons of God and the children of Light, as they are given opportunity upon opportunity to make right their errors on the Path.
Nevertheless, you can see that in the war of Armageddon and the warfare for the souls of Light, if a soul be lost because it fall down and worship the Moloch of the fallen angels - their gods, their ways, their perversions, their drugs - unless the Good Shepherd in embodiment shall go off and find that one and seize that one and deliver it from that hellfire, then the soul may be lost and suffer the same fate that is reserved for the Devil and his angels.18
Therefore, it is on this wise that you are given such a mighty increment of fire in this hour - all who are Keepers of the Flame, all who are students of Summit University. For you have worked for it. You have sealed your temples against darkness. You have invoked Archangel Michael daily. You have surrounded yourself with a protection whereby you may hold the light that is the gift of the Maha Chohan in this hour.
And you will understand, therefore, that no matter what the appearance to the contrary, there are many today who preach a message of fear and damnation to the children of the Light without giving to them the teaching of my heart, the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, the path of Christhood whereby they may defeat the Adversary, whereby they may assimilate the living Christ, whereby they may call upon the LORD, the Mighty I AM Presence, and truly draw down the Light of the Word that does truly dwell in the hearts of those who love and are obedient to the Father and the Son, as John the Beloved so carefully revealed in his Gospel.
Blessed ones, as you have loved and given opportunity to many friends along life's way, as you cherish your children and all people - know, too, that God's infinite love is greater than this and that you are here because of that very scene.
God has received you at the end of your last incarnation and has said to you, "My beloved, you have not completed the work, you see. You have erred in this regard. You could have done better here. You neglected and turned away from a great opportunity to bring comfort and a teaching to life. Because I love you, I give you the gift of life and opportunity again to go forth and feed my sheep, feed my sheep."
This is the plea of the eternal Christ in heaven. "Lovest thou me? Lovest thou me? Feed my sheep."19 And you said, one and all, "I love thee, LORD. Send me again. Send me that I may feed thy sheep!" And so it came to pass, by and by, that a home was found and a mother and father, and you were born again by water, soon to be born again by Spirit.20
Thus, all who are here are here because of the quest, the quest for the Holy Grail - first to drink the cup that received his blood, to drink the communion cup of the Last Supper, and then ultimately to understand that the body of Christ, universally and mystically with you all, is that chalice of which you also must become a part - questing the Holy Grail taught by Mother Mary of old, taught in England for which Camelot was first founded.
This is not taught in the churches and synagogues and mosques, and therefore you have left them and come apart to seek my flame, the flame of the Holy Spirit - to seek and find that place where you might learn the teaching of God that he did promise he would bring to you in the hour of your descent in this life.
You are on the quest to find the teaching that will enable you to keep your vow. Finding the teaching and finding the vow, now you must go forth and give it to those who have not perhaps had the strength of will or the independence or the courage to leave the familiar moorings to go out and quest the fiery destiny. You will find them everywhere, my beloved.
Receive, then, the mantle of Saint Germain signifying a work accomplished and a new one to begin. Receive the Light of your Presence.
We have given our gift. It is yours to claim and to become. Each and all of the Keepers of the Flame and disciples who hear me, know indeed that my love for you is very personal in the hour of your own fiery trial.
Hasten, then, to greet a greater God-reality. For seeing the face of the Son of God this Easter, you will have the courage, then, to place in the fire, even before the day of the LORD's coming, that which is not of my Spirit.
For it is the LORD's Spirit, and I am his servant vessel! I am your brother in the higher octaves, visiting you in the hour of the parting of the veil and your individual perception of the Son of God.
Be sealed in the mercy and compassion of Life, and spread this balm to all.
I am with you in Christ until the victory of the sacred fire breath in you is complete.
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."This dictation by the Maha Chohan was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1983, at Camelot; published on the 16-cassette Easter album, dictation available separately (cassette B83064). The Messenger's Palm Sunday Message: "The Acceptance and the Rejection of the Living Christ" (teaching on Matt. 21; Acts 28:17-31; Rom. 9:30-33), pp. 393-418, is published on cassette B83063.