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I dip my hand as in a sacred pool and draw forth the waters thereof, that I might sprinkle the nations with Tranquillity's vibratory action.
The seeds of unrest and turmoil planted by disturbing individuals and recalcitrant mankind are scattered abroad upon the land and upon the world, and the harvest of unrighteousness is perilous unto all mankind.
Let those who feel that the hierarchy ought not to call attention unto mankind's generated discord take into cognizance the understanding of the Deity and realize that the Most High, in his great purity of concept, has dispensed to the hierarchy the necessary wisdom and understanding to cope with these outer conditions which are so much a part of the "footstool kingdom" of God.
Let men understand the meaning of the footstool kingdom. For as it has been spoken of old: "Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool," saith the LORD of hosts.1
Here, where dwell all types of humanity - a lack of understanding, at times permeating the thoughts and feelings of the people, does generate old patterns and karmic ties and create new bonds of iniquity which must come before the Lords of Karma for adjustment. Let men of every faith understand, then, that there are no inexcusable acts - no inexcusable violence, no inex- cusable self-generated peril.
When the peace of the world trembles in the cup of mankind's consciousness, when the arrows in the quiver of the unrighteous cause the world to fear, let men turn to the fragrant peace of spiritual octaves of light and find succor and retreat therein.
There is no outer peace until mankind achieve an inner tranquillity and quietude within themselves. So long as the causes are generated from within the feeling and thinking of mankind's old and ancestral thirst for vengeance, it cannot be that turmoil shall cease. And yet the heart of heaven decrees it so, the ascended masters of light decree it so, and all who serve our cause seek and pursue it mightily.
But it is not enough, for it cannot be fulfilled thusly. What one man doeth, another need not of necessity follow. And yet the world today - following the mongers of error and hate, and having no right use made of the mind God has given unto them - through the false psychology of mob violence, has rendered much of our service inadequate to keep the peace of the world. We are not able in this octave to violate the law of mankind's free will; and their madness, when it goeth untempered by reason, shall bring about a frightful penalty if mankind shall not awaken and en masse let all pursue the way of peace.
Now, there are those even so-called spiritual brethren who would take advantage of every opportunity where turmoil is generated in the world to cast abroad and scatter seeds of fear and distrust. There are many men who in their ignorant state do not hesitate to utilize each such opportunity and turn it to their own profit. These also are children of pestilence and as much partakers of the banalities which the error-mongers create as they themselves [the error-mongers] are, though they esteem themselves to be children of Light.
Let all recognize, then, the need for an intense cosmic purity which can only be manifest, blessed ones, when application is made within yourself to your own God Presence, who, lifted up in a perpetual state of cosmic exaltation, is able at each moment to bestow upon you below, as above, the fullness of his radiant face of peace.
As the sun shines forth in mighty splendor, so the consecration of the righteous does penetrate the very gates of heaven and beareth all there in the armor of righteousness2 to see and behold the face of God and the Eternal Presence, who remains undisturbed by the calamities which befall mankind in their lesser states of consciousness.
Yet we are asked in this day to shew forth the fiber and strength of the hierarchy on behalf of mankind! We are asked to interfere! We are asked to bring the pressures of heaven to bear upon outer turmoil. But we recall the ancient days now long past when men asked for the gift of free will, declaring that only thus would they be able to rank with the gods and shew forth the manifest perfection which the Godhead did bestow upon the elect.
Many came and were given the gift of free will, and there was trepidation even in heaven concerning some of these as to whether or not they would rightly employ it. And it came to pass that they did not, for the old momentums which they knew in past eras came once again to them for redemption, and they stood face-to-face with the dweller upon the threshold of their own being. And he was not consumed, but he emerged with all of his own bestial trappings to cause the world around to be a jungle where the dissonance and the cries of anguish could be heard.
The perils that faced the elect faced also those lesser beings responsible. And in the midst of all, the elect sought to uphold their own equilibrium, assisting mankind in all of their discord and troubles while seeking to find their own way back to Freedom's bastions.
As we recall struggles which are not known to you in the outer, as we recall now conditions of which you are not apprised as yet, as we see the graphs of the future outlined and predicated by the actions of mankind today, and as we take into cognizance the drawings and tracings upon the screen of life from past civilizations, we solemnly warn mankind that if they shall continue to pursue the pathway of unrighteousness and ignorance - that ignorance which does ignore the gift of Life and takes into account but the narrow provincialism of their own thoughts and feelings - I assure you that they shall reap a frightful harvest indeed.
And the cup of woe3 shall flow across the world as to the brink of utter destruction. It cannot be otherwise in the footstool kingdom, for mankind have asked and been granted the right of free will.
I know full well that one individual cannot always sustain the balance for another, and yet we ask you to try. We ask you to try for the sake of the hierarchy and their noble efforts. We ask you to try for the sake of your beloved Saint Germain. We ask you to try for the sake of the angelic host who have tirelessly served the cause of life's perfection.
We ask you to try for the sake of beloved Immaculata, who has for so long held the God design in all of its magnificent expression for you. We ask you to try for yourself and the sweet fabric of your soul, loomed by heaven's own immortal ones, who see in each strand the eternal Father/Mother love of the God plan made manifest.
We ask you to hold supreme confidence in the ultimate victory of the holy Cause. But we say to you, and presage our advice with faith in the ultimate outcome, that unless mankind shall awaken from the vampirelike sleep in which they presently exist - paying allegiance to a multitude of lesser gods than themselves, who, by reason of their negatively spiritual qualities in high places,4 do tear man down into the degenerative cycle - I cannot promise the world the freedom which God has in store for this generation. And I fear lest the torch be passed to another generation to achieve that which this one shall fail to outpicture.
I say this not in a lack of confidence in either the hierarchy or those blessed Godly individuals who have for so long sustained a cosmic action and anchor point here for us, but I say it because of the intense, shadowed darkness which almost overcomes the world today.
There is beauty enough in many places in nature. There is beauty enough in many places in spiritual aspirations. There is beauty enough in the glow ray of immortality beamed to the earth. But the desecration which mankind have practiced with these holy energies is so frightening as to almost be unparalleled in universal manifestation.
When of old a certain planet was destroyed and blasted into space, its very fragments scattering themselves throughout large areas of solar systems, the discord that existed there was not as great as presently now is manifest upon the earth. And yet greater mercy overhangs mankind; and therefore, by this balance of mercy, the earth has been permitted her existence.
And yet the atrocities practiced against mankind, mankind's inhumanity to man, is this day even greater than it was yesterday! And we look to see an action to stop that from your octave; for unless it come from you, blessed ones, in a greater measure of devotion than ever in the past, it cannot balance the mounting crescendo of mankind's clamor for more vice and less virtue.
I remind you of the words spoken before the Flood: And the imagination of man's heart was continually to do evil.5 Do you see, beloved ones, how by vain imagination mankind are able to generate new concepts of atrocities? I recall how the Keeper of the Record himself did cringe in agony and beg to be relieved of his responsibility when he beheld the record of the ancient Chinese torture-chambers! And this was an ascended being.
If a tear and a smile could bring mankind their freedom, I should give them both this day. But I come with a very straight face to bring to your attention that the narrow and straight way6 of utter devotion to God is the only soul salvation of the earth and its people - and this must be done with the selfsame dedication that the masters had prior to their ascension.
It is not enough for mankind to dabble in spiritual matters while their lives are lived in shame! Vultures they are when they take the treasures of God and do expend them upon their own vanity. The sheer neglect that has been practiced by the so-called Christian and Buddhic world - and I say shame upon both of them in this aspect! - is one of disregard to the very holy tenets for which mankind ascended did give their all.
Now, I do not speak to bring a weight and cloud of further condemnation upon mankind, even though my words might seem to be themselves a pall of criticism. I speak to bring the light of Truth to the world ere it crumble over the brink of destruction and find itself unable to cope with the frightful conditions which will be brought about unless there is a stopping of the action of human discord and filth.
The degradation of the world is no part of its reality. All of these outer conditions are no part of the divine reality! And when I think of peace, it is when these conditions shall have ceased. It is when the banner of Shamballa shall wave over every individual's life. And when the banner of peace shall be established in the thought and feeling of mankind, then do we know that hierarchy shall be established the world around.
Now let me, in closing, bring to your attention the Brotherhood in white. How thoughtless mankind are concerning these holy ones. How little these holy ones are truly known, even by the students of light of long standing.
Do you think, precious ones, that our thoughts and feelings are akin to mankind's? Do you think we seek the vanity of your adoration from the outer standpoint? I tell you, nay. We seek your forthright adoration of the holy principles for which we stood.
Mankind throughout the earth too frequently seek friendship with the ascended hierarchy for the sake of personal protection, for the sake of personal direction, for the sake of a mere personal friendship. Our desire, then, is to call to your attention that if the pure, divine friendship be sought for the conveyance of the sacred mystery that shall make you as we are, then and only then will you have fulfilled the reason for contact with us.
And I shall assert Truth, holy Truth this day, though the world were to crumble because of it. For I know that holy Truth is the only sacred and permanent cement which shall cohesively unite all of mankind's elements and shall bind together even the fractures that exist in mankind's world - until we can see the body of God as one substance immortalized within each individual and in the body politic of the whole earth.
O Angels of Cosmic Peace,
Thy radiance brings to all release
From vanity and discontent
Until thy grace, perfectionment,
Is known by all and loved withal
And shadows dissolved -
Human creation all -
And God is seen as raiment white
Adorning all with Heaven's light.
I AM thy peace, thy God-control,
Thy victory, O living soul!
Come then and feel the wisdom flame
Released by God's own I AM name
That shall enfold the substance rare,
The blossoms of God's love so fair,
And cleanse the earth by purity
And flood each soul till all shall be
Ascended and forever free!
I thank you and bid you good afternoon.
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Dweller on the Threshold. A term sometimes used to designate the anti-self, the not-self, the synthetic self, the antithesis of the Real Self, the conglomerate of the self-created ego, ill conceived through the inordinate use of the gift of free will, consisting of the carnal mind and a constellation of misqualified energies, forcefields, focuses, animal magnetism comprising the subconscious mind. Man's contact with the reptilian anti-magnetic self - that is the enemy of God and his Christ and the soul's reunion with that Christ - is through the desire body, or astral body, and through the solar-plexus chakra. The dweller on the threshold is therefore the nucleus of a vortex of energy that forms the `electronic belt', shaped like a kettledrum and surrounding the four lower bodies from the waist down. The serpent head of the dweller is sometimes seen emerging from the black pool of the unconscious. This electronic belt does contain the cause, effect, record, and memory of human karma in its negative aspect. Positive karma, as deeds done through the divine consciousness, registers in the causal body and is sealed in the electronic fire-rings surrounding each one's own I AM Presence. When the sleeping serpent of the dweller is awakened by the presence of Christ, the soul must make the freewill decision to slay, by the power of the I AM Presence, the self-willed anti-Christ and become the defender of the Real Self until the soul is fully reunited with He who is the righteous LORD, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, the true Self of every lifestream on the path of initiation. The dweller appears to the soul on the threshold of conscious awareness where it knocks to gain entrance into the `legitimate' realm of self-acknowledged selfhood. The dweller would enter to become the master of the house. But it is Christ and only Christ whose knock you must answer - him only must you bid enter. The most serious initiation on the path of the disciple of Christ is the confrontation with the not-self. For if it is not slain by the soul, one with the Christ mind, it will emerge to devour that soul in the full rage of its hatred for the Light. The necessity for the Teacher on the Path and for the Guru Sanat Kumara with us, physically manifest in the messenger of Maitreya, is to hold the balance in the physical octave for each individual initiate on the Path as he approaches the initiation of the encounter - face-to-face with the dweller on the threshold. In The Theosophical Glossary, H. P. Blavatsky defines dweller on the threshold as "a term invented by Bulwer Lytton in Zanoni; ...`Dweller' is an occult term used by students for long ages past, and refers to certain maleficent astral Doubles of defunct persons." Astral Double refers to "the ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal."
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet August 30, 1964, in Washington, D.C.