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My beloved, the pilgrims upon the mountaintop are few. The aspirants on the plains are many. And the authority of God rests upon every human heart. The summoning of the elect to the consecration of divine intent is ushering forth. The Infinite calls and outlines the hills with rising splendor! For the night of man's gloom and density has passed and the morrow dawneth with new hope.
The cup trembles and the cup of wrath that mankind have fabricated - to which they have contributed in banal ignorance their attention - is now ready to be delivered. Yet the angels of compassion unite with the ascended masters to stay the hand of world karma and say, "Yet a little while, stay, that men may be quickened into wakefulness."
Maitreya summons! The elect have received our banner. The unfurling is at hand. The consummation of God's holy will is required now for every heart who will embrace salvation, for salvation is for all. It is not only for the few, but for the many.
Now we come, and around us, surrounding you all, angels with drawn swords of mighty light rays are consecrating themselves to the separation of individual man unto the monadic ideal - to the realm where the oneness of God is recognized and sought after!
Hearts hunger and thirst after righteousness. And the universal compassion of the universal Christ is pouring the supplication of our domain into the chalice of mortality that a quickening may occur, that with this summoning there may go forth into manifestation purity and love and grace and hope and all that will raise men and lift them into the supremacy of the divine emotion.
What is the divine emotion? It is love.
What is God, if not ye all when ye love?
And by the ministry of love we will summon the little children to understand that the Master is waiting for the neophyte hearts to expand, to enter into the gates of compassion, to feel what is happening in the world order, to understand that the tears of the world create a river that would wash away from the moorings of stability mankind drenched in self-pity.
The deeds of their own creation have not borne good fruit. Yet the mercy of God droppeth from heaven and kindleth a fire in the consciousness. And our fire approacheth nigh. And behold, the dust that has been raised as the tide of emotion bearing the whirlwind of mortal energy shall be dispersed! For the LORD God consumes all of that which is not the purity of love, of selflessness, by the fire that trieth every man's work1 through the sacred initiations which are the requirement of this moment.
America, awake! World, awake! Individual man, awake! The purposes of heaven that have trembled in the cusp of the ages are now awaiting mankind's acceptance.
The pure in heart shall see God. But is purity of heart only for the few? Purity of heart is for the many! Purity of heart is for all! Purity of heart is the requirement of initiation. It is the diligence which frames within the unity of God the reference of the divine ideal - the character of each man which seeks to fashion that man after the divine image and will not give power or aggrandizement to the mortal image of imperfection.
Lay down your lives, then, upon the altar where transformation can take place. For the mountaintop experience is the requirement of this hour - that each man shall enter in consciously to that state of all-knowing where the Mind of God can produce in the individual monad the realization of that love of heaven which flows, and that that flow can become the breath of reality with the freshness of spring, promising resurrection to men from the dead works that have not borne fruit.
I call to your attention that supreme moment when the Master, the Lord Christ, walked before the unfruitful fig tree. At that moment when he sought to touch with his hands the fruit of that tree, it came to pass that it was barren and he said, "Henceforth let no man eat [fruit] of thee forever!" When they returned, the disciples noticed that the tree was dried up and they spake unto him and said, "The tree which thou didst curse is dried up."2
So it shall come to pass that those who shall not avail themselves of opportunity for initiation, that those who consider that they can play at the game of life without understanding the seriousness of divine opportunity shall find that the divine fruit shall ignore them because they have ignored it. The world is filled with those who say, "We have played unto you and you have not danced."
I call to your attention, children of the Light, that the hour of success in the cosmic venture is at hand, for the powers of darkness cannot forever rule over the minds of men. And the power of the Light shall break the spell of mankind's outer consciousness, even as a coconut when it is cast to the earth with the force of Hercules. And it shall come to pass that it shall shatter! And the milk of divine kindness that is within Christ shall be given to all, and the fruitful cup shall issue forth the power of divine kindness.
For opportunity is renewed. And day by day, men are able to understand that their yesterdays are but links in the immortal chain. They should understand that this is not a chain of bondage, but that this is a chain of cause and effect leading to the highest destiny. They should understand that the spirit of Christ-regeneration abides in their flesh, that the power of regeneration is in their hand to put forth and to eat of the Tree of Life that is in the midst of the garden of God.3
And break forth the bells of the morning!
Let the bells of the morning ring!
Let the good fruit come forth from bud and flower!
Know, then, that when good fruit is to be born, it is because the consciousness has embraced the idea of it. And men must acknowledge that the power of good fruit rests upon their own lives - that the kingdom of God is within them!4 Let all understand it. And let the world hear it. And let the powers of Life from the world-to-come now be scattered abroad in the world of form.
For a few trembled concerning the earthquake which recently hit Los Angeles.5 I tell you that the earth shall reel and shake as though a mother shook a naughty child, unless this generation shall see God in greater measure. For the cup of wrath is now full. And although God has mitigated it again and again, and although the karmic lords have held it back again and again, and although a similar experience is now being given to the earth that was brought forth in the Atlantean times, I say unto you all that union of hearts must come about, that men must understand the security of that union, that men must understand that they cannot gather grapes of thistles.6
Let the world, then, unite as never before behind the power of Truth. For the dark forces have scattered the children of the Light as chaff before a wild hurricane! And they have done it because men have been easily turned aside from the power of the Light. It has taken no more than a fragmentary thought - a whisper, a rumor - and souls long rooted in the power of the Christ have departed to listen to the voices of human inharmony.
I say, then, let us cut the ties for all time that bind men to a sense of egoism and to a sense of oppression whereby they feel a need to oppress one another. Let all understand: the power of freedom is the greatest gift that mankind can have, and there is no higher initiation than the initiation of absolute freedom. For when men give unto others the same freedom that they expect to enjoy for themselves, it comes to pass that the world is raised and men literally pull themselves up by their own bootstraps!
We have seen the blight of riot and ruin in this land. We have seen the blight of the lie and the practice of deceit in this land. We have seen the world trembling to frame new orders of political significance. We have observed that food and clothing and material things have concerned mankind more than the bread that came down from heaven.7 And we urge upon you that every one of you will understand the beauty of God that intends all life upon the planet to share in the heavenly abundance.
It is meet that order come to this planet. And it does not come because men, out of the storehouse of their bounties, will feed one another material bread while denying to them the bread of the Spirit. It will not come because men simply give food to those who will not work, for the karmic law requires that each man shall eat of his own bread, which he does earn because he serves life in one way or another.8
And so, while there are those who are infirm and feeble, and while there are those who are caught up in a state of consciousness where they cannot seem to rise out of their own lethargy, there are many who possess power and strength of limb but not strength of mind who must now take strength of mind and offer it to God, that they may themselves become overcomers in their own domain and not constitute a burden upon the world politic. For the world order must understand the laws of karma - that injustice does not exist by reason of the will of heaven but because mankind have continually thought that they were oppressed by one another.
We do not deny that oppressions have existed in the world. But we affirm that those oppressions were not nearly so great as the burden that men have brought upon their own heads by reason of their own failure to understand the law of karma and the infinite law of supply and demand. For every soul that puts his hand to the plow to plow a straight furrow in this world can find, by the cosmic law of justice and destiny, that he will be able not only to enjoy the fruits of his own labor but will also be able to find the pathway that leads to spiritual abundance where his soul is no longer dependent upon individuals around him to warm him, to clothe him, to feed him, to supply him with the essence of joy.
And therefore, now, in the name of Almighty God, I say to the angels that have come with me this night:
Dispense to these,
The children of God,
The fruit of our energy.
Let them feel a peal of our joy!
Let them feel a touch of our hand!
Let them feel the glow-ray of God
That they may understand
That the heavenly intent is to raise them,
To free them, to bless them, to keep them
Guarded, guided, and loved
Not only now, but forever.
It is done. And let the joy of the Infinite permeate your bodies and quicken them by the fire of Life!
It is done. And let the fire of the Infinite Intelligence pour into your minds and stimulate them until the blossoms of eternity in far-flung worlds are visible to your consciousness.
It is done. And the veil of flesh drops from the consciousness as easily as the tallow from a candle. And the flame stands alone - the immortal soul - and it consumes the dross.
And behold, the face of purity shines within you. And that face will not leave you comfortless, for it will bring into view the face of the living Christ. And Christ will be formed in you as the highest niche to which man can aspire - in-niche-iation, the climbing of the ladder of Jacob.9
Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one God!10
Hear, then, O ye children of the dawn: there is one God and ye are a part of him. He is broken for you, and you have fed upon his substance. He is your life, and he is the life of all men.
And it shall come to pass, then, that the consecration of new ideas must occur; and the presentation of new ideas must be formed in the world community. And these ideas must embrace the old order that changeth not and yet introduces change.
The beast that was not, that is, and that is to come must be understood, as well as the Son of God that goeth forth to make war with the dragon and with those who follow in his wake, having in their foreheads and in their right hands the mark of the beast.11
Men must understand that the knowledge of carnal intelligence is the mark of the beast [upon them], unless individuals will use their minds to grasp the holy significance of cosmic law. For the minds of men cannot grasp through carnal intelligence the tremendous power of infinite love. But infinite love is at hand.
I am aware of the heat. This is being generated now in order to create transmutation for your initiation. And you will be grateful when this day has passed and you see, toward the dawn of the Easter celebration, the great change that will occur in your countenance and in that which looks within and sees the Holy Christ image traced by the fingers of God upon the fabric of your mind and soul.
I AM come. I AM come. I AM come to make you whole. I AM come not to gild the soul as one gilds a lily, but to evoke the response of that purity which is trumpeted forth by the lilies of the field - that you will understand the meaning of "they toil not, neither do they spin ...,"12 that you will understand that God worketh in you to perfect his perfect work within you.
This is repetitious for a purpose: that you will understand it, that you will grasp the significance of perfection, that you will hold to the fires of life and the necessity of travail. For travail is for deliverance, and the significance of travail is that the beauty of the dawn, then, is great as it is contrasted with the midnight hour. Let men understand initiation as the means to rising, as a means to raising consciousness, as the means to assimilating the purity of the Law.
It is not so. It is not so! It is not so! The lies of the carnal mind are human vanity. They are trumpery. They will lead you to the pit of illusion and delusion. But the laws of God will give you your freedom.
Will you, then, enter in with me tonight - into the consciousness of the meaning of freedom and understand that the giving of yourself unto God freely is the key to beauty and security and the dominion that the Law requires each one to take over himself? For who is the enemy of God? The enemy of God within the domain of the soul is the ego that is not transmuted! And the darkness of substance within man's world opaques the Light that would shine through the grail of man's own chalice.
The Good Friday spell will be broken, and the fruit of Easter morning will be the resurrection. This is the surge of cosmic power toward regeneration. And all of the darkness of the night, and the toil that mankind at times through illusion experience, is as nothing when the dawn cometh.
We urge upon all, then, the understanding that the governments of the world are shaken by the tremendous distribution of the Atlantean rebellion, which is now once again coming into manifestation through the youth of the world who are, in many cases, the reembodied Atlanteans - but not all. For, scattered among the Atlantean rebels are the children of God, the children of the Sun, the holy Buddhas, the holy Christ children, and many diligent and magnificent incoming souls that have not yet taken embodiment.
We warn all of you, then, that you have a place in the chain of command, that you are identified with the Great White Brotherhood through this summoning. We have summoned the elect to make their calling and election sure.13 We have invoked the power of God for every little child upon this planet. We have invoked salvation for this age.
We refuse acceptance of the powers of darkness that create murder and mayhem in the world. We refuse acceptance of the powers of darkness that, as demoniac forces, radiate the lust of imperfection in the world by the greed of selfishness.
We demand the invocation of the Christ within every child upon this planet. We say, then, in God's name, Let our banner be raised! Let our banner be raised! Let our banner be raised!
We will not trample upon men to oppress them, for they have free will. But we will impress the world with the thoughts of the angels, with the thoughts of the outline of the glow-ray of the rising sun over the distant hills. We will show forth to the world that new hope is born, that the sun of radiance is rising within human consciousness, and that the power is even now being summoned from the four corners of the world to reverse the tide of man's negative magnetism.
I say to you that your beloved Saint Germain has already fabricated the first early beginnings of a new release of unparalleled strength through the International Re-Source Conference to be held in San Francisco and Los Angeles.14 You will be amazed when you see the unity of the divine purpose as it is released to the nations of the world when men are taught to summon their resources in a reversal of all that banal darkness which is presently oppressing mankind.
For salvation is personal but it is also universal. For the Christ comes to every man individually, per se, but he also comes to the world. And as a thief in the night, he takes away and catches up those souls who love him and will keep his commandments into that great cloud of witnessing and glory, whereby the world itself shall also be saved and regenerated as those very souls that bear witness to the Truth return with him to the world to manifest the beauty of the Law. As Enoch, the seventh from Adam, said, "Behold, the LORD cometh with ten thousand of his saints to execute judgment upon the ungodly."15
And therefore, it shall come to pass that that judgment shall be to restore to all men the former state of universal righteousness. And this is no robbery. For there is not a soul, according to karmic law, who can escape the fruit of his doings - for good or for ill. And therefore, let all understand that redemption and the redemptive process will take place.
It is illumination that the age requires; salvation is automatic when men have illumination. For when men know the Law and are not ignorant of it, they will pursue the path to God as though they were wild in stampede to find him - to find at the end of the rainbow that potential which men have said is the pot at the end of the rainbow. It is, in reality, the potential of God that lies by mighty light rays within the domain of all who seek and are successful. And you can be successful if you will surrender your mortal wills to God and walk in the pathway the Master trod.
This is the initiation that will make of you one mighty body that will move in the family of nations and grow and expand your limbs as you add to your number daily such as should be saved and be in the vanguard of those who will save mankind by becoming the vehicles of the Christ consciousness in the world.
Ask yourself, then: Are you ready to do the will of God? Are you ready to take your place with the elect? Or do you prefer to be as the chaff that before the wild hurricane does fly? Do you prefer to be driven by every wind of doctrine, by every disturbing outer condition, by fear and by mortal vicissitude?
Ask yourself that question. And if the answer is "yea" and you are willing to follow the path of light, rather than "nay, I refuse to go and I will stay with the world," then understand that you must follow in the wake of the ascended masters. You must follow the banner that we uphold before you tonight. For only by a sustained diligence can the world be saved. Only by a sustained diligence can an individual overcome.
For mastery comes not easy - albeit Saint Germain has said that the sense of struggle makes the struggle.16 I assure you, one and all, that as you understand and grasp the principle of surrender to God, you will find that God surrenders to you.
I have given you a great mystery. It is up to you to ferret it out to its fullness.
In the name of Almighty God, I call to the angels of initiation that are with me to convey into the world of form the beauty of holiness, the love of God, the power of brotherhood, and the sustainment of the torch of freedom.
O Spirit of the Resurrection, flame in these thy children!
O Spirit of the Resurrection, consecrate their lives anew!
O Spirit of the Resurrection, make them many, not few!
O Spirit of the Resurrection, love them free!
O Spirit of the Resurrection, expand, expand in thee!
Peace to the world,
Peace I give.
Peace to the world,
By peace I live.
Peace to the world -
And freedom, too,
For the many, and not the few.
Will you heed my words this night and hold those words close to your heart. Clasp those words, for they are life - not for yourselves alone but for a trembling planet, for a trembling planet that knows not what it does, for a planet on the brink of destruction that yet can be saved.
In the name of the Christ of the ages and by the banner of our illumination flame,
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"The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."
This dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet April 11, 1968, during the Easter class Symphony in Spring in Colorado Springs, Colorado.