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Chapter 37
The Beloved Messenger - September 15, 1985


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1985
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

37  The Beloved Messenger - September 15, 1985

Vol. 28 No. 37 - The Beloved Messenger - September 15, 1985
Born Free to Love

     "Woman, where are those thine accusers?"

     VI

     The Waiting Bride

     The Stoning of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ

     Twin Flames of the Cosmic Christ in the Piscean Dispensation

     Messenger's Invocation:

     Elohim of God, in the name I AM THAT I AM Sanat Kumara,

     We call forth Thy Light, Thy invincible Word of creation.

     We invoke the sevenfold flame, the fivefold flame -

     We invoke the Secret Love Star guiding

     The twelve tribes of Sanat Kumara and the thirteenth.

     I call upon Melchizedek, King of Salem

and priest of the Most High God:

     Beloved Ascended Master of Light,

     Restore then the priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ

     In the fullness of the sacred fire.

     Raise up sons and daughters of God, beloved Jesus,

     To follow fully thy Light and Path,

     To embody thy Word in the fullness of the Father,

the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Mother.

     Elohim of God, Thou knowest:

     Earth and her evolutions are desperate

     Midst the descending woes of their karma.

     Let Thy sacred fire go forth in the judgment

     Of the devils and discarnates out of the pit!

     Elohim of God, in the name of Surya of the Sun

and the Great Cosmic Council:

     We invoke the legions of the Lord Christ,

     The entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood -

     Go forth now!

     Go forth now in the fullness of the Light!

     Bind therefore the seed of the wicked!

     Let them be stripped of their garments,

     Even as they so stripped our Lord.

     So let them stand naked before Him, the Eternal Judge.

     So let our precious children and youth be cut free

     From the Tempter in this hour.

     Beloved Mother Mary, beloved Jesus and Magda, beloved

     Saint Germain and El Morya - All Saints of heaven:

     We summon in thy name the armies of the LORD,

of The Faithful and True:

     Go forth north, south, east, and west!

     Bind the dead and the destroyers in the earth!

     Even so, as it is ordained by the LORD God Almighty,1

     Even so, hosts of the LORD, Archangel Michael,

     Even so, in the name of Jesus Christ,

     Come quickly now and be present for the Victory

     Of Light in the sons and daughters of God.

     In the name of the Holy of Holies,

     I invoke the Shekinah glory.

     I invoke the cherubim of God

     To keep the way of the Tree of Life

     And to protect the flame of the ark of the covenant.

     Threefold flame of our Christhood,

     Light of God, Descend! Descend! Descend!

     Purge and revivify within us now

     The lightning of the Mind of God.

     Let every serpent and his seed be exposed

     Before Thy holy people!

     In the name of the Father, the Son,

the Holy Spirit and the Mother, Amen.

     The Intended Stoning of Mary Magdalene

     Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

     And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?

     This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

     So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

     And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

     When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?

     She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. - John 8

     "Ye Judge after the Flesh; I Judge No Man."

     Chapter 8 of the Book of John - the eight, the mighty figure-eight flow of completion as Above so below - foretells the mission of our twin flames. In the beginning of the account of John it is Mary Magdalene who is stoned, and in the end it is Jesus who is stoned.

     It is an intended stoning, the plot - before our very eyes - to put to death the manifestation of the Father/Mother God in twin flames gone forth for the purpose of showing the mystery of Christ in this divine figure-eight interchange - she, the disciple in the role of sinner forgiven by her Lord, elevated to the opportunity for discipleship by the Truth of her Christ which still stands as an indictment of the whole world:

     "Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man."2

     We lift our thoughts to the profound message of this experience which highlights Magda's purity of heart, the standard by which all are judged. It is the revelation that God's perception of us is not according to flesh, not according to the outer, but according to the inner being of the soul.

     Yet the fallen ones would trap the soul by the entrapment of the body and its senses, and therefore we are trapped by our sense of sin and our guilt so that the soul may not rise again, believing the lie that its salvation is in the flesh and not in Christ's Truth which He alone can confirm in us. Thus, Gautama Buddha taught us not to allow the flesh to become the instrument for evil, for thereby is the suffering of the soul brought about - both by conscience and the torment of the Tempter - and it remains until we fully accept Christ's forgiveness (the washing of the waters of our human) and make His forgiveness our own. In other words, we also have to forgive ourselves.

     The attempted entrapment of Mary Magdalene and of Jesus - as the scribes and Pharisees attempted to trap them both in their acts and words - was designed to oppose the union of hearts of Jesus of Nazareth and Mary Magdalene, who were twin flames formed out of the white fire ovoid of God in the Great Central Sun.

     Thus they came forth in the beginning of the age of Pisces, thus they came forth in the ending. At the outset Jesus sealed the Light and the Power of the Piscean dispensation for the liberation of Woman and, through her, the upliftment and restoration of all souls to the point of their individual Christhood.

     Having set the stage for her Victory in all souls of Light, he took his ascension and sent forth Magda (her soul name) to be the embodiment (the Shakti) of his Light these two thousand years. At the finish she came forth fully in the Light of her God Presence, clothed upon with his mantle, embodying his Word, his miracles, his healing power, showing forth to all the world the grace and the glory of the Lord that comes upon the soul who has become the true bride of Christ.

     Let us listen as she, now the Ascended Lady Master Magda, tells us in her own words:

     By the Mystical Union of Twin Flames, Offenses in the

     Seven Planes of the Body of Christ - in His Church, His Bride -

     Are Cast Out

     "You have known me as one who became, among the holy women, a disciple of Our Lord. You have known that I was called by him and of him, and that he received me. And in the blessed experience of our union, there was the casting out of the seven planes of my being of all that would offend the living God.3

     "In my heart, I knew his devotion to Mother. In my heart, I knew his descent to earth was to claim my soul as his bride forevermore. In my heart, I knew, because he would and because he did pluck me to his heart, that he would also do this for each and every one.

     "And as the love that we shared has always been the love of twin flames, therefore my overcoming victory during this Piscean age has created the completion of the arc whereby the magnet of our divine union might draw souls into the magnitude of God's love and might reunite for Saint Germain, in this Aquarian age, twin flames who have been long separated by the conspiracy of the Watchers themselves.

     "The divide-and-conquer tactics of the fallen ones have nowhere been more intense and relentless, and often successful, than in the division of hearts who truly love one another, having come from the same source, the same white fire body, as twin souls and twin flames unto eternal Life. ...

     "Therefore, in the Piscean age, to focus more fully the magnitude of Christ's victory and to perfect the calling of the divine woman, I remained in embodiment to fulfill the final vow. Thus, the Alpha is the thrust of the beginning, and the Omega the ending. And the two halves of the Whole must complete a fiery mission - not always together, but always together in the heart.

     "As they mocked him, so some have mocked even the principle of twin flames and, from that point, the absurdity so-called that I myself might be the beloved of the Beloved. They have not understood the mystical union. They have not understood that every soul is the bride of Christ and that there is but one Christ.

     "And therefore, the feminine half of the Whole of the circle of Life is always the bride of the one Universal Christ in her Lord, the masculine half of the Divine Whole. Just as those who deny the Christ in Jesus lose their own Christhood, so those who deny the bride in me also deny their opportunity to become the bride of Christ.

     "To look upon, perhaps, my poor example as Aimee - as some might think it not in the full majesty of the LORD - they cannot imagine that a mere flesh-and-blood person, such as Magdalene or such as myself in my final incarnation, could even be worthy of being the bride of Christ. And because their minds always contemplate a flesh-and-blood union, they cannot imagine the necessity of the eternal Christ for having a wife in heaven, much less a wife on earth!"4

     In another dictation Magda speaks of herself as the waiting bride:

     The Bride Acclaims Him "My Saviour, My Teacher, My Life!"

     "The doctrine that Mary Magdalene could be the wife of Jesus is laughable to many. Therefore, I must bear testimony that my soul, my heart, and the Presence of God with me is indeed the twin flame of Jesus, and that every soul whom God has made is created out of the white fire core of the Great Causal Body of Life. And the twain, holding the balance of Alpha and Omega and the Spirit and Matter spheres, have gone forth from the beginning to prove the victory of eternal Life.

     "Thus, in the great drama of our association you realize that as Jesus forgave me my sin, he was forgiving the feminine portion of himself which I am. And as I acclaimed him `Rabboni,'5 I was acclaiming the masculine portion of myself, which is indeed the Spirit of the living God, as my Saviour, my Teacher, my Life.

     "Thus, beloved, Jesus comes a little closer to the humanness of life, to the needs of each one's heart. And as he is closer to you as friend and brother, as you can understand him as my husband in the Spirit, you also may dare to conceive of yourself as the bride waiting for the marriage of the Christ. For in the fullness of the Cosmic Christ, he receives your soul unto himself as the bride of the Lamb, as it is taught.

     "What is proven by one may be proven by all. As you become the bride of him as [he is] the Guru of the Piscean age, you may also conceive that your soul could be wed to your I AM Presence and, through that Presence, to your own twin flame. And you may also dare to consider your twin flame as the Cosmic Christ at inner levels. ...

     "Dear hearts, many of the saints have prepared many lifetimes in this state of the waiting bride. I myself thought of myself as the waiting bride all of my life. I thought somehow, in my outer mind, that I would be the bride only when he would come and receive me in the rapture and I would meet him in the air. Looking back, I realized that he entered my form and temple and accepted me as his bride. And therefore, I could represent him.

     "The fullest union, of course, comes in the hour of the ascension. But you can claim all the light you can contain on earth and be no longer the waiting bride but the bride incarnate if you only will let go of the sense of limitation."6

     The Foursquare Gospel

     These are excerpts from dictations from the Ascended Lady Master Magda, whose final embodiment was that of Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. She based her entire mission on a teaching given to her by Jesus on the four faces of the four creatures seen by Ezekiel - the man, the lion, the ox, and the eagle7 - signifying the fourfold nature of Christ the Saviour, the Baptizer with the Holy Spirit, the Healer (who bears our burdens), and the Coming King. The tremendous healings and miracles which took place at her meetings all over the world are proof of her testimony that Jesus came to her and told her that he would heal the people through her:

     "When you lay your hands on them, I will lay my hands on yours. And all the time you are standing there, I will be standing right back of you. And when you speak the Word, I will send the power of the Holy Ghost. You are simply the mouthpiece of the telephone. You are the key on the typewriter. You are only a mouth through which the Holy Ghost can speak."8

     No one that I know of, as magnificent as the saints have been, has had such a full measure and portion of the Ascended-Master Light Body of Jesus Christ as she had. She suffered great persecution and stoning by the press and by enemies. She fearlessly attacked the Mafia and all forms of evil.

     She founded her magazine and called it Bridal Call for the waiting soul, waiting to unite with the Beloved.

     She records in her book This Is That a vision that she had in the course of her service. I ask you to listen to her words of love, her understanding of Jesus' love, though she was yet without the full understanding of the mystery of twin flames. And so Jesus gave to her a vision of herself and yet allowed her to be the observer, not knowing it was herself.

     I ask you to realize that this union of Magda and Jesus is archetypal to all of us in the Piscean age, and that the heart of hearts of the mystery of Christ is that if you would attain union with the twin flame, you must first become the bride of Jesus Christ, of your own Christ Self, and of that Universal Christ-Light - all Three in One.

     It is entitled "My Wonderful Vision."

     My Wonderful Vision

     "It had been a hot and wearisome day at camp meeting. My duties had been long and strenuous. Now the last sermon had been preached, the last seeking soul faithfully prayed for, but I still knelt on the altar. The hour was so late, and I was so tired and empty. I felt I must ask the Lord to touch and bless me before I retired.

     "`O, Jesus dear, precious Saviour, will you please lay your hand upon my head and bless even me? Let me see Thy beautiful face, and hear Thy tender voice; strengthen, encourage and comfort me before I go.'

     "Almost immediately my prayer was answered. A sweet tranquillity descended upon my spirit like a mantle from the skies, wrapping me in its holy stillness. How calm, rested and detached from my surroundings I felt. My body slipped to the floor before the altar, but I made no move to prevent it lest I disturb this `shut-in-ness' in the presence of the Lord. Then I saw a vision -

     "The whole world was wrapped in darkness. One could not see an arm's length through the blackness of the night.

     "But, hark! out of the gloom there came a sound of voices sweetly singing: - `O Lord Jesus, how long, how long/Ere we shout the glad song?/Christ returneth, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! A - M - E - N.'

     "At the sound of that great `Amen' a streak of lightning tore its way through the heavens, from the east unto the west, rending them in twain. As I looked, the skies began to roll apart as smoothly as folding doors upon their hinges. Shafts of heavenly light came streaming down through the opening, piercing the gloom of earth and illuminating it with wondrous radiance. Through the aperture I saw descending, first the pierced feet, then the garments white as snow, then the extended hands, then the beautiful face and head of Jesus Christ, My Lord. He was surrounded by an innumerable company of angels.

     "In fact, quickly as a flash of lightning the entire heavens were filled with seraphic heavenly hosts, cherubim and seraphim, angels and archangels - surrounding the Christ of God - they were coming down, down, down in a beauty that beggars description. I thought of those great sky-rockets bursting in the air in multi-colored glories and coming down in silent grandeur through the night. I know of nothing else with which to compare their wonderful descent.

     "Every angel carried a musical instrument. Many there were having harps of various shapes and sizes. They were different from any that I have ever seen upon earth, and of marvelous workmanship. There were those who carried long silver trumpets and other musical instruments, the like of which I had never seen before. The first part of their glorious descent was made in silence.

     "Then, suddenly, the Lord put His hand to His mouth and gave a shout, calling and awakening His people. At the sound of His voice, every angel struck his harp of gold and sounded upon the silver trumpets. (For years people have talked about the lost chord, but oh, surely there had never been a chord of such melodious, wondrous beauty as this.)

     "As they struck their harps, it seemed that the very stars of the morning broke forth into singing, and trembled beneath its majesty. The earth began to vibrate, and the dead arose from their graves. They came from the East, from the West, from the North, and from the South, and ascended through the air in beautiful white garments that seemed to float about them; their faces were turned upward and their hands extended to the resplendent heavens.

     "They were rising higher and higher into the air to meet the central figure of the Lord as He came down with His host of angels. As the resurrected dead rose through the air, they seemed to gather in toward the center of the heavens, taking their places as though by prearrangement in a shape that began to resemble a body.

     "Then the Lord gave a second shout, and, at the sound of His voice, the angels again swept their golden harps and sounded upon their instruments - holding the chord until the very stars shook, the earth rocked and the mountains trembled. At that second shout, those who were living and remained upon the earth - whose garments were washed white, and whose hearts were looking for the coming of the Lord - were caught up together with those resurrected from the graves to meet Him in the air.

     "They came from every direction - from mountains, valleys, plains, and from the islands of the sea, to take their places in the Body. Some were in the head, some in the shoulders, some in the arms of the Body, some in the feet; for though there are many members, there is but one Body. (See I Cor. 12.)

     "What a picture! They were going up, and the Lord was coming down. Soon they would meet in the air, and what a meeting that would be! As I gazed upon this scene, I was overwhelmed, and my heart burst forth into the cry:

     "`Oh, dear Jesus, aren't you going to take me? Jesus, you know I love you; I have been waiting and looking for you so long. O Jesus, surely you are not going to forget me. O Lord, take me!'

     "Suddenly, I found myself running up a steep and rugged hill as fast as my feet could take me. Once I stumbled and fell (that must have been the time I almost backslid, and got out of the Lord's work, running from Ninevah to Tarshish), but I arose and started to run again. Up and up I ran, and this time, praise the Lord, I did not stumble - up and up I went, until at last I had reached the top of the hill, but instead of going down the other side I went right on up, hallelujah!

     "The Bride was still rising to meet the Bridegroom, and I was rising too. What a wonderful sensation - sweeping through the air! All weights and fetters laid aside - rising to meet the Lord. As I went up, however, I began to weep again, crying:

     "`O Lord, is there no place for me in the Body? It looks as though 'twere completed without me?'

     "But as I drew near, I saw that there was a little place unfilled in the foot. I slipped in and just fitted there. Glory to Jesus! When the Lord gives us a vision, He does not tell us how high and important we will be, but shows us our place at His precious feet. It may be that the Lord will permit me to be a part of the foot of the glorious running, soul-winning Bride, until He shall appear to take us to Himself forevermore.

     "With the Body completed, I seemed to be standing at a distance again. I saw the Bride and Bridegroom meet. Her arms were extended up to Him; His arms reached out and clasped her to His bosom. Oh, that embrace! Oh, that meeting in the air! How can I describe it? The angels were playing softly now upon their harps. How wonderful the music was! They talk about Mendelssohn's `Wedding March,' but ah, you wait until you hear our wedding march at the meeting in the air. The Bride, however, seemed to be listening to nothing but the voice of the Bridegroom. I saw Him wiping the tears from her eyes, and saying:

     "`There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away.'

     "Now they were going up together - higher and higher they rose, melting through the starry floor of heaven, disappearing in the distance as the heavens rolled together again. Upon the earth there descended a deep, thick darkness - a hundred times blacker than it had been before. `Twas a famine for the Word of God. But up in heaven a light was shining brighter than the noon-day sun. Oh, how bright and glorious it was - the mellow, golden light of a new-born sunrise seemed to rest upon everything, tinting each spire and dome with a border of gold and crimson. Here all was life, music and movement. The greatest day ever known in heaven or upon earth had dawned. The wedding day had come!

     "The angels had formed a great, long aisle leading from the heavenly gates to the Throne of pearl, upon which sat One so wonderful, so dazzlingly glorious, that my eyes could not gaze upon Him. Line upon line, row upon row, tier upon tier - the angels stood or were suspended in midair at either side of the aisle thus formed. Above this aisle the little cherubim formed an arch singing sweetly and playing upon tiny harps.

     "As they played the wedding march, down the aisle came the Bride and Bridegroom. She was leaning upon His arm and looking up into His face. Oh, the love, the joy, the hopes fulfilled that were written upon her fair and lovely countenance. `Twas as though she were saying:

     "`Thou beautiful Bridegroom, Thou Prince of Peace, Thou Pearl of Great Price, Thou Rose of Sharon and Lily of the Valley - I love Thee, oh, I love Thee! How long I have been looking forward to this day, how I have yearned to see Thy face, to hear Thy voice. True, I have seen Thee through a glass darkly, but now, oh now, my Saviour, slain Lamb of Calvary, I see Thee face to face! Oh, Jesus, to think that I shall live with Thee forever and forever! I will never leave Thee more, but I shall lean upon Thine arm, rest upon Thy bosom, sit upon Thy Throne, and praise Thee while the endless ages roll.'

     "As the Bride looked into His face, Jesus, the Bridegroom, was looking down and smiling upon her clad in her white robes with her misty veil floating about her. Oh, that look in His eyes, that tender expression upon His face. `Twas as though He were saying:

     "'Oh, my love, my dove, my undefiled, thou art fair; there is no spot in thee. Before you loved Me I loved you. Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love. I loved you when you were deep in sin; I loved you when you were far away. I loved you enough to leave My Father's home to go forth to seek to save, to rescue, to draw you to Myself. I loved you so much that I died for you - I died to redeem you, and to fill you with My Spirit. Oh, my Bride, you have been faithful. Coming out of great tribulation you have washed your robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. You have endured hardness as a good soldier, and now through Me you are more than conqueror. How long, how long, I have waited for this day when you should be caught up unto my side.

     "`Oft have your feet been pierced with thorns, but here the streets are paved with gold. Oft the way was rugged and steep and your tears have flowed unbidden but now behold, the last enemy, even death, is conquered. Nevermore shall a shadow fall across your pathway nor a tear-drop dim your eye. Forever and forever you shall dwell with Me in the presence of My Father and the holy angels - My Bride, My Wife forevermore.'

     "As they made their way up the aisle and neared the Throne, the angels broke forth into soft, sweet singing:

     "`Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the linen is the righteousness of the saints.'

     "As they walked into the brilliant light that sat upon the Throne, my eyes were blinded with the glory, and the vision faded from my sight, but it is indelibly stamped upon my mind.

     "Oh, I am looking forward to His coming, His glorious coming, and the day wherein the Bride shall be presented to the Bridegroom. Are you preparing for His coming? Would you be ready if the clouds roll apart and the heavens cleave in twain, and you should hear Him descending with a shout just now? If not, come to His feet today, fall upon your knees in contrition before Him, and cry:

     "`Oh, Lamb of God, I come. Help me to yield my life completely to Thee; make me all that Thou wouldst have me to be; cleanse my heart; fill me with Thy Spirit; fill my vessel with oil. Help me to bring others with me that, when Thou shalt appear, I shall see Thee and be as Thou art.'

     "Then rising from your knees with heart made pure and garments clean, your voice will be added to the swelling chorus:

     "`Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Thy Bride is waiting and longing for Thee."'9

     [The congregation sang to the "Beautiful Saviour" of Aimee, her Beloved, to the tune of "Fairest Lord Jesus."]

     The Intended Stoning of Jesus Christ

     He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

     Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

     Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

     And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

     Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

     Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

     Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

     Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

     Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

     Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

     Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

     Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

     Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

John 8

     "The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance O'er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom."

     This sermon was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, July 7, 1985, during the 5-day Freedom conclave, Born Free to Love, held at Camelot.


Footnotes:

1 Rev. 11:18.
2 John 8:15.
3 Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2.
4 Magda, April 1, 1983, "The Mystical Union of Twin Flames," Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 26, no. 29, pp. 267 - 69; also cassette B83071 on 16 - cassette Easter album Conclave of the Friends of Christ.
5 John 20:16.
6 Magda, April 9, 1982, "Believability: A Message to the American Woman, "Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 25, no. 24, pp. 251, 253; also cassette B8226 on 8 - cassette album Easter Conclave 1982.
7 Ezek. 1:10.
8 Jesus spoke these words to Aimee in 1919, prior to a sermon in Baltimore, Maryland. For more on the life and mission of Aimee Semple McPherson, see Aimee (Los Angeles: Foursquare Publications, 1979).
9 Aimee Semple McPherson, This Is That (Los Angeles: Echo Park Evangelistic Association, 1923), pp. 664-71.