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Chapter 74
Jesus Christ - December 14, 1986


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1986
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

74  Jesus Christ - December 14, 1986

Vol. 29 No. 74 - Jesus Christ - December 14, 1986
"Must We Have Only a Remnant?"
Thanksgiving Day Address 1986
Precious Ones of My Heart,

     O how I have called thee from the hour of the coming of the Ancient of Days and thy soul in him as thou wast also in the loins of Abraham!

     Seed of Christ, O Earth, the Light beckons thee. Canst thou meet the proud wave of adversity and say to it, "In the name of God, thus far and no farther!" Canst thou turn back the prophecy of the reading of akasha and wilt thou respond to the call of my heart, O beloved?

     I AM grateful. And I AM indeed Jesus, the anointed of God, thy brother come once again to save thee. It is to this end that I came, but I would remind the tribes of forgetfulness1 that ye also were called to save that which is lost.2

     Therefore, beloved, take the example. In the very first instance, if ye would follow me all the way in the regeneration,3 forget not these little ones. Feed my sheep the cup which ye drink. It is not a private cup. It is, therefore, an elixir of Life and of the Eternal Youth.4 It is the sacred fire of forgiveness and the purging Light.

     And as with Abraham, there is a burning lamp and a smoking furnace.5 And the smoke does show, aye, that thou hast indeed laid upon the altar of God those things which ought not to be. And therefore, the Lord GOD does receive the incense as fragrance of love from the heart purified.

     Beloved, this day of Thanksgiving is yet a solemn occasion - more so than some realize and less than many fear - for the waves of anxiety that rise from the earth and the people and the nations do indeed immobilize a planet to deal with the very force of Evil that does come full circle now and must be greeted by flaming ones.

     When Evil does touch the aura of the Keeper of the Flame - and I AM WHO I AM within that Keeper of the Flame - I say, let it be consumed on contact. Let the Keepers of the Flame discover the divine art within that He also taught to me - the drawing of the circle of fire for the invincibility of that Anointed One6 who does come in my name to seek and indeed to save that which is gone out of the way of the First Love of Christ in God.

     Beloved, when ye seek for a sign7 and wonder then, "What will the LORD say unto me this day?" have you not thought that this day you must say unto the LORD:

     This day thou hast begotten me, O God.
I AM thy Child.
I AM born at the point of Origin of all things.
Lo, O God, I AM Alpha and Omega!
I fill the void in earth
as thou hast filled the void in heaven.
For I AM thy Son, O God, in manifestation here.
I will to live thy Life, O God.
Show me the way!

     Beloved, you have heard of my own prophecy of the last days.8 What are these last days? They are the dregs of the cup of karma. And all have accountability - all, I say. None of you or of this planetary home is exempt, therefore, from that returning karma.

     Beloved ones, it is necessary, then, to call to be taken up into the cloud of Yahweh - into the cloud of the I AM THAT I AM. And let that fire, beloved, be thy greeting to this proud wave [of returning karma].

     Beloved, the assignment is to stand, face, and conquer. The assignment is to place feet firmly upon the Rock, the Rock of true Being that I AM, and to place thy feet in the earth in the Place Prepared, which I, Jesus - and Saint Germain - have prepared for you, lo, thousands of years even before my coming in my birth at Bethlehem.

     Realize, beloved, that earth changes are in order. And if I may recapitulate what has already been said, I must remind you that the gathering together at the Isle of Glastonbury [England] was for reinforcement: twenty-four hundred voices round the clock did affirm the name of God and Mary, my Mother.9

     Blessed hearts, it is the power of the Word - as the Word is one voice, as the Word of thy heart and my heart being one is given utterance by the Holy Ghost - that will preserve the Lightbearers in the earth!

     Hasten, I say, unto the mandate of thy deliverance and cease your seeking after all of "these things." Unless the day of Darkness come, wherefore shall the Light appear? Therefore, I say, be fearless, for the Archangels draw nigh to keep thee in the way of Life, not Death.

     The equation that must be considered this day - this day as shadows fall in the year 1986 - is how, then, to enter the fiery coil of the Holy Ghost. How, then, to see and know that God is where I AM. How to measure, even as John the Beloved was given a measuring rod10 - how to measure Light and Light's quotient within thy being. How to know whether that Deathless Solar Body thou dost weave shall serve thee as the life preserver in the hour and in the day that is called the Vengeance of our God.11

     Blessed ones, by grace are ye saved.12 And the grace that is sufficient for thee13 is the grace of my causal body multiplied by the causal body of all saints of heaven through God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Understand, beloved, that this grace is elusive. If the chalice be not upraised, if the temple be not offered, where shall the angels of the Holy Eucharist pour the grace of my Body and my Blood? It is, then, to this end that I have poured of this my essence into the teachings of these Two Witnesses, lo, these many years and set and sealed them for thee, beloved.

     Here, then, is the key: Except ye eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man, ye have no Life in you.14 You say, "But, Jesus, I have a threefold flame and a Mighty I AM Presence. How say ye, `Ye have no Life in you'?"

     Beloved, remember that thinking or wishing is not enough. It is the daily pulling on the rip cord of the Mighty I AM Presence, understanding that this Mighty I AM Presence must be drawn down ere the soul be caught up in the arms of the Holy Ghost before calamity come.

     Blessed and beloved, there is a danger in knowing the Path and the Teaching and imagining that this knowledge is equated with being, with becoming, with entering in, with being purged and filled and purged and filled again.

     Does any man know the requirement of the Law? Can anyone be secure before the notable day of the LORD's coming in the full power of the resurrection? I say, beloved, knowing not (and knowing that you know not) how much grace is sufficient for the mission - I say to you with all of the love of my heart:

     Pray without ceasing.15 Watch and wait. Do more than appears to be the requirement of the hour.

     Beloved, it is one thing to feel the holy angels and the light when you are in one company and surrounded and sealed in the Holy Spirit. But each and every one of you knows the feeling of aloneness in the large cities and the dark places of the earth when suddenly you are engulfed as though the sea were all around you and a mile above you and as though you had lost contact with God and all hope. This is the feeling when a planetary body moves into the initiation that is called the dark night of the soul and then the dark night of the Spirit, where there is the eclipsing even of the God Presence and one can hardly remember that Presence and its intensity.

     Beloved, these days are coming upon the earth. This is why we have sponsored the communities of the inner circle of initiates, not only since my coming but prior to it. For the circle of Community, beloved, is a conduit for the Holy Ghost that does raise each individual member when one is down. It is the All-in-all, the God in the lesser being that is able by Community to reinforce the Light in the individual lows that must come as you face at a personal level those challenges that also are planetary.

     Beloved, you have asked for, you have called for, and you have received abundantly the knowledge of the path of the ascension and its requirements. Realize, then, as Serapis has taught, God does require the all of man if he is to give unto that manifestation of Himself the All and the allness of Being.

     Thus, the path of the ascension, beloved, does have its rigors. And one cannot hope to take another wide round and another and another, thinking to postpone the day when the LORD does call thee - the day of the trial by fire.16

     Canst thou stand in that day, beloved?

     In this hour can you receive the Holy Ghost and the sacred fire as a fiery trial when all that is not of the Light must be consumed? Is there sufficient God Self-awareness in you as that Christ in your temple? Have you sufficiently purged that temple that you may stand and still stand as though in the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?17

     Beloved ones, these fellow servants of Daniel still stand, for the fire has not consumed them, neither has there been the smell of smoke upon their garments. May you also be free of the residue of human fear and the torment of the Night as was Daniel in the lion's den.18

     The LORD cometh - the LORD Sanat Kumara and his hosts.19

     Prepare, beloved, for the time is short and the golden age must come. And therefore the earth, I say, must be shaken that the debris and darkness of the fallen angels might be swept out by a holy fire, by a holy angel and angel bands.

     A decade ago, beloved, I called the Messenger and you received her in this city to do a work, which was to deliver this Teaching and to call the elect. And so you rejoiced and you came with her. Some followed and some are here because the Messenger responded to the calling to take a detour through this city of my Mother20 on the way to the Place Prepared.

     You have tarried. The fallen angels have desired to have you and to entangle you in all manner of involvements. And so you have seen all things come to pass as prophesied even in the Book of Life. For the trial must come that those who speak for and against the Light might also be numbered. Let thy witness be a heavenly one.

     This is a day, prior to the new year and winter solstice, for self-assessing and the reckoning. What have you accomplished in thy discipleship since the hour of thy soul's entering this life and this episode in thy cosmic history?

     Today is a crossroads - a turning to the right, to the left or the center of Christhood. Today is a day to consider just how one will be in the fiery center of my heart and what one will do to claim a Place Prepared, to repair my House with Francis, to build my Church, to be a pillar of fire, a magnet of the Central Sun of Righteousness who must draw these little ones from the farthest corners of the earth while there is yet time.

     Beloved hearts, the Place Prepared may indeed be a land. But truly know this - that the real Place Prepared is the place of my coming, the secret chamber of your heart. When this place is prepared, as it is by Christ, and the soul hath prepared herself as a bride for her husband, lo, He comes with ten thousand of his saints.21

     Lo, He comes, I AM THAT I AM! And if ye would be, ye may call yourselves the "ten thousand of his saints," as any Lightbearer anywhere on earth in every congregation and place of worship may call himself. But the works, beloved, shall be the proof. Let thy works and thy words hold the balance in this hour.

     You see how those of us - I speak of yourselves - who remain in life here must be the instrument of prayer answered and prophecy fulfilled. Neither fulfills or answers itself, beloved. You are the handiwork of God and here below you are the Omega, the Mother Body; and that is the universal Mystical Body of God in the earth, as you have been taught.

     Where will the LORD appear if there is not an electrode of Light, a mighty sphere of Light of bodies who have said, "We are thy Body and thy Blood, O Universal Christ of Jesus and the Great White Brotherhood! Here I AM, LORD! I can have no other."

     How will the magnet of sacred fire be built? Are you superstitious? Do you think that without the consecration of God in man any rock or clump of dirt of itself is sacred ground? I tell you, a ground is sacred because the LORD in his people have made it sacred with their hearts and their hands.

     And I say to you, beloved, those of you who fear to come into this communion, it is because you have avoided the Day of Reckoning when I should speak to you through my prophetess, through my sister and Messenger before you, and you should have taken from you some morsel of that human selfishness that you fear you cannot live without.

     Beloved, though you have heard many a dictation, I say, note the silence. For we have not spoken to you for many a month and it is because it is time to remember and to listen to what has already been said. The Great White Brotherhood will not come and say again and again, to those whose ears have waxed dull because they have been surfeited by the sacred fire, the same messages, the same calling and appeal.

     If you would have us be beggars, we will be beggars with our begging bowls, we will come as we have. But the LORD who does govern us and his universe has said, "Be silent, O my Sons and angels. Let there be a response and a fervor in the hearts of those who have been spoon-fed, lo, these many years."

     And therefore, the Initiator Maitreya has come and said, "Where is the heart of my people?"

     Thus, the lowest common denominator of karma does take one to lower levels, but the highest common light of the I AM Presence does take you to the height of cosmic consciousness. And somewhere betwixt and between you find the Mediator, who is Christ the LORD where I AM THAT I AM. And the Mediator will hold that of the karmic nature that it might be consumed daily by our God who is a consuming fire22 and that in that process your house might become the house of the LORD.

     Thus, we see throughout the movement of the Ascended Masters a positioning of souls who now, having left off from hearing the Word for a time, do position themselves - some comfortably and some with great discomfort, preferring a rugged road and a swift passage and who have said to Morya and Serapis, "Strip me, O God, for I have seen the hour. I have heard the call and I would hasten to the mountain of God - not for myself or my safety but for those who have not heard the Word."

     Blessed ones, I have spoken through the Messenger to those who entertain doubt and fear and unbelief. They imagine that these are centered in an organization or a leader or administrators or people who make up the striving ones. I come to speak, then, the plain truth to you that all fear and doubt and unbelief has naught to do with the Messenger or the activity. It is a condition of thine own consciousness and karma, which the carnal mind does determine to hide from thy soul and cause her rather to blame and point the finger at the object of her fear.

     Beloved ones, it is far too late to entertain the folly of blame and self-doubt. Wherefore hast thou heeded the devils of worthlessness who tell thee thou art a sinner and therefore thou canst not respond to the call of the Son of God!

     I tell you, beloved, as the months pass and I may come again, for some of you who do not decide this day to embrace your Mighty I AM Presence, by the time you hear me speak again the sands in the hourglass of your own karma descending will decree that it is too late and you have lost the opportunity to seize my mantle and come with me where I go. And I go to a higher realm of safety where I would take you. I would take you, beloved!

     And safety, then, is in a spiritual realm and when you are in that realm with me through the day and through the night, you also find yourself in a place of safety here below. And as we have said before, all of the protection of the Great White Brotherhood will not protect you, even at the Inner Retreat, if you are not wholly within the circle of God's being.

     I come this day to offer you my heart, my path. And I tell you and warn you, beloved, that the message that has gone forth from the false pastors, droning on and drowning the sweet people of my heart in a fatalism of oncoming Darkness ignored - even Death itself ignored with a promise of my coming - this, beloved, is the undoing of Christendom itself.

     Must we only have a remnant?

     My Father, my Father, I cry unto thee! Must we have only a remnant? Can we not take the whole?

     O my Father, I cry unto thee in this hour and I cry to these hearts who have seen and known and yet are surfeited in self-concern!

     O my Father, send thy Holy Spirit unto them in this hour that they might see thy face and the face of angels who behold the face of thy children.

     O my God, my God, do not forsake me in my little ones in this hour of the dark night of the Spirit. I, Jesus, before my own, cry unto you, O Father! Deliver, then, the children of the Light who have descended from thy heart, for I would take them to my breast in this day.

     O my Father, give unto these and all who keep my flame the understanding of the "imperil" that is upon the earth and the great necessity, as Mary has said at Fátima in thy name, Father, to save these souls lest they be lost for ages.

     O my Father, let these be quickened beyond my power to quicken them. Let there be a fire from thy heart's altar passing through this body. Let them hear thy voice, O Father, where they have not heard or listened to the voice of our dictations these years. Let them hear it now, O God, and live.

     O beloved, do you remember, as I remember and cannot remember without shedding a tear, the moment of my looking out upon the city of Jerusalem, crying unto that city, for they would not, no, they would not receive the Christ into their hearts?23 So I would gather you, beloved, and I would gather millions to my heart.

     As I taught this one this very week, now you understand why only twelve were my disciples, and even they must be24 rebuked in the hour of the resurrection. And do you know why I upbraided them for their hardness of heart?25 I will tell you. It is because they did not want to put aside that which must be put aside to enter into the resurrection with me.

     And this is the sickness of Christianity today! They want to take all of their human comforts and momentums and low vibrations into the kingdom of God. It cannot be! They shall not enter in with their bag and baggage of human consciousness! Understand, beloved, that they want heaven without the necessary alchemy of the fire that shall try not thy work alone but thy very soul.

     To be immortal, you must shed mortality. It is a price, beloved, for the vibration of God does increase mightily. And if you would be mortal in the realms of the immortals, you would be consumed - consumed as easily as any substance is consumed by fire on earth.

     Thus has it ever been, when we have come in any age to unveil the mysteries of the divinity of the Christ in each heart, that we have been rejected through the rejection of our Messengers - not by the people, beloved, but always by the false leaders, who sense through the Teachings of Christ their loss of control.

     I come, then, into this city and I say:

     O God, Archangels and hosts of my bands, Go to! Woe! then, to the false pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture.26 Woe! then, for the hour is come when your words shall no longer prosper. For the denial of Christ in any of these my little ones is the denial of your own mantle.

     I, Jesus, tear from you, then, my mantle you have stolen. You who speak in my name and deny the kingdom of God dwelling in my own - I speak to you this day. I have preached to you in this city and my Word has reached the very depths of your being. As you have rejected my Messenger, so you have rejected me!27

     Thus saith the LORD: The Day of Vengeance of our God is come upon these fallen angels.

     Now, beloved, see that in thy knowing and in thy getting thou dost not fall on the other side of the line I have drawn. For if ye do not convey this Word, this Teaching, this Presence by being the incarnation of my Word, then ye too shall be known as false pastors, false disciples. Therefore know, neither membership nor initiation nor blessing can confirm thy path, only my grace in you by a chalice forged and won of words and works. Present me, then, the fitting vessel, beloved - I beseech your hearts as I have cried unto the Father in this hour.

     Beloved, do know that I have profound compassion and love for this hour. It is an hour of reckoning, but when the individual lover of Christ does take self-reckoning, he may correct by the flame of my heart those goings out of the way.

     Beloved, unto this day I have sent my Witnesses and therefore my thanksgiving to you, to the staff who have labored and yet labor even as I am speaking, for bringing to this altar on this very day the two volumes of my Lost Teachings.28

     Beloved, I tell you, these works I seal. And each and every one of you who shall read them in prayer, calling for my Presence with you, may know the true meaning of "eating my flesh and drinking my blood." This is the meal I have prepared for you in the hour, beloved, not of my resurrection but of yours. For this is the date of destiny. It is that I have called you to your resurrection and I have called you to a place where you may enter that fiery coil day by day - a place where I can be with you and love you.

     Beloved, I say to each and every one of you, for [whom] this meal I have prepared, "Come and dine."29 Come and eat my message. So many have rejected this message, beloved. I, the heart of the Lamb, allow you to know the heart that yet weeps for my own who have received the message but not entered in, not pondered and taken it.

     Beloved, I know not, the Messengers know not what more we can offer than our life, than ourselves, than our witness. Is all of our Teaching in vain, beloved, or shall some become firebrands of the LORD and therefore not let the age die without runners who may pass a torch of a true and living Christhood?

     Yes, beloved, I weep over this city this day that five thousand have not gathered to receive my Teaching in book, in physical print. But the LORD Sanat Kumara and my Father have comforted me this day and they have said to me, "O Jesus, remember, these are thine own - they have not forgot, though they have erred and misconceived thy plan from time to time. The fire of one Christ and one heart is enough to hold the balance and turn the tide."

     And so you see, beloved, God has not left me comfortless this day - even the Father and the Holy Ghost, but most of all yourselves. And as for me, you count to me, beloved, as my own at the Last Supper. For, beloved, this is our last supper in this city, for we must be up and doing.

     May each one of you know that the world may judge you, but the Son of God will stand with you to the end. And the Son of God does pray this day that you will understand that if you deny me in the earth the Law compels me to withhold my approbation before the Father.30 But if you receive me and my Teaching, then, beloved, my confirmation of your resurrection is full.

     As you are with me here by the sea, may you also be with me in the holy mountain of God.

     I pray, our Father, that these whom thou has sent me may truly know the inner conversion in this hour and tarry no longer in their cups.

     I, Jesus, seal you in the Word, which was in the beginning and is in the ending the Eternal Logos. By the sign of this Word, O sons and daughters of God, be thou made Whole!

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

     This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered through the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1986, at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton, Los Angeles, California, USA.


Footnotes:

1 Tribes of forgetfulness. Manasseh, name of the firstborn son of Joseph, is from the Hebrew nasheh `to cause to forget', or `causing forgetfulness'. Jesus is referring not only to the half-tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, but also to the other eleven tribes - the lost sheep of the whole house of Israel.
2 To save that which is lost. Matt. 10:6; 15:24; 18:11-14; Luke 15:3-7; 19:10.
3 Matt. 19:28.
4 Sanat Kumara is known as the Eternal Youth.
5 Gen. 15:17.
6 the Keeper of the Flame anointed by the Light of the Holy Christ Self who has entered his temple in the `Second Coming of Christ'
7 Seeking a sign. Matt. 12:38, 39; 16:1-4; Mark 8:11, 12; Luke 11:16, 29, 30.
8 The last days. Matt. 24; Mark 13; Luke 21:5-36.
9 It is said that a choir of 2,400 members kept a perpetual vigil of prayer and psalms at Glastonbury Abbey (5th century), with 100 members present each hour of the 24.
10 Rev. 11:1.
11 Day of Vengeance. Isa. 34:8; 61:2; 63:4; Jer. 46:10.
12 Eph. 2:5, 8.
13 II Cor. 12:9.
14 John 6:53.
15 Luke 21:36; Eph. 6:18; I Thess. 5:17.
16 Trial by fire. I Cor. 3:13-15; I Pet. 1:6, 7; 4:12.
17 Dan. 3:8-30.
18 Dan. 6:16-23.
19 This prophecy was fulfilled February 21, 1987, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when during the dedication of the sanctuary, Sanat Kumara came with ten thousand of his saints to deliver the judgment upon the seed of the wicked. Archangel Uriel announced: "Lo! he does come, and that for judgment. To this end, the hour has turned and the cycle for a golden age and the sweeping of a planet ere it descend." The Archangel said that this judgment "could not be held back" but that by grace it was descending "where it need not cause earthquake or cataclysm ... but rather might be the plucking out of the tares from the wheat, the binding of the seed of the wicked and the seizing of astral hordes that would steal the light of sacred fire."
20 Los Angeles, founded in 1781, was named after Mother Mary: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels).
21 Rev. 19:7; 21:2; Jude 14; Enoch 2.
22 Deut. 4:24; 9:3; Heb. 12:29.
23 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" (Matt. 23:37)
24 had to be
25 Mark 16:14.
26 Jer. 23:1, 2.
27 I Sam. 8:7.
28 Volume I of The Lost Teachings of Jesus by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet was released in paperback on September 20, 1986, Lady Kristine's Ascension Day. The hardback edition of Volume I and the paperback edition of Volume II were released Thanksgiving Day.
29 John 21:12.
30 Matt. 10:32, 33; Luke 12:8, 9.