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Beloved Saint Thérèse of Lisieux - July 13, 1988


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1988
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

39  Beloved Saint Thérèse of Lisieux - July 13, 1988

Vol. 31 No. 39 - Beloved Saint Thérèse of Lisieux - July 13, 1988
Saint Germain Stumps Portugal
8
Outside the Church
Part II
My Beloved Friends, Brothers and Sisters of My Heart of Hearts,

     The Father has granted my prayer that I might speak to you and to all of the Mystical Body of God in the earth. Therefore, he did send me and send this Messenger to Mexico where I did deliver my first dictation. Now he has sent me to you in this city so ancient,1 again to call hearts that you might feel the ennoblement of the flame of God raising you to that place where no man or woman can go, save the Father himself elevate that one.

     Now, my beloved, you shall hear this evening part one of my message already delivered in Mexico and I shall give you part two. And this shall be my complete statement in this century for all who know me and know my heart as I do serve in your midst and have done so in those hours allotted to me.

     Following my ascension, I was accorded the grant to spend a portion of my heavens on earth. But for another portion the Father did assign me to study under the three Masters El Morya, Koot Hoomi2 and Djwal Kul. These three wise men, adepts of the East who did come and tend the birth of the Lord Christ, therefore did tend with me the full flowering and birth of that Christ in my being multiplied many times over by their presence after my ascension.

     Therefore, through their hearts I did learn the mysteries of the East, the profundity of the message of the Buddha and his oneness with our Lord. Thread upon thread they did assist me in weaving and weaving again the fullness of the garment of light that does comprise the whole complement of the teaching of God to this age.

     Therefore, beloved, I had full opportunity to receive that instruction which did fill in for me all of those sacred mysteries that had not been revealed through the established Church. Therefore you understand that much teaching that is given to you in this hour I received at inner levels after my ascension.

     As I did say recently, there are many in the Church who have had the holiness and the sanctity and the purity [prerequisite for sainthood] but because the powers that be in this world who have seated themselves in these positions of power in the Church hierarchy have not seen fit to deliver the Everlasting Gospel to the people, those who qualified for the ascension and for sainthood could not receive that promotion and therefore they did reincarnate.

     Blessed ones, I desire not to give you any cause for personal pride or spiritual pride but I am here to tell you that some who are in this place are among those who have reincarnated because they have been "shortchanged," as you would say, by the Church and its tradition.

     Therefore, beloved, I come to tell you that the way of discipleship can be seen by you as a thousand stairs upon a thousand-tiered golden spiral and that step by step there is an orderly path of discipline. These Masters who have sponsored your Messenger and this activity, who have supported Jesus in establishing through the Messengers the true Church Universal and Triumphant on earth have seen fit to also establish an ordered ritual, for they are fully aware what it takes to mount one of these steps.

     The figure of the nun burdened with the cancer in her body, concealing this from all others and occupying herself with the humble task of scrubbing the stairs of the enclave3 must be seen as archetypal of the soul who, bearing her karma, recognizes that she must clear the debris in each step of consciousness, scrubbing by the violet flame until that level of record and ideation is fully and wholly transmuted. In the process she may mount a single step. In past ages it would take a soul perhaps an entire lifetime to mount a single step, for the only purging of karma and record and self, as well as its outcropping in the body as disease, would be manifest through prayer and works of penance.

     Thus, beloved, to know "how great, how great thou art, O God, my Father, my Mother, how great is the gift of the violet flame!" you must establish a co-measurement, a sense of realism that such a gift is also an experiment. For it is a dispensation for which ascended beings of the Seventh Ray, not the least of whom being your beloved Saint Germain, have given this opportunity. And after a certain lapse of cycles they will give accounting before the Lords of Karma and the Four and Twenty Elders who stand round the great white throne, and they shall determine whether a people have taken that flame and used it only to deliver themselves of their discomforts [or whether they have] used it seriously for the path of initiation as an adjunct, as a mighty assistance to the soul's entering in.

     You must therefore understand that you are watchmen of the night, keeping the watch in your time and in your place as many who have gone before you have kept that watch. In this dark night of the age of the Kali Yuga, you bear violet flame torches and torches of illumination with the beloved Mother Liberty. Therefore, beloved, understand that all holy orders have had their rituals and their disciplines and their rules.

     Therefore, those who would serve to keep the flame of this nation must come into alignment, as must those of every nation and city, to understand that it is both the spirit and the letter of the Law which must be fulfilled and obedience in the details of service and the givingness of self. It is this that will lead most swiftly to the desired goal of light in the seven chakras balanced in the supreme blessing of the Father-Mother God.

     This balance, beloved, and the Mystery of Surrender that is the rosary of our dear, most Blessed Mother will enable you to understand how you may be the vessel not alone for your Christ Self, the Anointed One, but for beings of great light such as the Avalokitesvara, beings who have come down the centuries such as Maitreya and even the Lord Sanat Kumara. Again, this is never a point of spiritual pride but of everlasting humility that hour by hour remembers to make oneself worthy and worthier still.

     So often when the Ascended Masters have dictated to the people of this earth who have gathered to hear them through this Messenger, those most psychologically disturbed individuals, those who have the greatest tendency toward self-idolatry have immediately assumed that they have far greater attainment than they do, far greater attainment than they have actualized in this octave. Thus, to reveal the Path and its possibilities does render to some a test that they do not pass well.

     Thus, beloved, it is important to remember the teaching of our beloved Serapis Bey, with whom I have also studied, as this blessed Master has revealed the utter humility of the Lord Christ as he did visit the retreat at Luxor even in his final embodiment. And this experience of our beloved Jesus, Jesus of the Sacred Heart, is not written down in the annals of the historians of the East. Nevertheless, by the grace of the Holy Spirit it was dictated by Serapis to Mark Prophet, whom I love as our Saint Mark and our Saint Bonaventure and who also must needs be called Saint Origen. And therefore he did write down Serapis Bey's Dossier and revealed how even the Lord Christ, who could have been received at the highest levels of initiations, requested to be placed on the very first step of the neophyte and to take each step in succession, thereby confirming, proving and reproving his own soul, strengthening himself and also setting an example for all who would follow him.

     May you truly follow him and understand that the very first principles and precepts are the foundation of the pyramid that you build and stone upon stone is the soul perfected, not, then, in giant leaps but rather in the constancy and consecration daily whereby the flame increases by your devotion; and for the very reason of your self-discipline and constancy the Lord may add unto you the Spirit of his Presence in a great power.

     And when you feel that Holy Spirit descending upon you, beloved, again, let it not be a source of spiritual pride; and see to it that you do not run and make much ado about yourself and your spiritual path to others, therefore setting yourself up, then, as someone that is better than the rest.

     These are the secrets of God in your heart and they must be sealed there. For you see, when you make any statement about your spiritual experiences the devils also listen and the fallen angels, and the moment you claim some level of experience they come to challenge you. And in their challenge, therefore, you are obliged to face the Adversary and prove that point of the Law when in fact this initiation may not be on schedule for your lifestream.

     Thus, by too quickly assuming a spiritual mastery, you precipitate challenges for which you are not ready; and therefore these fallen ones, adepts on the left-handed path, will stand on the very step [that] you would mount and they stand and they challenge and therefore they block the way.

     'Tis then that you run and hide beneath the wings of the Almighty in the person of Saint Michael the Archangel, and when you call to him he does defeat that one. Thus, beloved, it is like a child who taunts the wild animal and by and by the wild animal does [move to] attack him and then he runs swiftly away.

     Understand, precious hearts, the realism of the left-handed path and the antichrists in the world, for they come to precipitate initiations that are not on your timetable. They did so in the Mystery School of Eden before twin flames, therefore delivering to them the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil before this initiation should be given to them by the Great Initiator, the then representative of the Cosmic Christ.

     Therefore, beloved, once you accept the false initiation of the false gurus you may set yourself back thousands of years. Some twin flames who were in that Mystery School have not regained their position vis-à-vis Lord Maitreya which they lost in that hour when through their own spiritual pride or naïveté, as the case may be, they did accept the fruit from the Fallen One.

     Many false gurus have come forth even out of the East. And somehow the West, not having been healed or purged of that spiritual pride, have so readily accepted these talkers who come saying that they represent the lineage of unascended adepts and masters. Blessed ones, it is well to remember the counsel of your Lord: "The kingdom of God is within you." It is well to understand that these [gurus] of the old dispensation cannot take you where you must go in this age.

     Have you ever asked them why, if they have all of this adeptship, they have not taken the government and the economy of India under their great mastery, why they have not fed the poor and educated the masses and raised up India to a place where she might be a vessel of the true Buddha and the Cosmic Christ? If there are all these masters, then where is their proof of their love of this humanity? They will provide you with many excuses, but the true adepts of the East are beyond reach and thus you may know them when you come to the level of your Holy Christ Self and I AM Presence.

     Seek ye first this great kingdom of God and know, then, that where the Ascended Masters are and where the Messenger is, there you will see, when your eyes are purged by the fiery baptism of Jesus, always the presence of Babaji, always the presence of unascended masters of the Himalayas.

     [But] the false gurus are a great plague upon Europe and America, for again they have turned aside the reincarnated tribes of light of Sanat Kumara into byways of the neglect of the day-to-day affairs of their civilization. Teaching a counterfeit path of the East in the West, they have therefore deterred you from your calling to draw forth the light by the power of the name I AM THAT I AM and to direct it into the physical octave.

     The challenges of the West are physical. You have completed your incarnations in the East. You have risen to an inner oneness by the science of the AUM and the Word of Brahman in the beginning. You have reincarnated here for the final incarnation if you choose to accept it or for the final several incarnations to take the portion of your causal body and to direct it into form.

     Therefore, beloved, I attest to you, and may you know my vibration and know that my Word is true, that I have served with this beloved Messenger when she was embodied as Saint Clare and Saint Catherine4. And therefore we are one in an ancient service and calling to preserve the mysteries of Christ within the Church - not as a doctrine, for the hierarchy forbade it. Therefore we did preserve it as a fire in our hearts that burned, that none could quench, that none could turn back.

     And therefore I move with the Messenger, giving my strength and support from the higher octaves; and from the ascended level I may also gladly use her outreach to call my own, my sisters and brothers, the religious, the priests, the brothers, the devotees of holy Church who do not understand the schism within that has to do with interior corruption and uncleanness and the violation of the sacred fire and the psyche by the introduction of all manner of modern techniques, whether of self-hypnosis, hypnosis or psychology and all manner of deviations practiced by the priests themselves.

     Blessed hearts, the corruption is rampant and rife. Therefore, know that when Mother Mary did appear at Knock, she did come standing outside of the Church and not within.5 When she did appear at Fátima and [now] at Medjugorje in Yugoslavia, again it [was and] is to the pure heart of the child outside of the edifice.

     Know, then, beloved, that the Church can no longer contain the Mystical Body of God and yet there is great fear among those who are yet trapped within its walls - who fear to disassociate themselves, for they know in their hearts that once this Church had the dispensation of Christ.

     Know, then, beloved, that these require courage and a path and you also require courage and a path. Therefore the Father has anointed me with angels that he has given to me as my very own bands to come to you and to assist you and to plead this cause: that these holy ones of God within the Church, whose very light and blood are the sustenance thereof [and who] are also being devoured by it, [might be set free from their captivity in answer to your calls].

     Therefore, these are candidates for the ascension who will not realize that ascension at the end of this age as is their cosmic timetable, for they are not given the violet flame or the ancient mysteries preserved by early Christians as the true faith of our Lord, today called Gnosticism. The Gnosticism that has been discovered in this "library in a jar" at Nag Hammadi in 1945 is certainly not the final word, is certainly not the perfected doctrine, but the elements within it reveal clearly that which was banned as heresy by the Church Fathers; and by their banning of this true teaching of Jesus, they have denied our Lord's doctrine to all the faithful these seventeen hundred years or more.

     Know, then, beloved, that Christ has indeed long ago been put out of this Church and that Christ resides only in the pure hearts of those who are within it, and some of these pure hearts have risen to the position of pope and high office and some have been the humble of no particular stature. Therefore they in their hearts of fire rather than through an organization or a doctrine have kept alive the true Presence of Jesus [on earth and, coincidentally, within the Church].

     Know, then, beloved, that there is a mission to be performed and there are souls to be cut free who fear that if they sever their allegiance to an earthly institution their souls will experience eternal damnation in hellfire. Blessed hearts, this fear is ungodly and I would tell you I have personally witnessed it in my own life and as I move through the religious and among them this day. Their fear is so great that it is a question of whether they must reincarnate outside the Church if they are ever to be delivered of that fear of this false hierarchy.

     Know, then, beloved, that were the power of the teaching to be received by them, could this message be preached throughout the world in the churches, there could indeed be the rallying of millions to the heart of Mother Mary and Saint Joseph and those who are truly in a position under God to do something about the world problems. You understand, then, the tear in our eye and the weeping Madonnas for the very fact that all of the ingredients, the knowledge, the teaching, the intercession - all of this is present for a world's salvation. And the blind leaders of the blind have denied it again as they denied it on Atlantis, on Lemuria and in other civilizations that have passed away.

     This is not only a problem of a year or a decade. It is a problem of the culmination of twelve thousand years of spiritual evolution since the sinking of Atlantis, and therefore in ten-thousand-year cycles is an opportunity given for a people again to transcend themselves. Thus, the denial of this age [of the enlightenment of the Christ of Pisces] to the millions who are of the Light on this planet can set back the course of planetary evolution as much as another ten thousand years.

     Therefore, beloved, the intensity of the ministration of angels would cause you to be in such awe and ecstasy as to enter into a spiritual path so intense whereby you yourself should be infused with the light of the Great Central Sun for the conversion of many. Above all, beloved, it is essential to be fearless and to observe the fearlessness of the revolutionaries of the Spirit East and West. Your fearlessness comes not, again, in personal pride of spiritual attainment but in the utter giving of oneself to God whereby you receive the glory and protection of the Archangels and you fear neither loss of reputation nor friend nor life. For the inner being is aglow with fire and you know that your soul will be utterly assumed into the pillar of ascension's flame as my soul was in the hour of my passing.

     And therefore this life that you have, this life that is God's, is given for the many who know not the way to go and for whom you pray daily:

     Father, forgive thy children, for they know not what they do. They are the victims of a conspired ignorance. Therefore, neglect not those who are neglected by those who ought to be their shepherds, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them hour by hour in measures of soul resuscitation the true Communion wine and bread of the Lord's own Body.

     Know, then, beloved, that each individual in his time passes through the initiations through which Jesus passed. There is a crucifixion, therefore, that is of this world as fallen angels attempt to preempt the day and the hour of the true sign of the cross in the life of the individual wherein the soul is fastened to the cosmic cross of white fire and angels gathering round celebrate the alchemical marriage - "Father, into thine arms I commend my spirit." Into the heart of the living Christ the soul, then, is assumed.

     It [the true crucifixion] is in this hour, then, a path of initiation and the transfiguration does precede that crucifixion and prior to that a life of works, good works and healing, joy and teaching. Therefore take care to study in order that thy teaching be true and just, rightly dividing the word of Truth.

     Blessed ones, I speak now not [only] of the individual initiation but to tell you that the hour is come that the nations themselves as tribes, ancient tribes of a karmic group, are [also] facing the initiation of the crucifixion. And because they have not responded to their ancient teachers and therefore have had a karma of vulnerability to the denial of the Truth to them by their current leaders, they come ill-prepared to this magnificent moment when, though the world condemnation and the trial of the world and the fallen ones be upon them, those nations could rally in defense of the living Christ and their own opportunity to give birth to that Christ.

     Therefore, you will see that the crucifixion, which is a divine initiation, is preempted by fallen angels who would desire to utterly crucify and destroy those souls who have not yet been wed to Christ, as Jesus was thoroughly wed to the Light in the initiation of the transfiguration on the Mount of Transfiguration. That filling of his body with the fullness and intensity of the white light was an experience whereby he was also empowered to move on and to face the courts of hell who put the Son of God on trial.

     Blessed ones, in this hour it is well to understand and remember that in the hour of the ascension of the soul of the beloved Mark, this Messenger with you did receive that initiation of the transfiguration and then, beloved, [that of] the descent into hell; for fifty-one percent of her karma had been balanced, [she] therefore spending seven years in that descent into hell and more, preaching to fallen angels and spirits gone out of the way of the Lord. During that period, then, at successive stages one by one those fallen ones who rejected the true path of Maitreya through her did judge and condemn her and ultimately bring her before the trial of the courts of this world.

     Know, then, that you are serving with a Messenger who has never shirked her responsibility or the call to take the next step on this path so that you might understand that it is entirely possible with God for the soul on earth today to pass through each and every step of these initiations through which Jesus passed.

     Understand, beloved, that the crucifixion of the individual Messenger is behind her but the crucifixion of the nation and of the Body of God itself is yet nigh. For this reason I am permitted to tell you [that] you have been called to come to the Inner Retreat. For it is the Community of the Body of God - those saints who are preparing for the ascension - who, strengthened by one another, reinforced by one another in prayer and supplication and in physical mastery of the environment, may together meet and pass through all of the period of the balancing of karma that does precede the transfiguration and the crucifixion which does follow it.

     Therefore, know, beloved, that there does come a time, as my Father in heaven has asked me to tell you this evening, when the [walking of the] individual path of the thirty-three steps of the son of God, which are multiplied over those thousand stairs, does become the most important event in the life of the individual and the nations and the planet. Because the light is so great and the victory of such cosmic import to all life upon a planet, the hour does come when their ministrations to life must be translated and must be raised to the point where the fulfillment of their individual Christhood along that path does become more expedient to the entire Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother than any other service that they might possibly render.

     Therefore, for that reason you are called and called to accelerate within the Community under the disciplines of the holy order, the Order of Saint Francis and Saint Clare, reinstituted within this church years ago. Who else, then, beloved, would have the qualifications to lead you on this path than your own reincarnated sister Clare? Remember, then, that her Light and Presence is far beyond even that which it was in those days. For the cumulative causal body that she does bring to you comes from her discipleship under the adepts of East and West in many lifetimes.

     Know, then, beloved, that the fire in the mountain of the Northern Rockies is the fire of the saints and the true holy Church that shall be kept alive even through the transitions that earth shall make. That you might become the fire of the Mystical Body of God, we call you to that disciplined life in the understanding that those who reach the top of the pyramid are those who by their service guarantee to all others who are at its base that when they too arrive at the hour of this initiation, there will yet be a Mystery School and a platform of evolution called planet earth. It is to this end that the Masters, the Archangels have spoken to you during this weekend and to this goal that we have directed your attention.

     Those who have not completed their disciplines in the outer world nor truly fulfilled their required service to minister to life and to teach cannot leap and desire, then, by the motive of fear or self-preservation to suddenly enter into the Mystery School. It is those who have balanced a certain karma and ministered to the nations of Europe who are called in this hour, and they themselves must have a certain level of attainment and then the realization that while they have ministered in the field they have not received all of the training and chelaship that would normally be commensurate with their current level of service. These will also come in the footsteps of Jesus to present themselves as neophytes on the first steps.

     Thus, those who come newly to the Path should receive from these blessed brothers and sisters who have served you in all nations the fire of their hearts' devotion. And you must in appreciation make the vow to yourself and to God in this hour that these who have served shall not have lived in vain, as you may recall the words of President Abraham Lincoln, "that these dead shall not have died in vain."

     Therefore, I speak for the saints of the Church, those who have ascended and those who have not. They have given their life and their blood to reinfuse that Church with light until it has come to an age where that light is so denied [by the false hierarchy within the Church] that the Father will no longer allow that light of the saints to be retained in the Church as a repository for it.

     Thus, this Church Universal and Triumphant is the crystal chalice where that light is reserved for those coming after them. Looking upon these lives and those who are robed in white who wait for you beneath the altar of God in the etheric octave (for they are not able to ascend until you [also enter that ritual and initiation] and until they have fulfilled at inner levels their rituals of violet flame transmutation of karma), of these I say, then, [I] having been a part of this Church for many lifetimes, that they may not have died in vain but that their death might be a sign to all that for death to be followed by the life everlasting the soul does require a path and submission to the Hierarchy of the ascended saints robed in white, the Great White Brotherhood, [and a] submission to a path which at times, beloved, becomes distasteful not because of the Path but because the very biliousness of one's own karma does rise within the belly and return to the mouth to make one realize that there are astral toxins as well as physical toxins, all of which are to be purged in you for that path of soul purity and perfectionment.

     I am here as a living witness that [it is] "in spite of" rather than "because of" outer institutions [that] the soul ascends to God. The fallen angels have no power over thee except the power thou givest them by an absence of the raising up of the Light [of the Divine Mother] within yourself. Thus, know that they may delay but never ultimately turn back the victory of a soul who knows that she is the beloved of her Lord and the beloved of her God.

     Of one thing I have the conviction and have always had the conviction, that in my soul I was the living bride of Jesus. Through all of the periods of self-doubt and self-mortification of my own karma returning, I, beloved, rested my heart in the Star of his Hope and Love. This was a vindication and the restoration in my inner being of the sense of dignity, integrity and self-worth that sometimes becomes bowed down by unnecessarily harsh disciplines which involve the condemnation for one's sin and sinfulness while failing to also give the upliftment of one's glory in Christ.

     Therefore, as there is a church in heaven and a church on earth, there is a body that you wear in heaven which is thy Christ and a body you wear on earth, the body where karma remains. Know, then, that not all of thy being is in this form but thy being is in the highest realms and reaches of thy God.

     Take heed, then; for those who accelerate [on] the path of Jesus' life all the way to the hour of their resurrection, they shall be ready when their nations undergo the trial and crucifixion, and they shall keep a flame in the mountain of God that the threefold flame of the nations be not extinguished but live and endure to be rekindled again when new generations of Lightbearers can be born once the earth has been purged of a karma of the seed of the wicked and of a neglect of the children of God. These things must come to pass.

     Know, then, that you may receive the initiation of the resurrection and yet retain physical life and form. To walk about endued with the Spirit of the Resurrection, let this be thy goal. For remember, "the Light shone in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not, but we beheld his glory, the glory as [of] the only begotten Son of God," in the profile, in the Presence of our brother Jesus.

     Because he lived, we have a path to follow. We know [for we have been told] the decisions he made each step of the way; and as his life is revealed to you, as recorded in akasha, and you have shown to you the many things which he said and did which the world's books could not contain, you will have abundant criteria for decisions of righteousness that you must also make on the path of [soul-]testing when you reach the level where Absolute Evil seems right and Absolute Good seems wrong. Thus, the two-edged sword of the Universal Christ Mind in you will always separate the Real from the Unreal and by the steadfastness of your heart in the Sacred Heart of Jesus you will know what is the right choice for you.

     Therefore, in righteousness and in faithfulness, one with the Sacred Heart of Jesus as your Messenger is, you will come to the Place prophesied by Jesus when he was on earth, lo, two thousand years ago, prophesied to Saint Martha as the one where you would gather in this age. As by her heart in the heart of Jesus she followed the sign, so may you also know that every path and every station of the cross that you walk with the Divine Mother is already marked, and by your heart you will know it and you will find it.

     I AM with you and all who aspire to this victory. Now I flood to you millions of pink roses from my causal body that you may know that you have a sister who cares for you and is with you unto the hour of your soul's victory in Divine Love. And may all of your victories of that Divine Love be spent upon earth until all who are a part of our Lord's harvest in this age are wholly ascended in the light and free.

     I thank you for your gracious presence, your blessed hearts of purity, and I now withdraw to the heart of Jesus as I am taken to higher octaves by my Lord.

     This dictation by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was delivered by the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on February 28, 1988, at the Cine Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal.


Footnotes:

1 The origins of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, prior to the Roman occupation of the city in 205 b.c. are unknown. Its founders may have been Phoenicians who established the city as a trading station as early as 1200 b.c. Other legends claim that Lisbon was founded by Elisha, the grandson of Abraham, or Ulysses, from whom its ancient name, Olisipo, may be derived.
2 "Kuthumi"
3 Saint Bernadette (1844-1879), a devout peasant to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times in a grotto near Lourdes, France, when she was 14, endured the painful and debilitating disease of tuberculosis of the bone for more than seven years while she served as a Sister of Notre Dame at the Convent of Saint-Gildard. During the last two years of her life she developed a large tumor on her knee, which she kept a secret as long as she could so she would not be relieved of her duties, as portrayed in the film The Song of Bernadette (1943) based on Franz Werfel's novel by the same name.
4 See 1988 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 31 nos. 46 and 51 endnotes
5 Mother Mary's appearance at Knock. On August 21, 1879, the Blessed Mother with Saint Joseph on her right and Saint John the Evangelist on her left appeared in a silent visitation before the south gable wall of the small church at Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. The apparition was reportedly seen by about 18 people. Witnesses said the Blessed Mother was dressed as a queen in brilliant white raiment and wore a crown, with a rose over her forehead where the crown fitted her brow. She was gazing upward and appeared to be praying. Following this visitation, many pilgrims received miraculous cures. For an excerpt on the significance of the Knock appearance from Elizabeth Clare Prophet's sermon at Croagh Patrick, Ireland, see 1980 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 23 no. 44, "The Radiant Word," pp. 287-88.