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New Year's Retreat at the Royal Teton Ranch
The WarningDarkness May Come at Any Hour and Any Day
Ho! Let the Word of the LORD be upon his own! And let it descend as the extreme unction upon those who this day throughout the earth stand before the Lord God to give answer as to their deeds, as to the motive of their hearts, and therefore let whatever unction may be accorded unto them by the earth representatives of the LORD be now delivered.
For the hour is come when all must give account before the living witness, before the altar of the Most High God, before the threefold flame within their hearts.
Therefore, the infamy that is upon the earth does receive the blinding Light of my own heart. For I AM the Great Guru descended now with my legions of Light and angels of record, who shall render unto me an accounting of the opportunity that has been made of all souls who have descended into these Matter spheres.
For the line has been drawn, and that line is drawn, and therefore the tide of evil has reached a mark wherefore and whereby it shall not exceed it, but those who have brought it to that level shall themselves be judged.
And if, therefore, the pots be not found to be filled with Light to hold that line, blessed ones, that line shall be kept in the etheric octave and yet in the earth there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I, the Lord Sanat Kumara, greet the troops of Saint Germain and those who march with the seraphim of God. I commend you for your Light and Calling and I warn you where there is an absence of diligence in the shoring up of the Light in your members and in your chakras against the day of your own testing and initiation.
For you are called to my service, you are called to the Great White Brotherhood because in ancient times one and all have stood against the enemy and the adversary and in some moment of past time have been put down by these archdeceivers. For they have garnered the Light of the Divine Mother and they have used it against civilization upon civilization against the children of the Sun.
Therefore, let the sons of God in the earth know that you prepare for the most extreme confrontation with these fallen ones, who desire nothing else and nothing less than to mete upon you Death and Hell and the destruction of the soul.
Therefore, I say to you, be prepared! Enter the sacred fiery heart and never let down your guard, for when you come to that moment of challenge, I tell you the breath of life does hang in the balance and the very thread itself.
And therefore let the garment of God be upon you by diligence daily. Let the sword never be put down. Let the shield be around you, and know, beloved, that those who would inherit the kingdom of God, the full consciousness of Godhood with me, must stand before those who have challenged my office and the offices of the least of these little ones who have no defense but are as lambs who have been shorn even of their coat of wool.
Blessed ones, the very forcefield and the aura of the sons of God can be in the earth the full power of the Great Central Sun Magnet. Therefore, I say unto you, invoke the Great Central Sun Magnet and know how serious and how complete are the fourteen-month dispensations of Serapis Bey. Each and every fourteen-month cycle, you are calling to the Great Central Sun for the amplification of one of the spheres of the causal body by the power of ascension's flame.1
Therefore, on the first of the secret rays you have walked now these ten months since the changing of the cycles. Blessed ones, understand that this is for your ultimate protection, and we have explained to you that the initiations of the five secret rays, which have succeeded those of the seven, are most difficult. For here is the place of the violation of the heart. Here are the rings of light that surround the heart and are closest to the I AM Presence, and it is these five secret rays which the fallen ones and the Watchers have violated to the utter destruction of planetary bodies.
Blessed ones, it is not alone nuclear war but the very splitting and sawing asunder of planets themselves. This is the destruction that was wrought in those days when in the physical Matter universe the Sons of God with full Christ attainment had not descended.2
Now with the descending of the Sons of God and angels of high hierarchical position such as the Archeia Mother Mary, there has been therefore the rescue mission of the children of the Sun these two thousand years and longer. And with the walking of Enoch in the earth and with the coming of the Ancient of Days, my own mantle into the physical octave long ago, there has been intercession while our shepherds have gone forth to teach and to bring the children of the Sun into a path of individual Christhood that they might put on divine Sonship.
This is the purpose of Maitreya's Mystery School, which we now convoke, and therefore the Lords of the Seven Rays descend this day to take their place as instructors of those who understand and must understand that you come to our halls of learning for the single purpose of Christed realization and the living incarnation of the Word.3 Lo, I AM THAT I AM! and I tell you the hour is now, as has been told to you.
Let there be, therefore, the watch and the alertness of the Light. For it is not enough to bask in the Light or to give your decrees but [there must be] that supreme sense of diligence, that instinct that is ready to pounce when the fallen ones unleash a tirade of darkness out of the pits through their alien individuals, through their spacecraft. For they come suddenly as thieves in the night to tear from you the sacred love tryst and the spirit of Community; and, beloved ones, they stand apart and away, not revealing the terror of their night and their hellfire until that hour and the moment when they determine to deliver it suddenly as a blitzkrieg upon the planetary body.
Therefore, those of you who have not stood against Antichrist nose to nose, as one would say, do not have the sense of recollection of what it means to be in peace and all in the bliss of God, minding your business and living your life as good individuals, suddenly to have the chaos of the underworld unleashed. Those who have experienced world wars and been in the midst of battle, they do know and they recall.
Therefore I say, sleep not but be watchful, for this descent of Darkness in your midst may come at any hour and any day! It may come to assail you and set aside your mission. I do not come to incite fear but I speak of the realism of the hour, and the realism is that even the sons of God who have that Christhood just above them as a mantle of Light do not sense the urgency of claiming it in the full path of God-mastery.
Therefore, the Lords of Karma have so asked me that I might deliver unto you that warning whereby the vigil be kept in your heart and whereby moment by moment you sense yourselves ready with the Archangels, ready with the hosts of the Light, ready to meet Armageddon should it cross your path even at this Inner Retreat.
I speak not necessarily at all of nuclear war. I speak of those skirmishes where the fallen ones come to destroy a single living soul, a potential God, one necessary to the mandala of Light. Blessed hearts, these encounters are sprung precisely when the victims are unawares, and this unawareness is also calculated - as they do inundate you with all types of rays and forces of manifestation - subtly to put you to sleep and cause you to be not centered in the heart of Alpha and Omega.
Blessed ones, there are some who will not cross over to see the "Promised Land"4 for the very reason of their not taking seriously the messages we have been giving year in and year out. I must speak again, for the hour is short.
Therefore, earth stands on the pinnacle of entering a great golden age: earth stands on the precipice of being taken down into the abyss. And in this hour it is truly the vigil of the hearts of the Lightbearers that does count.
Therefore, weigh the expenditure of time and money always. The expenditure of thy life before the altar of God is most vital in [meeting] the necessities of daily existence and the economics of life. This [initiation] is a close parallel to the altar experience. But all other projects and plans must be set aside for the fire of the heart, for the path of the ascension, for that which is most essential.
When you are prepared as Saint Germain has told you to be, beloved, there shall be no necessity to be burdened and the enemy therefore does fear. For the enemy is a coward. The enemy is the ultimate coward! And therefore, beloved, know that the Light of God that does not fail when raised up by you is feared. Thus, it is a "power play" at intergalactic levels by the fallen ones against the Sons of God.
We here now gathered in this assembly and company for this convocation therefore do say to you that we can hold the balance in the physical octave only through you. This is the Law day by day and hour by hour, and when you are taken suddenly unawares, I tell you it is the momentum of your heart and the momentum of your aura and the magnetism of your "Life-field"5 that does make the difference. For we may enter in with the speed of light to save those who are under the attack of the fallen ones whereas those who are sometime frequenters of our chapels and our services and now-and-then decreers, these place themselves in the worst jeopardy of all.
Beloved ones, between the Dark and the Daylight is a twilight zone of terror, and therefore I say, enter into the white fire core of Being! Place yourself in zeal upon a course of decrees for some period of time, and place yourself diligently before the diet that has been presented to you6 to see what you can make of it for the balancing of your lifestream in the physical octave.
Beloved ones, you will require a mind that is sharper than a two-edged sword, a heart that may beat and not become disoriented by the panic of the fallen ones and the changing earth conditions. You will require all of your forces summoned unto the Victory from the heart of the I AM Presence.
Let the vessels be brought! Let all vessels that can be found be brought to the altar that we might pour our oil into them and fill them full that there shall be no oil wanting in the day when the fire must be kept on the altar of being.7
You are the vessels. Let the vessels be emptied. For I, Sanat Kumara, would fill them with my oil of gladness, my oil of praise and thanksgiving, my oil of everlasting Life! I would see you get the Victory here and now! Blessed hearts, it does mean the Victory of a cosmos.
Therefore, I require you now to be seated in silence in my heart.
I make known to you this day, inasmuch as this is a branch of the Great White Brotherhood sponsored by the level of my office with the Seven Holy Kumaras, that in this hour there is the withdrawal of the Brotherhood of Mount Shasta8 from the retreat physical of Mount Shasta. This entire brotherhood, therefore, does withdraw and does transfer their forcefield and focus both in[to] the Grand Teton and in[to] another area of the Northern Rockies.
Blessed hearts, this announcement is a sign unto you and let it be a sign unto every heart and let it be known from within. I give you, therefore, this report that you might accommodate and understand your position as the pillars in the temple of our God.
Therefore, deliberations at the Royal Teton Retreat continue, beloved, and we express gratitude for the light released and the calls given. We, therefore, call to each and every one of you and those who are the creative sons and daughters of God to put your hearts together, to know and to understand how there might be executed a proliferation of the Word and of the Warning and of the Message that has gone forth.
Let it be so, then, by the release (through the use of such supply as is available to you) of this message that comes from the heart of Saint Germain, that has been shouted from the housetops, delivered by the Messenger and by yourselves wherever you might be received. Let it go forth, then, for the people of the earth must have the warning as they had that warning in the days of Noah, and Noah did preach one hundred years.9
Therefore, the Hierarchy was determined (as the Hierarchy is determined today) that earth might have a full preparation and the Lightbearers be cut free. Understand, then, the mockery that was upon Noah and how he was mocked perpetually, imagine, for a century of time, warning the people of the flood that was to come.
Therefore, let it be known that that warning must sound as the drawing of a line that shall divide the Real from the Unreal, that those who respond shall respond, those who shall not respond shall not.
This is the work of the evangels of the LORD, the angel messengers10 which you are, who go before the face of my Presence. For you are the evangels of the Archangels and of the Seven Holy Kumaras and of the Lord of the World and the living Saviour Jesus Christ, Maitreya and Kuthumi.
Therefore, know the I AM THAT I AM and know that living Word and know that I AM able to stand in your midst in this hour. And by the power of the fire of my office, I therefore may transfer to you that momentum of light that is yours for the sealing and the protection, but only that which may be borne by you without discord, without disobedience to the law of your inner members.
Therefore, I say hasten! Hasten to present this body, brain, mind and heart, this substance of the chalice that you own in this octave. Hasten to present it, then, the living sacrifice in order that you might never again, never again, never again by the grace of God be found wanting in the hour when the enemy does knock at thy door, coming as friend but in reality bearing the witness of Death and Hell.
Remember the archdeceivers. Remember the archdeceivers, beloved ones. Remember those who have come as friend only to destroy the Lightbearers, the creative servants and those who are in the very midst of bringing forth the divine music of God. See this portrayal in the life of Mozart. See it again in the lives of many others, how those who have presented themselves as friend of the sons of God have been their ultimate betrayers.
Therefore, know that when the enemy speaks peace but does amass his implements of war you must be ready - you must be ready for this one who has smiled the smile of Death and kissed with the kiss of Death.
Know, then, O beloved, that you do have a right to live and to live forevermore in God, and we prepare you for everlasting Life and for the conquest of the Matter spheres. This is not a message of fear; I repeat it to you. It is a message of quickening and awakening that you might have lawful concern but never anxiety, that you might use the violet flame and that you might see yourself with equanimity in the earth as a fiery instrument of the Lord God!
Therefore, I say unto the seed of the wicked who attack the representatives of Sanat Kumara, Woe! Woe! Woe! Let your judgments be upon you! For you have assailed the house of the Mother and upon you therefor shall be the return current of that hate and hate creation and that death wish, and it shall be upon you in this hour. Woe! Woe! Woe!
And therefore, I say, go down! Go down and be reduced by the percentages of the darkness that you have sought to move upon those who have served you lifetime after lifetime!
Therefore, I, Sanat Kumara, draw my circle, my circle of Light, around this body of Lightbearers of which you shall ne'er be a part wherever you may walk on the face of this earth, and I draw my circle of Light around this Retreat and Ranch such as it is intended to be in the final drawing of the lines of the boundary.
Therefore, beloved, let all who come upon that circle of fire feel and know the wall of Light,11 and let those who are sensitive in this activity know that when you cross the line and enter, you have passed through the wall of Light of Sanat Kumara, of Lady Master Venus, of the Holy Kumaras, of our legions of Light. And therefore, it is maintained as a wall of Light; and may you internalize it, may you invoke it, and may you know that the tube of Light is the sealing now of the whole house of Israel, of all who are Real in the divine identification!
I AM THAT I AM Sanat Kumara! I will not leave my own in the earth. I shall not leave them to become the fodder of those who have determined to make mincemeat of the children of the Sun! I AM determined, therefore, by the power and the authority of this scepter to raise up among you true shepherds and Christed ones!
All is set in position for you so to become. Therefore, beware the pitfalls of pride and ambition. Beware the pitfalls, beloved, and heed the word of my Messenger, who has truly the mantle and the training to point out to you those subtle burdens that are upon you that prevent you from being a transparency for the living Word of God.
Without faith in the living Guru, it is impossible to please God. This is the meaning of that which is recorded in scripture: Without faith it is impossible to please God.12 It is the faith in the living Christ of Jesus and in those who have worn the mantle of Guru throughout the ages that enables you to fulfill that which is pleasing unto the LORD. You will not see of your own that which must be cast out13 and this is why those who have rejected all gurus [i.e., enlightened teachers] become the incarnation of pride, intellectual pride, Luciferian pride and the sense of superiority on the Path.
I say, my angels have come to tear from you the mask14 and the garments of spiritual pride that block your true attainment on the Path. Know and understand this, beloved, that the voices subtle of the fallen angels so mock our own that many have thought they have received visitations of ourselves and do take their dictations from, supposedly, Maitreya or Jesus or Saint Germain or the Archangels.
They have been beguiled and fooled by these fallen ones and by the false hierarchies misrepresenting the Great White Brotherhood. And in each and every case, slowly but surely, those fallen ones, speaking to them and whispering in their ear, will deliver a message of flattery as to their supposed attainment and their being chosen and set aside for an extraordinary mission, et cetera.
Beloved ones, those who will not bend the knee before the living Presence of Sanat Kumara throughout the hierarchy of the Great White Brotherhood have no part with this path or the ascension in the Light, and therefore they remain outside the courts of Maitreya's Mystery School as of old in days of Lemuria and Atlantis.
And they would gnash their teeth and they would rush against the Lightbearers [if they could], even as in the stoning of Saint Stephen,15 and move against those who had the Holy Ghost, and they would claw them and would tear from them their very garments! For beloved, they have come again in the land, and they have stood apart, and they both fear and hate the Messenger and the path of the ascension.
They claim to have it all, but I tell you they have not the wedding garment and we say unto them worldwide: Friend, how camest thou in without the wedding garment?16 And without that wedding garment, there is no transition to higher octaves. Though they may misuse the mantras to attract to themselves a light and a glamour of sanctity, they have it not. Go not their way! For I tell you the false teachers in the land are many.
I will isolate for you one false-hierarchy impostor of Lord Himalaya, that Swami Rama that does preach out of the United States and does pass his wares. This individual is corrupt and a fallen one to the very extent and boundaries of this kingdom. And therefore I say, Woe! Woe! Woe! unto this Swami Rama and all who are like him and with him, the false hierarchies out of India who have come as fallen angels, taken bodies of that blessed nation and therefore moved against her people.
And therefore, they may use the light of the Mother to establish the siddhis17 and physical powers, but they have not the light of the Father, the I AM Presence, and not the sponsorship of the Great White Brotherhood. And the silly women and the silly men who have gone after them worshiping them will come to challenge the Messenger, "Why do you not proclaim this one? Why do you not proclaim Krishnamurti? Why do you not proclaim this and that and the other one who is supposed to be the Christ of the age?"
I tell you, go not after them, for you have the Christ in your being! You have the kingdom of God within you!18 You have my flame within you! You have your heart-to-heart contact with me and through me to all of the ascended hosts of the Great White Brotherhood!
I have come for the saving of your beings of Light, and many of you have joined me as we came to planet earth long ago for the saving of these evolutions. Have you lost and forgotten your First Love? This is the hour to remember it with the full intensity and fire of your being, beloved. This is the hour to know that souls are being gobbled up by these false gurus!
Let it come to pass, therefore, that they are exposed! they are exposed! they are exposed! as you name them now and demand the cutting free of all true Lightbearers who have been fastened to them by manipulation and, yes, by direct black magic.
I say the hour is come for the false hierarchs, impostors of my name Sanat Kumara, to go down in the earth; and as my Son Jesus has proclaimed to you to declare their judgment, so I proclaim it this day!
Let the word go forth from this mountain of God. Let it go forth in the name of Elijah and Elisha, in the name of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ: and therefore let that fallen one who has turned aside the path of freedom, even that Sun Myung Moon, go down! Woe! Woe! Woe!
I say before all the false gurus of the nation, let them go down now! For the children of the Light have the right to be cut free, have the right to become Keepers of the Flame of Life of Sanat Kumara, have a right to take their stand!
Let all those who are the sentinels of freedom in the earth therefore keep the watch. Let all seraphim of God receive my command now, issued unto the holy one, Justinius. Go forth and surround these Keepers of the Flame, four in number. I charge you, millions of seraphim from the Great Central Sun, keep the flame of Life and cosmic purity to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west in the turning of these sons and daughters of God and children of the Light!
Let all who are such, all who have the threefold flame of God and the worship thereof hear, then, this day: I send to you from the Great Central Sun four seraphim of God to keep thee in all thy ways. Command them in the name of Jesus Christ and send them on your missions. They come to protect you and seal you from that encroachment in your beings of the toxins and pollutions of world karma that are descending from the hour of midnight of New Year's.
Therefore, as the days pass and as you carve a light and as you hollow out a flame in the midst of planetary darkness, the darkness does increase and your light does increase and the flame of your dynamic decrees does uphold a nation. Therefore, to assist you in continuing the mighty work begun at this conference, I send these seraphim with you, beloved.
Let it be known that Ra Mu does stand with me upon this platform, that ancient one who has spoken even from the heart of Mount Shasta,19 and therefore the sounding of the tone of Ra Mu has to do with the changing of earth cycles in the Pacific Basin, has to do with Lemuria and the engines of Mu of the fallen ones and the Light of the Divine Mother being raised up.
Both the binding of the Darkness and the raising of the Light itself, beloved, do portend alchemical change. Therefore, let the violet flame, let the sacred fire go forth and let utter transmutation take place for the consuming of that which could cause physical disturbance in the earth.
I tell you, beloved, you are gathered from all mystery schools of ancient Lemuria and Atlantis. You have known the Path, you have known theway of Community and you have known the interlopers who have sought to enter our communities and temples of Light. You have seen them then. You have seen them again today. I say, They shall not pass! They shall not enter this Community! And if they so do, they shall be bound instantaneously in answer to your call. Let it be done, I say! Let the full power of the seraphim of God maintain the watch.
And now our beloved Mother Mary would have me say to you that her concern for the souls of the earth is indeed grave, and she does, therefore, ask you with a plea of her heart once again to give that call of the rosary20 and that single judgment call of the raising of the right hand of the Blessed Virgin, even the Cosmic Virgin, to give it once a day with your fifteen-minute rosary that she might have the authority to act on a twenty-four-hour basis for the binding and the judgment of those who go after the new souls of Light and the children of the Sun.
And therefore, our mission is to save all Lightbearers of the earth. Blessed ones, I count on your assistance and I count on it firmly and ultimately. May I have your word and may that word resound worldwide in this hour from the hearts of all Keepers of the Flame? ["Yes!"]
I, Sanat Kumara, have spoken unto you and I call now my Son Sean to this altar. [Rev. Sean C. Prophet kneels at the altar.]
Now, as you kneel before the God and Goddess Meru in the temple of Lake Titicaca, I, Sanat Kumara, say unto you, receive the mantle and authority of your father, Mark Prophet, and know that I stand before you and I seal you this day from the wiles of Death and Hell as I have sent my angel to prevent them from prevailing over you and your own this very night.
Therefore I say, receive, then, my anointing and know that all who shall send Darkness and the death wish upon you and the force of Hell shall deal with Sanat Kumara, and their death wish shall be instantaneously returned upon them. Therefore, assume that role and know that you go forth in the fullness of that mantle of Mark Prophet. Seize it now and divide the waters of Jordan!21
Who, then, shall proclaim the Word of the LORD? Who shall proclaim the coming of the Prophet? I proclaim it, and I seal you now with the full protection of your office and mantle, and I say you shall live to fulfill your fiery destiny. Fear not. Death and Hell shall not prevail over thee.
And by this mantle you may also decree it so for all of thy members of this household and all members of this Community; and all Keepers of the Flame worldwide may appeal to me through your mantle for this protection against the wiles of Death and Hell and against the inordinate inroads that have been made by the fallen ones against those new Lightbearers that have been entering in as the fallen ones have attacked them. Therefore, this day hence they have no power! For the Prophet is in the land and he shall go forth.
Therefore, let all acknowledge their own Christhood. Let all acknowledge the mantle of their own I AM Presence and use it! Beloved ones, hear me! For the mantle that is not exercised is the mantle, therefore, that may be seized from you by the fallen ones. Exercise and revere the mantle. Let none trample upon it.
Go forth, then, and fulfill that divine calling. And so I say it to you and I say it to all, let the will of God be made known and let all other things be set aside for the fulfillment of that mission.
I commend you to the keeping of the Diamond Heart of Mary and Morya that this Messenger through whom I speak may be with you all the days that she has called forth to extend her service upon this planet. For this Messenger has vowed not to take her leave of the planet until all Lightbearers destined to ascend under this dispensation have already ascended to heaven, and then and only then shall she be the last to enter that open portal and then it be shut. May it so come to pass, beloved, because you have realized the necessity of being the Diamond Heart in this octave.
In the name of the living Witness, I have come. In the name of the living Witness, I now ascend to higher octaves for the concerns of the planetary problem of Evil and these fallen ones marching.
So therefore, I summon you Oromasis and Diana, Aries and Thor, Neptune and Luara, Virgo and Pelleur, Elohim of God from the Great Central Sun. Come forth now in the Victory of the God Flame! Come forth now and overturn the fallen ones and set back their timetables of war and attack on the economy! Let them be set back! Let their Darkness be reduced! I decree it in the name of the living God. I decree it, for there are Keepers of the Flame in the earth.
Therefore, I AM THAT I AM. Therefore, let the Light go forth in this hour, and I say to all you who are betrayers of the Word: this day you are judged before the Divine Mother Mary and it is done! It is done in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. It is done in the name of the Divine Mother, in the name Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, in the name Brahman and the Word. So I stand. So you stand. And we are the coordinates of the Infinite Fire, as Above so below. It is done!
This dictation by Sanat Kumara was delivered through the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, January 2, 1988, during the 5-day New Year's Retreat at the Royal Teton Ranch, Montana.
Avalokitesvara [Sanskrit, "the lord who sees" or "the lord who hears the sounds of the world" or "the lord who is seen"], known in China as the feminine being Kuan Yin or Kuan Shih Yin and in Japan as Kannon, Kwannon, or Kwanzeon. In Mahayana Buddhism, Avalokitesvara is the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy; a bodhisattva is literally a "being of wisdom" who is destined to become a Buddha but has foregone the bliss of Nirvana with a vow to save every being on earth. Avalokitesvara is a divine emanation of the Dhyani Buddha Amitabha, who embodies the quality of compassion in its highest sense. As one of the most popular and beloved Buddhist figures, Avalokitesvara's attributes and miracles are recounted in many scriptures (sutras). His assistance is invoked often, especially for protection from natural disasters and calamities, to resolve personal and family problems, and to bestow children. The Surangama Sutra records that Avalokitesvara has the power to appear in thirty-two different bodily forms, according to the different types of beings he is trying to save, and that he has the power to bestow fourteen kinds of fearlessness. Devotees invoke Avalokitesvara's power and merciful intercession through the mantra OM MANI PADME HUM ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus!"). The worship of Avalokitesvara can be traced back to the second century in China and was well established in Tibet by the seventh century. Tibetan Buddhists believe that Avalokitesvara is incarnated in each Dalai Lama (the spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet; the fourteenth Dalai Lama was forced to flee the country following the 1959 Tibetan uprising against the Chinese). Avalokitesvara is often portrayed with a thousand arms and varying numbers of eyes, heads and hands, sometimes with an eye in the palm of each hand. In this form he is looking in all directions, sensing the afflictions of mankind and striving to alleviate them. His female consort is the White Tara, who is said to have been born of a tear shed by him in compassion for the distress of sentient beings. In his 1987 New Year's Eve address, Gautama Buddha said, "It is an hour that you may also reach out through the Presence of Avalokitesvara to save that which can be saved." See Pearl no. 2, pp. 10, 11, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20.