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Chapter 32
Beloved Lord Ling - June 30, 1991


Pearls of Wisdom - Year 1991
Inspired in
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

32  Beloved Lord Ling - June 30, 1991
    32.1  I AM the Witness - June 30, 1991

Vol. 34 No. 32 - Beloved Lord Ling - June 30, 1991
The Messenger Stumps Seattle
XII
The Code of Life for the Initiate
The Ten Commandments
The Lord Has Promised to Empower You

     Unto all who have kept the flame of the ark of the covenant I speak. I direct the ray of light from my heart, even the ray that did descend from Almighty God to etch in stone those covenants that our God would make with a holy people.

     These tablets I did break out of rage toward a people who would enter into the golden-calf civilization and materialism while I would commune upon the mountain with God.1 Therefore, for the stubbornness of that people, God did then inscribe but ten commandments to be kept.2 And the path of the Mystery School that had been inscribed [on the first set of tablets] was no longer [written] in form.3

     And what do we see today?

     Scarcely any can even keep those ten codes of the Law, which are binding upon the servants of God upon earth if they would maintain their tie to the Mighty I AM Presence.

     Enter the mercy and grace of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who himself did not exempt you from keeping the law but did come to fulfill the law and the prophets.4

     May you know, then, that the violet flame may be the grace of forgiveness and the erasing of the records of sin, but the breaking of the law, beloved, is a setback to your lifestream in a given lifetime and perhaps for succeeding embodiments. Therefore choose grace as well as the law and live to fulfill your destiny in this hour!

     Now the ray from my heart, as I am one in the I AM THAT I AM in the ascended state, does engrave upon the tablets of your heart, does engrave on your inward parts the code of life for the initiate who would enter into the ascension coils of the Divine Mother in this life.

     I myself did pass into another incarnation and you have known me in my final embodiment as Lord Ling of China. There I perfected the wisdom, fulfilled the balancing of my karma and did espouse the flame of God-happiness. [This I did] in view of the great mourning and depression that is carried by so many of the children of Israel and Judah, who have gone forth in a state of burden of their karma and in a state of depression concerning their absence of knowledge of the true path of salvation and the promise of heaven and victory on earth.

     Some are even wed in a greater way to materialism than they were in the moments when we were in the wilderness and at the foot of Sinai. Yes, beloved, materialism and the pleasures of the senses are addictive. Far from getting better, [these addictions] get worse.

     Thus, I engrave, as God does engrave in your hearts, the true mysteries of the kingdom, the true understanding of the requirements of the Law and the Path. If you are not able to read this writing, know that it does burn within you, that it is a living fire, that it is the fire infolding itself. It is the all-consuming fire of God that will, if you allow it, consume in you all those manifestations less than the fulfillment of the Law.

     May you early seek the sacred fire and then the violet flame and then the calls unto the Seven Archangels. For those of you who have descended from this seed of Abraham, who also descended ultimately from the seed of Sanat Kumara, do indeed have a destiny in this hour; for your training in the ancient golden-age civilization of Jesus Christ does fit you to be true shepherds.

     Thus, Jesus knew to whom he was speaking when he said, "Feed my sheep." There are those who are rightly able and called by their karma and destiny of dharma to feed the souls of the millions upon earth. I call you all to this calling, for you may be adoptive sons who have chosen to enter in to claim your joint heirship with Jesus of the sonship that does belong to all of this seed of Light. Therefore whether you are adoptive sons or [count yourselves as] those who truly trace their traditions to the beginnings, I am come to draw you into the office of the high calling of your destiny.

     You may choose not to look [at it], to cast it aside, to walk in the other direction. But I will explain to you, beloved, that the requirement for the ascension of every individual is unique and is different from another. Unless you fulfill that which is your personal calling in this life, do not expect to equate yourself with the adepts who have gone before or the Ascended Masters. To be like another, to pick up another's dharma because you like it better than your own, this is a misuse of free will and does circumvent your calling.

     Therefore the law that God does write in your inward parts in this hour is the law of your own destiny. Some wander about disconnected from their sun center and say, "What is my destiny? What is my divine plan?"

     It is almost as though you would ask God, "What is my name? I have forgotten my name. [Who am I? I have forgotten who I am.]"

     Indeed you have, beloved, for parents have named you by the names of their choices but that name is simply an outer label. It does not necessarily connect with the inner name, the new name,5 the name that does embody by sound and vowel and by cosmic number even the code of your fiery destiny.

     Thus, the Messenger has counseled many to begin the Path, to seek and find the divine plan by giving oneself in service, by loving and loving again, by perceiving what skills are needed to assist souls to discover themselves, to resolve their psychology and the schisms in the psyche.

     Yes, people have great needs. Learn the professions. Learn some skill of service to help them become more of who they are and in so doing you will also find yourself.

     You may choose to fast in the wilderness and to pray. You will remember I was without food for forty days and forty nights on the mountain with God.6 Though this may be a symbolical number, I assure you the length was the equivalent of your counting of the days. Therefore know, beloved, that to fast in the outer sense of the word is to feast in the Light, is to become a tightly wound coil of the individuality of God.

     Yes, beloved, if you do not know the way to go, then follow in the footsteps of someone who does, follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, as you know him truly to be the avatar of all ages and the true Saviour of your soul. Walk in the footsteps of other saints, learn from them, and polish your profession and calling. But, above all, let love permeate everything you do, a profound love that issues from the Source, that is a fountain that flows, a divine love that meets the human need or the need of any creature.

     Yes, beloved, love will fulfill the Law until the scales from your eyes are removed and, behold, you can see what is that calling unique to you that only you can accomplish, only you can realize. And if you do not, there will be no other one to come along in your place. For God has created you and your twin flame with a special mission in all of the universes and has seen fit to place you on this earth in this time, not to while away the hours in impractical dreams and musings that are of other centuries and other times of quietude when one could bask in poetry and chamber music and not be concerned about the affairs of state.

     At this moment the sword of Damocles hangs by its thread above everyone, for the Dark Cycle of karma returning is surely locked into the earth. And the Four Horsemen will not disappear but they will ride with their relentless ride until every last erg of karma is descended.

     But our God has once again provided you with the mercy of the violet flame, with a way out, with a means to overcome. Always and always and always by the love of the Lord the covenant is extended!

     I will give you all that I am and all that I have, my beloved children, if you will but enter into the true reality of your personal Christhood, if you will but embrace the Light and forsake the Darkness and never look back but forward into the flaming Presence of the I AM THAT I AM.

     Therefore, the Lord has promised to empower you, even as he empowered Jesus, with all the power of heaven and earth7 as the sealing of his mission. Nothing shall be withheld from you if you shall proceed on the path of love and embrace a path of initiation under the Ascended Masters. For every soul, no matter how advanced, requires nurturing and correction and even the chastening rod of love, which does not leave the soul where it finds it.

     Some are smug in their sense of self-sufficiency, for they have dabbled in many books and know many truths and are quite self-satisfied with their level of attainment. Well, beloved, there are many, many egos that count themselves the avant-garde in science and religion today and they have eclipsed the sun of their I AM Presence by that ego, thinking mistakenly that their ego is the soul who has overcome.

     The soul who has overcome, clothed with that anointing of the light and the oil of the prophet, beloved, is not an ego who has been self-made or pulled itself up by its own bootstraps. No, beloved. Take care, then, that you are not drawn into a subtle pride that is not even recognized by yourself, as though you had arrived at a certain level of attainment when you have not begun the first steps.

     There are those who are offended by my words, yet I speak to those who will remember the word of Jesus, "Except you become as a little child, you cannot enter in."8 This has layers of meaning, beloved. For the soul is as a child, and unless you go back to the level of the soul unencumbered by the development of the intellect, you will not be beginning at the point of the seed atom of the spirit or of the root of the psyche.

     In another sense, beloved, to go back to the point of childhood is to seek your resolution with what modern psychologists have called "the inner child of the past." You must grow again through those years and choose and separate and pick the very best [attributes] of parents and teachers and siblings and all [who were] around you and disassociate yourselves from the negatives, pulling the dark threads out of the garment, reweaving new threads, building again.

     This cannot be accomplished alone by psychology or its process. You need the violet flame. Let the humble of heart and the true devotee know that the violet flame is meant to be given [in dynamic decrees] and not simply spoken about. The violet flame can take you to planes of bliss and joy, can saturate and supersaturate your consciousness, can erase those records that remain [written] on your book of life of the breaking of the commandments and covenants of your God.

     Yes, sin is forgiven through the living Christ. And the agency of that forgiveness is truly the violet fire, the mercy flame, truly the flame of the priesthood of Melchizedek. Therefore is the dispensation nigh and it is great.

     Some have not changed yet since that golden-age civilization of Atlantis, not through many subsequent incarnations, not through the chastening rod of the Lord. In fact, they have become enangered against their God rather than receive that lawful correction by the rod.

     May you then know, beloved, that this is the hour when all those who have not relented in their stubbornness can suddenly find themselves in the flame of the Holy Spirit, in the Light of the Divine Mother, the Shekinah glory that descends from the I AM THAT I AM, and in a blaze of violet flame they can know the ultimate fulfillment of God's promises to Israel and Judah today.

     And let it be remembered that, then as now, mercy unto all peoples is a prerequisite to entering in, mercy toward those whom some consider less than themselves. These things ought not to be! And the Palestinians must have their homeland, for they too are the children of the Most High God and not some kind of lower evolution.

     Beware the pride that has infested all who think of themselves as chosen, those throughout the world who are of the lineage, as has been discussed this day, of the tribes. Yes, beloved, there ought not to be pride among a people who have betrayed their teachers for long centuries, who have been rebuked, to whom the prophets have spoken, who have disobeyed and preferred the false prophets, who have gone their way and therefore been dispossessed of their land and inheritance and been scattered to the four winds!

     There ought not to be pride among you but truly the understanding, in tears of joy, of the great mercy of God. Therefore, beware those who say that they are of this calling but are not indeed, who yet still remain the servants of the false teachers.

     I AM Moses in the fullness of the mantle of God. You have known me in my human state of ultimate frustration and anger with the children of my people. You have known me pleading before God, before Sanat Kumara, before the I AM THAT I AM on behalf of yourselves for centuries to spare the judgment; and thus you have been spared on many an occasion. You have known me in the days of my burden and the woe upon my soul in the attempt to bring this people to a new covenant.

     Yes, beloved, now know me free from that burden and that lifetime, when so many accused me of my humanness. I have moved on, but I have not forgot what it is like to be in the shoes of those who are pulling against the tide of the entire civilization of the world.

     Make the effort, beloved! Let your reach exceed your grasp! May you know that so much counts for your effort. May you weary in discussions and keep the coil of the sacred fire tightly wound that you might have the wherewithal to speak when it is time to speak and that your voice heard will be the sounding of truth; and the people will stop to listen, for they know the vibration of the Spirit of the LORD upon you.

     I give you my flame of God's happiness, for happiness is surely a momentum that will carry you through the sublime and the ridiculous, the ludicrous and the cruel, the condemnation of this world. Happiness is a sense of the yellow fires of illumination within. It is a co-measurement with the point of the Infinite that is able to stand and to withstand all of the onslaughts of this level.

     Happiness is a sheath and a shield. Yes, happiness, beloved, allows you to make light of the dread darkness of those aligned with the left-handed path, who take themselves so seriously. Oh, how the devil resists the mockery of your happiness! Let it be so.

     Take care that you do not underestimate the path of the left. Take care that you do not go under and enter into the seriousness of their illusions regarding their self-importance.

     There have always been tyrants. And if you have known where to look for them, there have always been Christs.

     Now look within your heart and find a new attendant at the altar of the Christ Flame. For I too am there, even as I was with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration,9 testifying to his calling as the prophet unto the twelve tribes, yea, and more than the prophet, the Christ of the ages!

     I have come to this place to plant a rod in the earth. So I plant it! Now then, let it be the dividing of the way, as I stand for you and your rising each day to a new level of the rod of Aaron and the Mount Zion.

     I seal you in the fire of the I AM THAT I AM.

     And I say, I AM WHO I AM! Be who you are! [30-second applause]

     This dictation by Lord Ling was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, May 5, 1991, at the Seattle Hilton. Preceding the dictation, the Messenger delivered a lecture on "The Destiny of the Reincarnated Twelve Tribes." [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Lord Ling's direction for clarity in the written word.]

32.1  I AM the Witness - June 30, 1991

Vol. 34 No. 32 - I AM the Witness - June 30, 1991

     I AM the Witness

     Some two years ago, while still living in Puerto Rico, I was passing through a very difficult period. I was going through a turbulent and emotionally stressful time in both my personal and my professional life. I was also in the process of relocating my neurosurgical practice, which necessitated starting my medical career all over again. My situation was so difficult that in order to get through it, I needed a major spiritual uplifting and a reassessment of my goals and my spiritual path.

     It was at that time that I fortunately was introduced to the path of the Ascended Masters by my dear and loving godmother. I read the book Unveiled Mysteries, which deeply moved and inspired me. I was impressed by the teachings of Saint Germain and the Ascended Masters that it contained. At the same time, I also started meditating and giving dynamic decrees. Things started to change faster than I could imagine - and for the better!

     In a brief trip I made to New York as part of my relocation endeavors, I visited a bookstore and I came across a book written by Mother. This book was Lords of the Seven Rays. I was beside myself, as it was exactly what I had been looking for - a detailed description of the Chohans of the Rays and their embodiments!

     When I got back to Puerto Rico I discussed the contents of the book with my godmother. Not only was she very happy but she was already knowledgeable about the book herself! I asked her why she had not spoken of this to me before, and she answered that she had known that the time would come when I would take up the Path through my own initiative and will. Finally I had had the quickening of my soul and the attunement to these teachings!

     The Ascended Masters blessed me by allowing me to find the professional opportunity and general environmental circumstance I had longed for. I was also blessed with the opportunity to start my family life anew. As soon as I moved to New York, I wrote to The Summit Lighthouse in Montana to find out where the nearest Teaching Center was located.

     This information was promptly forwarded to me and, through the help of a very lovely and kind person there, I was soon immersed in the Ascended Masters' Teachings. I was able to study the teachings of the Mother and the lost teachings of Jesus. I was able to progress and enrich my knowledge of these precious teachings and dictations and to strengthen my striving on the path.

     Through the application of the violet flame, my entire life has been transformed and my family life has become an Eden once again. I joyfully share a meaningful life with my wife, who also has joined me on the Path. I am much closer to my children and participate more directly in their daily activities. Family life has become an entirely different ball game and it is now what I always desired it to be!

     We are once again a close-knit unit, and we have acquired a precious new member - Mother, for she is in our house virtually every day, thanks to the Apostle Plan of Lanello's Library of Listening Grace!

     We have her in our thoughts, in our hearts and with us through the wonderful audio-and videocassettes and the weekly televised programs. It has made us feel as though we were directly participating in all of the glorious events at the ranch. My heart skips a beat whenever I receive these materials in my mailbox, for I know that we are in for a true treat and the week's spiritual dessert!

     Having studied the bioenergetic model of the human body and the way the different organ systems tie into the different chakras, I have been able to visualize the spiritual connection between these and the different rays, the particular Chohan and retreat of each, and the corresponding dynamic decrees and mantras. By also calling upon the Ascended Master Hilarion and visualizing the Emerald Matrix, I have been able to tackle some very difficult situations with many of my patients. I have been able to go through major cerebral or spinal surgical intervention, which otherwise by virtue of the critical clinical condition of the patient would not have been possible. I have also applied the same technique with some of my critically injured patients with some astounding results!

     Another technique I have pursued when possible is the visualization of the human aura in order to determine which of the chakras and their accompanying organ systems may be affected. This has assisted me in making a more precise diagnosis. In those situations where I have had the opportunity to apply this technique, I have discovered hidden diagnostic agendas!

     I am sure that Jesus may have applied the same technique in the healing feats he performed two thousand years ago. I know that this spiritual attunement is a must in order for us to fulfill his prophecy: "The works that I do shall you do also; and greater works than these shall you do."

     The Ascended Masters' Teachings given to us through the Messenger have profoundly influenced me. When I hear them or read them, there is something that I feel in my very core that is difficult to put in words, but it is as if my soul were saying: "This is it! This is what I have been looking for all along. I feel this to be the Truth!"

     I was deeply exhilarated by the marvelous way in which Mother virtually knocked out cold the orthodox Lutherans in the theological discussion with them. Believe me, if I were an orthodox Lutheran or "orthodox exoteric Christian" or "fundamentalist Christian," I would really have to reevaluate my beliefs! The abysmal difference between orthodox dogma and Ascended Master Truth was clear. The firm and solid as well as documented ground on which Mother stood was more than clear and evident!

     We should not be concerned if we are branded as non-Christians since we are Aquarian-Age Karma-Balancers, Balancers of Our Threefold Flames, Violet Flame Transmutors for the eternal goal of the ascension and for the achievement of our own Christhood and Buddhahood! Not long ago in a Saint Germain service, I commented to a fellow chela on the Path, "And to think that while we are here, working our chakras off giving these lovely dynamic decrees, the Lutherans are peacefully sleeping since they have it all by grace and free of charge!"

     What have the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity and Church Universal and Triumphant done for me? Because of my spiritual inclinations, I always knew and felt that there was something profoundly wrong and missing in orthodox Christianity and fundamentalism and, lo and behold, this gap has been overwhelmingly filled for me by the Ascended Masters' Teachings and by the work of our beloved Lanello and Mother! They were all there for me. That is why I am here now!

     My soul's chalice has been abundantly filled and is overflowing! Thus, my life has turned around about 360 degrees and now has a meaning it never before had. There has been a greater harmony and blessing in my family life and in all of my endeavors and I have acquired a love of life and humanity unknown to me before.

     It is no wonder that the Church has been harassed and challenged legally. You folks are too good to be true and this raises much envy! In a morally ailing society, the Church's work is more than essential. Absolutely no wrong can it possibly be doing! In fact, it has to be doing something very, very right and positive in order to strike such rage in the fallen ones. And this is what we are seeing. The Church's title could not be more correct, because Universal it definitely is and Triumphant it has always been and always will be!

     I did have a dream fulfilled in October of 1990 - I finally had the opportunity and gracious privilege of meeting Mother. That was the biggest event of the year for me, and my expectations were more than fulfilled. They were surpassed!

     I had waited into the wee hours of the morning following her last event. On that day I had a very difficult and long cerebral operation to perform. Nevertheless, I didn't want to miss an opportunity to meet her. Despite the fact that I subsequently got only four hours of sleep, when I got up to go off to perform my surgery I felt so rested, so full of energy and so perked up that it was hard to believe I had had so little rest! So this was an extra gift I received along with the unforgettable experience of meeting Mother.

     I definitely look forward to visiting the ranch this year if possible. It is my most fervent hope that Mother is able to spread the Teachings and the Light of the ascended hosts over the entire West Coast area, which so needs it - along with plenty of transmutation through the violet flame!

     To this endeavor and to all endeavors of Church Universal and Triumphant and the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity goes my best brotherly and Flame-Keeper wishes for the best of fortune and all the blessings of the ascended hosts!

Sincerely from a humble chela on the Path,
M.D., Neurosurgery

     Dear Mother,

     I would like to bear witness to the Truth and to the power of inner transformation available to all through this path. I also bear witness to the mantle of Messenger, Prophet and Guru you embody and how this has greatly assisted my life.

     I attended Summit University in Fall 1979 under the beloved Goddess of Liberty. I was very new to our Church. At the Summit University Bookstore I purchased a copy of a biography of Saint Thérèse, the Little Flower. Two years before, I had had the opportunity to become friends with a group of Carmelite nuns in Oregon. Their patron saint was Saint Thérèse, and so I was overjoyed to see her picture in the Chapel of the Holy Grail!

     I slowly read this book throughout the quarter when time permitted. As I read, I longed for a relationship with Jesus or any Master such as she had. She was truly in a constant relationship with her spiritual spouse. After enjoying this book, I went on to read the life of Saint Catherine. I could imagine what it might feel like to have such a true relationship to Christ but I could not stay in that flame of devotion that my heart desired. When I heard your teachings on the writings of Saint John of the Cross, I was again inspired by the beauty and depth of the communion he described.

     Years passed and life was very busy. In my thirty-eighth year, living far from Montana and still studying the Teachings, I had an amazing experience. I was sitting in my living room caring for our newest arrival, when suddenly a powerfully uplifting light and radiation began to fill my outer awareness. It continued for several days. I praised and thanked God and asked to understand more perfectly this wonderful blessing.

     After a few days of this, I suddenly realized that the vibration of this light was that of the Christ consciousness entering my being. I called to my Christ Self and it intensified. I knew that I could now see and feel more clearly what the Christ flame really was and how to better call it forth minute by minute. It became real for me in a much deeper way.

     Before this point, I hadn't consciously experienced the mantle of my Christ Self and did not know what it might feel like. Now almost every waking moment I was concentrating on affirming the living Christ within me and calling forth my beloved Holy Christ Self.

     We had the opportunity to move to Montana about a year later. I was able to attend services at King Arthur's Court for dictations, lectures and decrees with you. This deepened my new understanding of the Christ Presence. I had a deeper soul recognition of the presence of the living Christ and the mantle of Guru flowing from your heart to us.

     I know there are many steps I need to take in order to anchor this divine experience of oneness with my Holy Christ Self. I am so grateful to be embarking upon this path. Even though I contacted the Teachings in 1979, I truly feel it is all just beginning!

     I wanted that relationship that I believe you have with Jesus and that many mystics of the Christian dispensation had with Him. Now a door is opening and I can see a real possibility within my own heart!

     Mother, I thank you for your constant affirmation of the Christ within us all. I believe your continual vigil for the Lightbearers to be reconnected to their Great God Source opened the way for me to have this treasured experience. There are many gifts we each want to give you. I know that for me to follow this realization now - from its little seed sprouting within me to its fruition - would be the greatest offering I could give your heart.

     Another joy also fills me. I can now share this truth with others. I can share it because I know that the presence of the Holy Christ Self is powerfully real and accessible. The Teachings of the Ascended Masters show how to contact the Beloved Christ Self so tangibly that after doing so, one's life can never be the same!

     The joy only grows as beloved Jesus and the ascended host show the way to deepen this communion in love daily. The Teachings are a gift of grace and healing to the heart of every soul of Light on this planet.

     Praise God for the abundance of love He brings to us through you and this dispensation. May it ever continue to bless this earth.

     Devotedly,

     Dear Friends,

     The apartment across the hall from mine was rented to people who were selling drugs (Crack). Untrustworthy people were constantly coming and going from the building. Many times my door would be mistakenly knocked on in the early hours of the morning. Or, in order to get in and out of my apartment, I would have to step over people on the front stairs who were waiting to buy drugs. The apartment manager and police were of no help.

     I was new to the Teachings. On my first visit to the Inner Retreat for the Freedom 1987 conference, I learned how I could write a letter to the Karmic Board about personal and world problems.

     I wrote a letter for the drug problem in this country and also asked that the situation at home be resolved. I addressed my letter to all the members of the Karmic Board, whose names I found listed in the preamble of decree 7.29.

     Upon arriving home after the conference, I found that the apartment across the hall had been vacated.

     To this day I am still astonished at the swiftness of the answer to my call. I have no other explanation but the power of God.


Footnotes:

1 Exod. 24:12-18; 31:18; 32:1-20; Deut. 9:9-21. Lord Ling was embodied as Moses.
2 Exod. 34:1-5, 27-29; 20:1-17; Deut. 10:1-5; 5:1-22.
3 While Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights receiving the first set of tablets, the children of Israel rebelled against God and Guru. These tablets were inscribed with the covenants that God would make with a holy people. They contained lengthy, detailed statements outlining the way a people sponsored by Sanat Kumara should follow the path of discipleship under the law and under the Guru. The children of Israel were called to be a holy people but they were not embodying the holiness of God at that time. In Moses' absence, they worshipped the golden calf. When Moses descended the mountain and saw the people's stubbornness and their embracing of the god of materialism, he broke the tablets. The detailed covenants were thereby lost and later replaced with ten simple commandments, which God inscribed on a second set of tablets. The people's test would then be the "test of the ten," which is the test of the solar-plexus chakra as outlined in Intermediate Studies of the Human Aura by Djwal Kul (pp. 83-90).
4 Matt. 5:17.
5 Rev. 2:17.
6 Exod. 34:28; Deut. 9:9.
7 Matt. 28:18.
8 "Except you become as a little child ... " Matt. 18:3; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17.
9 Matt. 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-9; Luke 9:28-36.