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Chapter 69
Beloved Jesus Christ - December 29, 1992

     The Lord's Christmas Day Address 1992

     Let the shaft of Light descend, O my Father!

     Let the shaft of Light be upon my own.

     And let Light from above magnify the Light from within.

     And let that which is in part now see the Whole.¹

     Greetings, my beloved, in my Sacred Heart.

     In my Heart I come to you.

     And I come to you to unfold the Christmas Rose.

     Let the story of the Christmas Rose be for you a deep meditation upon the gifts of the Holy Spirit² that you might seek and win.

     Be seated, beloved, for I am come to you to impart a joy that cannot and will not be extinguished within you.

     Would you not know the secret of keeping the Christmas Rose of joy - joy perpetually in the heart that nothing can move or turn aside? Would you not become the invincible manifestation of my joy, beloved? ["Yes."]

     I would also know you as the "joy fountains" in the earth where I may come and drink, where many who are without joy may drink of the fount and yet the fount should not decrease.

     Oh, the perpetual giving of the flame of joy!

     Oh, the laughter of the Christed ones who know this joy and who have discovered the secret of not letting go of it under any circumstance!

     Is this not the true joy of self-mastery?

     Indeed it is, beloved.

     Well, then, when you set yourself to this determination to open the floodgates of joy that shall never be shut again - a joy that is the perpetual fountain of Life flowing through you descending from your I AM Presence - you thereby challenge all forces of doom and gloom and all sundry manifestations that happen to be along the lines of self-preference and indulgence and the dependency upon others for happiness, for fun, for laughter.

     There must be a moment in your life when you say: "I will let no man take my crown of joy!³ I will stand and still stand. I will find the joy in every happening, in every occurrence I see. And where I see nonjoy, I shall have within myself such a momentum of joy that I may fill the vacuum!"

     Blessed hearts, you may not be able to convert others to joy, for so many, so many enjoy the indulgence in sadness, in self-sympathy and self-pity. So many are so accustomed to nonjoy that allows the complaining and the self-indulgence that they would not know what to do with themselves if life were perpetually joyous.

     Joy is an inner quietude.

     It is an inner consciousness of well-being.

     It is an inner point of contact with all stars and Causal Bodies.

     Joy is what centers you in the crisscrossings of the great antahkarana of Life. When you are in joy, you are in sync with the great Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

     Joy, then, must come by an appreciation of small things and great, an appreciation of life as it is before you in a moment.

     Is it a glistening dewdrop?

     Is it the face of a child or a smile?

     Is it something precious that is without price, for it comes directly from the heart?

     If you will, make a list of all those things that bring joy to you and affirm them. I will leave you to your deliberations as to how you will return to the point of joy, but I will suggest that gratitude in action is a most wondrous way to continually perceive the joy flame of life.

     Beloved ones, moments after some seeming tragedy has come upon you, you can [by the joy flame] see through it to the other side and experience joy because God has shown you that this is something that you must pass through.

     Joy, beloved, cannot be thinking too much of itself, for joy is something that we give. And as we give, it begets more within us. Joy is a flame that is opposed by the very worst side of everyone, for all that is not real about you, all that is less than that God-Reality, cringes at the point of dazzling joy that you keep in your house and in your heart.

     So know, even as I dictate this day, that the hordes of Darkness also know that once ye good Christian folk do determine that "joy is the motor of life," as has been said,⁴ and once that joy becomes your perpetual reason for being, their day will [soon] be done. They know it, beloved, for joy is indeed the motor of life that keeps on pulling, pulling out from the center of the earth and the center of all atoms and suns and star systems the fire of eternal Life. Eternal Life, then, is that mighty joy flame.

     May you surely come to understand that the most serious and somber decisions and equations of life are so because you make them so. I would suggest that you remember my words that except you become as a little child, childlike, you will not enter into the consciousness of God, into the kingdom of heaven;⁵ [neither will you enter] into the very soul and heart of your Christhood.

     Thus, if you put too much weight upon that which you are and know and have become in the sense of the masterminding of your destiny, you may lose the sweet simplicity of life itself, which is a joy not necessarily simple, not necessarily complex, but always profound. For this joy comes from the Divine Mother, from the very root of Jesse,⁶ from the very fount of the threefold flame. It is that which provides all energy to life.

     I say, beloved, in the midst of a darkness growing darker even on a planetary home where suddenly the light does shine forth in this little hut and that little village and in that skyscraper and along the highway - yes, beloved, even on a planetary home where sparks of fire are shooting forth from the enlightened ones, there is great darkness. Let us turn our attention, then, to that which does endure - not the darkness but always the joy of the threefold flame.

     I come that you might be enriched in the kingdom of God, that you might be enriched in the Word of God, that you might be enriched in the understanding that you are indeed all members of my Body - hence the term "the Mystical Body of God." Those who, then, make up that Body, beloved hearts, are those who have found their centeredness in their own threefold flame, who can say without pride but in utter humility and honor:

     God is where I AM.
I AM that God in manifestation!
This is my premise.
This is the foundation of every move I make
and every prayer I breathe.
I AM my God in action and there is no division!
I AM in agreement.
I am agreeing as I affirm the flow of fire in my midst. And I know that the joy of that flow of fire desires for me all that I AM - all that I am to be and all that I desire or need in the process of becoming who I AM.
And I AM Brahman.
I AM in the fire of the Atman, the point of perfect joy.

     Blessed ones, those who walk not the path of the apostles, of the bodhisattvas, the disciples - those who walk not this path do not understand the meaning of being one with the confluent stream of the river of Life. They do not understand the Mystical Body of God, for in their conceit they desire to be all things to all people and to themselves.

     I say to you, study the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And think first about how you shall by the joy flame of the winter solstice, how you shall by that joy flame call upon the Lord the Maha Chohan, call upon the Holy Spirit and have that Spirit with you, walking with you and through you and being unto you a fount of wisdom and of love and of holy will.

     Think, then, upon this, beloved - that to have the gifts of the Holy Spirit, you must first of all have the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit comes with an unmitigated joy, a joy that is the acceptance of things as they are, of things that cannot be changed and therefore will be dealt with in joy. And then [there is another] great joy that is magnified again and again [by the Holy Spirit] that says:

     These are the things I can change!

     And I will change them joyously by the fire of Brahman who I AM.

     And I AM THAT I AM. THAT I AM.

     That I AM which I AM is Brahman.

     Therefore I shall change for the better as I see that I can change. And I will look to the glory of the Lord - yes, the glory of the Lord, my Mighty I AM Presence. I will look to the glory of my own Christ Self and threefold flame, and I will see that glory working through me - in me and yet not of me, but of that which is only God.

     Oh yes, I will see that glory as a whirlwind of fire and wind. I will see it going before me fashioning my future, fashioning my all, re-creating me so that God, God may reveal himself to men because Christ is born in me this day!

     And I am come and he is come. And I no longer desire to look at him out of the corner of my eye that he might not catch me looking at him, examining him and perhaps taking his offering or not taking it.

     Oh yes, beloved, you have had a long, long, long time to develop the serpent mind. Beware of it, know it for what it is and let the Christ in you displace it, for the brilliance of God far exceeds that which you can contain or attain to. It is best to reach the ceiling of limitation and say:

     I will not have it! I will go beyond this which I appear to be, this which I think I am. And I will have the courage to now become acquainted with the Unknown Self.

     Who and what is this unknown self of me?

     Shall it crush me and grind me to powder?⁷ Or shall it water my soul and take me up and show me the transfiguration of my garments - of my thoughts, my feelings, my desirings and my goals?

     Aye, shall I take the step to enter in to the unknown presence that I AM? Shall I lose all or gain all?

     Thus you ponder. Thus you pray. Thus you bump into boulders of fear and many pebbles of pride. "Which way shall I turn?" You are in a bad dream! And yet the Real Self hovers. And the quivering of wings of angels can be heard, as though some sort of machine for aerial navigation were suddenly suspended above you and you could enter or you could not.

     Blessed ones, when considering the opportunities for Godhood in the earth, you must come strong to the altar. You must come squarely in the geometry of God to the table of the Lord.

     When I feed you with my own hands the bread of Life and the wine of the everlasting essence, the essence of my Blood, I say to you, beloved, you must have balance within your members. You must have the fiercest commitment to God. You must be ready for Satan in the wilderness, who will tempt you in all things. You must review the walk of Maitreya. You must remember that you will not escape the same walk! Nay, you will not escape it.

     If you desire to be home free one day, there are no shortcuts, no roundabout ways, no entering by the back door. Here and now or in another round, beloved, you will choose. But will you have the capacity to choose?

     No, you will not! Not unless you have cultivated the flame of joy, not unless you have seen and read about and studied those nine gifts of the Holy Spirit to understand what are those nine elements that I deem, that the Father deems, that the Holy Spirit deems you must have at least a portion of to be balanced in your chakras, to have strength in the body and the mind, to have strength in the heart and the will, to have love that does not cease and to seek wisdom daily and hourly.

     You must come equipped, for the fallen ones are well equipped to tempt you away from the cathedral of the heart, where the joy bells ring, where the chimes are sounding, where the call rings out to you.

     Yes, beloved, all of the preparation that our dear Morya has brought you to has been well planned by us that you might face the challenger, meet him, defeat him and move on and suddenly discover that because you have passed this initiation, whereas [formerly] you saw in part and you were a "part person" and not a whole person, now you are moving toward a wholeness you can see, toward a sphere that you will fill in piece by piece, a wholeness that can become your own.

     Blessed ones, one of the major ways that you balance karma is by passing your initiations and doing so in the sequence that is known by the inner adepts, which may be known by you if you study the paths of Jesus and Maitreya, if you study what we have been through.

     Yes, beloved, these can be known, but not all. There is always the unexpected, the unknown initiation, the unplanned-for situation. This is when you must have your resources, your strength. This is when you must have the ch'i⁸ within you, the fire of the center centered in the desire of your being. All must be in readiness. You must have plucked away those insidious members that are not members truly but antagonists right within the mind and body.

     Yes, beloved, passing initiations is a way to burn up karma. For the fire that you summon [in order that you may] pass through the fire of initiation is an all-consuming fire and it does indeed consume layers of karma as in no other way!

     And thus, treasure, treasure the Path, beloved. Treasure your preparedness and know that it always begins with the dawn of joy, the setting of the sun of joy, the cycles of the years, the days and the lifetimes.

     Joy, then, prepares you to deal with anything. Sorrow and mourning and death and dying equip you for nothing but what they are.

     O beloved, this is a place of miracles! Do not forget it. Maitreya's Mystery School is a place [where you make] miracles [happen].

     Are miracles too quick? Would you rather plod through the problem for months and lifetimes?

     Would you understand that a miracle is the science of being, all compressed into one event, an event that bespeaks sudden awareness, enlightenment, a breakthrough until you can see from here to the Sun, you can see yourself standing in the Sun even as you are standing here and now, your feet planted in the earth?

     Yes, beloved, for moments you return to the Central Sun and moments later you are back again. These glimpses of the eternity whence you came and to which you shall return give a perspective whereby you can contain a miracle. You can contain it as a coil of fire that will unfold perhaps for the next twenty years or two hundred.

     So, beloved, change comes by the alchemy of God. It comes by a sudden awareness because you have taken those moments to meditate, to still the mind that you might hear one word from us that we might get in when the mind is finally no longer occupied.

     O beloved, we can speak to you, but where is the listening mind and the attuned ear? There are so many, many conditions in the earth that you must tend to. Will you be weary and troubled about and burdened by so many things?

     You must learn that lesson. It is a lesson of two thousand years ago learned in the home of Martha and Mary. Now choose the better part, beloved.⁹ Choose it! Still the agitated mind. Commune with me, for I will give you parables and I will give you direct prophecy and I will come to you. But when your bodies are not in the right condition and your minds are stopped up, O blessed hearts, the communication is either squelched or distorted and you receive impressions that are not accurate.

     Your mind is the Mind of God. Ponder the great mystery. Your thinking mind in this moment, your listening ear, your seeing eye are all extensions of the one Universal Mind of God even as you are all part of the one Mystical Body of the Holy Spirit. That infinite Mind can give you access - as though you had access to a computer - to the entire contents of every Causal Body of every adept, of every Master and Buddha of all time.

     Yes, beloved, there are indeed blocks that do not allow you to penetrate [the Mind of God], and these are so ordained while you bring up the totality of consciousness to the point of discipline and being trustworthy with information that it is not lawful for you to speak.

     Blessed hearts, your mind, being the Mind of God, is infinite. Your mind did never begin, shall never end no matter what this body shall come to. The body has a definite end, beloved, unless you earn the physical ascension, which you know is entirely possible but indeed not necessary.

     So, beloved, contemplate the Mind of God, which is your own, and then journey in that Mind. Seek perspective - perspective, beloved. Plant your coordinates in the stars. Refer back to them. Journey to a star!

     How about the secret love star, which is the Causal Body of Venus? You have contributed to that Causal Body by your gifts, by what you have accomplished in this and other lifetimes.

     Think of yourself, while giving a simple decree, journeying to the Causal Body of Venus, the secret love star, meditating on whatever that great Causal Body may offer you. Place your attention upon these points of light, which are vast universes having no distance from you in time and space but only vast distances according to your own human consciousness.

     All things are accessible to you in this hour.

     Let your spirits rise! Let your conversations be the rejoicing in the morsel of Truth that has become the secret of your joy each day. Yes, I have said it: [read] a paragraph [a day] from Prayer and Meditation, from Corona Class Lessons, from my dictations or those of my beloved brother Kuthumi - a morsel of Truth that you can slowly assimilate until it becomes all of you and you become all of it and suddenly you see the whole world through that lens of Truth.¹⁰

     O blessed hearts, I attempt to give you some sense of co-measurement of what is inside of you, what you can draw forth from yourselves, what you can access through the "equipment," if you will, that you already have.

     Yes, beloved, it is true: ye are Gods!¹¹ The fallen ones know ye are Gods. We know it. You seem to be the last to recognize it, seeing your mortality, seeing how temporal is this body. This body, beloved, is given to you to convince you that you had better do something about your immortality, for [this body] obviously will not serve you for very much longer as the aeons pass.

     Yes, it is well to break the pride of the consciousness of those in the lesser planes by having them confront their own mortality, their own skeleton, their own nothingness. And when you reach the point of nothingness, when the body is but dust that crumbles and collapses, you will surely say, "I AM God, for I am surely not that!"

     And suddenly all of the Light ever stored in your being in all ages and so qualified with God! God! God! shall rush into your soul and you shall say, "Surely I AM WHO I AM. I AM my God in manifestation!"

     Oh, how suddenly and quickly the liberation from the flesh does propel some to octaves of Light, but not all, beloved, for death does not change consciousness. Yet, for those who have walked the path of the Spirit many lifetimes and especially all of this life, affirming the things of the Spirit everywhere in all Nature - for these, I say, the moment of escape from the body is that moment of the great descent of Self-knowledge in all of the God-Reality of their I AM Presence, their Holy Christ Self and that threefold flame. And that threefold flame is more powerful, more wonderful, more wisdom-filled, more love-inspired and infired than anything else one could ever acquire in many universes and many, many millennia into the future or the past.

     Your threefold flame is it, beloved! It is your treasure. It is surely the white stone and the white cube. It is surely the fountain of eternal youth. Guard it as you would walk about knowing that you carried the living Buddha in your breast. Would you not walk carefully? Would you not walk conscious that God was there?

     So walk with that sense: "My threefold flame is the fount of eternal Life in all universes, in all being I could ever contemplate. Right here in me is all that I AM, all that I need - the joy-filled abundant life."

     Let go of unreality, my beloved! I have profound need for you, each one, to walk the earth in the semblance of your Christ Self until you become its full resonating, alive presence.

     O my beloved, in the twinkling of the eye of God the last trump of mortality shall sound.¹² I say: let it sound! And let it go down! Step forth, my beloved, into the living presence of your God-Reality! And greet me on the Path when I am there and do not fail to see me. For I AM here, your Jesus of the ages and of all times and places.

     I AM your Jesus and you are winning! You must know that, beloved, as you have never known it before. You must know that you are winning. The fallen ones know you are winning. You must know it, be it, do it!

     I seal you in the Christmas Rose, beloved. And I expect that you shall henceforth see me when I stand before you and not be so dense as to not know that I have entered your room, your abode, your place of worship.

     Blessed ones, in conclusion, it is best for you to assume that I am always with you, even unto the end of the age.¹³ [39-second standing ovation]

     Messenger's Invocation before the Dictation:

     Lord God Almighty, let thy Son descend into our hearts this day!

     O thou living Christ Jesus, quicken now thy Sacred Heart within our heart. As thou hast said, so I say, "Thy Heart/my heart, my heart/thy Heart."

     We answer your call, beloved Jesus, to be your twin in the earth. Let us walk the earth in the fullness of the joy of your threefold flame.

     O Jesus, joy of our desiring, quicken and increase now the threefold flame within our hearts. Intensify, O Lord, thy Love/our love as one, that we might send forth thy ray of Love to every heart of every Lightbearer in all of this cosmos.

     Our beloved Lord and Saviour, we bow before thee as the incarnate Word. Let thy Word be made known to us. Occupy the compartments of our being. Occupy the totality of our love. O Jesus, come unto us and into us! Let thy Light radiate and magnify this day for the purging of Darkness, for the binding of the forces of Antichrist that seek to devour the Holy Christ Child wherever it is born.

     O Lord, summon your legions of Light, all armies of heaven beneath the banner of the Faithful and True! O Lord, bring forth thy hosts now for the ultimate deliverance of planet earth! Thou art mighty indeed. Thou art God of very gods in manifestation.

     O Holy Christ Self of all in all worlds above and below, come now! Magnify the Lord Jesus Christ as we extend our hearts to him through Padma Sambhava, Lord Maitreya, Gautama Buddha and Sanat Kumara.

     O angels of the mighty joy, angels of the Christmas Rose, come and be with us in this hour, for truly we are ready, our Lord, for thy Second Coming. Descend into our temple this day!

     We receive thee now, O Lord, and we celebrate thy name, I AM THAT I AM.

     Under the Lord's direction, the Messenger read I Corinthians 12 and 13 before his dictation.

     This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Christmas Day, December 25, 1992, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. Before the dictation, at the request of Jesus, the Messenger read from the writings of the apostle Paul on spiritual gifts, I Corinthians 12 and 13. The Christmas Day service and dictation are available on audiocassette: 2 cassettes (total 169 min., B93001, B93002). [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Jesus' direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.

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Volume 35, Number 7, footnote 4. Sheaves is the plural form of sheaf. Sheaf is defined as "a quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye or other grain bound together." The sheaves Gautama is referring to here represent the good wheat, the good rye - in other words, the good seed spoken of by Jesus in his parable of the tares and the wheat (Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43). When Gautama Buddha says "a mighty torch has been lit this night by Sanat Kumara and that torch is placed in the sheaves of the earth," he is speaking of sheaves as stalks of the Christ consciousness. Therefore, that torch is being placed within the Lightbearers. Sanat Kumara is enfiring with his torch those who carry the vibration of God. The placing of the torch within the sheaf implies the teaching given by Jesus: "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit" (John 12:24). The torch lit and placed in each sheaf is for the ultimate consuming of the sheaf, which is but the shell for the divine spark. This signifies that we must be willing to undergo a certain transformation by fire if we are to awaken in the likeness of God, having the Deathless Solar Body. Sheath is defined as "a case or encasement such as the scabbard of a sword" or "a covering or supporting structure." The sheaths of the earth are therefore the protective covering of the entire planet. These sheaths are fine layers of the light of God that are present in the four quadrants of Matter - in the physical earth as well as at the astral, mental and etheric levels. These sheaths of consciousness provide a protecting forcefield to the planet and her people, guarding the components of the ecosystem that are necessary to sustain life. Thus, the mighty torch that has been placed into the sheaves of the earth is also placed into the sheaths - the layers of energy that make up the tangible as well as the intangible earth body. As the torch is placed into these sheaths, certain layers that are contaminated beyond use (or to the level of being negative rather than positive in vibration) are consumed. This occurs as the special sword given to us by Gautama is piercing veils of maya - the sheath of misqualified energy created as a smoke screen by the fallen ones to prevent the Lightbearers from seeing "what is really taking place in the earth," as Gautama said (see par. 3).

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Volume 35, Number 22, footnote 9. Jesus protects his identity. There are also scenes in the New Testament where Jesus either refuses to say who he is or tells others not to reveal who he is. Jesus to his disciples: Once Jesus asked his disciples "Whom say the people that I am?" and they answered: "John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets is risen again." Then he asked them: "But whom say ye that I am?" and Peter answered, "The Christ of God." As Luke records, Jesus "straitly charged them and commanded them to tell no man that thing, saying, `The Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be slain and be raised the third day"' (Luke 9:18-22; see also Matt. 16:13-16, 20; Mark 8:27-30). Jesus to the devils: On one occasion, Jesus even commanded the devils not to say who he was. We read in Luke 4: "Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out and saying, `Thou art Christ the Son of God!' And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak, for they knew that he was Christ" (Luke 4:40, 41). Jesus to the chief priests, scribes and elders: At another time, when Jesus was walking in the temple in Jerusalem, he refused to directly answer the chief priests, scribes and elders who asked him: "By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority to do these things?" Jesus said: "I will also ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? Answer me." Mark records: "And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, `From heaven,' he will say, `Why then did ye not believe him?' But if we shall say, `Of men,' they feared the people. For all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed. And they answered and said unto Jesus, `We cannot tell.' And Jesus answering saith unto them, `Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things"' (Mark 11:27-33; see also Matt. 21:23-27; Luke 20:1-8). Jesus before the Sanhedrin: When Jesus was arrested and taken before the Sanhedrin for questioning, he would not directly affirm that he was the Christ. Luke gives the following account: "And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together and led him into their council, saying, `Art thou the Christ? Tell us.' And he said unto them, `If I tell you, ye will not believe. And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go. Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.' Then said they all, `Art thou then the Son of God?' And he said unto them, `Ye say that I am.' And they said, `What need we any further witness? For we ourselves have heard of his own mouth"' (Luke 22:66-71; see also Matt. 26:62-68).

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Volume 35, Number 34, footnote 11. The physical ascension. The Ascended Masters teach that in the ritual of the ascension, the soul is united with the white-fire body of the I AM Presence. This does not require the raising of the physical body; the soul itself may take flight from the mortal coil and be translated through the ascension process. In order to ascend, the candidate must have balanced at least 51 percent of his karma. In order to make a physical ascension, he must have balanced between 95 and 100 percent of his karma. When a physical ascension takes place, the physical body is transformed by and superseded by the Ascended-Master Light Body. During the ascension ritual, the soul becomes permanently clothed with this Body, also called the "wedding garment," or the Deathless Solar Body. Serapis Bey describes the process in his Dossier on the Ascension: "The flame above (in the heart of the Presence) magnetizes the flame below (the threefold flame within the heart) and the wedding garment descends around the silver cord to envelop the lifestream of the individual in those tangible and vital essence currents of the ascension. Tremendous changes then take place in the form below, and the four lower bodies of man are cleansed of all impurities. Lighter and lighter grows the physical form, and with the weightlessness of helium the body begins to rise into the atmosphere, the gravitational pull being loosened and the form enveloped by the light of the externalized glory which man knew with the Father 'in the beginning'. ... The individual ascends, then, not in an earthly body but in a glorified spiritual body into which the physical form is changed on the instant by total immersion in the great God flame" (see Dossier on the Ascension, pp. 157-59, 175-77). In a dictation given October 2, 1989, the Ascended Master Rex told us that those who are called to the physical ascension must have had many thousands of years of preparation. Today most people whose souls qualify for the ritual of the ascension ascend from inner levels after the soul has departed the physical body. The soul attains union with the Mighty I AM Presence to become a permanent atom in the Body of God just as she does in a physical ascension.

The Catholic doctrine on the "assumption" of Mary and the ascension of Jesus parallels the teachings of the Ascended Masters on the physical ascension. The Catholic Church teaches that the bodies worn by Mary and Jesus on earth were translated and perfected into the incorruptible spiritual bodies they now wear in heaven. This is analogous to what the Ascended Masters teach happens in a physical ascension. The Ascended Masters' Teachings illumine us further, however, as to how this divine alchemy actually occurs, as described by Serapis Bey above. Some points where Catholic theology and Ascended Master teaching differ are as follows: According to Catholic doctrine, Mary and Jesus were unique because they were "conceived without sin" and remained perfectly sinless throughout their lives. Hence, it would not be meet that their physical bodies should be corrupted in a grave. In the Catholic perspective, Jesus would naturally ascend at the end of his mission because, although he had an earthly body, he also had a full divine nature. Catholic doctrine holds that because Mary was human like us, she is an "exception to the rule" in that she did not have to wait until the Second Coming of Christ for her bodily resurrection. The Ascended Masters set before each of us the goal of balancing at least 51 percent of our karma and ascending at the end of this life. They teach that it is possible - if we balance 95 to 100 percent of our karma - to ascend physically. However, we have each lived many times before. The Ascended Masters teach that the path of karma-balancing and spiritual progress leading to the ascension is not accomplished in one lifetime but through many incarnations. The many bodies worn during the soul's earthly sojourn are not resurrected at the end of time; but all souls who ascend, whether in a physical ascension or not, are permanently clothed at the hour of their ascension in their Ascended-Master Light Body. Jesus and Mary set the example for all to follow. They are joined in heaven by countless saints who have also attained their soul's victory through the divinely ordained ritual of the ascension.

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Volume 35, Number 42, footnote 12. In Hindu tradition, Karttikeya is the god of war and commander-in-chief of the army of the gods. He is also known as Skanda, the son of Shiva - and as Kumara, "the holy youth." In the Chandogya Upanishad (7.26), Skanda is identified with the Vedic sage Sanat Kumara. According to Yogic teachings, he represents the power of chastity. Margaret and James Stutley write in Harper's Dictionary of Hinduism that he was born when Shiva, who, "having attained complete mastery of his instincts, applied his sexual energy to spiritual and intellectual ends." This is illustrated in the many legends that tell of Karttikeya being born motherless and from the seed of Shiva that fell into the Ganges. Veronica Ions writes in Hindu Mythology: "There on the banks of the river arose a child as beautiful as the moon and as brilliant as the sun. This was Karttikeya. As he appeared on the bank of the Ganges the six Pleiades, daughters of six rajas, came to that spot to bathe. Each of them claimed the beautiful boy, and each wished to give him the breast; so Karttikeya acquired six mouths and was suckled by all of his foster-mothers." Vasudeva Sarana Agravala explains this myth: "The power of the virile seed, preserved through penance and complete chastity, is called Skanda or Kumara. So long as, in the practice of yoga, complete control is not attained, Kumara is not born, and the mind is ever put in check by desires, that is, the gods are defeated by the demons." Legends say that Karttikeya was born specifically to slay the demon Taraka, who symbolizes the lower mind, or ignorance. Karttikeya is often depicted holding a spear (which represents illumination) and riding on a peacock (which represents the ego). Karttikeya slays ignorance with his spear of illumination. According to one story, a demon whom Karttikeya defeated cried, "Your weapon has shattered my ego!" A. Parthasarathy writes in Symbolism in Hinduism that "the wielding of [his spear] of annihilation symbolizes the destruction of all negative tendencies which veil the Divine Self." In mystic tradition, Karttikeya is known as Guha (cave) because he lives in the cave of the heart. (See Margaret and James Stutley, Harper's Dictionary of Hinduism: Its Mythology, Folklore, Philosophy, Literature, and History [New York: Harper and Row, 1977], p. 282 n. 3; Veronica Ions, Indian Mythology [London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967], p. 88; Vasudeva Sarana Agravala, Kalyana, Siva anka, 1937, p. 501, quoted in Alain Danielou, The Gods of India: Hindu Polytheism [New York: Inner Traditions International, 1985], p. 299; and A. Parthasarathy, "Subramanya-Karthikeya," in R. S. Nathan, comp., Symbolism in Hinduism, 2d. ed. [Bombay: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, 1989], p. 151.)

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Volume 35, Number 45, footnote 2. Summit University clearance, sponsored by Gautama Buddha. At the conclusion of each Summit University session, the Messenger makes calls under the aegis of the Lord of the World, Gautama Buddha, for the clearing of the karmic records and schisms in the psyche of each individual student. The clearance takes place according to what the Great Law will allow as a result of the student's own striving and devotion, especially during the eight-or twelve-week session. It is based on the effort made through prayer and meditation, decrees and service, selflessness, sacrifice and surrender to God. Many times group clearances are conducted inasmuch as those who attend the same quarter of Summit University often have close ties involving their mission as well as their positive and negative karma. The record of karma that was revealed at Summit University Summer Session 1992 was that of the rebellion of the fourth, fifth and sixth root races against the Archangels, angels and angelic messengers. The record included the following sins against these emissaries of God: disobedience, refusal to listen to them, failure to uphold their standards, desecration of the body temples of the people, the leading astray of other sons of God, the offering of God's light to the fallen ones, the entering into the cults of false gods and goddesses, the missing of opportunities to be instructed, disobedience to the Father-Mother God, hatred of Almighty God in the Archangels, angels and angelic messengers, rebellion against God's plan for their lives, the giving of genetic material to the fallen ones, the conceit of sons of God at their station being higher than the angels', failure to care for God's children, acceptance of the lies of the fallen ones, the prevention of the Archangels, angels and angelic messengers from working their works on the planet. By a special dispensation from the Archangels, angels and angelic messengers, 10 percent of these planetary records were cleared during the Summit University clearance conducted by the Messenger August 26, 1992. We now have the opportunity to continue to call for the clearance of the remainder of these records. (Whether or not you think you are a member of one of these root races, it is important to make these calls, as one or more of the sins listed above have been repeated by 98 percent of the people on earth.) This clearance is an example of the special blessings received by Summit University students. As Saint Germain tells us, "Your sponsorship for acceleration through clearance by Lord Gautama Buddha is one of the greatest if not the greatest gift that is afforded you and the Lightbearers in the earth. It is worth all of the striving and all that it takes to arrive at Maitreya's Mystery School."

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Volume 35, Number 55, footnote 1. Martian misqualifications. The Ascended Masters teach that Mars in its true state is the planet that represents the Divine Mother and the base-of-the-spine chakra (muladhara). The Messenger has described Mars as "the white sphere of intense fiery energy of the Divine Mother." Long ago, the evolutions of Mars took that pure white light of the Mother and perverted it in war and misuses of the sacred fire. Through the misuse of free will and the base-of-the-spine chakra, they perverted the Mother Light in what we call the "Martian misqualifications." These misqualifications can manifest through any of the chakras but specifically relate to the misuse of the Mother Light in the base-of-the-spine chakra. They include: aggression, anger, arrogance, argumentation, accusation, agitation, apathy, atheism, annihilation, aggravation, aggressive mental suggestion; criticism, condemnation and judgment; malicious, ignorant, sympathetic and delicious animal magnetism; anti-Americanism, anti-Father, anti-Mother, anti-Christ and anti-Holy Spirit manifestations in the four quadrants of Matter. The fact that so many of these misqualifications begin with the letter A indicates that they are also a perversion of the Light of the Father, Alpha. The Messenger has explained that "family mesmerism" is another manifestation of Martian energies. It is human attachment based on blood ties rather than spiritual ties. War and other violent conflicts also come through the vibration and aura of Mars. The ultimate Martian misqualification is the creation of mechanization man, the godless creation (see the Great Divine Director, The Mechanization Concept, 1965 PoW, vol. 8 nos. 3-26, pp. 9-142). Astrologers see Mars as the planet of action based on desire. The Messenger has explained: "Mars triggers energy that brings action, but whatever your desires are, that is where your energy will go and that is the type of action you will engage in." She teaches that by hitching our desires to the star of our Mighty I AM Presence, we can ride and subdue Mars - we can "ride the bull" and take advantage of the true creative fires of Mars, the pure white fire of the Divine Mother. She has counseled us that each time we see a Mars configuration in our own astrology, we must determine to have a "Martian victory" in order to not be overcome by the perversions. Through mastering the Martian energies, we can gain our victory in the white fire of the Mother.

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Volume 35, Number 59, footnote 2. The sefirot and the Hebrew Tree of Life. In Jewish mysticism, the sefirot are the ten aspects of God's being that manifest from Ein Sof. Ein Sof (literally, "without end") is the term used to describe God prior to creation. Ein Sof is usually translated as "the Infinite." It is the ultimate reality, the First Cause: unmanifest, incomprehensible, imperceptible and indescribable - the "divine nothingness." In her lecture "Keys from Judaism - the Kabbalah and the Temple of Man," the Messenger explained that the sefirot are "names which God gave to himself, each part of himself having a specific name with a specific vibration that we could access through the universal 'computer' of the Mind of God." The sefirot bridge the gap between the finite creation and the infinite God. Early Kabbalists made diagrams of the structure of creation as it progressed from Ein Sof down through the sefirot. The most common diagram is called the "Tree of Life." Kabbalists conceived of many possible groupings of the sefirot within the Tree of Life. They also considered the creation of the cosmos to have resulted from the creation of language. Thus, they believed the twenty-two letters and sounds of the Hebrew alphabet were the instrument of creation itself. In addition to the ten sefirot, there is one "quasi sefirah," which is sometimes described as a secret or hidden attribute. The power of thirty-three present in the Tree of Life derives from the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the ten sefirot and the one quasi sefirah. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, June 26, 1992, "Keys from Judaism - the Kabbalah and the Temple of Man," available on videocassette and audiocassette. Videocassette: 4 hr., GL92056. Audiocassette: 6 hr. (includes the June 26 dictation by El Morya as the Patriarch Abraham), A92050. See also the following books, available through Summit University Press: Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah (1974; reprint, New York: Meridian Books, 1978). Charles Poncé, Kabbalah: An Introduction and Illumination for the World Today (1973; reprint, Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1978).

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Volume 35, Number 62, footnote 5. The Ascended Lady Master Mary. To students of the Ascended Masters, Mother Mary is known as (1) the Archeia of the Fifth Ray, the divine complement of Archangel Raphael, (2) the Queen of Angels, (3) the Cosmic Virgin, and (4) the Ascended Lady Master Mary. In the context of this Pearl, Mother Mary wants us to know her as the Ascended Lady Master Mary. Although she is an Archeia, she descended to earth at the behest of the Father-Mother God and took on human form to be the mother of Jesus. In chapter 10 of Vials of the Seven Last Plagues, she tells of her experience with Archangel Raphael before the throne of Alpha and Omega when she received this mission. Mary says: "I knelt in utter surrender to the call of hierarchy and in silence before the Holy of Holies gave my life that the Word might become flesh and dwell among the inhabitants of Terra, that the Christ, the eternal Logos, might incarnate" (see Vials, pp. 66-68). Once angels take embodiment in human form, they must walk the path of the ascension and go through all the rigors of the path of initiation of the Eastern bodhisattvas and the Western disciples in order to ascend back to God. Since most Catholics and others do not perceive Mary as an Ascended Lady Master, she wants to remind us that she entered the "lowly estate of the flesh" in order to give birth to the Christ in physical form. Throughout her life in Palestine, she submitted herself to the path of initiation, remaining on earth after Jesus' crucifixion in order to counsel and comfort the disciples. In preparation for that embodiment, Mary had other prior incarnations, including a lifetime on Atlantis as a temple virgin in the Temple of Truth. (See "The Soul of Mary on Earth" in My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord! pp. 25-39.) Although she made little karma throughout her lifetimes, she balanced 100 percent of it, fulfilling the requirements for the ascension. At the conclusion of her lifetime in Palestine as the mother of Jesus, Mary ascended into heaven physically. (See no. 34, p. 450, nn. 10, 11, this volume, on the physical ascension of Mary and the Catholic doctrine of the Assumption.) The Catholic Church has honored Mary with many titles, including the Blessed Mother, the Blessed Virgin, the Mediatrix of All Graces, the Queen of Peace, the Queen of All Saints, the Queen of Heaven and the Queen of the Universe. Mother Mary as the Ascended Lady Master Mary can be seen in the portrait by Ruth Hawkins, which is available in wallet-size cards and 5x7" and 8x10" prints.

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Volume 35, Number 64, footnote 4. "The other side of Atlantis" refers to the ten tribes of Israel, who prior to their incarnation in Israel had lived largely in the eastern half of Atlantis. Following their incarnation as the ten tribes of Israel, they reincarnated primarily on the European continent. Some of them actually migrated to the European continent following the Assyrian and Babylonian dispersions. (See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, May 5, 1991, "The Destiny of the Reincarnated Twelve Tribes," on 2-audiocassette album, 179 min., A91087. Also 1991 PoW, vol. 34 no. 9, p. 134 n. 1 and no. 61, p. 677 n. 1. See also E. Raymond Capt, Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets: Study of Assyrian tablets that reveal the fate of the Lost Tribes of Israel [Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Artisan Sales, 1985].) In this dictation, Omri-Tas addresses the Keepers of the Flame who are serving Saint Germain on the European continent. His admonishment to them to tend the violet flame reservoir of light and "not let it be diminished" (see note 3 above) comes at a time when the European nations are trying to establish economic unity. It is a time for transmutation of the divisions that have divided the ten tribes for centuries. Because of their rivalries and idiosyncrasies, they were not able to respond to the efforts of the Count Saint Germain to establish a United States of Europe in the eighteenth century. They ignored his counsel, and the French Revolution ensued. (See "The Count Saint Germain" in Saint Germain On Prophecy, Book One, pp. 33-34, 37-38.) With the opportunity for unity again on the horizon, we see one of the age-old forces of division among the ten tribes: their greed for material things and their entrapment in the clenches of the money beast. If Europe is to transcend herself and move on to the place of cooperation based on Christ-Love - rather than on mere economic expediency - she must have lots of violet flame. When such a great being of Light as Omri-Tas, Ruler of the Violet Planet, makes such a statement as in this dictation, his "word to the wise" should be sufficient to galvanize the Lightbearers of Europe. The European Keepers of the Flame have the tremendous opportunity to respond to Omri-Tas with perpetual violet flame vigils and dweller calls dedicated to the binding of the money beast and the ancient momentums of greed. The atrocities in Yugoslavia and the right-wing neo-Nazi fanaticism in Germany are more blatant indications of the non-resolution of the people with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As the Messenger has taught, Jesus was embodied as Joseph, the most favored of the twelve sons of Jacob. These twelve sons are the progenitors of the twelve tribes - the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the two tribes of the Southern Kingdom of Judah. Out of jealousy, Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt (see Gen. 35:22-26; 37). All these records must be cleared if Europe is to enter the New Age and fulfill her destiny. The violet flame will work wonders in this direction if Keepers of the Flame are constant in their vigil.

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Volume 35, Number 65, footnote 5. Saint Germain's grant from the Lords of Karma and the Cosmic Council. On August 30, 1992, Saint Germain delivered a dictation at the Royal Teton Ranch in which he announced: "Let there not be a cessation from your giving of yourselves to God, for as you experience the refinement of the spirit, beloved, know that I can match that. Yes, beloved, I am yet in the business of securing grants from the Karmic Board and the Cosmic Council, and I have secured a grant, beloved! Therefore, I am very, very happy this day! You have been told that grants do not come easy to the Ascended Masters in this hour. And therefore it is considered a great boon by all of the Darjeeling Council, who are looking over my shoulder now, wondering what I will do with this grant! Well, I can assure you, beloved ones, from our experience in recent and past history, that I shall not so liberally dispense the energies and the backing that come with this grant. But I want you to know that it is here and that it is here for those selected chelas who themselves select to walk the Path in an extraordinary devotion and who would seek, having had the disciplines of El Morya and desiring to continue in his disciplines, their own chelaship with me. Yes, beloved ones, I desire to take certain of you on as my own chelas and this shall be, of course, by that merit. You understand, beloved, that the standards I hold must of necessity be high for the very reason, so implied, that in the past when I have not held to that level many have misused my Light and my coat and my cane. Yes, beloved ones, they have misused me and I cannot allow it. For, you see, the hour comes down to certain opportunities, and when the door does close, I can tell you, it will swing shut and no one, ascended or unascended, will be able to open that door! Therefore, I desire to see this grant stay and be replenished by those who receive a portion, multiply it and multiply it again and multiply it by the power of the ten and return that just portion [i.e., the tithe] to me. ... I appeal to you, then, and I tell you that I will have my angels, robed in the miracle fire of the violet flame, who shall come to you, who shall teach you, who shall test you, who shall observe you and who shall report back to me whether [you are eligible to receive a grant] and, if so, the hour when the grant may be conferred, however small or great, to assist you. Therefore, beloved ones, top on our agenda is the sending of the Messenger to you. ... It is a moment when we anticipate that we might deliver a tremendous message to the world, city by city. ... Let all know that there is almost no limit to the capacity of the chela who knows the fire of the heart, who will pace himself and work directly with me; for I will be there, I will empower and I will give my own graces." (See vol. 35 no. 45, pp. 561-64.)

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