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The Sun of Righteousness Must Rise in You Today
Malachi, Chapter 4, the Sun of Righteousness
The Sun of Righteousness is your Mighty I AM Presence and the Light-emanation of the Sun of Righteousness is the Son of God, your Holy Christ Self.
"For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up," saith the LORD, the Mighty I AM Presence, the Lord Sanat Kumara, the God of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
"But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
"And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this," saith the LORD, the Mighty I AM Presence, Sanat Kumara, the LORD God of Hosts.
"Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
"And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
And this is the end of the books of the prophets.
My beloved brothers and sisters, I, Magda, come to you this day in the rejoicing of my Lord, rejoicing in his message to you. I come with the sweetness of a rose, a pink rose that I place in your hand, each one. And at the conclusion of these dictations please do put it on the altar in the secret chamber of your heart, where the threefold flame does burn.
I would, then, comment on this reading, for you must understand that the Sun of Righteousness must rise in you today. Therefore enter in to the ritual of the raising up of the Son of God. It behooves you, beloved, to tend to this and to see it and know it as the goal. For without the blazing sun of the Son of God within your hearts, you shall not be a Light to kindle souls caught in the Darkness.
Know, then, that the day that comes that "burns as an oven" is the day of the burning of the chaff, even the chaff of the mechanization man, that robot creation that has not turned itself to worship the true and living God. Know and understand that those who do wickedly shall have all the Light of the Sun of Righteousness withdrawn from them in that certain day when the date of their judgment overtakes them.
In that day shall come the Great Guru, the Lord Sanat Kumara. And his coming shall be the sealing of the books of the prophets and the Old Testament as well as the judgments handed down from the great white throne, "every man according to his works," i.e., karma. It is Sanat Kumara who sits upon the throne, "from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away," and who executes Divine Justice upon the godly and the ungodly, pronouncing the second death of the fallen angels and their godless creation at the Court of the Sacred Fire before the Four and Twenty Elders, as recorded in the Book of Revelation.1
Even so, beloved, know that with cyclic return these days and hours do come. Do not be trapped in the maya of the seeming endlessness of hours and days and years and planetary revolutions and the setting and rising of the sun again. For worlds have changed before. Continents have sunk, continents have risen. Planetary homes have been extinguished and others have been born. And you have been through these episodes of cosmic history, yet you dare not take out the books from the unconscious and read the records of calamity that your souls have known.
To those, then, who fear the name I AM THAT I AM, who are in awe of it, who love it, who place their souls beneath it, the Sun of Righteousness shall come. In those who are affixed to the God of Moses (revealed unto Moses and revealed by Moses unto the people) shall the one who is called the Sun of Righteousness, even the one whom Jeremiah called The LORD Our Righteousness,2 abide.
That Light/Sun-emanation is the Christ, who ought to be a blazing Light in your hearts even now! I say now, beloved, for the days are lengthening in terms of darkness and shortening in terms of the cosmic light.
Therefore you who whine, you who complain, realize this, beloved: I am personally concerned for you, not because you whine and complain but because your whining and complaining is a sign that you have not raised up, by the great central sun magnet of your hearts' love, the Sun of Righteousness, both as Christ the Lord and as the Source, your Mighty I AM Presence. It is a sign that you have not raised up first the Son and then the Father to be the dominant figures in your lives; nor have you raised up yourselves to be one with your Lord - no matter what it takes.
Some of you prefer the outer lord, the outer spouse, the outer wife, the outer child. Well, where shall the family appear when the parents themselves do not prefer the bonding to the Divine Spouse above their bonding to one another? But when they do, then in that bonding to one another they know the glory and the joy of their union as truly the union of Alpha and Omega reflected in their marriages. You give up nothing when you desire to be the bride of your Spouse. Remember this, for I am the bride of our Lord Jesus.
Therefore, if you are not in the sunshine of joy, beloved, it may be because in your sensitivity to world pain you are carry-ing a certain weight of planetary karma. It is not that you are without joy but it is that you brace yourself moment by moment in order to continue to bear that karma. And you bear infirmities in the flesh that others know not of because you are so concerned about the rising tide of world karma and you recognize that your bearing a share of it can make the difference between night and day for millions of souls whose karmic load precludes their carrying even so much as an additional ounce of the world weight.
At times, then, this lawful concern you carry for the karmic state of the world and her population begets a face of solemnity such as you would see on anyone who would strain at lifting a great and heavy weight. The serious mien is no sign that the joy flame has gone out; on the contrary, it is a sign that the joy flame is the very motor of your life. And that joy flame is truly great in the heart of my Lord, for he rejoices that you are willing to take on the burdens of others, even to carry some of their karma that they might yet live to know the joy of the rising Sun of Righteousness in their own beings.
Thus ye shall go forth as the favored "calves of the stall." Ye shall go forth clothed upon with a Light that is electric, a spark that flashes forth from aura to aura touching the Light-bearers around the world. And so the blessedness of God shall increase, and the power of that Light in you, the Sun of Righteousness (and not of your lesser self), shall tread down the"seed," i.e., the genetic code, of the Wicked One and his line and all of the manifestations of their wickedness.
For the day that cometh shall "burn them up," leaving "neither root nor branch." For their life will have been withdrawn from them by their own choice: for aeons they have chosen the path of suicide and therefore there shall nothing be left but ashes, "ashes under the soles of your feet," in the day that God does this. So it shall be. And these are the final words of the LORD God of hosts, Sanat Kumara, given to Malachi for the sealing of this book.
Know, then, that the sending to you of Elijah, who came as John the Baptist and who comes again two thousand years later as the Ascended Master Elijah, is the sign of the return of the prophets of all ages that you might know that once again the true spirit of prophecy is in the land. And that prophecy has always come forth out of the flame of the ark of the covenant, which in this case does burn upon the altar of this humble sanctuary - a sanctuary made holy by the superimposing upon it of the mighty cathedral of light by myriad angels of illumination's flame.3
And so the sign of the coming again of the prophet Elijah signifies to you that "the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD" is at hand. And the day of the LORD is the day of the dividing of the Darkness from the Light and the fallen angels from the Lightbearers.
Therefore know that you can anticipate the visitation of the LORD in the day of his coming. And his coming ought to concern you to the point where you separate out from the Darkness within yourself in advance of his coming so that when the LORD does come and the day of that separation is upon you, the preponderance of your being is sealed in Light.
Therefore see to it beforehand that you are no longer attached to the Darkness of the dweller-on-the-threshold, which you prefer to keep about the house as a pet, though collared and chained, and which may growl at those who come in the name of the Lord Sanat Kumara.
Be done with that dweller, beloved! Be done with it! You have had enough of it! But watch out! For I prophesy to you that before you have done with it (unless you finish with it quickly), it shall turn and rend you. For I am also a prophetess and I prophesy to you that that dweller shall devour you if you do not put an end to it quickly. You must pick the time and not let it pick the time, beloved, for these are treacherous days.
And so the coming of the prophet Elijah and the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood with him "shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers." For it is written that unless this be done, unless the people and, above all, the Lightbearers accept the intercession in their households of the great prophets, who are indeed the Ascended Masters, and unless the fathers' hearts shall be turned to the children and the hearts of the children be turned to the fathers, the LORD shall smite "the earth with a curse."
And that curse is the plague, beloved. It is many plagues affecting many levels of consciousness. That curse is the judgment that will without warning separate the real from the unreal in those who have not called upon the violet flame to remove the dross from the gold in its alchemical fires. For the LORD God will not allow the division between the fathers and the children, nor will he allow it between the mothers and the children.
But you see, it is incumbent upon the father to take command of the household. And to those of you who are mothers without husbands or fathers in your households, I say, call upon the Lord Christ, call upon Saint Germain, call upon noble friends who will assist you by being that father presence in your household. For the descent of the Light of the Sun of Righteousness must come to every child through the correct and proper relationship with a father figure who embodies the Law and the Lawgiver and the rule of Love and the presence of grace and joy and laughter and who sets the example of the Ascended Masters' teachings in honor.
Thus, with the Ascended Masters at her side, with or without a strong friend, the mother can play her role as teacher. She can teach the child all that he must learn in order that he might grow and wax strong on the spiritual path, as well as on the path of accomplishment in those secular studies that are a necessary foundation to his vocation as an adult.
So let those of you who are parents invoke the mantle of the Father-Mother God as you give the mantra "I AM Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending of all matters in this household."
Blessed ones, the human family is intended to be the reflection on earth of the divine family. And the divine personages of Father, Son, Holy Spirit and Mother should be apparent in the demeanor of family members. If the children and the sons and daughters of God do not act as receptacles for the matrix of the Holy Family, where, then, shall the Light appear? Where shall the cradle for the Sun of Righteousness be?
Where shall the cradle be for the next child to be born and the next if the old patterns and the old indulgences of previous generations are repeated and parents give their children human comfort but fail to give them that spiritual consolation of the Community of the Holy Spirit?
The days shall wax dark. But in their midst ye shall know a Light and a great Light and a greater Light because you have loved the Lord, because you have pulled the same oars and pulled together until all things could come together and be manifest here.
Therefore I, Magda, having been with Jesus both before and since his incarnation as Jesus, both on earth and in heaven, remind you that our Jesus is truly the Saviour of every soul upon earth, that our Jesus is here and now still enjoying the dispensation to help the many, to give you, his disciples, yes, some of your own karma to carry and to consume with the violet flame that you may pass your tests and prove your mastery.
And, yes, he is coming again to heal you, to teach you and to give you that cosmic spanking for the chastening of your souls. Recognize his chastening as the greatest love you will ever know and as having the greatest benefit of any you have ever received. Recognize that love of Jesus and cherish it.
I come to you, beloved, having been in the mystery schools that are attended by all prophets who have ever gone forth empowered with the spirit of prophecy upon this earth. This has been quite an experience. And I have been attending now for two years the school where I am presently enrolled.
And so, if I sound as if I am bringing to you the spirit of the prophets, surely I am. For they and their message are engraven upon my heart and embedded in my garments, in my aura and in my mind as never before - though I, too, stood in Israel and Judah and heard the prophets speak unto the people and challenge them and tell them what was the right way when they were going the wrong way. And sometimes the people ridiculed, imprisoned and even stoned and killed their prophets, whereas at other times they listened to them and obeyed them only to find that they were saved because they had heeded the prophet's warning.
So, beloved ones, if you desire an answer from God or Guru, do not be afraid to ask. If you do not want an answer but you want your freedom to go this way and that, then take your free will and fill your cup with it until you have achieved all that you desire to achieve. But remember, when you come to the end of the age, there will be a price to be paid for that set of indulgences. There will be a price to be paid indeed.
I do not threaten. I do not even warn. I simply put on the blackboard the equation of 2 x 2 = 4. And what that 4 will be you will find out because God and Guru will give you your free will to experiment with right and wrong decisions and to drink of that free will to the fullest until you desire to say, "Father, not my will but thine be done."4
My special message to you, then, beloved ones, is that as you read the scriptures such as they are, even though they may not have the 100 percent accuracy that you would hope to find in the texts recording God's word, yet the Holy Spirit does correct and refine for you the meaning of those texts. And I speak not alone of the codified scriptures of the Old and New Testaments but of the codified scriptures of all that is in print of the dictations of the Ascended Masters and all that is on audio-or videotape.
Do not let the dictations and the lectures of the Messengers become rusty! I appeal to the whole world, to the entire field of this body of El Morya's chelas and I ask you to come and help with the publication of these Teachings on audio-and videotape and in book and booklet format.
The Teachings cannot be assimilated, they cannot be gobbled up, they cannot be chewed up and digested, nor can the people become that Teaching, that Christ, that Word of God, unless it is in their hands. Remember, this Summit Lighthouse is a publishing society. You are here, called unto the Dharma under the Holy Order of Saint Francis and Saint Clare, to publish abroad the Teachings of the Ascended Masters.
I, Magda, come to you in the urgency of the hour, when so many are in ignorance in so many quarters of the earth and in the churches - some in the very churches where I preached! And I say to you: Know that every book that you publish, every tape that you release may mean the difference as to whether a soul ascends or drowns in the astral sea. For if the soul is not taught the true teachings of the Sun of Righteousness, her mighty I AM Presence, if the soul does not know that she has a Holy Christ Self and therefore gives up in despair, unsatisfied by the husks of orthodoxy and not knowing where to look for her Bridegroom, not only may she not ascend but she may in fact drown in the astral sea.
Blessed ones, let us remember who we are, why we are here in embodiment at this juncture in earth's history and what we are called upon to do. Put first things first and get on with contacting souls of Light, who, I tell you, according to the Lords of Karma, must at least touch the hem of the garment of this Path before they pass from the screen of life. For if they do, and that thanks to your efforts in outreach, they will not go down to the astral plane at the change called death but they will know that they should welcome the angels who come to cut them free and to take them at least to the kindergarten of the etheric octave, which is a far better place to be than even the highest levels of the astral plane.
Blessed ones, there are many churches who have vowed to bring the knowledge of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, my Divine Spouse, to every hearth, to every home, to every soul upon earth. And they go about this with absolute conviction.
Well, beloved, let your determination be to bring the Teaching of my Lord, including the knowledge of the path of the ascension, to every Lightbearer, every son and daughter of God and every child of God. For, I tell you, they will have a receptivity to it because once upon a time in ages past they touched the hem of Jesus' garment, they knew Lord Maitreya, they knew Zarathustra, they knew Lord Gautama Buddha.
You must acquaint them with that one book, that one text, that one tape, that one something that will be for them the sudden opening of the eyes and the sudden opening of the heart and the sudden opening of the mind.
You who have abundance and supply to spare, I pray you, bolster up this Messenger and this staff and give them what they need to get this job done! Join them! Help them! And make the necessary funds available that these Teachings shall be beamed throughout the earth via satellite to many souls upon earth before they must face the hour of transition, called death. For they may find themselves on the astral plane with no one on earth to pray for them and without having the knowledge of the science of the spoken Word to decree themselves out of the astral dilemma.
I, Magda, preach to you and I plead with you to be concerned for the millions of Lightbearers on earth who can be raised up, who can yet experience the raising up of the Sun of Righteousness within them and who can yet live another day to give life and hope to those children of the Sun who have volunteered to come to earth from Venus and other systems of worlds to take embodiment here.
And they come, beloved, because they believe in you! They believe in your heart, they believe in your love, they believe in your verve! They believe in your very nerve to stand up to those fallen angels. Believe me, you are winning! I am winning! Jesus is winning. And from the beginning, Morya and his chelas were winning! [16-second applause]
And so as I take my leave of you, I tell you it would be my greatest joy to see many among you come to the place where, because chelaship is of utmost importance to you, your service hand-in-hand with Lord Maitreya, Saint Germain, the Maha Chohan, the Master K.H., the Master M. and my Lord are more important to you than anything else. Nothing could make me happier than to see you be tough-minded (yang-minded, as they say) and tough in every way.
By this I mean that you take whatever positive or negative karma you get and you deal with it - because you understand that this is the opportunity life affords you. You deal with whatever correction you get from God, Guru or friend or foe, and through it all you come up higher. Be solid, be dependable, be there! Be there to proclaim the path that is Love's victory unto the Life everlasting.
Blessed ones, roses from my heart! Roses to your heart! Roses upon roses of rejoicing! I thank you, I thank you, I thank you for every word and deed and effort and thought and prayer that you send out to God each day that empowers every one of us who serves from the thirty-three levels of the etheric octave, the heaven-world, every angel, every tiniest angel and Sanat Kumara, to do more and more and more for the Lightbearers of earth.
And when Lightbearers are fully Light, as lighthouses each one, full of that Light of God and fully enlightened by his wisdom, do you not think that some of those who do not have the Light or have lost the Light will be converted?
I say to you, some of them will be converted. But now let us go after those of Gautama Buddha, those of the Blessed One, who believed with all his heart and mind and soul that if he would tarry in the earth some would understand.5 And by that statement he defeated Mara the tempter, Mara the fallen one. Yes, Mara did flee from him and he will flee from you too.
So you must also say, "If I stay and hold the line at Maitreya's Mystery School, then I know the Teachings will be published and they will be cast abroad as the waters cover the sea.6 And some will understand. Some will understand." That is all we ask for - that all who can and will understand will have in hand the Teaching that empowers them to understand.
I am your sister on the Path. Hold my hand. I am with you and for you and for your victory. And I am for the meeting of every one of your needs, human and divine, here and now at Maitreya's Mystery School.
This dictation by beloved Magda was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, during the five-day Easter Retreat 1993, held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. The Ascended Lady Master Magda is the twin flame of Jesus Christ. At the time of Jesus, she was embodied as Mary Magdalene (see Matt. 27:56, 61; 28:1-10; Mark 15:40, 47; 16:1-11; Luke 8:2; 24:10; John 19:25; 20:1, 2, 11-18). In her final incarnation, she was the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944), founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. During her entire ministry, Aimee lived in anticipation of the day Jesus would come to receive her as his waiting bride. For a biographical sketch of Aimee's life, see 1982 PoW, Book I, Vol. 25, no. 24, p. 257 n. 5. Her autobiography, Aimee (Los Angeles: Foursquare Publications, 1979), is available through Summit University Press. See also Robert Bahr, Least of All Saints: The Story of Aimee Semple McPherson (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979). [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Magda's direction.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
"Thank You for Your Visit, Mother!"
I have so many things to thank you for, I don't know where to begin. Please accept my apologies for not writing you sooner to tell you how blessed it was to receive you at the Washington, D.C. Teaching Center on March 17. The whole community was overjoyed by your visit, and I am personally especially grateful to have had the opportunity to spend so much time with you.
Thank you for being so kind and for putting me at ease. I always wondered if I would be nervous in your presence, but you made it easy for me. And you said so many kind and uplifting things to me. I will cherish those kind words especially because I have seen how unflinchingly honest you are, so I know that whatever you say, you mean. It is a wonderful experience to be in the presence of someone who is always truthful, always loving, always real. The only difficulty came in parting - I never wanted you to leave! I felt that my human ego couldn't come near me while I was near you; it was such a relief to have you here!
Your shining example will be a polestar to guide me to the end of my mission on earth. How can I ever express my gratitude for that? Well, I think I know what your answer would be - "Become my example and teach others as I have done" - and I pledge to you that I will do so with God's help and yours, human ego notwithstanding.
Mother, the thoughts and the feelings I have to express to you of my deep and abiding love for you, your family, your staff, your chelas; of my gratitude for the great, great service you render, so little appreciated in this world; of my appreciation for the magnificent job you are doing and for the priceless jewels you have shared with us through the Teachings of the Ascended Masters - well, it would take a book the size of a novel to express it all.
Nevertheless, let me at least thank you for one specific thing. When I dropped you at your hotel the evening of your visit, you thanked me for being your good driver for the day and half jestingly said, "I wish I could have you be my driver at the ranch." In the same lighthearted spirit, I turned to you and said, "When do I start?" You paused, fixed me in your loving gaze and said, emphatically, "You're needed here in Washington. You have a mission here, shepherding souls."
I want to tell you, Mother, that I had a good cry on the way back to the Teaching Center over that one - and I hadn't shed a tear through twenty years of my adult life, despite many heartaches. But these weren't tears of heartache but of joy and of gratitude to God beyond expression. To think that I could be a shepherd to others, that I could be serving my God and his chelas, that I had a spiritual mission!
When I related this episode to my mother over the telephone, she wept for joy also. (This from a woman who used to think that she hated you!) She said, "It must have been for you almost as if God himself were affirming your mission!" Yes, God was speaking to me through his anointed Messenger. (Incidentally, for several months now my mother has been sponsoring your cable shows on her local channel!)
And then to top it all off, you sent me the warmest, most detailed thank-you letter I have ever read! No courtesy was too small for you to remember and to give thanks for. As I read it, I kept thinking, "I'm the one who should be thanking you!"
Mother, I am enclosing a little book I discovered recently, Embraced by the Light by Betty J. Eadie. You may have already seen it, since it's on the New York Times best-seller list, but just in case you haven't I'm forwarding this copy to you. It's a lovely account of a near-death experience that I think conveys much of the essence of the Teachings in a way that is accessible to many people, even those who might not be ready for this Path.
Mother, you are always in my heart. I look forward to seeing you back in Washington, D.C. (hopefully, for a two-day seminar) in the very near future. Just let me know if you need a good driver!
With all the love in my heart,
"You Have Touched More Lives Than You Are Aware Of"
I have been wanting to write to you for several years to try to express my gratefulness for you - one who brings Light to this confused world of illusion. I am not really even a member of your church body in a physical sense, but I share in my own way the search for Truth and Love and dearly want to bring healing to our sad earth.
At this time, especially prompted by the false and vicious assaults I have witnessed on TV, I want to let you know - or rather to reassure you - that you have touched more lives than you are aware of with your guided teachings. In the past I have purchased quite a few of your books and have enjoyed watching you on Channel 33 (Cox Cable) public access TV. Also, I pray for your protection and that of Church Universal and Triumphant.
I wish with all my heart that the general public would investigate for themselves instead of accepting, like a reckless flock of apathetic sheep, the garbage that the media/government gives out daily. All I can do is to continue to study the Law of the Universal Father, giving thanks and love in my daily life and, as often as I can, bring my consciousness to the I AM Presence.
I use the verses and prayers in the Heart, Head and Hand booklet and the "Watch With Me" Jesus' Vigil of the Hours booklet. They have been a source of upliftment for me when I have been unable to pray. These prayers express so well what I want to send out on this earth and outward into our universe.
I know that you are busy being about your Father's business so I will try not to be too wordy. It just saddens me so deeply to see those in such great spiritual need cast stones at the very thing they are in need of most - Truth and Light. I feel certain that you have seen into the future and know some of what to expect. It frightens me in a way to see just how savage ignorance and the mob mentality can be.
I have often told my husband that if I were in a position financially, I would definitely go to Montana to study. Maybe I will be able to do so in the future, but for the time being I feel most fortunate to be able to study for the ministry with a rare individual who has her feet securely planted on the Path. It is my sincerest desire after my ordination in four years to serve in whatever way I am able - I know Spirit will guide.
With love and prayers I leave you - Shalom.
May Christ consciousness return to earth.
Observations of a Summer in Kenya by a Student of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Academy
My name is . I went to Longfellow Academy for my eighth grade. I am presently in Nairobi, Kenya, spending my summer here and I wanted to tell you a little about it. I want to tell you because you gave me the opportunity to attend Longfellow and I was able to learn things that help me here and I can also see and understand things I never understood.
Kenya is one of the advanced third-world countries but it still needs a lot of help. Here if you are white, you have money and so in restaurants you are served first. I think this is very sad. Here if you are white, you also take black people in for work not because you can't do it yourself but because this way you can help people in need. If you just give the money, it will probably be misused. Here the little street boys ask for money but this is not used for food but for glue. This glue is sniffed and it makes everything okay for a second. My aunt does not give them money but she does give them what they really need - food.
Being here has showed me that my life is almost perfect compared to the lives of the Kenyan people. I have seen the slums. The houses are made of iron and steel. The rich slums are worse than many people can imagine. People tell you to leave things like this alone. How people can do this I don't know. I know I cannot, if I start imagining what my life would be like if I were one of those people. The saddest thing is that girls of seven or eight are living outside of good hotels because men in those hotels pay them to sleep with them. These girls are only left with scars and just enough to buy food.
Looking at the things that happen here I can see what the Masters mean. Our world is going down the drain. It is so easy to be grateful after this experience. I again want to thank you for everything that you have done. Thanks.