Remember the Ancient Encounter
On Discipleship under Lord Maitreya
My love enfolds you in the rapturous Light of
the One Sent. I am, as you know, as you know me, Kuthumi.
To Play Our Roles We Crossed the Bar
Remember the ancient encounter. For I have been
your brother on many occasion; and in each succeeding incarnation
we have shared, our souls have moved together to pluck the star
of the Divine Light and to pluck the harp of the heart of Maitreya.
Disciples of Maitreya are we-Metteyya-and therefore
together we have sought a glance, a smile, a whisper, an acknowledgment
that we might know our God is pleased.
Thus, we agreed, thou and I, that I should go
with Morya before you to stand in Christ with Jesus and that you
would remain to bring up the rear of the troops and your own flaming
chakras.
Thus, to play our roles-I the Alpha, you the
Omega—we crossed the bar; and you remain, the faithful witness
of our cause.
How can I leave thee, devotees of Light and
Peace and Freedom and of the heart of that Christ?
Is it any wonder to you that I should become,
not only before my ascension in the final hours [as the Mahatma
Koot Hoomi] but subsequently, a bit incensed at these Christians
and their small-mindedness and inability to perceive his true
mission when I myself [as Saint Francis], through trial and pain
and the deep affection of the heart, came truly to understand
beyond orthodoxy the reality of my Saviour? <1>
Thus, beloved, I am impatient today for your
sakes and for the sakes of those who wait for the cup of knowledge
that you bear from our abode. I am impatient with those who attempt
again and again to weave their slander, their unreality, and all
the rest around such a shining star as the Teaching itself.
Of course, I know the end from the beginning.
And I, too, understand the cycles that must be outplayed as outlined
for you by Sanat Kumara and Gautama and the living Word in the
Great White Brotherhood. But still I long to think of those who,
if they had the fruit and the sweet nectar of the
knowledge that has become such a daily affair as to be taken for
granted by yourselves, might run with it, eat it now to the fullness
of the cup, and become for us other servants in many fields East
and West.
We press on then. We jump over the bowling balls
that are rolled our way, and we stand before you today rejoicing
in admonishment and dispensation from Maitreya to our own heart.
My Assignment to Work with You for Your Physical Health
and the Healing of Your Psychology
Thus, I come, the joyful student, to announce
to you the most precious dispensation which comes from Maitreya,
placed upon me by him with all diligence and the same concern
for the step-up of your lives. This dispensation is my assignment
to work with each one of you individually for your physical health
and for the healing of your psychology, that we might swiftly
get to the very cause and core of physical as well as spiritual
and emotional conditions that there be no more setbacks or indulgences
and surely not two steps forward and one step back.
Thus, from this hour, if you will call to me
and make a determination in your heart to transcend the former
self, I will tutor you both through your own heart and any messenger
I may send your way. Therefore, heed the voices—not astral
but physical—and watch the course of events. And, of course,
when you have the opportunity to receive my word from the messenger,
know truly that I use her often to explain to you the intricacies
of the blocks in consciousness. For you are so sincere and the
sweetness of thy hearts is touching to the soul in a world hardened
by war and abortion.
Thus, I come in many guises. And I do acknowledge
to you, beloved, that whatever else may or may not be said from
the left or the right, our messenger is truly adequate and ready
to demonstrate to you the path of your Christhood as we have walked
it, as we have attained it.
A School of Hard Knocks and Our Gruff Voice
This is a school, truly, of hard knocks. This
is a school where you will hear our gruff voice. Be of good cheer,
for our bark is often worse than our bite but proves most useful
in eliminating those who are so easily scared away from the fount,
who seek favoritism and praise when in fact they should recognize
the love of the gruff voice and know that that which is offended
is the ego self, the prideful self.
Thus, offense is a grave enemy and ought to
be discarded. We use this mode, that those who belong not here
may well have their offense and take it and move on their way
as the "hurt ones," the "bruised ones," the
"injured ones."
Isn't it strange that those who call themselves
men, who have gone forth, could be offended by a little woman?
Beloved hearts, something is awry! Where has gone the prototype
of Western man with all the strength and independence, without
botheration from females? After all, are we not the Gurus? Then
why allow a little woman to cause so much consternation, so much
reaction, so much anger? More is the proof, then, that it is we
who act, for how can a little woman perform such deeds of which
she is accused?
Seek Not the Human Mother but the Divine
Blessed ones, those who come for favoritism
and the personality cult, those who come seeking the Mother, therefore,
as the substitute for the human mother come precisely for the
wrong reason. This is not a human mother! This is the Divine Mother,
veiled in many garbs. You cannot have a relationship with the
Divine Mother in any of us unless you first satisfy yourself at
the human level, resolve your psychology with human parents, become
your own mother and father and keeper, and then enter into a true
and lasting relationship with the Divine Mother and the Divine
Father.
Now, why do you suppose that the good God made
human mothers and human fathers? It is because the tender souls,
those reincarnating with a pack of karma on their backs, truly
need the humanness of the human mother and father. Thus, these
are necessary steps in the planetary home, and you would feel
bereft and left out if you were spoken of as that one having neither
father nor mother nor beginning nor ending of days. <2>
Thus, the one who comes in the name of Melchizedek,
the Ascended Master and the priest, has initiated the Lord Jesus
as a priest forever. <3> That priesthood comes through the
initiation of the Divine Father and the Divine Mother unto those
who have internalized the essential elements of the
humanity of the world's greatest fathers and mothers.
I speak, then, of the inner resolution. I speak,
then, to you! Those who seek here what they did not derive from
human parents, those who seek to prove again and again that human
parents will fail by seeing failure in the messengers have not
the slightest conception of the Path. Some require
tutoring and a study of the true and ancient traditions of the
Guru/chela relationship.
Blessed ones, we cannot be unto you both human
and divine. Therefore, we have chosen-and chosen well-to represent
the divine, since you have so many specimens of the human before
you. It is really not necessary that we provide the human link
in the chain of humanism.
The Ascension Is the Mark of Achievement
We come, therefore, to provide the link to the
Divinity, and we place before you in this mystery school the goal
of the ascension. The ascension itself is the mark of achievement,
the victory, and the single act that is praiseworthy. If you do
not graduate with your ascension, not only will your report card
be marked "failed," but so will ours. For the teacher
is also responsible—and so is the messenger.
Thus, each one sent comes with a prayer that
none of these little ones should be lost save the son of perdition.
<4> And who is the son of perdition? I tell you, he is not
the bogeyman! He is not your worst enemy that you imagine to be
nine feet tall. The son of perdition is the dweller on the threshold
of your own house. It should be lost and rightfully so—and
swiftly!
But it is difficult to become a dragon-slayer
when the age of chivalry has long passed. Some find it a bit unpleasant
to take up sword and slay the not-self. But in the meantime, while
their stomachs are in too delicate a condition (and their egos
as well) to perform this act, they themselves are being devoured
by the dweller-dallying, marking time, and often drifting backwards
with no realization. For in relativity, it sometimes appears one
is going forward when one is standing still or moving backward.
Thus, precious hearts, understand that the ascension
is the acceptable offering. Those who do not truly want the ascension
but want the power of the Light of Serapis Bey ought not to come.
But these are the very ones who cannot be convinced to stay away,
for they enjoy the lap of the Mother and
need make no effort and become most angry when they are sent forth
to prove their wisdom in action and thus balance the threefold
flame!
They must recognize once and for all that if
they had mastery once or twice or thrice in a previous life, that
full mastery should have long ago gained for them the eternal
octaves of Light. What is wanting is always the absence of balance
in the threefold flame. If it cannot be gained here, it must be
gained in the wide opportunity of the world for professionalism
and self-mastery.
Some things are required of one, and some things
of another. Resent not, then, the admonishments we give through
the messenger. Our admonishments are only for the shortening of
the days for the elect. <5> Who are the elect? You are the
elect! You have elected to enter a path, in the main, by trust,
by determination, and by the elimination of possibilities; for
you have wisely observed what the world has to offer. Not knowing,
then, what you would encounter, you have nevertheless sought the
Great White Brotherhood, sought the Ascended Masters, entered
the school presenting itself to be ours (as so it is), and thus
come in faith to seek and to find.
I welcome you to this quarter of Summit University
in the name of Lord Maitreya. My arms are open, and my heart also.
I would take you inside and give to you as much as you are able
to take. Thus, enter in to the faith of thy own Selfhood, and
we can roll up our sleeves and begin.
"What Does It Mean, This Slaying of the Dweller on the Threshold?"
"What does it mean," you have
said, "this slaying of the dweller on the threshold?"
Let us begin once again at the beginning for those who have not
understood:
Beloved, by free will all have forged action,
word, desire. Some of these, as vibration, have been pure and
perfect, building individual Christhood and the mantle, the seamless
garment. Through ignorance, absence of tutoring, forgetfulness
of First Cause and origin in the higher spheres, others of these
vibrations emanating from actions and words and desires have fallen;
for they had not the balance of flight of Alpha and Omega. They
have fallen and begun to form a spiral like a solar system around
the solar plexus, the "place of the sun."
Momentums, then, of lifetimes for many thousands
of years have builded the antithesis of Self, sometimes entirely
unbeknownst to the outer mind who thought itself so sincere and
desirous of doing right that in the very desire to do right there
has been the mistaken conclusion that the desire
should make all things right. Nevertheless, the Law perceives
that there is right action, there is wrong action, and the proof
is in the causal body—the pure vessel of Light of all good
deeds and acts in Matter—and in this electronic belt.
Now, in the eye of that vortex of misqualified
energy-in the very eye of the vortex—there is the point
of consciousness and identity that emerges as the collective consciousness
of all misdeeds. Each time a decision is made that registers as
the unreal, a portion of the unreal mind must be used to make
it. Thus, the collection of actions has a collective consciousness,
and the dweller is the collective manifestation of all that has
been in error. It emerges as an identity, a figment, you might
say, but a momentum that wields human power to a grave and great
extent.
This identity is the impostor of the soul and
of the Christ Self. A portion of the soul by free will is invested
in the impostor, and a portion of the soul is invested in the
Christ. Thus, the battleground and Armageddon is of the soul which,
as you know, can be lost.
Now cometh the Christ and the Ascended Masters
and their chelas to woo the soul away from unreality, to prove
to the soul what is Real, what is Light, what is the eternal Goal.
This is your office as shepherds and ministering servants and
students of the World Teachers. When the soul is enlightened and
quickened and gains awareness through Christ, it begins to be
able to see on its own through that Christ intelligence what is
unreal.
But seeing is not necessarily believing. Seeing,
then, is the first step; believing, the second.
The action to deny that which is unreal is fraught
with the burdens of the individual's psychology. And thus, sometimes
hard lessons—burning in the trial by fire, <6> pain
in this world—must convince the soul that Life is more important
and therefore that one must let go of certain situations and
conditions and beliefs and comfortabilities.
We move the soul as close to the precipice of
knowledge of Absolute Good and Absolute Evil as is possible, at
the same time to preserve the integrity of the soul and not to
cause that one too much fear, too much awareness of the great
Darkness within that opposes the great Light.
Thus, beloved hearts, the slaying of the dweller.
Not all at once but little by little. And this is something you
should be aware of, though you have been told before. Each day,
according to the cosmic cycles, a little bit of the head of the
dweller emerges above this dark pool of the electronic belt. It
is a still darkness, and one can see perhaps the head or the ear
or the eye or the nose of this dweller, this self-created monster.
You see this, then, in your own actions and reactions. You see
it in the
musings of the mind-sometimes only a telltale ripple on the surface
or perhaps the tail when the beast has dived to the bottom.
Thus, you must listen and watch what is lurking.
And as soon as you find a tendency to fear, to be jealous, to
become angry or whatever, go after it as the tip of the iceberg!
Work at it! This work is truly a profound work of the Spirit.
It is not easy always to be on the path of confrontation.
The Path of Accommodation of the Dweller
I come with the message of Maitreya and to amplify
his previous messages. For he has spoken of the path of accommodation
<7> whereby, instead of slaying the dweller, you find ways
to go around this side and around that side. And thus, you begin
to build the tower of light—you build a great momentum of
decrees and service, trusting that somehow, in some way, this
terrifying encounter will go away. But it will not go away. And
the day you discover once again that all of that goodness is not
the acceptable offering is the day when in the presence of Maitreya
you once again encounter face-to-face that dweller on the threshold.
You may go far and wide and keep a wide berth
from the messenger and never notice the dweller and build a positive
human momentum in those outer attainments, whether through yoga
or decrees or this or that discipline. And you may be very happy
with yourself, and others may be exceedingly happy with you. Of
course, this is not the question.
The question is whether your I AM Presence and
Christ Self are happy and whether your Teachers will tell you
that in the light of cosmic initiation your offering is acceptable.
Thus, beloved, to avoid the Masters or to avoid the instrument
whereby we may speak to you is to avoid the Day of Reckoning [of
your karmic accountability] which has been called, in biblical
terms, the day of vengeance of our God. <8>
Who Is Your God?
Now think of this in the occult <9> sense.
Who is our God? Your God is the thing which you fear most. I pray
it be the Almighty in the sense of awe, but too often fear is
of things from beneath <10> or of fear itself. Your God
is also the thing you hate most or resent most, the thing to which
you are tied irrevocably by the greatest intensity of human feelings.
These may be good or bad, pleasureful or painful; but there is
your God, the one to whom you give deference.
Now listen to the Word: "the day of vengeance
of our God." What is the vengeance? It is the terrifying
moment when the thing you have feared or hated or loved most (in
a human consciousness) has become your master and you its slave,
and you find you are indeed not free although you have built
a mountain of decrees and service on either side.
Thus, beloved, the mighty work of the ages must
be pursued, and we stand with you and we place our messenger before
you because of the initiation and tutoring and training and encounter
that is needed constantly to assist: To assist your overcoming.
Only you can overcome-we cannot do it for you!
And yet, we can deliver the precise Word and the thrust of the
sword at any hour of the day or night when it is required. And
those who are the true brides of Christ and the wise virgins <11>-they
will respond, they will know the source, they will move!
You May Know Us through Our Teachings
Blessed hearts, you may not understand or perceive
us personally, but you may do so through the dictations and the
teachings. And inasmuch as you never know where you will find
it, it is important to be ongoing students of the teachings that
have come forth. So precious are these teachings that
their recording, their organization, is deemed by us often more
important than more human conversation with our messenger.
As you can see, if we did not have our books
and letters from previous centuries, where would we be to convey
the very same instruction? We would have to begin all over again
and repeat what we have done. But we have better and nobler ideas
to convey and new situations demanding attention. Thus, do not
neglect so great a salvation as the written and spoken Word. And
value all other contact above and below with our bands.
The Accommodation of Rebellion against the Guru
and Disobedience to the Lord God
Blessed ones, understand, then, the accommodation
of the aspect of the beast known as rebellion against the Guru
and disobedience to the Lord God. Understand that that core rebellion
has been the undoing of many chelas, some who were not calculated
by us to make it in the first place.
Although we held the immaculate concept, the
record of the past was before us. We gave the opportunity in purest
hope, in support, and with the full momentum of our Electronic
Presence. Yet, beloved, others who have not made it have lost
in the race simply for want of this very instruction from
Lord Maitreya, which because it has helped so many I give to you
again.
The accommodation, then, of rebellion, going
to the right and to the left of it, becoming as it were, a workaholic,
performing many good human deeds and social deeds, or the performance
of ritual and prayer and yoga, the assiduous following of perhaps
asceticism or personal discipline or diet—all of these things
may be a careful accumulation of human virtue by the individual
to avoid [subconsciously, at least] what is the most important
step which must be taken: The step of the encounter with that
satellite orbiting in the electronic belt that has come between
the soul and her I AM Presence-namely, the rebellion against Lord
Maitreya or Sanat Kumara or against the Law itself because it
was spoken, perhaps, by a very imperfect vessel. This rebellion,
then, becomes a block self-perpetuating, for it is set in orbit
by free will and it cannot be removed from orbit without free
will.
How You Create Your Personal Astrology out of Your Karma
When you place planets in orbit in this electronic
belt, you create your personal subconscious astrology and psychology,
which are one and the same-focuses of your karma. Now, when you
think of the solar system you inhabit and you consider the weight,
the volume, and the magnitude of the
planets, you can learn the lesson that it is far easier to set
a planet in motion than to call it back, even as the words which
proceed from your mouths cannot be called back, no matter how
great the regret, else it is by the violet flame.
The Necessity for Attainment in the Heart Chakra
through the Master/Disciple Relationship
Thus, to remove the planet of rebellion, you
must have a oneness with the central sun of your being-the I AM
Presence, the Christ Self, and the externalized attainment of
the heart chakra. This is why we preach on the Sacred Heart. This
is why there is a union of religion East and West through the
path of the heart; for all who have ever attained have done so
by this sacred fire.
Listen well, then. To recall the planet of rebellion
in the electronic belt, you must have an equal and greater force
of Light and sacred fire manifest in the heart to counteract it
and dissolve it, else you must be holding the hand of the Master
or the Guru who has that development and can transmit to you the
Light that can keep you above the waves when you would sink as
Peter did. <12>
Thus, the necessity of the Master/disciple relationship.
For there is not one among you or those upon earth today (save
those who are already in our inner retreats) who can make it alone,
who has not in his electronic belt something that requires reinforcement
of the Masters who have gone before to remove-to remove, I say,
in a timely manner, for we do not have a million years for you
to sit and give the violet flame and to pursue these disciplines.
Thus, the Master/disciple relationship has never
been more important. And because this messenger has submitted
to the most complete and arduous training at inner levels and
in the physical octave, taking the lessons from both friend and
foe alike, from Masters and chelas alike (not missing those
lessons), we can tell you that the instrument is dependable for
our purposes to make known to you what are the mandated options
that you must consider through free will to take and take quickly
for your own victory.
Cycles must not be lost. Tests must not be postponed.
And when you see it, call it and move on.
Beloved ones, when the aspect of the dweller
of rebellion is not challenged and bound and cast out-and these
are steps; for that planet may be bound before it is ultimately
cast out, which means it is in submission to your free will and
to your Christhood but not entirely eliminated—when it remains,
therefore, and you are in the twilight zone of not having slain
the dweller and not having entered into complete union with Christ,
these are treacherous waters.
We Offer Our Hand in Friendship
In these waters of the astral plane, again you
need our living witness and our hand, which we offer this day
purely and in friendship and as never before to assist you-to
assist you for Maitreya's sake and for your ascension's sake.
The Acceptable Offering Is Christ-Good
When you are in that twilight zone, scurrying
about like frightened mice to pile up good karma, yet not facing
the problem—the offering of human righteousness and human
goodness is not the acceptable offering. If the individual is
not willing to take this teaching to heart and to change, then,
you see, he will become angry, as Cain was angry when his offering
was not accepted. <13> He demanded of Maitreya that his
human goodness be received as a substitute for Christ-goodness—that
the Law be changed for him and, instead of his fulfillment of
that Law, that all of this grandiose human goodness should suffice.
And individuals do this again and again, and
their schemes and their deeds become more and more grandiose,
sometimes encompassing the earth. And they say, "Surely this
great good deed, this great endowment, this great act I have done
that has blessed millions should be the acceptable offering!"
It is only the acceptable offering when it is
Christ-good. What is Christ-good? It is the soul united with Christ
who has slain the dweller through that Christ and therefore can
say, "This I have done to the glory of God and not as an
accommodation for my rebellion, not as a substitute for my surrender,
not as my demand that God should take me according to my path
instead of according to His."
Depression and Moodiness for the Rejected Offering
Now when the offering that is not Christ-good
is rejected, as it always is and shall be, there is an anger that
occurs at the subconscious level, which on the surface may manifest
as depression. Beware depression and moodiness, for it is a sign
of severe problems. Depression is that state of the twilight zone
where the individual has neither slain the dweller nor entered
fully into the heart of Christ. It is the most dangerous situation
of the soul in this octave of the Matter universe. Therefore,
you desire to quickly remove yourself from that place of jeopardy.
Some of you have recurrent dreams of walking
over very insecure bridges, over deep chasms or through narrow
passageways, or of being confined in a box. You may wake up in
a cold sweat, you may experience terror in the night. And thus,
a lesson is coming through from your Higher Mental Body that tells
you that you have placed yourself in a condition that is dangerous,
that you must pass through it, you must make a move, you cannot
go back and you cannot stand still: you must move forward.
Enter the False Gurus Offering Souls False Fruits
For here the tempter may come, here you may
be vulnerable to those who are offering you wares and fruits which
are not the initiatic fruits of Maitreya.
Thus enter the false gurus to take advantage
of souls who have refused to pass through the initiation of challenging
that core rebellion. Now they find a false guru, now they satisfy
themselves that all is well. They may keep their rebellion, for
the false guru is the embodiment of the dweller on the threshold
of rebellion against Maitreya. And they will follow the false
teachers lifetime after lifetime, totally suppressing all other
awareness of the Light of Christ.
For that awareness would demand and force them
once again to the point of the encounter and the point of the
choice. Thus, they have a system of knowledge, of education, of
academia-all these things to confirm and hold together a system
of civilization based upon pride and the development of
the human ego, situation ethics, the modification of behavior,
and all that occurs in the molding of the human animal.
Now understand how the individual who ten thousand
or twelve thousand years ago in rejecting Maitreya made the conscious
decision to keep the dweller of rebellion, does react in this
hour or in any century when the representatives of Maitreya and
the Great White Brotherhood come forth with
the true Teaching and the true requirements of the Law. Now the
anger that is subconscious, that used to manifest outwardly as
depression, inverts and is on the surface in an all-out campaign
to destroy the society or the organization or the orifice of the
true Light.
The Soul Holds the Balance of Right Choice,
Fortified by Prayer and Meditation
Blessed ones, to a greater or lesser extent,
now and then the dweller within you rebels against your own Christhood.
But the soul may choose. For the soul ultimately, though it hangs
in the balance, holds the balance of right choice. Thus, when
you do not know the way to go or the right hand from the left
hand, pray-pray for attunement and oneness with us.
Learn the steps of prayer and meditation which
we have taught in our release <14> that you might also be
fortified by prayer and meditation as the right hand and the left
hand of the presence of the Bodhisattvas who come to reinforce
your desire to be all that God intended you to be.
Thus, you see, depression then begets inefficiency,
more rebellion, disobedience, until finally there is a clamoring
and a clanking in the electronic belt and in the four lower bodies.
And unless that individual swiftly choose the Light of his own
Mighty I AM Presence and choose to align himself with us, the
helpers who can help, that individual must surely make the choice
to run for the hills or for the canyons of the big cities where
he may lose himself and place himself at the farthest possible
distance from the one who can help-if not ourselves, then the
messenger.
Some Sense of Injustice, Some Offense
Realize, then, beloved hearts, that all who
do this must have an excuse, and their excuse must be based on
some sense of injustice, some offense, or some real or imagined
fault of our witness or our chelas or our organization. It is
a pity, beloved hearts, that personal offense based on a core
rebellion should unseat the rider, should unhorse the knight and
he thereby lose such a grand opportunity. This work of the ages
is a joyous work when you have one another, when you have community
and such joy unlimited that is possible in this circumstance with
which you are blessed,
having this center with all that it portends for your lifestream.
We Come in the Name of Serapis Bey
Because the Mystery School Is Required
Why have we come in this century? Why are we
here presenting the equation of Life? We come in the name of Serapis
Bey, our chief. We come in the name of this Master. We come because
it is required that there be a mystery school in the physical
octave in this century, teaching the path of the ascension, where
the only graduates from that school are Ascended Masters.
It is required that the Path be set, that there
not be a mincing of words or indulgences, paid or unpaid, <15>
but there be the pure and simple Path demonstrated by ourselves
and yourselves to keep this earth in its cosmic spin. We are proud
in the true, humble sense of the word as we rejoice that there
is indeed such a school in this time and space.
The Messenger of Truth Must Meet the Foes of the Message
Beloved ones, I must tell you that when we looked
for the messenger who could carry this message and Truth through
what would befall that messenger in this century, we looked down
this lifestream and found that strength and faith which would
not be moved by the gossip or the calumny or the framing or whatever
else might occur. For if the message is not borne by one who has
the strength to meet the foes of the message with their anti-message,
then how can our activity or our knowledge endure?
All qualities you may desire may not be evident
in the messenger, but can one individual embody all virtues of
God? Why are you here? Are you not here to embody those virtues
and talents that might be absent from the outpicturing in this
life of the one who stands before you? What purpose would you
have if it would not be to complement all that is manifest here?
What purpose of the messenger if not to provide you with those
ingredients necessary and expedient to your own victory? This
is the great beauty of the Great White Brotherhood, lest one having
more than her share or his share perceive himself a god or independent
of the Most High.
Come, then, to understand that the most necessary
ingredients—to stand, and still stand, and to deliver our
Word-are present. We are satisfied, and we are also satisfied
that you will provide the rest.
Active and Passive Roles of Alpha and Omega
Fulfilling the Word and Its Work
We encourage you to be aggressive and active
on those particular notes that are your keynote to make this community
complete. You understand the meaning of the passive receiver,
the Omega who receives the Light of Spirit. The moment you receive
it, you become Alpha. And now you are the active ones, now you
move into action, now you implement the Word!
Beloved ones, there must be, perforce, workshops
drilling in communication. You must be receivers of the Word.
Then you must be givers of the Word. This is not yet action. The
Word translated by the Holy Spirit becomes an Awareness/Action
whereby you move. And suddenly the Word which is
the power of the Spirit becomes the Work, the mighty Work that
is the manifestation of the Mother in Matter. This is why we capitalize
Word and Work-that you might understand the polarity of Alpha
and Omega.
It is the Omega cycle that you must triumph
in. Thus, the Work counts, for it shows forth the effect of the
inner cause of the Spirit with you. Until the Word is received
and given, heard, assimilated, and the very result of assimilation
is the mighty Work of the ages-you have not completed the spiral!
And until the Word becomes the Work, it is either an unfulfilled
spiral or an aborted spiral.
Great Is the Cry of Injustice,
Short-Fused the Determination to Act
I speak of this because I look across this great
nation. People meet and talk. They agree in committee. They form
policy. If all of the noble thoughts and desires of the hearts
of the good people of the land would come into action, this nation
would be a highly improved place. But it is not so.
When it comes to the Omega action, when it comes
to the individual becoming the Shakti of the Great White Brotherhood,
when it comes to courage and the willingness to stand apart from
the crowd, to go against the most cherished belief systems, we
find that those who are often most courageous are the fallen ones,
for they have a momentum on rebellion and therefore they stand
out.
And those who should stand out are quietly in
their living rooms watching their television sets, listening to
their music, and demanding endless hours and time to pursue their
families and all other interests except the demand to save the
nation or the youth or to fight drugs or to rescue the little
children.
Great is the cry of injustice, and very short
and short-fused is the determination to act. Few have the sustaining
power to act in exception to their neighbors for very long. Few
can stand the ostracization that they receive. That is why we
have community, for we are like minds who ought to be attracting
more like minds, and may well do so.
The Order of Francis and Clare
Beloved, I underscore and bring to the fore
of your attention now our order, the holy Order of Francis and
Clare, which has long been the underlying motive and purpose of
many who serve here and throughout the field. I wish to inaugurate
this order in this hour in a more organized way, that you might
identify yourselves, whether on the celibate path or married,
with the works that we strove to accomplish in the rebuilding
of the Church <16> on the cornerstone of purity while being
servants to all life.
Obedience, Poverty, Chastity, and the Defense of Mother Church
I would speak to you of our motto, which I would
say today as Obedience, as Poverty, as Chastity. <17> May
I speak upon these for a moment. For the obedience of our order
is to the one we call Love-Christ. Obedience to Love in the person
of Christ in every Ascended Master and not Jesus alone. Obedience
to the inner Light and the inner Calling—the foundation
of those who walk in commemoration of the World Teachers.
The Order of Francis and Clare takes its name
from a quaint period in history which was fraught with the personal
Armageddon and vicious forces every whit as nefarious as they
are today. It also harks back to a limited understanding of Christ;
yet, in the inner mysteries of our hearts, we knew far more than
we dared say.
The order today goes beyond that which it was
to a new birth in the Aquarian age. And as you receive the mantle
and the perception of the office, you forge that order and create
out of it what must needs be. Thus, beloved hearts, chastity itself
is purity. It is the purity of the chakras. It is the purity of
heart. It is the path of the Sacred Heart. It is the purity of
the soul and the purification of body. Above all, it is the transmutation
of all past karma. It is the dedication to the path of the ascension
by the raising of that Kundalini fire.
Poverty is the self-emptying, that one might
be filled. Every day give the light away that is yours to give.
Thus, know the true way of Mother Poverty. The emptying that one
might be filled is the nature of the Path. Poverty is a love that
is greater for others than for oneself.
To these three virtues I add a fourth: it is
the defense of the Mother Church.
The Order of the Holy Child
Also included in this order is the Order of
the Holy Child, loved by Jesus, brought forth by Lanello, of which
you have heard tell on the anniversary of The Summit Lighthouse.
<18> This Order of the Holy Child is the defense of the
child in all of the seven rays: the protection of the child, the
education of the child, the teaching of the child what is love,
giving and receiving. It is a path of purity that is the clarity
in the heart to pursue the goal of Life. It is a teaching of science
and health and abundance, the teaching and the training of the
child of the heart—your heart and other children—in
the path of service, the path of freedom and the holy orders.
All of these things become a part of our Word and our Work.
The Order of the Brothers and Sisters of the Golden Robe
May you then be striving ones. May you remember
also that the fulfillment of the Order of Francis and Clare in
the etheric octave is now through the Order of the Brothers and
Sisters of the Golden Robe. <19> It is the golden robe of
the World Teachers and of Christhood, and it is the golden dawn
of illumination to the earth. Thus I bring the concept of the
order in the hour of Jophiel's coming when so much illumination
is needed.
Blessed ones, fear not the Path, for it does
unfold as a golden robe before you. The love we have known, the
inflaming by the Holy Spirit in our communions-all that we share-far
supersedes any adversity or persecution or human consciousness
you may encounter.
The equanimity and the peace and the joy of
our hearts attend you in this hour. I desire, then, in the name
of Maitreya to break the bread of Life with you—to serve
communion that you might understand that both the Teacher and
the Teaching is manifest in communion. It is the communion with
Maitreya which demands the assimilation.
Recapitulation of My Discourse
May I recapitulate and remind you that I have
spoken in the beginning of my discourse to you today of the dispensation
of my help to you in your personal health and psychology to the
end that you might know the joy of wholeness, be at peace to freely
and swiftly eliminate the unreal portions of the self, to mount
then the path of initiation that the flame of the heart might
be balanced and shine to all nations as the dissemination of our
Light, leading all to the fruit of Maitreya and the necessary
initiation which every disciple must have if he is to overcome
the most difficult and complex problems of the subconscious or
the electronic belt. For the accomplishment of this, I recommend
this Order of Francis and Clare, which necessarily includes the
path of the ministering servant already announced.
This order is a means to an end and not an end
in itself. It is not that we desire that you should become caught
up in the sense of the order, but that you might use it as a means,
a strength, a unity, a brotherhood and a sisterhood to work through
the most difficult challenges and to be supported in the hour
of weakness by your friends.
Thus, my beloved, it is not with great fanfare
but with the transfer to you of an awareness that your allegiance
to holy precepts and purposes, your consideration of vows, is
strengthening and serves to take the light of the Kundalini to
fashion the sacred arrow which will meet its mark in the infinite
realms.
Our Motive, Our Mode, Our Maitreya
The purpose of all we do is your ascension.
Understand that in order to rescue your soul, we must outsmart
or challenge or even bruise that dweller. And we must cajole and
contrive circumstances where the eyes of the soul will be opened
and true self-knowledge will be gained and thus right choices
be made. The entire purpose of our instruction at Summit University
from the heart of Maitreya is so that you, dear chela, might have
at your disposal our standards from the Ascended Master octaves
as you exercise free will for right action-right Word and Work.
Understand our motive and tolerate our means, for we must act
in the best way possible to reach you swiftly.
Consider always the motive of the Ascended Masters
in any adversity, any clash with a chela or family, any misunderstanding
of our teaching or the messenger. Consider the motive and consider
that the most important part of any experience you have is not
what is flung your way but your reaction
to it. Your reaction is the determination of your place on the
ladder of attainment. Your reaction enables us to act or not to
act. Your reaction to anything or everything shows us the fruit
that has ripened in you from all of our prior teaching and loving
and support as well as discipline.
Thus, perceive the sine wave building towards
events that produce a thrust which requires from you a response.
Observe the response and you will observe the highest hopes and
possibilities which now are given room to manifest. It is always
well to pause and take a deep breath and to consider,
therefore, before you speak and before you decide on a course
of action.
Thus, all is in the pudding. Let us see now
the proof of your pudding, for we will not leave thee. We are
here for the stated purposes. And we wonder what wonder Maitreya
may have before us when you shall have achieved a new level of
community attainment.
With the sign of the East and the hierarch of
Light, with the sign of the One who has sent me, I am forever
the little bird of Christ, the little bird of Buddha. I speak
in the ear, twitter in the tree, make ripples in the pond, and
bring you a little piece of bread in my beak.
This dictation by Kuthumi was delivered through
the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, January 27, 1985,
at Camelot. The service was conducted by Kuthumi and included
teaching on John 6:1-21 and The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett,
written by the Mahatmas M. and K.H.
1. Kuthumi, who once walked the path of Christian
sainthood as Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226), was revered in
his soul's final incarnation, in the nineteenth century, as the
Kashmiri Brahman Koot Hoomi Lal Singh-known to students of Theosophy
as the Master K.H. Together with El Morya (the
Master M.), he founded the Theosophical Society through H. P.
Blavatsky in 1875. The Masters M. and K.H. wrote The Mahatma Letters
between 1880 and 1884 to A. P. Sinnett, a disciple in the Theosophical
Society. In the service preceding Kuthumi's dictation, the messenger
read from Section III, "Probation and Chelaship" (Letters
XL, XLIX, LV), in which Morya and Koot Hoomi speak of the "fiendish
malice and systematic intrigue" surrounding the Theosophical
Society from various sources, including the press and Christians.
2. Heb. 7:1-3.
3. Pss. 110:4; Heb. 5:5-10; 6:19, 20; Heb. 7:14-22.
4. Matt. 18:14; John 17:12; II Thess. 2:3, 4.
5. Matt. 24:22; Mark 13:20.
6. I Cor. 3:13-15; I Pet. 1:7; 4:12.
7. Accommodation (fr. Latin ad + commodare,
to make fit, give, lend): adaptation; adjustment; functional adjustment
of an organism to its environment through modification of its
habits.
8. Isa. 34:8; 61:2; 63:4; Jer. 50:15, 28; 51:6,
11; Luke 21:22.
9. occult (fr. Latin occulere, to cover up):
hidden, requiring more than ordinary perception or knowledge.
"We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory..."
(1 Cor. 2:7)
10. John 8:23.
11. Matt. 25:1-13.
12. Matt. 14:28-31.
13. Gen. 4:3-8.
14. Jesus and Kuthumi, Prayer and Meditation,
Summit University Press.
15. The term indulgence in Roman Catholicism
refers to the plenary (full) or partial remission of temporal
punishment due for sins whose guilt and eternal punishment have
already been pardoned. Indulgences are usually granted in exchange
for prayers and devotional acts. During the medieval
period, this practice came under abuse when indulgences could
be obtained through monetary contributions, which eventually instigated
the Protestant Reformation.
16. Saint Francis—born into the wealthy
Bernardone family about 1181 in Assisi, Umbria, Italy-was called
by God to restore the Church, which had fallen into corruption.
As he was in prayer one day in 1206 at the ruined chapel of San
Damiano outside the gate of Assisi, he heard a voice from the
crucifix above the altar command: "Go, Francis, and repair
my house which, as you see, is falling in ruins." Renouncing
worldly goods and family ties, Francis embraced a life of poverty
and, for two or three years, fervently dedicated himself to repairing
the church of San Damiano, a chapel honoring
St. Peter, and the Portiuncula, the chapel of St. Mary of the
Angels, near Assisi. The Portiuncula, which was to become the
cradle of the Franciscan Order, was described by Saint Bonaventure
as "the place that Francis loved most in the whole world."
It was there that Francis received the revelation of his true
vocation. While attending Mass in the restored chapel on the Feast
of St. Matthias, February 24, 1208, he listened as the priest
read from Matthew 10: "Go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the
dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have received, freely give. Provide
neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip
for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves;
for the workman is worthy of his meat." Francis later recalled
this as his "day of decision"-the day in which "the
Most High personally revealed to me that I ought to live according
to the Holy Gospel." He donned a coarser garment, went barefoot,
and began to preach to the townspeople, attracting followers to
his way of life. In 1209, Francis, with a band of eleven disciples,
went to Rome to seek the approval of Pope
Innocent III for a "rule of life" to formally begin
his religious order. The Pope assented when he recognized Francis
as the same figure he had seen in a dream holding up the Lateran
basilica on his own back. This marked the official founding of
the Franciscan Order, which then began to spread
rapidly, growing to over 5,000 members by 1219.
15. The Franciscan Order of Friars Minor (the
"little brothers") was founded by Saint Francis in 1209
"to follow the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ and to
walk in his footsteps." Francis wrote: "The Rule and
life of the Friars Minor is this, namely, to observe the Holy
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by living in obedience, without
property, and in chastity." In 1212, when Clare, a young
devotee of noble birth, determined to follow his way of life,
Francis began a second order for women, which became known as
the Poor Clares (or the Order of Saint Clare). Around 1221, he
established
the Third Order of Brothers and Sisters of Penance, a lay fraternity
for those who did not wish to withdraw from the world or take
religious vows but desired to live by Franciscan precepts.
18. During the August 1983 celebration of the
twenty-fifth anniversary of The Summit Lighthouse, the messenger
read excerpts from the Ashram Notes-a precious collection of correspondence
and teachings from Master Morya recorded by Mark L. Prophet prior
to the founding of the organization
in 1958. The first letter, dated April 26, 1951, from Mark to
chelas announced the formation of "The Order of the Child"-a
sacred order for legislators, rulers, directors of culture, and
citizens who would promise to be "ever-mindful of the little
child of the future." The letter explained: "There are
no dues, no rules, except that you promise to devote one minute
per day to reading a few words inscribed on the certificate of
membership, which you will post on the wall of your office. Membership
is ad vitam. And there are no meetings except a meeting of mind
and heart before God. Also the promise to stand face to face with
this certificate and submit your conscience to the little child
in any matter embodying a decision affecting the lives of others."
(The certificate and membership pledge is reprinted on the closing
page of this Pearl.)
19. The Order of the Brothers and Sisters of
the Golden Robe is a fraternity composed of Ascended Masters and
their embodied chelas dedicated to the raising up of the Mother
flame of illumined action and the opening of the crown chakra
in its initiates, and to the enlightenment of all people of
God through the flame of Wisdom. It is headed by beloved Kuthumi,
who has retreats on the etheric plane in Kashmir, India, and Shigatse,
Tibet.
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Celestial Order of the Child
A Body Including Legislators, Rulers, Directors
of Culture, and Citizens Embracing the Embodied Principles
(date)
There is conferred upon the one whose name is
written below the title of Advocate.
(Write your own name here. Post by your desk.)
My signature above signifies that I am willing
to conform in heart and mind to the sacred precepts of the Order
of the Child, spending the required time of one minute daily in
contemplation and thought before the precepts below written, also
submitting major decisions to these same precepts.
IN REMEMBRANCE of His Words . . .
Whosoever shall receive any such little child
in my name receiveth me.
Of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Woe unto him who shall hurt one of these little
ones.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of
these, ye have done it unto me . . .
I desire that my heart shall ever make me aware
of the little child, who is always without in the concourse of
time and space and who is affected by my decisions and my acts.
In knowledge of the fact that my acts combined
with others' do affect the destiny of my country, the human race,
and our common future, I do enter wholeheartedly into the below
pledge, realizing whether I make the pledge or not, I am still
held fully accountable for every act.
I unite therefore with others, that we may make
a bond for good, that our common purpose before God, our common
heart and mind, will shine forth a golden ray of Light to establish
the greatest civilization ever on earth.
Knowing also that if these principles be not
adhered to it is possible and imminent that this great civilization,
like that of ancient Rome and others, may fall, decay, and decline,
I should therefore work for our future without bias.
PLEDGE
BEFORE THE God of the universe, I promise to
be ever aware of the interests of mankind, as an All, and of all
who dwell in my country, rather than the few.
I shall seek better government of the people,
by the people, and for the people. As I act toward the least of
humanity, I have acted toward the greatest.
My thoughts shall be ever mindful of the little
child of the future—every little child in whom is the breath
of Life. If ever I cannot act accordingly, I shall resign my authority
over others.
Conferring upon each advocate of the child of
the future a portion of the wisdom of Solomon, who received wisdom
of God, may your wisdom be like unto your sincerity, increasing
unto the full light of divine wisdom, sufficient unto this day.
Mark L. Prophet
Servant of Advocates
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