Ascended Master El Morya
"I
AM God's Son,
To do God's Will I AM Come!"
—Hercules, September 10, 1967
" . . . let us understand
the three dots of El Morya as these apply
to the trinity of the government, the society, and the
economy.
Let us understand the meaning of education as a foundation
for all of these
and as a major influence as to which way the nations go."—Surya
"From the tall pines of
Darjeeling we waft our message of eternal strength
and goodwill to men. May our Father who is in heaven magnify
that Christ unity and reality born of no winds of delusion
and fanned
by no fanatic fires, but clearly indicative of the whole
spectrum
of the consciousness of the Great White Brotherhood which
holds
the Banner of Truth above all."—El Morya, 'A
White Paper,' 1971
"Surrender the mean sense
of sin and rebellion, the pitiful will
to self-privilege which engenders bondage."
—El Morya, Lords of the Seven Rays, I, 1982, p.
29
"But to retain the answer
to your call you must become the answer.
You call to God for perfection—perfection descends.
You must seize it,
take it to your heart, become it."—El Morya,
July 19, 1985
" . . . only the soul can
make the bliss of the Christ Mass permanent
by application—fervent application—fastidiousness
in the law
and in the service of the law."—Lanello, December
24, 1975
"Most powerful is he who
has himself in his own power."
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A fondness for power is
implanted in most men, and it is natural
to abuse it, when acquired."—Alexander Hamilton,
(The Farmer Refuted,
23 February 1775) Reference: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton,
Syrett, ed., vol. 1 (126)
"All men having power ought
to be distrusted to a certain degree."
—James Madison
"A thing long expected
takes the form of the unexpected
when at last it comes."—Mark Twain |
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" . . . Men have accused me of hardness. Let me tell you,
there are two kinds of hardness:
(1) hardness of heart, which is wholly
selfish and wedded to pride and ambition, that never says die
to its Moloch of self, and
(2) the hardness that identifies with the
diamond of good will—God's will for total good, total intelligence,
and total opportunity.
"The latter, in its grand design, is the simplicity of the
crystal that reflects the passion of the soul to live within the
protective love of the Father without compromise to other expressions.
“This is the diamond of perfection that incorporates the
quality of mercy and gives balance without straining at a gnat
or swallowing a camel!
"There are so many forms of subtlety in use upon earth today
that the process of knowing the will of God is at times difficult.
"For example, some conceive of poverty as being the will
of God; these make their lives an example of total simplicity.
Others see opulence and abundant supply as the will of God.
"In reality, neither state can guarantee victory to the soul
but rather the gift of nonattachment which can either use the
empire of the universe in all its fullness or be content in any
environment.
"The truly illumined are able to rise above states of mind
or expression to the place where they identify with the allness
of God.
" . . . How important it is, then, that men do not judge
at all lest they be judged. For those who live in poverty as well
as those who are surrounded by the greatest wealth can be doing
the will of God. To his own master each one stands or falls."
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" . . . I am the one who has stuck out the neck for the chela.
" . . . Now understand why we have the discipline
of this retreat, why we have the discipline of the first ray.
" . . . There is no progress possible in
this activity or elsewhere until you have passed the tests of
the first ray. All precipitation begins with the ray of the will
of God. If you cannot meet its demand you might as well forsake
all of the rays.
" . . . Well, I come. And it is not
Alpha or Omega or Helios or Vesta or Surya or the Lords of Karma.
It is I who come because I am the one who has sponsored this activity
and you individually. Therefore I am responsible to Hierarchy
and to your souls. I come and I say:
"This body must be welded together as the the diamond of
the will of God without flaw. I am not interested in presenting
to the Lords of Karma a diamond for which I must apologize and
say, 'It is so many carats, it has so many brilliants but it has
ten flaws.' I will present a flawless diamond or I will present
none. Therefore I will remove the flaws.
" . . . We will have that diamond, and it does not matter
to Morya or to the Darjeeling Council who must be eliminated.
Either eliminate your human creation or we will eliminate you.
This is my Word. This is my warning. And I have said it for the
last time."
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El Morya
November 16, 1975 |
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"Over the years I have pleaded with you. Yes, I have pleaded
with you. I have cajoled you. I have given you of the very substance
of my heart. Now I say: There is no room for dalliance when the
future of a planet and her evolutions is at stake. You don't have
any time to waste.
"Fulfill your mission here or elsewhere.
But do not forget that this is the place. Maitreya's Mystery School
is your soul's launching pad (as the Messenger calls it), from
which you will one day soar to the Sun of your Mighty I AM Presence.
Yes, beloved, your ascent to God will be your point of victory.
"I am always ready to help chelas
who help themselves—so long as they pay as they go. I AM
Morya. And I confide in you that these days are the toughest times
I have known in my entire existence as an Arhat, as an Adept and
as an Ascended Master. Yes, these are the times that try even
the souls of the Ascended Masters!
"For God's sake, don't go to sleep
on me! . . . Therefore I say to you, Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Wake up and put first things first! . . . I am your friend. You
are my friend. And I tell you candidly, beloved chelas around
the world who are tuned in, I need you. The Darjeeling Council
needs you.
Now let us be up and doing."
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" . . . It is I who come because I am the one who has sponsored
this activity and you individually. Therefore I am responsible to
Hierarchy and to your souls. I come and I say:
' This body must be welded together as the the diamond of the will
of God without flaw. I am not interested in presenting to the Lords
of Karma a diamond for which I must apologize and say, 'It is so
many carats, it has so many brilliants, but it has ten flaws.' I
will present a flawless diamond or I will present none. Therefore
I will remove the flaws.'
" . . . We will have that diamond, and it does not matter to
Morya or to the Darjeeling Council who must be eliminated. Either
eliminate your human creation or we will eliminate you. This is
my Word. This is my warning. And I have said it for the last time." |
El Morya
November 16,1975 |
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" . . . The comparatively few have the misunderstood gift
of genius, and yet God did create all men equal in the sense that
all have equal opportunity to attain the crown of Life (Rev. 2:10)
and then with that attainment to go onward into infinite excellence
. . . I do not deny that some have attained to the powers of the
kingdom of heaven through an attempted action of rote and what
we might term partial elements of cosmic science.
"Yet in all such cases because the
grace of God is greatly absent and the power and pressure of individual
attainment is utilized rather than 'Thine is the power,' such
a one must sometime somewhere painstakingly retrace each stitch
of partial accomplishment until all is properly placed by divine
grace in the garments of the High Priest (True Being)."
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"You see, some students do not feel the need or the desire
to surrender their will completely to God, thinking to retain by
right some control. Blessed ones, in examining the cosmic record
of centuries I have never found one case in which human control
exceeded or even equalled the wisdom and perfection of God-control
and God-guidance. And I do not think I shall!
"However, the most humble ordinary-appearing persons may be
vested with such a radiance as a result of being God-guided that
even the worldly, steeped in human concepts, can sense that there
is something very special and wonderful about these devotees who
do surrender their will to God and are blessed in return with the
power of the greater will."
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"And thus I say, trust in the Law.
It is your greatest friend and defense. For when you understand
that anyone who breaks that Law regardless of who or what he may
be must be chastised of the Law, then you will find the greatest
security you have ever known in the Law."
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Maitreya
February 24, 1974 |
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"The only certainty in the cup is your
own will to be . . . All that you can trust is God, and all that
you can hope is that your will tethered to his, your hand reaching
out and reaching again for Christ, will take the right step and
make the decision—not for life or death, for these are not
thine own, but the decision of the securing of the soul wherever
it may be found."
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"The will to sacrifice is the will to train the body and
the mind and the desires and the memory to go where God goes because
you have disciplined yourself by free will. That is the making
of a chela.
" . . . Like attracts like. I go where
the chela is. I go where the vibration of the will of God is."
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"The will of God is the flawless diamond, it is the shining
of the divine mind, it is the rushing wind of the spirit, and
it is the strength and laughter of real identity.
" . . . The will of God is inherent
within life and merely awaits the signal of release from man's
will in order to ray forth the power of dominion to the world
of the individual."
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El Morya
Lords of the Seven Rays I 1986, pp. 28-9. |
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" . . . you forget not your El Morya. Realize that he carries
a certain weight of your individual karmas (yet not all) that
you might receive divine dispensations of mercy and justice for
the perpetuation of your individual chelaship and your Community.
Realize that he could do so much more for you if you would honor
his day.
"You must not take for granted the Master
who has sponsored this activity of the Great White Brotherhood.
Do not distrust him when you see that those things that you are
pounding your fist on the table for or stomping your feet for
are not falling in your lap overnight. Do not lose trust in the
Master and forget, forget, forget, as the force would have you
forget, that there are tests to be passed.
"Thus I would remind you, beloved, every
Tuesday is Morya’s day. And if you really want to solve
all problems in your life, then let every one of you—and
especially those of you who are thinking right now that you are
excluded, for I say you are not—come here to King Arthur’s
Court or your private sanctuaries and altars by 5:00 or 5:30 on
Tuesday mornings and pour your hearts into your will of God decrees
until it is time for you to tend to the work of the day. By plugging
in on Tuesdays you are building momentum for the fourth of each
month.
"I tell you, beloved, if you could see how
Morya El turns heaven and earth upside down for you, how he enlists
his own angels in your defense as well as the angels of God Mercury
and the angels of any hierarch in heaven that he can possibly
call upon, you would not want to be missing from his Tuesday a.m.
roll call. Why, he knocks on the doors of countless ones throughout
the hierarchy, saying, 'May I borrow your angels? May I take them
to Montana? May I use them to wage war against the forces that
would subvert the purposes of our Community there?'
"Beloved hearts, if you were as dedicated
to El Morya as he is to you and if you knew what assignments he
takes upon himself to sustain this Community, you wouldn’t
even think twice about retiring early on Monday so you could get
to the altar on Tuesday a.m. and give him the decrees he needs
to get the job done for you and the planet. And some of you, I
know, will be back Tuesday evening for Morya’s sake.
"And then on the fourth, be willing to do
what you would have been willing to do before you found this Teaching.
As the Messenger said to God before she found Saint Germain, 'I
would crawl on my belly all the way around the earth just to find
the Ascended Masters and their path.'
"Blessed ones, I speak to each of you, heart
to heart, and I ask you this question: How much do you want the
sponsorship of El Morya?
"Well, I tell you, think about it. And then
think to yourself how much you as a chela will sponsor El Morya,
how much you will trust him, will rejoice in him, will know that
whatever he is doing he is working out the purposes of God in
your life as much as you will let him! And as much as your karma
will let him!
"I say, let us inaugurate the remainder
of the spring cycle unto the July conference with a renewed dedication
to that Diamond Heart of Morya, that Diamond Heart of Light that
will take you, beloved, where you want to go as long as where
you want to go is the will of God. [34-second standing ovation]
"From our home in Wisdom’s retreat,
we counsel you to lock into the heart of your Divine Spouse El
Morya, your Guru, and to determine to be in that will of God until
all things in your life come into place—every piece in the
puzzle. Let the Zen Master Morya have his day in your heart, and
see what he can do for you and what you can do for him!"
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Elohim Apollo and Lumina
April 11, 1993 |
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"Witness therefore Akbar of India, an incarnation of your
beloved El Morya. In this life he set the stage of universality
in India that has endured to the very present hour; and as you
study his life you will know that those who are of the first ray
never shirk their responsibility to enter into the fray and to
challenge the evildoers who decade by decade and generation by
generation have a continuity of purpose, which is to enslave and
imprison the children of the light in their institutions and in
their organizations and controls."
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Jesus Christ
February 28, 1988 |
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"Though some may think they know the path of Morya, I tell
you, even in my dictations and service we have only scratched
the surface. Therefore, do not presume that you know the path
of the will
of God until you have assimilated the body and the blood of that
living Will incarnate in all sons of heaven who have achieved
to the attainment of the first ray of the dawn.
"We guide you with precision, for
precision is the requirement of the hour—and timing. Thus,
occupy till I come, for this space is now reserved for the speaking
to you of the beloved Kuan Yin."
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"When the hymn “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”*
was released, it was to be a tribute to the divine will; and I
think there is no greater goal for any man than to identify totally
with this universal lifewave of cosmic creativity.
"Yet many do fear to surrender their own
will to the universal. They fear to lose their identity
when in reality they would but 'loose' their identity and find
it again in the blessed sense of self-direction that exists in
higher octaves of harmony."
* “A mighty Fortress is our God,
A Bulwark never failing;
Our Helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient Foe
Doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great,
And, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal . . . ”
Words and music by Martin Luther
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"Here in Darjeeling, we are the followers of the path of
Christ and the Buddha which are one. And we follow the byword
'nonattachment to the fruit of action.' This means that we strive
for the excellence of Divine Love in all things and leave the
rest to God.
"Therefore, we inform you that it is the
ritual of effectively challenging the liar and the lie whereby
you will earn your ascension. And when you stand before the Lords
of Karma (who are so very real) at the conclusion of this life
and you must give answer whether or not you have defended these
little ones, the Lords of Karma will not judge you according to
whether or not you have accomplished the goal of wiping out planetary
Evil—nay, you will be judged
by the effectiveness of your effort, by the strength of ritual
of your having engaged your energies to counteract the fallen
ones.
"Witness my own embodiment as Thomas More.
"I was well aware of the fact that
I would not undo the edicts of the king, nor the separation of
the Church of England from the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I was well aware that my voice would simply be the testimony of
righteousness—not of a righteous man but of a righteous
God. For, I do not count myself a righteous man but the instrument
of the One who is Eternal Righteousness.
"And so, beloved ones, the infamy of the
decisions of Henry VIII have continued, multiplied and spawned,
as error is wont to do in a corruptible milieu; but the voice
of one who chose to be
the voice of God remains as the clarion call of a trumpet.
"And the moral of the story is that
whereas by and by I entered into the ritual of the ascension at
the conclusion of the Divine Plan for my incarnations on earth,
those who valued their lives, their paltry positions, even their
flesh, are yet evolving; and I might say that whether or not they
indeed are evolving Godward is questionable."
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El Morya
Lords of the Seven Rays 1986, p.70 |
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"See the will of God as omnipresent and complete, the holy
beat of the sacred heart throbbing within your own. Know and understand
that surrender is not oblivion but a point of beginning and of
greater joy.
"Knowing the longing and the hunger of the souls of men for
the Real, I am diligently evoking the symbols of His will to manifest
in you as alertness of mind, willingness to change and the courage
to offer the self of mortality to the lovely designs of the Father's
purpose. Create unto yourself the new sense of the ownership of
God's will!"
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El Morya
Lords of the Seven Rays
1986, p. 29 |
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“This night I place my Electronic Presence over you each
one, over each one in the world who calls himself a Keeper of
the Flame and who is a Keeper of the Flame, each one who may read
our books, who may read our Pearls, those affiliated and those
not affiliated. You see, there are many bright and fiery blue-flame
souls in the world, beloved, and I place my Electronic Presence
over them also.”
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"Realize this, beloved. It is well to make yourself
a devotee of the will of God. For as a devotee, you will
increase! and increase! and increase! many shades of blue
rings around your four lower bodies and the circumference
of your life. And when you have proven yourself under
fire and in many situations—untenable situations,
devastating situations—and have come out right side
up, we will know that we have a chela of the first order
and we will receive you that you might be anointed before
the council in Darjeeling . . .
"Since I am about to sponsor millions of souls for
this activity and this Path, I must be certain that you
who are here and who form the foundations of this Community
throughout the earth are true to me. You must be true
to the souls who are entering in. You must care for them
and raise them up. You must be done with your criticism,
condemnation, judgment and gossip. And you must laud the
power of God that gives to us the opportunity to truly
turn the world around in the next seven years.
"Thus, beloved, at the same time
that I speak about receiving many among you as chelas,
for many of you are worthy, I also must speak about those
who have not been chelas, who have never been chelas,
but who have hung on to this activity like moths flitting
around a lamp light. At times they have gathered around
the flame in such numbers that the flame could no longer
be seen."
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"Listen to your Holy Christ Self, listen to your
Lord and Saviour. Obey immediately. Follow in his footsteps,
and know that the will of God will lead you home. And
if you say, “I shall do this that Morya wishes another
day,” you will lose that cycle, and you may not
come back to it in this life.
"Therefore keep your attunement.
Keep that attunement, beloved! And do not allow any of
these individuals who have left the Path [to sway you].
For they, they are the ones who have gone sour. And are
they ever sour, beloved, when they decide to be. Well,
I tell you, the next thing after being sour is to be rotten.
And so they rot away for fear that they might be called
to task for something that they believe is their sacred
free will. Well, sacred free will comes along, beloved,
when you have given obedience for a lifetime or lifetimes.
"The will of God is good. The will
of God is the all-power of Elohim! The will of God is
the creation!—the Grund and the Ungrund. Let the
power of worlds, beginning and ending, be a part of your
reality.
" . . .Therefore consider well:
What will you do with the coming year? What will you do
with time and space, kal-desh? What will you do with them?
For these are the options in this physical universe. Each
day you are spending time, spending space. Now: economize
. . . internalize . . . intensify within that fire of
God! And go forth to conquer.
"I have seen worlds in much graver
conditions, if you can believe that. I have seen those
worlds. I have worked in those worlds. And we have brought
them around! The ruler of the Violet Planet also knows
this, for they did turn their planet around also with
the intensity of violet flame. Yes, beloved, it is do
or die. This is the moment of the telling.
"This is the moment of the victory,
and this is the hour when there is no longer time to be
on the fence.
" . . . I must report to you, beloved,
that in this coming year karma will descend at an accelerated
rate. I am certain you have expected this. I speak, then,
upon the point of acceleration. Acceleration of karma
is a multiplication—it is a multiplication of that
karma. So as long as you allow negative karma to be in
the earth or in your four lower bodies, there is an acceleration
of that karma. It’s like paying a debt with interest.
And so as you try to pay off that debt, the debt becomes
heavier and heavier.
"And so you must discover
how to increase the fire of the spoken Word, the intensity
of the fire of the spoken Word. I do not want to find
any one of you in this court who is not in his decree
work giving all the fire of his chakras that he can muster
to bring about change in himself and change
in this world. When I see halfhearted decreers, when the
messenger sees it, it is truly disheartening. For we know
what a multiplication factor there can be when you take
all the fire of your being and pour it into the chalice
of the Word, the cups of the Word."
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El Morya
December 28, 1996 |
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"We have selected the Master El Morya for the training
of these Messengers because of his directness and God-determination
to show to the Messengers themselves in a manner unparalleled
the folly of all compromise, all erroneous thinking, all
situations that do not lead in a straight line directly
to the heart of God. You would do well to probe El Morya
and his training and the manner of life and consciousness
of the Messengers.
"Beloved hearts, it
is good to be free from illusions, for they are shadow
and they keep you from the reality of the Path. There
is no room for fancy or fantasy in this activity. There
is no room for a psychic apprehension of the Law or [of]
the person of the Ascended Masters. There is no room for
idolatry. If you attempt to hold the sun in idolatry and
gaze into that sun, you know that you will lose your sight,
so powerful is the presence of light in the sun. Thus
it was written, 'No man can see the face of God and live.'
" . . . Therefore
seek not friendship with the Ascended Masters [at] first
but rather discipleship and chelaship. Seek El Morya,
for you may trust that he does impart to you that which
is necessary, basic, and fundamental. And if you set aside
any of the Teachings as though they do not matter, then
you will realize that you will not be able to hold the
Light of El Morya that will be able to place you in a
consonance with other Ascended Masters and disciples who
share that oneness and that circle of friendship."
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"Now, the balancing of the threefold flame comes
when you are able to use power without pride, without
ambition, without the desire to manipulate people, to
control people, to in any way rearrange the universe to
your design rather than to the will of God. So, in this
causal-body exercise God gives us the maximum opportunity
to take command of ourselves and all of our energies,
so that when the power of God is come upon us, we indeed
may handle it wisely and well.
"We find that this is one of the
greatest tests that is faced by any devotee on the Path.
And it is the one factor of your lifestream that is examined
very closely when you decide to become a chela or a co-worker
in one of our centers, because how you have used power
or misused it in your previous embodiments is of utmost
significance and that is where karma begins; when one
can misuse power, one can misuse all of the rays. And
when one misuses power, one cannot be trusted—nor
trusted with any Light whatsoever.
"The basis of the Guru/chela relationship
is trust. You trust El Morya and he trusts you—that's
the name of the game. You trust that the Master will guide
you, prepare you, lead you-that he will not fail you no
matter what circumstances or injustices seem to arise
around you. You know in your heart that Morya is your
Guru. He will not forsake you, and if there's something
wrong in your life, you are willing to give him a try—the
benefit of the doubt. You are willing to assign to yourself
a novena of violet-flame calls, of exposure calls, Cyclopeas,
decrees to the Will of God to determine what in your world
may be keeping you from receiving the best fruits of life
and of initiation.
"You trust that if you are obedient
to God's will, nothing can be withheld from you, because
it is cosmic law; and El Morya is obedient to cosmic law
and so is your Christ Self and your I AM Presence. So
if the fullness of divine grace is not upon you as you
think it should be, then it is up to you to discover through
the Path and the teachings what part of yourself is out
of alignment.
"The basis of trust is the bottom
line of chelaship. When trust is broken, the cord and
the tie is snapped because the Master has only so much
time, cycles, and energy by which he can give to you a
dispensation of his sponsorship. And when you prove yourself
untrustworthy again and again and again, then by cosmic
law he must withdraw and say, 'The basic lesson in life
must be learned. You must be able to be trustworthy in
your word, in your deed, in your thoughts, and in your
feelings.' So, trustworthiness is based on our devotion
to the will of God. It's based on faith.
" . . . So let us understand that initiation is increase
of Light. All Light is power. All Light is energy. All
Light contains all qualities of this causal body, but
it is being broken down for us in the seven rays so that
we can assimilate it bit by bit. You might say that in
these first three fourteen-month cycles through the spheres
of the Great Causal Body of Cosmos (as well as your own),
you have been studying the white, the yellow, and the
pink; but, in fact, you have also had conferred power
—power in its ultimate sense, which becomes solidified
as that blue sphere.
"Now, this power is given
to you in each of the seven rays according to your ability
to retain it,
and retain your stability. If the masters were to give
you too much power, too much Light, it could come to pass
that you would become insane, you would fall apart, you
would have a nervous breakdown, you would stop being able
to function as you normally could."
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"Our conferences are held for
the turning of cycles of the year—winter solstice,
spring equinox, summer solstice, and autumn equinox. The
physical changes occur prior to the conference and the
light released from the hierarchies of the sun at the
change of seasons is then expanded by ascended and unascended
beings serving together at the conferences for the fulfillment
of a cosmic purpose on earth as it is in heaven.
"Whenever possible, you should seize the opportunity
to attend such a conference. What's more, you should make
possible the impossible through the alchemy of invocation
to your own God Being. Not only are these conferences
the most important experience of a lifetime in terms of
the expansion of consciousness and the transmutation of
untold substance in your world, but your willingness to
serve as a coordinate on earth for the hierarchies of
light will earn for you a momentum of good karma that
you can ill afford to be without."
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El Morya
Chela and the Path, ch. X |
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" . . . I bring the concentrate of my Diamond Heart
and of the First Ray of God's will. Therefore,
the descent of this crystal fire mist comes to allow you
to see in the mirror of your Christ Self more of what
is that stupendous will of God for you.
"O beloved,
let me extol the devotion to the will of God and to its
Diamond Heart! O beloved, since the will of God is only
good and it is glorious and it is supreme and it is comforting
and it is enlightening and it is all things, including
the restoration of your blueprint in every atom and cell
of your being, why not hasten into the blue flame? Why
not hasten to your God? Why not hasten to Mount Horeb
and go to meet the I AM THAT I AM?
"Yes, beloved,
loving the will of God and his law, which is truly the
law of profound love and wisdom, you shall then take heart-take
courage to take on the path of the dark night of the soul
and the Dark Night of the Spirit. And you will become
such a whirling sacred fire of diamond light as my Diamond
Heart is superimposed upon you that you will literally
charge through that dark night of the soul and charge
through the initiations of the Dark Night of the Spirit!
"You will
not languish. You will not attenuate this suffering through
your karma. Nor will you suffer, for you will have that
mighty sword in hand and you will slay every foe and you
will beam such a concentrated, God-controlled ray of the
Seventh Ray of the violet flame through that third-eye
chakra that you will see the parting of the Red Sea of
your own returning karma, the parting of the Red Sea of
the fallen ones! And you will march through triumphant!
And you will be riding your steed and it will not be riding
you. And I say it is true and you must do it! You must
accelerate, for acceleration is the key!
"Go through it. Get it over
with. Become the master of your life. Come to that place
where I may speak through you, where I may dwell in you,
where I may deliver the momentums of the highest levels
of the etheric octaves through you. And therefore we together,
Guru and chela one together, may pass through this earth
and leave the foundations for our children and our children's
children that they might build that golden-age civilization."
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"Be
players, beloved, for as Morya has said, life
is not a spectator sport.
You are making things happen! You are not spectators."
—Saint Germain, July 4, 1994
“The major underlying
cause for the continuation of unrest,
which must be universally corrected upon earth,
is the attitude,
held far too long, of regarding life as a mere
spectator sport.”
—El Morya, April 9, 1963
"When
you wonder what to do,
you must always come back to the altar."—El
Morya
" . . . this is
the hour when there is no longer time
to be on the fence."—El Morya
” . . . I am come
chiefly to deliver in you a fire that will devour
your
human selfishness, your human indulgence and your
human nonsense!
These three enemies cause me to place my hands
over my ears and cry, Halt! Halt! I will hear
none of this foolish chatter! Get on with the
saving
of a world if you intend to one day be an Ascended
Master."
—El Morya, November 28, 1996
"There is in all
of us a strong disposition to believe that anything
lawful
is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread
that many persons
have erroneously held that things are 'just' because
the law
makes them so."—Frederic Bastiat
"The letter of
the law is pure. But the spirit of the law is
as muddy as water with living things growing in
it. You can't see what you're pulling out,
and in trying to pull out one plant, you're liable
to rip out the roots
of all the others."—Michael Malone
in 'Time's Witness'
"Time and money
spent in helping men do more for themselves
is far better than mere giving."—Henry
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" . . . My purpose in coming is to etch a fiery will
within you that is the product of my meditation upon the
will of God and the sun of your own I AM Presence. For
I perceive that there is a cancerous substance moving
across the mass unconscious. It is a substance that I
call anti-will.
"It is a substance so subtle that most among mankind
do not even perceive that by this substance there is a
denial of freedom, a denial not only of the will to be
but of the ability to will to be.
" . . . This is the plight of the evolutions of Terra.
Both in East and West there is that hypnosis, that manipulationn
of consciousness at sublevels by the substance of selfishness
itself, by the substance of lesser wills of desire—willing
for pleasure and phenomena and the psychic, willing for
power and manipulation, willing for everything but the
will of God which is sufficient to meet all aspects of
life within the soul.
"The plight of modern man
is the plight of a false will—a will not to Life
but to Death, a will to be unconscious, not to face the
issues, not to take the responsibility but to become drunk
by the media, by the chemicals in the food, by the dissipation
of individuality through a mass mesmerism, a collective
consciousness of the crowd instead of the individual rising,
rising to a Self-awareness carved out of the will of God."
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" . . . Above all things you might pray for from
the Holy Kumaras, pray for the cosmic honor flame.
And measure all actions, all musings of the mind by
the honor that was the signet of your Thomas Becket,
your Thomas More, whom you honor as your Chief and
Counselor.
" . . . Without your word
as your honor, without your actions as your honor,
how can you walk the straight and narrow path wherein
you commit wrong toward none but good toward all?
" . . . When you speak in honor, when you do
not repeat gossip, when you do not engage in criticism,
condemnation and judgment, especially during the cycle
of Capricorn, you will see how you liberate yourself
to enter in to the cosmic honor flame, which is a
positive attribute of the sign of Capricorn. It is
a high honor. And out of honor come the blessings
of the Great Divine Director, whose Great Blue Causal
Body amplifies the God-Power of the Capricorn hierarchy.
"Have you thought when you make your major choices
in life that there is one right choice and a thousand
other options? What leads you to the right choice?
It is honor, beloved, honor in daily decisions. And
if sometime you may tarnish your honor, you can polish
it again by right action and a profound humility,
calling upon the law of forgiveness so that you might
be given another opportunity to perform not one but
many righteous deeds."
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"The will of God is applied in all levels of human
endeavor. For the will of God is the blueprint of every
project. It is the foundation of every task. It is the
skeleton of your body; it is physical energy; it is etheric
fire. The will of God is the fiery diamond in your heart.
The will of God is your will to be God in manifestation,
and without that will you would not have taken incarnation
as you are now.
" . . . This is the plight
of the evolutions of Terra. Both in East and West there
is that hypnosis, that manipulation of consciousness at
sublevels by the substance of selfishness itself, by the
substance of lesser wills of desire—willing for
pleasure and phenomena and the psychic, willing for power
and manipulation, willing for everything but the will
of God which is sufficient to meet all aspects of life
within the soul.
"The plight of modern man is that plight of a false
will--a will not to Life but to Death, a will to be unconscious—not
to face the issues, not to take the responsibility but
to become drunk by the media, by the chemicals in the
food, by the dissipation of individuality through a mass
mesmerism, a collective consciousness of the crowd instead
of the individual rising, rising to a Self-awareness carved
out of the will of God.
"I come to wake you up. I come to shake you to a
larger purpose, a larger destiny to which you were born
. . . .Do not give the power to anyone on any plane of
existence to open and close the door of your consciousness.
Give that power to no one, for God gave it to you to keep
unto yourself, unto your Real Self, your own Christ Presence.
Do not relinquish it to anyone, and thereby you will not
lose time in the detour of the personality-cult consciousness
that is filled with maya and selfishness and manipulation.
"I contact you for a cosmic purpose—to right
the wrongs of civilization, to clear the way again in
the marts of education and culture for the recognition
that life itself is a path of initiation, that all of
government and all of industry and all of learning must
serve this end, this end to which Christ was born, to
which Christ came into the world: to bear witness to the
Truth."
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" . . . Relative good and evil is not the story of
your life. Put that aside and recognize that it is the
Absolute Good of God present with you that is the power
to devour the forces of Absolute Evil, first and foremost
being that tyranny over the soul and the spirit and the
heart of man.
" . . . Jesus gave obeisance and
deference to the order of Hierarchy. And this you see
well-recorded in scripture in the hour of his transfiguration—the
Father and the Son ordaining the presence of the Ascended
Master Moses, the presence of the Ascended Master Elijah.
They talked with Jesus, they spoke with him! Ascended
Masters spoke with the unascended Son of God—and
his disciples Peter, James and John were witnesses and
they wrote of it and it is set forth in the Gospels."
(Matt. 17:1-3; Acts of John 90-1; Apocalypse of Peter
4-20—Akhmim fragment).
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" . . . Both in East and West there is that hypnosis,
that manipulation of consciousness at sublevels by the
substance of selfishness itself, by the substance of lesser
wills of desire—willing for pleasure and phenomena
and the psychic, willing for power and manipulation, willing
for everything but the will of God which is sufficient
to meet all aspects of life within the soul . . . a mass
mesmerism, a collective consciousness of the crowd instead
of the individual rising, rising to a Self-awareness carved
out of the will of God.
" . . . There is no pain in carving away the fat
of the mortal so that the lean soul of the Spirit can
fly . . . We have requirements, you know. We demand the
exercise of a will and a discipline and that you bring
a discipline to our retreat . . . .You must fix your concentration
right there at that point of God- free vision.
" . . . And I AM magnetized to that chela who takes
that step of determination that is total responsibility
for action, for word, for desire.
" . . . As the decades pass and mankind enter into
new lows of insanity, is it any wonder that we are concerned
from our level how the chelas and how the sons and daughters
of God will conclude the path of initation?
" . . . The people of goodwill have
also been infiltrated by those who have come to steal
the light of the Christ and of the Mother and of Hierarchy
and to twist and to turn and to torture the children of
God until they even come to the place of the denial of
the light and the goodwill and the God-overnment that
was intended to be manifest in this nation.
" . . . Do not relinquish it (the
power of consciousness) to anyone, and thereby you will
not lose time in the detour of the personality-cult consciousness
that is filled with maya and selfishness and manipulation.
" . . . May I also add that
when you work the Works of God, the ascended masters multiply
your effort by the alchemy of the Holy Spirit."
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"I tell you, God has laws. And no matter what the
rationalization of the fallen ones those laws are the
same yesterday, today and forever. Free will, indeed!—"free
will" to destroy oneself. Well I tell you, we will
not allow that "free will" of the fallen ones
to destroy the lightbearers.
" . . . .Beloved ones, it will not take millions
but thousands—a certain thousands of soul that I
AM calling forth, certain souls who are numbered. In fact
my very flame rests just above their head."
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"I commend you, then, to the crystal quality of obedient
Love—and the reverse of the coin: loving Obedience.
Thus the Alpha, the Omega of thy twin flames shall embody
the ark—the ark that forms the portal [to the Shekinah
glory of the Lord’s Presence], the ark that bears
the Law—and the cherubim who form the ark, again
thy twin flames, kneeling before the flame of the living
God."
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"Over the years I have pleaded with you. Yes, I have
pleaded with you. I have cajoled you. I have given you
of the very substance of my heart. Now I say: There is
no room for dalliance when
the future of a planet and her evolutions is at stake.
You don't have any time to waste.
"Fulfill your mission here or elsewhere.
But do not forget that this is the place. Maitreya's Mystery
School is your soul's launching pad (as the Messenger
calls it), from which you will one day soar to the Sun
of your Mighty I AM Presence. Yes, beloved, your ascent
to God will be your point of victory.
"Go out and resolve your karma if
you must. Go out and learn what you must learn. But know
that I, Morya, may not be here forever and a day, nor
can any other Ascended Master promise you that. For cycles
turn, and this is the meaning of 'the shutting of the
gate' and 'the opening of the gate.'
"Some of you remember the sound
of the iron gate shutting. Those who do not remember ask,
'What gate?' I say, it is the gate to the kingdom.
"Now, if for a moment you will put
yourself in a neutral state of consciousness, I will allow
you to hear how many times the gate to the kingdom was
closed to you before you could enter in
—before your karma merited your passing through
the gate to the heaven-world. And for want of merit you
were left outside the gate to balance your karma before
you would be given another opportunity—perhaps
five hundred or a thousand years hence—to
enter in through the strait gate, never to look back.
"I have asked you, my chelas,
to hold steady the tremendous blue-ray decree momentum
that you have stored in your four lower bodies as well
as in your Causal Body. And you have done so.
For this great gift that you have laid upon the altar
of my heart, year in, year out, I am profoundly grateful."
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"I also made known to you at that time, beloved ones,
that I would [place my Presence in any city] if a group
of chelas would dedicate themselves to me and give my
[blue-ray] decrees [as recorded] on the four “El
Morya tapes” and sing my songs as a rosary to me.
"Therefore
remember, wherever you are, wherever is your town or hamlet,
wherever is your group of Keepers of the Flame, if you
will petition me, if you will ask me to place my Electronic
Presence with you, I will be there and I will remain and
I will stay according to your numbers and according to
the Light you invoke."
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"Thus I remind you, pray for and enter into the gifts
of the Spirit. Pray for them. Enter into them. Pray for
them. Enter into them.
"Empowerment, then, is the tremendous
omniscience of God. It is the omnipresent love of God.
Power is not raw energy that is used to conquer nation
by nation. Power is not raw and absolute but it is the
gentleness of God. Gentleness is your key to Power, Wisdom
and Love. Simple statements—believe them, try them.
"See what blocks you from receiving
any one of the nine gifts. Become your own tutor. Call
to your Holy Christ Self to be your tutor. I will come
to you in a greater fullness when you are fully prepared.
"Prepare yourselves, beloved.
It is necessary. This is the work of the disciple until
he has reached a level where the sponsoring Master may
assist, intervene and give teaching, whether through the
dictations and the Pearls of Wisdom or the still small
voice in the disciple's heart."
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" . . . Power is not raw energy that is used to conquer
nation by nation. Power is not raw and absolute but it
is the gentleness of God. Gentleness is your key to power,
wisdom and love. Simple statements—believe them,
try them.
" . . . Prepare yourselves, beloved. It is necessary.
This is the work of the disciple until he has reached
a level where the sponsoring Master may assist, intervene
and give teaching, whether through the dictations and
the Pearls of Wisdom or the still small voice in the disciple's
heart.
"' . . . I cannot pour out of my Spirit,' saith the
LORD, 'into a leaky vessel.' Simply remember that, beloved.
If you are a leaky vessel, opening up yourself to all
kinds of nonsense, then it is the nonsense that will occupy
you.
" . . . I can help, beloved, but when people by their
own free will become not only addicted to but enmeshed
in the psychic consciousness, they must by their own free
will determine to cut themselves free from it.
" . . . If people pay their way, paying as they go
with violet flame and healing-green decrees thereby transmuting
the cause of their conditions, they will be healed according
to the will of God. This is the price you must pay, beloved.
By cosmic law we cannot bestow either empowerment
or healing unless there be deeds of merit on your record
showing your active engagement in balancing your karma
by the alchemy of service to life. In addition, you must
seek and find the cause and core of disease in the karma
recorded in each of your four lower bodies."
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"I am with you always. May your call come to me,
even as you have answered my call from the beginning.
Now, therefore, I, Morya, send forth the Call to all the
earth, and by the shaft of light of the Summit beacon
it reaches the hearts of all who are impelled this day
to follow that light."
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"Inasmuch as you have accepted me as your Guru, I
take the liberty of focusing a point of acceleration within
your four lower bodies. Beloved, you cannot undo this
point without exerting extreme effort.
And . . . you are fully capable of holding
onto and sustaining this coil of energy, this point of
light, if you will it so. This is a step-up in evolution
for all souls who will fully and finally cast into the
sacred fire their ancient momentums of criticism, condemnation
and judgment, gossip and all manner of human nonsense
. . .
"I, Morya, may not be here forever
. . . , nor can any other Ascended Master promise you
that. For cycles turn, and this is the meaning of 'the
shutting of the gate' and 'the opening of the gate.'
" . . . I have asked you, my chelas,
to hold steady the tremendous blue-ray decree momentum
that you have stored in your four lower bodies as well
as in your Causal Body. And you have done so. For this
great gift that you have laid upon the altar of my heart,
year in, year out, I am profoundly grateful.
"The above notwithstanding, my beloved
chelas, the Great Law states that there is nothing more
that I can do for you than you can do and are already
doing for yourselves. What you can do for yourselves is
what you have been doing for many years and that is to
give your blue-flame decrees daily, entwining them with
your violet-flame decrees. And if you will consecrate
your decrees to me, I will multiply them by the gifts
and graces of God that you have already placed on the
high altar of our beloved Church.
" . . . If there be hope of escape
from darkness as the long night of mankind's misqualified
energy descends, it will come through the seasoned chelas
who have been on the path of the First Ray for centuries.
" . . . For God's sake, don't go
to sleep on me! Now is the time for you to wake up with
the Buddha and to wake up with the Atman who lives within
you and to thereby recognize that I need your every effort
as you help me to transform millions of souls by the alchemy
of the sacred fire—lest
they be lost! For the effort that you put out allows me
to care for millions who otherwise might meet a disastrous
end.
". . . When the Messenger tells you that I need her,
she speaks the truth. And her determination to help me
and to put all else aside in order to do so is a great
support to me at this difficult juncture in my service
to the Great White Brotherhood. I also ask you to help
me even as the Darjeeling Council asks for your help.
" . . . .If I were to invite you
to come to Darjeeling—and
I do invite you to come in your finer bodies, escorted
by Archangel Michael—I
would seat you in the second and third rows around the
Darjeeling Council table and you would immediately see
how focused and intense is our work
on behalf of the lightbearers of the world and humanity
at large.
"The intensity of our work, beloved,
will not let up for years to come. And representatives
of the nations, the saints and the Ascended Masters are
in attendance at my retreat and they are glued to their
seats. They stay and stay and stay, beloved, because they
know what horrendous consequences could come upon the
earth if the people of light do not wake up in time.
"Therefore I say to you, Wake up!
Wake up! Wake up!
"Wake up and put first things
first! What must be first in your life is your determination
to wholeheartedly embrace the path of chelaship under
the Messengers and me . . . I will not give you of my
fiery substance nor will any other Ascended Master give
you of his fiery substance if you do not tackle your human
creation. One way or another, it must be done . . . "
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"You see, beloved ones, all desires of the human
that you may have in this world can be surrendered. And
when they are surrendered, the divine desiring of God
comes into your life. For every human desire there is
a divine desire that is legitimate, that is fulfilling,
that will give to you whatever you thought you might get
through human desiring but truly could never have or keep,
and much, much more. But it takes courage.
" . . . Thus you see, between the human will and
the human desire and the divine will and the divine desire
there is an abyss to be crossed. Its name is time and
space. It is governed by the law of mortality. You can
take the route of the labyrinth. You can spend another
thousand or ten thousand years or a million gingerly stepping
in and out of the caves and caverns, underground and through
the astral plane, seeking earthly treasure and not realizing
that the divine is practically on the tip of your nose."
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July 6, 1984 |
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El Morya's dispensation:
El Morya told us that in exchange
for his students' service on behalf of world freedom,
he has taken upon himself the personal burdens of
his devotees, so that his devotees may take on the
burdens of the world. To benefit from this we need
to follow El Morya's four steps:
1. List your personal needs and problems on paper.
Put the paper face down on your right knee.
2. Put Morya's wallet-sized card
face down on your right knee on top of your list.
Then put your right hand over your list of personal
needs and the picture.
3. Make a quick call for the resolution
of your needs and problems.
4. Then give your calls on
planetary situations that need the Masters' and
angels' assistance and trust that Morya will take
care of your needs and problems.
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"Inasmuch as all of you have been sponsored
by beloved El Morya, is it not well to begin with
the 5:00 line? Beloved ones, it is necessary to
banish ignorance, for how else can you enter in
or recognize the poisons [or their antidotes] or
know the Buddhas? Thus to embrace God-wisdom and
the Gemini Mind of God, to obey its beacon, its
call, its light, to know that this is Alpha and
Omega—this is devotion to God's will: this
is the mastery of the spoken Word by the Sweet One
whose causal body sponsoring you has had much to
do with your victories on these days.
" . . . So you see, beloved ones, when you
know that the circle is drawn and the solar ring
is around you and [that] we seek to enforce the
presence of the Great Central Sun Magnet within
that [ring] for the drawing of the souls of light,
not only is it unkind but it is unmerciful to the
Lord God and the sponsoring hierarchy to allow to
remain those whose violation of the Law of Community
has produced the schism, the breach that we call
inharmony.
" . . . So then, beloved, harmony can be present
only where there is strength—strength of mind
that sets one's course according to one's God-desire
and keeps it and does not waver, is not weakminded
or weakwilled, divided, hearing a voice and going
that way, hearing a voice and going the other [way].
" . . . You see, beloved ones, mind and heart
must be in balance: therefore you see the balance
kept by Manjushri and Maitreya.
" . . . Let us then
take a very beginning course [at] the retreat of
God Harmony. Let us begin to see increments of greater
harmony based on a very sincere affection for beloved
El Morya, showing him what you can accomplish toward
this end by way of saying: 'Thank you, beloved El
Morya, for loving me still and seeing me through
all of these circumstances of my karma and my tomfoolery
and all that I have done that I desired not to do
and all those things that I desired to do that I
did not do. Therefore no more will there be the
division or the warring in my members, for I have
seen that a house divided against itself shall not
stand. El Morya, I will bring you bouquets of forget-me-nots,
showing that I will not forget to look for that
balance under the Hierarchies of the Sun line by
line.'
" . . . Therefore take care. Take care of the
ravening wolves within the body politic and within
the governments of the nations. And do not accept
what appears on the surface but follow the thread
of love from the heart of your I AM Presence and
Christ Self to those whose love dares to act, dares
to be needed and dares to fulfill the needs of others,
dares to be a part of a team, to think originally
and to act with haste to protect the Community and
to prepare for a certain future.
" . . . But if we should have to choose between
chelas who sometimes become ruffled or disturbed
and those who are all pious and prayerful in their
self-styled holiness, we would rather take the rough-hewn
chela who is surely becoming the diamondcut stone
of the Vajrasattva."
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God Harmony
October 7, 1989 |
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"Give me your attention daily and as you stand
before your mirror call and ask me to purify all
your past perceptions of imperfection. Then after
your call see your eyes as I do—as blessed
orbs of luminous beauty, veritable window of the
soul through which God can gaze joyfully upon all
his creation and see the prerfection that light
has placed there right behind the screen of appearances.
Vest all men with heaven's holy orders, for what
you see in others appears more readily in yourselves.
And this that you do for them, each one, is done
for me. As the cosmic Law permits I shall call directly
to your own beloved I AM Presence which sees in
secret.
"And the Presence you
may be sure shall reward you openly by the gift
of clearer vision —physical, mental and spiritual.
The transmutation of your threefold vision will
so enhance the power thereof that those seeing you
will perceive God the I AM Presence shining in your
eyes. And by this perception the grace of God shall
flow to them also, thus transforming those on whom
you fix your gaze from glory to glory as the power
of God expands its grace to flash forth the greater
light of the All-Seeing Eye directly from your own
I AM Presence."
O I AM Eye within my soul
Help me to see like thee
May I behold the Perfect Plan
Whose power sets all free!
No double vision fills my sight
The way is pure and clear
I AM the viewer of the Light
The Christ of all appears!
I AM the Eye that God does use
To see the Plan Divine
Right here on earth his way I choose
His concept I make mine!
O loving Christ thou living Light
Help me to keep thy trust
I AM thy concept ever right
So see like Thee I must!
by El Morya
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Mother Mary
October 23, 1959 |
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The Covenant of the Magi
By El Morya
Decree 30.08
Father, into thy hands I commend
my being. Take me anduse me—my efforts, my
thoughts, my resources, all that I AM—inthy
service to the world of men and to thy noble cosmic
purposes,yet unknown to my mind.
Teach me to be kind in the way
of the Law that awakens menand guides them to the
shores of Reality, to the confluence of theRiver
of Life, to the Edenic source, that I may understand
that theleaves of the Tree of Life, given to me
each day, are for the healing ofthe nations; that
as I garner them into the treasury of being and
offerthe fruit of my loving adoration to thee and
to thy purposes supreme,I shall indeed hold covenant
with thee as my guide, my guardian, myfriend.
For thou art the directing connector
who shall establish mylifestream with those heavenly
contacts, limited only by the flow ofthe hours,
who will assist me to perform in the world of men
themost meaningful aspect of my individual life
plan as conceived bythee and executed in thy name
by the Karmic Board of spiritualoverseers who, under
thy holy direction, do administer thy laws.
So be it, O eternal Father, and
may the covenant of thybeloved Son, the living Christ,
the Only Begotten of the Light, teach me to be aware
that he liveth today within the tri-unity of my
beingas the Great Mediator between my individualized
Divine Presenceand my human self; that he raiseth
me into Christ consciousness andthy divine realization
in order that as the eternal Son becomes onewith
the Father, so I may ultimately become one with
thee in thatdynamic moment when out of union is
born my perfect freedom tomove, to think, to create,
to design, to fulfill, to inhabit, to inherit, todwell
and to be wholly within the fullness of thy Light.
Father, into thy hands I
commend my being.
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Prayers, Meditations and
Dynamic Decrees
for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness
(Section II)
Church Universal and Triumphant |
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Diamond of the Will of
God |
Qualities of the First Ray
1. Alignment
2. Fulfilment of the Word in me
3. Happiness
4. Co-measurement
5. God-desire
6. Holiness unto the Lord
7. Geometry of God
8. Clarity of communication and mind
9. The art of the builders
10. The science of the builders
11. Obedient love
12. Loving obedience
13. Freedom
14. Change
15. Activity
16. Carefulness
17. Organization of mind
18. Organization of teaching
19. Clearness of speech
20. Precision
21. Intense Ruby Ray love
22. Non-sufferingness
23. Master of life on line after line
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"To one who has faith, no explanation
is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."—St.
Thomas Aquinas
"And there will not be different laws at
Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future,
but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations
and for all times, and there will be one master and one rule,
that is, God, over us all, for He is the author of this law,
its promulgator, and its enforcing judge." —Cicero
"Resolve to perform what you ought.
Perform without fail what you resolve."—Benjamin
Franklin (Autobiography, 1771)
"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such
an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes
and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will
be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into
a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual
abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science,
to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable
cruelty of one or a very few."—John Adams (An Essay
on Man's Lust for Power, 29 August 1763) Reference: Original
Intent, Barton (338); original The Papers of John Adams, Taylor,
ed., vol. 1 (83)
"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of
almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human
creature that walks."—Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"Now those who seek absolute power,
even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are
simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of
heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones
who always create the most hellish tyranny."—Barry
Goldwater
"A government is the only known vessel
that leaks from the top."—James Reston
'Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers
equal to your tasks.'
I would like to remind all of us of Thomas More’s view
on leadership, without principles, taken from 'A Man For All
Seasons.'
In the play's greatest passage, Thomas More argues for the centrality
of the law, over and against personal likes and dislikes, in
the governance of human affairs, when his family wants him to
have the disloyal Rich arrested:
Wife: Arrest him!
More: For what?
Wife: He's dangerous!
Roper: For all we know he's a spy!
Daughter: Father, that man's bad!
More: There's no law against that!
Roper: There is, God's law!
More: Then let God arrest him!
Wife: While you talk he's gone!
More: And go he should, if he were the Devil
himself, until he broke the law!
Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit
of law!
More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great
road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England
to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down,
and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide,
Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick
with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And
if you cut them down (and you're just the man to do it!),
do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that
would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for
my own safety's sake!
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