Transcript: Serving the Holy Spirit in a Sincere Labor of Love

SUMMER RETREAT #5; PART VI OF A SERIES

SERVING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN A SINCERE LABOR OF LOVE

A Lecture by Elizabeth Clare Prophet

September 8, 1978  11:42 – Camelot

INVOCATION

In the name of the light of God that never fails, I invoke the light of Elohim.  Elohim, come forth.  Elohim, come forth by the authority of the light of the Christ within us, by the authority of Father, Son, and of Holy Spirit.

I call forth the light of Almighty God for the sealing of this forcefield, of the Cosmic Christ, the World Teachers, the planetary Buddha, the lord of the World, within these hearts.  I call in the name of the Christ of each one for the balancing of the threefold flame within.  I call unto the light of God that never fails.  I call for the full power of the Great Central Sun magnet.  I call for dispensations from out the white‑fire core of Alpha and Omega.

Seal Camelot!  Seal Camelot!  Seal Camelot! in Spirit, within our hearts, in Matter according to God’s holy will.  We call to beloved El Morya, to beloved Saint Germain and Jesus, beloved Lanello and K‑17, seal now the matrix of the golden age.  Seal the matrix of the Aquarian age.  Blaze forth thy light, O God.  Blaze forth thy light, O God.  Blaze forth thy light, O God.

In the power of the invincible matrix of cosmic truth, I invoke the light of the Lords of Karma. I call forth judgment this day. I call for the judgment upon the seed of wicked and all individuals who, whether maliciously or ignorantly, are moving to acquire this property for the state and federal governments.  I call for the ring‑pass‑not.  I call to the great causal body of the Great Divine Director.  I call for the great causal body of Lord Gautama, Lord Maitreya, beloved Jesus, beloved Kuthumi and the mighty Elohim from out the Great Central Sun for the divine will to be made manifest in Spirit and in Matter.

In the name and by the authority and power of Almighty God within us, we invoke now the staying action of the Lord God in this age for the deliverance of the age unto the light.  We call for the sealing of Camp David in the aura of beloved El Morya, beloved Kuthumi and beloved Djwal Kul.  We demand the action of their Cosmic Christ Consciousness on Carter, Begin and Sadat.

Blaze forth thy light, O God.  Blaze forth thy light, O God.  Blaze forth thy light, O God.  The light of God never fails and the beloved mighty I AM Presence is that light. [Interruption]

In the name of the Father and of the Mother and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, in the name of the Cosmic Virgin, we call forth thy judgment, O God, this day.  We call forth the divine will.  We call for the sealing and the protection and the divine direction of this property and of the flame of Camelot that it might burn on‑‑on and on through the Matter and the Spirit spheres of consciousness.

Our Heavenly Father, we pray for divine direction.  Our Mother, the fullness of Son and Holy Spirit, be unto us now that perfect light and that perfect manifestation Of the City Foursquare.

Together:

[Group give Decree 20.07]

Thank you.  Won’t you be seated.[Silence of several minutes]

ECP:  Six, is that right?  Number Six.  I am very happy to be with you and to see all of you, to be together with you.  This is a very special action of the fifth of the secret rays for this summer; as we have our five two‑week retreats, the fifth is the culmination of the release of those five rays in summer of beloved Mighty Cosmos.

There are seven Elohim in outer manifestation; there are five in inner manifestation within the Great Central Sun.  And these five manifest the five secret rays.  So there’s a correlation between the Elohim and Mighty Cosmos’ secret rays.  And it would be well for you to give that call just once a day; just give it once, as we have many other calls to give.

Tie into that action of the secret rays, secret because they are so intense in their action and their activation of light, secret because were they known, they would be abused by black magicians.  They are sealed in a sheath of blue lightning, utterly protected from abuse because they come right out of the nucleus of the atom of Alpha and Omega.

The reason that the Elohim and the World Teachers combine together in this final seminar is because the action of the power of the Elohim behind the World Teachers is what is necessary to reach the children of light with the message of the teachings of the Ascended Masters.

I would like to review for you the intent of beloved Kuthumi, which he made known a hundred years ago in the founding of the Theosophical movement.  It was a statement to the effect that this teaching is not for the masses.  This teaching is for the few who will become chelas and who will take that teaching and hold the flame for the period of transition for the changing of the ages, for the moving of the cycles.  It is not expected that the general consciousness of the planetary body is able to take this teaching and walk the Path that Jesus walked; but if the few can do so, then the many will have secured for them a dispensation which they will desire, in, later in this embodiment or in future embodiments.  Jesus made the very same statement in the conclusion of his mission in his final prayer, the “Father, the hour has come …..”

You find that in your “Mystery of Surrender,” the fourteenth Rosary. It’s a very important prayer because it’s the prayer of every son and daughter of God who came with Sanat Kumara to follow in the mission of Jesus.  The prayer centers itself entirely about the fact that Jesus is reporting to the Father that he has accomplished the mission to which he has been sent.  And that mission was to gather the ones that God had given to him and to teach them the name of God.

And he makes clear at least three times in that prayer that he has given to these chosen ones, these children of light, the name of God. “I have declared thy name unto them.”  And that name, I AM THAT I AM, was the very important transfer of power that Jesus gave to his own.  He was reporting that he had accomplished the calling‑out of these children of light.  He had taught them; he had given to them the name of God.  He had given to them the Word.  And he said, “Thy Word is truth.”  The Word is the Son incarnate.  He said, “I pray not for the world.  I pray not for the world but for those whom thou hast sent to me.”

Now that seems very strange to us because we are definitely trained in an age when we have the concerns of a, of a scientific humanism and a socialism whereby everybody who is a do‑gooder, especially in the more liberal camps of religion and politics‑‑they want to save the world.  They want to create a one‑world state, a one‑world economy, a one‑world church, a one‑world ecology to save everybody.  And everybody is equal‑‑doesn’t matter if they happen to be in Rhodesia slaughtering innocent people, doesn’t matter who they are, doesn’t matter what level of consciousness, doesn’t matter what their level of karma, doesn’t matter what they have done.  Whether they have raped and murdered, everyone falls into the same bucket in the eyes of these individuals.

Well, we know that the more light and the more money and the more energy that is given to those who are rebellious, the more they use that energy against the children of God.  And so all of a sudden some of the people who have been very much anti‑war are, are coming to the conclusion that we should do something about Cambodia‑-and all of a sudden the liberal voices peeping up and saying, well we have to in some way stop it, but they still do not see the United States intervening.  They talk about the UN or they talk about Russia and China, but the slaughter continues.

So the reason I am stating this is that here we have the words of Jesus Christ accurately recorded in the Bible.  We have the words of Kuthumi.  We have our own witness.  Here are the World Teachers.

Yes, the World Teachers plan and inspire educators at all levels.  Education from the World Teachers is everything that the soul requires to gain the mastery of the Matter and the Spirit planes, so it’s not just religion; it’s not just education.  It’s the total development of the consciousness from its origin in God until its return to God.  It’s an immense responsibility.  There are many teachers at many levels.  There are many teachers teaching very necessary things, and they are doing quite well outside of the circle of the Ascended Masters’ teachings.  There are people who excel in teaching science or shop or mechanics.  There are teachers who do very well and are entirely sufficient in all kinds of training in the United States.  And the World Teachers are satisfied that they are exactly where they are.

They do not have the evolution to incorporation, into what they are doing, the path of the ascension.  So remember Jesus said, that, “I came not to destroy the law but to fulfill the law and the prophet.”  So the Ascended Masters in bringing the leaven of God Consciousness to the Earth do not intend to destroy the old order or to interfere with the path of evolution of the majority of souls.  However, in order to have salvation for the Earth, in order that the Earth may continue at all, they must have the few who are the repository of the highest light.

And if you will look alchemically and scientifically at the world body, you can see that these few individuals are a special particle within the nucleus of the Matter atom that is the focal point of existence.  If you think of all of the evolutions of Earth being components of molecules, atoms and molecules of consciousness, you see that the lightbearer who has the Word and the lightbearer who carries the teaching must be in embodiment as the embodiment of the Word, as the real incarnation of the Word.  And he must be present.  It is not necessary that everyone be exactly like him, but it is necessary that he remain utterly true to himself, utterly true to his origin, utterly true to his nature.  Just as you would not expect the various particles‑-thirty‑three and more that comprise the nucleus of the atom‑‑you would not expect those particles to suddenly decide to change roles, because there are more of another kind, because no one understands what their function is.  People still do not understand the function of wisdom teeth or of the spleen or of, or of various parts of the body, various parts of the brain or the tonsils and so they think they have no purpose.

Well, people who look at us do not think we have any purpose and therefore sometimes they consider us detrimental.  And so then you become the enemy in the eyes of those who cannot see beyond their own level of service and achievement.  Lightbearers in a certain quantity are necessary just as certain types of particles within the nucleus of an atom are necessary.  Without these lightbearers the planet will not survive; the atom will not hold together.

Now this type, this prototype of an individual‑‑Surya came to tell us this summer‑‑there are not enough of these to hold the balance of the atom that we call Earth.  And therefore to compensate for the lack, Surya placed his causal body within the Matter sphere which means at the etheric, mental, emotional and physical planes Surya places his being millions and millions of times over, anchoring that Christ Consciousness, that very special element.  Now these particles within the nucleus must remain true to their intrinsic nature.  They have a vibration; they have a frequency; they have, they are composed of a certain substance.  And everything else must be cast aside, everything that would detract from being true to that self must go.  Otherwise in the process of the abandonment of the intrinsic nature, the atom would collapse.

Now you reach a point on the path of being tutored by the Ascended Masters, the World Teachers, the Elohim, as I have reached, where nothing in this universe matters but being that Self that you are intended to be.  If you can imagine yourself being the physical sun, you have a knowledge that nine or twelve planets depend upon your forcefield, billions of evolutions, nothing can deter you from being that sun.  The fact that lifewaves are dependent upon you is however secondary to the fact that you remain true to yourself simply because of the love of that God Self.  You don’t need any other reason, just the reason that you love God, the God who is your Real Self, the God who is where you are, the God who is this particle that you must constantly be fulfilling.

It’s not what God does for you or what you’re going to ‘get’ from him.  There are no in‑between rationales of logic; it simply is a be‑ness, a consciousness, a very, very intense love.  That intense love becomes a white fire, a white fire that is so brilliant as to efface the personality.  The personality is effaced and those who look upon the individual who has ultimately fulfilled that inner Self see only the white light.  And when they see only the white light and do not have a personality to interact with, they say, that person is impersonal or cold or stern or distant.

And we find that the Ascended Masters who have come to that place therefore withdraw because they will never place themselves in a position to be under the criticism of unascended mankind, because that criticism gives unascended mankind such a great karma.  The karma is so great for criticizing the one who has become God that out of the mercy of the law they withdraw.  I want you to remember it is the mercy of the law that the Ascended Masters are not walking the Earth in physical, tangible manifestation, because it would mean instantaneous judgment upon those who would criticize, condemn, judge, rebuke, revile, persecute, and finally crucify.

So they don’t put too many of us here, and those of us that they put here, they put here in disguise.  They, they give us human traits and human attributes, so that the criticism that comes out of the carnal mind of all the lesser evolutions is mitigated.  And then apart from that they will keep their representatives in remote places out of the way, so that again, their work in the inner nucleus is protected and so that the people can have the benefit of these what I call step‑down transformers, these individuals who carry great light.

The light they carry is a magnetism that feeds into the Earth.  The Earth currents are recharged by the very presence of the people who walk the Earth.  “How beautiful are the feet upon the mountain of the one that publishes peace and preaches salvation.  Beautiful upon the mountain are the feet,”‑-the fact that the currents of Almighty God pass through Jesus Christ, Kuthumi, the great prophets, into the very Earth body.

So as we see then, the real purpose of our being here is holding the balance in the transition through this age when the dark cycle of karma is upon the Earth unto the point where the remnant can be preserved for a golden age.  Now we have to move from point A to point B, and point A is right where the world is now, in a very serious level of turmoil, a very serious crisis; more serious than I can even tell you is the crisis in this very moment, and many things are hanging in the balance.  That is point A and point B is the golden age.  And at this moment those two points seem so distant from one another as for us to scarcely understand how a golden age could follow the age in which we are living.

Well into the midst of all of this comes the Great White Brotherhood, the Ascended Masters with the power to intercede, to do whatever is their will to do, and we have but to be their instruments.  We have but to be true to ourselves, so that they can use that God Self in us to carry out their divine plan.

I think it’s very important that we meditate upon that Real Self, because unless you are becoming that Real Self, that real particle in the nucleus, you are not happy.  We notice how so many people in the world today are not happy.  You look all around.  You see very sullen faces.  You see people who are making merry and who are laughing, but they do not have inner joy.  There’s only one source of inner joy, and that inner joy comes from knowing that twenty‑four hours a day, one is fulfilling one’s inner matrix, one’s inner alchemy, the chemistry of the components of a cosmos.

You have but to look into the stars, into the heavens and to see that apparently there is a random placement of stars; they have no apparent order.  And yet we know they are exactly and precisely where they are designed to be.  And if you take the entire cosmos, the Spirit/Matter cosmos, and consider it one molecule, then you must go back and realize that we ourselves are particular stars within that cosmos.

And that the only way we can have inner fulfillment is to be the fullness of the inner blueprint.  And the only peace we can ever have is to be that person.  Being that person, being that self has such a return of bliss because it places us in attunement with the Great Central Sun.  God will withhold nothing from the individual who has determined to be totally God.  And so in the process of being that self, one is daily nourished with the sweetest nectar that comes from the Almighty.  One has the inter, inner freedom of interaction with Alpha and Omega.  One is a particle in that nucleus that has free motion in and out of the white‑fire core.

Now this supreme bliss and peace enables the avatar to pass through any crucifixion, any persecution, any condemnation, any malignment‑‑it doesn’t matter what is done to the individual, his interior bliss is so great.  And it is an inner strength; it’s an inner fortitude.  It is being God while one yet appears to be man.  It is not something you need procrastinate, but what will stand in your way of experiencing this is thinking that you need another identity, thinking that you need other persons, other selves, other circumstances to fulfill the inner longing for wholeness.

I am not speaking about what may be a very natural outcropping of your being yourself, which is family and job and profession and all of these things; these are the circumstances of karma.  They never stand in our way unless we are attached to them.  It’s the attachment that I am speaking of, the possessiveness, the sense that without this or that‑-people in the world have to have this car or that car or this house or that wife or that husband or this trip or this new dress‑‑those things are not meaningful to us.  But sometimes we have levels of emotional need, and they are so subtle that we don’t realize that we are placing a great deal of dependency and a great deal of energy upon these areas for what we imagine to be our comfort, our internal comfort.

And so our karma can stand between us and our being true to ourselves if we allow it to, or the karma can be the kick‑ball that we play with out on the field.  And every time it comes to us, we kick it and we make a goal.  And we’re kicking it right into the sacred fire and we’re building points for our team.  And our team is the 144,000.

So you don’t have to be karma‑free; you don’t have to have fulfilled your dharma.  But you have to understand that there is an inner message that comes out of the Almighty, that can make the path of the one who represents the World Teachers a path of bliss in the midst of seeming obstacles.  The people who see the obstacles or see the persecution are never the individual who is the subject of them; it’s always the observers, observers who observe the saints and call them martyrs.  They weren’t martyrs.

A martyr to me implies someone who has suffered, and the saints, the true saints, have never suffered.  They have only appeared to suffer.  There is no suffering with interior bliss.

And so the greatest teaching that I can give to you is that of the Buddha, which is the nonattachment, the nonpossessiveness, the being in this plane, the being of God.  And there is one lawful desire that you can have in being God, and that one lawful desire is the desire to be God‑‑there is no other lawful desire.  Desiring to be God may entail being educated, having a family doing a service that you like to do‑‑all kinds of things; but the underlying desire in all of these activities is I must be God where I am.

In order to be that God I must feed all of the children of God of a lesser evolution with the God that I am.  I cannot fulfill my God be‑ness unless I am transferring that God be‑ness to others.  Hence, the calling to be a World Teacher.  The calling to be a World Teacher is something that must come from the God within you and not from the outer mind.

In the days of the I AM activity Saint Germain warned through Mr. Ballard of those individuals who as soon as they come into the activity, they want to go out and teach.  And he said it often stems from the level of pride and ambition and the desire for importance.  Of course this we have seen.  I choose not to look upon this within any of you; I choose rather to know that within you is the real teacher, the Christ Self, who does desire to teach.

And it is my office to tutor your souls to come into congruency with that real teacher, the Christ Self, so that you can be the instrument of the Elohim and of the World Teachers.  The conveyance of the Word can only be done effectively by those who have become the Word.  That is why Jesus waited until he was thirty to begin his ministry.  Coming in with very little karma, he gave himself thirty years for all of the initiations and the teaching and the testing.

Mind you he was not making karma in those thirty years as so many of us were making karma in the first thirty years of our lives.  No, he was not making karma; he did not have to undo all of the misuses of the sacred fire that this generation has been through, all of the tampering with the body through drugs and chemicals, all of the programming of the mind and the subconscious through the media, all of the misinformation and misstatements that we’ve received in education, all of the programming of the little cells of our being by the false rhythms of the fallen ones:  the rock beat, the jazz beat.  When that is pounding upon the child from the moment of conception till the moment he finds the path, even the rhythm of the cell and its internal movement has been interfered with.

And so we arrive at the doorstep of the retreats of the Brotherhood, and we come in and we find that we have to go through a process of, of the fiery trial of the Holy Ghost.  That blessed sacred fire purges us; it strips us of those false impressions that have bombarded our four lower bodies.

The fallen ones know that our four lower bodies are a computer, a cosmic computer of the mind and being of God.  They know that if you feed into this computer, you will get out of the computer what you have fed into it‑-and so the programming of the masses to a sympathy, a sympathy vibration, a sympathy with the downtrodden.  The downtrodden are usually the fallen ones; the children of light are not downtrodden.

And so the sympathy with the class that has been called the ‘have-nots’ has convinced many people that the law of karma, the law of the distribution of supply, the law of talents, the one who receives so many and so many and so many‑-these laws are all set aside because of the programming of this generation to sympathy that all should receive equally when Jesus never taught that.  He taught that each one received according to his labor.

So we find there has been an interference with the World Teachers, with the Word Incarnate.  That Word, that Christ, is a light emanation that also feeds into the four lower bodies.  All of the natural functions of the brain, the physical body are a reflection of the programming of this miracle of life that we are by the Word itself, by the Cosmic Christ. And so the very fact that we function, that we are an integrated whole, that we have the capacity to know God, that we have the capacity to know we are God‑‑all of this comes from the fact that God himself has also‑-if you want to use the term, with the right understanding‑-programmed our being as receptors, as being receptive to this vast scheme of creation that he has brought forth.

The hour is very late in terms of the century and the cycle.  There are many sheep of God that must be fed.  Jesus, imploring with Peter to ‘feed  my sheep’‑‑”If you love me, feed my sheep,” three times‑-was his very last pleading request:  don’t build an institution or an organization that is so vast and so wealthy that it builds a wall and closes out the sheep of my heart.  “Feed my sheep.”

He didn’t tell him to build a church for the masses; he didn’t tell him to bring in all of the compromises that are in the Church today.  He founded the Church and the word for Church in the Bible from the Greek in that place is ‘iglesia’ which means community of the called‑out ones.  He said, “Upon the rock of your perception of the Christ in me, upon the reality of that vision, I will found my community of the called‑out ones, my community of the lightbearers.”

It was that mantle that Jesus passed to Peter.  He did not ask him to build an institution for all those individuals who in their rebellion against God, want a watered‑down religion that makes no demands upon them and does not give them the vision of why we are on Earth.  So that mantle has been usurped many times by individuals, but the power of the mantle has always been present and that is what you have to realize.  Until God withdraws the office in hierarchy, no matter who wears the mantle, they have the power.

Some of you may have read a book about the sword that was used to stab the side of Jesus and the great, the mysticism surrounding that sword which was supposed to have come into the hands of Adolph Hitler during the war and supposedly was the secret of his power.  It was in the possession of Austria and I believe it has been returned and is in a museum.  Now it was in 1972 that finally the mantle was withdrawn.

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Now Jesus used me when I was embodied as Catherine of Siena to try to bring the Pope back to his God consciousness, back to his rightful use of the mantle.  And it’s very important that you read that book on Catherine of Siena, which we have in our bookstore because you see in this a handbook for the Coming Revolution.  You see in it what you are required to manifest to be working under the World Teachers, Jesus and Kuthumi.

These two World Teachers have attainment in all paths, but they are known to the world as having come through Christianity.  The Path of Jesus Christ is the Path of our Guru and our sponsor.  We must come through him.  What you find in the teaching of Catherine, which God gave to her, was defense of the office of the Pope even though the person who was holding that office was not fulfilling it to the highest level that it ought to have been fulfilled.  “Right or wrong he is the Pope”‑-that is what she says.

She remained loyal to him to the end even though he utterly and totally betrayed the Church and the people.  And all the people around him were corrupt; they were corrupt to the last man.  It was a very, very dark period.  Finally realizing that this individual had not fulfilled his inner calling, Catherine offered herself on the altar of the Church and died at the age of thirty-three with the stigmata.  And she died because she took on the karma, the planetary karma, as Jesus did at the age of thirty‑three.  And she took on the burden of the sin of the Pope.  She died in bliss, absolute bliss.

Had that life not been given, the Church would have been destroyed then and there.  Had Lanello not given his life in this century, in 1973‑‑laid it down to bear the sins of the world‑‑the economy of the United States would have collapsed in 1973.

Now we are here; it is 1978.  What has happened through the Roman Catholic Church, which is not known to me, has resulted in this passing of the mantle.  When Jesus gave me the mantle of the office of vicar, I really could not see why he had chosen me because I’ve always thought that many other people were more qualified than I am.  But he explained to me after I read the book of Catherine and he unfolded to me the drama of that embodiment:  that it was because I was willing to uphold the office when the office had been betrayed; when I was willing to give my life for the office, I therefore had the right to hold the office.

This is a very important point of the law, a very important point.  If you criticize the one who holds the office before you, you forfeit your right to hold that office.  The understanding of the law of hierarchy is very important.  The willingness to uphold the mantle, the shepherd’s crook, until God himself removes it, that’s the requirement if you’re going to be in the Great White Brotherhood.  Now you see, each one of you individually has a very important office in the spiritual hierarchy of the planet.  The office is the office of chela or disciple.  That is an office; it is a position in the Great White Brotherhood.

I prefer to be called a chela among chelas; I am not concerned with all of these other titles.  But God is concerned with them because someone must wear that mantle.  Someone must be willing to be that person, to be that particle in the nucleus of the atom.  Someone must understand the need to hold a particular vibration and be true to it twenty‑four hours a day.

An elemental learns to create a blade of grass.  If he does it well, he may become after billions of aeons an Elohim.  An Elohim learns to create and sustain an entire cosmos.  Every particle in it is sustained by the vibration of the mind of Elohim.  So you begin at the level of chelaship.

You are not equal chelas, but each one of you has an office and it is to hold the flame of a virtue and be true to that virtue.  Don’t ask yourself to leap a thousand hurdles.  Leap one hurdle; take one virtue.  Take a blade of grass and say, I will sustain it; I will never let it die.  I will never let it turn brown; I will never let it go to seed.  I will see that this blade of grass continues.  I will see that heaven and earth may pass away, but my word shall live forever.  My word is my incarnation of the second person of the Trinity.

You are the Christ right now.  God has assigned to your Christ a certain incarnation of the Word, a certain vibration.  You must find it.  I will not tell you what it is; you must find it.  You must sustain it.  On this hangs the perpetuation of your life, your destiny, your soul.  I will give you the necessary circumstances in which to find it; I will give you the best possible environment for your flower to grow.  I can give you Summit University; I can give you serving on the staff; I can give you serving in a teaching center.  I can recommend that you further your education.  I can recommend that you form a study group and carry on with the duties of your family in your home town.

Given that environment, given the ritual of your decrees, the daily tuning into our communion which is the Word of God, which is the teaching, you then will isolate, isolate this quality, this energy that is your Word that will not pass away because you will it so.  Now you must come to the place where nothing else matters.

We have not always been at that place.  We have had embodiments where the cares of this world and the things of this world have presented their distraction, but there comes a moment when you look at the equation of your life.  You know you have no guarantee of your next breath, no guarantee whatsoever.  You also know you have a very great need for this body, this plane, this nation, this planet, this solar system to work out your karma and your dharma.  And so you say to yourself, inasmuch as I have no guarantee of my next breath, I will make this breath count the ultimate.

What will I do with this breath?  The most important thing I can do is be true to myself, is to be God in the best way I know how, and the very next instantaneous corollary to that is, what is the point of being God?  It is to transfer that God to another, so that it will continue and be like a chain of fire that leaps from heart to heart across the cycles of the universe to individuals who become first dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, then millions and billions until you are Elohim; you are God as masculine and feminine being; you are Father/Mother.  You are constantly aware of the dependence upon your being of vast lifewaves.  And so you must perpetually be putting forth the Word that you have become, and you must be perpetually receiving that Word from the Father who has given you the gift of himself.

So to be a chela under the World Teachers, you see, is very much the fulfillment of this intrinsic quality of your inner particle, and so you are in the right place at the right time for that teaching.  Now what I am giving to you as this portion of the teaching is the inner cause from which all other effects proceed.  The Pearls of Wisdom and all the teachings and the precepts of the law‑-they hang upon this matrix.

Now some find this inner matrix, this white fire, too intense but they enjoy the effect that’s way out here on the periphery of the atom, way out at Pluto, you know.  Way out in the final rings of the atom there’s a comfortable vibration.  What’s the comfortable vibration?  Well, it’s nice:  kind of coming and sitting at the hearth of Morya’s fire.  It’s nice giving some violet flame because it clears up burdens and pains and gives you freedom to go out and enjoy yourself.  And so there are a lot of advantages to being somehow connected with the one who has decided to be true to himself in this fiery core, but not making the commitment one’s self.  And so we find that the masters have said there are many, many, many rings around the nucleus of the center.

And when people find out what they must give up and the price they must pay for holding a mantle or an office in hierarchy, then you see them very quietly backing down the ladder of attainment.  They kind of creep down so no one will notice they have gone to a lower rung on the ladder because it’s getting a little bit too hot, a little bit too uncomfortable.

And so you have people who are on our mailing list, and you go into a town.  You want to form a nucleus of people.  These people have been to Summit University.  They’ve come there.  They have met their wife or their husband; they have been married in sacred ritual; they have a beautiful child or children.  And then they will slowly move away because they have gotten from the center what they wanted.  They have gotten their human happiness; their human situation is straightened out.  So they’re a little further away, a little further away.

So then you go to the town where they have settled down and you say, Oh, here you are.  This town has no Summit Lighthouse study group.  Won’t you come together and form a board of trustees?  Won’t you make the commitment to agree on these seven points, which are really not that stern anyway?  You have to be sure and attend one service a week to be in a study group, and it is certainly not the idea of giving your total twenty‑four hours.  They say, no I am not interested.  I don’t have the time to be a trustee; I don’t have the time to do this and I don’t have the time to do that.

And they will list to you the cares of the world, the distractions of the world which are economic, which are social, and which are political, economic, the livelihood, the social, the interaction with family and community and political‑-the question of power politics is the interaction of power and it always involves ambition and pride.

So then you find out why, why do people really come to the center of the flame?  Because they were not happy.  Why were they not happy?  They were really not happy for the real reason that they were not being God, but in their minds they were not happy because they felt cheated.  They didn’t have the things in life that they wanted.  They didn’t have human happiness; they didn’t have money; they didn’t have a house; they didn’t have a family with which to adorn themselves rather than to give God the glory.  So they saw a means to an end.

So you find people will come and they will use the teaching; they will use the Messenger.  And they will use you to get the light that they want to have a certain amount of comfortability.

Well the light is so powerful, precious ones, that you can very quickly become comfortable with very little commitment.  The very first day that Jesus called the disciples to come, he saw them fishing.  And he filled their nets with so many fishes that the boats were about to sink.  And then he called them and they, they brought their boats in.  And he called them and he said, “Come and I will make you fishers of men.”

Do you see the point here?  Jesus had the power to make them very successful business men.  He could have used his light to give them a full catch every day and they could have become very wealthy and very powerful.  And before he would even take them as chelas, he made them decide, are you going to come to this light, to this Word, to attain human happiness and human success? or are you going to see that that light which can bring you human success can bring you far greater power, wisdom, love, freedom over the entire earth plane?

It’s really rather silly, isn’t it?  And you have people in Science of Mind, Christian Science, all kinds of metaphysical movements, all kinds of activities where the goal of their religion‑‑‑it may be veiled, but I tell you the goal of their religion is human happiness.  It’s power, mental power, mental control, manipulation of others.  You can have anything you want‑‑just do this, this and this.  Or you can be anesthetized from your human karma.  Just go to ESP and get yourself slammed around and you can forget all about your moral values, your moral commitments.  You can have everything shattered, so you can be free from guilt to go out and do what you ever want to do.  And you can be free from these bourgeois concerns of karma and reincarnation and duty and responsibility that have been so burdening you and make you feel so guilty.

Well, there are all kinds of people who have realized that there’s a power in the fiery core of the atom.  They want the power, but they do not want to submit to the Word Incarnate.  The power is the Father; the dispensing of the power is in his sons and daughters.  God desires to raise you up to the position where you are the Word Incarnate, where you are the avatar, but he has many, many lessons to teach you before you arrive at that point.  Among these lessons are the lessons that, no matter how much sympathy you may have, you cannot give one erg of energy to the individual who has not first bent the knee and confessed the Christ in you and in himself, in Jesus Christ, in the Messenger, and in every one who is a son and daughter of God‑‑and in the Ascended Masters.

When you have people denying the Ascended Masters and denying their Messenger, believe me, you are just around the corner.  They will soon be denying you.  So there’s no point in denying, as Peter did, friendship with the Messengers or the Ascended Masters to keep yourself out of a hot spot, because the very same people who say they love you but they hate the masters will soon be hating you, because that which is of God is one.  There is no separation.

I often wonder how people can, can actually believe that a person who hates any part of life can be trusted in love.  If I have a friend and he hates someone and then he turns around and smiles at me and loves me, I don’t want anything to do with him.  I am next on the list.  I can never understand the members of the Communist Party, the Politburo, because you know they, they kill off all the children of light.  Then they kill each other off; they have their periodic purges.  Nobody is trusted when there is any hatred anywhere.  You can’t hate any part of life and love me.  It doesn’t exist, doesn’t exist at all.  You can’t hate any part of life and love Jesus and Kuthumi or love the Elohim.  Hatred is everything from mild dislike to failing to forgive.

Do you hate yourself?  Then you hate God; then you hate Jesus and Kuthumi.  How can you be their chelas?  Do you condemn yourself because of your shortcomings?  You’re actually practicing black magic on yourself.  How can you then be a chela?

So these lessons that we have been learning for thousands of years are for one purpose:  to get us from the plane of effect, of enjoying God, loving God because we enjoy him and because he’s a nice Santa Claus and he does nice things for us, and he answers our prayers when we do a series of Rosaries or a series of this or that‑-moving from that point of loving God because he’s a Santa Claus to loving God because we love God, and because we’re asking him for nothing.  We ask him for nothing.  We ask only that we might be God in order to serve him and his evolution.

Saint Germain and the entire hierarchy has a very great need.  I should have an Uncle Sam poster up here that says, “Uncle Sam needs you.” I’ll have to have you get me one for Fall quarter now, because that’s exactly what he’s saying.  Saint Germain has been with me for a number of days now, as I have been communing on the world situation.  I have never in my entire embodiment seen him so desperately concerned as to the fate of America and our government and the children of light.  If an Ascended Master could be desperate, Saint Germain is desperate.  I am using the word because we all understand it and we all realize these things translate into other levels of ascended‑master consciousness.

So what can I say to you?  You can elect to be the particle of God that you are and fulfill a cosmic purpose in this age and thereby attain your liberation, or you can come here and take the teaching to make your life more comfortable.  You can increase your money; you can increase your health.

Money and wealth when I was among the Christian Scientists, that was the sign of spiritual attainment.  If you didn’t have money and good health, you somehow were not a good Christian Scientist.  That’s the truth.  It’s amazing but it’s true.  And what about the poor person who’s working out his karma that has hardly a, a change of clothing or a place to lay his head, but he’s carrying upon himself world karma?  Well, that person doesn’t count.  That leaves a religion wide open to those who practice the Machiavellian philosophy of the end justifying the means, the end justifying the means.

Jesus did not allow the Apostles to represent him until they received the Holy Ghost.  “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem (In the Matter square) until ye be endued with power from on high.”  In other words there’s not a thing any one of us can do to be a World Teacher unless we are filled with the Holy Ghost.  And what can we do to get filled with the Holy Ghost?

Well I counsel you to take home with you my tape album on that subject.  What’s the name of the tape album?

Student: [inaudible]

ECP: “The Holy Spirit and the New Jerusalem.”

Student: [inaudible]

ECP: “Conversion of the Holy Spirit in the New Jerusalem.”  Those lectures will give you the idea, but the point is it’s the total cleansing; it’s the violet flame.  It’s everything we do.  It’s all of this.  It’s getting yourself ready to be filled with light.

And what’s the key to acceleration?  Get rid of lesser desires.  Have only one desire:  to be God!  It’s the shortest distance between two points and the two points are your soul and your God Presence.  You’re moving from one plane to the other.  The desire to be God that is unadulterated, undiluted will get you there the fastest‑-hence whatever distance.

What’s the distance between the two points of an age of decay and a golden age?  It’s the individual one by one by one desiring to be God.  As these individuals become the electrodes in the world body, we will see the miraculous transformation of Saint Germain’s alchemy.

It’s a wonderful thing about having a new bottle in which to pour the new wine.  When you look at this organization, nobody says to you, you can’t go out and teach this teaching until you pass a certain test.  You can’t do this and you can’t do that.  You can go into that bookstore, buy a book, walk out of Camelot, read that book, digest it, and go in a park and stand on a bench and start preaching the Word and I’ll say, “Great‑‑go to it.”  There’s no restriction.  You can be anything you want to be with this teaching.

We have set up our, our legal structure for the community teaching centers; we’ve set up the Summit Lighthouse groups for chelaship.  That’s the reason they’re set up, so people can be on the Path of chelaship and initiation.  And that is a very important part of becoming the Word.  But nobody says you have to fit absolutely into that matrix before you can go out and represent the Ascended Masters.

Now most other movements have never trusted people to that extent; they’ve always set up barriers.  Do you know why I have not?  Because I absolutely believe the truth, the truth of the message itself transcends the human personality that might corrupt and distort it.  You might go out of here with a misunderstanding of the teaching, but all you have to do is utter one word of truth, one concept that is real, and it is so powerful that when it is planted as a seed in the mind and heart of an individual, even if you were to totally betray the light yourself, ultimately that seed would bring that individual back to his I AM Presence.

I have absolutely no fear and no doubt that anyone here can compromise this message.  It doesn’t concern me in the least.  I am not worried about people plagiarizing; I am not worried about who’s doing what with my book.  They’re all over the world in the bookstores, the most profound teachings.  The people of the light will get them.  The rest of the people who are the manipulators‑‑they may misuse them for awhile, but ultimately that light itself is the leaven.  The light is the leaven.

Someone in an earlier two‑week course told me a very interesting story.  They were from Washington, D.C. and these two women were seeking and they bumped into a woman who began teaching them, and they would go and see her once a week.  And she told them all about the violet flame, all about the Ascended Masters, and obviously anyone who reads all the books we publish becomes so superior in wisdom that that person can set himself up as the most profound mystic of the age.

You can imagine somebody just sitting and spouting off all this truth to you when you know nothing.  You would absolutely think that that person is a God.  So these two women just could not imagine how this other woman knew so much, and she never told them where she was getting her information, never told them.  So this went on and on for a number of weeks.

Well the problem was she was combining the information with some sort of psychic business or dream interpretations or, or some kind of thing whereby she was starting to control them and of course make them utterly dependent upon herself as the source of the information.  Well I don’t quite remember exactly how this thing happened:  either she slipped and mentioned the organization or they found the organization by some other means.  But by and by sooner or later they came to the realization that there was a Washington, D.C. teaching center and they went there.

And they saw the woman again either before or after they saw her for the last time, and she began again attributing all of this to herself.  And finally the God that she had implanted in them with the amount of truth she had given them‑‑that God within them so welled up inside of them that it was obvious to them that they did not need this woman; they had God within themselves.  And so they somehow or another found the center and then read the books and found that almost verbatim everything she said had come out of our literature.  So that doesn’t concern me because these people have the fate of their own karma to contend with.

And I have not ever represented to you that you have a dependence upon me.  I have said you have a dependence, an utter dependence, on your Mighty I AM Presence and Christ Self and upon the Ascended Masters.  And we could very easily create a situation where you would feel dependency upon the Messenger.  I could be here with all kinds of entertainment; I could be telling you your past lives; I could have you eating out of my hands with all kinds of psychic information.

I know there was a woman whose Mother passed on, and she kept on asking me, well where is my Mother?  And I said, “Our beloved Lanello has ascended for the purpose of taking care of the souls once they make the transition.”  One of the key reasons he took his ascension was to guide souls from the physical to the etheric plane in this time of transition, in time of cataclysm, in change.

Even today there are millions of souls, as you know, being slaughtered in Cambodia, and all kinds of tragedies happening.  Lanello ministers to every lightbearer among them.  So I assured her that Lanello was taking care of her, that I was aware of everything in the higher octaves but I did not trouble myself to bring all of this material into manifestation because I did not see it as essential.  It’s not essential that we have this information.  In other words to me it becomes a psychic diversion to trouble ourselves with, where is this one and where is that one?

Well, she wasn’t satisfied, so a psychic came along and was telling her all about what her mother was doing and that her mother had made her ascension and so forth.  Well she thought this psychic was so wonderful that she gave her a large sum of money, paid her way to come to a conference and then realized that this person was not of the light after all.  So you see how our curiosity and our need for human comfort can tie us to individuals who want us to be tied to them.  Those are the false teachers.

One of the reasons I do not come every day to these retreats is that I want you to find the God within yourself.

It’s a very interesting thing that five hundred years ago I wrote in the teachings that God gave me and in the teachings to those who were around me then who called me Mother, I said, “Don’t allow the demons to tell you that I don’t love you when I am not with you,” and I thought to myself that is the very thing that I have to keep reassuring people of today.  Somehow if they don’t see me for a certain amount of time, they will feel the pressure of the discarnates who try to separate us and try to separate the body of God.  And they will whisper in your ear and say, “Mother doesn’t love you.  The Messenger doesn’t care.  The Messenger is not doing her job.  The Messenger isn’t where she’s supposed to be.”  And they feel the loss of love.  That is the weaning process.  If you had me every moment of the day and night, you would not bother to make your inner attunement; you wouldn’t have to.

That is exactly why Mark Prophet left me.  Did he do something cruel?  No, he did something very kind, the same thing that Jesus did. He said, “If I don’t go from you, you will not receive the Holy Ghost.”  And so while we dwelled in the bosom of Abraham as we lived closely with Mark, we were very comfortable as little babies in arms in his attainment, and the only way we would get our own was if he were not there.

So that is the law of hierarchy, and that is something that you must learn very quickly:  inner dependence upon your inner God Self because you will need that dependence in this time of transition.  You may find yourself anywhere on the face of the earth in very, very terrible conditions, physical conditions.  And you will not suffer.  You will be in the interior bliss of the oneness of yourself, and you will be grateful that we put upon you this inner self‑reliance.

So pursue the teaching with diligence.

No one has asked any commitment from you in coming to a summer retreat.  When you come to Summit University, you’re given the opportunity to make a commitment, but no one criticizes you if you do not.  It’s up to you what you do with the teaching.

But I want to tell you that the teaching is the Word itself.  It’s the living Word.  It dances like millions of little candle flames from the hearts of the Brotherhood to your own.  The teaching itself carries a responsibility.  If you put yourself in a position to hear the Word, you must be forewarned that you are placing yourself in a position of responsibility, accountability as to what you will do with that Word.  When you receive the Word, you are already accountable.

And so the Word carries with it its own law, and if you abuse that law, you make karma.  In other words, if you take the great seeds of the sower and you do not turn around and plant them and give them to others, you have a karma; you have an accountability.

I’d like to give you the teaching of Pearl No. 6 in the Holy Spirit series.  It is called “Serving the Holy Spirit in a Sincere Labor of Love.”  You know there are many sacred labors.  You can be a carpenter; you can be a seamstress; you can be a nurse; you can be a doctor.  It doesn’t matter what you are doing with your hands.  You ought to think of the sacred labor of your life as being the outpost of the World Teachers conveying their Word.

This is a very special moment for us because we’re coming out with a book of the World Teachers called Prayer and Meditation by Jesus and Kuthumi which was originally published in 1968 as a series of Pearls of Wisdom, and the final pages are being printed right now.  It will be 312 pages.  It has seventeen plates of beautiful Chinese drawings of the world’s key gurus ascended and unascended.

Following this series on ‘Prayer and Meditation’ Saint Germain dictated a Pearl called “The Power of the Spoken Word,” and he said,”I dare not conclude this series on ‘Prayer and Meditation’ without making available to you the understanding of the power of the spoken Word,” and then he spoke on decrees.  So we’ve included a very fine section on his teachings on decrees within the book.

The cover of the book is an ancient painting of a little Chinese sage which we received permission from the Boston Museum where it is to use as the cover of the book.  And this little sage is taking a journey and visiting the various gurus of the world through these seventeen plates of Chinese drawings.  And you see him before Mohammed and Milarepa and Gautama and Mother Mary and Archangel Michael and Morya and Jesus, Saint Germain and a number of others.  And you see how he journeys to each one to receive a very special teaching.

So the whole book is a journey through the teaching of the World Teachers on prayer by Jesus‑‑his is the first section‑‑and on the communion by Kuthumi, and then on the science of the spoken Word and the violet flame by Saint Germain.  It’s one of the most powerful books we have ever published.  It is so powerful it is a leaven that is going to hit this world with such an explosion of light that whenever I think of it, I literally almost fall into samadhi just over the sense of the rippling of the God consciousness.

I would like you to take this book and use it as the springboard of your own experiments in being a disciple of the World Teachers.  I’d like you to study it and master it.  I am going to take the lectures I gave at Summit University and condense them so that you can use the lectures themselves to learn how to lecture on the subject matter.  I want you to invite people to your homes.  I want you to be the fountain of illumination.  I want you to understand that you will lose the Word you have received, even if it’s a single phrase‑‑you will lose the fire of Kuthumi’s statement, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.”  It will go from you if you do not exercise it.

That’s the price for having the living Word within you.  You must be constantly exercising it, constantly putting it forth, and you don’t want that to happen. You don’t want to lose the challenge.  So you have to take in; you have to receive through that book.  And then you have to give out through that book.

It is a book that you can read a thousand times, and each time enter a new spiral of joy.  You can take that book and be so excited; you can put a half dozen of them in your brief case.  Take a neighborhood in your town.  Go door to door, knock on the door and say, “Hi. I’d like to talk to you about a religious experience I am having.  I’d like to talk to you about prayer.  I’d like to talk‑‑may I come in.”  And you can just sit down and just bubble like a brook.  You know how comforting a bubbling brook is.  You like to hear a bubbling brook.  People like to hear you talking when you have that vibration of harmony, of the Trinity, coming forth from you.

And if they say, “Where can I learn more and how can I get more of this teaching,” you can say, “Well, I‑‑you can have this copy, $3.95.”  There’s nothing wrong with selling a book at a door, but you don’t go for the purpose of selling; you go for the purpose of conveying.

You pull out the book.  You can show people all these gurus and their little teachings.  Opposite each guru is a section that comes from their writings in the case of people we don’t have dictations from, or from dictations where we have dictations.  And there are two little paragraphs opposite the picture and each little paragraph is a take‑off point of the teaching.

And so on a given page opposite the painting of the master, there will be a three or four‑line biography, the dates of when he lived, what was his contribution to world religion, what was he called, and what is his position in hierarchy today.  Then there’s a tiny little quote from the text itself of prayer and meditation that relates to the picture, of how the little, the little Chinese chela is in relation to the guru.  And then there is the teaching of the guru himself, so you don’t have to go any further in the book than, than these seventeen plates and start talking to people, “Look at this magnificent Mohammed.  This is what he said about the light of God.  Look at this magnificent manifestation.”

Beloved Ascended Master Afra is in the book and our students from Africa and students who are Afro-Americans have constantly requested an identification with an Ascended Master who bears resemblance to their own racial characteristics, so Afra is there in all his glory and his beautiful robe teaching this little Chinese chela, and his instruction comes forth as a statement that we’re all children of the one Mother.  And so it’s taken from his dictation that he gave.

We worked on this book a year, and you know how many other things we’ve also done in the last year, but I feel that it’s the greatest contribution that I can give to you who would like to be the disciples of the World Teachers as well as to our entire movement.  And I feel it will change the face of the Earth and it will entirely change the character of our organization, because it will bring to our organization people who never had the right door.

You know it says in the Book of Revelation that there are twelve pearly gates, twelve entrances to the city.  Why are there twelve entrances?  Very simple‑‑because all people can’t come through the same door.  They come through different doors of consciousness; they come through the twelve hierarchies which are very distinct in their frequencies.

Do you know this organization is twenty years old and we have never published a book that had the name of Jesus Christ on the cover before today?  How do you like that?  When I was in Santa Barbara I said to myself, “Morya is the guru and he’s the founder of the Summit Lighthouse, and we don’t have a published work by El Morya,” so he dictated The Chela and the Path.  So we’ve had El Morya represented; we’ve had Saint Germain, we’ve had Kuthumi on the aura; we’ve had Djwal Kul.  We’ve had Mother Mary; we’ve had the Messengers.

Any other masters?

Student: [inaudible]

ECP: Hm?

Student: [inaudible]

ECP: We don’t have a book out on him.

Student: [inaudible]

ECP: Who?

Student: [inaudible]

ECP: Gautama Buddha, yes we have Gautama Buddha.

So you see when you have the intense love of all of the masters that we all do, and then you realize that there is no means for them to contact their chelas‑‑in other words, their door is shut‑‑you can imagine the catastrophe it creates in my consciousness because I am sure it does in yours.  You may have a particular master that you love very much and you don’t have a single publication to bring to anyone about that master.

Well today for the first time a book will be in the bookstore that says on the cover, Prayer and Meditation by Jesus and Kuthumi.  To me that is just‑‑it’s a day worth having lived for, for many incarnations.  When we were with Jesus in Galilee, we didn’t have a printing press.  We didn’t have paper.  What kind of‑-what kind of paper we had, papyrus or whatever, we had no means of conveying the message.  Today we publish a book.

The first printing is ten thousand copies.  Probably the second printing will be in six months, another ten to twenty thousand copies.  These books are selling; I have no idea who’s reading them, but they’re all over the planet.

The most astounding thing to me:  did you ever look at ten thousand books in one room or one warehouse?  It’s almost frightening; it’s almost frightening.  So I cannot think of a greater advantage that you could have ever had to fulfill your dharma.

This book does not stop with those Pearls.  I have written very clearly that, that God, the challenge of Jesus Christ to you today is to be the Christ, that this is why the masters are here.  This is what the teaching is, that you are gods in potential.  You are destined to be the Christ. Do you have the courage to accept that challenge?

Well, beloved ones, you are not naive.  You know very well in the climate of world religion today to make such a statement in a Christian nation is absolute blasphemy.  To make it in a Communist nation is absolute blasphemy.  It’s blasphemy wherever one could go upon the face of the Earth.  And so the alchemy is going to be explosive and it does not matter because we are true to being that particle‑‑simply does not matter.  We are true to that Christ; we are true to those World Teachers.  The message is painful; the message is very bitter in the belly:  the challenge to be the Christ.

And you see all of the fallen ones who long ago, aeons ago, rejected that incarnate Word, rejected that Christ.  Now they howl; now they groan.  Now there is the weeping and gnashing of teeth because they know they cannot become that Christ unless they totally surrender their false identity, their manipulation of the people; so they become outraged and what do they have to do?  They have to muzzle the mouth of the ox.  They have to stop the mouthpiece; they have to stop the one or the ones who are proclaiming this truth.

But we have the power of the press.  Will you tell me how they will stop ten thousand books?  or ten million books?  You see they may stop one individual.  They may try to destroy me but that is impossible.  They cannot destroy me because I am in you and in every lightbearer.  There is no way that the Word can be destroyed.  The removal of this temple is absolutely immaterial because my Word will live forever.

And that is the real strategy of the World Teachers, the strategy of the Coming Revolution.  It’s the strategy of the Ancient of Days.  You cannot destroy this truth.  They think in terms of persons and in terms of numbers and that is what they attempt to control, but we are neither persons nor numbers; we are simply God.  So there is no fear and because there is no fear, there is no target.  The only thing that can be destroyed is that which has fear.  That which is without fear is an impossible target‑‑you have to remember that.  You have to remember it in tremendous joy.  The truth is marching on independently of you and me.

[Messenger reads from Pearl of Wisdom by the Maha Chohan of 8-7-66, Vol IX, No. 32:]

The intense longing for God which, from time to time, fills the hearts of men often gives rise to feelings of frustration when it is interpreted in the lower vein of human self‑seeking.  The God intent, fostered by the ministrations of the Holy Spirit, is ever to produce happiness and Peace within the domain of the individual so that progress in the right direction, as well as the divine Protection that is necessary for Spiritual warfare, can manifest effectively and victoriously.

It clearly follows that any frustration in thought and feeling involving the spiritual search should be translated into a “spur” or “chastisement” that one may gird up the faculties and assets of his individual lifestream in the pursuit of Cosmic Purposes.  Lack of vision and perspective are often the bane of the spiritual seeker who asks himself, “How can I know?”It may be simple, but it is true and often overlooked that there is much within the domain of each individual that can be known and that is applicable to the specific needs of the moment, for God has not left man bereft of reason and of the power of observation.  While many yearn for complete seership and the ability to commune with higher expressions of God and to have advanced explanations of Cosmic Law, men and women must learn to use the simple Graces and Gifts which they have already received even with the novitiate level of their search.

The accretion of neglect in the Karmic Record creates lethargy, and when men fail to use the talents given unto them, but hold them within the folds of their beings, this becomes the mark of an unprofitable servant.  Fortunately, the Holy Spirit, as the instrument of God, is able to serve as Wayshower unto those individuals who will let go of feelings of guilt and condemnation, knowing that these have no part of their Divine Self.  Those who will turn sweetly in heart and thought to God, receiving the ministrations of His Spirit as at hand, even at the very door, can begin from that point to mark a new era of progress in their dealings with the Infinite Law of their Being.

Let it be clearly understood that there is no attitude of mind that can be more calculated to turn the heart of man to stone than the constant attempt to flee from karmic responsibilities and from conditions in which the individual finds himself as the result of previous actions on his part.  New stations in life may be attained only when one is ready and when old debts are cleared and the records of the past are adjusted.

The constant attempt to flee from karmic responsibility makes for instability.  People are constantly wanting something new, wanting to travel, wanting to change jobs, wanting to change locations, wanting to change husbands or wives and never satisfied, because they are fleeing their karma.  Every time it gets uncomfortable, out the door they run.  And the masters cannot depend upon such people.

I have seen in my life my own karmic responsibilities from the moment of my birth.  I petitioned the Lords of Karma to have my karma begin at birth, so that I will not, would not wait to the age of twelve or fourteen and therefore lose all of that time in balancing my personal karma.  I wanted to get on with my mission.  So I observed my karma in my childhood.  It was quite a weight of responsibility upon my young shoulders, and I would like you to know that for no virtue of my own but for the virtue of God within me, I was perfectly content to stay within the very bounds of that karma‑-very confining balance.

And when I was eighteen and I left home, I was free from that situation.  But it never occurred to me to rebel against God or rebel against my parents or rebel against my situation.  I just put one foot ahead of the other and when it was through, it was through.  I have seen that happen over and over since that time, situations of people‑‑many of these people having some sort of interaction with me in the Organization‑-people who have been very burdensome, very rebellious.  And yet they had to be here; they had to be worked with; they had to be dealt with; they had to be taught and tutored and rebuked and chastised and loved.

And some of them stayed years, and all of a sudden you’d see this clean, white knife, blazing white knife come down and all of a sudden it was cut off.  Either the individual walked out the door and was never heard of again or totally the individual came into alignment with his God Presence and presented no further problem.

Now that is the nature of karma.  It presents the sense of struggle, but you never identify with the sense of struggle‑‑why?  What is the key to the joy?  It is very simple:  you are not struggling with a condition; you are not struggling with a person.  You are serving God in disguise.  The person before you‑-he is being this or that or something else‑‑is still God.  And if your condition is such that that is the God you are required to serve, then you trust the law; you trust the Lords of Karma.

You give the best service you know how to give.  You give your most intense love, your deepest caring and concern.  There is nothing you will not do in the giving of love, and you give love so perfectly that that love transforms the individual before you.  Either that individual is healed or he is removed and another individual, more worthy, stands before you.  And God is the governor of that alchemy.

But if you say to yourself, “This person is not worthy; I’ll just give him a little bit of love.  I’ll just give him a tiny bit of love because they’re such a terrible person,” that person will be there forever; you’ll never get out of that mess.

So then we come to the term ‘enlightened self‑interest.’  Your real interest in your God Self and in being your God Self gives you the higher wisdom that says, lay down your life for whomever God places before you, because that is your test, and that is your opportunity.  And God will not leave you comfortless.  God will remove that circumstance in his own time and space.  And when we try to do it ourselves, it shows we are not trusting God as the Great Guru of our life; we’re not trusting him to take care of this situation.  God loves a cheerful giver.

We can’t say, OK I know the law and I have to serve you, so I am going to do it by hook or by crook, and so you do all the right things mechanically, but in your heart you’re not pure.  In your heart you are bitter; you are resentful; you are vicious; you are hateful.  There are people who live like that for fifty years in marriage situations, in all kinds of strange karmic situations.  They don’t advance one hundredth of an inch in the balancing of their karma, and it is a terrible tragedy.

And I have looked at such people and I’ve looked at my life and I’ve looked at the temptation to become irritated when somebody has bothered me for the five hundredth time and I have said to myself, “You cannot dare put out a vibration less than the fullness of God‑love because you will abort the entire plan of the cosmos.  You will abort the freedom of this soul; you will abort the freedom of your own soul.  You would interfere and delay the timetable of your attainment.”

Imagine allowing yourself to be in a state of irritation or dislike of someone for months and years.  Do you know the speed of light with which the universe is moving? and the stars are moving and the vastness of the plan?  Why you can get so far out of touch with the real divine timetable of your existence as to almost never catch up.  You have to take the whole manvantara over again.

When you come down to this sense of life, you come into a sense of cosmic astrology.  Astrology doesn’t consist of planets and stars.  Astrology is your karma and you can’t sweep it under the rug; you can’t deny it. You can’t get mad at it.  You can’t rebel against it.

I was talking to some people not long ago who were living in the town where the Teton Dam broke and it was a U.S. government dam and the engineers who designed that dam‑-they knew it was going to break.  They knew it was a bad dam, but they didn’t really want to admit it because their jobs were at stake.

Well fortunately they had enough concern.  They told the people of the town the dam is going to‑‑I don’t know if they said it was going to break, but they said the town is going to flood.  There’ll be about six inches of water on Main Street, so everybody evacuated and they were up on a hillside.

And the next day the dam did break and it came down about a seven to a ten foot-high wall of water.  And it broke and this wall just proceeded.  And they watched from the hills and it actually lapped up the cows in its pathway, and everything else in its pathway.  And they had two feet of mud in their homes when it was all over with that they had to go back and clean up.

Well there was an interesting story that they related to me:  there were two teenagers and they were fishing right up in the mountains by where the dam was, and the two boys were standing there.  And when the dam broke, one boy said to the other, “We’re going to have to jump in and ride, ride the water.”  So the one boy who said that jumped in and he rode the waves just like you’d ride a surf.  He rode it all the way from where it broke all the way down to the town until it finally came to the end‑‑he swam with it and was fine.

The other boy didn’t do it and he died.  That’s the story of your karma.  That’s the story of the Dark Cycle and the release of world karma.  You’ve got to ride the wave of world karma or it’s going to toss and tumble you and destroy you.  It’s a sense of cosmic timing.  There is energy, vast quantities of misqualified energy coming upon this Earth.  You ride the wave by invoking the Trinity, invoking the violet flame.  You move with it and you’re consuming it as you go; you’re transmuting it.  And as you transmute it, it becomes a support; it buoys you up.  Every erg of energy that you transmute with the violet flame goes to your bank account.  It’s your reserve; it’s your supply.  It’s in your causal body.  You transmute that energy; God says, “OK. It’s yours to use.”

So you go out and you use it, not only to save your life but to save a planet.  So rather than fleeing karmic responsibilities, you jump right in the middle of your karma and you use it.  You make it work for you.  It’s like using oil that comes out of the Earth.  Oil is the transmutation of organic matter into a substance that can be burned as a fuel, so we use it.  And we see the transmutation is the key‑-not karma‑dodging‑-but the violet flame, the transmutation, the fiery trial of the Holy Spirit.

There are vast quantities of resources and energies to be had‑-not just from God from out the Great Central Sun but by taking advantage of a karmic moment, a flood tide of energy that other people are going to be destroyed by‑-but that you are going to use to carry you into the new age.

Many times individuals are thrown into contact with those who give them great distress of being.  The temptation is ever to cast aside this undesired responsibility and to find “peace” by fleeing chastisement.  This is particularly true within organizations where individuals of differing polarities are often “thrown” together, seemingly piece‑meal (but actually by Karmic decree) in situations which require the delicacy of adjustment.

Very interesting to me about our Heart Center, our Camelot, and our organization because the most miraculous thing to me is that individuals who would never meet each other in any other circumstances in this entire  embodiment do meet one another.  Age disappears; we don’t relate to each other as age, as social class, economic class, from where we’ve come, from our nation, from our race.  We always relate to one another on the basis that we are chelas.  We are a part of the Great White Brotherhood.  We have a brotherhood and we are together.  Why are we drawn together? for this very express purpose:  we need to rub elbows.

There are little bumps on the rock of our being that need to be smoothened down, and it takes a special kind of a bump on another rock on another person to wear it down.  And so the Lords of Karma come along and they put us all together in this big sack and they shake it up and they pour us out again and lo and behold, all these polished rocks [Laughter].  And if you don’t meet the right person that’s going to irritate you and just get you really annoyed, you never really find out that you’ve got a bump that has to be smoothened.

And so the love that we feel for one another is a tremendous love of God within us, but it’s also a love that understands inherently that meeting one another is our liberation, that we’ve been looking for each other because we knew we had to get through our chelaship and through our karma by bumping into each other.  And we come from such diversified backgrounds that sometimes just our very upbringing and the way we do things are offensive to other people, or the way we eat.

I can remember when I was in Ghana and I was watching this girl eating her lunch, and she had this kind of a, of a gooey, starchy substance that was in a soup that was very greasy and I thought it looked very distasteful.  But on top of this all, she was not eating it with a fork or a spoon or a knife; she was eating it with her fingers like this [Laughter].  She had it all over her hands, all over her mouth, and all over her table, and she was sitting in a clinic of, of doctors in downtown Ghana, a very professional place where you would think that someone would eat properly.  And there she was going through this whole thing.

And, you know, upon sight I realized that it, it was something that was a bit disturbing to me.  And it was simply cultural‑‑that’s all it was, was cultural.  Why I should think that the way I eat my soup is any better than the way she eats her soup is really ridiculous, but those are the kind of little clashes we have that we all of a sudden realize that we have to transmute that which tends to make us be confined to the way we do things.

There is no doubt in the minds of the Lords of Karma, who have observed many such situations, that if the individuals were to go their separate ways, a greater measure of Peace would come unto them as the result of lessening conflict.

We all have a little bit greater peace if we get away from people that annoy  us, but Jesus said,”I came not to send peace but a sword.  I came not to send peace but a sword.”

Let it be clear, however, that the avoidance of all conflict and the isolation of the individual in mountain‑top “retreats” and in the citadel of aloneness, whether in the great cities or far from the maddening crowd, often creates the atmosphere of a synthetic “peace” and “safety” which do not contribute to the expansion of the soul and the freedom of the individual from old karmic ties.

Debts to Life, in the Name of Wisdom, must be paid, and if men have wronged others, they must learn how to do well.  Thus the needs of the Holy Spirit are served in the great Citadel of Life and in the schoolrooms of Earth by lifestreams “rubbing elbows”, so to speak, with one another, by rolling up the sleeves of one’s shirt and entering into a relationship called “the sincere labor of love“.

You do not know nor can you imagine, O, blessed ones among mankind, what a joy it is to the soul to feel free from the pride of person which has long encased mankind in a mould of frightful weakness.  The strength of the soul is developed through a universal concept of Love, but if this universal concept is to serve justly, it must be employed as men seek to love those whom they have wronged in some past time.

Now when I read that, I feel it register on my solar plexus; I feel a certain groaning of the body of chelas.  There is a certain groaning, a certain agony in this very point of the law of getting in and serving individuals that you have wronged.  What we need to understand is that there are two paths of balancing this karma:  there is the path of being in the world and balancing this karma one by one.

But there is another path.  It’s an intimate Guru‑chela relationship where you come to the retreat of the Great White Brotherhood and you come to me and you say, “I want to be a chela and I’ll take the vow of obedience, chastity and poverty, and I will serve.”  And that dispensation involves the leaving of the pack of your karma at the door.  These packs of karma are like big and little leather pouches with a drawstring you carry over your bag and you go through the universe with.  And these bags are stained and dirty and they’ve been everywhere.  And there is five hundred of them at the gate.

And when you come into the retreat and you say, “I will give world service under the World Teachers,” you then get involved in a twenty‑four hour service of teaching children, publishing books, doing secretarial work, cutting flowers, mowing the lawn, painting barns, whatever is the need.  And as long as you are engaged in that service in harmony, the great law decrees that you are in the process of, of balancing those personal levels of karma because you are now holding the balance with the Messenger of planetary karma.

That will not eliminate the retreat experience of bumping into individuals that may irritate you and may give you your initiations; but that group of individuals will have one thing in common and that is chelaship.  You may bump into someone that you cannot stand because of some little human idiosyncrasy they do.  Maybe they talk too much.  You can’t stand this person because every time you try to meditate or pray, they’re constantly jabbering.

Well you may have a karma with someone that’s out in the world who does that because you yourself did that when you were in a monastery sometime ago and somebody else was trying to pray and all you did was jabber all day.  So that karma exists with someone in the world, but that someone in the world is not on the Path.  Because you are on the Path, you are allowed to pay off that karma in the identical situation, but with someone else.

Now there are seeming sacrifices to entering the retreat and becoming that twenty‑four hour servant; but you never, never know what you are being spared by the sponsorship of the Guru of the year-in, year‑out, lifetime‑lifetime in‑and‑out experiences of having to go through on a one‑to‑one basis the balancing of your karma.  Now the thousands of years required to balance karma has all been set aside by the Great Guru of the Aquarian age, Saint Germain, who brings us the violet flame and shows us how to shorten the days of the elect, to shorten the days of our cycles.

But it is my responsibility to let you know that there are parallel paths.  Whichever path you are on, the statement still remains true:  debts to life in the name of wisdom must be paid.  One way or another they must be paid, but the Great White Brotherhood considers today that there is no higher service, no higher karma, good karma to be made than the publishing abroad of their teaching.

When you are either the paper cutter or the paper folderer or the Compugraphic setter or the typist or the person who helps me get my meals or does my wash or cleans the house, whoever you are, you are right in prayer and meditation.  Whether you are teaching at Summit University or whatever you are doing in this whole establishment, there is not a person who has been on this campus whether as a student or as a staff member during this year of the publishing of that book who does not have the good karma of having contributed to its publishing‑-whether you’re in a teaching center or a study group, wherever you are upholding the flame as a direct outpost of the Messengers, of the two witnesses, and you have committed yourself to the chela relationship, you have that good karma in your causal body.

That’s astounding when you think of it, but there’s no question about it.  Without every single person who has upheld the flame as a chela, who has resisted temptation, who has refused to walk in the way of what we call sin or the misuse of the sacred fire‑-without those people I could not have gotten out that book.  It would not be published today.  There’s no part of the job that’s less important.  If you sat in Summit University and gave your morning decrees when you’d rather stay in bed, you helped publish that book.

So that’s the concept of a mandala, a pattern, a geometric pattern of souls who are a unit in hierarchy, who are an atom, a molecule of being who have said, we will transfer the Word.  By doing this there is so much light released on the planet that a lot of these nitty‑gritty little situations of personal karma that you have with other persons is balanced.  And people you have no idea you have karma with‑‑these books will go to the British Isles; they’ll go to Australia, New Zealand.  They’ll be in Africa; they’ll be in Canada.  They’ll be all over the United States.  People you would not have any other way of contacting will get that book, have an explosion of light, make the contact with their God Source, and be on the way to their ascension because you put your hand to the plow and did not look back.  That’s the good karma of being part of the Great White Brotherhood.

And you know, if through ignorance and misunderstanding you were in the position embodiments ago to give false teachings, if you told one person or twelve people false teachings and they told another twelve and they told another twelve‑-you see how false teachings multiply.  You are still responsible if you did it a hundred thousand years ago for every single last person who is still under the influence of that misstatement of the law.  How are you going to contact those people?  You need to consider that you may be at this two‑week seminar under the World Teachers because you have a karma with the World Teachers themselves, and that should be a very deep part of your own introspection.

How can I balance the karma for having given false teachings?  I’ll tell you about my own karma as an example.  Mark and I were the first king and queen of France, Clovis and Clotilde.  Clovis sent for Clotilde, who was a Burgundian princess, to come and be his bride.  She came and was his bride.  He was a Pagan, but he was a mighty conqueror.  He united all of the feudal lords of France under himself and therefore had the right to become king because he met all challenges.

Well, at some point in the middle of his battle, Clotilde convinced him to pray to her Christian God.  And he said, “If the battle goes my way, I will become Christian,” so the battle became Christian‑‑I mean the battle, the battle was won.  He became a Christian and he, he had all the members of his army baptized Christian.

So in one fell swoop all of France became Christian, became Catholic, the only Christian religion there was, the Roman Catholic Church.  So France came under Rome by the simple request of a wife to her husband to pray to her Christian God.

What is my karma today?  What is the Karma of Lanello?  We have led the French people to Christianity; we have led them to Rome.  Now we must lead them to the New Jerusalem; we must lead them to the City Foursquare.  It’s not necessarily a negative karma.  It’s a karma that is a duty and a responsibility.

It was the highest truth there was.  Now we know that truth has become corrupted.  So you see, it may not be something that you did maliciously.  Your, your need to be a World Teacher may simply be the logical conclusion of a karma, a good karma, that you have been building for many centuries.

Debts to life in the name of wisdom must be paid….[Roll up your sleeves and enter into a sincere relationship of love.]

I am going to read this, this paragraph:

You do not know nor can you imagine, O, blessed ones among mankind, what a joy it is to the soul to feel free from the pride of person which has long encased mankind in a mould of frightful weakness.

Pride begets weakness, remember that!  Pride is a perversion of your crown chakra; it’s a perversion of the twelve o’clock line of power.  When you misuse the crown of life and the flame of the twelve o’clock line of the Great Divine Director, you lose your strength.  You lose your lower so you become weak.  You find that the most insignificant looking people whose very bodies have shrunk because of their pride over the centuries.

You would never think they have pride; they have a false humility.  False humility is pride.  And when you really find out what these people are, you really learn to read vibration, you come to realize they have an enormous pride.  And when their egos are stepped on, they become enraged.

The strength of the soul is developed through a universal concept of Love, but if this universal concept is to serve justly, it must be employed as men seek to love those whom they have wronged in some past time.  We see so often that men do flee the presence of those with whom they have karma, reeling from an old hurt‑‑the reactivated wound seems to flow through them and new traits of animosity are kindled, whereas the Fire of the heart might have been invoked to blaze forth and consume all that ever took place between “friends” or “enemies” that was less than God Perfection. How quickly the Flames of God respond to the fervent call of the heart for Divine Love and Balance to manifest!  How much easier it is to transmute past wrongs than it is to sustain them!

How much better it would be if men would welcome the appearance of such conditions for redemption and would hear the strains of the old melody from the Heart of God, “O, Love that will not let me go . . .” Thus each opportunity for service and adjustment would be welcome, the universal sense of the Holy Spirit would be emblazoned upon the consciousness, and the flow of Joy through the individual, achieved through humility and service, would be amplified ten thousand times.

O love that will not let me go.  Your love for God, God, God, your love to be your Real Self will not let you leave the field of your karma, because the shoveling of that dirt is the key to your becoming God.  You will not leave it.  You will not be moved.  You will stand and still stand on that platform until all is balanced.  You must come to the place in your life where the natural, logical service of your being which, which you should be manifesting when it is before you‑‑you must come to the place where it is unthinkable not to perform that service‑‑unthinkable!  In other words, you’ve made the choice; there’s no longer any choice.

You don’t stop and say, well shall I give my lecture tonight or will I stay home and get somebody else to do it for me?  Should I give my decrees or shall I go out and have a good time?  These decisions are not constantly in the forefront of your mind.  You are there with the Seraphim; you’re carrying a flaming sword and you’re marching through the Earth, and the marching through the Earth is the movement and the flow of electrons.  If they are not whirling around the atom, the Matter universe will collapse.

It’s unthinkable.  It’s unthinkable that you are not being God where you are‑‑just as simple as that.

The industry of men and women is spurred by understanding purpose, and through understanding the relationship of the soul with all men, hurt is really put aside and the joyous path of discipleship is trod as a union of hearts causes the soul to mount as on eagle wings.

Unfortunately, throughout the world there is much turmoil, occasioned by the recreation of old habit patterns of thought and feeling.  These enemies of the soul trespass again and again upon the domain of men’s Peace.  In Reality, precious ones, the Holy Spirit desires to give ease and Comfort unto every one upon the planetary body.  Saint Francis in his prayer, “Lord make me an instrument of thy Peace”, conveyed the comforting aspects of the Holy Spirit and because the Holy Spirit was involved it has left an indelible imprint upon the consciousness of men today and for all ages.

Not the simple words, “Lord, make me an instrument of my peace, of thy peace”‑‑not those simple words but the fact that Saint Francis, who said them, had the Holy Ghost and he endowed those Words with the Holy Ghost.  A thousand people may say the Word, God is love, but the one who has become that love through the Holy Ghost is the one for whom those Words will be the carrier of a lightning that will light up the individual soul.

Think about your own lives as though they were a giant press engraving hieroglyphs upon the ages.  See with what consideration of Comfort you can begin to manifest the universal Love of the Holy Spirit.  Erase the old, outworn concepts of the personal self which would always act to defend the inroads of others or even the imagined offenses of others against the personal self.  Let them go, for they have not served the cause of Comfort, either to yourselves or to others; but an understanding of the Christ Message and Purpose will do so.

You live in a time when a greater bond betwixt Heaven and Earth must be forged, when the purposes of true Religion must be served, and the old, timeworn sense of dogma and organized faith must be replaced by an infusion of Life and purposed Faith within all religions and within all people‑‑yet first within people.  The sweet impression of the Holy Spirit as the Master Comforter in Life is intended to be shared and expressed by you all.  Let none deny themselves the power to receive It as the patent Identity of God, with which when men identify, the soul will leap as a joyous hart to produce the fruits of true Liberty in action.

I remain your Friend in the close‑knit bond of Comfort to the Earth,

The World Teachers are instruments of the Holy Spirit because the teaching they bring is the knowledge of reality, and that is the greatest comfort in the universe.

INVOCATION

Hail, O light within the heart.  Hail, O leaping flame of sacred fire.  Expand now by the love of God.  Expand now by my love.  Expand by thy love, O God.  Let each one be sealed in the flame of Elohim.  Let each one be sealed in the flame of the World Teachers.  Let each one enter the Path of initiation under the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ until that hour when they come unto the place of Elohim and they may declare with thee, O living Christ, “All power in heaven and Earth is given unto me.”

Lord God Almighty, Elohim, so let these souls be initiated by Elohim in the path of the uses of power, in the path of the uses of wisdom, in the path of the uses of love.  Elohim, World Teachers and Holy Spirit, come forth and be unto them the Great Guru.

In the name of the Father and of the Mother, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, it is done.

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