Vol. 19 No. 30 - Beloved Lanello - July 25, 1976
Lanello’s Mother’s Day Address May 9, 1976
The Welcoming of the Mother into the Temple of Your Heart
Part II
The wings are the pinions of virtue within you. Line by line, these virtues have been drawn as the feathers of angels. Let all men know by my very presence as I affirm God being that the angels who come to minister unto you make their way through cosmos on the great highways of being because they have the strength of virtue as the formation of their wings of light.
Where are you going without your wings? Where do you think you are going, O proud spirit? You affirm “I AM” and yet you have not yet put on the mantle of your I AM Presence. You have not yet put off the old man nor donned the new.1 Where do you think you are going, running off to this or that mission for the Mother when you are not dressed? You are not fit to ride with the legions of Mercury, to run with the angels of the Mother! Go back and put on your wedding garment!2 And this garment you must weave, you must sew virtue by virtue, line upon line.
Therefore, let it not be said that the chelas of the masters are the fools who rush in where angels fear to tread.3 Let not the sounding of the footsteps of the sons and daughters of God be without the dread of the carnal mind! Let not your manifestation of will be mocked by the fallen ones who see through your mockery of reality! Be, therefore, not boastful, prideful, impetuous in your affirmation of being, but patient and humble and understanding of the requirements of the law.
After all, when we come to speak to you, you expect that we will be properly attired and properly accompanied by our angels and the hosts of the Lord. Indeed, we come with our garments. They are precipitated out of the light of our causal bodies. You say, aha, would it be so simple for us to don the garment of the Lord! But I must tell you that our precipitation of the garment of God’s consciousness has been won over aeons of striving.
It is not something that has come to us automatically, and so your attainment will not come automatically. And therefore, you can cease and desist from your mechanization concepts, your robotlike application of the law and all of the tin and the tinsel with which you have adorned yourselves at inner levels. Better for you that you will stand naked before the Lord your God rather than come with the presumptuousness of the garments of the world!
We see through the garments. We know that you are naked and without the true and only garment that is the garment of virtue. Therefore, present yourselves not in the rags or in the false armor of the ego charging forth in this direction or that direction seeking conquests, when you must first kneel before the one who has the flame of the benediction for the knights who would go forth to conquer and to retrieve the Holy Grail.
You come to this retreat to be blessed by our flames. Look then at the portrayal of yourselves kneeling before the priest of the sacred fire that is at the entrance of the retreat, the gift of the first Mother of the Flame, Clara Louise. And understand that though you think you come to be initiated by the messengers and the masters, in actuality you come to be initiated by the high priest of your own Christ Self. And though you think you come to the Temple of the Resurrection Spiral, in actuality you come to clear your own temple, your own sanctuary of being, to prepare the great cathedral of your heart that you might welcome your own high priest, that you might kneel before the altar, that the flame might burn there, that you might receive the blessing and the benediction.
You cry out for initiation, yet where shall the high priest come? How will the high priest initiate you? The high priest will come only when the temple is cleared, when the “bats in the belfry,” as you say, are no longer allowed to reside there, for the darkness and the moisture have been dissipated by the great sun of your own God flame.
And now we see the doves of the Holy Spirit, and they come and they fly in the archways and through the windows! They are an adornment to the bell that will ring in the day when your temple is ready for the high priest to appear. Let all that is without be consecrated within! For I tell you, the day will come when the without will be dissolved; for by the law of cycles all Mater must be dissolved.
It is there only that you might find your way as the little children in the Montessori school find their way as they work with the objects and the forms and the geometric designs, translating through the secret-ray chakras of the hands and the heart all that is without to the within, as they employ these tools to discover the mighty cathedral of the heart, the great temple of the heart.
Therefore you must know that Matter is a prop whereby you must discover the Spirit within, the flame within, and out of the flame create the All-in-all. Then you will see how Matter is swallowed up in Spirit as the lesser piece of dough becomes surrounded by the greater piece of dough and all is kneaded together until the great loaf of the bread of life is formed. And so there is in reality no difference between Spirit and Matter except as consciousness defines it, refines it. And as long as you create and sustain the separation of planes, so long will you live outside the white-fire core of being.
Let the day of the Mother be the day of the welcoming of the Mother into the temple of your heart. Oh, you did not know that Mother would come to visit your temple! You must scurry and run and sweep and clean and air out the temple and run and put fresh flowers on the altar and light the candles! You have not time! Her footsteps are already on the steps of the cathedral. What will Mother find when she comes to the temple of your heart? A temple of neglect where she is not welcome? Or will she find the lilies, the forget-me-nots, the precious flowers? Will she find the children tending the flame? Will she find God—all of God—as the Spirit filling the temple?
I leave you to your own resources to prepare the room; for the Mother cannot wait. The Mother is overdue. The Mother must come into the temple to give birth to the Manchild of your heart.4 You cannot turn back this Mother of the flame of your heart; for the hour is upon you and the birth of the Christed one. And so you see, whether the chamber of your heart remains a manger or the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, the Mother will come in.5
Let all who hear my words understand, as Portia has said, that preparation is nine-tenths of the victory. Let this day, then, be a day of consecration through preparation! Let each one consider what foul odors, what creations of the darkness he has allowed to remain in his temple. And let each one have the courage of the flame within the heart to see what is taking place within, to look at it with the stern eye of the all-seeing eye, to know reality and unreality, and to let that fire flow for the consuming of that darkness which is as an affront to the Mother and to her Manchild.
I AM Lanello, and I am sealing your heart with a cosmic cross of white fire. It is the sealing action of the law of your own being. It is a fiery cross that is formed out of your own heart’s light. If the cross is not sufficient for your initiation in the crucifixion, do not blame Lanello. Do not blame the Mother. We have taken of your own externalized light and we have fashioned the best cross that we could design. If it is incomplete or weak or wanting, you will have to fill it in; for this is the responsibility of the motherhood of God and the fatherhood of God within you.
Sons and daughters of our heart, take your place! Be Alpha and Omega! Be all of God where you are!
The Messenger’s Prayer
From the fires of our heart, let the twin flames of Alpha and Omega be the sealing of the love of our beloved Lanello and our beloved Mother within us, around us, in and through us for the victory of the golden age, for the victory of freedom as the victory of the love of Saint Germain.
Beloved Saint Germain, let our love leap into your heart as the flowers and the adornment of the high priest within the cathedral of your being. Beloved Saint Germain, let our mission as one, as the body and the soul of God on earth, be the redemption of your love, be the fulfillment of your love, be the balance for all mankind’s misuse of your precious love. Beloved Saint Germain, we do kneel at the great altar of your cathedral and we are blessed.
In the name of the Father and of the Mother, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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This dictation by Lanello was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, May 9, 1976, at the Retreat of the Resurrection Spiral, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1. Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:9-10.
2. Matt. 22:12.
3. Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism,” part 3, line 66.
4. Rev. 12:5.
5. Rev. 15:5.
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