Vol. 27 No. 59 - Beloved Jesus Christ - December 16, 1984
A Study in Christhood by the Great Initiator
LIV
“Come, Leave Your Nets—
I Will Make You Fishers of Men”
Jesus’ Thanksgiving Day Address 1984
O Mother of the World, I AM come. I AM fulfilling Light, and I AM the fulfillment of my promise unto thee and thine own gathered here in the tabernacle of the congregation.
Beloved of the Light of God, I welcome you as brothers and sisters of Holy Flame—yes, brothers and sisters of the Flame of God. This means that I hold thee in kinship with God—God the Father and God the Mother with us. For the Universal Mother and Her Light of old, known as the Shekinah glory, is the presence of God in this universe, in this manifestation. Therefore, behold Her universal Light in Mary the Mother, in nature, through the Holy Spirit in thy heart and in thy messenger.
Beloved, you have heard it said, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Now understand how universal, all-pervading through and through thy very bones, is the person of the Universal Mother. Understand how it is thy glory, thy discipleship to be one with this Mother.
The persecution of the believers in my mother, Mary, is in reality an outpicturing of a deep cleavage in the subconscious, a psychological state that has been called by beloved Kuthumi “the hatred of the Mother.” Sad it is that earthly mothers have sometimes quickened in their offspring this hatred of the Mother by their example which is wanting—wanting of the flow and the Light of the Universal Matrix.
Understand how the ancients knew that the consciousness of Mother, the womb of Mother, was the matrix alchemical of that Light. Thus, you see, the immaculate heart of Mother in both male and female representatives of Herself must be held. For this indeed is the womb of creation where you abide, where each one is becoming Christ, being formed and re-formed in that Christ.
Understand, beloved, that each one has the dharma—truly the duty in the understanding of the Universal Buddha—to be the Mother on earth, holding firmly and with strength and devotion and vision and faith the understanding of each one’s potential and its fulfillment. Thus, when the Mother Flame is kept, life does prosper; for children are comforted, souls know the solace of love directly through your heart. And when the crystal vision of each one’s ultimate Godhood is known and loved, even as one loves the soul becoming the Real Self, then the love of Mother is kindled and this love does consume and transmute the records in the subconscious of this which we have called “hatred of the Mother.”
This denial of the Mother’s grace divides the individual. It divides Christendom. It divides the followers of all the world’s religion. It is the cause of the slaying of the firstborn in the hour of my birth and abortion in this hour. It is the cause of the division in families and divorce and mistreatment of children and the misuse of the sacred fire. And therefore, having hated the Mother, the Light is squandered.
Those who therefore deny the Light of the Mother on earth before holy angels must receive the compensation of those holy angels denying them before the Godhead. Denying what? Denying their access to greater Light and Divinity and the onward path of initiation. Thus, the holy angels must say of such a soul: “Thus far and no farther! They shall not pass into the realm of the Father or of the Son or of the Holy Spirit or of the living Guru, Lord Maitreya!”
I come, then, in the joyous thanksgiving of the grace of our Father to admonish the sons and daughters of heaven taking up their abode on earth: Make peace with thy Mother even as thou wouldst be one with our Father. The Mother in the earth is the best part of thyself. By the Mother Flame all avatars have come. For when thou speakest of the Word incarnate, as in me, understand that that Word is the Mother Flame.
By the Mother Flame, Moses communed with the I AM THAT I AM on Sinai. Had he not had quickened in him that Mother Flame, the receptivity would not have been there. Thus, by the Law of Love whereby the Father denies those who do not love His consort, the Mother, and by the very mathematics of polarity of Alpha and Omega, those who have not the love of Mother truly have not the grace of the Son nor the magnet that will truly woo the Father and His holy angels to their side. Let us understand, therefore, that the denial of light and comfort and love to any part of Mother is a denial of Her grace within thyself.
Thus, let love increase, intensify in a most practical manner for those within the congregation and those who stand waiting at the gates—waiting to be admitted, waiting to pass through when you yourselves shall have parted the Red Sea of that raging anger that exists in the astral plane that is the nonresolution with the Mother Flame.
Even so, for this very initiation we send our messenger before thy face, that thou mayest know the person of Mother in her presence. For it is through the direct encounter that all things come to the surface. Thus, you may dislike and disapprove of the messenger. You may fear her as a god or condemn her for this or for that. All of these things are not objective reality but the warring of thy soul with thine own substance at subconscious levels.
It is not that the messenger is perfect in the human sense. Who can be perfect in the human sense, since the human is not perfectible? It is rather that the mantle of the Mother is upon her. And this mantle is a holy fire acting independently even of her own human consciousness. This is in order that the Son, even the eternal Christ, might place his mantle upon thee. Thus, first the one and then the many.
Understanding this, seek direct encounter and initiation with the mantle of the messenger. Understand the meaning of the mantle as the office of the World Mother and do not become confused by the person vis-a‘-vis the office. You do not confuse yourself with the mantle of the Son of God; therefore, why confuse any other who does bear the mantle? There is an understanding of the limitations of our humanity. There is the understanding of the limitless opportunity of our divinity.
The great lesson of your life and the life of the messengers must always be that it is by the grace of God that both live and serve. By the grace of God the divinity descends into the humanity. And when the twain are fully one and the fire, self-consuming, does stand, there is a succession of self-transcendence. Step by step the veils are parted and burned away. And as they are burned away within thyself—this divinity continually raising up the soul, transcending itself—you will know God face to face. And the messenger will disappear and you will see me directly, even as the messenger beholds in thee the Godhead dwelling, the I AM Presence, and the smile of thy Christ—even during the tantrums of the human consciousness.
Thus, you see, ye are all God’s, meaning you are all possessed of God and therefore belonging unto Him. You are Himself, His offspring, His creation— truly, in polarity, the manifestation of God. There is no separation, but the illusion and the lie of separation is present in this world. It is the result of the going astray from the Real Self. What you cannot see, therefore, in the anointed of God (and if every chela is anointed of God, how much more is the messenger anointed of God) you cannot, therefore, see in yourself.
Thus, seek the Light in the brethren. Seek the Light in the Ascended Masters. Seek the Light in the One Sent. And then you will realize that there need not be pain or parting or sorrow or tears. For all of God with you is truly the key to present peace and happiness and future, as it would appear, immortality. Thy immortality is now. Its future destination is only an appearance of working out in the cycles of life the unfoldment of Self.
On this premise of understanding of the permeation of the universal presence of the Mother is the foundation of the Aquarian age built. Every saint of God, every teacher and prophet comes home to the Western Shamballa in the great desiring to raise up truly the tabernacle of the witness unto the opening of the portals of heaven, where angels freely ascend and descend and where those who have appeared to be mortals suddenly appear in the immortal state. Whether in the body or out of the body, it matters not. For immortality is a condition of being and of overcoming and of the Word and the Work of the Lord.
“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the Lord. “Though your sins be as scarlet, I will make them white as snow.”
Consider, then, the lilies of the field and the eternal whiteness of the Mother’s blooming in thy heart, O child of Love. Consider, then, and understand that God has called thee to a mighty purpose—not forever to be engaged in the transmutation of sin, but to do so with joy and all Godspeed, knowing that this is not the end! No, the goal that is set for thee is another.
Let us study the Teaching and become it and not forever be learners, never coming to the knowledge of Truth. For this, too, is not the end—all things converging through the assimilation of the Body and Blood of Christ, the universality of the Father/Mother God; all things coming to the quintessence of thy being.
What is this goal of thy being—cleansed, purified, God-taught, truly the Word present? The goal, beloved, is that thou thyself be our magnet in the earth, magnetizing the little ones, the ones who are caught—caught truly in the intense tide of the temptations of the world, caught up in the magnetism of the senses. They are not fed by God. They have not the wholeness of the Holy Spirit. They seek it by outer means.
Beloved ones, you who know the temptations and the experiences of life understand full well what is this pull of which I speak. It is a counterweight and an antimagnet, consisting of the entire momentum of nihilism—the denial of God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the Mother—the entire counterweight of those who have chosen the left-handed path and stolen the Light of the Mother to enshrine it as a way of death to be followed by the many.
Understand, therefore, that to rescue the souls from this pull and tide of the world and the mass consciousness requires pillars of eternity, the polestar, the magnet of the Central Sun, as you (as your heart, your chakras, your soul, your spirit), that when you encounter souls on the path of life and they come into your orbit, they are drawn mightily by archangels and the I AM Presence for realignment to Reality.
This, beloved, is known as the power of conversion—the power of conversion whereby I converted Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus, raising him up to be the Apostle Paul and thus giving to him also these teachings and this lesson whereby he became that magnet and became the Lord’s instrument, a converter of souls—turning around, demagnetizing them from error and evil and maya, fastening them to God by the mighty cross of Christ. This is the goal of thy striving, thy work, thy service, thy learning, thy purification, thy preparation.
Let us not be caught up in the ritual. Let us not allow the ritual to become rote. Let us not forever dally in the process itself, but understand that we are on the highway of our God. We move on! We internalize Truth. We do so quickly, for souls are caught in the downstream current and they need to be rescued.
Therefore, I come this Thanksgiving Day 1984 and I speak to you personally, spirits of the living fire, brothers and sisters of the eternal Flame of Zarathustra, Melchizedek, Helios, Seraphim of God. All saints are worshipers of the sacred fire. And in this heart, I come—I come and I call you. I call you fervently as Jesus, your brother and your loved one.
I AM the Beloved and I AM the rose of Sharon, and I ensconce myself firmly, one with your messenger. Have no fear, for I shall be—and she in me shall be—the instrument for the raising up of the nations of the earth, for doing all those things that are promised. Fear not—fear not the fulfillment of my mission through this vessel. For it is come to pass and it shall be and none shall turn it. But fear this, O soul: Fear that thou mayest miss thine own calling to also be myself.
Fear, then, that in the hour of the fulfillment of God’s holy purpose through this mission of the Mother of the World that thou might be set aback by the darkness rising from the mists of the unconscious. Fear, then, and know that this fear is the sense of the awe and the holiness of God in thy Presence eternally. And have the sense of the honor of God, trembling before the sacred fire of Sinai and knowing that in this hour the Lord thy God does require of thee the fulfillment of thy holy purpose. This is the reason for thy calling, for thy blessing, for our love to thee.
For angels have gone forth from the Keeper of the Scrolls, reading unto us, the Ascended Masters, the names of those of whom the Lord does require answer in this hour and decade and century. And to each and every one of these we have sent forth legions of Light to draw them to the fount of this wisdom, this path, and this teaching. For it is written in the Book of Life that the Lord thy God does require of thee in this hour the fulfillment of thy holy purpose and thy calling.
Thy choice to be here is the choice to fulfill a fiery destiny that cannot be delayed any longer, will not be set back! Thus the open door of opportunity is given to the world of lightbearers whose names are written in the Book of Life and to many others whose names are not written therein—that they might be converted, that they might be drawn back to the original Creator, to the Elohim, and repent and be saved and therefore fulfill the requirement to become God instead of the anti-God.
It is the hour of the Lord’s requiring of the law of thy being. Thus, in the case of those who have deified evil as an “energy veil,” the Lord God does require of them this day also that they fulfill their reason for being. Thus, there is outpictured and outplayed in their world, beloved hearts of living fire, before their very eyes, from the beginning unto the ending (as there does flash before the one drowning), the entire record of the sowing of the seeds of the flowers of evil.
And they may choose to live in the grace of God and be converted and come under the rod and the shadow of the Almighty through the I AM Presence and the Lord’s anointed and the Mother Flame and the one who holds it. And if they do not accept the conversion of the Holy Ghost and the holy angels and the holy Mother, then the requirement of the Law shall be unto them as a searing fire of judgment as they and their works must stand the trial by fire and be consumed.
Understand, beloved hearts, that the opportunity of the lightbearers to be all that they truly are is an opportunity that has a cycle and a season. And to each one it is given seven days, seven months, seven years, seven centuries. But in the end of the cycle, beloved hearts, if those unto whom the Lord has required the fulfillment of Sonship deny that Sonship, its source in the Mother and in the Father, then the Law shall require of them every jot and tittle of their karma, every jot and tittle of their evil sowing. This is the law of the ages. But in the hour of its speaking through the messenger, it becomes a physical binding—a binding of the soul to God for his liberation or the binding of the soul to God for his undoing. Understand, blessed ones, that for some the binding of the soul to God is a gross inconvenience, an uncomfortability, and they lash and they thrash. And they lash out against the great Light. Therefore, this resistance to the impelling force of Love becomes their undoing.
Is not God the keeper of His universe? Is this not God’s universe? Then does not the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, have therefore the God-freedom to determine the cycles of the appearing of His sons and daughters and to require fruits of a harvest long overdue and to deliver His people from this ongoing struggle with forces of darkness beyond their ability to overcome? Is not God in His temple through Sanat Kumara and through the hearts of His own? God, therefore, the knower of all things, does call the cycles. And happy are ye who live in the fulfillment of my age and in the inauguration of the age of the seventh angel.
Therefore, on this day, in the full knowledge and the profound awareness of the Law behind these words, I say to all entangled in karma, in the personality cult, and in the pull of the world: Come, leave your nets! I will make you fishers of men.
This is a calling directly to the heart of every student of the Ascended Masters. In Maitreya’s name I come to teach you the way of Maitreya’s path, to teach you the way of being the Mediator, as Moses is the eternal Mediator; the way of your Christ Self, as your Christ Self is the way of the eternal Mediator; the way of the Shepherd and the way of the magnet of the Central Sun—the way of being the pillar in the temple of my God (which signifies the Alpha/Omega polarity of the magnet), the way of being the instrument of the Holy Ghost that through thee none may resist my presence.
I AM Jesus, the Saviour of all men. I bring opportunity for your salvation— the true elevation of the Real Self within you—that you might be the instruments of the Saviour of all men. I ask that you discontinue to separate me from my messenger but remember that heaven is much closer than this.
You may count on my Word, not upon the outer person of anyone. You may count on my Word and the Word made flesh. And you may know that as you become the Rock and reach for “the Rock,” as it was said, “that is higher than I,” you shall also be instruments of my love.
May you recognize the calling and know that there is a cycle to leave the nets of the world and come apart. And when the calling goes forth, those who answer receive ministering angels to assist. The world must be served notice through the messenger and through yourselves in the indomitable will of God that the hour of repentance and eternal Life is at hand, that the hour of the opening of the twelve gates of the city is at hand, that the hour of Truth is come.
This dispensation is now extended to all, everywhere on earth. May they hear it through your lips and hearts, through your consciousness in stern meditation upon the Word, in unswerving concentration. May the devils tremble! And indeed, they do tremble at the sound of my footstep through ye all. And may your hearts not tremble for fear but rejoice and give a mighty shout that God shall deliver you in every instance from the tempter.
Know the Word. Know the secrets. Write them in thy heart. And then, when the devil does assail thee in the way and in the hour of the fasting and the prayer and the service, thou wilt have the answer. It is written: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” This is thy sacred trust: that all “these things,” as bread, are as naught. For the Word is Life and the Word giveth Life and the Word giveth all these things to those who require them.
No other hand shall feed thee but my own. No other hand shall teach thee. No other heart shall love thee. No other mind shall confound thee, but the Mind of Christ shall be with thee. It is the principle of the Law of the One.
I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. I deserve and desire all of thy desiring and thy love and thy life—not half, but all. When thou givest all of thyself, I give all of myself. And the Father and the Son shall live in thy temple. This means, beloved, thou shalt walk the earth no longer the Presence above thee, the Christ Self above thee; but the Father in heaven and myself, through the I AM Presence and Christ Self, shall dwell bodily within you. Until this shall occur, the Holy Spirit in the full power of the Godhead cannot come upon thee.
Thus, strive to be the Presence, to be the Christ. And listen to the inner voice that does guide thee. Before thou speakest in an ungodly manner, the Presence does warn: Refrain thy speech; it is not pleasing unto the Lord. Each act, each desiring, each contemplation of deceit or ambition as it does come from the tempter is rebuked by the Christ. Listen to the inner voice and obey, and all shall be well with thee and the bliss of God shall be upon thee. And the holy angels will see that not a hair on thy head is touched.
Be at peace in the Calling. Let those who would be tutored in the path of fishers of men fear not the Word of the Lord and fear not His Work. We have enshrined this place for the full appearing of that Word and Work in ye all. And I say full appearing. And when I say it, understand that the fullness of God has need of thousands upon thousands of instruments, each one showing a shining facet of the treasure of heaven. Thus, we assemble the mighty, the eagles, as well as the meek of the earth. Let the Word and the Work of God in you be a monument to the testimony of the Great White Brotherhood through the messengers and yourselves—a temple built without hands, eternal forever.
I behold you here and now as saints: saints Above and below. And I behold your destiny as Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood. I, Jesus, call you to become fishers of men in the full knowledge that in this thy sacred labor the requirements of thy being shall be filled. And I consecrate our messenger to tend to the hearts of those so inclined, for in this answer ye are my disciples indeed.
Let the world know that God is in the earth and He has given His power unto His own. And let His own guard the power and keep the sanctity of this face-to-face communion. Give it not to the profane, but guard it for those who come seeking entrance.
My precious friends, I speak in your very heart of hearts that you might hear me now in each heartbeat, in your very breath. Know my voice and understand. I come to change the prophecy of Fátima. I come to undo the dire predictions. I come to work through you for the saving of every soul that is gone astray.
This is a dispensation of the moment, the hour, and the decade. Work in this wise while ye have the Light. For should the dark night come to the planet, and we pray God it shall not, but should it come, in that hour my own must be safe in the arms of the Universal Mother, that they be not torn from eternal Life by any condition whatsoever.
I, Jesus, stamp the stamp of holiness upon my own across the earth. And I send forth our Mother in the physical octave to bear my tidings and thine own of the joyous Word and Work of the Lord that is here. I pray and I ask every Keeper of the Flame worldwide to keep the strong flame of faith, protection, and freedom as she is sent forth to touch those souls and bring them Home. And in that hour thou shalt rejoice, for thou shalt know and recognize dear hearts long lost, long since forgotten. Truly it is the harvest, and we gather the wheat.
Truly it is also the harvest; expect, then, the harvesting of the tares of consciousness. Expect to cast into the fire the unsuccessful experiments of thy soul in the Matter cosmos. Cast them into the flame with the joy of non-attachment, knowing that the essence of God’s Light so misused does immediately return for thy building of the new spirit in Christ born again after the flame of Eternity.
Brothers and sisters of the sacred fire, I have come this day to send fire on the earth. I have spoken to you my message of joy and thanksgiving. Now I charge you to keep the flame of this God-government, to pray earnestly for the freeing of your president, for the binding of the forces that would control him through the Order, through all other conspiratorial organizations seeking to amass world power. Pray for his strength and independence by the holy angels every day, that right decision might be manifest without fear and without harm to him.
Let him be encouraged by your calls and by your letters to stand for the right and fulfill the highest goals. He also is a chalice, as every man and woman is a chalice. Protect the chalice, fill it with Light, and each one may be seen a better and more loyal servant. Prayer maketh the difference.
Come now, fishers of men, for there are many ways to catch souls into the net of God. It is a divine net. And each one must come because he savors the offering and is drawn by that special sweetness, that special preparation of your heart with my heart. We two walking together—behold, let us convert the world!
I AM with you always, even unto the end of this state of world consciousness and unrest. And truly, beloved, it shall end! The question is when. The answer from you will determine and make the difference.
Come unto me, ye who labor and are heavy laden. My burden is Light. My yoke is easy.
Come, disciples of the eternal Word. Come, leave your nets. I will make you fishers of men. We shall convert a world!
In the name of the Mother, I AM come. In the name of the heart of the Mother, I AM come. In the name of the life, the mind, the soul, and the purity of the Mother, I AM come.
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This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1984, at the Royal Teton Ranch, North, near Livingston, Montana. As a preface to the dictation, the messenger read Exodus 33 and 34.
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