Vol. 31 No. 83 - Beloved Jesus Christ - December 4, 1988
The Zeal of My House
Thanksgiving Day Address 1988
Keep the Flame of the Ark of the Covenant Blazing upon This Altar!
Hail to the Light of the holy ones of God here below who do reflect the Holy One of God above!
O Thou I AM THAT I AM, reveal thyself now in this form. Reveal thyself that all might know that the Lord God [the Mighty I AM Presence] has shone upon his own in this hour and he will not leave his people comfortless. For I send my Messenger before my face, saith the Lord. <1> And therefore, behold the Messenger of God and know that even as the Holy One of God above is of too pure eyes to behold iniquity, <2> so, beloved, your eyes cannot yet look, as they are of the flesh, upon the pure image of sacred fire of the I AM THAT I AM in this octave. <3>
Therefore, we send a Messenger of God to earth to proclaim the coming of that Presence in ye all. Therefore, while ye have that one with you, may you know the inner accord of the harmony of that divinity which is the Real Self above and recognize that it is a sign, even a signet unto the people of God that God does also dwell in your midst in this hour when, beloved, you must fulfill all things, all things of the Great Law, all things of the karmic condition and [when] all does come to bear upon the center of self as the coils of cause and effect infold, recoil and bring back to every point upon the aura, the electromagnetic field, [and] the four lower bodies that which has been sent forth.
Thus, people speak of pressure and they speak of stress. Let it be known, beloved, that this is returning personal karma though you may identify it as condition and circumstance or the result of another’s hand.
Let it be known this day, beloved, that the violet flame raised up within you by love and by adoration is able to give you that sheath and armour, purple vein wherewith to consume that which comes from without and that which would erupt from within. Thus, the insulation of the violet flame as the additional skin of self, as an armour of substance as though metallic, impervious, out of the heaven-world, does give to you the soothing comfort of perpetual transmutation.
But, beloved, only that violet flame which is called forth in utter adoration and obedience to the inner Christ, to the Universal One, to the Holy One of God, the I AM THAT I AM, can afford you the living presence of the swaddling garment, as it were, of the God of the Seventh Ray.
Blessed ones, let Love endow every word and syllable. Let the attention flow to the heart of your I AM Presence and to my beloved Saint Germain, to Portia, to the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood.
I fear lest you adopt the ways of the rote performance of ritual of mechanization man! I fear lest you take for granted the staff that is placed in the hand of the Messenger! It is a spiritual staff of which the one she does hold is outer sign and symbol. Therefore, let the rod of the Law be a comfort to my people! Let angels comfort you. And may you know, beloved, that it is an hour of O so close communion!
How I would desire to speak to you each week were you to find it possible to journey to this place. Blessed ones, we have much to accomplish ere this altar no longer serve us. I bid you decide in counsel with one another whether you will come here on the Sabbath, [which] we celebrate on Sunday, whether you will come to this place in full force that I, Jesus, might impart to you moment by moment of increment of sacred fire whereby those conditions within which resist the Light and those without may be broken.
It is urgent that the soul be prepared for union with God. How shall the soul provide a vessel unless I come to you day unto day unto day? Yet I do not condemn. I do not force. I do not compel. I do not love you less for any thing. But I would that I could love you more by your very physical presence. Is it not my physical presence in this Messenger as you see me in this very moment–is it not this congruency that you also desire even with your Holy Christ Self?
Yea, they are baptized once in a lifetime, dipped in water. The ceremony then is complete. I tell you, I would baptize you daily in the water of Life, in the living Word, in that which flows from the I AM Presence, beloved, that crystal-clear stream. I would be the instrument to you.
Come unto me, all ye who labor, all ye who are weary: I shall give you rest as restoration and re-creation and a re-infiring of the cells and the molecules of life and [of the] life-force within you.
Thus, beloved, while my Messenger is with you I can for you do many things. And if you forget and if you neglect so great an opportunity, beloved, then how can heaven help you? How can I deliver to you that intensity of fire of my heart that I would transmit?
O let the holy ones of God come forth and let those, then, who are possessed of those wandering demons that come after the Light be stayed. Let them not come hither, for they must be cleansed of these foul spirits by their own application unto the Law which they have once violated.
The Law, then, in this hour, beloved, is a dispensation that is not wide but narrow. And it does provide for those who desire to be the pure in heart and are the pure in heart and see, then, that there is a crack in the door where the dazzling fire of the Presence does tell that there is beyond that door, that barrier of karma, truly the entering in.
Thus, my beloved, I would draw you close to my heart. I would remind and confirm for you all words and statements ever made by the Brotherhood, especially in these several years, concerning the prophecy of coming events, including the delivery of our sermons, our Stump messages, yes, even the concept of the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness.
Will you not broaden your understanding to know that a revolution is indeed required not alone in every heart but throughout the planetary body–that the kingdoms of this world might truly be in physical manifestation the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ?
So Maitreya does live and so he does walk in your midst. Fear not, grumble not, worry not. Do not enter into a doomsday consciousness but recognize there has never been a moment in your personal history, and I speak to everyone here, to all Lightbearers of the world, to all Keepers of the Flame, when you could so intensify the inner coil of being!
I cry to you, beloved, that you do not perceive [the jeopardy] in the hour of the descent of your karma and the dark night of the soul! <4> And therefore I come with a Light to lighten the very cave of your world that you might see and know that that karma shall pass but not without heroic effort and heroic measures.
Blessed ones, the door is cracked. I, Jesus, may open it to you. Therefore, be long-suffering with your own soul, but do not allow your soul to suffer or to be surfeited whether in pleasure or pain. Mount up as with eagle wings. <5> Mount the fiery coil of being and desire more Light than you have and know that it is that Light that will quench the Darkness.
Let the zeal of my house, then, come upon you in this hour! Let the zeal of the Holy Spirit come upon you! <6>
I, Jesus, tell you that that zeal which I give to you is of the fire of the Sun. And though you may not have noticed, beloved, I have journeyed to the very Central Sun this week, there to fetch that fire of the Lord God that my own in the earth might have from me and from my own heart even a quickening, even a fervor–even seeing in my Presence and aura this day something you have never seen before, even the fires dripping from the altars of that very center of a spiritual Cosmos.
I, therefore, bring you tidings of Alpha and Omega. I bring you the presence of ring upon ring of seraphim of God to shake you awake! O I would to God you would understand how so great a salvation is at hand, how it is offered to you and how the Darkness that does descend does allow you to again and again and again so indulge these worn-out grooves of karmic consciousness!
Therefore, I say again of you, beloved: “Father, Mother, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” <7> Yet, beloved, how long may I say this prayer of the enlightened ones who have been told and told again and yet in the hour of the descent of the very density of karma are enveloped by it and do enter even its degradation and, beloved, [this] after so long, so long being a part of this holy communion [the dictations of the Ascended Masters by the Holy Spirit] that we share.
Thus, my beloved, let it be known unto you this day that I, Jesus, have implored before Alpha and Omega [that they might] give me that fire whereby in the zeal of the Lord [the Mighty I AM Presence] and by the fire of that Presence with you, you should come to know the means and the wherewithal to endure spiritually and to be endued and empowered from on high <8> as our Messenger has been by my hand in this very week.
Blessed ones, so know the Lord. So know that some must qualify. And, beloved, thank God–thank God that one called is yet here; for I tell you, the hour of the dark night of the soul for you, each one, must be met: and that hour is now! And you may either weep and wail and depart and be divided and allow all of the venting of the anger in the subconscious or you may come and bend the knee and kneel before the altar and fasten yourself to the Flame of sacred fire burning thereon.
Blessed ones, that dark night of the descent of karma must come, for if it come not you cannot endure nor the Light [of the Universal Christ consciousness] nor the Dark Night of the Spirit, [i.e., the absence of the Light], that shall come upon this planet ere the New Day shall appear.
And for the record, may you understand that the dark night of the soul is the period when the soul does groan in travail with her own karma, and it is meet. And in that hour you have reinforcement of angels and saints, myself and Ascended Masters and Cosmic Beings. It is an hour when you keep tethered to the Law; and if you do, beloved, you may be saved by the very Law that does demand [that] you right all wrong against that Law.
Thus, beloved, this path is known, the path of karma balanced by fervent hearts who have willed, who have determined to slay inordinate desire. For by this and this alone shall you suffer calamity.
Thus, beloved, take to heart the teachings of the Buddha, of Maitreya. And let all of thy desiring be this: to pass beyond those karmic conditions which at any moment by the condition of planetary, solar and galactic karma could sweep you from the very center of your First and Best Love.
So having passed this dark night of the soul, as ye all have observed the Messenger pass through in the long years of this service, so you come to the hour when you must have internalized that Christ and you must be able to sustain that momentum of Christhood. [This initiation of the Cosmic Christ is called the Dark Night of the Spirit.] And this is the eclipse of the Sun of the I AM Presence. And it does come about, beloved, precisely under the conditions in which you find yourselves upon this planet: the astral sea rising, <9> the outpouring [from the pit that is opened <10>] and the spewing of the astral consciousness, and you here below in physical embodiment.
And therefore, the astral plane does present that separation between the externalized self-mastery and the I AM Presence. And if there be no self-mastery for want of love of Christ and of me, your own Beloved, then in the Dark Night of the Spirit, beloved, you are cut off and it is the dark night when none may extend that hand, for your opportunity has been given to manifest a Light that never shone on land or sea. <11>
Thus understand, beloved, work while ye have the Light. <12> Work on your karma! Work on your zeal! Be not satisfied with your mediocrity! Work while you have a physical hand extended to you and know that that hand is the best hand we can offer you. And therefore, by that sustaining Love you may receive that imparting and that reigniting of the Word.
And there be some among you–and do not say, “Is it I, Lord?”–who have scarcely a divine spark to sustain you. And yet you walk as the proud, as though by some prior heredity you are a favorite son, with no sense of co-measurement of the dire need of the soul to magnify the Lord, [the Mighty I AM Presence, in your members] as Mother, as Trinity in the heart–to expand and fan that fire by Love and Service, looking neither to the right nor to the left but giving and giving. For the Lord, the Holy Spirit, does attend you, even your beloved Maha Chohan, to breathe upon you again the breath of life, to fan that divine spark that it burst into a Threefold Flame once again.
Blessed ones, we speak not to cause you pain, but pain you shall have if you are not awakened! It is not the hours of service that I speak of, but the quality of heart and what does occupy the mind, what does occupy the feeling world, what are the true desires that compel you to lesser stars and to cast your anchor into the astral sea instead of into the infinite to catch a star of God’s own destiny.
Therefore, I, Jesus, have done what I could do in the ultimate sense of my imploring, for it is to the Lightbearers, every one upon this planet, that I come this day. I come in a Divine Visitation and as I implore you, my Electronic Presence is before each and every one who does bear Light, who is of Alpha’s seed, who does have a Threefold Flame, or once had it and allowed it to go out by neglect.
I stand before each and every one whose names have been read by the Keeper of the Scrolls there in the great throne room before me and before Alpha and Omega. And in answer to my imploring, beloved, so our Father, our Mother have sent me to you and to those upon this planet to whom the agenda of Alpha is open <13> and all who have recourse to the Central Sun through the blessed heart of Mary, my Mother, through the heart of Kuan Yin, through the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood. And I trust they also have recourse to that heart through your own blessed heart expanded as a living fire.
Thus, observe the hierarchies of the weeks and understand the meaning of the seventy weeks <14> as seventy hierarchies of the Sun extended from the Central Sun through time and space. Thus, they define the cycles and the cycles of initiation. Thus, they deliver to the Lightbearers the test of the ten <15> in the seven outer rays of manifestation.
Seventy weeks, therefore, unto each Lightbearer is given. And what is the length of time and space? No man knoweth, for the cycles are shortened for those who elect <16> to embrace them and they are lengthened unto the agony not of the true cross of Light but of the false cross of the false crucifixion of the false Christ who is Antichrist.
Therefore, by inordinate desire you may be impaled on a cross with Antichrist–but I shall not be there. And by right desire and right reckoning of the cycles you may pass every test as though in microseconds. There is no limit to God-realization except to those who yet insist upon defining [and confining] self by laws of mortality.
Thus, take the seventy weeks and see that you waste not time or space or energy. I tell you, so great is the opportunity that there is not one among the body of Lightbearers–and I count you in that body, that Mystical Body of God on planet earth–no matter what age, who could not, if he would, fulfill the mandate and the requirement of the ascension in this life.
But, beloved, the extraordinary outreaching of the soul and the heart is something that many among you have not known or understood. And those who take their backward steps away from the Flame of the ark of the covenant blazing upon this altar, those who pursue the steps of Jungian psychology or any other means as a substitute for the living fire of Christ and my Sacred Heart, I say to you, They shall not prevail! They shall not prevail. And they are the rebellious ones and clouds without water <17> who have forsaken the divine spark and will not bend the knee to receive another [divine spark], which I should gladly give by a simple demonstration of a measure of the ritual of devotion.
There be some among you who since your entering this path have indeed kindled a divine spark when you had it not. All things are possible. But when you hear of the possibility of failure, you sink back into that sense of failure instead of realizing that the possibility of Victory is present whenever it is possible to fail.
Why, then, enter the negative assessment of oneself? Why not perceive with the inner sight? Why do you see with a flesh-and-blood consciousness and therefore curse yourself to that consciousness ad infinitum?
Let the holy ones of God truly be more holy. For those who do have that flame must make more rather than less effort until the Light so shine in you that your eyes are as stars and your aura so powerful that none can deny that truly a path of Christhood is won; and therefore the lesser endowed take hope to follow in your footsteps.
Cast down the idols of your flesh-and-blood consciousness, for those whom you worship are not the living Christ. Blessed ones, worship not but adore the Light. Adore the Light and do not set on a pedestal any human being. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures. <18> Ye do err, sustaining the idolatry of self.
I come for the breaking of the pitchers. <19> I come for the breaking of the vessels that no longer serve you. I raise my staff and I say, let them be broken by the rod of fire! I, Jesus, decree it that you might come forth and stand God-free sons and daughters.
Blessed ones, be pillars of fire in the earth! Be pillars of fire in the earth, beloved, and heed the Call! Heed the Call of Light. Do not decide why you cannot be at Glastonbury in preference to anywhere else but decide how you can be there. Decide, beloved, that Community is your protection.
I AM walking through that land this day. For I would exorcise from it the demons that some of you have brought with you in your argumentation and your folly and your blindedness by energies that never ever should have passed through you. Let my rod through my Messenger disperse, then, all injustice, all that is dishonest, all that is unfair. Be willing to admit where you have wronged another. Settle your accounts. Do not defend your person but be true to me.
I, Jesus, speak to you and you know of whom and whereof I speak. And therefore, there are some who should be ashamed to stand in my Presence and there are others who have kept the Flame as saints of God.
Thus, I call you to the House of the Lord [your Mighty I AM Presence]. May you know now that Communion of my heart. May you know it, beloved.
This is, then, the last I may offer to you of the series of dictations begun in the hour of the Call to the ascension. <20> Thus, beloved, when the response is full, even full to that which I bring this day, I shall once again implore Alpha and Omega to assist you through the journey ahead and every step of the way.
Keep my Flame in this Community, beloved, for I have given more of myself than you will ever know to the very presence of my Church in this place. And it shall not be bestowed upon me that I may start anew or begin again. With Almighty God [and] all saints of heaven who have gone before you, I say: in this Community we must not fail.
Let there be not fragmentation or division, but know that your loyalty is to the Flame that burns upon the altar because the Lord God has sent to you a Messenger who is able, by his grace, to keep that Flame. And as you sustain your devotions the Flame is kept in this octave. It is a Light unto the world, beloved, and that sacred fire is your salvation in this octave.
Now let the forces of Death and Hell rage if they will, for I shall be midst my own. And let the Love bond of Gautama Buddha <21> allow all to prefer one another <22> and this holy Community before all other passions, disputes, all other claims of Darkness, all other false prophets who say, “Go here and there, for the Messenger is no longer in her temple.” I tell you, beloved, all of these most frightening claims and allegations may come, but let the true disciples of my heart who are the witnesses from the beginning unto the end of their own salvation by the grace of this dispensation keep the Flame of the ark of the covenant blazing upon this altar!
So I shall bear you witness. So I shall bear you witness: call unto me. And all who have asked for direct chastisement or initiation or soul-testing or rebuke from the Messenger, I, Jesus, will come to you. Listen for my footstep. Know my voice and know that I shall surely make known to you those conditions of consciousness or action, those desires or projects or goals which are truly not an acceptable offering to the Holy One of God, your I AM Presence.
Therefore, beloved, for the finishing of the Work, my Work, I withdraw this Messenger for a season to complete those publications while there is yet time. May you, then, implement, truly implement the Law that is given to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” as it is written, <23> for it is an hour when the whole world does fear and tremble. And you ought to have that awe before your God in the moment when the forces of Antichrist come to test and to test your soul.
Blessed ones, I AM there. I AM there in that hour and you have the wherewithal to put them to flight with a single fiat. Be alert, then, beloved, for by your Victory a world shall know a New Opportunity and a New Day. Gather in the mountain of your Mighty I AM Presence and be in the right place in the hour when his fulfillment is come.
I choose to remain with you, to be seated in your midst while Communion is served that you might know that I bless it and give it to you as substance from the altar of the Great Central Sun.
O fire of my Fire, heart of my Heart, you whom I have known forever, come into the foreverness of the everlasting arms of Alpha and Omega!
May you bring the little ones to be baptized. May you bring your hearts and tarry a moment, for I, Jesus, would surely impart myself to you.
Beloved, when the Law does require that I should withdraw from you for a little while that you in your aloneness might choose to be all that I AM, then remember, O remember, that my Fervor and my Love is waiting, waiting for your decision, that I might come close again.
For you see, beloved, there are some tests that you must pass in the aloneness of the aura and the electromagnetic field which you yourself have created. In that hour, then, I say, trust. Trust and do not forsake. Trust and remember, I AM thy brother.
I AM Jesus, thy Love, thy Perfect Love. And I AM watching from afar your Victory. O snatch it from the very teeth of the defeat of Death and Hell. Snatch your Victory, beloved! Tear it! from these fallen ones who would steal [in] in the night and steal it from you.
Blessed, all is in Divine Order for you to fulfill all things.
Do it, I say. Do it for the sake of Our Love.
This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1988, 3:15-3:59 p.m. MST, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. Available on 90-min. audiocassette B88145; on 52-min. videocassette HP88097. [N.B. Bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under the Master’s direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
1. I will send my messenger. Mal. 3:1; Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76; 7:27.
2. “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil.” Hab. 1:13.
4. Dark night of the soul and Spirit. 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 80, p. 632 n. 14.
5. Mount up with wings. Isa. 40:31.
6. Zeal of thine house. Ps. 69:9; John 2:17; Isa. 9:7; 59:17.
7. Father, forgive them. Luke 23:34.
8. Endued with power. Luke 24:49.
9. Rising astral sea. Hercules, 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 80, pp. 622-24, 625-26.
10. Bottomless pit. Rev. 9:1-12; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1-3.
11. Glory of God lights New Jerusalem. Rev. 21:23.
12. Work while ye have the Light. John 9:4, 5; 12:35.
13. Alpha’s Agenda. 1987 PoW, vol. 30 no. 38, pp. 379-94; 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 68, pp. 521-34.
14. Seventy weeks. Dan. 9:20-27.
15. Test of the ten. 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 80, p. 633 n. 24.
17. Clouds without water. Jude 12.
18. “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures.” Matt. 22:29; Mark 12:24.
19. Breaking of the pitchers. Judg. 7:16-22 (Matt. 9:16, 17; Mark 2:21, 22; Luke 5:36-38).
21. Gautama’s bonding of Love. 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 67, p. 518.
22. Prefer one another. Matt. 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21; Rom. 12:10.
23. Work out your own salvation. Phil. 2:12.
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