Vol. 32 No. 61 - Beloved Kuthumi - December 13, 1989
A Thanksgiving Retreat
II
The ‘Second Coming’ of the Saints
The Process of the Assimilation of Christ
My saints, my brothers and sisters, I come to quicken in you the inner memory of a great conclave that has taken place at the Royal Teton Retreat. All [who are] of the Light of planet earth, all of the saints, the bodhisattvas, all who are of the Mystical Body of God did gather in the past twenty-four hours for communion round the Sacred Heart of Jesus. All came to acclaim him, to support him. And, of course, you also were among them.
All came, for they were profoundly moved by our Lord’s message of Thanksgiving. All desired to enhance the awakening of souls by the appearing of the Divine Image reflected from their own soul mirror <1> and yet they desired to do more and to assist.
Therefore, after much discussion and deliberation and prayer, it was the beloved Mother Mary who came and offered her suggestion that in this hour of the Second Coming of her Son Jesus all the saints should likewise enter in to their own ‘Second Coming’, <2> to appear with him, to witness unto him and his glory, and to display that portion of their own Christhood outpictured, that thereby those from every walk of life might [have] the conviction [of their own potential Christhood and] rise to acclaim the Lord and Saviour and to embrace the path of Light, to shun Evil and [with] supreme confidence in God to walk away from all prior attachments to the fallen ones, however subtle, as the subtleties of fine dust begin to reduce the vibrant colors of the garments that they wear.
So subtle, beloved, are the inroads of spiritual pride, and even intellectual barrenness that does [also] affect the soul, that those who are tied by these conditions to the malevolent forces [often do not know it. For these forces] remain in the collective unconscious of the planet and do not show themselves lest the Lightbearers who have been tricked by them should suddenly awaken [to their treachery and] see [them for what they are] and [therefore] know that [as Lightbearers] they can no longer in any way or in any wise compromise [with that state, being half in and half out].
Thus the saints who gathered responded to the Blessed Mother and said, “If we come also and show ourselves at inner levels to every lifestream upon earth to whom our Lord shall appear, perhaps by our witness [to the universality of the Christ Light] and our closer proximity to this evolution by the nature of our lesser attainment, [we] might inspire those who would otherwise reject him to embrace the Lord and [to accept his grace] that they, too, may walk all the way back to the Sun in the Saviour’s footsteps and perhaps in their own.”
Thus, beloved, you can see that in this hour the unascended members of the Great White Brotherhood have volunteered; and they have been accepted by Lord Maitreya and Gautama and Sanat Kumara to do this very thing that they have volunteered to do and, in so doing, to also assist [Archangel] Raphael and Mother Mary specifically in the rescue of souls of Light who have nigh lost all the Light that they once had. <3>
Beloved, you yourselves are a part of these bands. And I come to speak to you so that you might consciously set the sail of the mind and heart when you take your leave from your body at night and go forth [in your etheric body] while many sleep to contact them at the deepest levels of being that they might see the manifest perfection of the Christ in you while also noting that levels of imperfection remain.
Thus you have volunteered to give them heart, to give them courage, to give them the witness that though the Path be arduous, though it require a steeling of the mind and the perpetual watch that no [unkind] thought or unclean thing enter that mind, yet the rewards are infinite [and] the grace is beyond all telling. And the victory is nothing less than the statement [of your soul bonded to Christ] for that absolute God-victory on behalf of every other seed of Christ in all of cosmos.
Beloved hearts, it is, then, the advent of the ‘Second Coming’ of the disciples of the Lord Christ Jesus [and] the Lord Buddha Maitreya. See how the inspiration not alone of the [Christ, or] of the Buddha, but of many in embodiment has caused this to come about and how the uniting of the chelas of El Morya through the science of mantra, which weaves a mighty web of Light, an antahkarana, of which all are a part, has so strengthened the fabric of the Body of God in embodiment that all could come together, pulled by their own heartstrings, tugged by the Word itself.
Blessed ones, when all sing the same mantra and recite [in unison] the decree of the Word there is a resonance, there are chords that are sounded that ripple across a cosmos unheard in the physical octave that require no amplification save the stupendous power of Love that does send forth the sound that never has been imitated and never will be in the physical octave.
Thus, beloved, there is indeed a strengthening of the unascended body of the Great White Brotherhood by so great an acceleration as you have created in these halls in the recent months of striving. Surely you have met the challenge. Surely you have been equal to the challenge. And surely you have demonstrated an extraordinary endurance.
All these qualities, then, become a magnet; and the Keepers of the Flame of planet earth, though separated by many miles, do make up one Central Sun Magnet that pulls the lesser soul, the weaker soul, or even the lesser and weaker elements of some who are a part of it into that nucleus of sacred fire that does make the weak places strong and the lesser places greater. <4>
I AM Kuthumi, brother and friend and disciple of Jesus. I am grateful to bear the Omega half of the Divine Whole of our office as World Teachers, and therefore I provide the anchoring in the world of form of the sound of the Saviour.
Beloved hearts, the magnificent voice of our Jesus as he does sing to souls far and near the song of salvation, the hymn of healing, the prayer that conveys the power of the will of God must surely touch the hearts of the universal creation; for our Saviour does sing to his own in a beautiful tenor voice.
Thus, beloved, I accompany him on my organ at Shigatse <5> and in other places; and we two do convey many precepts of the Law and the Teaching by sound and chord and harmony, amplifying the Alpha/Omega of the World Teachers. And thereby we summon you to also be world teachers in the Spirit, in the Matter, in the Father, in the Mother–in the intense fiery action and intensity of the yang and in the extending forth of that sacred fire in the yin.
Understand that you may also provide that polarity as you go forth two by two <6> spreading the Teachings of the Ascended Masters throughout the world. And if this be not the season for going forth in the physical octave, I tell you it is doubly the season for going forth in the etheric–first to witness to [the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and] the ‘Second Advent’ of the saints of God themselves (as Christ has come into their temple and as they appear unto the full flowering of that Christhood) and second, of course, to teach the path of the “how to” and the [“why and the] wherefore” and the ultimate goal of the victory of the ascension.
Therefore go forth nightly two by two. Let your partner be assigned from the Royal Teton Retreat, beloved. You may find yourself working with dearest friends of old from whom you have been separated for many long millennia, going forth [together once again] to preach the teaching of Maitreya, of Gautama, of Dipankara, your own beloved Sanat Kumara. Remember those teachings in Quietly Comes the Buddha. <7>
Blessed ones, many have desired to remember what we and others of our bands teach you in the retreats of the Great White Brotherhood. I will give you a key, and that key is this: By studying and learning and being able to convey intelligently and in an organized way the body of teaching already released to you, you create a golden filigree grid of Light in the mind. And into [the chalice of] this abundant and rich awareness, organized in the outer [mind], there can descend [from the Higher Mental Body, i.e., the Christ Mind,] flames of wisdom [and] an unfolding of the flowers that you yourselves have perfected by thought and by meditation.
Familiarity with the scriptures of the West and those of the East deemed important for your edification by the Messengers [and presented] under our direction provides you not only with a grounding and an understanding but [also with] an entree into higher realms, even as you would approach the Tushita heaven. <8> This heaven-world is on the twelfth plane of the etheric octave. Only Bodhisattvas may enter there.
But, beloved, you are becoming Bodhisattvas; and each step of the way of your integration with Cosmic Christ illumination, [as you are] being very specific in your learning of these steps, brings you closer to being able to contain the great compassion, the love and the kindness–[yea,] the fearless compassion [and] the virya <9> of Maitreya.
Do you see, beloved, how illumination as a studied thing becomes a magnificent chalice for Love? One loves, beloved, because one knows.
O the wondrous teaching of God! O how it does put all things in place and engender peacefulness, contentment, a sense of the owning of one’s soul and of close proximity to the Holy Christ Self. Beloved, having this teaching and [self-]knowledge enables one to understand what one is lacking.
The filling in of the blanks, the blank spaces of self-knowledge and of the Path, is your nightly work in the etheric retreats of the Great White Brotherhood. <10> And you can anticipate the missing cipher as though you were working on a cosmic jigsaw puzzle; [and] when that [singular] thought of the Mind of God comes filtering through to the outer mind you know it is correct because it fits in all angles, like the missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle.
You have magnetized it and you have known, as though by algebraic formula, that the missing piece of knowledge must have thus and such dimensions and qualities and weight and light; [by knowing what you know and sensing what you don’t, you can predict the missing piece]. By that knowing, beloved, and by that concentration on that knowing, you are beginning to probe the higher octaves of the heaven-world, those planes to which you ascend when you have fulfilled all of the Law in each [lower] level.
Why not, then, ask to be taken through each of the levels of the etheric plane, beginning with the very first, even as Jesus asked to be given the first steps at Luxor? <11> As a child reviewing his ABC’s, why not stay and tarry in that first [level of] the etheric plane until you see [that you have mastered] all that is required in that [level]? [Then] you may [be invited to] join Ascended Masters, who teach chelas [studying] between embodiments [in that first level], preparing them for their next [round of] service [on earth].
Thus you see, beloved, there are places to which you may go in your finer bodies, even in this hour, as you mesh with your Holy Christ Self, where you may appear as advanced students and even adepts to those unascended lifestreams of earth who have had no training whatsoever on the Path. It is well to understand this, beloved, for it does give you encouragement as in each successive plane of the etheric octave the courses become more difficult and require more preparation for you to master and [thus] rise to the level of teacher [on] that [plane].
These are goals, beloved, that are attainable. These are our goals for Summit University [students], for our staff [and] for all Keepers of the Flame throughout the world. You can place an emphasis on learning [in your life if you will].
I tell you, beloved, [when you come to] my retreat you will find brothers and sisters of the Golden Robe <12> walking up and down the great halls, the courtyards and the pathways with book in hand reciting their prayers or going over the scriptural teachings of East and West. They review, beloved, what we have dictated through the Messengers, that which is published and that which is not; for we do have a complete library.
And by studying [what has been given to students in embodiment in this century], they come to understand what Hierarchy perceives to be the needs of the Lightbearers of earth and [especially of] those desiring to enter in [to an earnest discipleship under the World Teachers]. Thus they know what they must know and what they must emphasize in their own study in order to be able to assist those souls who come our way every day for assistance and training and a further acceleration on the Path.
You see, beloved, to these brothers and sisters of the Golden Robe there are no idle thoughts or words or moments or feelings; for they are looking straight to the goal of becoming Bodhisattvas under Maitreya and rising to the twelfth plane. May you also know that the key to the Second Ray is the continual internalization of the Word and the Work, the Alpha, the Omega, of the Cosmic Christ. It is the continual eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood of the Son of God that [these brothers and sisters] might have life and more life and more life <13> [in them] until by the process of assimilation they are all of that oneness in Christ.
These earnest ones see the plight of those who are ignorant [of the fundamentals of the Law and the Path] and [yet] are so often proud in the little bit of knowledge that they do have. And they see how in time of trouble, in time of karma descending these souls do have not the keenness of mind [nor] the orderliness of the compartments of the mind whereby they may draw upon profound truths, examples in the life of Maitreya and his students, the Psalms and even, beloved, the plays of Francis Bacon [credited to William] Shakespeare. [Simply put,] there is a body of knowledge that must be assimilated for one to be considered an accomplished chela on the Second Ray.
On earth you find the bombardment of the mind by this anti-knowledge, this anti-wisdom coming through the television, which devours the hours and the Light and the energy of an entire civilization and lifewave, giving them nothing!–not an iota of self-awareness in God or the faintest idea of how to attain it or even the understanding that this is the goal of life and the reason for being.
To counteract the mass consciousness that is conveyed electronically on the planet, these devotees seek to expand the mind and the crown chakra, to feel the burning [in] the crown by the raising of the sacred fire [and] to hold that Light in the heart as a mighty chalice of Love that can rise and pulsate and transmit to a world by the heart and the crown chakra what is the wisdom of God.
What is “The Wisdom of God”? A mighty book lost; <14> yet it was read by Jesus and known by him. “The Wisdom of God” has been written down by Enoch and other great ones who have lived at Shamballa, both on the physical [plane] and in the etheric octave, to which the retreat was withdrawn. The great sage Manjushri, who serves with Maitreya, is one to whom you can appeal, in addition to ourselves, for the expanding of the capacity of the mind to retain the wisdom of God and to apply it in the hour of greatest need.
If you know nothing and the mind is flabby and you do not read and study, I tell you, beloved, you will have nothing to fall back upon when the Tempter comes. As Jesus quoted scripture to Satan and as Job was well versed in the promises of God and in the path of initiation, <15> so both of these sons passed their tests.
And of course, beloved, all who are in heaven have passed their tests; for they knew how to rebuke the fallen ones by the recitation of the Law. As advocates before the bar, standing at the line where Light and Darkness meet, they did extricate themselves by the recitation of the Law, which confounded the fallen ones whereby they had nothing more to say before such a clear understanding of the laws governing the protection and the perfectionment of the soul on her homeward course.
Meditating upon the law of God, therefore, and loving the law of God with all your heart and soul and mind, <16> this, my beloved, is the key to bringing forth awarenesses and memories and insights and even our counseling, [which we have given along with varied] experiences in our retreats in the etheric octave.
Beloved, I have personally counseled all of you in recent months, every Keeper of the Flame, every student of the Ascended Masters who does study the Pearls of Wisdom or who has called to us for help. I have had lengthy sessions with every one of you and therefore some have remembered. Others have had the input of the Messenger to trigger the formulas that I have placed in the mind, and suddenly the awareness has come and the density of a decade or a century has been pierced! And you have seen, lo, the plight of the soul in its ignorance and conceit and you have said, “I will have none of it! I will move on. I will not be tricked.”
Blessed ones, in the terms in which you have communicated your self-discoveries in your confession letters, there is much evidence that you have studied the Law and the Teaching and that you can begin to see yourself and analyze yourself against the backdrop of the teaching that you have assimilated and by the very power of your decree momentum. That decree momentum does provide to you grace and the graciousness of God that through his emissaries does often supply you with illumination that you have not yet acquired on your own.
So, my beloved, the grace of the will of God be upon you! The piercing Light of the dawn of illumination of your selfhood below and above be upon you. And the all-suffusing Love-radiance of all of us who have achieved that union, that synthesis of the self in God, enfold you now.
I pray that on the morrow you shall use one of Saint Germain’s Heart Meditations. <17> For what is always needful, beloved, is that the warriors of the spirit who invoke the blue lightning of God in defense of their planetary systems withdraw to the secret chamber of the heart to reap the reward of their victories on the battlefield, and yours are many.
And that reward, beloved, is an expanded threefold flame; for you do forge portions of your God-identity in the service you render in this court of King Arthur. Know, then, that as an advocate in your behalf before the Trinity I have come to tell you that you have earned the expansion and the balancing of the threefold flame in certain measure. But you must claim it! You must enter into adoration’s spiral.
Beloved hearts, I will tell you the cure for unnecessary chatter. It is the meditation on Love that leaves one in the unspeakable joy, truly the speechlessness one has before the angels of Love as they surround one, as they come from the Maha Chohan.
O let us take our mantras of Love, for they carry you within to the heart of hearts of your Christ Self. You are not so far removed from congruency with the heart of your Holy Christ Self [at times for] moments and [now and then for] extended periods. Only [your] attention [directed from your] heart [chakra here] below to the heart of Christ and the heart of your I AM Presence [will allow] the filling of the cup [with] the warmth of Love and a cosmos so vast–[a cup] filled with beings of God, extensions of the Creator in the Great Central Sun that sustain that Love and in it all universes.
Only Love can sustain a physical cosmos, beloved. Only Love can prevent personal and planetary cataclysm. Only Love can bring forth the wonders of creation. Love, then, enables us to find the within, to contemplate all of this [in the within, thence] to extend ourselves into this universal creation. Meditate on a star and be there. By the Love in your heart you can be. This is the substance of God that you can touch. Every tree and plant and the harvest that you have brought, this is tangible Love.
Know, then, beloved, that into the presence of this Love comes the very projection of Death and Hell against your soul. And when you are in the imperfected state all of these things assail you, [and not] until you become perfected [do they cease]. If you do not read about Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ and all that was hurled against them by the sinister force, <18> then you may become burdened by a sense of guilt at the [seeming] filthiness of your own consciousness and [you may] accept the lie of the fallen ones [that enters the mind through aggressive mental suggestion, seemingly your own human reason,] that you are a miserable creature and can never rise.
Be up and doing, beloved, and remember what the saints have passed through, what you have passed through. Do not accept the projections of the misuses of the sacred fire in any of your chakras as originating in yourself; for though you may have certain vulnerabilities in the untransmuted self, the overwhelming momentum comes out of the pits of Death and Hell and from the fallen ones that are sent to attack you.
You are in the midst of your trials and temptations. You are in the midst of having these serpents come before you with their aggressive mental suggestion. If you wait for them to appear, as [it so often happens] in the narratives of scriptures, beloved, you will miss them; for they will have already overtaken you. They are there, beloved, and when you reach the heights of Love they will shout their profanities and their blasphemies and [project their obscenities] before you [to] manipulate, if they could, [not only your souls but] your very bodies.
Be the victors, beloved, once and for all. Do not stand for it! Shout to the full capacity of your lungs to Almighty God! And shout the call for the binding of these fallen ones. I tell you, beloved, the fight must be fought. The battle must be won. It must be engaged!
If you are too spread, “too yin,” as they say, you will attenuate the battle for centuries and never get on with focusing the fire of the crystal of the heart. Those who would be the spiritual victors must find that quality of the spirit that is called “yang” and remain on that side of the spectrum. It is dangerous to allow yourself to contain the full yinness of the Divine Mother while you are yet in time and space and not perfected; for you leave yourself open.
Thus, have the spiritual fire and the sternness that you see in the Ascended Masters and keep yourselves poised to bind whatever may come across your path to attack the mind, to compromise your honor, or to take you down into those depths of despair and self-belittlement. Enough of this, beloved! You have the ability, the teaching, and the way to conquer.
Therefore, I invite you to Kashmir. I invite you to the temple of the [Order of the] Brothers and Sisters of the Golden Robe. I desire to see you become as Franciscan monks and the sisters of Clare in meditation upon the Word of God and his Law day and night <19> so that [you will develop] the steel-like mind [that] nothing can enter. Therefore you will not be defeated.
Blessed ones, think about the backsliding, the mistakes and the failures. Did they not begin with an idea that entered the mind that was not of God, yet an idea that tantalized you, entranced you? And by reason of carnal logic and ignorance you followed it. There are traps laid for every type of consciousness and mind. The one who is centered in the sacred fire will not be set aside by any.
Know the Law. Know the Word. Build a chalice of the Second Ray for your compassionate heart. Resolve to pass your tests and do not weary in this intensity of the spirit. By it we have all won our victory. There is no other way.
But I tell you, beloved, this way is more than fun, it is joy. More than human frivolousness, it is joy! It is unending joy, not in the giddiness of the yinness of folly itself but in the supreme presence of owning oneself. This is the laughter of God and not of mere mortals at play.
I AM Kuthumi and my joy in seeing you is full. I seal you this night. I touch the crown chakra. I bid you return on the morrow to claim the reward of the expanded threefold flame, to fulfill your labors, and to welcome the glorious Elohim Cyclopea.
With Jesus I am with you as you go forth two by two this night. May you witness to the enemies of the Light and to the friends of the Light, to those you have not seen in centuries. May you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have spoken to and given the Law to all you have ever known on this planet and therefore satisfied your longing to give what you have to others.
You will learn at the beginning how much you do not know. You will return from a night’s work to study more, to answer and to be able to answer all of the questions posed. Thus you will have a greater need for knowledge by seeing the needs of others who listen to your testimony. And when the fallen ones listen, beloved, they will come as sophists with their logic to poke holes in your statements. You will come back to study that you might have an answer for every serpentine lie, every [stratagem] of Darkness.
I AM Kuthumi and I AM with you always, even unto the end of the age of Pisces.
This dictation by Kuthumi was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet at the conclusion of the Saturday evening service, November 25, 1989, during the five-day conference A Thanksgiving Retreat held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. [N.B. Bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Kuthumi’s direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
1. See vol. 32 no. 60, pp. 765, 775.
2. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 1984 PoW, Book I, Introduction I, hardbound volume, pp. 11-27, 49-51.
3. See vol. 32 no. 24, pp. 263-65; no. 33, p. 478.
4. The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Isa. 40:4; Luke 3:5.
10. See vol. 32 no. 22, p. 250 n. 7.
11. See Serapis Bey, Dossier on the Ascension, p. 33.
12. See vol. 32 no. 5, p. 39 n. 5; glossary in Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 366.
16. Deut. 6:5; 11:1; Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27.
17. See vol. 32 no. 52, p. 682 n. 7.
18. The temptations of Gautama, Jesus and the chela. See vol. 32 no. 30, pp. 431-45.
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