Vol. 47 No. 36 - Beloved Lanello - September 5, 2004
I Am a Father Who Broods over
His Children
Part 1
O my children of the earth, O my children of the heaven, I open my heart to you this night. I receive you. I receive you in all of your love and your striving to be whole. I receive you who have gone astray from the Path yet would be in it, yet know not how. I receive you who rebel against me, who if you had ever known me might not have indeed found the affection for me which you find in your hearts today.
I embrace the children of the world in all octaves, for I have long, long, long been in the earth. And as Saint Germain was wont to say as the Wonderman of Europe, I, too, am very old.1 Thus, I know the millions upon millions of souls in the earth from the vantage point of the etheric octave, the ascended master octaves, and of having been in the earth myself on every continent. Indeed, you might find my footprint on the lands of every nation. So, on the ground you find my signature, so in the star of your being.
As you have assembled this Wednesday evening to commemorate life, to adorn elemental life with violet flame, with vision and even to draw forth the pattern of the City Foursquare by the call to Cyclopea, so I am pensive. And in my pensiveness I think of those to whom I would give my hand, to whom I reach out. Yet it is not the time nor the season.
I think many of you have come to this place which is called “wisdom.” And that wisdom is, as it has been said: You can lead a horse to water; you cannot make him drink. In this, then, find consolation, as I find it, that there are always ripe souls waiting to be plucked from the orchards of life. They are there, beloved. And thus, do not be concerned of* those that are yet green, not able to be plucked. Be nonattached, then, as I am, [or] inasmuch as I can be, being the Father presence to all.
Realize, then, that God ripens the fruit and sends angels to pluck the fruit; and then the fruit itself, when partaken of, conveys a higher consciousness. The fruit of souls contains within itself that essence of light of the Holy Spirit, that essence of the becoming, the becoming one with God in the natural time of the harvest of life.
Therefore, beloved, as we look beyond the circle of fellowship of this community and listen again to the nations, the rumblings of nations, the rumblings in Moscow, Somalia, Bosnia,2 so many places, beloved, where life is chaotic, life has no center—where is the center of the living Christ? It is in the hearts of the lightbearers. And where is the center of the living Christ that is raised up, that is strong in the heart and the mind and the body? Where that Christ is, there is a rallying point for those who see and know that this is what they shall be.
So members of my staff, so beloved, have seen and have known what they will to be, what they shall be. But, above all, they have come to me with the courage of conviction of who they are here and now. Thus, in this week the Mother of the Flame, El Morya and I have accepted many and raised them up to new levels of rank in this staff and service, thereby making way for many others to come in their footsteps.
Those who have the courage to be what they know they are but do not yet entirely outpicture, these are the children of heaven. For within them there is deeply embedded that conviction that heaven is home, earth is a sojourn and all that has ever been that is real of self is unfolding, unfolding as the seasons move on and the cycles pass and as the sign of the light upon the countenance of each one does denote that through the karma yoga of service, through the action of love of the will of God, through staying power there is abuilding [that element] within the soul and the heart and the mind of many who know me and many throughout the world who know me not and yet have that courage to be—there is indeed that element that gives hope to all the stars of cosmos. And there is that presence, then, that is a magnet, magnetizing those who have the same perception of self, God, the universe and the path of life. Thus it has ever been in the sangha of the Buddha.
Thus, I come touching the seed of the Buddha within each one of you. In some it is a dormant seed that has not felt the warmth of love of your own heart’s devotion. It lies waiting. In others that seed is so buried, buried so deeply in long centuries of venturing forth in this and that way, that if you would find the seed of the Buddha within you in this life, you must make the call for it to be uncovered and for all that has covered it to be consumed by sacred fire.
This is indeed a moment of cycles turning—cycles that turn and open doors, cycles that turn and close doors. When you open a door, beloved ones, you do so by free will. And when you close a door, you close it by free will. Therefore, know that life is opportunity. Therefore, know that though you have seen in the earth strange ways and darkness and the unpredictability of nations where individual Christhood has not been taught, exemplified or magnified, that many changes unexpected are in the offing.
I tend my sheep; therefore, I keep my eye on the present and the future. My eye, with Morya’s, rests upon the members of the established governments of every nation upon earth and of states within nations and cities. Beloved hearts, you should be even more chagrined than you find yourselves before the exposés concerning Congress and the waste in government spending, et cetera.3 Should you see who are the leaders of so many nations and how far, far they are still from the heart of the Good Shepherd, you would in fact feel a certain sense of uncertainty. And at certain moments in the twenty-four-hour cycle, you, no doubt, contact pockets of anxiety of the world and, as the world’s aura affects your aura, anxiety within the self. This is understandable. Indeed, it is understandable. For, beloved, if you knew all that we knew, you would not feel as secure as you feel this day.
Where is the security in the earth? Where is permanency? Where does a man lay up treasure? Only spiritual treasure can be guaranteed as safe. So then, beloved, the security in the earth is in your oneness with your I AM Presence, your Holy Christ Self, the holy angels, the ascended masters. Security is in self-confidence—confidence that is built not on the rock of human intelligence [and] human accomplishment but upon the rock of the reality within that grows and grows and empowers, until such a light goes forth from you that you have become the beacon of our Lighthouse, you are one with that Holy Christ Self.
I pray fervently for this initiation in your behalf, the bonding of your soul to Christ, the day when Christ is comfortable within your temple twenty-four hours a day. If Christ be comfortable within your temple but one hour, I say you have tasted of the kingdom of God.
So increase this, beloved. It would be interesting for you to note in your notebooks each day how many minutes and hours you have found yourself in steady communion, in steady sensing of the Presence, knowing that Presence, becoming the Presence. Yes, beloved, you will find as you review your life that you many times sustain that consciousness longer than you realize.4
It is well, then, as you retire at night, to make the call to enter your Christ consciousness when you journey to the retreats. For this counts for your victory, counts for good karma and surely counts for the expansion of the mind of God within you whereby you can solve the problems of the day upon awakening.
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Continued in Part 2, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 47, no. 37.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
This dictation by Lanello was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Wednesday, October 6, 1993, during the seven-day conference “Prayer Vigil to Restore the T’ai Chi of Elemental Life,” held October 6 through 11, 1993, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana.
1. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the ascended master Saint Germain appeared in European courts as le Comte de Saint Germain, the “Wonderman of Europe.” Court memoirs record him as “l’homme extraordinaire .... Described as slim but well-proportioned, of medium height and with pleasant features, he had fascinating eyes which captivated the observing who chanced to study them. He wore diamonds on every finger—and on his shoe buckles.” Elizabeth Clare Prophet recounts this exchange between Saint Germain and the Countess de Georgy in 1767: “ ‘Will you have the kindness to tell me,’ said the countess... , ‘whether your father was in Venice about the year 1710?’ ‘No, Madame,’ replied the count quite unconcerned, ‘it is very much longer since I lost my father; but I myself was living in Venice at the end of the last and the beginning of this century; I had the honour to pay you court then....’ ‘Forgive me, but that is impossible; the Comte de St. Germain I knew in those days was at least 45 years old, and you, at the outside, are that age at present.’ ‘Madame,’ replied the count smiling, ‘I am very old.’ ‘But then you must be nearly 100 years old.’ ‘That is not impossible,’” the count replied. “Even after his remarkable conversation with the countess... , he did not age. Madame d’Adhémar met him in 1789. ‘It was himself in person.... Yes! With the same countenance as in 1760, while mine was covered with furrows and marks of decrepitude.’ [Such was the Comte de St. Germain]— ageless, a mystery man” (Saint Germain On Alchemy: The Science of Self-Transformation, pp. xii, xi ).
2. Rumblings in Moscow, Somalia, Bosnia. Communists riot in Moscow. In 1990, Boris Yeltsin became the first popularly elected president in Russia. He quit the Communist Party and took steps to change the government-controlled economy to a free enterprise system. But as chaos, corruption and poor living conditions increased, free-market reforms became increasingly unpopular and fueled an ongoing power struggle between the president and conservative parliament. On September 1, 1993, Yeltsin suspended an adversary, Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoi. Two days later, the Supreme Soviet (the standing legislation) rejected Yeltsin’s decree. On September 21, Yeltsin dissolved parliament and declared December parliamentary elections. Rutskoi’s supporters in the Supreme Soviet voted to depose Yeltsin and elected Rutskoi acting president.Yeltsin, September 23, announced presidential elections for June 1994. The next day, the Congress of People’s Deputies (Russia’s highest legislative body) voted to hold simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections by March 1994. Yeltsin rejected this action. By September 28, government authorities had cut off electricity, phone service and hot water to the parliament building (the Russian White House) and barricaded it. On October 1, Yeltsin’s opponents in the parliament building were joined by an estimated 600 armed protesters. The next day Rutskoi, claiming the presidency, called for people to riot against Yeltsin’s “dictatorship.” The following afternoon, armed opponents of Yeltsin marched to the White House and took over the mayoral offices. The rebels, wielding Soviet or czarist flags, stormed the government-owned and -controlled television station. In the fighting, the station went off the air and 62 people were killed. Before midnight, Interior Forces had turned back the attackers. Yeltsin’s account of the night of October 3-4 reveals how close he came to losing power. But on October 4, troops and tanks loyal to Yeltsin fired on the White House, and by the next morning the rebellion had been crushed. Yeltsin, October 5, banned opposition parties and newspapers—those of Communist or extreme nationalist views. Police reported that 187 died in the conflict and 437 were wounded.
U.S. soldiers killed in Somalia. July 1, 1960, Somalia gained independence from Britain, France and Italy. Siad Barre assumed control of the country, but by 1990 his dictatorship had collapsed. Civil war erupted as clan-based military factions competed for control, and thousands of Somalis were displaced, killed or starved. By 1992, 500,000 Somalis had died of famine and hundreds of thousands more were in danger of dying. Clan violence thwarted international relief, as thieves seized food and supplies shipped from other countries to the starving people. This led the United Nations to launch peace-keeping operations to maintain order and ensure delivery of supplies to the population. By March 1993, mass starvation in Somalia had been alleviated, but interfactional fighting continued. Foreigners were kidnapped and murdered. In June, conflict between U.N. peacekeepers and a Somali warlord escalated, with casualties rising in September. Responding to U.S. combat deaths, President Bill Clinton moved to beef up American military forces in Somalia. On October 3, three U.S. marines were killed when a remote-controlled mine blew up their vehicle in Mogadishu, the capital. Later that day a U.N. force, chiefly American, launched an air and ground attack in a crowded Mogadishu market to capture a Somali warlord and members of his faction. But U.S. forces were surprised by armed militia retaliation, and a planned 90-minute lightning strike grew into a 17-hour battle with Somali gunmen, as U.S. forces tried desperately to escape. Two Blackhawk helicopters carrying elite U.S. Army Rangers were shot down. Nineteen American soldiers, 2 Pakistanis, and a U.N. Malaysian soldier were killed and over 80 others wounded. An estimated 350 to 1,000 Somali gunmen and civilians were also believed killed. Television coverage showed Somalis interrogating a wounded U.S. Army officer and other Somalis dragging 2 dead Americans through the streets. Clinton, October 4, ordered tanks, helicopters, gunships and several hundred troops to Somalia. In March 1994, the United States withdrew from Somalia, followed by a U.N. withdrawal in 1995.
Fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In September 1993, U.N. representatives led peace negotiations to set up the former Yugoslavia as a union of three republics. Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina met on the British warship Invincible in the Adriatic Sea to discuss the plan. But, on September 1, Bosnia Muslims refused to accept the draft peace plan unless the Serbs ceded them more land and the Croats gave them access to the sea. On September 20, leaders of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina broke off negotiations. Nine days later, Bosnia’s parliament in Sarajevo also rejected the peace agreement, partly because the United States would not commit to protect the region. German and French foreign ministers offered the Serbs a plan to lift their economic sanctions in exchange for territorial concessions to the Bosnia Muslims, but the Serbs refused. International negotiators met again in December to propose another cease-fire, but it failed and fighting continued. (See Pearl of Wisdom, no. 32, p. 304 n. 3, this volume.)
3.In 1993, amid charges of “pork barrel” projects and waste in government spending, the U.S. Congress passed the 1993 Government Performance and Results Act, requiring federal agencies to show measurable results or benefits gained by the consumers of federal programs. The “Results Act” required a clear audit trail from funding to resulting activities or outputs. Media exposés and testimonies before Congress on hidden waste alleged government spending on inflated, irrelevant and frivolous projects. Allegations included massive government borrowing from the Social Security fund; bloated bureaucratic governmental departments failing to meet the needs of the hungry, homeless, ill and jobless; and taxpayer money squandered by members of Congress for pork barrel projects in their own districts and states. Martin L. Gross’s 1992 New York Times best-seller The Government Racket: Washington Waste A to Z alleged countless wasteful projects. These are a few: (1) $84,000 to find out why people fall in love, (2) $100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft, (3) $150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud, (4) $219,000 to teach college students how to watch television, and (5) $800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley.
4. Recording our Christhood. In his August 12, 1973 Pearl of Wisdom, Lanello recommended that we keep a diary called “My Christhood.” He said, “It is with ultimate victories that we are concerned—not with the skirmishes that are lost or won each hour and each day.... Sometimes when you lose in the fray, it is a lesson that needs to be learned; and a temporary loss may mean the ultimate victory, for the lesson ... gained is a measure toward perfection. And so I say, count the experiences that you have been through as the past that is prologue, and ... keep a diary... called ‘My Christhood,’ and write down each day how the flower of the Christ is appearing in your life. And when you know you have done an act in the consciousness of the Christ, write it down and leave the record for yourself, so that in those hours of darkness and moments of trial when you forget and cannot remember one good thing you have ever done because the devils are tormenting you with their lies, then read in the book of ‘My Christhood’ of how you have vanquished error and how you have overcome.”
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