Vol. 49 No. 36 - Beloved Paul the Venetian - September 1, 2006
A Chalice of Light
Act as God Acts, Ennoble Creation
Part 1
I will lift up mine eyes this morning unto the eternal hills of light and behold there, in the radiant concepts of divine beauty, the splendid liberty of God, which he has consecrated to the creation of those objects and manifestations which are eternally true and perfect.
As co-creators with God and as agents of his eternal perfection, man was given the stewardship of life, light and love. Everyone on earth was endowed with the immortal threefold flame, fashioned by the Deity within their heart. Everyone was given the co-equal opportunity of life, light and love, enabling all to fashion and create perfectly.
As I behold this morning the beauty of God and, by contrast, realize the squalor of human creation, I am not bowed down by an impoverished sense on behalf of Almighty God, but I am somewhat concerned with mankind’s need to learn how to create directly from the image and manifestation of God abiding eternally in the heavens.
Many of you are aware of the fact that in my embodiment recorded in history as Paolo Veronese, I was a painter of some renown,1 and some of you have seen my paintings on display in the National Gallery of Art in the city of Washington.2 But although given worldly recognition by mankind today, those works of my hands seem somewhat pitiful by contrast to the actual beauty which I beheld even then. I feel that the technique which I possessed—for which I am eternally grateful—was perhaps limited in comparison to that which I am now endowed.
Therefore, this morning I have taken the “brush” of my words in my hand to frame in your minds through the use of these symbols—inadequate though they may be—the glorious inheritance and ability which has been conferred upon each of you by the threefold flame within your hearts. For I am somewhat concerned, as I said before, that mankind should understand the difference between the destiny to which they were directed by God and the detours and pitfalls of human creation into which they have strayed. And, as a result of which, they are outpicturing something far less than the loveliness with which they were originally and immortally endowed by God. I do not come here this day to charge forth condemnation. But, rather, I would spur you on by the majesty of the eternal Presence to realize the need to gird up your minds and your beings for an eternal purpose.
“Action,” it has been said, beloved ones, “speaks louder than words.” Therefore, when mankind shall begin to act as God acts, their actions shall so ennoble the creation and so exalt themselves that those so engaged will stand among their fellows as peers and yet as Christs, as God’s man brought into manifestation. And think ye not that this is blasphemy. For the only blasphemy which mankind can perform, which is blasphemy directly against the Holy Spirit, is that which denies the design of God and the plan of God and the beauty and perfection implanted by the eternal One within the hearts of all men.
To deny the action of the perfect plan of God is to deny God. And such a denial is ever a sin, which is unpardonable so long as it endures. The moment this sin ceases to be committed, it is no longer the unpardonable sin. And since there is no vacuum in the creation, when man is not in a state of sin, he must be expressing perfection. Man then becomes in action a co-creator with God, and he manifests in part the beauty of which he is capable. I have added the words “in part” because none of us in our octaves would ever begin to think that we could manifest, even here at this particular time, all of the infinite glories of God.
There is no ultimate, as we have told you before. The transcendent and infinite glory of God ever moves onward in ascending spirals of perfection. But we can behold face to face that perfection of God which our eyes can see because they are illumined and touched by the fire of heaven, enabling us to see and perceive in the so-called invisible octaves.
Blessed ones, if your eyes were “opened” this morning, you would be able to see into our octaves as easily as I do. This expanded vision requires a special gift from heaven to be conferred upon mankind—the gift of seeing into the octaves invisible. In some cases, it would prove to be disconcerting and somewhat uncomfortable for those who do not have the full protection (perfection) of light and the full understanding of all that light can mean to them.
I AM here this morning to prepare your consciousness for a descent of the great angelic power and the radiance of Saint Germain, which shall descend during the forthcoming Freedom Class (July 1962). Although I shall not be speaking at that time, I shall attend with other great ascended beings to lend the radiance of my presence to those auspicious gatherings and to bless each meeting with the God flame of eternal liberty.
You have heard it said over and over again that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. And so I urge you not to succumb to the world of appearances. Remember, beloved ones, the appearance world is the outpicturing of men who are neither artists nor sculptors of the divine perfection of God. They are men and women who are still apprentices at learning how to be Gods. And by that I mean how to become God-like—how to sense that they belong to God. Therefore, they are lesser men only insofar as they have not yet attained the technique of using the brush or scalpel in a divine way, charged with divine love, so that they can outline upon the screen of their existence the perfection of God. Such as these are not worthy of imitation.
Therefore, you ought to imitate your own great Divine Presence, your Holy Christ Self and the immaculate pattern of God held in the mind and consciousness of the Great Silent Watcher. You ought to imitate the ascended hosts, the perfect Christ pattern of your perfection and not some lesser image.
Countless times down through history, great hosts of ascended masters have empowered a lifestream to carry the torch for us and to go forth in the arena of life to represent us. Individuals, in their wrongdoings and in their desire to do despite to the great and noble cause of God, have sought to tear down the image of our representatives and to rake them into the mud of human creation.
Beloved ones, do not gaze upon men, no matter what their station, and expect to find perfection there; then you will not be disappointed. Let your gaze be upon the perfection of God as it is manifested through the great ascended masters—through your beloved Saint Germain and those who have already made their ascension. I do not say that you ought not to love one another, to charge understanding and compassion and gratitude to one another for the blessings you receive from the hands of friends. But I also counsel you to realize that those blessings—although sometimes wrought imperfectly—are performed by the power of light through their lifestreams, and it is the light of God in all men which must be revered and loved.
I AM speaking now of individuals who are artists or musicians or who have some superior performance and culture to bring to you. If a great musician, for example, were to strike ten thousand perfect notes, men would crucify him for the performance of one imperfect note, all the while expecting mercy for themselves if they were to strike a dozen imperfect notes. This is human nature in its present state of develop ment; it is not the divine character, which forgives and assists and renders a service to the light to assist each lifestream to become more noble, more elevated and more a part of the great perfection of God.
Progress, beloved ones, is made both individually and collectively. There are those among you who lose sight of this fact and who sometimes feel they struggle alone amidst the turmoil and confusion of life. You do not struggle alone. Just as the hairs of your heads are numbered, so you are observed in your struggles, and the assistance of heaven is given, espe cially at the hour of greatest need!
And yet there are times when the gloom of human thought so discourages individuals that they, as it were, take a paintbrush dipped in black oils and smear it across the canvas of their consciousness and then search for the original picture which the fingers of God previously traced upon the canvas. A real artist would wipe his canvas clean before attempting to rework his initial drawing. Likewise, the students of light must first remove the results of wrong thinking and feeling and all human creation from consciousness with the violet transmuting flame, and then they shall perceive that the fingers of God have traced their perfection and that this perfection was worth waiting for.
I know something about patience. I have spent hours and hours in laboring to produce a perfect image upon canvas. Once before my ascension I actually produced an image which I thought to be perfect, and in a moment of frenzy I destroyed it because it appeared to me not to be the exact replica of the ideal I held in thought. The world will never see that painting because I felt it was not perfect enough. Yet, earlier in this address, I said that the work which I performed while upon earth was—by contrast with that which I AM now capable—most inferior.
O beloved ones, the liberty which God has, the liberty which your souls have to express the perfection of God, is so glorious, so wonderful, such a benign opportunity, that I can not but comment upon the fact that individuals, in the narrowness of human concepts, become bored with divine ideas. Boredom results from a lack of understanding of the divine ideas, which are ever present in infinite versatility. This state persists because mankind have not yet removed the veil which hides from their view the beautiful God-creation (a veil which they themselves have placed across the canvas of life).
Smearing paint across a beautiful canvas is an act of vandalism, beloved ones, and yet so many upon earth are guilty of this act. Because the law of karma is inexorable and cannot be broken, individuals must make recompense to the Great Law for each act which either they do ignorantly or in the full possession of their faculties of discrimination. Therefore, men can be said to be that which they are because it is that which they have perceived and envisioned.
How many times have you walked the streets and gazed upon some misshapen body, some twisted limb, some human deformity, and felt your heart go out in pity to that individual? Beloved ones, I dare say that the more sympathetic among you have often responded to these appeals with the comfort of your hearts and hands extended in brotherly love to these unfortunates. Do you think heaven turns a deaf ear to these appeals? We do not! But we turn first to the great Karmic Board and we read the record of their lifestreams. And when we perceive the reason behind it and that which is being produced because of the great karmic law, we understand why sometimes these souls cannot be delivered on an instant. In other cases, individuals can be healed instantaneously by a touch of the hand, by a prayer, by a glance, by a ray of light poured out from heaven. “Be thou made whole”3 can be spoken to them and they will respond to the great call and ever thereafter lift their eyes adoringly to their own great God Self, desiring to outpicture it among men.
Oh, that men would learn to look upon the pure image of their own divinity, and then attempt, if but feebly, the portrayal of that image among men! How often, how often do individuals declare, “I will not attend church services, I will not go here, or I will not go there because I do not wish to be a part of human strife and human misery. I do not particularly desire to mingle with people, for I feel that people are discordant.” These people are misanthropes and do not realize it. They hate men only because they hate the creation which they themselves are expressing, and because of personal shame they do not wish to fellowship with others—that thorns of another’s branches may not become caught in their own!
Beloved ones, feel free at all times to mingle with those of spiritual tendencies—those who desire to exalt life. Be happy and joyous that you can come together and assemble yourselves among men for the purpose of worshiping Almighty God and the great ascended masters.4 This is a divine spirit of liberty, which sweeps across the world and cuts people free from the briars of delusions which they have imposed upon themselves.
The world is full of myriad excuses which they give as to why they will take no interest in God. None of them are valid. None of them are real. They are all rationalizations of the human intellect and error. But you, blessed ones, have the opportunity to make calls for those lifestreams, that they may be delivered from the evil of human creation and that the paint that is smeared upon the canvas of their lives—no matter by whose hand it has been done—will be removed by the infinite power of the Holy Spirit and that there will be revealed in their lives the proud perfection of God.
You may wonder as to why I use the words “the proud perfection of God.” It is because the Spirit of God takes delight in the work of his own hands. He is joyous because of the perfection and the quality of perfection which manifests in that which he has created. This beautiful manifestation of God’s perfection is a chalice of light forever!
Continued in Part 2, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 49 no. 37.
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This dictation by Paul the Venetian was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet on Sunday, June 24, 1962, during the Sunday service held in Washington, D.C. Delivered in the early years of The Summit Lighthouse, this dictation was originally published in the booklet Spoken from on High and presents fundamental and timeless teaching of the ascended masters. In preparing this Pearls of Wisdom minimal editing was required.
1. For a profile of Paul the Venetian and his embodiment as Paolo Veronese, see The Masters and Their Retreats, by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, pp. 274-80.
2. Works of Paolo Veronese on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., include his paintings of The Annunciation, The Finding of Moses, The Martyrdom and Last Communion of Saint Lucy, Rebecca at the Well, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, and Saint Lucy and a Donor. Images of the paintings are available on the Gallery Web site: http://www.nga.gov.
3. See John 5:6, 14.
4. We worship the one God and his light. We bow before that light in the heart of all of those whom he has sent forth, as they bow to the light in us. Wherever the light is, the light is God. Therefore, we have reverence for the ascended masters and worship God within them.
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