Why, then, have men become stripped of their God-identity? Why have they entered into a state of consciousness whereby they no longer retain or hold the powers of heaven? Simply because they have let human thinking interfere with the action of the divine plan manifesting through them.
It is of little import why they have done this, ladies and gentlemen, for there are many reasons why mankind either elect to do wrong or act in ignorance. But when an individual realizes that the action of error is not the action of God manifesting in his world—when he recognizes that it is a human force that is acting, the pressures of the mass mind and the accumulations of human discord—then is he able to declare, “I do not want it!” And by rejecting human consciousness, the individual opens the doorway of his God consciousness, which henceforth and forevermore “no man can shut”1 save himself should he elect to look back upon the house of bondage from which, by the grace of God, he has been delivered.
When I speak of rejecting the human consciousness, I am referring, beloved ones, not to love or the benign qualities of friendship, the ritual of friendship and happiness or any of the glories of the flowers or the sunlight, the stars, the moon or all the beautiful things with which earth is endowed by God. All of these things are God’s, albeit to enjoy them forever you ought to accept the fullness of your Presence. I am referring not to those things.
I am referring to the pressures of human discord that create a sense of struggle in the worlds of individuals until they feel the need to exalt their individual selves—the personal aspects of the in-duality of God (the personal in-divided duality of God)—and exalt that above one another. But in the pressures of self-seeking, they are not truly happy. For what happiness they find, beloved ones, is momentary and it vanishes; and it is no more. They remain unsatisfied and their urges are a bottomless pit into which they daily fall. For they are ever thirsting but never finding the waters of Life. All of this is wholly unnecessary. Let me assure you that it is unnecessary!
Beloved ones, I have found the fabled fountain of youth for which Ponce de León and others have sought, and I think that I AM an ascended being. “I think,” and in the words of Descartes, “therefore, I AM!”2
I AM! What does that mean to you, beloved ones? Does it mean a revelation concerning your own being? Can you, therefore, declare and know that forever you are, that you exist? I can! And, beloved ones, you can too if you will only realize that the only way to immortality is to outpicture the Divinity.
I do not care what type of human free will you may use. If you make your free will human, you are not outpicturing the will of God. And you cannot continue to live by human will. For cosmic law has decreed that human will must continually and ceaselessly terminate its manifestation in order that the supreme purpose of bringing to mankind the blessings of the eternal will of God might be achieved, thereby setting in motion the procession of their eternal redemption and ascension in the light.
The will of God is perfect. And it is perfect not only for me, but also it is perfect for you. It is the flame of infinite freedom, the compassion of a father for a recalcitrant and prodigal generation—a prodigal generation that has chosen, either ignorantly or in partial knowledge, to wander away from the path of perfection in vain mimicry of human foibles. And I think that is a good name for them! For they have not produced a great deal of happiness; on the contrary, they have produced a great deal of sadness, a great deal of pain and a great deal of anguish among mankind.
I am here tonight to help free mankind, by the holy flame of freedom, from all those conditions which are less than the fullness of divine perfection! I am urging upon each one of you to understand the action of the violet flame.
There are students here who for over twenty years have pursued this path and have used the violet flame. Some individuals coming into this light-knowledge may point their finger and say, “Well, you have used the violet flame for twenty years and you are not ascended yet! Why is this so?” Well, ladies and gentlemen, I choose to wink at this question, for I think you know the answer to it. Application, beloved ones, once the chela has reached a certain point upon the cosmic scale of divine measurement, is instantaneous in its manifestation.
When David Lloyd placed his hands in the hands of beloved Godfré, immediately he began to rise into the air. The white hair began to change, and the light surrounded him. This was instantaneous.3 Now, consider for a moment the period of the time during which David Lloyd continually sought the spiritual path. Consider the vigil of long hours during which he made his application. Consider the human terrors which he faced—the fears and the doubts. But he did not fail to pursue. He did not give up. He did not make the statement that he did not believe. He continued to believe, for the spark of faith was within his heart.
And I pray Almighty God that in the holy name of freedom, he will imbue you tonight with a new spark of faith and renew anyone among you who may have had secret doubts as to the existence of God or of your own immortal being and renew in you a right spirit—a spirit of acknowledgment to the Presence of Almighty God.
It is absolute folly to even consider for an instant that God does not exist. And therefore if God exists, beloved ones, and you exist, then you must stop for a moment and think that only Good could exist. And, therefore, if you would be immortal, you must use the violet transmuting flame to erase all conditions which are less than Good or less than the perfect image of that Good, God.
Sometimes I am somewhat amused at how complicated individuals choose to make a perfect thing. Let us take the smile of a baby or a twinkle of happiness within a human eye, a sunbeam or the crystalline pattern within a snowflake (these are not too complicated). You can understand the smile, you can enjoy the warmth of a ray of light, you can trace a geometrical pattern. But, O beloved ones, can you trace the infinite care of the eternal Father engraved by the fingers of light upon your soul? Can you realize the gentle pressure of the hand of love of the Eternal Potter that molds the clay and fashioned you and loved you and loves you still and always will? Then, beloved ones, you come to a hidden understanding on the instant, and you determine that nothing is going to interfere any longer with the attainment of your spiritual goal.
I do not say that you do not have earthy goals or earthly goals. I am certain that as individuals possessing an identity, you have formulated through the years many dreams of that which you would like to be or do. These dreams have changed through the passing of time. Some of them have been idle dreams, not worthy of being loomed into reality. Others of these dreams were most noble and were actually the handiwork of God, woven by the hands of the angels into your consciousness. But these have passed by and were never externalized because you were too busy doing other things, and you did not have time for them. Beloved ones, I implore you, as the hand of life moves toward the hour of twelve for each lifestream, to seize upon the precious moments of your life yet remaining in this embodiment and determine to win your ascension.
I am going to do an unusual thing tonight. I am going to ask you to pledge me your hand and heart that regardless of that which you have previously thought, you will tonight elect to demonstrate by an act of faith that you are willing to try— and I spell out this word, t-r-y—to manifest the love and God-design of your life, that you will try to attain your freedom and your ascension in the light, and that you will make every effort to carry out this vow.
Each one who stands tonight is making this pledge. I do not ask those who do not desire to make this pledge to stand. I do not ask that you shall look at one another or try to ascertain who is standing or who is sitting, for God looks at your heart. [Audience stands.]
This pledge is not made to me. It is made to God in the name of his infinite freedom, his original design. The original design of God is greater than the greatest design that any man has ever traced. And yet, each splendid design traced by man is an inspiration, an inward spiral, of the hand of God working through that lifestream.
O ladies and gentlemen of God’s own heart, I love you, each one. And I therefore call to beloved Alpha and Omega in the Great Central Sun to form and compose a blazing purple fiery heart the size of your own head and to place this beautiful, flaming purple heart—the purple heart of light— around your physical heart tonight within the framework of your body and to bring you ease and peace and comfort and the fragrance of lilacs.
I ask Alpha and Omega to saturate you with a God-feeling of eternal forgiveness that removes from your consciousness any idea that there is anything you might desire to hold against yourself for any act whatsoever that you have committed against yourself, whether of omission or commission. I ask that if you do this for yourself, that you do it for all others and forgive everyone everywhere who has ever wronged you at any time, and that you continue to walk in the spirit and grace of divine mercy.
Then let this class bid welcome to Almighty God. And as I welcome you Home and bid you welcome to this sacred flame and to a place made sacred by the thoughts and feelings of the angelic host and the ascended masters—and even by you, beloved ones, as God’s children of light—then may you all be elevated into the fullness of the eternal peace, mercy, forgiveness and comfort of God.
Then welcome God every day of this class, for only by welcoming God can you know your eternal freedom. For God is not only love, but he is also Good; and his goodness is the portion of everyone, not the portion of one alone.
If I were to reveal to you tonight the heart of this messenger and tell you all that is in his heart, you would find there a desire to see everyone upon this planet free. He shares this with all of us. And, therefore, we bless you as we bless him. And we bless the world with a very splendid vibration of the forgiveness flame released tonight in the holy name of freedom.
O thou immaculate heart of God, thou eternal One, I AM adoring thee, I AM adoring thee, I AM adoring thee! Thou, O God, hath served mankind, thy blessed Self in manifestation. Confer, then, eternal Selfhood upon all who would know thee and, knowing thee, would love thee—upon all who would love thee forever and repeat thy precious name with a just recompense. I AM.
[Audience repeats in unison, “I AM.”]
Now, children of freedom, as you go to your homes this night, commune with that great Divine Presence of life within you. Commune with it and have the courage to look your God Self in the face. Even though you may not perceive the fullness of your Presence and though it remains invisible to you, like the Sun shining in splendor behind the clouds of maya, be comforted to know that it is there, beaming upon you with its ineffable rays.
And I think that each day of this class you will mount up more and more on wings of light toward your eternal freedom. And pulsations of the freedom flame and the liberty flame will bless the earth with the glory of God.
I thank you all, each and every one, and I bid you the warmest good night!
I AM the immortal Flame of Cosmic Freedom!
I demand that all of my energies in outer concentration
submit to the great God Flame within my heart!
I demand that all outer conditions come within effective God-control!
I demand that all that is not of the Light
be transmuted and changed and that I be the fullness
of all that which I already AM!
For I AM the full perfection of God!
I AM the living Flame of Cosmic Freedom!
I AM the buoyant, dancing joy of God
that passes through my entire four lower bodies
and descends from the heart of my Presence
to give me my Freedom now!
I AM the raising power of the Spirit of light and fire
which lifts me to the victory of my ascension
and is the full-gathered momentum of victory
of the saints and ascended beings of all ages
to ascend back to the very heart of God and the
immortal consciousness thereof. So help me, God!
This decree is printed in the decree book Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness, no. 7.30.
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This dictation by Saint Germain was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet on Saturday, June 30, 1962, during the Freedom Class held in Washington, D.C.
1. John 10:7, 9; Rev. 3:8.
2. I think, therefore I am. “Je pense, donc je suis [Cogito, ergo sum].” René Descartes, Le Discours de la Méthode, 1637.
3. See Unveiled Mysteries, 3d ed., by Godfré Ray King (Chicago: Saint Germain Press, 1939). For profiles of David Lloyd and the ascended master Godfre, see The Masters and Their Retreats by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, pp. 77-79, 11-17.
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