Vol. 50 No. 21 - Beloved Saint Germain and Lord Maitreya - November 1, 2007
New Year’s Convocation 1963
III
Each Individual Must Open for Himself
the Door That Leads to Immortal Octaves
Part 2
Beloved ones, the parables of the Christ are so often confused by men and scarcely understood, although uttered day after day from the pulpits of the world.
I point out to you now, beloved ones, that the weaving of the garment of light enables mankind to inherit that spiritual estate of God Self-consciousness. Although this service is performed by angelic devas, it is accomplished in each man because he has desired within himself to have a release of God’s divine energy into the chalice of his own being. It is given because he has desired to see loomed* upon his own frame the eternal radiance, to see the garments of white light, which surround every ascended being, worn by himself because of the breath of immortality which is within him.
Such a one has recognized that the true science of divinity is more transcendent than the partial science of man, which is but a release of the eternal science of God. Mankind have apprehended this science in part, but only in part. They have perceived through a glass darkly, but they have not yet beheld face-to-face.1
So, beloved ones, the parables of Christ, even the parable pertaining to the wedding garment,2 must be understood by mankind. They ought to understand that their precious days and nights in physical form are given to them that they might have the opportunity to tirelessly weave this seamless garment. Thus, if they were to suddenly find themselves cut loose and free from a body temple, they would retain all about them—in the precious divine essence—the consciousness of God, the tangible garment of light, charged with the eternal radiance.
This may seem somewhat of a mystery to some of you. But if you will meditate upon it, if you will cherish my words and carry them about with you in your heart, I think that there is no one in this audience who sooner or later (and I do not speak of many years) will not come to understand to a great degree that of which I speak. And you will recognize that time is given to you in order that you might place your attention upon the light, because within the light is your freedom, and it is nowhere else!
Beloved ones, it is time, high time and past time, that the mankind of earth understand the need to place their attention upon the Great God Source, the source of their divinity. Too long has their consciousness been scattered and dissipated. It is not uncomfortable, beloved ones, to place your attention upon your source. I think if you were to analyze the vibratory action of your bodies, you would soon find that it is far less comfortable to vibrate within the human octave.
Those of us who descend to address you as I am doing this evening well understand this. For we come into an atmosphere of sincere chelas, and yet we find certain densities operative there which at times make it somewhat uncomfortable for us to speak to you with that ease and freedom in our feelings which we would have. This in no way means that we are limited. It means that the molasseslike quality of human thought resists transmutation due to error’s tenacity.
Hence, beloved ones, you ought to cherish and prefer the higher vibratory actions as we do. And I am certain that many of you, in your hearts, have long cherished the higher vibratory action of our spheres of light.
Pause now to consider, pause now to think, upon your own freedom. Mankind have been busying themselves about many things. They have busied themselves about one another in speculation of whether this or that one would make his ascension. While pondering, beloved ones, whether another soul would make his ascension, how many have thought long and diligently upon their own freedom?
When that great demonstration was made by the Christ as he stood upon Bethany’s hill,3 his physical form became so charged with light and the radiance of God that it could no longer be held by the magnetism of earth, and therefore it rose into the atmosphere. Upon that occasion, the words spoken by one of the heavenly host were “This same Jesus whom ye saw go into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go.”4
I tell you, beloved ones, that those of us who are ascended beings do come “in like manner” and manifest in many a home and fireside. We have appeared to some in dreams, to some in visions and to some tangibly. But, beloved ones, the important truth to remember is that our essence is omnipresent. You have but to invoke us, to speak our name, to utter it within the secret recesses of your mind and we are there.
“I am here and I am there” is the law of every ascended being. This law can be demonstrated by you, beloved ones. If you will but drink of our immortal consciousness, of the cup of liquid light representative of that eternal consciousness, you will find a spiritual expansion taking place within your worlds which is freedom!
Beloved ones, I ask you to think now, what is freedom? What is freedom? Is freedom human bondage?
I think not. I think freedom is God. Freedom is good. And freedom enfolds every heart.
Precious ones, as I step down the radiance of my manifestation for a moment, I desire you to recognize that I did not come here alone. [30-second pause]
The beloved angel who spoke the words “This same Jesus whom ye saw ascend...” is with me now. [8-second pause] It is his desire, on behalf of the Cosmic Christ, to pour out his radiation into the forcefield builded by the energies of the songs and decrees of the precious students who are here. I ask you, therefore, to maintain a period of silence for about one minute in order that you may absorb the energies and radiance of this magnificent angel of his Presence. [71-second pause]
I turn now to the political situation of the world with the desire to express great gratitude to the students everywhere for the decrees which they have offered so magnificently on behalf of the Cuban and Indian situations.5 Beloved ones, you do not know, and I do not believe, that you will be able—until you have made your ascension—to fully perceive the great use to which we put the energies of the students offered on behalf of the mankind of earth to protect them from the frightful consequences of a political situation seething with such unrest as has never before manifested upon this planet.
Beloved ones, warfare (and I know much about it) is not, of necessity, always self-evident. Like an iceberg, a portion of it is visible to the consciousness of mankind. But a much greater part of the hideousness of warfare is beneath the surface of human consciousness, seething with vicious hate and torment.
Well, beloved ones, the situation and peril which recently faced the people of the Americas and the world was unparalleled in the history of mankind. And I speak relative to that portion of the peril which was not visible to mankind. The fact that the tide was turned is a boon to mankind. But we would like to warn every one of the children of the light to continue to be diligent and to make their applications.
Beloved ones, this statement may seem commonplace, but it is so necessary. But you do not fail to partake of mortal food, many of you eating three times a day; and some, more. Well, I do not think, then, that there is anything wrong in our making the request that you, beloved ones, continue to diligently make application both for yourselves and for the mankind of earth. Constancy of application produces results that are unparalleled in expression.
You see, beloved ones, you are seeking to express the Divine. And therefore when you seek to express the Infinite, you must invoke infinite energies. You cannot invoke impure human energies and then expect to win your freedom. You must invoke from the heart of God the purity that comes from out the Great Central Sun.
The Great Central Sun is a magnet. It is a magnet that lifts and exalts the consciousness and draws the consciousness of mankind to itself as a lodestone of power. The thoughts and feelings of the world are a magnet as well, and they detract from the eternal radiance and pull mankind down into a seething maelstrom of despair.
Differentiation, discrimination must be practiced by the students who would win their freedom. They must reject the confusion of the mass mind and select the unity of the will of God. This is a process we carried out centuries before we won our ascension.
How many times, beloved ones, do you suppose the tempters came to us saying, “Go this way,” and we said, “No, we will not go.” Then the angel of the Presence, our Higher Self, said, “Come this way,” and we said, “We will go! This is the way we desire.”
Well, beloved ones, I know, in the case of my own lifestream, that I made over two million decisions of that nature before I won my ascension. Now, this may seem like a great number of decisions. It may seem almost as an infinite number to some of you. But I would like to call to your attention that this refers to many, many embodiments.
So, beloved ones, watch the quality of your decisions. This year watch the quality of each decision. For I tell you, beloved ones, the decisions you yourselves make determine the peace you shall have this year and for quite some time to come. For by your determinations do you shape the course of the future. And the decisions mankind make determine whether the world itself shall know peace. Be comforted, then, that the right decisions can come to you by the discriminating Christ-intelligence of your own immortal being.
Be at peace, beloved ones. You do not always need to consult with others to make your decisions. You can make your decisions directly by attuning with the heart of God. And yet, as we have constantly warned, mankind are perfectly justified in seeking knowledge from the outer providing they are willing to go to the inner to make their attunement there and recognize that the balance, the perfection of discrimination, is located within the heart of their own mighty I AM Presence.
In the name of heaven, beloved ones, the outer wisdom of the world is not a condition completely separated from God. From whence came this knowledge, which mankind cherish so highly? Was it not evolved through the centuries by a process of learning? Is it not mixed like sand and sugar, some of it exceedingly wise and some exceedingly foolish?
You must, then, seize that which is wise and forsake that which is foolish. This discrimination will produce for you an improved state of consciousness, and an improved state of consciousness will provide a conductor over which our energies may flow into your own world.
Some of you may ponder the method by which I am speaking through this beloved messenger. Well, beloved ones, I would not place your attention too much upon that. Place your attention upon the light that is pouring down through the top of your own head into your own heart to beat your own heart. This is the source of your freedom. Your freedom does not come, beloved ones, through any other outer power, nor can you obtain freedom through another’s efforts. It comes through your own mighty, beloved I AM Presence.
When you come to these meetings in unity and love to receive our radiance and blessing, it is an assistance to us and to the beloved messenger. I would compare it to a mill wheel anchored in the main stream of power where the water gently slaps the waterwheel and propels it onward. Well, beloved ones, you have to continually expose yourself to the stream of divine consciousness. But you must remember that you as an individual must intentionally journey back to the heart of your own source. And you must do it for yourselves, for another cannot do it for you.
This is one of the greatest mistakes which the students often make, the mistake of desiring to find someone else to conduct them directly to the heart of God. This is well and good, beloved ones, insofar as the so-called guru and disciple relationship is concerned. This is well and good insofar as ascended beings are concerned.
We are willing to render you assistance, as we explained to you. We are willing to give you a pat on the back, a friendly helping hand. But, beloved ones, the only way that you can obtain the freedom which we enjoy is to master your own thoughts and feelings, to obtain your own freedom, and to achieve your own understanding of the Law!
Continued in Part 3, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 50, no. 22.
*loomed: woven (Webster’s Third International Dictionary)
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
These dictations by Saint Germain and Lord Maitreya were delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet on Saturday, December 29, 1962, during the New Year’s Convocation 1963 held in Washington, D.C. Lord Maitreya’s delivery is included in Part 3.
1. I Cor. 13:12.
2. The wedding garment (referred to in Matt. 22:1-14) is the deathless solar body that the soul must wear if she is to enter in to the alchemical marriage (the soul’s permanent bonding to the Holy Christ Self) and the ritual of the ascension (the Christed one’s permanent fusing to the I AM Presence). See Serapis Bey, “The Great Deathless Solar Body,” in The Dossier on the Ascension, pp. 154-59. See also 1989 Pearls of Wisdom, p. 516, n.15.
3. The ascended masters have revealed in later years that Jesus did not ascend from Bethany’s hill at the conclusion of his Palestinian ministry. After his crucifixion and resurrection, he journeyed to Kashmir and at the age of eighty-one took his ascension from the etheric retreat of Shamballa. The messenger has explained that Jesus removed himself from Palestine in the ceremony on Bethany’s hill. He left in secret so that he “could no longer be sought after... . He had fulfilled his mission in Palestine.”
4. Acts 1:11.
5. The Cuban situation refers to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962. The Soviet Union had been secretly installing medium-range nuclear weapons in Cuba, capable of striking major U.S. cities within minutes. After the construction of the missile bases was confirmed by U.S. reconnaissance flights, President John F. Kennedy, on October 22, 1962, demanded the withdrawal of the missiles and imposed a naval blockade on Cuba. On October 28, the Soviets agreed to dismantle the missile sites and remove the missiles from Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved in late November 1962 and significant progress was made toward the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty that was eventually signed on August 5, 1963. The Indian situation refers to the Sino-Indian War, also called the Sino-Indian Border Conflict, a war between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India. It started on October 10, 1962, instigated by a dispute over the Himalayan border in Arunachal Pradesh (known in China as South Tibet). The battle ended when the Chinese declared a cease-fire on November 20, 1962.
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