Vol. 51 No. 21 - Elizabeth Clare Prophet - September 15, 2008
Darshan with the Messenger
The Guru-Chela Relationship
“Nothing Will Ever Allow Me to Stop Loving You”
Part 2
I have observed students and chelas during more than thirty years of teaching. And I have wrestled almost physically with so many people, so many chelas who were rebellious.
I remember one session of Summit University many years ago in Pasadena. It was the largest attendance we ever had up to that point, something like a hundred and fifty students. And in those days I would receive students one at a time, or two if they were moving together on their path, and I would give them a life reading. El Morya gave me a life reading for each one of those individuals.
I can remember so many different events in the lives of these hundred-and-forty-some people as they passed by me and I showed them where they had been and scenes of their lives. And so many of them had rebelled against God and had fallen on the first ray because they did not want to worship the living God; they wanted to be the living God. And I don’t think very many out of that entire class actually assimilated the tremendous compassion, the tremendous love of the Guru El Morya of the first ray.
I have come to the conclusion that human pride or devil pride is always the culprit, because wherever there is human pride there are demons that sustain that pride in the individual. It is always human pride or devil pride that takes exception to correction from the voice of Christ, no matter through whom that Christ is speaking.
The Attitude of the Chela Often Determines
How Far the Guru Can Take Him
I have had students who will appear to be taking correction for a long period of time, but they are really not going through a process of transmutation, self-transcendence, deriving the benefit, putting the rest in the flame and moving on.
So down the road, whether consciously or not, they decide to get sick, they decide to quit, they decide to have a nervous breakdown. This is the reality, this is what we’ve seen all these years. Then the sinister force starts working on them and continually brings before their eyes these scenes of having been disciplined. Ultimately they tell you that they will no longer take the discipline.
It is always a surprise because some of the people who appear to be dealing with the discipline are really not. And what I have to decide is, is it worth having lame and crippled chelas, leaving them as they are and not correcting them? Or should I chasten them until they finally see the light? The attitude of the chela often determines how far the guru can take him.
I had an opportunity to reflect on this recently at an event where there were many people and I recognized someone who had been on our staff in the past. And I knew that this person, in the years that he had been with me, was not able to take chastening or to process it. And I thought to myself, perhaps I was too hard with him. If I rebuked him, he would kind of boil and simmer and be annoyed but he would hold it in. He would not want to show it but in reality he had great anger. (And this behavior pattern describes various people that I’ve known, not just this individual.)
So this person came along and I was very happy to see him because I hadn’t seen him since he had left our staff. And I have always held love in my heart for him. When I greeted him, he went into a tirade about what terrible things I had done, how many people I had made mountains of karma with because I had been so cruel to them by disciplining them. This tirade went on and on, his wife attempting all the while to soothe him and obviously shocked regarding his behavior.
I had decided earlier in that conversation that I was going to apologize to him. And what I was going to apologize to him for was not having recognized that he really would not or could not get through his anger and the karma of that anger and get beyond that anger to his victory.
This discussion became more and more intense and finally I realized there was nothing more that I could say except the following. I called him by name and said to him, “_________, I need to love you and I’m going to love you.” And then he passed on by and that was the last I saw of him.
The Gift of Love
It is a wonderful gift that we can give love to those who need it, to those who rail against us, to those who don’t appear to be on the Path. Perhaps some day they will return to the Path or perhaps life will teach them. The gift and the grace that God gives to us allows us to meet so-called self-styled enemies with love.
I don’t believe I have enemies and I always love to give love to those who are the self-styled enemies. But if they do not receive it, I still pray and make calls for them because it concerns me, will they make it? Will they finally come through? Will they shed this substance of their pride and their anger and finally find attunement with their Lord and Saviour? If they do not, I am concerned as to what will become of them.
So, the attitude of the chela often determines how far the guru can take him. And that is axiomatic.
Jesus May Call Us to Walk in His Footsteps
Do you remember Jesus’ fiery rebuke to Peter?
He began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, “Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savorest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.”
Mark 8:31-33
The part of us that is the dweller-on-the-threshold does not want to enter into the heart of God. Peter had doubt. He did not want his Lord to suffer. So Jesus rebuked Peter. And Jesus’ response to Peter is similar to what I said to that former staff member. Both statements can be taken to mean, “I need to suffer and I’m going to suffer for the glory of God and his kingdom, for the transmutation of the world and our chelas.”
And Mark Prophet would say to an out-of-alignment chela: “You’re a tool of the sinister force.” How would you like having that said to you? It was said with intense fire when it was said. How many people here have been a tool of the sinister force? Any exceptions? All of us have been. The idea is to reduce the numbers.
Jesus went all the way on his path, and we must realize that at any time he may call us to walk in his footsteps. What will we find? We will find that the Son of man, our own being, will suffer many things. Have you not all suffered and have you not also all been glorified? Have we not all been rejected of the elders of the churches of the world, the synagogues, the courts? We have suffered the chief priests, the scribes. We’ve been killed. And we’ve risen again many times.
I want to tell you that I have such a profound love for each of you and for every chela in the world (whose face I may know at inner levels but not on earth). I want to tell you this so that you will realize that nothing that you can tell me about yourself that is not good, that’s bad, that’s this, then that—nothing will ever allow me to stop loving you. And I hope you will remember that as long as you live and on to many octaves of light.
The Guru Steps Down the Fire of the Altar
So That the Chela Can Make It
The fire that I give people comes from the altar. It comes from the flame of the Ark of the Covenant that is suspended in the etheric octave over this very altar.
The messenger at will can step down the fire that he delivers to a chela so that that chela can make it. The messenger acts, then, in the position of the Holy Christ Self in defense of the chela before the I AM Presence.
Under the Mosaic dispensation, without the Holy Christ Self or Guru as intermediary, the fire from the Ark of the Covenant would destroy the chela. You remember the story of Uzzah from the Old Testament: God had said that no one but the Levites, the priestly class, could touch the Ark of the Covenant lest they die.1 Uzzah touched the ark to steady it. (He rationalized, “The Ark might fall over. I better shore it up.”) So Uzzah touched the Ark to steady it and he was immediately struck down and died on the spot.2 Why? Because the Ark of the Covenant had so much of God’s light and fire and intensity in it that all but the priests could not touch it, else they would die instantly.
Under the Piscean dispensation, our Holy Christ Self mitigates the sacred fire. The mantle of the Guru stands in the place of the Holy Christ Self until the chela has attained union with the Christ. So the guru is the instrument of the fire of the I AM Presence or the ascended master who disciplines the chela.
If you do not receive or accept the fire that God allows to come upon you, ultimately you will wed your dweller. You will become bonded to your dweller-on-the-threshold if you do not become bonded to your guru. If you were to remain wed to your dweller, you could end up losing your soul. So when you decide to dance with your dweller, you are in very dangerous company.
The X Factor in Chelaship: The Chela’s Psychology
Now we come to the X factor in chelaship. This is psychology. How a chela receives chastening has to do with his or her relationship with the human mother and the human father in this and many past lives. Chelas who have had a difficult time with their human mother in this or a past life, who have felt that they did not have a positive bonding with that mother or a good relationship to that mother will oftentimes project onto me what in psychology is called the bad mother.
If a person is angry, perhaps horrendously angry, then maybe they had a “bad father”or a “bad mother.” If so, they can turn around and create in their own mind’s eye the picture of the perfect mother or father.
If, for example, your human mother is not the ideal picture to you in action or in memory or in a photograph, then call to God, call to one of the ascended masters to step in for you as the beautiful mother, the wonderful mother, the Divine Mother, the World Mother, the great cosmic manifestation of the Mother.
It takes time but it shouldn’t take too much time to reverse the negative mother image and realize who our real mother is. Our real mother is the blessed Mother Mary, the blessed Kuan Yin, all the ascended lady masters of heaven, who comfort us, who succor us, who are bringing us to the point where we enter in to the white fire of the Mother, the base-of-the-spine chakra.
So if we know we have the bad-mother syndrome, let’s get rid of it. We have the all-power of the sacred fire and the violet flame. The study of psychology is not meant to create a situation where we continually revolve our psychology. We need to look at it, see it for what it is, and say to that image of the bad mother, “It doesn’t matter what you’ve done to me. I am going to love you. I am going to heal you. I am going to have my victory. And one day we will be together and we will both be healed.”
Live life this way. Be free. You must be free. Don’t think it takes a million years to resolve your psychology. It may only take a day if you decide it.
Put These Things behind You and Accelerate
We all have an image of the bad mother and the good mother in our subconscious and unconscious. If we have had a good mother in this life, we have a very good, strong image of a good mother. We may be lucky. But sometimes God sends us very intense challenges through our parents. Maybe it’s our karma. Maybe God wants us to be a bodhisattva. Maybe God wants us to know how it feels to be crucified. Maybe you were born already prepared to take high initiations such as the ones that Jesus and Gautama Buddha have passed.
So never ask yourself why. Just accelerate. Accelerate on the Path. Put these things behind you. They’re not real.
What is real? There’s only one reality. God is real. God is real in you right now. Feel that tremendous Presence, your I AM Presence, descending into your temple.
If we have not had a good mother, then the only mother we may have known in this life is the bad mother. Most of us have a combination of the good mother and the bad mother, based on our experience with our human mother. I had various experiences with my parents in this life. I didn’t think my mother was a bad mother; I adored my mother. But I didn’t know anyone else. And many people whose mothers could maybe have done a little more or been a little better for them know that situation.
But if we have a bad mother, then we are here to love that mother and to love that mother and to love that mother wherever she is in the universe. Let’s not call her a bad mother anymore. Let us realize that human beings are frail, very frail. They take with them centuries of European culture, Middle-Eastern, Far-Eastern culture. Let’s get rid of the bad mother image and let us visualize the beautiful mother.
The Power of Change
After Mark passed on I was looking through his effects and found an old scrapbook of his.3 In his early life, Mark had studied various metaphysical teachings and had learned some techniques for precipitating. And so he had created a scrapbook in which he had put images of a great many things that he wanted to have happen in his life.
For instance, Mark had been stationed at the Army Air Base in Colorado Springs during the war and so he knew the town well. And he had put in his scrapbook a picture of a mansion (La Tourelle) where we ultimately came to reside. He had pictures of people and a host of other things that he had cut out of magazines and put in his scrapbook. This went on for pages. And when I looked at that scrapbook I realized that everything that Mark had put into it had come to pass.
Mark had the power of change and so do we. We have access to this alchemy. We can change our bad mother into a good mother any time. Because the badness of the mother is not real. That’s the bottom line. The badness of the mother is not real because evil is not real. And we say it all the time: Evil is not real and its appearance has no power.
The Original Matrix of Perfection
Inside that heart that God created, that soul that God created, there is a point of light. And even if it is a singular point of light and that is the only good thing you can find about your mother, you can expand that light until your mother is the good mother. And you don’t have to wrestle with this issue for the rest of your life.
Isn’t that a great unburdening? You don’t have to wrestle with the bad father or bad mother, bad grandmother, bad grandfather, etc. They don’t exist. The real person exists. Do you understand?
Now, that real person may have been bruised and beaten and put down. And so we had the opportunity to learn compassion in that household. Maybe we learned what it means to see a father who’s an alcoholic who drinks almost every day of his life. That is something that many of you have seen.
But that’s not your real father. Yes, you have a father in heaven. Yes, you have a father in El Morya. But you also have access to the original matrix of your human father and that’s where you plug in the contact. And that is where you can go back beyond parents who are already passed on and see them in their perfectness.
And what happens? It’s as if there’s an outline on the wall. And when you put into that outline the right puzzle piece, which is the original matrix of your father or your mother, all of a sudden the human father, the human mother merges with the infinite. And only the permanent reality of the father and mother still stands because you have been willing to let go and recognize, “I and my father are one. I and my mother are one.”
Continued in Part 3, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 51, no. 22.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
Elizabeth Clare Prophet delivered this teaching during the Thursday, February 20, 1997 Darshan with the Messenger at the Royal Teton Ranch, Montana. Parts 1, 3 and 4 are published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 51, nos. 20, 22 and 23.
1. Num. 4:15.
2. II Sam. 6:6-7.
3. The messenger Mark L. Prophet, now the ascended master Lanello, passed from the physical octave and took his ascension on February 26, 1973.
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