Vol. 53 No. 11 - Beloved Jesus Christ - June 1, 2010
A Love for the Child So Great That It Transcends All Lesser Concerns
Establishment of the Ritual of Holy Communion
Part 1
The grace of God the Father and God the Mother be upon you one and all.
I come in the flaming presence of the Christ, your own Christ-identity. And in the flame of the universal Christ—as I was privileged to bear that flame, to personify that Word, and to be the personal Christ to mankind during the two-thousand-year dispensation of the Christ consciousness—I come to speak to the child of the heart.
I address myself to these little ones, to the child within that you are, that you always have been, and that your soul is free to be when unencumbered by the things of the world. The definition of saint is one who retains the innocence of the child—the child mind and the child heart, the child consciousness.
It has been said that God himself is a child playing in a playpen. I for one prefer the image of God as child because so much virtue and freedom and love and light can be conveyed in concept when one has the image of the child. And the Divine Manchild is the presence of the Christ, and the fullness of that child is the mature son and daughter of God.
I speak to you as you knew the innocence of God in your cradle, in your mother’s arms; as you heard the birds chirping in your window, as you heard the music of the breeze flowing through the trees; and watched the stars in the heavens and the sun and the rolling of the waves; and all of these things as they conveyed to you the consciousness of the Holy Spirit and the presence of love.
All that has been superimposed upon you since you were that child—the sophistications of the world, the struggle for supply, the struggle that is political, social and economic, the complications of egos vying for positions of power—all of these things have buried the child and the soul until you no longer identify as the child beloved of the Father-Mother God, but you identify with the struggle and the sense of struggle.
If you would teach these little ones—“Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven”1—if you would teach them, you must be like them. Your consciousness must be translated into the freedom, the nonattachment, of the child.
The child is not worried or concerned of the morrow what it shall eat or drink, for it trusts wholly in the father and the mother to provide. So you also must become as little children, trusting God to provide all these things. For God intends that you should enjoy the earth and the abundance thereof and that you should not be weary in overconcern for the needs of life.
To work the works of God each day, to be diligent and constant to your duties, to keep the flame on behalf of the ascended masters and of all life everywhere, to do all things as though all things depended upon you, and then to rest in your labor as though all things depended upon God—this is the way of the innocence of the child. It is a return to this innocence that will restore a golden-age culture.
For there is one thing that the childlike innocence always demands. It demands the presence of the mother. It expects the mother. It waits upon her voice, her song, her comfort. When mankind lose their identity as children, they also lose the mother. And they lose that need, or seemingly so, in the outer consciousness. But you see, precious hearts, mankind always need the mother, for the mother comes to comfort and to impart the grace of the Father, the knowledge of his Law.
Mothers: Restore Light and Love
to the Hallowed Circle of the Family
The function of the mother in every home, in every household, is to receive the father and the children, to demagnetize their worlds from the shocks and the burdens and the weight of the consciousness of the mass mind and of the encounters with that mind during the daily striving to overcome, to be educated, to provide for the family and for the needs thereof.
The mother’s flame must be great enough, then, to receive the father and the children and to absorb from them the substance of the world and to take that substance into her heart, which is the very hearth of the home, and there—by the action of the sacred fire of love—to consume that energy, to transmute it, to restore the light and love, and to return it to each one, to each member of the hallowed circle of the family.
The mother, then, must see to it that the lamps of her being are kindled and bright and trimmed and well oiled. For the fires that are necessary to keep the flame on behalf of her family and then her community and her nation must be great enough to absorb the shocks, the densities, and the discord and the strife and the turmoil of the outside world.
A mother’s breast is the place where the weary rest their heads and receive the impartations and the nourishing of the currents of the secret rays, as they are anchored there for the release of comfort, of understanding. A mother must understand her role. For by the alchemy of her consciousness, every member of the family will realize a potential and a worth. And she herself will rise to become the cosmic virgin nurturing lifewaves across the planetary home and even beyond this system of worlds.
There is no end to opportunity for the women of this world for service, public and private. For to serve is to become all that you are. In service there is a ripening of the inner talents and the fruit of the Tree of Life. The mother, then, is the source, as she takes from the father the energies of strength, the energies of power, the energies of courage—the energies that are the light of Alpha—and translates these into the comfort and the ministration and service that represent the ideal of home in America and the world.
Mothers, bake the bread for your families. And as you bake the bread, impart the Word, impart the vibration; for it is light on which your family is nourished. And the wheat and the flour are only a small percentage of that which your family needs for sustainment.
Mothers, be the personification of the woman who took the leaven and hid it in three measures of meal until the whole was leavened.2 So, take the measure of the Father, the Father consciousness. Take the measure of the Son and the Son consciousness. Take the measure of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit consciousness. And convey them through love into the food, into your household.
And let plants adorn your household, and let them be for the focus of the ray of truth and for life and elemental life. And welcome the elementals of the field into your home to help you with the housework and the chores, to sing with you, to invoke the violet flame, to play with the children and to dance a merry jig.
Let the angels also be in the rafters and in the ceilings, hanging there as ethereal intelligences, hanging there carved of wood or terra-cotta. Let them be there smiling to remind the little children, as they look upward, that God is watching over them and that you are his handiwork, his instrument.
“Behold the handmaid of the Lord!” was the reply of Mary to the annunciation of the archangel.3 Behold the handmaid of the Lord! So be the handmaid of Father, as in heaven, so on earth.
Fathers: Be the Sure Arm of Courage
and the True Counselor
And you who represent the masculine ray, as you celebrate the influx of the light of Father, see how mother and children depend upon your counsel, the sure arm of courage, of vision, of strength, of determination to conquer this world and to set the example to your children of father as law and, yes, father as compassion, as great wisdom, father as the balance of mother, father as all of the energy available to create, to bring forth ennobling ideas.
Father, take your children into your arms and show them how they can attain to the fullness of the stature of Christ. And play with them and frolic with them, and know that your children will know God upon your very countenance when you smile, when you laugh, and when you are stern in the true discipline of a hierarch of the will of God.
So be unto mother a sure shield of defense, a protector, a guide and a teacher. Be unto each one the true counselor. Be, then, prophet and king and priest and poet and philosopher. And show each child a work of the hands, as Joseph showed me how to be a carpenter.
Show your children, O fathers, how to accomplish one thing with their hands, that they might feel the mastery of this plane of Mater in this physical quadrant and know that they have learned, from the hand and heart of their father, how to accomplish something that is good, of worth and beautiful.
Teach your children how to work with plants and how to garden, how to care for that place where then the Christ will come into the garden of the heart, into that place set aside for the elementals. Teach your children the arts of communion with nature, with the Holy Spirit, how to make a place in the wilderness, how to go camping in the woods, how to build a fire, how to do so many things that will compel them higher in their understanding of the Law.
And you know, the child will always remember and will always say, “My father taught me how to do this and so I teach my children also.” And from generation to generation, the precepts of the Law are transferred.
Continued in Part 2, published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 53, no. 12.
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This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, June 16, 1974, during the two-day seminar Family Designs for the Golden Age, held in Burbank, California. Part 2 is published in Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 53, no. 12.
1. “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Mark 10:14; Luke 18:16; Matt. 19:14.
2. The woman who took the leaven and hid it in three measures of meal. Matt. 13:33; Luke 13:20, 21.
3. Luke 1:38.
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