Vol. 53 No. 3 - Beloved Elizabeth Clare Prophet - February 1, 2010
THE RADIANT WORD
The Master Lays Down His Life for His Disciples
Excerpt from a dictation by Beloved Jesus Christ
given through the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet
I know of the anguish that grips the heart when a loved one departs. If only momentarily, even the most advanced disciples must feel a pang of regret, a sense of loss when the teacher is called to higher service.
How well I remember when the disciples of John the Baptist came and told me that Herod’s daughter had demanded his head and that the tetrarch, out of pride in his oath before men, had forsaken his oath to God and bowed to the will of the daughter of darkness. For a moment in eternity I, too, was seized with a sense of loss, even though I had been prepared for that hour—even though I knew that the work of the Lord’s messenger had been accomplished and that his time had come....
By special dispensation from the hierarchy, John the Baptist came forth from the ascended state to set the stage for the coming of the Christ, for the descent of the fire of the Logos, and to initiate the spiral whereby all mankind might attain Christhood according to the example that the Father had given me to exemplify on earth as it truly is in heaven.
And so I explained to my disciples, “Among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist.”1 For not in ten thousand years had the dispensation been given for an ascended being of his level of attainment to take on physical form in a mission for the hierarchy. And thus he truly walked the earth as the greatest of masters, a karma-free being who laid down his life not only that I might live to fulfill the mission of the Christ, but that all who followed after might have the momentum of his mantle of purity and self-sacrifice. He lived that we might leave testimony upon the sands of time, an indelible mark in akasha of the unspeakable love that exists between guru and chela, master and disciple.
For this is hierarchy—that the master who attains the ultimate will give that ultimate to the one who is to succeed him in hierarchy and then, in a final act of selflessness, lay down his life for his disciples. The greatest desire of every teacher is that his disciple shall take up that mantle and exceed his own attainment, doing those greater works which I promised to those who would believe upon me as the incarnation of the Christ consciousness. Unless the pupils excel the achievement of the teacher, unless they strive to break the records of those who have run the race before them, there can be no transcending universe, no expansion of God’s consciousness. This is law; and if it be broken, the spiral of infinity must be arrested.
Thus “the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”2 Not only does he lay down his life that the sheep may move on to greener pastures and greater glories, but the shepherd takes the very life-essence, the substance of his mind, and infuses the sheep with the currents of his victory. And his parting words must be “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”3 The shepherd teaches the sheep to assimilate his consciousness, his mastery, the momentum of his good works, so that by the leaven of his God-awareness the whole lump of their consciousness might be leavened and raised to newness of life and salvation....
Now, as you, one and all, contemplate the wonder of the victory as well as the sacrifice of the messenger of God in this age, I bid you to come apart with me into a desert place to commune with the God flame of the Prophet sent by God to prepare the way of salvation before you.
I bid you, invoke the momentum of his mantle and a double portion of his Spirit, that you also might go forth to smite the waters muddied by mankind’s impure consciousness. I bid you to meditate upon the purpose of his ascension, that you might see that he has gone before you indeed to prepare a place for many of you who will also be called to higher service in the months and years ahead.
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This dictation is published in the 1973 Pearls of Wisdom, April 22, 1973, vol. 16, no. 16.
1. Matt. 11:11; Luke 7:28.
2. John 10:11.
3. John 6:53.
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