Come, then, into unity in the ring of fire that is the seal of the great brotherhood of light. This ring of fire denotes that all who are contained therein have submitted to the divine law, have surrendered. They stand within the ring of fire, all one in God.
But the human consciousness cannot stand within the ring. It must be left out. And so within that ring of fire is the action of protection, which comes from perfection—perfection not as a static state of consciousness but always as the ever-receiving goal of a transcendent God.
What perfection is to a child may not be what perfection is to a man. But the standard, the principle that the child seeks to manifest in his endeavors, his art, or his play is that which counts. And thus it is acceptable unto God.
Let us cease to think of perfection as the unattainable state. Let us think of perfection as a goal that God molds according to the capacity of each man’s consciousness. Do not think that I am referring to a situation ethics or to morality, but I desire to show you that there are levels of the manifestations of perfection.
If a person with a contrite heart and humbleness of mind seeks with all his being and soul to offer an offering of love to the Almighty, then it is the motive and the purity of endeavor whereby the offering is judged and received. And if that offering is the maximum which that consciousness is capable of giving, then according to the effort and the motive of that consciousness it is counted as perfection for that state of evolution.
We tend to think that perfection must be measured as the ultimate of that which is attainable by any man, anywhere. But each man sets his own record in life, and the highest achievement of a certain period [of that one’s life] is the mark of his perfection. So, let all strive for the mark of the prize and the high calling in Christ Jesus. Let all strive to attain the mark of their highest potential in the present. For unless they do, they will always be postponing to the morrow that which they are capable of doing today. Thus, if they will only accept themselves as they are, they will begin to build from that place.
Some of you sit in the seat of the scornful.1 You are scornful toward yourselves. You condemn yourselves because you think you are not what you ought to be, that you have not made a great enough effort. Perhaps you forgot to pray this morning, or you did not have the time. Will you live in condemnation of yourself throughout the day? Or if through indiscretion you commit an act of sin for which you have sincere regret, will you be burdened by your own self-condemnation all the days of your life, thinking that you are unacceptable to the Godhead?
Finally, the end result of self-condemnation is rebellion against the Deity. For man cannot live in self-condemnation, and thus he must throw off that which he imagines to be the angry God who is condemning him. Therefore he can only find his freedom by totally denying God. But who has created this God of condemnation but man himself, through his dissatisfaction with himself!
I say, O precious children of the Sun, be not weary in well doing.2 Be not burdened with a sense of guilt, for there is no condemnation in God. The demons and the fallen ones stand before you to condemn you night and day, and they whisper here and they whisper there and they tell you what a terrible person you are, what a miserable sinner you are and that there is no hope for your salvation.
I tell you, precious hearts, the majority of mankind in this very hour are burdened with this sense of condemnation, which stifles creativity, stifles the beauty of the Godhead, and stifles the potential to bring forth the science of light, the music of the spheres, and a golden-age culture.
People walk the streets feeling unworthy of life itself. God in you is worthy to be adored! God in you is worthy to be joyous, to be upheld!
If you are burdened with a sense of the consciousness of sin, then I say: What is your consciousness of God? What do you think of God if you make sin so real that you can never be released from the bondage of sin? Is God aware of all of this? I tell you, nay! And if he is not aware of it, then why should you give it even a flicker of your consciousness and attention? For where your consciousness is, there your energy flows and there your energy goes. And thus you [send the energies of] the great River of Life into a matrix of self-condemnation, and by and by you condemn yourself out of existence.
Some of you in this room are suffering at the present time from physical diseases or impediments that are the direct result of your own condemnation of yourself. This condemnation has become such a burden to your body elemental that it has outpictured in your physical form.
O precious hearts, arise and be free, and Christ shall give thee light! You must be free of this sense of sin if you would progress one foot forward on the Path. For you stop all progress as long as you conceive of yourself as a sinner.
Has the Creator lost his power to forgive, to transmute, to dissolve sin? Nay. Our God is a God of mercy and is a consuming fire. Prove him, therefore, as he has commanded you to do.3 Prove his Law.
Thrust your sins into the fire, as in the ancient sacrifice of the children of Israel, symbolic of putting into the flame the menagerie of the subconscious—the animal forms, the darkness, the density. How do you do this? You simply say:
In the name of Jesus the Christ, I cast all that is less than the Christ into the flame. O God, consume it! I ask it! Hear my plea and answer! I accept it done this hour in full power, in fulfillment of the promise of the Creator.
If you will but make this call, all of heaven will move in this very hour to lift the burden of the sense of sin from you.
And now, on behalf of those of you who are willing to release that sense and that substance of sin, I, God Meru, make the following invocation to the Lords of Karma. And if you will ratify and affirm this invocation in your heart, it shall be done in your behalf.
I call in the name of Almighty God to the Lords of Karma, and I intercede on behalf of all of earth’s evolutions who are aware, in the very heart of their soul, of my release and my message this day.
I ask the Lords of Karma to release from these, who are gathered here and from the planetary body as a whole, those momentums of condemnation that come directly from the fallen ones, from the Liar and his lie.
I challenge these momentums of condemnation by the authority of Cosmic Christ illumination anchored in the heart of our retreat, and I say:
Let that energy be put to the torch! Let every man and every woman and every child who walks this planet know the freedom from condemnation that is the joy of the overcomers!
It is done, precious hearts. And as long as you retain that joy and refrain from self-condemnation, you will be free in the wisdom of your God-identity.
It is done, precious hearts. And as long as you retain that joy and refrain from self-condemnation, you will be free in the wisdom of your God-identity.
I AM the God Meru, and I welcome you to the golden era of the seventh root race, to our retreat at Lake Titicaca and to South America—land of the ancient wisdom, land of the Incas, land of Cuzco and the ancient glory.
Come, children of the light. Come, children of the Sun. Come, children of my heart.
This dictation by God Meru was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, September 1, 1973, during the New Atlanta Seminar on the New Order of the Ages, held in Atlanta, Georgia. [N.B. Bracketed words have been added for clarity in the written word.] Part 1 of this Pearl of Wisdom is published in this volume, no. 5.
1. Ps. 1:1.
2. Gal. 6:9.
3. Mal. 3:10.
God Meru, on Titicaca’s shore
Thy retreat stands there to bless mankind
’Tis the focus of Illumination’s flame
Gift of God to soul and mind.
Blazing there in the golden Andes” sacred height
Ever waiting for man to seek its pow’r
And the love of the ones who now guard its holy Light
Holding balance in this cosmic hour.
At thy side, thy complement divine
Lovely Goddess of this sacred flame
Ever stands, and through her purifying pow’r
Raises all in the I AM name.
Now our love ever flows from every earnest heart
To enfold all who serve to set life free
Knowing well of thy service that forms a mighty part
Of the building of the world to be.
Blessed flame—Illumination’s pow’r
To the minds of all who seek thy Light
Ever send thy love from Titicaca’s shore
That each one may feel thy might
Penetrating the hearts of those who stand for truth
In a world ever changing day by day
E’er endeav’ring to be steadfast beacons to our youth
Symbols of the Life, the Truth, the Way.*
*This song is in the Book Of Hymns And Songs (The Summit Lighthouse), no. 471.
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