Vol. 64 No. 2 - Beloved Mother Mary - January 8, 2021
Bear the Burden of Light!
Accra, Ghana
Part 2
So let all understand that the way to victory is the way of oneness. It is of solidarity among the children of God. Do not let yourselves be divided by forces of hatred, but rather help one another. As Simon the Cyrenian helped Jesus carry his cross,1 so be a staff unto the LORD and understand that the one who carries the cross in this age is the disciple in embodiment.
Jesus no longer carries the cross. I do not carry the cross. For the Law requires that the souls in embodiment bear that cross. And if you will say in your heart to us, “Mother Mary, I bear your cross. Saint Germain, I bear your cross. Jesus, I bear your cross,” then the Father will send to you legions of angels to uphold you in that hour.
Do not think that you do not need the LORD’s hosts and the emissaries of light. You cannot win this battle alone. No one has ever won it alone. Jesus, in the fullness of the glory of the light on that way to Golgotha—because he had taken the responsibility of bearing the sins of the world, bearing the entire weight of planetary karma—required the assistance of Simon the Cyrenian.
Blessed Simon, a son of Afra! Blessed Simon, who came to the aid of the Lord Christ to carry the weight of the physical cross so that the Christ could bear the weight of the inner cross of world sin! Blessed Simon, your love is reconsecrated this day in this people. You have stood in their name to help your Saviour. Now all generations of the sons and daughters of Afra will call you blessed and will walk in your footsteps and will hear the calling of the inner destiny of the people of Afra to carry the cross of Jesus in this age.
This is your mission, blessed children of my heart. You are the example of those who master the physical earth, the physical body, the physical resources of the Mother. And so you are close to the earth, and so you will become an example to all nations of what those who have the true initiation in the physical quadrant can do with that opportunity. You will show the nations—who have carried the cross for you in the mental plane, in the feeling plane, and in the memory plane—how to master the earth, how to take dominion over the earth.
And you will know that your patron, Simon, is also a saint of the Great White Brotherhood, and this Simon stands in your midst this day to show you how to carry that cross, to teach you the message of Jesus, “My burden is light,” so that the very atoms and molecules of the burden you bear will be transformed. And you will carry upon your shoulders and upon your heads the heavy weight of the entire karma of the continent until the little children and the sons and daughters can learn the teaching of the Holy Spirit and the violet flame and come into their own path.
And one day you who serve with the elder brothers of this race, you who count yourselves as older brothers and sisters even now—one day you will look at these children who have arisen because they have walked in your footsteps and because you have carried that cross. And you will smile into their eyes and you will say to them:
“Now, my child, you are ready to carry the cross. You have prepared yourself. You have learned the techniques of the science of the spoken Word. Now is come your day. Now is come your hour to walk the fourteen stations with Jesus and with Mary. I have held this cross in trust for you. I would not take from you your joy in assuming the responsibility of carrying the cross. Come, my child. Bear the burden of light! Know the joy of the LORD, and know his Victory for your own.”
Have you not the joy in this hour of realizing that as you are overcomers, so millions will overcome? They will see your footprints in the sand, and carefully they will put their little children’s feet in the big imprint of mother and father. You are the sponsors, if you will take my lamp, for the lighting of the way of the new order of the ages of Afra.
I have come to you in my love, which I have held for you for thousands of years. I am happy that you can have my words and that I can talk to you, that you can know that you have a mother who loves you and who is very near, who has seen your burdens, who has seen your light, who has seen your struggles, your pain, your loneliness. I am happy that you might know that you have a mother who knows who you are in truth, who knows your identity in God, who knows your soul’s worth.
I would have you feel the condition of self-worth this morning, to know that in my heart you are worthy as most precious jewels, that you must have returned to you from my heart (and so I give it to you) that sense of self-worth because you are what you are. I am what I am; you are what you are. And all of this miraculous alchemy of the individualization of the God flame is focalized, then, in the one name of God, I AM THAT I AM.
This is the meaning of the name of God and of his flame where you are—that you are born to be what he has made you to be—not what another says you ought to be, not fulfilling the pressures of your peer group or the pressures of other nations or other races or other groups, but that you can be free to be yourself. Is this not the love and the freedom that the mother conveys to each child that she holds in her arms? This is the love I bring you.
Heed, then, that you become a staff, that you hold the vision, that you assume your role in the spiritual cell of leadership, that by that vision you see that your hour has come to carry the cross not only of the people but of the masters, that in carrying that cross you find your friend Simon the Cyrenian—that you identify with his mission and realize that the black man and the black woman are indispensable to the mission of Christ in this age.
I am here to tell you that Jesus would not have made it to Golgotha without Simon, or the equivalent of Simon, whom the LORD would send.
Realize, then, that you, my children of Afra, are indispensable to the wholeness of Christ in manifestation on this continent. Hear the words of the Lord to Peter: “I go to Rome to be crucified again.”2
Will you go to the place of consecration, the Rome, the altar of your heart, to the true Church? Will you go there and be crucified for your Lord? This is the requirement. It is a laying down of all, that all might live.
I know you will do this, and I know that it is because you have known me this day, that you have recognized that we who are the ascended masters are really real, that we are not far removed into a corner but we are among you, we walk with you. We are not high up in the heavens but this is our home also. It is simply a matter of frequency. It is simply that we have raised the atomic structure of our bodies and that God has assumed us unto his body.
Our bodies are bodies of light and spirit. Your bodies are terrestrial bodies. Nevertheless, we move and walk among you. We are brothers and sisters. And when you have a certain measure of devotion and meditation in your life, there comes an hour when God grants to you the vision of our presence. It begins with the seeing of a light as we speak through the messenger, or the realization of a flame or a holy aura. And by and by you see the silhouette, the profile, the face of your beloved masters.
Wait patiently upon the LORD,3 then, for he will surely come.4 “Behold, I come quickly,” saith the LORD.5 The “quickly”—the moment of his coming—appears as the sudden coming of the LORD unto the house. And though in earthly time the measure may be a hundred or a hundred thousand years, when the LORD comes and appears to you, you realize that you have never been absent from him. He has always been at your side, and now your vision confirms his presence.
And so in that hour you know that the long night of separation has never really been real but only the testing of your soul, that in your belief you might become the faithful, and in becoming the faithful you might become those who are called the enlightened ones.
Now I take my leave of you, but I continue my communication with you, and my communion, which is always and forever on behalf of this unit of the Mother’s mandala, which will surely rise if you are faithful in our love.
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This dictation by Mother Mary was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, September 19, 1976, in Accra, Ghana.
1. Simon the Cyrenian. Matt. 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26. Simon was from the Greek city of Cyrene, which was located in northern Africa in Eastern Libya. He has sometimes been depicted in art as a “son of Afra.” According to the teaching given by the ascended masters on the fourteen stations of the cross, Simon figures on the fifth station, “Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the cross.” This station falls on the four o’clock line of the cosmic clock, God-obedience. We read in The Path of the Universal Christ, by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet: “The story is told that Jesus was falling under the weight of the cross, and as he leaned against the wall to brace himself, his hand left an imprint. Simon the Cyrenian saw that miracle, was immediately converted, and came forward to bear the cross. The imprint in the stone can be seen in the city of Jerusalem today. The initiation on this line is under the hierarchy of Taurus, an initiation of obedience.... We will have to surrender the concept that by might and by power we can do this initiation all by ourselves and that we can do it without acknowledging the need for intercession, the need for the Holy Spirit to help us through the person of the friend.... As we face this initiation it is necessary to admit that we can’t make it alone, and this is a humbling experience.... In that moment, Simon the Cyrenian comes to bear the cross for Jesus, and he enables Jesus to stand on that line of Taurus, the line of the fall of Satan, the line of planetary rebellion.... On this line Jesus was wrestling with Satan and with the hordes of darkness.... And while he wrestled with Satan and with those fallen ones, another bore his cross. This is the great mystery of the body of God, this mystical body of God that we are. We are one person, totally dependent on each and every other part of that person. This is the key to the defeat of Satan and the carnal mind within and without.”
2. “I go to Rome to be crucified again.” According to the apocryphal acts of Peter, when the apostle Peter was fleeing Rome in order to escape martyrdom, he met Jesus walking toward the city. He asked Jesus, “Where are you going, Lord?” Jesus replied, ““I go to Rome to be crucified again.” On hearing these words, Peter returned to the city to be crucified for Jesus.
3. Pss. 37:7; 40:1.
4. II Kings 5:11; Hab. 2:3.
5. Rev. 22:7, 12, 20.
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