only by great openness of motive, of intent to purity, to God-likeness can men wholly escape from the nets and snares

  Now, purity of concept is essential in both material and spiritual victory.  For if men were to obtain outward respect or stature by vapid or cruel means, the karmic debt would exceed the recompense obtained….vain and repetitious events, even of mortal achievement, cause the human mind to soar to dizzying heights from whence the tired eagle must ultimately drop into the great abyss of unreality and experience the termination of personal aspiration.           -Paul the Venetian:  Pearls of Wisdom 9:2

-self-portrait (detail of Portrait of a Man, 1577)

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  There is only one way to escape from such stultification (of halted progress) and that is to remove the obstacle by removing selfish motivation from consciousness.  Without introspection individuals may often move in the great stream of life and time, perpetuating their own errors and wandering in the wilderness of self-delusion and self-desolation….

  Each man on earth is intended to be one for whom the desert will bloom as the rose.  It is ever unfortunate when individuals become so shortsighted as to fail to recognize that they are the keepers of their own gate to progress….Our stresses and amplifications revealed herewith are for the admonishment of those who seek to come out daily from the pits of error into the light of a new day, reserved not for them alone--yet certainly not denied to themselves--but intended to manifest as a radiant cosmic unity for all the Earth….

  We stand with you in your resurgent desire never to capitulate but ever to conquer victoriously all that deters you from the full manifestation of the victorious Law of your being, the Law of eternal Life.         -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 9:5

 -from Saint Germain on Alchemy

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  The mask of self-deceit does not then hide any man from the Eternal One, and only by great openness of motive, of intent to purity, to God-likeness can men wholly escape from the nets and snares they do weave and have woven in the past….Unless men can summon faith in Almighty God and the tomes of His Laws they cannot help but be oriented around objects of lesser affection.  To effect a faith in the invincible integrity of God is to attune with it; to live according to that design is to manifest it, and thus does faith carry man to the portals of hope--but a hope that is not rooted in the integrity of God is no faith at all.  Moral dogmas are no substitute for the feeling of almighty Life that surges within the heart and declares that “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof” (Psalm 24:1) from one end of infinity to the other, from the beginning of each cycle unto the end thereof.        

-Archangel Michael:  Pearls of Wisdom 9:6

-from Prayer & Meditation, 1978