Gracious ladies and gentlemen, the pulse of America needs definition, requires redefinition, that the world and the people of the world may understand the great love that the ascended masters have for this ascended master nation. This is not because we express some form of preference for one nation as opposed to another, but it is because of our heart’s desire and the plan of the sacred Brotherhood to establish a pattern of exampled perfection to the family of nations. We desire this so that other nations may learn, by the pattern of freedom externalized, just how they too can produce the democratic way of life and make available to their people that culture which heaven itself desires to preserve as a form of beauty until better things do come.
The glory of heaven and the radiance of heaven is a crown of great beauty that many among mankind feel--in error--they are not quite ready for. Many individuals today seem to feel that if they were to join our band or to become a part of our group that they would be in effect turning their backs upon life. This is a complete refutation of truth. For when men become a part of the Great White Brotherhood and a part of those holy endeavors dedicated to the freedom of man they save their lives; they do not lose them. Those who seek to save their lives by going their own way, as solitary climbers upon the mountain, are often bereft of the comfort that comes in group dynamics as souls are led to the higher teachings and to a greater comprehension of the beauty of perfection.
The fires of freedom are real. And the passions of the ascended masters for the radiation of effective God-control into the community of the Brotherhood are essential. It is essential that, as representatives of our light and of this high calling, you should understand how you are led out of the shadow of darkness, the shadow of imperfection and into the light and into a greater sense of the light that is to come. One of the great errors that many of the students make is the error of not clearly understanding the perfection of heaven at its own levels and the imperfection of earth at human levels. Men often seek to bite off more than they can chew (to use the vernacular of the human) and to swallow more than they can digest.
It is our wish, in the interests of the freedom of man, that the students will understand that we do often temper the winds of heaven to the shorn lamb of human identity.1 For there are times when men do feel woefully small because they sense the great vacuum that is present in the human person when one’s values are aligned against the beautiful patterns of heaven. And they in contrast seem to hold little promise [for themselves] except perhaps in the approbation of their fellowmen.
Those who pursue the higher goals seldom seem to come into tangible contact in their flesh forms with the ascended masters and to actually see us with their fleshly eyes. They sense however our presence from time to time and often know that they have our protection. But in moments of trial the greatest blessings are sometimes forgotten. And men, as though the house were on fire, run out into the street and forget to bring with them those simple treasures that they could easily hand carry. This is typical of human nature but not of the divine nature.
And therefore as I come to you tonight it is as a practical man--a practical man of the Spirit who desires to see freedom as a breathing immanence that men will carry about them almost as an amulet. Freedom in order to become practical must be used in all of man’s thought processes. It must be kept in view as an objective in all of his thoughts so that his eye can truly be said to be full of freedom.
Freedom is not always learned, beloved ones, by reading or by study, even by spiritual study (which I do not frown upon but approve of). I merely wish to comment upon the fact that study alone will not bring freedom into prominence in consciousness. But rather, many times the simple affirmation and desire to hold freedom in consciousness will do it, whereas a strange formula might actually resist the magnification of freedom simply because the effort to use it is too great and is not required. There is a great deal to be said for the power of simple acceptance. And I think that I shall give to you tonight a little formula often used by this messenger. It is a formula of simply affirming a thing to be true and knowing that it is true, a formula that is so simple that it would seem to hardly hold any validity. Yet we have seen even this messenger use this simple formula and produce miracles in the lives of the students for whom he called. He does not pretend to be of any specific greatness or worth in his mortal self, having committed himself unto the highest calling. And we ourselves certainly have no intention of tooting our own trumpet. Therefore when I say to you tonight that we at times recommend simplicity as one of the greatest keys in the universe for man’s freedom it is because God listens to that which man speaketh.
Many people do not realize that the production of thought is almost instantaneous. In other words when individuals formulate thought or thought is formed within their consciousness this thought [often] becomes either extremely powerful for good or it becomes insidiously evil. This is sometimes because it is not the great dwelling upon one subject that produces the miracle of quick manifestation. But at times it is the quickest thought flashed forth that will produce a more effective good in the world of men, rather than a long and senseless dialogue where men seek to convince the Almighty as to why He should set aside His Laws and honor their purposes. A simple request “God help me”+ has often produced more miracles than a long prayer uttered before men.
We recall that when Mr. Rickenbacker was lost at sea2 and in great distress it was a simple call from his heart that triggered the divine response and caused one of the great beings to see to it that a fish was placed in his view and grasp. Great protection was afforded this man because of the simplicity of his heart and because he had an almost transcendent faith in the omnipresence of God.
I therefore wish tonight to stir [in your consciousness] the memory of the divine ages as a memory of perfect beauty. Wishing to burst into manifestation, the power of the Christ and the power of freedom have always desired to be expressed in man. There is simply a great gentility in the consciousness of the Most High, which is actually transmitted to every ascended master.
There are times when strangers who come to hear our words and to listen to such great beings as Ray-O-Light, the beloved El Morya, Zarathustra, Archangel Michael and many of the other great beings who at times come forth with a bursting sound feel that perhaps there is almost an attempt by heaven to intimidate them, as though we would prod them into doing something that was against their will. I hasten to tell you that this is not the motive behind the volume. Much of the volume is governed by the radiation patterns which are intended to open up the flower of man’s being and to assault the bastions of mortal consciousness in order that, as the petals of consciousness open, we may deposit something of worth and value therein. It is sometimes necessary to almost sandblast man’s consciousness in order to break away the scum of mortal thought and feeling which adheres so closely to the surface of thought and to the surface of consciousness that it produces not miracles of beauty but the pallor of ugliness.
We therefore stress to you tonight that you must learn to have a mind that is like the sling of David.3 You must learn to have a mind that can resist evil with fierce intensity on the instant, and you must fight for your freedom, your spiritual freedom, as though nothing else of worth existed in all creation! When you learn to do this, blessed chelas of the light, when you learn to cognize and understand that you are in an eternal battle for the highest prize that the universe holds you will see that these trivia of thought and feeling that obscure the face of God and put your fellowmen in a bad light in the eyes of others are not a part of the divine plan. For the divine plan intends to give all men their freedom and to see to it that freedom is cognized by man as the power to render service as a great example. Great example does not of necessity require huge words or complex meanings. There are times when simplicity of service is of the greatest value because it is most easily transmitted.
Therefore tonight as I come to you seeking to create in the student body an awareness of the treasure of life that is in you and to evoke a response calculated to develop polish in your culture and in your expressions to one another, I do it not in a sense of condemnation for past errors but because errors can be backdrops upon which the light can shine more brilliantly. We do not say that you should go out and form these backdrops deliberately in order to provide contrast for light media. But we do say that it would be well if you would recognize that when man has sinned much and been forgiven much, he can, as Christ has said, love much.4 And love is the fulfilling of the Law.5 And when love acts in man’s consciousness there is a sense of such reverent beauty within him that he is better able to survive with simplicity than with complexity.
Now I am not tonight taking action to cause individuals to shun the complex. For the complex formulas enable man to attain a greater level of achievement than simplicity does. Yet simplicity is the key that opens the door and affords mankind the weapons of spiritual warfare whereby he is able to thrust aside sudden impulses that seize him at unexpected moments. These are projections of hostile errors and arrows of darkness that are disgorged from the dragon’s mouth to pull the consciousness of man down and to prevent him from having the beautiful divine sense that the ascended masters desire to create in man and for which man hungers.
Do you know that there is a blueprint of your being clearly existing in the ethers above you? This precious blueprint of your being is held within the arms of your Holy Christ Self. And your Holy Christ Self---constantly, continuously, day and night--offers meditation and mediation for you to the heart of God, your own individualized mighty I AM Presence, that you may become infused with the God-magnificence of that holy blueprint. This is the blueprint of the original first cause flown out from the heart of God and intended to be the bird of paradise for each man, the mighty Eagle of Life that mounts up on strong wings, the holy dove that descends with the effulgence of the whitelight of the Holy Spirit into the chalice of each man’s heart.
Life then is indeed (as you have been told again and again in this class), a grand event. Proceeding in an orderly fashion from the heart of God, Life seeks to attract to itself more life. Thus God said in the Beginning, “It is not good for man to be alone. I will make him an helpmeet for him.” Mankind must understand that this reference can be taken in many ways. Many have chosen to consider that this refers solely to the idea of a physical marriage. I call to your attention tonight, precious ones of the light, that the intent of the divine way, as God planned it, was more along the lines of the individual becoming wedded to and identified with his mighty divine Self.
Thus in the cosmic priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek where continuity of existence is the forte of the great God-flame within man it is understood and revered by those hearts initiated into the Melchizedekian priesthood that the continuity of life is by divine intent. And thus it is accepted as it is given. When individuals understand the meaning of the squaring of the circle they will recognize that the foundation of the temple of individuality is within the framework of the cosmic circle (or the cosmic whole) and that the squaring of the circle does propound into the world of individual achievement the opportunities which life brings to man’s doorstep, as the Goddess of Justice has often commented to me.
You, precious ones of the light, are treasures in the mind of God. And as treasures in the mind of God you came forth in the Beginning as immortal, soulful beings enamored with the creativity of God and the desire to express it. Through misdirection and misadventure mankind have departed from the original blueprint of Almighty God. And while they have dramatically brought about a world shaped to their own ends, the destiny and plan of the Infinite One has been canceled again and again in a holocaust of destructive activity. Mankind today, lured by the glamour of the ego and the intensified action of mortal greed, are constantly being pulled down, like mariners who were lured upon the rocks [to their destruction] by the sirens of old. Then as Samson was shorn of his hair by Delilah, so men are stripped of the vital spiritual energies of life which are intended to infuse their beings! Thus the brothers of the shadow, like Delilah, seek to lure mankind to the delights of the senses so that they become enamored with and victims of their own outer-world glamour, thus desiring to perpetuate self and person above and beyond the divine intent of cosmic unity.
Do you know, precious ones, that there abide in the realm of devachan in the heaven-world6 any number of individuals who have sought all their lives to glamorize their name and fame in one embodiment? And they are taken up by and caught up in the idea that they can achieve immortality in the eyes of men by having monuments erected to their own name and person. I tell you that the ascended masters have not so done. They have sought no continuing monument unto themselves. But they have only the desire to raise a monument to the Spirit of life so that they might spread abroad compassionate, good works to mankind--to heal a sick child, to raise the feeble and the aged to a state of more beauty and understanding, to console the hearts of men when they are bereaved, to point the way as wayshowers of light, and to bring to bear the power of the Spirit as cosmic pressure upon the scientific minds in order to solve the mysteries of disease and intensify the love of man for man. Humanity is our concern. And the Brothers of the Light have no desire to spread abroad teachings that bring about destruction and produce a bearing in men’s countenance that smacks of greed and human viciousness.
I call now tonight to all of you and to your Holy Christ Self, to your great winged God-Self and to the sandals of light that God has placed upon your feet so that you might understand clearly, now and for all time, that as men sow so shall they reap. The Law is not fooled, O gracious ones, nor do we think it ever can be. For we are certain that the quickening power of the Law will ultimately enfold mankind with the power that clearly reveals the truth in the axiom, “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.”7
You then as individual monads at times feel a terrible sense of gnawing separation from one another, and in the lonesomeness of human consciousness you do not understand that the Self is in reality the great door—the door to God, the door which I AM. “I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life”8 is always the Self. And if God did not break the body of Himself into the crumbs of divine intent, the crumbs of individuality, the sacred eucharist could not be realized by the many sons whom He seeks to bring to captivity--the captivity of the holy will of God and the gentility of cosmic Grace. For thereby love is spread abroad in the countenances of men because it is the shining star-like substance that breaks forth into mighty beams from their hearts. It is that wonderful feeling of pure love which is experienced on rare occasions by mortal men but which is not always understood. For when it is taken apart it is destroyed. And therefore whereas you cannot analyze it you must understand that you can enjoy it.
Enjoy then the wonderful feeling of pure love when it comes to you, for this is the substance of heaven. It is the wonderful presence of God which each angel manifests within himself as a flaming part of the great cosmic Central Sun. This in man becomes the great central, pivotal point around which true life revolves as the reality which I AM.
The reality which each individual is must be cognized by that individual. For if I or any of the other ascended masters were to cognize reality for you individually, it would not work. For we have already cognized reality for ourselves individually, and we have accepted all that God has intended us to accept. This has changed and transmuted within our worlds all that we were into that which we are. This is also the ultimate destiny of each individual. You see, precious ones, when men seize the affairs of the moment the way the Father intends them to it will produce the pure refinement of the alchemical gold within the domain of the individual’s world. And what a wondrous change it will work is beyond human comprehension!
You have heard of the violet-flame cape. You have heard of the white ermine. Let me unravel for you now the meaning of the colors used in royal robes. When the kings of old were clothed in purple raiment it was the infinite power of the violet flame that they sought to convey to themselves through the mystical knowledge and power of the wise men in their kingdom. They surrounded themselves with the violet-flame cape which transmuted on the instant all the negative energy that was sent as hostile arrows from their subjects into the domain of the kingship.
The white ermine was significant of the purity of consciousness which the king, as the representative of Almighty God, sought to embody as manifest purity of principle. The white ermine was also more than that. It was the white-fire substance which brought to the consciousness of the king (if he were illumined) the understanding of the need to fill himself and to charge himself with the divine Presence.
Grace be multiplied unto you this night, and comprehension. For lo, I can come. Lo, I can think. Lo, I can say and be “I AM.” But you individually must, within the domain of your own world, spark that radiance which you also are. If I tell you tonight that you also share the same body of God that Saint Germain and Jesus and all share, will you accept it? Will you take it into your heart? Will you determine that you are going to manifest the qualities of the ascended masters?
O we have spoken to you so many times in this century. We have charged our love into your midst in tangible light rays. We have drawn you very close to our hearts. We have literally held some of you in our arms. And yet there is always that lingering doubt in the consciousness of man as to our reality. We sometimes wonder just what purpose would be served by our stepping through the veil. For in a very short time after we had physically, tangibly manifested and appeared to you you would soon be telling yourselves that it was only an illusion, after all, and could not be a reality.
Therefore it is our hope that the doubting Thomases among you will understand, once and for all, that the ascended masters are more and more concerned with the externalization from within yourself of the light that we have, that we are, that we hold. When this light becomes a personal thing, when it is externalized in the domain of the individual then we ask ourselves, will they doubt themselves? Do you see? The manifest understanding of this, when it dawns upon your consciousness, ought to spur you to more noble efforts, ought to spur you to a greater comprehension of the Law and ought to produce in this time, by the power of example, the type of individual who will stand out in the world of men as a being of worth, a being dedicated to the magnification of God’s light within the forcefield of self. Through intensification of effort, through intensification of thought men are able to achieve much. For God Himself intently dotes upon the creation which He has formed so beautifully Above. Then when men below manifest below as Above that which God dotes upon will become a beautiful thing in the outer world of form.
Noble and grand architecture never before brought forth will be a thing of reality in this world, not only within the souls of men but also as it is outpictured in their lives. The nobility of cosmic architecture within the domain of the individual is of more concern to us than beautiful buildings. Yet we know the effect and the influence upon mankind of beautiful buildings, of beautiful thoughtforms, of beautiful ideas.
Today there is a nefarious and awful plot being hatched by the brothers of the shadow who seek to spread ugliness in the world through the depicting of horror to mankind, including to the youth of the world. Innocent individuals, for the sake of a thrill, go forth to be entertained by these vicious pictures, which are actually projections from the astral realm of the horror of decadent ones who lived in a decadent society of the past. You when you understand the meaning of the great cosmic Law will shun these things as one would shun an abortion of the cosmic intent.
Remember, precious ones, that God never distorts, that God never aborts, that God never destroys. All destructive activity is always the culmination of events brought about by man’s own ignorance of the Law, by man’s own lack of understanding, by man’s lack of values, by man’s release of misqualified energy into the world of form. When energy is regarded as a treasure, when the release and charge of energy is regarded as a pleasure, when men comprehend and understand how the life plan of God and man is served wisely by the release of pure energy you will see a race of men manifest upon this planet who have never before shown forth their light. You recall now, precious ones, the words of my beloved cohort Jesus: “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. . . . Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”
The cosmic unity of the ascended masters is legion, and our allegiance is to the Presence. Our allegiance is to the presence of life within you. Our allegiance is to the bringing forth here in America of a race of men who will govern the earth with the Christ-rule, with the rod of iron, with the rod of Aaron (with the rod that budded), with the rod of dominion--dominion over the earth through dominion and control over self. Not to be controlled were ye formed, but to control--to control your own destiny, to mold and shape life, to bring forth beauty into the world and to externalize it.
The forces of negation may rage. The heathen may imagine a vain thing. But God has released beauty into the world. God has released perfection into the world. God has made things wonderfully and well. God has performed His service of beauty. The rapture of the eternal Father was released in the perfect pattern which stands above thee in thy divine Presence. Men today below are not controlled by their Presence. They are in many cases acting like robots controlled by other forces which seek to ride in and to supplant and to usurp the authority of the Presence in their world. Understand then the need for bringing down the tube of light around your flesh form! Understand the need for bringing down the resurgent whitefire light around your flesh form! Understand then the need for using the violet transmuting flame as you have never used it before! Understand then the need for creating the mental picture of the steely whitelight of God that never fails! Understand then the need for cutting the ties which bind you to outer-world dominion!
Understand then the need to awaken and quicken the spark of the divine flame, the holy threefold flame of life within your heart until it rises out of the human dimension and pulsates with the mighty fires of Life--the throbbing intensity of the very being of God rising up into attunement with the mighty God Presence above you! Understand then that the Holy Christ Self, as it comes down in a mighty tide of energy, will shake the very foundations of the earth and change the outer-world pattern from one of discordant energies and energy manifestations into the perfection of the divine Presence, where the light of God that never fails shines forth with the splendor of the Son of God! And ye are indeed, as of old, called by your right name, by the name of the being of God, the new name which no man knoweth saving he who has received it.
Be free in this day and age! For freedom is the God-intent of the age. Freedom is the requirement of the hour. A world in bondage may be a world aflame, but a world aflame is not in bondage. Be aflame then with God-intent and ye shall be free! Be aflame with the world’s intensity and the discordant, inharmonious energies of the world—and you shall always remain in the bondage of mortal illusion.
I ask this night for the mighty Lords from Zadkiel’s band, the angels of record9 and those who assist mankind to know their freedom to come into this room--ten thousand in number--[congregation rises] and radiate the intensity of their mighty focuses of violet transmuting flame into the forcefield of this room. Let this charge of light intensify and intensify and intensify! Let the violet flame magnify, magnify and magnify by the power of the three-times-three! Let freedom pulsate through the physical octave of mankind! Let freedom pulsate through the mental octave of mankind! Let freedom pulsate through the emotional octave of mankind! Let freedom pulsate through the memory octave of mankind! And let freedom reign!
Long may the banners of freedom reign over the world of every individual here and over all upon this planet whom I love with a love that will not be understood until individuals themselves are ascended in the light and wholly God-free!
Ladies and gentlemen, children of the dawn, radiant sons of God’s love, in the holy name of freedom I say:
Let freedom’s star/ Guide you wherever you are
To seek until you find,/ To search until you know,
To refuse error and shun error’s child,
And to understand that love, meek and mild,
Is the Christ-light within/That erases all banal sin
& shows the purity-ray/ That leads back to the throne of God
Right now today. I AM, I AM, I AM the freedom of the Law!
I AM, I AM, I AM the freedom of the light!
I AM, I AM, I AM the freedom of the right!
Mon droit10--my right, the right of kings--is given to every man. Now I say, let liberty as of old resound. Liberty, take dominion. I thank you.
-Saint Germain: 10-29-1966 at San Francisco via Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet (portrait by Gordon Ross, 1941, of Roger Bacon, an incarnation of the master)
1) Temper the winds. This refers to the expression “God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.” The most well-known attribution of this expression is from the novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne. 2) Edward Vernon Rickenbacker(1890–1973) was a pilot, industrialist and the most celebrated U.S. World War I air ace. In October 1942 the plane taking Rickenbacker as a military observer to the Pacific theater ran out of fuel and landed in the ocean. He and six other men (a seventh man died at sea) spent twenty-four days drifting across the Pacific in life rafts before they were rescued. While they were lost at sea they survived on the occasional fish, seagull meat and any rainwater they could collect. 3) ISam. 17:48–51. 4) Luke 7:47. 5) Rom. 13:10; Gal. 5:14. 6) Elizabeth Clare Prophet explains that devachan is the realm of wish fulfillment where souls go between lifetimes to satisfy their worldly dreams. This realm is in the first three levels of the etheric plane. 7) “Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; / Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Retribution,” in Poetic Aphorisms, translated from Baron von Logau’s “Sinngedichte”(1654). 8) John 14:6.
9) Recording angels: each soul evolving in time and space is assigned a recording angel, who records every action, word, deed, thought and feeling. At the end of each day the recording angel submits the record of that day to the Keeper of the Scrolls, the head of the band of angels known as the angels of record. The Keeper of the Scrolls is the custodian of the archives containing each individual’s Book of Life. It is the responsibility of the Keeper of the Scrolls to provide the ascended masters and the Lords of Karma with the life record of any or all incarnations of any individual about whom they may inquire. On October 13, 1972 Mother Mary told us that we could apply to the Keeper of the Scrolls to see the records that would assist us in overcoming the human consciousness and attaining our victory. Mother Mary said: “The Keeper of the Scrolls...will draw forth from the Book of Life in your behalf, if you will call to him and to the Lords of Karma, those pages that require seeing and examination if you are to make the proper calls.”
10) Mon droit is an expression taken from the French motto Dieu et mon droit (“God and my right”). It is the motto of the British royalty and appears on a scroll beneath the shield in the English version (non-Scottish) of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom; said to have first been used by King Richard the Lionheart as a battle cry. It was then adopted as the royal motto of England by King Henry V in the fifteenth century.
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+ Archangel Michael, Help Me! (supplication)
(I would stand with you daily, but I must have that call given once in each twenty-four-hour cycle, for it is the Law of octaves. I can and shall step through the veil in any hour of the day or night—but I must have that call:)
Archangel Michael, Help me! Help me! Help me!
Archangel Michael, come into my life!
Archangel Michael, Bind this condition now and bind the foe
and release me from this imprisoned substance!
(Here compose your personal prayer: name the problem and describe the misqualified energy.)
Release me now from all temptation and all backsliding and going astray and non-belief in the power of Almighty God to save my life and to give me my victory in this embodiment!
Archangel Michael, Help me! Help me! Help me! Archangel Michael, come into my life! Archangel Michael, stand with me!
Save my child! Save my household!
Save my nation and bind those Communist hordes!
Mighty I AM Presence, I am here, O God, and
I am the instrument of those sevenfold rays and archangels!
And I will not retreat. I will take my stand. I will not fear to speak, and I will be the instrument of God’s will, whatever it is. Here I AM, so help me, God!
In the name of Archangel Michael and his legions—
I AM freeborn and I shall remain freeborn! And I shall not be enslaved by any foe within or without!
-Archangel Michael: 7-3-1984 at RTR, Montana
