How sweet are the initiatic fires

      How sweet are the initiatic fires blazing as a star of hope in the firmament of identity, filling the cup of consciousness with the joy and love radiance of the Eternal!  As though I were your foster father I am come this night to bring you the comfort of the Eternal God.  You call me the Initiator, and so I AM by His Grace resident within you.  For there are compensating factors resident within man correspondent to that which is above.

  Tonight mindful of the tenderness of the love of the students for the eternal Presence, mindful of the consonance of the universe I AM here to impact Light against Darkness and to produce the comfort of the Holy Spirit and the divine radiance in the cup of man’s God-charity--the cup that considers his neighbor and the positioning of grace in his consciousness as of paramount import.

  Let me then ask of you a tenderness in spirit, a pliability in feelings, a receptivity in consciousness to the descending arc from on high.  For God hath heard the calls of His children for deliverance, and He is prepared to initiate various individuals in a greater measure of the extension of divine reality into the world of men that men may be made aware of the magnificent God Presence anchored within the fires of the heart.

  I see the golden light pulsing and rising, shedding its majesty over mountaintop, and the blending of the dark purple as it also yields to the glow of the golden light.  And I see the students coming from afar, students filled with hearts of devotion whose auras are light--clear light--and the majesty that is cupped within the soul to produce the fragrance of immortal wholeness because the soul yields its mortal identity (its corruptible self) unto the incorruptible pliability of cosmic Grace.

  The hands of God then descending over the forcefield of the soul changes the magnetic emanations and removes from consciousness those brutal manifestations of carnal viciousness, replacing it all by the Love/Light and the supremacy of cosmic Grace.  Again and again we turn our consciousness to Grace, for Grace is the fulfilling of the pact of identity.  It is a fulfilling of realization.  It is the surrender of the soul to the sweet bliss of infinite compassion.  God is nigh thee this night and the pulsations of His light are in thyself.  And His light is able to transmute, by its transmission of cosmic identity, the fullness of His love for His children.  And the world shall be blessed this night because of the cup ye drink and because of the love ye share and because of the bread of the Word that ye break together now.

  Our hearts are overflowing with devotion.  For with me tonight are twelve masters known to many of you whom I shall not identify by request--their request.  They are pouring their love together with angelic hosts into this convocation of seeking and loving men and women--those who understand that the folds of identity are captured in the light-radiance of the garments of initiation which men wear when they understand the capacity of heaven to drape them in those garments and to see that there is quietude in the world of men, that it is the quietude of divine Peace that descends and holds them in the divine embrace--a love-ray from on high that touches the tenderness of the divine coal to the pliability of the mortal altar of manifestation.  God is here!  And He is within you.  And out of the burning fires of His reality will come a new birth of identity.

  Puny men, men of lesser comprehension caught in the travails of the psychic net, engage in spiritualistic and psychic practices.  These individuals shall be cut free from our spiritual organizations below as they have been cut free above. For we are concerned with welding together under the gnosis of cosmic identity and cosmic reality a body of divine servers who will unswervingly give their faith and devotion to the eternal purposes of our Brotherhood; and they cannot do it by psychic communion or by involvement in the practices of black magic, voodooism or witchcraft.  Even variance is not permitted but only the constancy of an unwavering star that stands before the soul as the power to roll back the veils of obscurity and reveal the wholeness of the divine intent to the manifest person below awaiting the divine hand and ministrations of the Universal Christ.

O Divine Master of all, Universal God Presence, descend now upon each and every monad and let them feel the divine embrace of Thy own compassion for their wholeness!  They are the children of Thy dawn.

And when the fiat of Mercy passed through the universal fires and invoked creative manifestation, behold, the sons of God were there.  In embryonic consciousness they danced in the Spirit of the Living Flame and beheld the turning universes and magnificent galaxies as Thou didst cause them to spring forth.  And Pleiades, the seat of our Brotherhood, did itself spring forth magnificently full-blown from Thy Heart- flame.  And behold the bands of Orion and the magnificence of Arcturus!  All are a part of macrocosmic Love.  And through the farthest reaches of untrammeled space Thy angelic host pass with a speed that transcends lightning.  And the Flame that descends from above is the fire of resurrection.

Resurgens Christus,
O magnificent power within the soul,
Flame of the resurrection to make men whole,
Descend now in flaming glow-ray!
Envelop consciousness with the power of thy love,
And sustain these momentums descending from above
Until men are able to drop the veils of matter and say:
Let these pass, they are not myself
But only those shadow shapes,
Those things which I have worn—
And they are outworn garments.
I shall now reach up
And accept from the hand of my Beloved
Those garments of Christ-radiance that are my own.
I shall claim them!

   They possess the power to atone for all the weaknesses to which the flesh has been prey and to replace it all by the love of the Infinite and the understanding that this world is but a schoolroom in the great universal outpouring of divine Purpose, and that here we do culture men and mature them for those realms above where--entering into cosmic and universal service of divine Love--they shall understand that worlds yet far more embryonic than this one require the ministrations of those who will be prepared by cosmic initiation to come unto those worlds and to serve, even as men may now understand the meaning of universal and far-flung worlds that are being revealed.

  Therefore tonight as I speak to you it is by the power of universal compassion to reveal to you that the magnificent Macrocosmic/microcosmic pattern of universal interchange is a system so great as to free you, if you will accept it, from all of the fears to which the human race has been prey, to teach every one of you that there is a magnificent exchange program whereby advanced souls from other systems of worlds are brought here into physical embodiment to teach and to manifest superiority to the human race, to show to men such superiority as almost defies imagination--that these beings that come here are upon their own worlds but the norm, and each one of them has in him reborn those selfsame radiances of attained God-magnificence from those higher systems.

These are brought to the world of form here below to act as teachers to mankind in various phases of human consciousness.  The outworking of artisanship in brass and iron, the working in marble and sculptury, the magnificent manifestation of great art--all of this, blessed ones, is the power of descending souls who come here, sometimes long since escaped from those rounds of human controls by which you are affected.

  They are free when they come.  Untrammeled, through the air they come clean of heart and pure, and oftentimes they take upon themselves the darkness of this planet.  And whereas they render great service in bringing forth magnificent concepts of music from the angelic realms and manifestations of art from on high they themselves sometimes become subjected to the activities of mankind’s consciousness and they fall under the hammer of sexual depravity.  We want you to know then that the sacrifice that they make causes them to have to outwork a karma commensurate with human karma.  And sometimes these souls who come completely unselfishly to your planet are captured in the net of delusion and are bound for at least seven rounds of embodiment upon this earth until they can escape from those conditions.

  For there were giants in the earth in those days when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men; for they saw that they were fair, and they took them wives of all that they chose.  And there were giants in the earth in those days—there was Og, King of Bashan, and others.  And so you know that the written record does espouse this which I have revealed and does declare it unto you, and your own hearts are able to understand it.  For Earth is made up of a multitude of evolutions, not just one.  And here upon this planet in addition to many racial groups there are also groups in various states of manifestation of consciousness.  And therefore Earth is a great school where all of the mingling and commingling of these individuals was intended to act as an abrasive upon the soul--a chastening upon the soul whereby the most magnificent qualities of unselfishness and godliness could be developed.

  You are intended, then, O blessed people of this Earth, to follow in the footsteps of the living Christ, to understand that in the hollow of his footsteps as he walked along the shores of the Sea of Galilee you can walk today in the footsteps of your Holy Christ Self.  There can be born in you, anew and afresh, the flames of the altar of identity from on high.  And you can understand that our Brotherhood in all of its hierarchial manifestation is a brotherhood of service devoted to mankind and doing the Father’s will.

  I, Maitreya, come to you then in the name of the flaming God of universal consciousness--I AM THAT I AM, I AM THAT I AM, I AM THAT I AM—to imbue you with the feeling in your feeling world, blessed ones, of what it means to have an I AM Presence.  I am concerned that you will understand that your I AM Presence is your link with immortality, that it is the power by which you can wield the authority in your world and take dominion over those mortal foibles to which you have often yielded in the state of lesser realization.

  Now I come!  And I come to initiate those of you who are prepared to the realization that your God Presence is the fullness of infinite compassion and love at all times, that your Presence is leading you as a pillar of fire by night and a cloud of witness by day, that you will be taken through the parched ground and barrenness of mortal consciousness to the promised land of invincible Cosmic Christ victory where the illumination of those elysian fields of light will saturate your four lower bodies with the power of Christ-reality!

  O I say it again:  RESURGENS CHRISTUS!
Flow, majestic Light!  Flow, majestic Light!  Flow, majestic Light!
Saturate the cup of man’s consciousness this night
With that flame that in honor bright
Will free the soul and cleanse it from deceit
That men may see the clear eyes of God
And the face of Eternity
Reflected even in the foam upon the wave,
That they may see it in the face of every little babe
And understand the sundering of the Law--
The Law that invokes a holy awe
Within flame, within mind, within being of man
And engenders in him realization of eternal Brotherhood.

   I AM Maitreya!  And my light goes forth, my arms go forth, my heart goes forth, my love goes forth unto humanity tonight to bring them into breathing, living awareness of their solar identity--the flame of God that is within!

  How magnificent it is that you, blessed ones, are able to feel these pulsations of the Father’s love.  For His love is the love of eternity pulsing into the wells of time and invoking therein the bubbling joie de vivre--the flow, buoyancy, glow, cosmic reality that separates man from mortal sterility and reveals compassionate reality to every one whose mind will accept my sword of light as I blaze it forth to you all to cauterize in you those abscesses of mortal doubt and disbelief and reveal for all time to come that the love-Son of God, the love-Sun of God has rays whose power to raise your souls is invincible both now and forever.

  Peace be with you:  may faith be multiplied, may love be spread abroad in your hearts to end all dissimulative practices and to draw each one of you to the fires of the Sun, to the love of Eternal God and your sense tonight of your immortal victory!       

-Lord Maitreya:  12-28-1968 at Colorado Springs, Colorado via Messenger Mark Prophet

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            We breathe forth the tenderness of the Father’s revelation of the reality of Self into space.  And we call to the great eternal seed of flame within the chalice of the individual heart to be activated by the living seed of reality that is within each heart that we may make known the mystery of the garment of initiation.

  To initiate one into the Law of Being is to exalt passions of reality within the individual and to cause that one to feel the flame of cosmic comfortability whereby the individual monad in his expression is drawn very close to the heart of God, to the heart of reality where he can shed the skin of the snake, the garment of the wolf and all that is voluptuous and carnal and of the world and happily be clothed upon with the garment of anointing of the Most High God.

  Thou hast chosen me to preach the gospel unto the poor and to bind up the wounds of those who are in anguish and to bring comfort unto men.  Thus the garment (mantle) of initiation drops upon the waiting soul, and at last the soul perceives the reality of Self--not as manifestation alone but as man of God, as the good man, the one vested with the precepts of immortal Life.  For I say unto all of you tonight that it is not longevity alone that men should seek, but to live well and to live in service full and in a sense of the majesty of God and the majesty of possibility and the realization that perfect love casts out all fear.

  You come to us with hearts of expectancy and we vibrate through space the challenge of this moment which is the challenge of every moment that has ever passed and of every moment that ever will be.  For this moment, this Now, this Moment when you bask in the flame of living Truth as it draws nigh unto you--you can respond!  You can feel the infinite Love of those Creator consciousnesses— the higher ones, the Law of Life manifest in the higher octaves that has spoken and said “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness!”  When this cry went forth reality bloomed in space and the star of Truth shone to all.  But the darkness was pushed back by light, and space receded by the objectivity of cosmic reality and cosmic universality:  a god was born.

  “We have seen his star in the East” is a mantram echoed by humble men, shepherds in the fields.  But the whole world has been called to this high calling to be a Son of God, to give forth light, to permit atoms of Self to shine, to comprehend the mystery of the very bony structure of man called together by the Living Immortal Spirit, to comprehend the firmament of the mind—how the mind was firmed in basic ideas and how these ideas scintillated forth to declare and hold forth for all time the majesty of permanent reality and to see to it that in the echo-chambers of the responsive heart there went forth the realization of the meaning of points of light within Being.

  For man is not just an egg!  He is not just an embryo!  He has moved on the evolutionary cycle a fraction of an inch, but some have rocketed out of the socket of mortal density and they have exceeded their peers.  They have ascended into reality.  They have become one with us who are in the light. And we wait and claim all men for their own mission of universal reality.  We send forth light!  We send forth light!  We send forth light!  And light flashes in the mind and being of man.  And light is more than words--Light is the Word! “And the Word was made flesh.”  And therefore all things that have been externalized in form are created to become the majesty of the Formless that also chooses to take the higher form even as He selects it at will.

For there are higher forms—designs made by God, designs made by Hierarchy, designs fashioned beyond all scope of imagination and geometrization of mortal consciousness or all factors known to the mind of man but sensed deeply within the silent recesses of the soul that like a still pond--now as we play the light ray of Peace upon it—understands the meaning of cosmic tranquility:  O Peace, be still, and know the I AM within you is God! 

This God, this passion for reality, this straining to Life is hindered only by dark and sordid thoughts that stem from vain imaginations.  And therefore let us put to sleep for a moment those imaginations that have troubled the hearts of men with sordid and ugly pictures, that have created the illusion of hatred, that have created and fostered the illusion of greed in the world.  Let it end in the solemn realization that I AM come that ye might have Life and that more abundantly.

The secret of the abundant Life is the secret of the flame within the heart that clothes the outer self and the being of man with the inward radiance that he already is.  Respond then and see that points of light that compose the body of substance, that compose the body of intellect, that compose the body of spirit all together can respond to the passion of light, the love of light that inflames soul.  For when this light inflames the soul in one point in space it can also expand to many points and many sons of God.

Little orbs,

Little luminaries of solar radiance

Within the frame of identity of man,

The being of each individual monad,

Flash forth and weave

The subtle garment of the Lord--

The garment of the living Christ

Draped then like a mantle-flame

Around the shoulders of all:

The very soul stands tall.

And men see and perceive the reed of God

That is the Scepter of Power--

That seems to many at any hour

To be a shallow thing

Dipped into a shallow pond—

But that in reality

Is the sounding and fury of soul

Seeking, aborning to be made whole,

To grasp the Allness of Identity.

Compass then the universe around

By love yourselves

That you may cast out your net

On the right side of the boat of Being

And in casting it into the sea

Of universal reality

Draw in the many fishes into the net

That now escape Consciousness

Because it has not yet

Understood the power of the flaming soul

That seeks to make man whole.

   Initiation, my brethren--I speak of it.  And initiation is a magnificent concept when grasped, for it means that the varied experiences that occur in the world of form to you, the little happenings in the mind, all have their place in the divine Schema--a place calculated to draw and magnetize reality to you.  But when the soul turns to outer things and desires to do harm unto men and to create darkness--then you see because it is utilizing the energy of the light in reverse it creates its negative patterns which always return to the feet of the one who sends them forth.  And yet whereas karmic stones have dropped upon the senseless heads of men, pounding them again and again, it seems as though they sleep on, sleep on, sleep on.

  Yet in every age there are some who understand the meaning spoken of old:  “Cephas, yea, I AM the Christ, the Rock.  And flesh and blood have not revealed this unto thee but my Father which is in heaven; and upon this Rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it!”

  For the devil shall fear and tremble where you walk when you grasp the power of universal reality, when you talk with the gods who have already attained to that stature--those who have gone before you into Galilee, those who have gone before you into Jerusalem, into the City of Peace, those who have attained their place beyond the veil—a sure anchor that cannot fail.  

The tenderness then of Life that loves our Father dear 

Goes beyond the veil and brings to you right here 

The light that does not fail!

The tenderness then of Life that loves our Father dear

Goes beyond the veil and brings to you right here

The light that does not fail!

  And when that light within you embodied in form draws more light unto itself, then you see, man becomes a Sun, a solar magnet and he draws to himself qualities of universal victory, a sense of overcoming which man in his carnal state does not possess.  He does not possess it.  He chooses (in the overcoming) rather to confess his sins, his blames, his peccadilloes, his errors when the one error of all life is the error of failing to understand who he is!  He is a Son of God, he was called to highest purpose.  For God chose not to bring but one son to captivity, but many, and vested many with breathing garment of living flame.

And They beyond the veil

Stand today waiting to help you, one and all;

They are not dead but living flames to whom you call.

And one day when your strength is great

And you have achieved the boldness of victory

You yourselves will stand

With outstretched hand

To assist mankind still coming up the mountain--

One by one, solitary climbers

Through the veil of error

Into the fold of the Lamb of God.

As they seek to climb

You will assist them!

And ready then you must be to do it,

Taking into account

All of the factors of your lives

And the experiences thereof.

These experiences are challenges,

They are challenges given to you from on high.

Overcoming circumstances you must then rise

To understand flame that descends from the skies,

That casts out blame and density and enfires

The soul with universal cosmic desires--

The flame of Universal Intent.

This is the mold/shape, the cast,

The twig then that is bent

To frame a Tree of Life for one and all,

A mantle from on high that lifts all from the Fall

To light and purity and power!

I come!  I speak!  I clothe this hour

Those who are disciples on this star

Now fallen into shame

Because they have forgotten God’s name

And cast blame

Upon something else outside of self.

Seeking then the scapegoat consciousness, to mar,

This produces darkness on this star,

And hatred flashes forth and travels farther

Than God would have it be.

And yet I come as One--this class to see--

That life and power and victory bold

Flash forth a sword of Truth

To part the dark!

I come, I come this hour

In all its stark reality to man

To show that this is not the Plan--

What happens here in all its density and ugly form.

Our God speaks well this day, this hour

And every hour I would have reborn--

Reshapen, rekindled, enlivened as lively stones,

Builded up into a temple most holy—

This is all a part of initiation most lowly.

For He comes riding upon an ass,

And upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

He comes!  Hosanna!  Praises and glory to His name!

‘Tis you or any man that rides within that flame—

That flame made a little lower than the angels

Yet crowned with more glory and honor.

So you see, my brethren of the light,

There is not so much difference in man within,

The difference is without.

For all darkness of mind

And all that causes man to pout

In shame and misery, darkness spouting from his lips

Of pain and shame and blame--

Are all completely part of the not-Plan.

These were not the will of God,

These happenings are blocks

Of stumblingstones to men.

We would pick them up, each one, once again,

And say:  now your pathway is clear.

Get up!  The Good Samaritan is here!

He offers his hand.

And so you see, in reality

Every mystery of Christ

That was lived in the life of Jesus

Is a step or station of the cross

That you can walk in

As you pass through life,

For all is an initiation

That comes to everyone in life.

When they are ready the Master appears!

When they are ready the light shines clear!

And hope then draws nigh--

And fire from the sky

Brings again to every tongue that is

The understanding of the Word that was,

The Word that was lost.

And men say once again:

My Saviour, my God, my all,

I AM thy child!

O raise me from the Fall

And teach me to be mild,

Strong, bold, the ever-new,

Radiant one!

The many and the few

Are all but one.

And we bring into view

Then with clarity and beauty

The passion of the flame.

This flame is within every cell of your body:

It is within the mind,

It is within,

It is a hymn!

It hums, it sings, it lives within!

And when you grasp that principle

You need never again be a mortal

In mortal consciousness.

You may walk here below

And observe the dream that passes,

But you will stand upon the throne

With the Father, with your Presence--

With your Mighty I AM Presence,

With your God-free Being.

And there upon that throne

You will take dominion over the earth,

Over yourself, over all that is under your control.

You will not seek to rule others but yourself,

For he that can rule himself

Can keep a city fast.

He that can rule himself

Can obtain the kingdom fast at last

And hold it forever

And never let it go.

He is one with us.

He may come and go,

For it has been said of old

He that is born of the Spirit

Can go and come

Wheresoever he listeth. 

And no place in the universe

Will be unknown to you

As you travel wide

In all great circles

Of the infinite tide—

A flow, a glow, a goal,

A radiance that is yourself--

Everywhere yourself,

Everyone yourself and you everyone--

No sense of separation!

And this I did not mean to be a pun

But only a sense of jubilation.

For we ourselves in higher octaves

Possess the capacity of speaking

In the most beautiful language if we wish,

Or we can speak an enigma and swim like a fish

In all of that substance that you yourselves

Are actually living in!

And we ask ourselves sometimes when we see it:

How can they live in it?

And we say to ourselves when we observe

The emanation of shadowed things

That come out from individuals’ minds,

Spawns of darkness--

And when we see individuals breathe out hatred

And we see them breathe out calculations

And we see them breathe out fear for themselves

As to whether or not they will survive

Or what is going to happen to the self--

We say, O our Father, help them to abandon it all!

Help them to let go of that smallness of sense

And let them understand the need

To enter in with Godspeed—

Into the lightning sense

Of the divine reed of God!

A symbol, yea, but a graceful symbol

And more than a symbol

For a bruised reed shall not be bent:

It shall stand upright.

And God will heal by His Intent

All that man has slain

By his misunderstanding and vanity

And pain.

And so I, Maitreya,

In the name of the living God,

In the name of the living Christ

Speak to the world tonight:

Come out of your shame and your eroticism!

Come out of your blame

And your intention of blame!

Come out of your fear

And your sense of greed

And of control over men!

Come out of it and yield up the content of it--

And transmute it into light.

And wear the garments of light upon your forms,

Adorn yourselves with initiation

And seek to understand what it means

To have a spiritual teacher

Who will say unto you:

The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof!

You are the Lord’s and the fullness thereof!

Your forms, your minds--

All that constitutes you belongs to Him,

And all that constitutes Him belongs to you.

And this is the joyous fountain of all.  

This is reality!

It will not keep you small

But enlargen the borders,

The hemispheres of your identity.

And first there will be a little bubble

That will appear upon the screen of self.

And this little bubble

Will be no bigger than your head.

And then it will expand and be

Twice as big, instead--

And then again, and lo, behold, the giant leap!

It keeps on and keeps on,

And it keeps you keeping on!

For you are expanding into an infinite pattern.

And were it a finite pattern

You would have to come to a place

Where you would say:  All is fulfilled.

But because it is an infinite pattern

We know it is God-willed,

And each one of you can go on

Joyously seeking day after day

To fill yourselves with the fountain

Of this reality—this reality that is You!

Won’t you accept it then tonight

And find your freedom

From that sense of the personal self

That encloses you and makes you feel a clod--

That is like a stony face that shuts you off from God?

Oh, won’t you accept tonight,

The power of the flame

To impart the reality and victory of light

To you in God’s own name?

And let us make of this whole planet

A living ball of fire,

Inflamed with hope and desire of the Spirit--

The Holy Spirit, the Word, the Logos that He spoke.

Let none fear it!  Let all hear it!

Let all draw nigh to it!  Let all be it!

Let all see it!  Let all comprehend it!

Let all grasp it!  Let all live in it!

Let all move in it!  Let all be moved by it!

Let no one fear it!  Let all draw near it now!

  I AM Maitreya.  I come to you to revive in you a sense of the living Christ— a sense of the living Christ that lives within you!  A sense of the Christ that I now would bring into view!  What of your shames?  What of your wrongs?  Cast them all into the flame and let them always depart but remember one thing:  you must always cleave to the light and the purposes of the light.  You must understand the Golden Rule.  You must understand that whene’er you fool any individual you but fool yourself, for God is in him also.

  And therefore the key to all progress is in the wearing of garments of the Living Christ and the entering in to His reality. This is Life--abundant Life!  This is truth--all truth!  This is oneness with the Father.  And the proof of this is in the eating thereof:  if you eat His flesh and drink His blood by becoming like Him in your thoughts, your outer forms can change, your minds can change.  All that in you now seems puny and relative in its iniquity can be cut free for all eternity and be, as we are, a Child of the Sun!  

  This you are now.  Won’t you let go?  Won’t you let go of the finite self and its dimension and live here as witnesses of the Truth, as Children of the Dawn?  I, Maitreya, say to you that this conference will bring forth some very marvelous things into your minds and beings, but you must be alert!

  And therefore tonight I ask each one of you to pray unto God, to your own Lord Christ, to the entire spiritual hierarchy and but request a clearing of your minds and beings by the flame.  And I will do for you all that the Lords of Karma will allow.  This I pledge you, this I give you, this is my vow!  Accept it in the name of your own freedom.

  I thank you.   

-Lord Maitreya:  7-2-1969 at Colorado Springs, Colorado via Messenger Mark Prophet

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