sorrow and suffering that for a little while precedes the rejoicing and overcoming

I would rather have that one than someone who is neither hot nor cold. I then come and I say, beloved: Darkness is upon the land, but you can brighten it. Darkness may be here or there, but in your heart you can carry a conflagration of whitefire. Let whitefire consume then what might be, what could be. Let whitefire consume then all that must go if the darkness of earth is to become its brightness. Remember it is the mothers of the universe, it is the ­shaktis, it is those who care about life—they are the ones. So follow them. These are the feminine deities. All need them. All worship them. All become ultimately one with Shiva. So let it be done! -Kali, via Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on July 4, 1997 at San Diego, Pearls of Wisdom 45:4 ………………..…….. Because Sumedha–your own soul and mine–had determined to find the path and to let nothing hold him back, his heart was filled with joy when he heard that the Buddha called Dipamkara was coming by the way. While Sumedha was clearing the path for the holy one of holies, he meditated on the name of Buddha, and within his soul he did proclaim “The Buddha comes!  All hail, the Buddha comes to reign!”  And as he was meditating upon the law of the three and three, the six powers of the star of God-mastery, and visualizing the image of the Buddha enthroned within his heart, lo, came the Buddha, came Dipamkara!… So then Dipamkara the Buddha approached Sumedha prostrate in the mud and, stopping there, proclaimed to all the company that he in vast cycles yet to be would be crowned a Buddha, Lord of All the World. The destiny not only of Sumedha but of every living soul was proclaimed that day. But the difference between Sumedha and all other living souls that day was that he accepted his God-ordained destiny, his responsibility to be Buddha. The soul that accepts future attainment and presaging of that attainment in the ever-present now is the soul who seizes the fiat of the Lord of the World “Thou shalt be the Buddha!”  with the vow “I AM Gautama he Buddha here and now!” -Gautama Buddha: Pearl 18:19 ………………………. O beloved, think of it!  Think of such a victory that causes them to receive back upon themselves their own anger. And they become enraged. And their rage multiplies their anger and thus they are self-consumed. And ruby ray does its work, and you have not been touched at all. You did not fall. You gained your points and you need not step backwards down the ladder. You will continue to ascend Jacob’s ladder across a cosmos itself. I bid you welcome to the plane of perpetual joy. May you know this–that by your love and your calls we five have come closer to Earth than in many thousands of years. And truly you have brought the delight of illumination’s golden flame for the quickening, the rebirth and resurrection of the true path of Buddhism and of Lord Gautama, Lord Maitreya [and] Lord Dipamkara, our Sanat Kumara. Now then, beloved, espouse the noble cause of love and Love’s harmony and see what twinkling miracles will manifest which are not miracles at all but the miracle of your determined God-Self-mastery. We are the waiting cosmic bridegrooms, waiting for our brides. Come. Ratnasambhava,. via Messenger ECP on July 5, 1990 at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. Pearls of Wisdom 33:29 ………………… And so the Lord Dipamkara
Prophesied the future
Of the future Buddha.
Behold the disciple of the Lord!
Behold the devotee of the Word!
Behold the one!  Lo, he has come!
Sumedha in the world to be,
A Buddha in the world shall be.… As in the drama of the Christed ones and avatars of the ages their disciples were foreordained, so, too the disciples of Gautama were named by Dipamkara. -Gautama Buddha: Pearl 18:20 …………… Therefore O my soul–soul of Sumedha, soul of humanity, soul of chelas on the path of the Buddha–clear the heart, the sacred chamber. Expand it wide and long. Increase the height, the breadth, the depth. And when the way is all made clear, welcome the mastery of Dipamkara here. Welcome the Buddha, the lord of lords, the conqueror on the way. Welcome the Lord of All the World into your heart, into the flaming flame of sacred fire, of honor, courage, and purity. And see how God will dwell within the chamber of your heart. See how the fire will swell. See how the white light will swirl to the movement of the pulse of Shamballa. See how the expansion of consciousness will come to those who have the courage to be. -Gautama Buddha: Pearl 18:23 ……………… I dwell upon this initiation of the third of the secret rays that you might understand that it is for the entwining of the flame of the Buddha and the Mother within your own fiery core. Cells of being marching in pairs emulate the twinflames of Alpha and Omega. And when therefore you find no other explanation, no other consolation for sorrow and suffering that for a little while precedes the rejoicing and overcoming, look to God on high, look to the Lord Dipamkara and the disciple Sumedha. Look to the soul within and hear the voice of hierarchies echoing from the Central Sun of life: -Gautama Buddha: Pearl 18:25

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