I have set watchmen upon thy walls

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. “Friends of the Community” A Reading from Maitreya The community, being a fellowship first of all, sets as a condition for entrance two conscious decisions: labor without limit and acceptance of tasks without rejection. It is possible to eliminate faint-heartedness by means of a two-fold organization. As a result of unlimited labor there may be a broadening of consciousness. But many people, not bad otherwise, do not envision the results, being frightened by incessant labor and enormous tasks. And yet they have accepted basically the idea of the community. It would be harmful to include these yet weak people in the community; but in order not to extinguish their striving one should not cast them out. For this it is useful to have a second organization—friends of the community. Herein without forsaking the customary order of life these newcomers can become more deeply conscious of the community. Such a two-fold organization permits the preservation of a far more concentrated sincerity in the work. If however a formal entrance into the community itself be allowed, one will be obliged periodically to eject the unfit ones. In other words the community will cease to exist altogether. It will be simply an institution under a false label beside which the Sanhedrin of the Pharisees would be a highly righteous establishment. Friends of the community provide the possibility of having a reservoir without danger of betraying the bases of the Teaching. Friends of the community do not conceal their weaknesses, and this gives the possibility of successfully strengthening them. Indeed We use the word “friends” because for the Occident this term is more understandable. Among Ourselves We call them disciples of a certain degree, but the West poorly contains Our concept of discipleship. Therefore let us keep to the better-known designation—friends of the community. It is absurd for the West not to accept Our simple propositions, fortified by long experience. Our Communities are old! Have not the best people understood community, not proposing any other form? From the community to far-off worlds! ......................... ............. So shall it be that Christ shall descend into your temple with such fanfare. For all the heavenly hosts do gather on the day when, as Above so below, the will of God does fulfill all things in you and you fulfill all things in the will of God; and therefore Christ is come to reign forever and forever in the temple of the living God that you have consecrated totally unto him. I AM Jesus. I AM the one who was and is and yet shall be in your life. You have known me always, as I have known you. Therefore come into my sacred heart this day, for I would take you to my heart and deliver you from the burdens of death and hell. (Now then, be seated in the lotus of the cosmic heart.) You have welcomed me as Brother. Some have called to me as Lord and Savior. I am grateful for your true acceptance in the most profound reaches of your being of my lifestream, for thereby I may serve you this day and unto your victory. I too have heard all the words that have been spoken [at this conference] and the admonishments. But I have desired with a profound desiring of my heart to be able to give you a gift of myself this day though it may not have been earned. Therefore I have appealed to my Father-Mother God to allow me to bear the karma of this gift should you misuse it. Beloved ones, I have asked for another opportunity to save your souls, even when some of you would not be saved and have forgotten to make the call for [your] salvation from the very dregs of your own human consciousness, multiplied as they are by the forces from beneath. Therefore, beloved, you have been told of the testing within the pyramid at the two-thirds level. You have been told of the initiation of the heart. I, Jesus, have come to you as your true Friend and Comforter. Do you suffer burdens of soul and separation from life because you have not known a true friend or a true Comforter or because you are smarting from the wounds inflicted by those who have been the enemy or the betrayer? I bid you receive me now as friend and let my friendship be to you the healing of all that has not met your expectations. I come to you as Comforter. Be comforted, then! For you see, I can fill all vacancies and the hollowness and hollowed-outness. I can fill the body temple with our love. Now you must decide if you would have me as your friend and as your Comforter; for the decision involves, beloved, your commitment, your desire to let go of all other hurts, [all negative] encounters [of this world] that have become excuses not to embrace your own Holy Christ Self. I come as someone you know or ought to know from your readings and prayers. I come as someone who extends beyond all time and space, offering indeed my hand of friendship. Do you understand my point, beloved? I will make it very clear: If you can so receive me, then the very process of receiving me will involve the letting go of all other persons, considerations and experiences that have led to disappointment and sorrow and vacancy, disillusionment, cynicism, despair. You have been as Diogenes with his lantern, seeking an honest man, seeking an honest friend but always seeking someone to adorn the needs of the lesser self, someone to comfort the human. These you have called friend and comforter until the day when they did turn and rend you. Such is the carnal mind. Do not be so dismayed or hurt. Dogs bark and lions roar and leopards have their spots. Therefore know the characteristics of that with which you deal and know that until the individual attains union with God there is that potential for carnal-mindedness and potential to be used against the aspiring lightbearer. Thus I tell you, ere you can receive me in the offering of myself, you must desire to have the kind of friend that I am, the kind of Comforter that I am. If you are ready for such a friendship and such a Comfort, then, beloved, you need not go back to revolving the old records that keep you bound to the world of nothing and the not-Self, that keep you from the marriage to the Bridegroom. And so, beloved, you will come to the place–indeed you must if you would accept my gift–of no longer desiring this type of satisfaction but truly desiring the God-satisfaction of the true path and the true friend and the true Comforter. Your own willingness to accept me or lack of it will reveal to you just how much you are attached or unattached to all that has gone before. Now then I offer you my friendship and the presence of my Comfort to this end, [that I may] give you the gift that can be received only from friend and Comforter. The gift, beloved, is a magnificent portion of resurrection’s flame that I desire to place in your heart this day that you may bank the fires of the heart with this sacred fire of resurrection’s flame and use it to balance and expand that threefold flame and use it to increase the Christ heart flame unto the day and hour of your testing at the two-thirds level of the pyramid, which is the point where the resurrection flame does burn. But the resurrection flame, beloved, is a manifestation of the threefold flame that has begun to rotate and to turn. The resurrection flame is an accelerated version of the rainbow flame of God. The resurrection flame is a mother-of-pearl radiance. And so you see, in order to have it, in order to meet the initiation of that level you must have balanced your threefold flame; for there cannot be rotation of the flame when [the three plumes] are unequal. Thus you see the dilemma that I have perceived regarding your soul’s meeting of the tests that are down the path and down the dates from this moment. How can you pass the test of the two-thirds level [of the pyramid] if you have not balanced a threefold flame and thereby established within yourself a co-measurement of resurrection’s fire? It is not possible, beloved. And though you serve and work and meditate and invoke light for this purpose, the balancing of the threefold flame does also involve the balancing of karma that has caused it to be out of kilter. You cannot suddenly raise up the blue plume in proper proportion to the other two if you have not balanced the karma of the abuse of power and of the will of God and if you have not understood the causes of your misuse of the first ray. And you can only gain an understanding of those causes if you will pursue the study of your psychology. Therefore in addition to the courses already set forth for the summer and the fall we must emphasize the study of one’s psyche or soul, in ever-increasing depths of intensity. Therefore let those come to Summit University who are fed up with schisms and wish to cut right through and reach that point of Christ realization. Seeing the causes, beloved, is most of the victory. [First is] seeing the causes. Second is the desiring to be rid of them and their effects. And third is the will, the absolute God-will in you that says “I will do it! And I will do it now! For nothing is impossible to me in God.” Thus I am truly sent. And for thousands of years I have been sent as Savior. Now you may understand the meaning of Savior and go and do likewise and also be Savior, as God would use you as savior unto many souls. When you recognize the dilemma of a loved one and the place where that loved one needs to be in consciousness to fulfill his duty to the law of his God Presence, and yet that one, though sincere, is not able and is overcome by his own depressions and despair, and you see that the heart chakra is not cleared and the flame is not balanced, you will have the desire that I have which is to bear some burden of the karma of that one, to impart the resurrection flame and to be willing to stand before God and say “I will sponsor that one as Guru for chela. And therefore I know that it is I who will pay the price if the gift is misappropriated.” This is the meaning of the Guru-chela relationship. May you indeed “love one another as I have loved you.” Study the equation, beloved. The disciple cannot rise in the disciple’s present state, yet the disciple must rise if there is to be salvation. Enter the Savior who does say “I will make up the difference. And I will pray fervently [for that one] and stand for that one to reach for that difference even when that one does not contain the ability in the present moment to do so.” The very gift itself imparts the ability to fulfill the dharma of the moment. And therefore the Guru must believe in the chela, that if the chela had this much more of divine substance and energy and quickening, that chela would rise, would respond to the gift, would maintain a consciousness of gratitude even when ingratitude of the past has not been transmuted. Do you understand, beloved, why it is love and love alone that will sustain this relationship and the path itself? For if the chela be not able, then that which will make the difference in the chela’s striving will be the chela’s absolute love for the Guru. This love becomes an adoration. For, beloved, in the Guru the chela sees the Savior and knows that without that Guru he cannot move forward. It is as though he were locked in the box of his own thinking and feeling world, had lost the key and were about to perish! Enter the Christ. Beloved, called by God to be a Savior unto all, I cannot leave that calling. I know this is the finish of this age of Pisces and it is an hour when the vast majority of the population of the planet must receive their full karma. But I have asked for and received this opportunity to assist you, by asking that I might help those who are students of the ascended masters on the path, who could hear my message, who could know of my offering of friendship and Comfort and of the gift of a portion of resurrection’s flame. [These] could then decide consciously whether or not to receive it honorably with fervent hope and faith, with fervent charity toward me and all, with determined effort to use the gift, even if one has not earned that gift nor quite attained the mastery to uphold it. Yes, beloved, I would do this. And know that I do it not alone for you but, in doing it for you, I do it for the entire planetary home. For if this divine experiment should succeed mightily, you can understand how there might be thousands, counting all those who receive the Pearls of Wisdom who should accept the proffered gift and ever thereafter be those who carry and multiply the resurrection flame. And [they would be those] who multiply by that resurrection flame their own threefold flame [in order] to intensify and balance their gifts and graces and the light of God with the intent to glorify our Father-Mother light, with the intent to “feed my sheep.” Thus I have defined for you the purpose of the gift. [It is] to assist you to rise, as I rose even from the place where I was entombed, that you might rise in stature before God in glorifying Him, letting all see your works and words and know that they truly shine as from the kingdom of God, remembering also that the gift is not unto the [human] self but a boost that the soul who is disciple might become apostle and shepherd. There are many sheep this day whose souls are worthy yet who cannot receive me in this my offering. But as you do receive me, they shall one day receive it through you even as you pursue the meditations of El Morya’s Ashram. As you direct that light, God shall direct it to them. They shall be raised up, they shall be quickened and nothing shall stand between them and this path and this Teaching! They shall reach out and my angels shall deliver them. And they shall come into consonance with this harmony of those whom I have drawn from all races and kindreds and peoples, all nations of the Earth. I have heard the call of the Lords of Karma. I have heard them in their “desperation.” I have sat in the Darjeeling Council meetings. I have heard Saint Germain and Portia. Beloved ones, every Master and Cosmic Being has an offering of the heart, but I am the one whom God sent in the role of Savior. And those who would reach Maitreya, as you know, must come through my heart. It is a principle, beloved, of humility. I do not desire that this be the Law, yet it is the Law; and therefore I desire the Law, if you understand what I mean. And so as I have looked at many servants of God in the heaven world and beyond I have said “Truly I am the only one who can offer the gift that is the necessary gift, the practical gift, the gift that will work!” Therefore I have chosen to believe you in your prayers and your promises and your vows despite the karmic record. I, Jesus, your friend and Brother, I who occupy the office of Savior unto you until you can fully merge with the Christ that is your true real Self and ultimate Savior, I have come, beloved. And I have come that you might understand (for the Law requires that I say it) that if you forget the gift or neglect it or return to the ways of the misuses of the heart, I, Jesus, will pay the price; for I must bear that karma. In so doing, beloved, I will be deprived of helping others of the little ones who are yet the shorn lambs. For you, beloved, are not shorn lambs. You have somewhat the garment of your Christ Self which you have woven with violet flame and sacred fire. Though [the garment be] not complete, you may yet stand in the presence of these dictations without harm, which in itself is many steps in the right direction. This then, beloved, is my message today. I desire not to speak further to you. I would rather see you receive me in meditation and spoken word and in a rejoicing in my heart with yours and in a rejoicing in resurrection’s flame. I only ask, beloved, that you will take this offering and remember that the Church that I have founded with Lord Gautama, the Church Universal and Triumphant, needs the offering of your heart, needs the offering to sustain its continuity. May this resurrection flame also provide you with the means to give what is necessary to the work of the Church in this hour. I am now in this moment withdrawing into the secret chamber of your heart. I shall abide there tending the threefold flame with your Christ Self, regulating and balancing this release of resurrection’s flame which shall now be your portion if you accept it. And if you decide not to accept it, you may surely honorably decline. Thus, beloved, the Spirit of the Resurrection from the Great Central Sun, Uriel and Aurora, Gabriel and Hope, angels of the resurrection come nigh. And as they come nigh I desire that you should recite an Ashram ritual that you might retain this mode of communion with my heart, as I am in your heart. I truly am Jesus, your friend and Brother, your Comforter, your healer, your Savior and your Lord if ye would confess me before God and man. -Jesus Christ via Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on July 8, 1990 at RTR, Park County, Montana Pearl 33:33