You need the discipline and whiplash of our fire

Haill, O hight within the heart!  Hail, light!  I AM light!  And I have come–Maitreya–out of the East. You have called the Son of God, and I AM come in the glory of the risen Christ!  So is everyone that is born of the Spirit, born to the Spirit of eternal life borne by the winds of the Holy Spirit./All life is renewed this day by fires of resurrection!  And I proclaim the triumph of the cosmic Eastertide, the tide of light cascading now from the Great Central Sun in spiraling undulations of power, wisdom and love–pearly-white radiance caressing the souls evolving throughout immortal spheres. O light, thou art one!  Thou art all!  Thou art the magnificent fiat of creation in Alpha, in Omega!/ I AM the initiator of the cycles of mankind’s perfection. And perfection rolls this day, rolls across the face of the Earth!  How glorious is the contemplation of Thy Law, O Lord–Thy Law perfected in the inward parts of man! /

-Maitreya, Pearl 16:35 .................................... The effulgence of the light of cosmos reaches its apex in the Cosmic Christ; and in that consciousness you find the awareness of Selfhood, the discernment of Selfhood, and the desire to be all that God made you to be. Life is indeed one, and the multifaceted parts comprising the vast evolutions throughout galaxies uncomprehended all have but one goal, the attainment of the Cosmic Christ consciousness. I ensoul that consciousness for all evolving Godward. And thus you might say that I act as the mediator between the energies of the Central Sun focusing the I AM Presence and the individual manifestation on worlds within worlds and without./At that point of consciousness which I occupy there is an expansion of power and wisdom and love that nourishes evolutions ascending and evolutions descending. I have manifest this nigh as I came into your midst descending spheres of fire–blue fire, yellow fire, pink fire. And you might say that it is a Fourth of July display on the eve of the Day of Independence, celebrating the independence of the soul from all that is less than whole–the independence of soul from every form of bondage./Don’t you think that it is time that you signed the Declaration of Independence of your soul from all enemies within and without, all forms of instruction that are less than whole?  I think it is time. I am certain that you have gained great good from many sources along the pathway of light; but when you have the ascended masters as your guide then realize that the standard is perfection. There is and there can be no compromise with human error; for every ascended master, angel, and archangel focuses the consciousness of mediator between God and man. And each one who has earned the ascension stands in the place next to your Christ Self, mediating with you, for you, working together hand in hand with your Christ consciousness to lead you into that awareness of light which shall give you your freedom./ I have overshadowed many avatars who have won the race of life; and I have sponsored some who have also taken the left-handed path. Through pride, through self-indulgence some have come into a state of fear and doubt and then taken the intellectual path of reasoning until they have reasoned Hierarchy right out of the cosmos and thus gone forth to proclaim that mankind do not need the ascended masters but only themselves to get to God. Such hauteur can only originate in the human ego; for the soul that knows, the soul that stands in the Presence of God leaps with gratitude fo opportunity to follow in the footsteps of Hierarchy./Beware then of those who have been our disciples and who have taken our name to perpetuate their teachings and their claim to fame and yet have changed those teachings and who are leading, even this very hour, thousands astray through the path of intellectual pride. By their fruits ye shall know them. Of course Hierarchy withdraws sponsorship of rebels to the cause; but once they have claimed our name and a position of eminence among our ban who will tell the little ones who come to their feet to hear the message of Hierarchy at the feet of the Master, who will tell them that the author is now bound on the left-handed path and no longer in the graces of Hierarchy?/Precious hearts, remember, the personality-cult consciousness has no place in the way of the Cosmic Christ. Therefore do not become attached to the outer identity of any teacher or leader or of one another; for the outer consciousness may fail, but the Christ light and the Law will uphold you and support you forever./Sometimes you do not know that you have human attachments or entertain the idolatrous consciousness. It is well to honor the vessel and cup. It is altogether in keeping with Hierarchy to pay allegiance to our representatives, to honor them. But remember that the homage that is paid as a ritual of your life in form is always intended for the God within and always accepted as such by our true emissaries. Therefore give God the credit in all that you do. And take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink; for the Lord God will nourish the f lame that nourishes the form and provide all things at the feet of the true Masters of Light./ I remember well the humility of Jesus as he prayed to God in Hierarchy, to God in the Archangels and Elohim. And he called upon the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, sometimes as one would press buttons at a switchboard, calling various points of light in cosmos, various identities, creating a crisscross of forces descending to impress upon the multitudes that Cosmic Christ consciousness which he so nobly focused both in the individual sense, showing all as great exemplar of the age how to become the individual Christ in action in the world of form and then in the universal sense, showing also the relationship of Father and Son and of Cosmic Christ as universal manifestation of the individualization of God- flame./ On the path to Cosmic Christhood you must realize that the first level of attainment is total awareness and Be-ness of your own Christ Self. This is the individualization of the Christ-flame, the personal Christ that ministers unto humanity. Then you have the attainment of the Universal Christ which is won on the Buddhic path as you expand your mastery to include more and more aspects and greater and greater light of heavenly hierarchies. It is largely a question of degree, of first becoming the Christ in the microcosm and then expanding that Christhood to the macrocosm./Now I have come to you specifically to inform you this night of my office as the initiator of disciples on the path. I am known as the Great Initiator. Even as the Great Divine Director is known as the Initiator of Cycles, so I initiate mankind and all who desire to be tested must ultimately come under my jurisdiction and under my sponsorship. Those who enjoy the challenge of new tests, raising of the bar, raising of the hurdle for a higher and a higher jump, these are those who are counted in my classes in the retreat of Lord Buddha./ I am the one who stands before your Christ Self and before you to see whether you are worthy of your idealism and whether you are willing to actually put on the line the beautiful words, beautiful ideas and longing of your heart to be free to serve mankind. Then comes a test. It may be a test of pride, a test of fear, a test involving the total bent of your consciousness in its tendency toward compromise or error./Surprisingly enough to many disciples, these tests come when they are least expected; for we must know how the disciple will act under greatest of pressure, greatest of fatigue, during periods when he may not have full faculties of God-awareness. For testing is of consciousness and of memory within consciousness of precepts learned within our retreat, within our books and in our instruction that comes in many ways–not the least of which is experience in the schoolroom of life, for experience remains the greatest tutor of the soul./Thus I do not recommend that disciples go without sleep or try to make the hurdle of these fantastic diets that some of you have practiced, starving yourselves almost to death and weakening your ability to withstand temptations of dark forces. Remember Jesus’ words that “not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out.”   This he learned at the feet of Lord Buddha. For it is well known in the circles of the Brotherhood that many times chelas of light in their desire to be austere and in their belief that austerity is a path to victory deprive themselves of nutrients that Mother Nature has placed within all food for a balanced diet for Her children. And thus their nervous system is not prepared to cope with emotional stress that comes to the disciple on the path./ I would also remind you that fasting at prolonged lengths is dangerous unless you are under a Guru, an ascended master or one representative in embodiment whom you know to have the authority and ability to extend protection of Hierarchy to you during periods of fasting. Jesus claimed me as his Guru and called me Father, and yet I transferred that to the Almighty on high and to his own God Presence as I served to anchor through his consciousness the Cosmic Christ energies that gave him the authority and power over all human conditions and circumstance. Thus when he was alone in the desert forty days and forty nights fasting and was delivered up unto the devil to be tempted I was there overshadowing him with the mighty archangels. And thus he too even in his great state of attainment abided by the rule of the Brotherhood to fast only under the protection of Hierarchy./ I warn you of this; for I observe that some of our children of light in various parts of the world through diets they have practiced have had enter and intrude upon their consciousness demons and discarnates and direct emissaries of the black brotherhood. These forces entering in when their body metabolism was at its lowest ebb identified with the soul and with the etheric envelope and began to subtly weave an alter ego, an alternative pattern to true awareness of the Christ within. Thus these precious hearts who ought to be in the company of highest devotees upon the planet are caught in delusion and in strange practices that are not in keeping with a balanced manifestation of true spiritual life./I offer this information to you this night because I perceive that you are sincerely desirous of making progress on the path of purity, total purification of your four lower bodies; and indeed this is a correct goal. But let us understand that ascended master standards of purity are not always the same as the world’s concepts of what purity ought to be. For the world gauges purity from the standpoint of its own impurity./Therefore because mankind entertain a sense of guilt and sin they have a vast condemnation which they bear against themselves for having partaken of human error and sin consciousness. And therefore their concept of purity is to completely wipe out the forcefield of evolving human consciousness and only then will they be satisfied. And thus they deprive themselves of all human joy and expression and true happiness which God intends the saints to have./ And so I say, when you call for purity realize that God has ordained the platform of the four lower bodies in the present state which you now enjoy for purpose of evolution. Total denial of the needs of these four lower bodies can result in a warping of consciousness and an ultimate rebellion of outer consciousness against the path and against the very Law that you desire to outpicture. For the four lower bodies and your evolving consciousness can stand only so much beating, so much whipping, beloved ones, and then there is a time for balance and a need to have balance to regain one’s perspective along the way./ I urge you then to consider the teaching of the Eightfold Path of Buddha as it is being taught by the Mother of the Flame in her discipleship under the Lord of the World, for she has been given precious concepts which are to be included in the next volume of Climb the Highest Mountain. And we have stood with her to see that the recording concerning the Eightfold Path will open the way in the West for millions of followers of the Lord of the World, for he is to be adored for the f lame of Alpha that he expands./ And thus acknowledgment and devotion to Hierarch of this planetary body is in order. And thus as I speak of him whom we adore and call Abba, Father, I expect that you shall stand in homage to his very presence upon the planetary body. [Audience rises.] For you are greatly privileged, precious hearts, to have such an advanced soul desire to remain and fill the office of the one who keeps the threefold flame on behalf of your very life./ / Do you consider then that the kingdom that is ruled by Lord Buddha should have within it subjects who know not who their Lord is?  Can you imagine some people within these United States who would know not who their President is?  This condition blocks the flow and great antahkarana of the Buddha which is held from his heart to the Great Central Sun./And thus you see, as missionaries have gone forth from the West into the East to make known the teachings of the Christ, so I come forth from the East as an emissary, a missionary, for the Lord of the World. And I say, let him be elevated to the proper place that the flow of Hierarchy may continue uninterrupted around the planetary body and that the peace, enlightenment, meditation practices and all that the Buddha teaches might be known and followed and be used to take disciples of Christ another step higher in their evolution. I thank you for your homage to our Lord. Won’t you please be seated. [Audience is seated.] / Our concern with various schools of theology and religion has always been with the percentage of Ascended Master Law that is taught. The less percentage of pure truth, the less concentration of truth can be made within the consciousness of the students. And when the equation of truth and error is out of balance to the extent that error is in the majority–and I tell you that this is the case in the majority of schools upon this planet–then students that graduate from these schools do not have equipment within their outer consciousness to meet the tests of the path. Many, because of their ultimate faith in God-good do make tremendous progress and do convert many souls to the Buddhic path, to the Christic light. And yet how much more progress can be won, and that swiftly, when there is the 99 percent-plus accuracy that is found in this retreat of the Brotherhood./ /But, precious hearts, please be ready. Please expect the test. Please write down in a very important place that you do not forget to look upon each day, that you have asked to be tested. And then please pass the tests for the sake of the Lord of the World. For I tell you, Hierarchy is fatigued with those who come forward to be tested and then constantly fail those tests over and over and over again through lack of emotional control, through human pride and by a disregarding of our precepts long taught to you./ I say to you, precious hearts, you need the discipline and whiplash of our fire this night as well as our peace. For you must understand that it is the Law of Cosmos that not one of you is ever tested before you have been given the full information, the tutoring, the drilling, and the knowledge by energies hard-earned by Hierarchy, dispensed to you through many sources. You never come to a test unprepared!  Do you understand?  Do I make myself perfectly clear?//If you fail, it is because there is a will to fail in the subconscious. And I ask that you rout that consciousness from your subconscious this night, that you kick it out, and that you realize that if you desire to win, you will win. For the knowledge is inside, and it can be evoked upon a second’s notice./I say to you, you must not fail. You must not go down in spirals of degradation. You must uphold the Law of Hierarchy and show some worth to the Lords of Karma, who have extended mercy again and again and again. And what has been their return?  A flaunting of the Law, a deliberate disregard of the very precepts which have been set forth for thousands of years. And all of a sudden, you decide by a process of intellectual rationalization that all is relative and you can do anything you please and get away with it. And that is the very test that you have failed–to follow the rationalization of the ego rather than the reason of the Logos. There is a reason to the Law if you will but have patience to learn that Law./I say to you, then, that the Ascended Master Code of Conduct that shall be presented for your study and that shall be enacted by the Mother of the Flame for the university is the very same code of conduct that was delivered into the hand of Moses, the precepts of the Law that were delivered in the Sermon on the Mount and the teachings that have come forth through the Buddha and hierarchies of heaven. You will not be asked to submit to any discipline that has not already been present in our retreats for thousands of years./ And yet some of you question whether or not you should sign your application for want of seeing those disciplines. Where is your faith in Hierarchy?  Where is your faith, I say?  Do you not understand that the Law is impersonal and that it is impersonally applied and that if you place yourself in the hands of God and work His works and do His will, you have nothing to fear?/ This is indeed the age of fearlessness; and I promise you that when you place yourself in the hands of our representatives on earth and in heaven you will be treated royally, as kings and priests unto God. But you must also understand that you must earn the right to be thus treated. And thus we will demand absolute cleanliness of body and person. Is that such a hard requirement?  We will demand that you pursue the vegetarian diet. Is that such a hard require­ment?  We ask you to garner your energies for opening of the third eye and to maintain celibacy during your period of instruction unless you have been lawfully married in a church of your choice. Is that too hard?/ I say then, the disciplines of Hierarchy are universal and exacting. And unless you are willing to come under these disciplines how can you expect to be crowned with the many crowns that the Lord of the World stands waiting to place upon your heads?  For there are openings in Hierarchy, and there is a great need for leadership upon this planet. And if you will but contain yourselves for a while, you will see the great rewards and great backing that Hierarchy will give you to multiply the loaves and fishes and to go forth with all that you require to impart the true Word of the Law./ And thus I say, trust in the Law. It is your greatest friend and defense. For when you understand that anyone who breaks that Law, regardless of who or what he may be, must be chastised of the Law then you will find the greatest security you have ever known in the Law; for you will understand that it upholds your righteousness and forces you to surrender your unrighteousness. And this is precisely how you rise./ Therefore I say, rejoice as little children rejoice when they feel the authority of discipline of the father person and the mother person in their life. Children love those who discipline them because it gives them that sense of security, of being at home in the universe that is well run by a God who is in His place in heaven and on earth./Trust in the Lord; and recognize that as Kuthumi gave forth the Word in the Theosophical Society to Sinnett, the greatest enemy of the disciple on the path is fear and doubt–doubt of oneself and one’s ability to attain, doubt of the teacher and doubt of the teaching. Diabolical enemies!  Diabolical, I say!  For once you set your foot upon the path to turn back is suicide. To let down is to cease to exist, for that upward spiral goes higher and higher. While you are still in the marshlands and at the level of the earth, earthy, there is time to hop off and you will not feel the pain of the fall. But when you ascend stories high, higher than your highest skyscrapers, into the realm of Hierarchy and then hop off, how great is the fall!  The plummeting into astral consciousness is inevitable./Therefore we have Laws. Therefore we have codes of conduct. And these are for preservation of your very soul!  Without the Law as protective forcefield, as the fence, the guardrail on the great spiral you might find yourself tottering off as you reach those dizzying heights where Cosmic Christ consciousness is attained./Therefore I say to you, one and all, set your mark; set your foot upon the path. And be not concerned, for you will walk the way of the Christ. As Jesus was able to fulfill every precept of the Law so the focus of Jesus and Kuthumi in our retreat will give you the same support, the same momentum. And if you will, you will win! I AM the Cosmic Christ, magnetizing the lodestone of your consciousness to its highest potential in God. Peace be unto you. I AM that I AM. -Pearls of Wisdom 17:7-8, by

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