Vol. 60 No. 32 - Beloved Saint Germain - August 22, 2017
Be Perpetual Flames of Divine Youth
Let Your Light Shine So That God’s Good Works
Shine Through You
Part 2
Consider, then, that you are able to change your form. How would you change that nose? How would you change those eyes? How would you change that look? How would you make that form glow?
You, then, must decide, because you are the prime mover in your own world. If you do not move in your own world, you will become subject to all of the arrows of mortal hostility that are ever arrayed against the good and the beautiful by those who desire to say, “I don’t think she really looks very nice” or “Her eyebrows are too high” or, perhaps, “Her hairline is too low.” Or they think that some other quality is just a little bit of the type that ought to be criticized.
If you will let the arrows and slings of outrageous fortune,1 the arrows of mortal hostility, come against you as they do against every beautiful woman, then I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, you will find that you will be outpicturing these arrows of mortal hostility yourself, and then you will need to resort to all types of maneuvers in order to produce beauty in your form. And, gentlemen, I assure you, you can be just as beautiful in your own way, as are the ladies, if you will make your application to your Divine Presence and say to that Presence:
Mold me in thy light.
Mold me by thy right.
Shape my form to adorn thy grace
Right now in cosmic flight.
For I am going to thy Home.
I am going, wherever I roam,
To find my way back Home.
Now, these words may seem to you to be just a little bit silly if taken from the standpoint of the mortal, and I assure you that I could have doctored them up to make them just a bit more palatable to your mortal mind. But they embody a certain concept of flight—a flight out of the dimension of human bondage into the radiant spheres of cosmic light, which is your Home. Now, you are not going to be able to get there, precious ones, by a mere wish to do so. It must be by a cosmic intent that molds and shapes not only the physical form but all of the nature that is within you!
You may be inclined to say: “Why, I have a human nature and I am not able to change that human nature. It was molded over thousands of years and perhaps even a million. How do you expect that in a matter of a moment, by simply expressing a thought, I am going to be able to stir the pond of being to the point and extent where some real inroads will be made upon all the crystallized, dense substance which composes my character and manifestation?”
Ladies and gentlemen, you must start somewhere! After all, you may not always look to us as though you were firemen going to a fire, but I assure you that you have a need to do so. You have a need to actually sound the sirens. You have a need to actually sound the alarms. You have a need to (as you sometimes say to one another in a laughing way) “push the panic button,” because you right now are embodied in physical form in the great cosmic university of Almighty God in order to graduate from this university summa cum laude.
And if you are to do it, it must be done because you will give your attention to those things which will enable you to successfully commute to the higher octaves of life and to compute how you may end mortal strife and sin and stain and all that has brought you unhappiness.
You see, most individuals give no thought whatsoever to life except to plan ahead according to mortal standards, but there is very little actual planning done by individuals according to divine standards. There is a prayer or two expressed to Deity to relieve them of personal responsibility and to transfer that responsibility to the Godhead. There is sometimes a sudden supplication made to Deity in times of trouble and stress.
But very few individuals actually plan from day to day how they will be able to draw out the pattern of the cosmic man and mold themselves according to that pattern. No, blessed ones! They are so busy defending the mistakes of a misguided ego that they have no time whatsoever to be able to spiritually plan a blueprint for their own life, which they themselves could design according to God-intent.
You see, you are a co-creator with God! And when he gave you free will, he also, with that free will, gave you a solemn responsibility of freedom so that you would, of necessity, play a part in the shaping of your own destiny. Men today are so prone to lean upon others that many of them actually lean upon us to the point where we sometimes, when they are asleep, hand them a crutch or a cane in their dream state and say, “Why don’t you walk with this for a while until you at least learn to support yourself from that which is [negative] substance in your own world?”
Individuals constantly cry out to us for assistance. And when we give them assistance, what do they do with it? I tell you, precious ones, they pick up a group of dictations from our level, and some of them read them and actually fall asleep while reading them. Is this attention to the Word of God? Is this attention to the powers of light and divine illumination? I tell you, no.
Now, some individuals want formulas from us. They desire that we should give them a certain formula of an alchemical nature whereby they would be able to manifest or draw forth some outer symbol showing their power over nature.
Well, I tell you, precious ones, when you can command yourself to obey [your own directives], when you can demonstrate and obtain self-mastery, all these things shall be added unto you. You will not be required to ask us the formula to express the power of divine alchemy. Rather, you will simply speak the Word, and the Word will obey you. You will have obtained. You will have entered in to the blessed state of the ascended masters’ octave, even before your ascension.
Gracious ones, this is how the ascension is won—by mastery. It is not by turning to every little idle thing and saying to this little idle thing “You are important,” when it is no more important than a marshmallow!
Precious ones, why not enter in to the spirit of the ascended masters? Why not perceive the ridiculous situation in which you live and dwell, where from time to time you continually deny the power of heaven and the power of heaven’s sons and you give power to outer energy?
Do you know, precious ones, that a most awful state of affairs existed just before I came to speak to you? A certain black magician had locked a very hateful ray upon this messenger and was determined to prevent me from coming through. But when I came into the room, I acted in the name of this messenger (because he had given to me permission to do so), and I dispersed this black magician with one glance. And he is now locked in a sphere of blue-fire substance, where he will be taken by the powers of light for judgment to the very center of God’s own will.
I tell you, precious ones, mankind do not realize all the forces of evil that are being directed and misdirected against the children of light. They do not realize the powers of the invisible world—and I am now referring to the sinister world, where the strategies are hatched to try to strip mankind of all the great, blessed power and reality of our octave of light. Yet I tell you truly, this world of darkness and shadow has no reality for us. For we dwell in the light of God, which never fails, and we invite you to also do so.
Will you come into this world of our reality?
[Congregation rises.]
Will you put our great purple-fiery cape upon your shoulders, and will you become noblemen, able to create and dominate every situation into which you enter?
As you enter a room, let the eyes of men turn upon you. But let the eyes of men turn upon the great divine God-being that you in reality are. And let that divine being sparkle and scintillate with the light of God.
You do not need, precious ones, to seek some embellishment for the great God-creation that you are in reality. You need simply to let your light shine before men, that they may see God’s good works shining through you. It is not necessary for you yourselves to seek to enter in to these dimensions by mortal activity. You simply require, according to cosmic law, acceptance of the ascended masters’ hands, of your own Divine Presence’s love, of all the qualities of God. And let them sparkle through your mind. Regard your mind as substance under your divine control. Put [right] thoughts into your mind. Kick out thoughts that do not belong there!
You must win this game, as you were told in a recent decree which beloved Godfre released unto you.2 You must understand how to carry the ball of salvation through to the goalposts of life and not stand back with your thumb in your mouth like a suckling child.
I tell you that the hour is come when seriousness must come into the world and into mankind, that they may understand that the seriousness of God will bring them that divine satisfaction which means their freedom.
Do you realize, precious ones, that many individuals in this city who have material issued forth from The Summit Lighthouse have not even set foot in this house in order to come to this class and to hear our dictations? Is there sincerity in those people, precious ones? It would seem from outer judgment that one would doubt it. We who have inner judgment and inner sight are able to see all that they think and feel, and we watch as the flimsy excuses pass across their minds as to why they cannot come.
Precious ones, this is the difference between a winner and a failure in the divine domain: It is right judgment and it is proper attention to detail. It is consistency in effort. It is determination exemplified in all that you think, say, feel, hear or do. Ladies and gentlemen, may I today, with the knighting sword of love, convey upon all of you—every one of you—the potential office of a knight or lady of the flame. Then perhaps one day, as you aspire to it and actually attain to it, you will find that we will confer upon you our love and the power of our office so that in the courts of heaven you may indeed find recognition because you have striven and won. This is not an outer symbol of victory but it is the inner power of initiatic comprehension that understands all things because it has become all things.
Oneness is victory when it is understood. But union with that which is not light will not produce the spark of God-reality in your world.
Hear me now. Understand me now. And hold the cup which I hold. Drink the drink which I drink, and be that which I AM. It is a gift of God to you. It is potential for all who hear me and for all who will exhibit the understanding that I have sought this day to convey.
In the name of heaven and the love fire that descends without ceasing from the great throne of Life, I bid you adieu. May grace crown your noble efforts. And may the beauty of the heavenly city, in full view before your mind, spur you on to renewed heights of cosmic attainment.
Again, I thank you.
The Messenger’s Teaching after the Dictation
As we are extinguishing the candles, let us realize that each one of these little flames is going back to the Great Central Sun from whence it came and that each little flame is a messenger of God’s love, carrying our love back to the Central Sun, to the home not only of the ascended masters but of all of the lifewaves and evolutions of this planet and of all the planets in this solar system and throughout all the universes, worlds without end.
May Helios and Vesta and Alpha and Omega and the God of very Gods, the mighty I AM Presence in the Central Sun, receive our love and blessing for the life that he has given to us and the opportunities that that life conveys.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
This dictation by Saint Germain was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet on Saturday, October 15, 1966, during the Harvest Class 1966, held at La Tourelle, Colorado Springs, Colorado. [N.B. Bracketed words have been added for clarity in the written word.] Continued from part 1 of this Pearl of Wisdom,vol. 60, no. 31.
1. The phrase “arrows and slings of outrageous fortune” is an allusion to the Shakespearean play Hamlet: “To be, or not to be, that is the question: / Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them” (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 3, sc. 1, lines, 56-60.
2. At the Sunday evening service on October 9, 1966, Mark Prophet introduced a new decree that the ascended master Godfre had dictated to him the previous evening. It is decree 7.33, “The Patriot’s Decree,” in Prayers, Meditations, Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness.
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