Vol. 32 No. 12 - Beloved Purity and Astrea - March 19, 1989
The Chalice of Elohim
IV
Hercules, we are come! Now in the Heart of the Inner Retreat, now in the very heart of Camelot–our twin flames intensify the Light of Purity in the earth!
So you have been prepared these weeks. But, beloved hearts, no preparation is adequate when one comes into the direct experience of the hosts of the Lord and the white fire of the Fourth Ray. And therefore it is the inner momentum and those things which appear as small–the daily strengthening, the daily desire to know God and to see God face to face, kindness toward all, and that sympathy that is a comprehension of another’s suffering yet that elevates with compassion.
The ingredients of Christhood reinforced in the earth by Elohim of the first three rays of the Trinity are the foundation of a Light that is yours to quest and conquer, to individualize, to pursue with the very vengeance of our God–a vengeance which casts to the right, to the left all that impedes thy way with the fierceness of the angels whose eyes surely pierce the night as stars of the first magnitude, as light rays.
Beloved ones, it would suit you well to don the garment of the disciplinarian Serapis Bey. For in this very garment you would discover that it is not so difficult to enter into thy immortality, to walk therefore as a part of God you have not known before.
Can you expect any less from Elohim of the Fourth Ray? Did you expect we would come and agree with you? Beloved ones, we compel all [to come up] higher. For there is none, no not one, that cannot discover a new level of awareness of God, that cannot pursue and fight the good fight <1> against any exterior obstructions to the Divine Appearing.
There is a world to be saved! How can you sleep? How can you self-indulge? How can you think that the Path will keep for another day? The time has never been so short except the hour before the day of the Flood and the sinking of Atlantis. Yes, the hour was short then and it is short this day.
You do not understand the fashioning of the ark! You have lost the point of the message concerning Noah and the preaching of your own Mighty I AM Presence and [the message concerning] your lower self as soul in action building a habitation of safety to weather every storm and eventuality! This process is the weaving of the Deathless Solar Body, <2> which when woven therefore becomes externalized in the path of the Inner Retreat. But without the wedding garment no physical preparation will suffice thee.
Where is thy garment this day? And wherefore hast thou left off the sewing of that seamless garment, squandering light needlessly when thou couldst have had joy incomparable and the cup full and the light still preserved? Know ye not the true path set forth by Serapis Bey? Aye, ye know it not else ye would have followed it long ago.
We come, therefore, and we say, it will take more than the recitation of the call to Astrea <3> to be cut free from the oldness and the encrustations of the Atlantean days and former civilizations that yet weigh on thy garment needlessly! For the fire should have long ago tried thy work. <4> Yet thou wouldst not–thou wouldst not enter in truly!
Resist not the oncoming Light of Christ. Dear hearts, if ye desire truly to save thine own children, the dearest ones of thy heart, then thou must come full circle and become the World Saviour and then find how God has rewarded thee by himself saving thine own.
Beloved ones of living fire, I address you in the full fount of Purity’s Light! And I desire that all of the admonishments that have gone before shall come full circle and come home in this hour. For the Lords of Karma and the Chohans of the Rays can no longer carry excess baggage and those who will not truly understand that this is an activity for chelas of the sacred fire.
I would remind you of the history of this organization founded for one purpose by beloved El Morya, who sought and gained from the Lords of Karma a dispensation to organize The Summit Lighthouse, to raise up Messengers, and to deliver a teaching. And that purpose was to offer the entire activity, the jewel of Light that would be formed, at the feet of Saint Germain for his ongoing world purposes.
It was an hour when Saint Germain had received all of the dispensations that could be accorded him, for his chelas had failed him; and that which was intended through the I AM Activity was not accomplished. And therefore, though Saint Germain himself appealed again he was turned down. For the Lords of Karma perceived that he also was in a karma-making situation, taking on the karma of thousands when they would not receive the dispensation and carry it with honor.
Therefore you might say it is a narrow purpose and a narrow room. It is the upper room indeed. It is disciples gathered with Jesus who understand this calling and who are determined to hold the balance of world forces which have been held by the office of the Messengers. And therefore every chela of El Morya is an adjunct to the office of the Messenger and sees himself as such.
We have no time for dilettantes! We may not extend our mantle or the Light of our hearts or the life of the Messenger to support those who do not support their own Christhood!
Thus you understand the sermon spoken as preparation to my word, that you might realize that the full fire of Elohim is upon you to choose this day whom you will serve <5> and to serve the living God and serve the living Christ and discontinue your avoidance–whether it be of the altar, whether it be of your karma, whether it be of your dharma, your assignment, the thing at hand that must be conquered!
You may not continue to overlook so great a salvation. <6> For this activity, sponsored by Padma Sambhava with the mantle of Guru upon the Messenger, <7> is for the living chelas. Let none, therefore, fashion their own style of chelaship and say, “This is the way. Follow me, for I have found an easy way to be a part of the Path and a part of the world.” Well, it has never been so.
And I say to you, the leniency accorded you by the Messenger will not be matched by heaven! Understand the garment of the Mother and the tolerance which we say must cry, “Halt!” And we send forth the cry from the level of Elohim. Those in this activity deserving the outpouring of Elohim and who must carry our Light must not be held back by those who continually flaunt the Law and continually dodge and sidestep the two-edged sword.
We come therefore and we say, the twenty-fifth anniversary [of the founding of The Summit Lighthouse] is past and in that hour you heard from this Heart the calling of Serapis Bey. You heard the call to be the career son and daughter of God. <8> Let those who will not, truly seek and find another path where they make a minimum of karma and a maximum of progress without the direct confrontation that must be our lot.
For we are determined to raise a planet. We are determined to set life free. And we are determined to do so with those Lightbearers who, though they may be few in number, will carry a purity not known before and therefore who can be given a greater Light and who can withstand the Darkness of a greater burden and not be overcome, whereas they might be overcome if this Community is spotted with those who are here for the ride.
And therefore do not say you have not been warned. For we are Elohim and we are determined that in the Presence of Helios and Vesta there will not be those individuals who are turning away from the Light instead of moving toward the Sun!
There is a mission to be accomplished! There is a lifetime to be considered! And there is a lifestream in your midst ready to deliver the highest initiations and transfers of Lord Maitreya to your heart. And there should not be this dalliance in the old substance of weight and decay when you yourselves have been told again and again that you have the full potential of your Christhood now to consume that which is the anti-Light.
And you yourselves ought to be functioning as disciples becoming apostles and carrying a mighty mantle of the power of the Spirit, challenging above all the desecration of the child in every fashion and form on earth! For this is the great consideration of all of the hosts of the Lord in this hour. It is the little children who are the Lightbearers who are that Word incarnate, who are truly the saviours.
Could you not watch with them one hour? And this one hour is of course a thirty-three-year cycle, for they who are born must reach that maturation. Is it too long and too hard for thee? Can you not understand that for some of you we have waited and kept the vigil thirty-three million years, thirty-three thousand years, thirty-three hundred years? Whatever the distance in time and space, it is long enough and too long!
Therefore consider that you must enter in or else realize that the oncoming light, the oncoming tide, the water level itself will not find you prepared to sustain any position whatsoever, but as flotsam and jetsam on the high sea you will find yourselves adrift and you will not have the tethering pole of being or its reinforcement by the embodied one sent. Therefore, having so said, remember that it shall come to pass, for we are the builders of form. <9>
High in the upper atmosphere we have transported the Messenger in vibration for this dictation. And into the very heart of the earth we send the sendings of Light for the holding of the equilibrium. And this power of our practicality as builders of form should be certain to make you aware of the fact that those things which we prophesy do come to pass instantaneously, physically, and in the earth body.
I say, God help you who have heard these dictations for years and years and then decried the vessel or denied their truth or considered that somehow you could avoid the direct encounter with the Light or somehow you would not make a horrendous karma by ignoring and thinking that you could choose or not choose day by day to intensify your calling! Shame on you!
And I speak to everyone on this planet past and present who has ever been in contact with the dictations through these Messengers and those [who have been our Messengers in the] past. I speak to you and I say: You who have turned your back on this path, you will know and rue the day that you have not taken up the Light and taken it up with generosity and abundance and fervor and wholeheartedness and rejoicing and gratitude and the realization that Almighty God has contacted you and selected you out from all of the numbers of this planet to receive and hear a single dictation or many more!
And you have lost the sense of the greatness of this event. You have become too familiar on a friendship basis with the Messenger. You have endured your old ways and thought this to be something so readily available, as the stream that keeps on flowing, never realizing that the stream and the well and even the river of Life <10> can run dry for thee. And that which seemed so easy and free for a time may not come again for many a century.
Have you not understood this miracle? Do you think that any dictation could be the work of the Messenger? Do you imagine that an unascended lifestream, no matter how great their light, could in fact deliver this power of Almighty God? I want you to know that no matter what the claim of other ministers or teachers or gurus on the earth, there is not this power released anywhere! Travel the world around; there is not the power of Elohim or the Great White Brotherhood released as it is released through this Messenger. And I speak Truth!
And let those who move against her do so if they will! Let them cry out against the statement of the Absolute God with her! So be it! They pass their own judgment and the Word may be their judge. But it is Truth, beloved ones. And you know, for you have seen in part the great earth changes that have come about.
But what you have not seen is the very holding of the balance of the entire world condition this day from cataclysm that should have occurred a decade ago–not alone by the Messenger but, yes, by the office of the Messenger and by all those who have become a part of this single molecule of the Community of Light and have held the balance, kept the faith, and been obedient to our word.
I can assure you, therefore, and I am here to tell you–for I AM Purity and I will spare no words this day–that without this activity the world would be in the most sad condition that you can imagine (and it is beyond your imagination), and all those things which people yet fear would have already come to pass. And it is the finger in the dike. But it can no longer remain the finger in the dike, for the finger in the dike is not enough.
And therefore, for the world change that is necessary we demand now the pruning of the rose bush! We demand the pruning of the activity! Let those who understand the mission, the true mission of the bodhisattva, stand up and be counted! [Congregation rises] And those who do not understand it, let them go their way!
And I mean in an inner sense and a spiritual sense, beloved hearts, for it will take more than standing on your feet in this hour to convince an Elohim of the purity of your heart! And you will have to convince us by your daily striving and putting aside those burdens which you lay unnecessarily upon this office [of Messenger] and this body, which is our body in form!
And though she may share easily and graciously the power of that mantle, you all must realize how many thousands or ten thousands or millions of years you yourself would have to go to be able to have this mantle and this adjustment in the four lower bodies to survive in the world of form and yet have this high degree of light of the Central Sun also pulsing through your body to hold the balance of the planet!
Now hear me and realize that even the Elohim could weep at the burdens that are laid unnecessarily upon this office, that this body of world servers do not see and realize how urgent it is that all things that have been asked for must be given and must come to pass! Therefore, beloved ones, be seated in the heart of your own Christ Self.
Let all hear me worldwide! We expect a rallying in the face of the call of one of the greatest Gurus who has ever walked the earth–the call of Padma Sambhava for that continuous and perpetual work on World Communism. <11>
And I speak to the child who held alone a mighty prayer vigil against that force insidious and I say: The world is changed and you shall have your reward, for you have served long and hard. And your giving of yourself and your heart’s concern for this planet has not been overlooked by Elohim.
Beloved ones, the call of the sweet innocence of the child and the power and the majesty of the mature son of God–one, all one–is sufficient to hold the balance in the hour when these dark ones are murdering and raping and swallowing up whole nations! And yet you play and pipe your tunes and go your way and discuss the mundane things, or you lie and deceive those among this Community as to the true reality of your design and presence in its midst. I tell each and every one of you, there is not a thought, a feeling, a motive that is hid from our eye! And though you may think you have fooled anyone here, you have not done so.
Take heed, therefore, for this is the hope of the world. This activity is the activity of God. And it is high time that you did not compromise in proclaiming it. It is high time that you cease to be ashamed to declare yourselves a part of this Community!
How can it grow? How can it expand? How can you grow unless you are willing also to take the thorns of the world as well as the roses and the accolades and the praise for your service when you know very well the power to serve comes directly from this altar and your tie to it? And therefore in denying your reality you deny the one that sent you and you deny your Master, and therefore you have cut off your chelaship.
Let those who are willing to take a stand take their stand! Let those who are not willing to do so depart therefore! For we do indeed have worlds to conquer. And we are stepping up this student body this day at such a point of acceleration that will force each and every one to be true to whatever his inner purpose is and his inner identity–whether it be of the Light or not, whether you be ambivalent. This day, I say, the Hierarchy of God does force the choice for a reason!
It is one thing for the Messenger to bear the iniquities of chelas who do all they can twenty-four hours a day and who are ignorant of that which they do not do and who are sincere and who give the calls for the transmutation of their daily karma. But it is another for those to remain associated and ask the Messenger to bear that karma by retaining the thread of contact when they themselves do absolutely nothing or so little that it is but a trickle that will not amount to a thing and therefore will be swallowed up by the parched earth–and they with it!
There are other places. Be true to yourselves! Go where your vibration is else change that vibration! Whether you perceive it or not, I tell you this day the spiral has gone forth and is being released through this physical heart. And if you do not change and yet hang on, you will find yourselves in utmost misery and outer darkness for having held the hand of the Light while you hold the hand of Satan and your own carnal mind.
Am I blunt? I AM real! And I see what is real! And I tell you what is true! And you ought to co-measure your position in life against the entire planet and its condition.
I tell you, in the retreat of the Ascended Master Cuzco this day at Viti Levu in the South Pacific, <12> there is a literal straining of the most powerful elemental forces of earth to hold back the disturbance in the elemental kingdom and in the earth body that would bring on, I tell you, were it unleashed, storms and violence in the seas so as to react against the Americas in a way that you would not be able to withstand.
Beloved ones, the hierarchies of Light are straining to hold the balance of this earth for you to come alive and be the Buddha’s bodhisattva where you are while you yourselves take your “good old time,” as they say, to say, “Well, shall I or shall I not lend my hand to this plow?” and “Is this Messenger real or not?” and “Maybe I’ll stay and maybe I won’t.”
It is far past this hour, whether you walked in the activity yesterday or a thousand years ago. Beloved hearts, the hour is past for all ambivalence. And you are required to pursue your ascension if you are in this activity! And let us not hear about those who say, “Well, I prefer it not.” If you are not aiming for the ascension, get thee hence!
We are here for the rescue of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and it is the hour for the seed of Sanat Kumara to ascend. For by the magnet of their hearts they will indeed pull up a planet. And we will not explain it again and again for those who must have endless explanations as to why they ought to walk as disciples of Serapis Bey and therefore be ready for the ascension even though in the farthest chance there may be an assignment to reincarnate.
Beloved ones, this activity is the ascension activity of the planet. It is the Guru and the chela for the ascension that we sponsor here and this is the purpose of the Inner Retreat! And this in itself was the purpose of the coming of Jesus, and those who followed him were dedicated to that path.
And this Messenger was indeed with Jesus as Martha, who gave to her the path of the ascension to follow and demonstrate for a two-thousand-year cycle. And there are those among you who have been started on this path by Jesus or others of the Great White Brotherhood who have come to initiate that spiral in your finer bodies. And it does take many centuries of the balancing of karma, [the attaining of] self-mastery, and [the rendering of] service to the worldwide community to come to the point where the planet can indeed spare your lifestream [and you can take your ascension] and the balance can yet be held.
Thus, all is in preparation and we expect chelas to realize this fact and not neglect that which is their daily portion! And we will not speak again to you who simply do not even read your Pearls of Wisdom or your Keepers of the Flame Lessons, do not even bother to read the latest releases or to listen to our dictations enough times that they soak through the density and establish a fire within to impel you to a new day!
How can you expect to absorb in one sitting what is delivered by those who have gone before you in the full power of mastery and are the hierarchs of heaven? We desire you to become all that we are, and the worded part of our release may be considered even the least of the momentum!
We are extending a power through this Messenger that will not be duplicated when this mission has concluded, and you will be expected to have fulfilled that momentum of power in your life. And therefore there is no possibility for the initiate on the path of the ascension to casually listen to a dictation and go his way!
Have we come so far now to [have you] stop? Have we come so far now [to have you] not comprehend, to be blinded yet? Have we indeed come so far with your lifestreams since the days of Lemuria [now] to have you have this opportunity which you have prayed [for] and longed [for] and searched for [only to take it for granted]?
Lifetime after lifetime you have sought the Teacher and found those far less advanced and qualified. Now you come to the feet of the Ascended Masters and it is a casual experience! Well, I tell you, beloved ones, those who neglect so great a salvation are truly those who will rue the day. And I say, Woe to you! And when I say, “Woe to you!” I mean, “Your karma be upon you!” And it shall be, for the Law will not be turned back.
And it does not matter how kind or sweet or tolerant or perpetually forgiving you find this Messenger. The Messenger will not be able to override the release of Elohim. And it is done. And it is so. And it is in the earth. And there will not be a place on the planet where you or anyone may place your feet where that which I have spoken is not recorded and the dispensation therefore [is not] in action.
Thus, beloved ones, there will also be consequences to those far afield from the Path–not those of whom I speak who have had the opportunity to choose but those who chose millions of years ago in the Great Rebellion against the Almighty. They themselves are met already by this fire and their consequences are known.
Thus, if you expect the world to be saved from the fallen angels, if you expect the reapers to come and bind them, if you expect a golden age, you ought to expect that those in the avant-garde should receive the highest, the best, and the first discipline. How can we bind that rebellious self of a fallen angel without requiring you to bind the same element within your own consciousness? I say, in cosmic honesty, it is not fair! It is not just! And the Lord’s judgments will rain upon all, just as Helios will shine upon all in this Heart. [54-second pause]
I give to you and the earth body the interval of adjustment for absorption, for realignment, for balance. [13-second pause] Let there be the stilling and the silencing of the mouth of the seed of the wicked. For every word blasphemous–the mouthing of demons that does proceed out of their mouths–shall be unto them the tenfold judgment. And it shall be turned back upon them, back upon their own mouths instantaneously.
Therefore, let those who value their life forbear to speak evil, to gossip, to lie, or to murder with words. For the Elohim now drive unto the very source the misuse of the First Ray of God. And thereby the misusers of the Word, the serpents that have gone forth to convince mankind–whether in the elections, in the economy, whether on behalf of World Communism or socialism or the manipulators of capitalism–to convince the world of their way, they will be found in the very eye of the judgment.
For Almighty God has decreed, and we declare it in the Heart, that none upon this planet shall any longer misuse the power of the spoken Word as the First Ray of God’s will. And thus our answer to the Dark Cycle in Aries <13> is to accelerate the judgment of the abusers of the First Ray whereby every individual has the power to proclaim: I AM the Son of God! I AM THAT I AM!
This declaration of being, this bending of the knee before the living Word–this is the beginning of the power of the First Ray. And all those who deny it in any form, in anyone, in any part of God will know the consequences more dearly, more clearly than I could enunciate in this hour.
The circle of Astrea takes many forms, sometimes like steel or a giant hoop that may be bent. In this hour it is a cord of light like a cosmic lasso. It is drawn around the dark ones and the Lightbearers; and as it is drawn it is for the fire’s intensity to strip the individual of his misuse of the power of God.
I give you this thoughtform as a visualization of the judgment. Let none fear, for all that is needful is to cease and desist from engaging in such misuses of the sacred fire. If this hour mark the end, therefore, fear not, for thy God shall forgive. [Therefore seek] repentance and remission of sin.
This day and hour mark the sign to the planetary wave and momentum of this abuse, and the power of Elohim shall enforce it. And you may consider all of the ramifications of all of the misuses of the spoken word and the lies that are told and the false teachings in the economies, in education, [and in] the defense of abortion by the lying ones. The scene is endless of those who abuse the power of God by the spoken word. May they all be judged and may some who know better heed and be converted by our Presence in this hour.
We fear not for the true and noble heart. These who are our own and have made themselves so will faint not neither fall in the day of the Great Appearing of the Son and the sign in the heavens of the Woman clothed with the Sun. <14>
We have concern for those who are our own but refuse to admit it, refuse to say die to their indulgence, and toy as they play with the things and preoccupations of the not-self. And we heartily gather the fruit of the faithful to rescue those who are also our own who must be contacted, are contacted by Elohim, and shall be contacted physically by those who run with the mission and recognize this day of the Lord’s accounting.
I speak to thee, Helios and Vesta! Sent by Alpha and Omega, we have placed our bodies here. Our Messenger and chelas have placed their bodies here. We have transmitted to the earth and elemental life support, immense support for thy coming, Helios.
Elohim bow in the heart of the Sun of this system of worlds to form rings of light around thee–rings of cherishment, adoration to the Father-Mother God, whom thou dost represent. We await thy calling, most blessed representatives of the Most High. We the Elohim stand ready now to act in each hour and moment of the twenty-four that thy mission given to thee–beyond the power of penetration of any mortal eye–in the heart of the Sun might be performed and fulfilled.
With thy blessing, Helios, we seal these hearts and those the world around whom we have desired to awaken in the name of thy servant, the Lord of this world, Gautama Buddha. O Helios, we know thy gift of fire is the emergency need of planet earth in this hour. We continue to prepare, to guard, to watch, and to keep the fire of Purity.
Hail, fellow servants gathered in the giant amphitheater formed over this Heart! Hail, legions of Light and those who have come from other systems of worlds to fortify this place for that release! We count among your numbers brothers and sisters, counterparts, teachers, friends, and twin flames of those who will gather here.
Therefore we establish in the atmosphere that replica of the Great Central Sun Magnet and we add to its formula unique the formula of the Electronic Presence, the causal body of yourselves who have gathered at inner levels, of souls who will gather physically and have already come, [in order] that the formula of the Electronic Presence of every lifestream above and below might become a part of the magnet to magnetize all like itself–all that is the complement or the totality of the molecule of that group, that lifewave.
For we are determined that the best servants on this planet shall meet at the Place of Great Encounters and discover in the outer planes their oneness and the strength of that oneness when tied by the power of Elohim through the heart of the Messenger and the Ascended Masters.
Helios, we know it is thy desire to at last see the sons of God know one another face to face and embrace with tears in their eyes, for it has been so long! In this hour, Helios, when the avenues of communication and travel are yet open on a worldwide basis, O Helios, summon thine own! And let them see and know and be convinced that the entire dark wave of this planet can be swallowed up in light by the concerted [effort of the] Community of the Holy Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood.
Precious ones, know the love of God through Helios and Vesta. Know the desiring of God for you to truly know one another as we know and serve with you. And by the understanding of this love, therefore understand in perfect perspective our discipline of this day, for the Lord must find you accelerated in order to perform his perfect work.
In the name of the Good Shepherd, Jesus, we yet tarry with earth. By the grace of his Presence, you are blessed. And from his heart has already gone forth the extension of your opportunity to survive ultimately in his Victory, and [in] your own, of the one ascension fire.
Yes, for one son of God Elohim will tarry with a planet! Now I challenge you, I charge you, I dare you to be that one in Aquarius or face the consequences of thy neglect!
So be it! I have spoken! I shall not return to the Sun but I shall remain to reinforce and accelerate the Lord’s judgment.
Elohim Astrea, lo, I AM! Lo, I AM!
And naught shall turn it back. For lo, I AM Elohim Purity!
This dictation by Purity and Astrea was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, May 27, 1984, 2:55-3:46 p.m. MDT, in the Heart of the Inner Retreat, Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. Prior to the dictation the Messenger delivered a sermon on “The Psychology of Your Christhood” with a reading of and teaching on Isaiah 53. Sermon available with dictation on two 90-min. audiocassettes, K8478-79. [N.B. Bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Purity and Astrea’s direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
1. Fight the good fight. I Tim. 6:12; II Tim. 4:7.
4. Fire shall try every man’s work. I Cor. 3:13-15; I Pet. 1:7; 4:12.
5. Choose this day whom ye will serve. Josh. 24:15.
6. So great salvation. Heb. 2:3.
7. Mantle of Guru upon the Messenger. 1988 PoW, p. 672 n. 6.
8. The call to be career sons and daughters of God. Lanello, 1983 PoW, pp. 577-92.
12. Retreat of the Ascended Master Cuzco. 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 5, p. 54 n. 1.
13. Dark Cycle. 1988 PoW, vol. 31 no. 72, p. 561 n. 3.
14. Woman clothed with the Sun. Rev. 12:1.
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