Vol. 33 No. 31 - I AM the Witness

Vol. 33 No. 31 - I AM the Witness - August 12, 1990

I AM the Witness

I found the Teachings in April of 1987 when I discovered and read Lords of the Seven Rays. I attended the Freedom ‘87 Conference and stayed for the Chohan Retreat, a special two-week course that was open to newcomers.

I left the Ranch with a determination to become “The Best First Ray Chela,” as Archangel Michael had instructed us in his recent dictation. I knew this would require a lot of changes in my lifestyle. For starters, I had to stop smoking cigarettes. I had been smoking at least a pack and a half a day for over 30 years. I had attempted to quit numerous times without success. I usually broke out in a rash or developed some sign of serious emotional strain.

I had managed to stop smoking for one week while I was at the Ranch, but then I became extremely agitated to the point where I couldn’t sit in the tent for more than 45 minutes at a time. I had to resort to leaving the Ranch once a day, smoking three cigarettes in a row. Then I could return and be fairly comfortable and livable for the next 24 hours, until the beast would raise its ugly head once more.

I rented a cabin in Allentown, Colorado, for the month of August. It was 9,000 feet elevation, primitive and peaceful. It was the perfect place to do my daily ritual of decrees. I was giving 40 Michaels, 40 Cyclopeas, 15 minutes of Suryas, 40 Arcturuses, 40 Astreas and about an hour of decrees from the white section of my decree book at random, plus the newest 12-page Archangel Michael Preamble, which we had received just before I left the Ranch.

One morning, in mid-August, as I awoke I heard a voice say to me, “Fast today and don’t smoke.” My response was, “Okay, I can do that for one day.” I was attempting to limit the amount of cigarettes I was smoking, keeping it under 10 a day and making constant calls to be able to stop completely. I reached for my book and began my daily decrees.

About an hour later I began to crave a cigarette and decided to make some herb tea to get my mind off of smoking. On my way out of the room I paused and began to leaf through the white section of my decree book. I came upon an entity decree by Lanello. I had never noticed this decree in my book before, but I can still envision it. It was a long narrow decree, one page in length. It focused on the nicotine entity.

As I was saying it, I realized Lanello was standing next to me. It wasn’t so much a sense of seeing him as it was an extremely strong sense of feeling his presence. He was holding a sword and began cutting this large slug off my body. It started at the crown of my head and wrapped around me all the way to my feet. It took several slashes to cut it off completely.

The craving for a cigarette was gone. I kept repeating the decree to make sure the craving didn’t come back. I have never desired a cigarette since, nor have I experienced any negative reactions, agitations, rashes, raw nerves, etc.

I have no idea how that decree got into my book that morning. It was never there before that day and it has never showed up again. I was later told that it had been out of print since the 1970s.

I will never forget my first conference, Freedom ‘83 in the Heart. I had been in the Teachings for just a few weeks and had never attended a live dictation. Being of a somewhat skeptical frame of mind, I did not embrace the Teachings wholeheartedly and enthusiastically, even though I attended services regularly and joined the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity. I maintained a wait-and-see attitude.

Before I left for the conference, a Keeper of the Flame I met at the Washington, D.C. Teaching Center told me that if I had doubts about the reality of the Ascended Masters, I should first make a call to the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood to prove their existence to me before I passed judgment upon them. She then related an experience she had after making this call that convinced her of the truth of the Teachings and the authenticity of the Messenger. Perhaps her testimonial will appear in this column at some future date.

So, I made the call and went to the conference. Being unfamiliar with protocol during dictations, I did not know that one had to be quiet. When, in the course of Serapis Bey’s dictation, he announced “I AM Serapis Bey!” I said to myself under my breath, “Serapis Bey!” Immediately, the master shouted “Silence!” After that, I became absolutely still and went into a state of profound meditation with my eyes closed.

A little while later, I happened to glance at the Messenger, and above her, filling the space over the altar, were row upon row of white-robed angels with stern faces. They were standing ramrod straight in perfect formation and rapt attention like an army of soldiers listening to their general. I blinked my eyes and they were gone. I had other experiences during that conference and later, but that one glimpse of a legion of Seraphim was enough to convince me of their reality, the existence of Serapis Bey and the Ascended Masters, and the fact that Elizabeth Clare Prophet is the bona fide Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood.

N.B. Testimonies of disciples of Jesus Christ and the Ascended Masters stating their witness to the power of Truth in their lives will regularly appear in this column in the Pearls of Wisdom. If you would like to witness to the power of Truth in your life brought about through the Ascended Masters and their Messengers, we welcome your testimony for publication. Your letter will be kept on file in our archives but your name will be withheld from this page to protect your privacy and your progress on the Path.

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