Vol. 33 No. 36 - Beloved Mother Mary - September 16, 1990
The Gift of Alchemy Is in My Hand
What Price Will You Pay for the Christ Presence?
The Science of the Raising Up of the Mother Flame
The Great Emerald Sphere of My Causal Body
Shall Rest over This Place
Come, tender hearts, into my heart. I am joyous in my appearing to you in this hour. For as we approach the moment of midnight, so that boon which you request <1> and do require of me may be released to you, beloved. Therefore, tender hearts, come unto my heart.
I would tell you an additional reason why God sent me to embody on planet earth. It was so that one of the attainment and presence of an Archeia might descend into form and leave the record for a number of lifetimes <2> of that level of God-identification. For truly those of the level of the Archangels do walk in the Presence of their God, I AM THAT I AM, and do always carry that Presence, that Dharmakaya, that Causal Body.
I descended to the lowly estate of the flesh that all those who had so descended to that level by karma, by sin, by going away from the Great Teacher, the Cosmic Christ, might find anchored in such a low level even the footprints of our God, even the record of the I AM Presence of the Archeia of the Fifth Ray.
This [dispensation] has enabled science, invention, music, healing, medicine and all such practicalities as are native to my Causal Body, the Causal Body of Raphael and all who serve in the heavenly hierarchy of the Fifth Ray [to be brought forth on earth]. Civilizations have been built upon the foundation of this record, beloved, and therefore into those civilizations have been born Christed ones, who have walked the earth.
For I have kept the vigil in this octave and I have not ceased to do so from the hour of my ascension, but rather have I continued with my Son Jesus to be the Mediatrix before God on behalf of souls of Light and souls not of the Light who have appealed to me for intercession. Not a few of these not of the Light have received that intercession and have step-by-step reearned a threefold flame and come into the Light.
Because we have had success over tens of thousands of years of our presence in the physical earth in bringing some of the wayward ones of the bands of fallen angels back to an allegiance to their God-estate and to a point where true humility does replace their pride, so we have never ceased [in our efforts] to bring them back, to woo them back to the heart most sacred of my Son.
Thus, beloved, we have already come to the end of the dispensations of Pisces available. Yet while the seasons roll and all things are as they were and earth is not yet troubled by the events of coming calamity and catastrophe, so there are moments in which some may return. And I wish to tell you this evening that some are still returning. Some have been contacted at inner levels, even by this Messenger and others of our bands, and they have been wooed on the Homeward path even when those of our octave have thought that it was no longer possible that they should make the turnaround.
Is not the knowledge of this, beloved, worth the prayer vigil and the entering in [to the heart of the Lord] and the setting aside of those things that limit your expression of God?
I greet you, beloved, as true shepherds of the Light and I remind you that the shepherd will always leave the ninety and nine to go after the one who is lost. <3> This role of the shepherd is the role of your Holy Christ Self, which you are becoming as you make room for that Holy Christ Self to enter, to rebuild, to reoccupy your four lower bodies.
Some of you have caught the message, which is truly the teaching of the Divine Mother, of the affirmation of the positive always, as you have seen by a miracle of our transmission by the Holy Spirit that it is just as easy to hold on to a positive mental attitude as it is to sustain a negative mental attitude. Blessed ones, it is even easier! For you see, every positive affirmation displaces many negatives and draws unto itself the multiplying power of the Godhead, which is without limit.
Did you hear me say it, beloved? Every positive thought and feeling that you hold on to unswervingly in the face of the waves of doubt and fear of the astral sea–that single positive thought [or feeling]–is multiplied by your God and mine!
Realize, then, [what a blessing] such a multiplication factor is, [and how scientific it is], how God the Mighty I AM Presence thereby enters the vessels of consciousness. Truly, it is to glorify the Lord, to magnify the Lord! Truly, it is the wonder of Life. It is the rejoicing of the Mother Flame within you that your Christhood is being born anew and that you yourselves are catching the view of the new heaven and the new earth.
Think, then, beloved, as you walk with me, as you enter my heart and I enter yours, how you may also bring to this lowly estate of the flesh the Presence of your Mighty I AM THAT I AM. Should this not be your goal, beloved? Oh yes, it should.
You must think about the price you will pay if you ask for your I AM Presence to enter your temple. But think again, beloved: What price have you [already] paid to be without it?
Persecution has been there when you were bereft of that Presence. As the Light has increased [in your aura], you have seen not only greater opposition [to that Light] but also a greater bounty from heaven of the power of a cosmos and cosmic legions who have come [distances measured in] light years to defend those who would dare to bring the Light of God to the very depths of the astral plane and even to the levels of Death and Hell itself. For, truly, there are territories on the planet that are nothing more, even in the physical octave.
Thus, courage is matched by Courage and hope by Hope and Truth for truth. And legions [of angels] come [in answer to your call], and they are granted dispensations by the Great Law commensurate with that which you yourselves have manifested. So the qualities you call forth and the decrees you give create the magnet that compels heaven to respond.
Such an extraordinary dispensation as the legions of the God Star encamping here in the Holy City! I am in awe of it myself. It is almost a wonder of wonders to those of us who have waited in heaven for so long for such a fiery response [to be given to unascended chelas of the Great White Brotherhood]. Therefore, once again I cheer you on and I say, keep on keeping on.
Know, then, that if you determine to walk the earth the embodiment of your Christ Self, which is the first step toward being the embodiment of your I AM Presence, you may receive persecutions, you may enter the initiation of the crucifixion, which never comes to a son of God until that Christ is incarnate. But I tell you, beloved, you will also know the initiation of God and Maitreya, the power of the Three-Times-Three, whereupon, [having received it,] Jesus declared, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth!” <4>
The willingness to pay the price for that Christ Presence, beloved, brings untold rewards. And at a certain point in your career as a son or a daughter of God, it is no longer even lawful for you to deny that Christ incarnate [within you] or to shun the initiations, whose pain is only the precursor of bliss. All challenges come to you to compel you to step up the ladder of initiation, to accelerate; for our God knows when you are ready.
By meeting the current financial challenge, beloved, you are forced to discard quickly old doubts and fears and cobwebs of wrong programming by the fallen ones. [Meeting the challenge] is compelling, for it is necessary. It is indeed the compulsion of the hour that produces that white-hot heat of desire, the desire to live and to be who you are, the desire to give the gift most precious to beloved El Morya. These [tests] bring out the highest, the noblest, the best [in you as well as those elements of the negative side of self that must be brought] to the surface [to be cast into the flame].
Therefore, we have contained that great desiring for your victory and we know that you can demonstrate this alchemy. But in so doing, you will discover that to become the alchemist you must set aside certain things. Nevertheless, those whose hearts are on fire with love would rather be the alchemist and let go of the not-alchemist–i.e., the not-self [that is] the not-alchemist.
Therefore, I stand before you this night. In my hand [is] the gift of alchemy, the gift whereby you may truly become the alchemist in Saint Germain’s name to draw forth the abundance of every good and perfect gift <5> from the Father-Mother God. Blessed ones, I will not give you the gift unless you first give to me the nongift, the nondeveloped self, the resistive self, the selfish self, the ball of wax of that self that has not accomplished, has not achieved because of negative building[–the building of negative spirals of thought and feeling into the subconscious].
Some of you have in your subconscious mind a tower of Babel consisting of the entire negative momentums of all of your past history. Let the tower come tumbling down ere it destroy you, beloved, and divide you so that one part of yourself cannot even talk to the other part of yourself.
It is good to understand, therefore, [that there are] those who have become attached to their sorrows, to their emotions, to their negatives, to their minuses, to their pride, to old buildings that may have once been grand but are no longer so, to imaginary dreamworlds nonproductive of the common good. I request that you make the call for the collapsing of all of these fantasies that occupy too much of your beings, that bloat your four lower bodies. We need a detoxification of these bodies [from delusion and illusion], beloved.
Therefore, the prize is in my hand and I will give it to you, perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow but in that moment when you want to be the alchemist more than you want to be the elements of your not-self. It is truly a divine exchange–old lamps for new. Yet this lamp is far greater than Aladdin’s. This lamp, beloved, is a lamp of true self-knowledge and of [the] science [of the Inner Self. The lamp that I give you, beloved, is the lamp that was yours to begin with–the lamp of your Real Self that sheds the Greater Light of All-Knowing from your I AM Presence.]
It is true that I am a scientist, beloved, and the first lesson in science that I give to my pupils at our retreat is on the science of the raising up of the Mother Flame. Gently, gently souls of Light begin to raise that sacred fire. And I show them how to be sensitive when that purity, that pure power of the Mother, does begin almost immediately [as it rises up the spinal altar from the base chakra to the crown] to contact records [in the four lower bodies] of the misuses of that very Light.
And thus our lesson goes, day by day. Each one may not raise that Light any higher than the level of transmutation that has been attained, perhaps [only] one-hundredth of an inch. And within that one-hundredth [of an inch] there is a level of karma that must be transmuted.
Beloved ones, those who come to my retreat for this training come, of course, [by] soul [travel], in their finer bodies. And for the purposes of this exercise they go back to the level of the inner child of the heart and therefore they are humble and joyous and [unfettered by the outer self]. And in that soul state they, for the love of God and his Christ Jesus, will diligently pursue the exercises of the violet flame, withdrawing Light from [their unlawful] investment [of it] anywhere in this cosmos.
And little by little this sacred fire rises, never uncomfortably, beloved. But I tell you, with the supporting work that they do, there are days when–by the accumulation and concentration of the Light and the invoking of the cloud of infinite energy <6> (much in the same way you do here)–they are able to take certain leaps in the raising of that sacred fire. For their momentum is so great, by and by, that there can be a consuming and a collapsing of certain levels of karma that the rising Mother energy does contact.
This science is primary; [it] is foundational because all that you would achieve in the science of the Matter cosmos cannot be fully achieved without the sacred fire of the Mother. This is a law, beloved. And if one’s works and inventions, [one’s] offerings upon the altar and service to Life, or [even one’s] decrees for supply are not endowed with the Mother fire, they shall not endure. For the Mother fire counteracts the disintegration spirals of this Matter universe.
So you see, if you would build forever, you must know that that foundation that you would lay of the Teachings of the Church, of the rituals [and meditations], and of this Home, are truly of Jesus and Gautama. And if these foundations are without the sacred fire, the building shall not endure. But if you endow the foundations with sacred fire, the edifice shall endure, not only in the physical octave but in the spiritual octaves of Light. Thus, with all thy building, build with the sacred fire of the Mother.
Know, beloved, that you who would enjoy the rejuvenation, the intense illumination and the quickening that comes from the Mother Flame must travel with that Kundalini from the base[-of-the-spine] to the crown chakra every point of the way. You will encounter every past momentum, for this is the ascension flame. And you will always have to answer the question: Do you desire this attainment more than you desire to reengage yourself in your old habits and old ways into which you have invested the Mother energy?
Thus, you see, beloved, each point of the way the Mother is there–[waiting with] the gift in the right hand, showing you what you will get for your struggle, your striving, your persistence, your noncompromise, and waiting to receive from you with [the left] hand that which it is no longer appropriate for you to retain if you would stand on this next rung of the ladder. The step of a single rung, beloved, may involve one hundred to ten thousand initiations, [depending on how many have been failed on that rung in the past].
Come to understand the depth of the meaning of the path of God, how moment by moment throughout the day angels of the Mother are ascending and descending upon this spinal altar, even as you have read of Jacob’s ladder and the angels ascending and descending [thereon]. <7> Therefore, beloved, count the seconds and the moments and the minutes and endow them each with the flame of Mastery and of Love and of Comfort and of Giving.
It is so important to always give a teaching wherever it will be heard, to inject something of wisdom, something of practicality, something of your know-how [into the dialogue]. And if you would be appreciated, beloved, teach the little children. For they yearn to learn your practical skills and what you know, and they are so happy when you take the trouble to teach them; for they are at a most sensitive period of learning, and they are nearer to the earth than you are and nearer to the levels of practicality and [to] the desire of mastering the earth planet.
Giving to others what you know, blessed hearts, is a requirement, else you will not leave this earth [at the end of this lifetime] but reembody. Never consider, then, that it is too much trouble to teach someone who obviously does not have the expertise or the understanding to solve a certain equation or problem that you do.
Be humble, beloved, before the ignorance of others. I say, be humble before it. Consider it, then, a vacuum that you can fill with joy, as you would pour the most precious wine into another’s cup. Be humble before it, beloved, for God, who has given you the gift of wisdom, may also take from you the gift of wisdom if you do not share it by breaking the bread of Life.
It is essential that those who have gifts in the trades and in every area of human knowledge volunteer to teach the children and to teach the adults, to teach the senior citizens [in order] to keep this flame of the crown chakra ever burning. For to impart what one knows, beloved, is to empty the cup of wisdom that God might fill it again with greater knowledge. The cup of wisdom that is not shared begins to ferment and then it may no longer be drunk.
May you understand that it is essential that you look at the Cosmic Clock, consider where the sun has shone [at your birth] as your sun sign of this embodiment, and know thyself. What are your very best momentums? What are the things you do best? Consider on what line of the [Cosmic] Clock they fit. [For I gave that Clock to the Messenger for your self-knowledge in anticipating the cycles of your karma and your Dharma.] Then make up your mind, as an element of your definite major purpose in life, that you will master that line as one of the twelve [paths of the] disciples of Jesus Christ and that you will make your ascension on that line.
Blessed ones, it is essential that you do attain God-mastery on that [line] of the Clock you select. And when you do, beloved, lines of force will come out of that one position to contact and [connect and] strengthen every other line of the Clock.
Having mastered one, it will be easier to master the second, [and the third]. And with each succeeding [line you take on], beloved, although I admit there are major difficulties along the way as you encounter the line where you have the least attainment and the worst of your karma, [it will be still easier]. It is well, then, to have a momentum built on those lines where you see yourself having served before. [For these momentums will serve you as you work towards your self-mastery on the lines where you have a lesser attainment.]
This is the value of following the Seven Chohans and the Dhyani Buddhas, recognizing their place in your life. Setting your mark on [the lines of the Chohans and the Buddhas], beloved, you will never fail to call for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold [charted on each line] or to magnify the Lord of the God-quality [on each line].
It is well to choose [the line of] your sun sign [as the first line you master, but it is] not mandatory, beloved. Search your own heart and remember you must not come empty-handed to Serapis Bey’s temple or before the Lords of Karma. You must be able to say:
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I have fought the good fight <8> and, in fulfilling all other things of my karma, I have won the prize of this line and I offer it to you, Serapis Bey, and the brothers of your retreat. For I would come in profound gratitude before the ascension flame to add my momentum of the Flame of the Divine Mother’s attainment on this line to that of those adepts of Luxor in gratitude for their service. Thus, they might have in me a reward for keeping the flame of the ascension on planet earth for those who would enter in. |
Now, beloved, I meditate upon the Eternal Logos. For, you know, that Logos, that Word with Brahman in the beginning, <9> is the Great Shakti, [the Feminine Principle,] of God. And so I am the counterpart of the Trinity and I come very close to this Matter plane. I am in it much of the time, beloved, yet I carry the apex of [the] highest attainment of the Godhead with me. You can see why I bring not only grace and mercy but also the fierce judgment of the Divine Mother. For this is grace and mercy. This is, beloved, the purpose of the Mother Flame in you in this octave.
When you have fought and won and attained [the raising up of] this [sacred] fire, beloved, you will count yourself as three or five–such strength, such ability to give and serve and cast aside the negatives of a world shall you have!
There are some things that come from heaven and from the depths of your being that can manifest in you, beloved. The price for the single pearl is all of thyself. <10> If you want these attainments, these siddhis, or powers, of the Divine Mother, you must want them more than the entire weight of negative momentum that is in [your four lower bodies] that opposes your getting of them. This is the showdown, beloved, this is the telling.
“Oh, I would like to do this. Oh, I would like to be that. Someday I will get around to it.” Well, this is not even desire at all, it is not even worthy of being called a desire. It is wishful thinking that has no roots and will wither as the sun reaches its zenith.
Take care, beloved, when you express a desire for more of God, that you think about it, that you enter a meditative and philosophical mode. And see if you cannot say to yourself, “This God-mastery I want more than anything else in the world, for I see that with it not only will I be able to help all people but I will also be able to have those things that I thought I had while I retained those elements of my personality that were and are antithetical to the fulfillment of that desire and do prevent it day by day.” When you reach for the star of God-mastery, beloved, most of the things that you had to give up will also return to you; for the one who is the master of himself does not want.
Now you may see the great sphere of my emerald Causal Body glowing before you as a magnet of Love and as a sphere of manifest science and mathematics and their proof.
I ask each of you, then, to take this occasion of the needs of yourselves and your Church to rise to the level of being true scientists of Spirit and Matter to prove the Law, to conquer fear and doubt and death, to freely give as you have freely received, to pray for ingenuity and practicality, to go after the education that is necessary to increase your earning power–to do all things to warrant the supply returning to you again and again through the heart of service, the heart of faith, the heart [that belongs to] God.
This great sphere of Light shall rest over this place as a magnet of my being, whereby I shall prove to you what God will do when you prove to him through my Immaculate Heart what you will do [to achieve your goal in life].
I tell you, beloved, this financial challenge can be the springboard to your fearlessness, to your victory, to your peace, to your mastery and to your real ability to convey the Teachings to all whom you meet, for you will have applied [the principles of Saint Germain’s alchemy] in crisis and you will have proven that they work.
Where is the slothful one and the dullard and the rebel who says, “The Teaching does not work, the decrees do not work, nothing works”? Well, what that one ought to say is: “I do not work, because I do not desire to see them work. For if [the Teaching and the decrees] should work for me and I should work them, I should then have to change my stance and become who I really am. And I do not have the courage to become who I am.”
The science of God, the science of the Mother, the science of the Immaculate Concept that I taught Mary Baker Eddy is truly workable only by those who want it to work, who know it works, who believe it works and who are willing to roll up their sleeves and make it work even to the extent [that] my Jesus [worked], who sweat, as it were, great drops of blood in Gethsemane. <11> Only when you work to the level of [a sufficiency of] that sacred fire burning within you to achieve a cause will the Law work for you, beloved.
Get to the root of your desires and recognize that the negative desires are the negative programmings of yourself, yes, but moreover of parents and [authority figures and] ancestors and fallen ones. [For often] you have thought [that these negatives] were your own.
I tell you truly, the Lord Gautama Buddha set the foundation for Jesus, my Son, in unfolding the cause of human suffering, that being inordinate desire. <12> You do not suffer when your desires are only God-desires but when you have lesser desires and they are not fulfilled, lesser expectations from those around you and they do not come through, then of course, beloved, you suffer.
Therefore, the desiring of God relieves all suffering, for you desire only to be in that Presence and apart from that God you are miserable. And therefore you begin to grow in [fervor and] intensity [for the mission], and as the devils come to assail you, you knock them down by the mighty arm of Hercules! And each and every one that would stop you in fulfilling that desire to be [all one in] God meets with a greater desire from within you, and thus [right] desire kindles [right] desire!
And as that desire is God’s desiring in you and is the true Light, you come under greater and greater attack [from the forces of anti-God-desire working through people who have no desire for God and no self-discipline to get that God-desire for themselves. These, beloved, resent your all-oneness with God and they covet your Light (that is God’s Light). But they want the Light without giving allegiance to the Light and when they get it they consume it on their lusts. <13> I say, do not part with your Light, your resources, your money or your sacred labor except it be in the service of the Light].
You must prove to God again and again and again that no matter what the attack, no matter what the force, no matter what the negative, God in you is the greater positive, God in you is that great Christ Presence, that I AM THAT I AM. [Yes, you must prove to God that you will not surrender his Light to those individuals who come in the name of the Light but are servants of Darkness.]
Do you see, beloved, when you state your desire for God, then God says, “Prove that you love me more than anything, more than anyone, more than all the world that could be given to you by the fallen ones who will tempt you with that offer.”
If God is to give you all of himself, he must have all of yourself. Thus, the keystone of the arch is the first commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. <14> Thou shalt have no other desire before me, no other love before me, no other mind before me, no other accomplishment, no other goal before the attainment of myself in thee! And when you have that, you will have the All-in-all.
Seek, then, beloved, to become the goose that laid the golden egg. Then you will never be without golden eggs. Then you will have and possess the cosmic egg. Then you will know the true power of the Mother in your midst, the Mother Flame in your heart. It is the power, beloved, of fertility, creativity, multiplicity, redundancy! Go forth, beloved. Produce one golden egg and you will be able to produce a million. Therefore, seek not the egg but to become the Mother.
I AM the Flame of Mother with you. Portion by portion, appropriate my Mother Flame unto yourself. Do this by being the tender heart, the gentle heart, the great strength of Kali, the great wisdom of Sarasvati, the great abundance of Lakshmi and the full-wielding power of the sword of Kali, of Durga to defeat the enemy of the little ones.
I tell you how you achieve the power of Durga and of Kali. [You desire it with all your being] because it is intolerable to you that there should be a single abortion on this planet [or] that there should be the abuse of a single child! And if you feel helpless before [the forces of Antichrist that promote abortion] and can do nothing about [them], take stock of what is in you and in your life and see what you would give up to be able to have the power of the Divine Mother to stop this deadly sin against the Holy Ghost, against the little child upon this planet.
I think you understand my message, beloved. If you want the pearl of great price, sell all those old human momentums if the world wants them, or build a gigantic bonfire that reaches unto the Mount Kailasa and to the heart of Shiva [and cast them into it].
Yes, beloved, I will be watching to see what you desire and how you determine to get it, for this is how we grade the souls who are tutored in our retreat. You must not only raise the fire of the Mother but [also] do something with it to save your soul and the little ones of God, who need your care. Begin by comforting Life, being kind, thoughtful, careful and always polite and [especially by being] always kind in your speech. Let your interchanges be gentle ones and always let the soft answer turn away wrath. <15> It is well, beloved.
I am your Teacher and I shall be one of the Ascended Lady Masters present with you at Summit University, for I have somewhat to say about this Literacy Army. <16> And I have some judgment to bring upon the fallen ones who deliberately deny the gift of speech and of reading and of writing to the little children. Through your calls to me on this subject, beloved, we will once and for all rout the look-say method from the schools of the world!
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New lamps for old, beloved–it is the great key. And of course I bring the true and real lamp of knowledge [and take from you the lamp of self-serving].
I seal you in the third eye. By my right hand receive [this blessing], beloved, for I am helping you to clear the unclear concepts, the murkiness, the out-of-alignment vision and the fuzziness. This, too, [this clarity of mind and vision,] is the faculty of the sacred fire raised up. May you desire it also.
I now join Lady Master Venus and the committee, not small, of Ascended Lady Masters who meet in the Retreat of the Divine Mother over this place. <17> Come and counsel with us in the coming hours, beloved, and make the call to be taken there so that you will learn how to teach the children of the whole world what they must know. I rejoice in your coming and in [the next] quarter of Summit University.
For this cause did I ascend, that I might descend again with a momentum of Light whereby I could once again make the difference. May you see [to it] that your ascension here and now is defined by the ascension of the sacred fire of the Mother on your spinal altar. This is the first ascension and by it you engage in the weaving of the Deathless Solar Body. With this ascension, you already descend again in this embodiment with so many fruits of your Tree of Life to give. The next ascension, beloved, is on the path of initiation, whereby those that come to the Christed One fully clothed with the bridal veil and wedding garment do ascend [to the heart of God].
There are a series of ascents that, when accomplished victoriously, require the soul to descend again to give of herself in the world. These happen, a number of them in a lifetime over [the course of] many embodiments, until in the final altar call the bride comes Home, nevermore to go out to the lowest levels yet to move again as an ascended one in the midst of the people. ‘Tis then you will wish for and see to it that you have one and many instruments on earth.
For your instrumentation of my Immaculate Heart wherever you are, I am grateful. And that Immaculate Heart always affirms the positive potential of anyone and everyone despite all evidence of the negatives to the contrary. The power of the Mother’s Immaculate Heart is greater than all of these, for it is God’s desiring through the Mother for his little ones to be perfected in Love.
May you go forth and see to it that in your life love is perfected in Love.
This dictation by Mother Mary was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Wednesday, August 15, 1990, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana, upon the occasion of the celebration of Mother Mary’s Ascension Day. [N.B. Bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Mother Mary’s direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.
3. Matt. 18:11-14; Luke 15:3-7.
4. Matt. 28:18.
5. James 1:17.
6. See pp. 288 n. 3, 309-10, 378.
9. John 1:1, 2; 1988 PoW, Book II, p. 501 n. 8.
10. Matt. 13:45, 46.
11. Luke 22:41-44.
12. See 1989 PoW, pp. 447-48; 1988 PoW, Book II, p. 496 n. 3; 1983 PoW, pp. 166-67.
13. James 4:3.
14. Exod. 20:3-6; Deut. 5:7-10.
15. Prov. 15:1.
17. See 1989 PoW, p. 756 n. 5.
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