Vol. 33 No. 38 - John the Beloved - September 30, 1990
A Vision of Wholeness for the New Age
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Called to Be Apostles of God in Jesus Christ
Be Led by Love in All Ways
Jesus’ Words as Chalices of Violet Fire
Upon a hillside the Teacher stands and the pupils gather to hear the Word of the Lord. I am that one who does stand and I speak in His name. And [I teach in the] retreat [of the Divine Mother] that is over this land, for I have come with those who gather in the etheric octave at my retreat <1> to share His communion cup of Love with all [who are here] who drink in the Light of this civilization.
My beloved, I bring you the love of Christ Jesus. I bring you that which he has transferred to me–his essence, his presence, his very spirit. I invite you to deliver his Word, his Lost Teaching out of the fount of Divine Love. Divine Love is a chalice for wisdom. It is a chalice of that elixir whereby souls are healed through the Holy Spirit as the words are spoken.
My desire for you, and I pray that it be your desire for yourself, is that you might cross this land, up and down, east and west, as ministers of Christ’s healing love. The love you must bring, beloved, is his love and therefore you must make it your own.
Human love is not enough to bring surcease from deep sorrow and inner pain and anguish. Nice words and sympathy do not heal the broken heart. Moreover, they often exacerbate the agony. They are hollow when spoken to the one who is crucified.
Thus, beloved, do not go empty-handed or with chalices empty when you go to serve those in the field, when you go to hearts of gold who are waiting for shepherds true. It is a high calling to be an apostle of God and of Jesus Christ, yet to this calling are you called.
Let the ruby fire burn in you. Do not fear it. Do not shun it. Do not shield yourself against it. For the ruby fire to burn, beloved, you must know what is true selflessness, yet you must be unconscious of it. To be selfless and not even have a thought of [being in] that state is true selflessness.
Thus, sacrifice is the same. Those who think they sacrifice do not. For you should not be conscious of sacrifices, so caught up should you be in the Holy Spirit, in the sheer joy of Love and the perpetually flowing Love that comes through you as you serve Him.
The love of Christ is your love of the soul and your love of the human self that cannot figure out how to get out of itself, how to escape the conundrum of being “human.” I will tell you the secret, beloved. Becoming the Christ, loving the Christ, the individual by and by finds himself no longer in the human socket.
To be unconscious of the sense of serving and being the servant, yet to be that servant, this is pure love. To seek no reward save Christ and Christ resurrected in you, this truly allows you to step apart from the old self, to step apart, beloved, and not even sense the loss; for in truth there is none. You need not be concerned, for the Law will not allow you to step apart from yourself until you have already become acquainted with the new self, the new creature in Christ <2> and the Christ Self in you.
Surrender unto God is a mystery. The mystery is known by those who have become that mystery. Therefore, in one sense of the word, this is not a formula to be pondered.
I call you to be led by Love in all ways, to enter in [to Christ’s love] that your countenance might always shine with the Light of the Christ, whom you adore. So caught up in the ecstasy of the bliss of this oneness, you will fulfill all things of the Path of the Ruby Ray. You will know sacrifice, selflessness, service and surrender and yet, as I have said, not be conscious that you embody this example.
The world does not know the great gift of Love that is only inches from their heartbeat. If they knew what is this gift of Love, they would surely sell all that they have for that pearl of great price. <3>
The great price of this Love, beloved, is truly to allow transmutation to pass through all things so that present in thy life is the one, the pearl of great price. The cost, beloved, is that karma into the flame.
I AM John, scribe of visions of the Holy City given to me by God in Jesus Christ. I AM John and I have written what I have written. Let the eye of the soul discover the deeper meaning of each verse of Revelation, for the revelation is of thy True Self and of the unreal self.
The coming to pass of the events recorded [in Revelation] is seen today, as many of these images are advancing to the fore on the astral plane, in the mental belt, in the physical octave. The economy comes up on the screen and we see great distress. We see distress in this nation and the nations for the misuse of the lifeblood and the abundance God gave to his people.
Therefore, beloved, the karma descends upon the abusers of this sacred fire, this Light that is the quickening, that is the energy whereby a civilization does function. Many have abused the very foundations of the system and the elements of the Holy Spirit that have brought forth such a great civilization as America has been. They have so misused the money of the people that they have forfeited their opportunity to deliver truly the capstone of what this civilization was intended to be.
May you know God-harmony and the abundance of your Causal Body, but may you not be unrealistic concerning the manipulations of finance [that have occurred to such an extent that] there is scarcely any means known to man to rectify the worldwide abuse of the money system.
Would to God that many had already claimed the violet flame as saviour of this economy. Would to God that men and women of courage in responsible positions had dared to challenge the abuse of power and money in America.
For some things it is too late and they cannot be checked. Therefore [in some areas] elements of what you see will continue on their course, whereas in other areas, where there are pockets of Lightbearers with a positive thrust, there may be time and yet time for the fulfillment of those things that God does yet offer unto the faithful and the true of his witnesses on earth.
Therefore you see an admixture, and so it is. You see those of Light claiming the resurrection, even of their finances, even of the economy of the nation <4>–and in [certain] areas this will work. Then you see those who have already been propelled [into negative spirals] by the car of juggernaut of their own karma. And they, beloved, will not prosper, for they are the abusers of the systems and of the hearts of the people, [especially] the working people and the farmer and all those who depend upon fixed incomes for their daily bread.
Blessed ones, I pray that you have enough lamentation for the failure of many [that you yourselves will] take the opportunity to become disciples of Christ and, with the mantle of the apostle, truly stand in the nation for the right and for the principles of Jesus. I pray that you will see that so many have abdicated their Christhood that there has not been a sufficiency of Christed ones to hold that balance in various fields of service and industry and government and the economy to indeed maintain this civilization in its upward spiral.
I speak on these things, for I, John, am of the City Foursquare, and the foundations of that city are in the heart of Sanat Kumara and Gautama Buddha and Lord Maitreya and my Jesus Christ. These foundations were well laid, yet [on earth] we see a crumbling of the systems from within.
The realism of the hour is that where there is Christ there is the Life and there is the abundant Life intended for all. Midst a decaying and a dying system and world, you by the power of resurrection’s flame may quickly take the tide that comes and in taking that tide move on to certain fortune. You must understand that you do this as though floating upon a decaying barge. You will maintain and sustain for a time, but you must be prepared, beloved, with many contingency plans and alternatives ere this transmutation, this cataclysm that must come, shall be sorted through, rectified and the Place Prepared restored.
I speak, then, truly of a world in transition and a world between two ages. Those things of which you are confident today you may not be confident of on the morrow. Those things which appear dark may change to brightness and those which appear bright may change to darkness, so much so that the call of the hour to enter in to the fusing of the soul with Christ has never been more important.
Thus, beloved, know that your confidence, your security, your life, your abundance and your health is truly with the Inner Christ. I desire to see serenity and peace become a powerful momentum in you, even as [there is that momentum in] the great swelling of the seas. So the power of water, the power of peace, the power of the mind at peace will see you through.
You will remember the vision that Peter had of the great burning, even the burning of the elements of earth with a fervent heat. <5> This is the age of the great conflagration of sacred fire, of transmutation, of a world that must change if that world is to receive the Saviour.
Many suffer in this hour. We cannot walk through the earth without encountering untold suffering in every quarter. No matter what the level of being, somewhere in everyone there is that element of pain and suffering. Some know the joyous travail of giving birth to the Christ, while others go through the agony of self-disintegration. For though their hands reach out, there is not one embodied near to them who can stretch forth the hand of the Christ.
Negligence in care for those entrusted to you, professionally or in connection with your religious service, is fraught with the most severe karma. It is well to draw a circle around yourself and to make a list of your responsibilities: What part of life are you responsible to? What segment of the population or of this Community or of souls who have not yet been contacted by the Teachings [do you have an obligation to]?
Draw the line where you can say you are not responsible for this or that one and I will tell you, beloved, in the true spirit of the Bodhisattva, there is a responsibility to all sentient life on the part of all who aspire to Christhood and Buddhahood. When you see that responsibility and you are overwhelmed by the immensity of it or the challenge of your job, then know, beloved, that to fulfill the Law you must pass through the ritual of self-transcendence and this by the power of resurrection’s flame.
This is why you gather to recite your decrees to the Spirit of the Resurrection; and the All-Seeing Eye of God, who is the All-Knowing Eye of God, has strongly recommended this. <6> It is because of the inadequacy of the present self. You see those inadequacies and so do we, and sometimes you despair for fear that you cannot measure up to what you would like to be and what you would like to do.
The answer is [to be found in the appreciation of] the resurrection flame [together] with the violet flame and in the sense that you are the chalice of the Limitless One. Acknowledge no limitation whatsoever, beloved, but see that limitless being as the Christ in you; [see] yourself reaching out for that love to deliver that love into the very heart that needs it. See the decree as the answer, believing that ten billion souls can be healed by a single fiat. Then give that fiat and accept it done.
As you are on the path of the World Saviour, know that through his heart and [through] his presence in your heart you may also touch millions. With that sense of confidence in the law of God and in the dispensations at hand, you then will know not only the gift of self-transcendence but also the satisfaction of fulfilling all responsibilities to God and the evolutions of this earth.
I would read to you again the words of Jesus. <7> I would read to you these words, beloved, that you might know the power of love in the delivery of the Word. And I ask you to once again receive this gift of my heart. Receive it from Jesus, receive it from God. Accept the Truth [of this message] and know that it is fulfilled [in you], that it is taking place [as I break the bread of Life with you in] the true alchemy of [his] Love.
Jesus gave to me the gift of the violet flame, a very special gift to my heart alone. Therefore by that violet flame I, too, ascended at the conclusion of that embodiment, a rare gift and a treasured gift. Know, beloved, that this gift to me was [what made] the difference, making my victory secure, as apart from others of the apostles who waited two thousand years for their victory.
Blessed ones, this gift could not have come to me except by initiation, and initiation earned. So you see, beloved, by love, as the greatest of all qualities of God, I was able to drink of that cup of the violet flame. It is not, therefore, love alone that many sense in my Gospel and Epistles but it is the very vibration of the violet flame itself.
As I read to you, then, feel the love and know that you are presently immersed in a violet flame sea of light. As I received the gift of the violet flame through Jesus’ love, so I give to you now Jesus’ love through the violet flame that is already yours. I pray that this day you will make this violet flame your own in a way that you have not experienced before–as the treasured gift, as though drops of Blood came to you directly from the heart of Jesus, drops of Light, of precious substance of his cosmic being.
To sense the miracle of the violet flame rather than just the rote of a decree, to sense that it is the gift of eternal Life making possible all things that you do, to approach this flame with the reverence of love and the sense of such great worth that it has [to impart to you] will enable you to convey it to others, to give it as that most treasured Light that is the key and that makes the difference between eternal Life and continuous reincarnation.
Take, then, these words as chalices of the violet flame:
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Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. |
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I John 3:1-3 |
These words were written, beloved, in the full knowledge of the transforming power of Love’s own violet flame from the Holy Spirit. The absolute certainty that you shall be found in the likeness of your Christ is the guarantee of the violet flame. Yet the violet flame itself cannot guarantee your free will or the choices you will make; and of course it simply cannot work if you do not invoke it, if you do not sense the preciousness of this Blood of Jesus Christ.
It is tragic that some gifts of God [that are] so precious have become so common that the sense of the miracle is lost and therefore the miracle does not manifest. Truly it is the cup of the miracle that makes the miracle, and you must hold the cup into which [the miracle] can be poured. And as the sense of struggle makes the struggle, so the sense of the miracle guarantees the alchemy of the miracle. Therefore,
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Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. |
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I John 3:4-6 |
And so you see, beloved, if you continue to make karma, it is only because the density and the ignorance of the lesser self has denied you the very personal knowledge of Jesus Christ in your heart, in your being, one with your Holy Christ Self.
These are not mere words, beloved. [These] words are used [in an attempt] to convey to you something that is more glorious that cannot be conveyed in words. It is truly a great truth that the direct knowledge of your Christ Self through Jesus Christ would forbid ever thereafter that you should commit sin or make karma. Therefore get that which is beyond the words that I speak, beloved. Truly get that Presence and [get] that Christ!
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Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. |
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I John 3:7, 8 |
If you commit sin, in that moment of the committing of sin your vibration is of the devil. It does not mean that you are of the devil nor that you have an everlasting punishment.
[Originally,] the capacity to sin was not in the child of Light.
And therefore, Jesus Christ is come to stand between you as the shorn lamb (shorn of your contact with God) and the fallen ones who would move in in that hour of aloneness, that hour of separation from God, to insert the works of the devil into the psyche, those works that you no longer distinguish as evil, for the Christ Light is not bright enough in you to show up those works as the works of Darkness. Therefore the Son of God is come into your temple now through your Holy Christ Self to destroy the works of the devil that yet lurk in the untransmuted self and in the dweller-on-the-threshold.
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Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin... |
Therefore affirm this day that you are born not of flesh and blood nor of the will of man but of God himself. <8> Affirm that you are reborn of God and you will see that [in the rebirth] you have lost all capacity to violate the laws of God in sin.
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...for his seed remaineth in him: <9> and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. |
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I John 3:9 |
Let the seed of Light be sealed. That seed of Light is your protection against all sin.
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In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. |
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I John 3:10 |
There are still some among you who despise your brother or your sister. Take heed, beloved, for you have closed the door tight shut against the entering in of your own Christ Self. These things ought not to be and [yet the arguments and animosities] are affirmed [by you] as though of just cause.
There is no justification for hardness of heart and there is no justification [before God] of the chela on the Path who will not work to overcome it. It is a stone of stumbling that will one day become a boulder. And instead of your being broken on the Rock of Christ, <10> you will break on the boulder of your own human pride and hardness of heart.
You should be grateful to kiss and wash the feet of the one whom you have despised. For, beloved, those who are the brothers and sisters are potential chalices of that Christ and you must not [through despite] deny them or yourself from entering in.
Therefore when you see in yourself or another or in children actions not of the Light, pray for one another, pray earnestly [and call to Archangel Michael] for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold and the carnal mind that does prevent anyone from manifesting his true Christ Self.
And if you are the one despised, pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you [and say all manner of evil against you falsely]. <11> And pray especially for the great wisdom of God [as you call] for the binding of the forces of Darkness over which the individual has apparently little or no control. A part of that noncontrol, beloved, is due to the willfulness of the individual himself, and a part of it is due to the fact that the not-self has been allowed to grow and grow until it has become greater than the individual can deal with.
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For this is the message that ye have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
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I John 3:11 |
If you consider another to be beneath you [in station or spiritual attainment], then love that one in the deep desiring of your heart to see the Christ unfold [in him. This will come about] not merely by a process of the denial [of the mortal self, but by the affirmation of the immortal self and by] a process of the Light annihilating that which is the Darkness.
“Feed my sheep,” Jesus said. It is up to you to make powerful calls [on behalf of] all those who falter [on this Path] and are burdened [by the karma of the Dark Cycle] until you have [walked the last mile and] exhausted all possibilities, until such a one does declare himself a servant of Darkness and not a servant of Light[–and even then you may still call for his salvation through Christ].
Many karmas committed require all to go seventy times seven in the process of forgiveness. Remember this, beloved, for [it is often the case that] the Father and the Son have forgiven you many, many more times than you have forgiven others. [In order] for the full cup of the violet flame and the elixir to be yours, therefore, you must truly give and give again.
Have the patience of angels with all who are a part of the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity and the worldwide Body of God. Then you will see how angels will give you that patience that you yourselves so need to be overcomers.
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Not as Cain, who was of that Wicked One, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. We know that we have passed from Death unto Life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in Death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal Life abiding in him.
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I John 3:12-15 |
This is Saint Germain’s great teaching [on the misuse of the law of] alchemy: that hatred of anyone is the murder of that one [by degrees]–by thought, by feeling, by unconscious decree. Therefore take heed when you feel hatred in your heart. Many deny that they have it, and therefore they do not transmute it and it lingers as a poison in the heart chambers. This poison causes hardness of heart, the hardening of the arteries of the brain and ultimately the loss of life in the one who [practices denial and] refuses to surrender it.
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Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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I John 3:16 |
As you serve to set life free, you will know the meaning of the words “spend and be spent.” <12> You will give your life to the very last drop to save those who need to be saved. But in this, beloved, you are self-emptied and God will fill your cups full with violet flame for renewal and self-transcendence.
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But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us. |
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I John 3:17-24 |
Beloved, if you identify a condition of consciousness in another that is not Christlike, these are the steps to follow: First, pray for that one with great fervor. Pray to Jesus. Pray to Jesus for the conversion of that soul, for the violet flame to pass through that momentum; and see it utterly consumed. Secondly, do call for [the consuming by the sacred fire of all] spiritual blindness, for the binding of the dweller-on-the-threshold and the carnal mind within that one as well as all forces from without who would ravage that soul through the open [door] of that untransmuted condition.
Once you have engaged in prayer and decree for some period of faithfulness and watchfulness, ask God to give you the opportunity to speak [to that one]. Ask that the occasion might arise that carefully and gently you might draw to the attention of that one that this condition of mind or heart is [not only] detrimental to his own life and progress [but also to his loved ones and ultimately to planet earth and the cause of the Great White Brotherhood].
In a Community such as this you must be willing to hear the words of a brother or sister, not only receiving [correction] but also giving [it] to others. True shepherding and true caring is this, beloved, that you pray for one another, [that you] love one another and [that you] do not walk away [from another] to “mind your own business” when prayer [and love and even a gentle rebuke] are in order.
When you see such positive results from your prayers, [your love and your admonishments,] you will know that it was not the true will of the individual to be thus engaged with that element of darkness. But if you see the individual persisting in that darkness, you will know that that individual has resisted the angels whom you have sent by your prayers to deliver him. In the final analysis, you must discover whether or not there is resolution. And if there is not resolution, it is well to take up the matter with the Messenger.
I would like you to experience the power of prayer and see how prayer can assist you in truly helping one another with that profound Divine Love that is the compassion of the Christ, that does not leave anyone where you find him but always brings the individual to a higher plane of recognition of his Christhood through you.
As you grow in grace and love and Christ-illumined action as the scriptures come alive within you, know, beloved, that you are rebuilding the temple of man and that you are securing the foundations of your being in preparation for the world’s dealing with its karma.
I call you to the path of true love, true love for Jesus that says,
“I truly want to expand this Teaching and this Community and give of its cup to all Lightbearers. And because I desire this, I will give up all nonsurrender, all selfishness, all nonservice. I will give up that which I must give up in order to fulfill my deepest desire.” You who give this communion cup, beloved, truly give the cup of Christ’s Body and his Blood.
Now I will read to you again from my Epistle:
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Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. <13> And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is Truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. <14> And there are three that bear witness in the earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal Life, and this Life <15> is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath Life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life. |
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I John 5:1-12 |
Beloved, the teaching of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, concerning his mission is that he has come to reignite the threefold flame in those in whom it has gone out <16> and to reconnect with their Holy Christ Self those who have become disconnected. This Life of the Son is both the Life of the Son Jesus and the Life of the Holy Christ Self. Without this connection, beloved, there is no true Life.
Thus you see the immensity of the gift of God in sending that Son, Jesus Christ, into the world. For without Jesus as the initiator, as the Guru of the age of Pisces, the majority of those of this planet could not enter in to their Holy Christ Self. This, then, is the great promise of the intercessor. And this is God’s promise to you as you would be in the role of intercessor to many, that you receive Jesus Christ and thereby allow him to work through you in assisting many to come into the knowledge of their own threefold flame.
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These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal Life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that Wicked One toucheth him not. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal Life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. |
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I John 5:13-21 |
May you extend the comfort and the compassion and the instruction that you find in my Gospel and Epistles and those of the other apostles to the Body of God in the earth. To do this, beloved, you must become them. Unless the messenger become the message, the message is delivered in vain.
May you see the violet flame. May you know it is the gift of God. May you demonstrate it and live it that others might see and know that you also have been sent by Jesus Christ and called by his apostle John to embark from this day on on a ministry of Love.
May this love prepare you not only for the gifts of the Holy Spirit but for the baptism by fire. And then, beloved, then, beloved, you will set this world on fire with violet flame and you shall know such stupendous miracles and alchemies of an age that you will scarcely be able to believe that they are happening.
I AM your brother John and your Teacher, and I also hold the office of scribe of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have written down many visions and books that the Lord has given me. Perhaps by and by he may also allow me to read to you from these books.
I seal you in your missionary work. I seal you in the calling to be communicants in this Church, to drink the full cup of his Blood, to take the full measure of his Body. I seal you in the calling of ministering servant. I seal you in the office of teacher and healer.
Blessed ones, do come forward now to receive Holy Communion. This is the Body and Blood of Christ Jesus and also of my humble self. For I would share with you the essence of the Alpha-Omega of my being that you might also go forth in my name to spread the gospel of the miracle love of Christ.
Let our servers take their stations that I might give you this Communion.
In preparation for receiving Communion, I ask you to kneel in prayer now to call on the law of forgiveness for all those things that you desire to see pass into the flame, that the alchemy of the bread and the wine might create in you that new creature in Christ. [Congregation kneels in prayer.]
I, John, come to your stations. I place my Electronic Presence there and I serve you now the Holy Communion of the Body and Blood of our Lord. Receive him now even as you receive me as your humble servant. Come forward. [Holy Communion is served.]
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three comprising the threefold flame in your heart. But the greatest of these is charity. <17> The giving of the self unto others, this is truly the key to the balanced threefold flame, to its restoration in those in whom it has gone out; and it is the sealing of the tie. In fact it is the tie that binds you to your Holy Christ Self through Jesus. May charity as self-givingness be unto you the pearl of great price.
I am standing above in the Temple Beautiful with our Lord. And I seal you in the name of the Father and of the Son, in the name of the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother. Amen.
This dictation by John the Beloved was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, October 7, 1990, during the six-day conference A Vision of Wholeness for the New Age held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana.
1. The retreat of John the Beloved is in the etheric plane over the state of Arizona.
10. Matt. 21:42, 44; Luke 20:17, 18; I Cor. 10:4; I Pet. 2:6-8.
11. Matt. 5:11, 44.
12. II Cor. 12:15.
13. According to Church Father Augustine, John’s reference to “water and blood” in this verse is an allusion to the water and blood that poured forth when a soldier pierced the side of Jesus at the crucifixion. Most modern commentators, however, interpret the water as referring to Jesus’ baptism and the blood as referring to his death on the cross. Biblical scholars believe that John’s emphasis on the blood as well as the water was meant as a refutation of the false theology that the Christ descended upon Jesus at his baptism and remained only until the time of his crucifixion. Those who propounded this heretical concept denied that Christ had ever been subject to human suffering and death. John’s understanding of the Incarnation is correct: The Christ was crucified and the Christ did suffer. Jesus and the Christ were one. There was no separation between the two. Jesus was fully fused to his Christhood–he was the Word Incarnate.
Scholar John Woodroffe (pen name, Arthur Avalon) writes in his book The Garland of Letters: “These are the very words of Veda. In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was Vak, or the Word, and the word is Brahman.” In the Vedas (the earliest scriptures of Hinduism), the Mother is associated with the cosmic Principle and Person of Vac, literally speech, word, voice, talk or language. Brahman is the Creator–the ultimate Reality, the Absolute. Woodroffe explains that Vac is spoken of as second to Brahman “because She is first potentially in [Him] and then as Shakti issues from Him.” Shakti is a Sanskrit term meaning energy, power, or force. The Shakti is that point of the Feminine Principle who releases the potential of God from Spirit to Matter. As Shakti, the Divine Mother is therefore the dynamic, creative force of the universe–the manifest power of her masculine counterpart.
Based on this understanding of Vac, or the Word, as Mother, I John 5:7 may be read as: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Mother, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” The Messenger believes that John had the mystical understanding of God as both Father and Mother, as Holy Spirit and as Son. Perhaps those who inserted this verse in the fourth century shared this understanding and were attempting to fulfill John’s mystical intent. It is also possible that those who later deleted it did not understand the use of the term Word in this light and therefore did not believe that the verse served any purpose.
15. The word Life (with a capital L) is a synonym for God. If you read God in the place of Life, you will gain a deeper meaning of the inherent teaching.
16. See Jesus Christ, December 25, 1985, 1986 PoW, Book I, pp. 112-15.
17. I Cor. 13:13.
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