Vol. 34 No. 20 - I AM the Witness

Vol. 34 No. 20 - I AM the Witness - May 19, 1991

I AM the Witness

I came into the Teachings in September 1986 in Washington, D.C., and attended my first conference in July 1987–Freedom 1987–in the Heart of the Inner Retreat at the beautiful Royal Teton Ranch in Montana.

When I first began attending services I would go home and do my decrees and study the Teachings but I was still listening to rhythm and blues. I was not aware of the Ascended Masters’ teachings on music.

Being black, I did not listen to heavy metal and rock music. Many black people don’t particularly care for rock music, at least from my generation (I am 39 years old). Since a lot of black music at this time used the word love, I was fooled into believing it was acceptable. The word love is so abused in musical lyrics.

I heard my first dictation at Freedom 1987. It was from Beloved Surya, who came to judge the fallen ones behind rock music. When I heard this, I did not make the connection between rock music, rhythm and blues and jazz. I thought Surya just meant “rock music.”

During the conference there were programs for new people, so I went to a lecture by the Messenger entitled “The Science of Rhythm for the Mastery of the Sacred Energies of Life: Uses and Misuses of the Word in the Music of East and West.” We were given little booklets to follow along with. In these booklets were illustrations of chakras and the damage that is done to them through the discordant vibrations of sound.

Some rock music was played and I could easily accept that this was discordant. Later, some of my old favorite rhythm-and-blues tunes were played. I looked at the pictures of the chakras and how damaged they were, and in my heart I cried out to God to cut me free from my attachment to this music.

Then the Messenger said she wanted us to hear what the correct rhythm of the sacred energies sounds like. She played for us an Indian raga. Immediately my soul leapt for joy as though she were thirsting for this precious sound! All of a sudden, in my third eye I saw a being with many arms spinning around and dancing very fast. I sat there in amazement but I didn’t say anything to anyone.

As soon as the lecture was over, I ran to a friend of mine who had been in the Teachings for many years and asked her, “Who is that being who dances with many arms?” I told her I just saw him, and she told me, “That was Lord Shiva.” Then I told another friend and she said that Shiva was clearing my third eye from the music I had been listening to.

I was so happy. God is so loving and merciful! He was forgiving me and healing me from this past indulgence and proving to me that what I had just heard about the perversions of sound was true.

Now it is 1991. One day around September 1990 I was coming home from work in Chicago. I was walking behind a group of very young black children who were carrying a big radio that was playing very loud. They were listening to what is called “rap music.” This is the latest craze among the black youth. What astounded me were the words that the group was singing. They included the most outrageous profanity and violent descriptions of how to abuse women. There were profoundly graphic genital references.

I walked over to them and politely asked them what group they were listening to, and they told me. As I looked into their young eyes, I could see that they were already dead to the sensitivity of life. They were in a deathlike vibration from this music that was programming their young Christ minds.

How can anyone expect them to grow up and have respect for their mothers, future girlfriends and wives and children? They are being programmed to be lost before they are even found–found in their Christ mind.

I had the realization that the fallen ones were aware that many black people don’t like rock music so they came up with “rap music” to destroy this sector of the youth. I have lived in Washington, D.C., New York City and now Chicago and have had my whole life to observe the inner-city black youth. In short, our youth are in trouble. It is bad enough that we have drugs and sex education in the schools to contend with, but this “rap music” is going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back of the black community.

When children hear this profanity and their parents give them the money to buy this music and expensive radios, what kind of message do they receive?

One morning I was up early getting ready to do my morning decrees. It was one of those mornings when you would rather get more sleep. I was sitting at my altar and I looked out the window and saw a school bus stop to pick up some children. I thought to myself, “What are these precious children going to be introduced to this morning? Drugs, alcohol, sex, rap and rock music, computer pornography?” Then I surrendered them into Mother Mary’s hands.

I am so grateful to have my decrees and the Teachings of the Ascended Masters. I can’t personally follow every child to school to protect them from all the social ills, but the legions of Mother Mary and Archangel Michael can–and this is what makes having these Teachings so valuable.

You can call to millions of angels to protect all the precious children. You can call to them every day or every hour. This is the divine solution to the problem, along with the spreading of the Truth of the Ascended Masters’ Teachings. This is Love on a grand scale–not the perverted love conceptions that are being sung about in today’s music.

If you want to know what love is, come to The Summit Lighthouse and learn the LOVE teachings of the Ascended Masters!

With profound love and gratitude to the Brotherhood,

A Chela of the Will of God

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