Vol. 35 No. 61 - Saint Teresa of Avila - December 6, 1992

Voyages of Soul Discovery
III
Brides of Christ
Your Bridegroom Is Waiting

A Secret Pact
In the Ecstasy of the Lord

Rejoice in Opportunity!

Most beloved friends of my heart, I am called today the Ascended Lady Master Kristine, <1> having served you in many occupations and callings in the earth. So you also know me as Teresa of Avila.

Yes, I have known the Lord. Yes, I did come to greet my friends the Messengers. And how my feet skipped lightly as I approached the doors of the retreat in Colorado Springs, for I knew that this was the beginning of a mission that would carry me to the throne of grace. But I did not know in my outer mind that this life would be cut off so soon, and yet it was the will of God.

The Messenger and I embrace in this moment, for we have long carried a secret pact of our service together as sisters of Light, calling home the saints, ringing the bells of Mary, sounding the sound of the Om and traversing the cosmos to the heart of the Lord Krishna.

Being in the flame with you in this hour, then, gives me such great rejoicing, O beloved!  It is wonderful to know you as you are and as you were when I left. And therefore, our service together is a bonding of hearts in what you call a mandala. It is a mandala of Buddhas and bodhisattvas dedicated to the publishing of the Word, and the artistic renditions that convey at a glance the true meaning and the profoundness of the Word.

[Yes, the Messenger and I] have served together, often taking turns–the one or the other being out of embodiment–that we together might have this anchoring point in the etheric octave and in the physical plane. <*>  We have had many victories together, serving, as you might say, as an Alpha-Omega team with so many, many of you who are here and still serving in the very department where I served, now in Montana.

Beloved hearts of fire, rejoice in opportunity!  Rejoice that you will soon also be fully reunited with your Holy Christ Self. Make sure, make sure that you do all that you are supposed to be doing to achieve that goal. I counsel you who are my very friends, you who have known me in this life:  leave nothing undone but treasure daily your communion in the heart of Jesus Christ, the Lord and Saviour–yes, in the Sacred Heart and in the heart of the twin of that Christ, who is indeed your Holy Christ Self.

So I invite you, as in the ancient teachings of our Lord, to swiftly become Jesus’ twin, <2> to rise to the level of the Christ and to pull down that majesty of the Christ where you are by such utter love that you leave a vacuum that can be filled only by that descending one.

O blessed hearts, I pray that you enter in to the very glory and sanctity of God. I pray that you do not avoid the agony. Experience it, go through it, transmute it!  Be in the meditation of the ecstasy that I knew in the presence of Jesus even as Teresa of Avila.

That moment of what is called a spiritual ecstasy is a part of the experience of the bonding of the heart whereby the soul can no longer be separated from her Lord. There is a period of trial, almost as in the trial of the betrothal. There is a going-out and a coming-in. There is a period of being received by the Lord Christ and yet not permanently, [and then there is a period of] being sent forth again and again, as the teachings of Saint John of the Cross do convey. <3>

And therefore in this, beloved, know that that entering-in and that going-out is almost like an oscillation–the entering-in and the going-out of the soul as she puts on a certain fire of Christ, assimilating it, adjusting to it, coming back again after a period of service and again receiving the fire of Christ and feeling that fire intensifying the Deathless Solar Body, even the wedding garment.

You have been brides of Christ for First Holy Communion. And some of you who missed that ritual in this life have pursued it as adults. We welcome all of you to receive First Holy Communion and the teaching that goes before it, to do so in the name of your inner child and your soul, who would wear that bridal veil and that sweet, white, lacy dress–all ready for the entering-in.

This is the first experience of being the bride of Christ in this life. And then as year upon year succeeds you are weaving the veil, you are weaving many veils that make up the many layers of your wedding garment. And so, you see, [this wedding] is a ritual to be entered into certainly advisedly and not lightly, for it is the eternal marriage of your soul to that Universal Christ, to that only begotten Son.

How I rejoice in the beautiful photograph of the engraving of our Lord receiving his bride! <4>  Is it not precious, beloved?

See yourself, then, as that bride, that one and only waiting bride, to be received by Jesus and your Holy Christ Self.

Oh, sing now the song to me that I love to hear, the song of the introit to your Holy Christ Self and Flame!  For this, beloved, is a part of my dictation and through it I desire to draw you nearer to the goal so that your heart is fairly on fire before we are through. Please, then, sing it to me and with me now.

   Now I would speak to you of scientific prayer, of the prayer of the heart, of spoken prayer and of inaudible prayer, of contemplation of God through this prayer. Through the Messengers you have learned many forms of communication with God–the affirmation of the Word, the fiat of the Lord, the rejoicing, the exclamation, the dynamic decree, the longer preambles saluting so many of the heavenly hosts for the bindings of so many of the fallen angels.

You have understood the Ritual of Exorcism, the Jesus’ Watch, the New Age rosaries. You have understood the science of mantra and you have aligned your chakras by your devotions and by the sacred fire breath.

You have understood the purpose of the bija mantras to attune the chakras, to bring them back to the point of their own natural spin and their unique frequency as the seven points on the pole of being.

You have understood our Lord’s Prayer in a newness of light, through your affirmation of all these [forms of communication with God, including] the “I AM Lord’s Prayer,” the I AM affirmations of the Lord Christ, and the “I AM the Resurrection and the Life” affirmations.

You have learned healing mantras, Eastern mantras, Buddhist and Hindu mantras. You have learned to call upon the All-Seeing Eye of God. You have learned visualization. You have learned to memorize and visualize intricate thoughtforms that you can see and project for blessing and healing.

Think of all of these things that you have come to, beloved–so many variations on the theme of the sixteen petals of the throat chakra and of the petals of all of the chakras. It is as though [in touching lightly the petals of your chakras] you were sounding the notes of a bell and this bell had many more notes than you hear either in Western or Eastern music, so delicate are the gradations [not only] of the voice’s capacity to give devotion to God [but of the petals of the chakras as well].

Let God, then, fill all your being!  Let God fill your being with his voice as he answers prayer, as the Father-Mother answers prayer and speaks to you in the innermost recesses of the heart and in the secret chamber of the heart.

As some of you know who have read that which I wrote as Teresa, I have pursued an understanding of prayer, which I gave to the sisters. And that prayer was a great strength, the rising strength of woman, who in our time could not occupy positions of prominence [in the Church].

Let us understand, beloved, that [such discrimination] is not the product of male domination in the Catholic Church. It is the product of the domination by the ego of anyone–man or woman, priest or prelate or humble supplicant. Each one of us must in our own time see to the binding of that not-self, that false self, that created self who [thinks it] must defend the carnal mind and is part and parcel of the dweller-on-the-threshold.

And thus, the true liberation of woman comes by her sanctification through Jesus Christ, by his divine approbation given unto woman and the raising of woman to her lawful place as “mother of the universe,” as he called it. <5>

And so you see, we [sisters] had our own karma to work out and we, [as a body,] have that karma to work out today. But when we have the protection of our beloved Bridegroom and we enter the bridal chamber and [kneel before] the altar in the secret chamber of the heart, do you not see, beloved, that we become an indomitable force? And when I say “we,” I speak not only of women but of men also, for I am speaking of the soul.

Therefore, nurture your souls as children and raise them up, for a portion of your soul is a child needing comfort and a portion of your soul is a wise one giving you instruction and notification of events to come.

A portion of your soul is at every level. But when you love and liberate that soul, she can then leap into the arms of Christ and be assimilated by Christ, even as Christ is the great assimilator and even as the soul does assimilate her Lord through the taking of Communion daily.

This Communion is not only the wine and the wafer, it is the communion in the allness of the Alpha-to-Omega of the Lord and Saviour and his twin, your own Christ Self.

Seek, then, Reality!  And when you lose the moment and the momentum of this flame of love that we share, as in this precious moment, I say, take a moment out of time, out of space to restore yourself to this sense of his joyous presence, the togetherness that you have, knowing that hour by hour you are nearer to God. Yes, “nearer, my God, to thee” <6> am I, day after day after day.

Your giving of yourself unto God, therefore, provides you with the opening whereby God in the hour and day of his own choosing may empower you. And that empowerment gives to your fiats and affirmations and prayers and dynamic decrees a greater strength and you are overshadowed by God in the person of your beloved Archangel Michael or one of the other Archangels.

Yes, beloved, as you divest yourself of the old vestments of past ages and past karma and cast those vestments into the flame, those vestments once thought of as holy or precious, you see that there is only one element of you that is holy, and that is the you that has become a part of God and a part of that Universal Christ.

Yes, holiness is unto the Lord <7> and only unto the Lord. And therefore, day by day change your garments, putting on the fine linen of the saints. Come, then, and bring that fine linen as you approach the altar, for truly your Bridegroom is waiting.

May you find interest, then, in my almost random writings, <8> as I wrote of those things that were upon my heart and that came to me. Perhaps you might read a little here and there that you might know what [persecutions, hardships and self-denials] we went through in our time because of what we had and what we knew. And surely it was a mighty preparation of the mighty God, the Almighty One, for this lifetime on the path of the ascension in the twentieth century.

I would not have missed it for anything!  I would not have missed serving side by side with both Messengers and coming to understand bit by bit and crumb by crumb from the Lord’s table so many facets of the Law that governs our lives by love.

Truly love is the fulfilling of the whole law of your ascension:

Let your love be the discriminating intelligence of the Mind of God. Let your love move you to busy yourself about the tasks at hand that only those in physical embodiment can do.

Let your love be a crown of rejoicing of the Mother’s heart in your pursuit of the will of God and in the ease with which you surrender unto that will because you have made yourself whole, because you have picked up the parts and the pieces of self that you have left here and there, [depositing them] in others or laying them aside somewhere on the road of life.

Yes, the soul has in many cases been fragmented, as you have been taught in another dictation, <9> which I myself heard. Yes, beloved, let the magnet of your love, the magnet of your threefold flame, draw back to you now all the components of yourself that you have vested in another, thinking that another owned you or had the key to your happiness or the key to that love. Be the allness of what you are and you will not find it difficult to slip into the shining dewdrop of Love’s potential, God’s will and his holy wisdom.

I could recite to you by the hour in the ecstasy of the Lord!  There is no ending to his presence with us in this hour and in this room. And therefore, oh, see your Jesus now in this moment taking you into his arms, taking from you the pain and the record of pain!  Yes, see him now, for he does come!  He does come with ten thousand of his saints, who have also been received to his Sacred Heart.

I am grateful you pursue the devotion to the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart and the hearts of the ascended ones, that you celebrate the first Friday and the first Saturday of the month. For thereby you achieve a profound oneness at the deepest levels of your being and a peace that surely does pass the understanding of the world, <10> the peace that you maintain as you are in the vortex of Light and Wholeness and Peace itself.

Oh, go with God every day and know:

How could I leave thee?  How could I leave thee?

I could never leave thee, O my brothers and sisters, O my little Mother in the earth, O thou my Father in the heaven. I will surely not leave you; for remember, the Messenger and I have a secret pact and we work together for the accomplishment of that which God has assigned us to do.

Now make your pact with Love and the Saviour’s love and know that I shall place my Electronic Presence about you anywhere and everywhere you go remembering me, remembering me through the little bird held in the hand.

I AM always and always your sister of Love.

THE ASCENDED LADY MASTER KRISTINE
FLORENCE JEANNETTE BIRNIE-VISSCHER MILLER

b. February 27, 1936  d. September 19, 1979
ascended: September 20, 1979

In her final incarnation, Teresa of Avila was embodied as Florence Jeannette Birnie-Visscher Miller.

Florence was born on February 27, 1936, in Krugersdorp, South Africa, to Epke and Kees Birnie-Visscher. She had a twin brother, Alfred, and an older brother, George. Her parents were from the Netherlands and were in the diplomatic service.

Florence grew up in South Africa and the Belgian Congo and received most of her high school education through American correspondence courses. In 1952, at the age of 16, she moved with her parents to Brussels, Belgium, and in 1953 toured Europe. In 1955 and 1956 she attended the Palantype School in London, England, for secretarial training. She then worked in London and South Africa as a secretary for about a year before starting college.

In May 1959 she received an Associate in Arts degree from Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, and in June 1961, a Bachelor of Arts degree in French from the University of Wisconsin. After college, she worked in Toronto, Canada, for several years asa research assistant for the Canadian Education Association.

Florence found the Teachings of the Ascended Masters in 1968, while living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The minute she saw photographs of Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, she recognized them as true Messengers of God. In October 1968, she joined the staff of The Summit Lighthouse, where she served as head of the publishing department and as a member of the Board of Directors of Church Universal and Triumphant. She was a pillar of strength and inspiration to all who knew her, always bringing self-discipline, creativity, dedication and a spirit of joy to her work.

While on staff, Florence met and married the Reverend Norman Thomas Miller. In a recent telephone interview, he said of her:

   On September 19, 1979, at the age of 43, Florence passed from the screen of life as a result of a brain tumor. At 9:30 a.m. the next morning, September 20, her soul fulfilled at inner levels the initiation of the ascension. She is now known and loved as the Ascended Lady Master Kristine. The title Lady Kristine had been given to her by Saint Germain on July 5, 1970.

In his October 14, 1979 Pearl of Wisdom, Sanat Kumara proclaimed her “the example and forerunner on the Path of the Ruby Ray.”  Sanat Kumara said:

This dictation by Saint Teresa of Avila was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, October 10, 1992, during the five-day conference Voyages of Soul Discovery held at the Castlegate Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. Before the dictation, the Messenger led the congregation in a “Meditation for the Dissolving of Painful Memories.”  The dictation is available on videocassette with the dictations of Mother Mary, the Buddha of the Ruby Ray and Omri-Tas (96 min., HP92090). It is also available on audiocassette with the Messenger’s “Meditation for the Dissolving of Painful Memories” (59 min., B92087). [N.B. Throughout this Pearl, bracketed material denotes words unspoken yet implicit in the dictation, added by the Messenger under Saint Teresa of Avila’s direction for clarity in the written word.] Throughout these notes PoW is the abbreviation for Pearls of Wisdom.

*. She being the anchor point for me when I was in the etheric octave and she was in physical embodiment, I being the anchor point for her when I was in physical embodiment and she was in the etheric octave. And now that I am in the ascended octaves of Light, she still serves as that anchor point for me on earth as I do for her in heaven.

1. See biography of Florence Jeannette Birnie-Visscher Miller (pp. 702-3).

2. Jesus’ twin. The Gnostic scripture the Gospel of Thomas is attributed to Judas Thomas, who is called Jesus’ “twin.”  (Thomas is the Aramaic word for “twin.”) The Messenger has explained:  “Some people have mistakenly interpreted the concept of Thomas as Jesus’ twin as meaning a physical twin brother. [But the Gnostics understood that] as we aspire and become our Real Self, we are becoming one with that Christ Self. The Christ Self of us is also the Christ of Jesus. They are one and the same. So when we become like, or the reflection of, our Holy Christ Self, we also become the twin of Jesus....Jesus was continually emphasizing in the Gnostic gospels that we should drink from the same source from which he had drunk and therefore become like him. Jesus stressed that God wanted the disciples to become like him, to become equal to him and a part of him and then they would be one with the Father, the Father-Mother God, as he was one.”  As scholar Elaine Pagels says, the implicit message to the reader of the Gospel of Thomas is:  “Whoever comes to understand these books discovers, like Thomas, that Jesus is his ‘twin’–his spiritual ‘other self’.”  See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “The Lost Teachings of Jesus on the Gospel of Thomas,” Part I, October 13, 1991, and Part II, October 11, 1992.

3. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Living Flame of Love, 8-audiocassette album (12-1/2 hr., A85044).

4. “The Marriage of the Lamb.” Color photograph of engraving:  5x7” or  8x10”.

5. Woman as “mother of the universe.” See The Life of Saint Issa 12:10-21, in Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Lost Years of Jesus, pp. 215-16, 274-75 in hardbound and softbound, or pp. 239-41, 302-3 in pocket book.

6. “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” traditional hymn. Words by Sarah F. Adams, music by Lowell Mason.

7. “Holiness unto the Lord.”  Exod. 28:36-38; 39:30, 31; Jer. 2:3; Zech. 14:20, 21.

8. See The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila.  3 vols. 2d ed., trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (Washington, D.C.:  ICS Publications, 1987). Available through Summit University Press:  Vol. 1, The Book of Her Life, Spiritual Testimonies, Soliloquies.  Vol. 2, The Way of Perfection, Meditations on the Song of Songs, The Interior Castle.  Vol. 3, The Book of Her Foundations, Minor Works.

9. On January 16, 1977, the Goddess of Wisdom gave a dictation on the “need to assemble the components of the soul.” She explained that in some cases the forcefield of the soul has been split by intense fears of the past and traumatic experiences. See “A Page in the Book of the Mother’s Healing,” in 1977 PoW, vol. 20 no. 9, pp. 37-40.

10.. Phil. 4:7.

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