The Igniting of Joy
Come to the Heart of the Little Child
Oh, the Kindling Fire!
Go Forth and Rescue the Children!
Thanksgiving Day Address 1992
Oh, into the heart of the little child I come!
I take up my abode. For I AM the living Christ and I come for the fulfillment of the Word in each one. So, beloved, stand guard that the lily might unfold and fulfill the promise of the resurrection unto God.
O blessed hearts of Light, I rejoice in the affirmation of the alleluia! <1> For it is the affirmation of the I AM Presence with you and in you, which is the all-power of God to defeat the assault upon the youth and children of the world. Therefore come with me this day. Come with me and also descend into the heart of the little child.
I AM forever the healer and the burden-bearer. I AM forever that manifestation of resurrection’s fire. I come, therefore, in the four quadrants of life as the Lion, the Calf, the Man and the Flying Eagle. <2> I AM come to you, beloved! I AM come to occupy your habitation, even the dwelling place of your spirit and your soul.
Is not the Mind of God wondrous?
Can you not commune with the Mind of God until you discover that that Universal Mind is your very own?
Therefore, come to the heart of the little child.
Come to the heart of the Christ Self of that one!
Come to the heart of holy innocence and bring that, beloved, to the children of the ghettos of the world, to those who starve for food, for a spiritual path, for love, for parents who care.
Oh, come with me as you come with Listening Angel.
Come with me, beloved!
Come with me now and keep the fires burning.
Be the shield, therefore, and say with thy God:
I AM thy shield and thy exceeding great reward! <3>
So this was the promise of the I AM Presence unto Abraham. It is a promise of ultimate protection and of reward for all sincere effort to give glory unto God in every work of the hand and the mind and the heart.
Is not the shield of the Lord and the reward all that is needed? Is not the reward of your Father-Mother God all that which your heart does long for?
And is it not true, beloved, that one ought to wait upon the Lord for that reward and not seek it and take it to oneself before that crown is given, before that morsel of the bread of eternal Life or the drops of blood from my own Heart are given?
Do you understand, beloved, that the reward cannot be withheld from you except on account of your nonrecognition of your worth, your worthiness to receive the reward?
Therefore, if you believe your reward ought to be punishment for aeons of being punished by fallen angels, et cetera, then, beloved hearts, how the angels weep that on the day and the date when that harvest [of your good works] should come in, you are not there to receive it, you are not there in consciousness but rather in a corner, cornering-in yourself in self-condemnation until you can bear it no more and you say, “I want to get out of this place! I want out!” And the “place,” of course, is the place of your own self-condemnation, [which you often associate with your immediate environment].
Blessed ones, cease this. For when you condemn yourself, you condemn the heart of the child, your own inner child, you condemn the Manchild that I AM, that I was and that I ever shall be–the infant Christ.
Blessed ones, walk out of the shadows, the valley of the shadow of death. <4> Walk out of these shadows and know that if perchance you have crossed the line to abrogate the laws of God, to sin against the living flame of Love, God in you is yet worthy, Christ in you is yet worthy; and as long as you have life and breath, you are worthy to receive opportunity again and again.
This is the meaning of the incarnation of the Word and of the soul with you. This is the meaning of life–that as long as you keep that life and breath and that home fire burning in your heart, every day is a new day. And if it needs be that you should atone for any act or word or deed, then do so quickly by works of merit, by prayers of transmutation and imploring and weeping until you are cleansed by the weeping itself and you come to a new level of God-happiness.
O beloved, remember the admonishment to step out of the old plots, the old vibrations, the old garments!
Step out of those old vibrations! Come apart!
I perceive, then, I perceive the consciousness of the flesh within some among you whereby you do not, cannot, will not let go of conditions long past. Blessed ones, this must cease. You must let go!
And if you do not know how to let go, then do not let the clock strike twelve this day that you do not kneel in prayer to me and ask me, “My Lord Jesus, show me how to let go of the old man, <5> the old woman, the lesser self and the records of the past. Show me how to let go!”
Some hold on to these in anger. Others hold on to these in fear. Others hold on to these because they misperceive themselves [in a lesser state, and as they perceive, so they are. Therefore they] identify with the records instead of with the Christ Child, the heart of the little child that is pure, the heart of the little child that has wisdom and that can transcend the lesser self and that year upon year can approach to the higher calling of God.
I speak to you of every level and age of consciousness and I say: The soul is ageless and you are in a timeless, spaceless realm when you retreat to the secret chamber of your own heart. And when you retreat to the heart of the child, when you go to the children of the world to minister there, go with armour, go with the shield of the Lord, your Mighty I AM Presence. For you will then and there do battle with the dweller-on-the-threshold, with demons of the night and fallen angels who persecute the Divine Manchild, the child held in the arms of the blessed Mary, the child that is the Christmas Rose, and children all over the world [who come in his name].
I say to you, defend them with the fierceness of Kali and of Shiva! Defend them with the fierceness of the Holy Ghost! Defend them with knowledge, with love, with empowerment by the gentleness of the will of God.
Speak to children as you are taken by my Mother and by her angels and the angels of Raphael. Speak to children in their hearts. Comfort them. You may be the only one on earth who does talk to them in the language of the soul in that secret chamber of the heart. Therefore, take your Ashram Ritual for Transport and Holy Work [and give it perhaps once a week or once a month. Then before retiring each night call to Archangel Michael that you might serve life with the hosts of the Lord and alleviate human suffering.]
Go forth, then!
Go forth, then, for the guardian action of the children!
Go forth, then, as an instrument of the reward!
Blessed ones, all rewards are karmic. And therefore, for those several lifestreams upon earth, here and there, city by city, you find that their reward is some level of returning negative karma while [the reward of] others [is some level of returning] positive karma.
Therefore, also tutor souls. Tutor the child-man in the heart concerning Divine Justice, concerning the worthiness of the soul to bear responsibility for all actions past, present and future.
Let there be, then, the igniting of joy–joy in the heart of the child that has not known joy in this life, a joy to face a future of certainty. And that certainty is of Divine Justice.
That is the one thing that is certain in all realms of life, beloved–that Divine Justice does roll around and it does roll around again and again. And if you believe that there is an injustice, you have been told to appeal to the Lords of Karma for the descent of Divine Justice that must be meted out.
Do so, then, with a merciful heart.
Do so, then, with a just and righteous heart.
Come forth, then, in the name of The Lord Our Righteousness and go now clad in your Holy Christ Self, who is my twin. Yes, indeed, beloved, I invite each and every one of you this year to become my twin, as my beloved apostle Thomas was my twin in that he did embody that Christ. <6>
Therefore know, beloved, that you are approaching that stage when I may call you brother and sister in the highest sense of the word–in the sense of the word that you know your Christ as my Christ and that I may see mirrored in you the fullness of the only begotten Son of the Father-Mother God, who I AM, who I embrace, who I embody and whose flame I transfer to you when you are ready.
Oh, the kindling fire!
Oh, the kindling fire!
And how you are walking to the central sun of God, to the sun of all life, to the Son of Mary!
How you walk in that direction, day by day assuming unto yourself more and more of that Light!
And yet, how you are unaware, how you are unaware at times just how much of that Christ may be in you! And at other times you would worry to know how little of that Christ is in you when you descend to levels of pettiness and all manner of worry and worrisomeness and many other states of consciousness that, if you stop and think about it, have nothing to do with the Path or progress on the Path.
Happiness, then, is an extension of the joy of the threefold flame. And this God-happiness is the gift I would see you give to every little child, to the children of the Light and to those who desire to be children of the Light.
As there is the interior gladness, the interior sense of well-beingness in the universe of God, as this is a seed you plant and water as you tend my garden, which is the garden of the heart of the little child, you shall know that though children may be buffeted and neglected and not have the proper education, yet there will be in them something that is akin to the Presence itself, to the Holy Spirit.
And that something will be your love and your tutoring as you accept my assignment this day to go forth from the retreats of the Great White Brotherhood with the legions of angels of Uriel’s bands and other bands of the Archangels to tend the children who have no caretakers and are not even with their own mothers and fathers.
These children are in every echelon of life. They are among the wealthy and the poorest of the poor and the middle classes and those of every race. Everywhere is there the assault on the child.
Do the devils know that the Divine Manchild is to be born?
Do they fear my coming again, this time in the hearts of all the children of the world?
Yes, indeed, they fear it! They fear it to a level of fright that does impel them to [commit] atrocities against the little children at every level of their being and life. And, of course, their determination, beloved, is to stop that life before the child is born.
Oh yes, beloved! Just look around you and see how the children of the world are being starved–starved of love, of wisdom and of the knowledge of the will of God.
Beloved ones, I ask you, even as I asked Peter, to feed my sheep. <7> Feed these little ones and show your love in an action that is well planned, that takes into account all matters and does go forward with sound judgment to reach the little children, first and foremost in this nation, and then in every nation upon earth and, of course, everywhere where there is a single Keeper of the Flame.
I come to you who are moving on in years and have seen a generation or two or three, to you who understand that you bequeath a world and much more than a world–a church, a community, a path, a joy, a way of life, a way out of the dilemma of the human condition and the condition of karma.
You who see this and know this, you appreciate that the only valid gift is the gift of the Mind of God, the gift of the Heart of God, the gift of the Flame of God. All other things add up to a zero when these are not in place.
O blessed ones, what a great joy it is to dedicate each and every service to the children and youth of the world! Blessed ones of the heart of God, I have heard your deliberations. I have put upon the Messenger to deliver to you what has been delivered today and much more. <8>
Let there be a rising flame of the Divine Mother in you!
It is time, then, that your own Christhood should beget the understanding that Christhood is [the state of being] the full embodiment of the Divine Mother.
Be not ashamed to be the Mother, whether you are man or woman or child. But embrace the Mother, nurture the Mother, raise up the Divine Mother within you and know that this truly is the understanding of the Word incarnate.
The Divine Mother cannot be effective except through you. This means that the power of the Shakti within you must be able to be fierce and determined to not take no for an answer when it comes to social issues, issues of education, issues of dealing with the problems of unemployment, of the poor and of the right education of every child. This is the arena of the Divine Mother.
And may you understand, O brothers and sisters, as I speak to you, what it does mean to have that mothering essence. It is that life in you that continually reaches out as the Great Tao, holding a grid of light about the planet through the mantle of the Mother of the World, holding that grid of light so that all of the children of the Mother may have the shield of God and the exceeding great reward unto the Christ of them.
Oh, bear them!
Oh, teach them!
Oh, raise them up!
Rejoice and play with them!
Oh, let them know the gladness and the happiness of the true cosmic play of the Divine Mother!
How well this is expressed in the dramas of the ages that have been brought forth by the sons and daughters of God who have embodied just that–the play, the lila, <*> of the Divine Mother.
Oh, play hide-and-seek with her and Lord Shiva, yes, and with angels and elementals!
When a world is in decay and dying, let there be a place where children are yet carefree and let that place be known as the Royal Teton Ranch.
Let there be a place where the original joy of the etheric octave is known, where children can progress on the scale of life as God has intended and not be bowed down with the cynicism and the sinister force out of Death and Hell that has plagued them from the depths of the lower levels of that astral plane.
O beloved hearts, be willing to consciously wrestle with the dweller-on-the-threshold of the fallen angels and of the children themselves and of the teenagers that they might truly see face-to-face [in place of that dweller] the image of God who is Christ, in whose image they were made.
I speak to all children who are here, who are of the age of children, and then all adults, who are also children in the inner child of the heart and the soul. I speak to you and I say:
Return to the spirit of youth, who is Lord Sanat Kumara, the Holy Kumaras. Return, then, to the life you knew on Venus! Make that life real and actual through art, through music, through drama, through all of the disciplines that unfold on the spokes of the wheel of the Cosmic Clock.
Let life be beautiful!
Let life be a wonder!
Let it be a sacred discovery!
Oh yes, beloved, you have the land. You have the raw material. And I say, that raw material is the flame of your heart. Return, then, each day, as we have called you, to the secret chamber of your heart and tend your Holy Christ Flame. [Tend it] even if it be as you drift to sleep at night seeing that great flame expanding, seeing me step forth from that flame.
For I shall kindle in you creativity and the ways and means to bring to the Lightbearers of the world the Teaching and the Path that is my Way. It is my Way, my Truth, my Life, <9> given to me by my Father-Mother, which I come to give to you.
I, then, give you a [sealed] mystery, beloved, and it is the great mystery of the only begotten Son of the Father-Mother God. I speak this mystery in a whisper in your heart, and one day I shall allow the Messenger to unwrap the mystery, that you might understand this terminology as you have never understood it before. [13-second pause as the mystery is transferred and accepted]
Thus, in transferring the mystery to your heart, I transfer also a portion of myself where I find room, where I find the sense of self-worth, the worthiness unto the Lord, where I find that manger prepared.
Yes, beloved, all are not equal. We may not come time after time and give equally, but we rejoice to give to those who have made their inner calling and their inner election sure. <10> Thus humble hearts receive me and proud hearts question.
O blessed hearts, be purified! Be purified in this hour. Be purified as you partake of my Body and my Blood this day. And as you form a line for Communion, know that I shall serve it. Know that I shall give you the portion that the Great Law will allow me to give you, and this is the exceeding great reward for some.
If you have not prepared, I bid you go home and prepare and come back again another day. For I will be here at the New Year’s conference. I will be here as the Christmas Rose. I will be here, beloved.
Remember, each time one of our bands does speak to you, there is opportunity for the increase. Let me tell you, then, again what does block the increase: it is the absence of self-worth, it is [sitting in] a corner of self-condemnation, it is the nonresolution of your inner child with your Holy Christ Self, [it is the nonresolution of your soul] with your own [Great God-free] Being, your own sacred oneness. It is the stubborn will and the stubborn pride that will not let go of the records [of injustice and the sense of injustice].
These things and more, beloved, [ought not to block the increase,] ought not to be the stone of stumbling. Therefore go back beyond effect and beyond effect and beyond effect to the point of origin of the mote in the eye, <11> of the scar and the scar tissue.
Go to the point of origin. Go to the cause. And be willing to go through the fire of hell, the crucifixion or any pain for the dissolution, by the intense ray of the violet flame, of the cause of that condition in your life whose effect does take you from the high road.
Take the high road, beloved, and you will find me, for I yet walk on that road with my disciples.
O beloved, it is difficult for you to understand yourself against the backdrop of ascended hosts and angels and the darkness of the world and the one who is to your right and the one who is to your left. You cannot measure yourself but you can follow that cosmic cross of white fire that descends for you.
It is not a crucifix. It is the cosmic cross of white fire tended by the angels of the Ruby Ray, who come for the day of the Christ’s appearing in you and of the resurrection of your soul fully unto the heart–the Sacred Heart, my Heart become now your own.
I AM your Jesus. I stand in the earth, my eye upon the great lights and the great darkness. I behold all things, all circumstances, all predictions of karma descending. I behold it all. And you are held in the circle of my aura in this moment. You are raised up, beloved.
Meditate upon your I AM Presence. As you look into my eyes through my portrait [hanging above] this altar, receive me, then, as you pour love to me and I reciprocate and I multiply love and I take you in this sphere of Light and I raise you up and I show you the whole world.
This [showing you the whole world] is an initiation of Lord Maitreya, beloved. But Satan, the impostor, decided to take me [to a high mountain] and show me the whole world [of power and temptation] and offer it to me [if I would fall down and worship him]. <12>
Well, beloved, I do not come to offer you the world [nor to compel you to fall down from your own Christhood to worship my Christhood]. I come to show you the world and to show you those things that must be done [to secure the world for the Light and the Lightbearers. I come to show you what must be done] if the opportunity for this path is to endure.
Those things begin at home with the preserving of this Church intact from all assaults against its bastions by any segment of the government, federal or state or local, by any segment of society.
Blessed ones, this is the Great White Brotherhood’s citadel of freedom. This is the place of the wall. <13> This is the place where Bodhisattvas are made, and when they are made they often do not know just what is their rank [on the path] of that Bodhisattvahood.
I say, gaze at the world now through this mighty lens that I place before you and receive the imprint in your four lower bodies that there might come to you in the outer mind the gift of knowledge of what is taking place [amongst the nations] that you are not being told and of all things that require your fiats unto our most blessed Lord Sanat Kumara, truly the sponsoring Guru of planet earth.
Thus, beloved, I hold you in the embrace of this vision as I seal my dictation. I seal you, then, in the great Presence of Sanat Kumara that has descended in America this day in this place to offer thanksgiving to God for his opportunity. The Lord does come asking renewed dispensation and opportunity to fulfill cosmic purpose.
Now sing to him the mighty song to his own keynote. And as you sing, will you not, you who have come with him, [also ask for renewed dispensation and opportunity for him to fulfill his cosmic purpose, and for you to remain with him as an instrument of that service on earth]? Whether you came from Venus or joined his bands as angels, as sons of God, it matters not, for you are with him this day and you serve under his lineage.
Therefore, as he does appeal for dispensation and mercy to take the children of Light of the earth to the place where they, too, can walk as my disciples, so, beloved, make your own prayer to him and pledge, if you will, if you dare, to see to it that none of these little ones are lost who are of the Father and the Mother, Alpha and Omega. Sing, then, and pray to him, for he is our recourse.
I seal America with my Sacred Heart and I seal you, beloved. And I AM with you as you celebrate your services to my Sacred Heart. These are moments in eternity.
O beloved, go forth! Go forth and rescue the children!
Our Beloved Sanat Kumara
(sing this hymn to the familiar melody of Finlandia by Sibelius)
Sanat Kumara, Regent, Lord, and King
To thy great Presence praises now we sing
Off’ring our gifts of humble service true
Reverence and honor to God for you
Thou art God’s glory, majesty, and grace
Thy patient care for earth held her place.
All through the ages that have gone before
Thy love has been for earth an open door
Held in thy Light, sustained by thy great pow’r
And in thy wisdom guided each hour
We feel thy peace in love’s own God-control
As thy great wings of love now enfold.
Glory and honor unto thee belong
Let all adore thee now in grateful song
As all that live upon this planet raise
Heart, soul, and spirit–thy name we praise
Great Central Sun, thy gifts of love we call
For our dear friend of Light, Lord of all.
As for dear Venus, Goddess from the Sun
Bless their dear planet, all life thereon.
Jesus’ Blessing of Holy Communion:
I, Jesus, send the ray of fire of my heart that you might truly know this day the principle of transubstantiation, that this bread is my Body broken for you, that this wine is the very essence of my Life-Blood. So receive me now and know truly the balance of our Father Alpha, our Mother Omega and the mighty Tree of Life where you stand.
Out of my Sacred Heart I bless not only this bread and this wine but your own body that it might now be accelerated according to the Light you invoke and keep.
In the name of the Father-Mother God, the Word in the Beginning with Brahman, I seal this my offering and your hearts in deepest love.
The Messenger: Jesus just spoke of the Light that we invoke. Therefore we will give the decree “O Mighty Light.” It is decree number 8 and it is also in your Angels booklet. So we will continue this affirmation, “O Mighty Light” by the Goddess of Light, until we are through taking Communion.
This dictation by Jesus Christ was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1992, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. The Thanksgiving Day service and decrees were dedicated to the massive challenges we face (1) in saving the youth of the world and (2) in dealing with radioactive waste and potentially dangerous substances in the environment. The Messenger’s teaching included commentary on the issue of violence in American schools as reported on ABC World News Tonight (Nov. 24, 1992) and “Deadly Lessons,” Primetime Live (Nov. 19, 1992). She also gave commentary on the ABC World News Tonight reports (Nov. 23 and Nov. 24, 1992) on nuclear threats to the food chain and the environment. The reports focused on the leakage of radioactive elements from a Soviet submarine sunk in the Norwegian Sea in 1989 and on Soviet dumping of radioactive waste in the Arctic Sea. The reports also addressed concerns about America’s past dumping of nuclear waste in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and about potential risks from other Soviet and American nuclear submarines that have sunk in the past.
2. Rev. 4:7.
3. Gen. 15:1.
4. Ps. 23:4.
5. “Put off the old man.” Eph. 4:17-32; Col. 3; Rom. 6.
6. Jesus’ twin. See vol. 35 no. 61, p. 704 n. 2.
8. See introductory note above on the Thanksgiving Day service.
9. John 14:6.
11. The mote in the eye. Matt. 7:3-5; Luke 6:41, 42.
12. Satan’s temptation of Jesus: “All these things will I give thee...” Matt. 4:8-10; Luke 4:5-8.
13. For the Buddhist tale about the wall, see vol. 35 no. 57, p. 661 n. 1.
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