Vol. 36 No. 71 - Beloved Lanello - December 30, 1993
Be My Watchmen!
Christmas Eve Address 1993
You Can Shine as the Supporting Stars of the Bethlehem Pageant
We Have All Been Orphans:
Once We Were Lost, Now We Are Found
O holiest night of the year, so sanctify these hearts and souls. For I come. And I come bearing the Saviour in my heart as you also bear him in your heart, for you have made room for him in the inn of being.
I have taken Mitchell Mandell <1> to a place of rest. I have taken care of him to remove from him the burdens of a mind estranged from his soul and from his heart and from his own Christhood. Thus, in the Father’s house are many mansions and the perfect place for each one.
Know, then, beloved, that this awful happening need not have been. It need not have been, I say! Therefore be watchmen on the wall of our Community, watchmen on the wall, I say! Watch for those astral entities that lurk to twist and turn the mind at any moment until the mind is seized and then convinced by voices other than those of angels or Ascended Masters that a certain way is right.
You know it is written, “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death.” <2> So you have seen the way that seemed right to Mitchell Mandell, outpictured this week in grave tragedy.
Now then, know that tragedy is always possible. It always lurks to catch you off guard and to trap you in your own momentums–emotional momentums that cloud the mind. You can never be too much on guard. There are those who say: “The day is good, the sun is shining! No ill wind shall blow this day. I shall work instead of saying my prayers.” Well, this is folly, beloved. For the days are darkening in the Dark Cycle. The Dark Cycle continues. Do not deny it.
Accept the fact that you live in this era, that most of you volunteered and that those of you who did not were volunteered by your own karma and you had very little to say about it. So make the most of it, beloved. You can either pile high a mountain of garbage or clear the garbage each day and put it in the fire. Thus is opportunity. Thus is opportunity!
Each one of you can look at those with great attainment and accomplishment in all fields and ask yourself the questions: “For how many aeons has this great singer sung, has this great scientist had the genius to bring forth invention out of the etheric octave? How many tens of thousands of years has my own soul been building for her moment on the stage of life at the end of the twentieth century?”
Well, beloved, you may have some special momentum that you have gained or you may not. And if you do not, this one thing is true: You can begin today and decide what that momentum will be. <3> In this I echo the words of the Blessed Mother. The greatest momentum you can build on is that of spiritual reality, wherein you know you are in that reality and you will not be convinced by the carnal mind that your unreality is real.
Thus, beloved, choose what virtue shall be your momentum of grace that you may give to others. I advise you to select that momentum of grace that comes most easily to you in this hour and that you can direct toward the saving of souls.
Once you were lost, then you were found. I was lost. My Saviour found me. Elizabeth was lost. El Morya sought and found her and picked her up and carried her on his steed to the home of the adepts.
Orphans of the Spirit are ye all! <4> Know it! Know reality about yourselves and what your needs are. Do not resist getting down upon your knees, imploring God and casting into the sacred fire all that you have woven about yourselves as your human image.
It is difficult to keep up the human pretense of greatness. And down the centuries how many so-called great ones have fallen as idols?
You see the politicians of the day, you see those in ancient Rome, you see those on Atlantis. They are popular for a day or a season and then they are mobbed and stoned and their statues are cast down.
So the carnal mind can spend all of its waking and sleeping guarding its sense of self-importance. And beyond that, beloved, you see parading in Russia and other nations today leaders who are literally insane with pride, who have no moorings in Christ and therefore are willing to place before the world threats of nuclear war, nuclear weapons and direct conflict with the United States.
Blessed ones, never take for granted or consider idle the words of a tyrant, the words of an insane tyrant, the words of a godless tyrant. Am I not describing each one’s dweller-on-the-threshold?
Are you aware moment by moment throughout the day and the night who is governing your life, who is the real man within you and who is the tyrant?
Make no mistake, beloved: Knowing at all times who is the real you is the most subtle challenge, as well as the greatest challenge, you will have in this embodiment.
So, blessed hearts, now you read the handwriting on the TV screen. You read it, beloved. You look at one such as Zhirinovsky and others who are making their threats. You look at a nation–a nation, I tell you, that I am very familiar with, the nation of Russia, Mother Russia.
Yes, beloved, I know what has invaded so many of the people, and that invasion has been the genes of darkness such as were in the likes of Rasputin and other evil ones who have embodied in that society due to the vulnerability of the karmic patterns of the people.
That society, beloved, is not going to suddenly be democratized after more than seventy years of Communism and centuries of absolute tyranny of the czars. You can pour billions into that nation but you will not see an instantaneous conversion to the path of individual and economic freedom. And those who rule and those who have in their hands the full power of the armed forces are not necessarily servants of the Light and many still espouse World Communism.
Read the signs of the times on the television screen and on the screen of your own third eye. Predict the future yourselves and see that the twelve years of this cycle are not yet through. The unexpected can happen overnight.
Thus, obeying the motto of Saint Germain to be prepared begins with spiritual preparedness and ends with spiritual preparedness. And in that spiritual consciousness, you value above all else your four lower bodies, especially your physical body and the health of your physical body as well as the soundness of your mind functioning through that body. For you know that you cannot work the work in our day that is planned if that body is not centered and sound because it is imbalanced by astral substance or improper food or whatever else contaminates the body. The body is your most precious gift.
Where was the Manchild? The Manchild was always there, but the birth of the Saviour Jesus Christ made that Manchild physical, tangible and real to mortals. “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us...” <5>
Therefore he came to the stable (or to the cave, as some would have it). So he was born in a lowly place. But he came to serve all levels of humanity, thus to manifest the Christ that all might see that Christ and know that that was the true Light, which lighteth every man, woman and child that cometh into the world. <6>
Ye are kindled by that Light! Ye are kindled by that Light! Remember this! But if the Light that is in thee be turned to Darkness by human pride, then I say, how great is that Darkness! <7>
Remember those words of your Lord and remember that there is a Light that is turned to Darkness in many and that Darkness flashes forth as a glitter and glamour, as a magnetism that fools many.
Make attunement with your heart, beloved. Do not be fooled but recognize that your worth as a Christed being, your worth on the stock market of life is far greater when you are in physical embodiment than when you are in heavenly octaves. For you can be seen, you can be touched! You can talk to souls! You can deliver them by the momentum of your Light. For souls who do not have the spiritual receptors are not able to tie themselves back to their Holy Christ Self without the help of someone they can see or hear. Thus, your worth on earth is supreme.
Therefore take note of the dregs of the year and recognize that you see them at the end of every year. Every year, therefore, be my watchmen upon the wall. <8> Be my watchmen.
You could have been greater watchmen upon the wall in the past weeks, seeing the signs of the times and what was coming upon you. Recognize, then, that your absence of spiritual astuteness is now causing you to pay a heavy price in this tragedy.
Learn from it, beloved! Pray to God for forgiveness for whatever sin of omission or commission you may have entered into, even if you were far removed from the events that led to the death of Mitchell Mandell. For once any member of the Community of the Holy Spirit opens the door to astral forces, the door is open and the entire Community is vulnerable until it closes the door and seals (or exorcises) the place where evil dwells. And in this case, many people were open doors, including the victim himself.
Let each one mend his nets! We are not ready to go a-fishing. Therefore mend the nets and prepare them to hold a weight of mighty fishes. Let your net of consciousness have the mark of purity, of strength, of empowerment, of determination and, above all, of realism and not rise and fall every other day–shall I do this? shall I do that? shall I do the next thing?
Fix your gaze upon the star of Bethlehem and know that Christ was one-pointed in his mission. You cannot be all things to all people, but you can shine as the Christmas Rose. You can shine as the supporting stars of the Bethlehem pageant and together be the true lighthouse whose beacon leads all home to the heart of their I AM Presence.
Yes, it is true, we have all been orphans. Once we were lost, now we are found. Why were we called? Why were we plucked? Why were we taken? Were we any better than anyone else?
I say not. Perhaps our time had come, our turn. So, beloved ones, do not think that it was for some superior merit of your own that God plucked you from where you were and brought you here. Be humbler than that. Consider that God gave you the opportunity to pay a debt and render a service.
It is best that each of you think of yourself as the lowliest of all rather than as the greatest. Then you will keep things in perspective and allow God to crown you rather than crowning yourself day by day as you see yourself in that mode of self-importance.
Well, beloved hearts, there really is no room for pride before or after one becomes perfected in God. For what is there, after all, to be proud of in the human condition except that remnant of the carnal mind, that relic from the age of dinosaurs and woolly mammoths that lurks in the brain and convinces you that you are some sort of a magnificent creature?
Put into the flame in this hour pride and all condemnation, criticism and judgment. To these I should add gossip itself. Start the new year as a humble servant, judging not. When you judge not, you shall not be judged. <9> If you judge, so the Lords of Karma shall judge you equally. Mercy is the key, beloved.
And inasmuch as I was also born on this holy night, I have cherished my days in the earth in my recent life as a gift from my Saviour Jesus Christ. But I will tell you again, my life was difficult every step of the way. It was hard, beloved. It was almost unbearable.
And thus, in concluding my remarks on this my birthday, I pay tribute to the Blessed Mother, for without her I would not have made it. It is true, beloved–I would not have made it.
Since I was not born into the Catholic faith or a Catholic family, I came to recognize the Blessed Mother only when I set my foot on the path of the spiritual adepts under El Morya. Then I knew her face to face. Then I loved her. Then unabashedly I worshiped her. Then she became my all and my Mother. And truly as a little child I placed my hand in hers, and therefore I was saved. I was saved because she saved me.
The determining factor in whether one is saved or not saved in this round, in this life, beloved, may be the decision one makes in a matter of moments.
And so, no tragedy must pass without each and every one searching his own soul and heart and saying: “Was I the watchman on the wall who fell asleep or abandoned his post? Did I really do all that I could do to protect this Community in that hour?”
The purpose of soul-searching is not to arrive at the point of self-guilt but to arrive at the point of resolution: “I may have failed my Lord wholly or in part. Therefore I solemnly resolve not to fail him again.”
These things need not be, yet the Community must take the lesson, each one individually. Let none say, “I was not to blame.” For we know that the complexities of ancient karma and present- day path may be seen to reveal a responsibility that is always individual and that is always collective.
You live on a world of billions of people. It is a collective experience, beloved. Aside from the insulation of your tube of light, your Astreas, your calls to Archangel Michael and your violet flame, you are tied to the whole of humanity. Think of it, beloved, and remember the call “Come out from among them and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing (immorality in any vein); and I will receive you.” <10>
This is the key of the Manchild: Either you desire to be a part of “them” and the world and the world’s consciousness, and therefore not be able to stand in the way to prevent tragedy for anyone, or else you take the path as it is given and not as you outline it, the path of coming apart and being a separate people unto God. And in that separation, you are one with all Lightbearers–one with all Lightbearers. This is indeed the key.
In the Christmas flame, in the Christmas Rose, I salute you. And I thank God and the Blessed Mother and dear El Morya for giving me my opportunity to make it in my final incarnation.
Yes, beloved, it was hard for me and to this day I am still balancing ancient karma from the ascended octaves. But I am bright and shining. And I have espoused the Radiant One and I am saturated in his Light, and he has blessed me. Therefore I move among you always to love you, to comfort and console you and to raise you up by my shepherd’s crook.
In the love of our Saviour, I bid you a joyous and sacred Christmas.
The Messenger:
In concluding this service, let us take our books and sing “Amazing Grace” to Mitchell Mandell. Number 55. Please call to the angels in his behalf and on behalf of all souls who have made the transition in this season.
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Amazing Grace |
Please be seated. Let us have our love offering as we sing hymns from Sanctissima, beginning with “The Bells of Saint Mary’s.”
Praise God for the consolation of Israel, for the consolation of our Community. Praise God for his intercession and the opportunity we have for the heavens to open and for us to hear from those who have gone before us. Such a great, great gift! We thank you, O God, for these dictations.
Blessing of the Love Offering
Dear God, receive the love offering of our hearts, the offering of our light from each one of our chakras, the offering of our souls. This we give for the sustaining of our Church, for outreach and for bringing in those souls just beyond the reach of the tips of our fingers.
Let them be cut free, O God! Let our Causal Bodies unite as one–all Lightbearers of the world. And let the Lightbearers reinforced by legions out of the great cosmic heights bring the souls of Light who have a mission in this day to the feet of their Mighty I AM Presence and the path that can lead them to their victory.
Bless and multiply this offering, O God. Multiply the servers in our midst and throughout the earth. Multiply grace and protection for all youth and children everywhere from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Dear Jesus, take care of the children of all ages. They need you now in this hour, and we pray for them to be loved and cared for that they might fulfill their mission.
In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, we seal this offering. And we say to you, Mitch:
“Good-bye. Be on your way. Godspeed. May the portals of opportunity be opened to you again. We all wish we would have known you better, but this we do know–that your heart was and still is devoted to our blessed Mother Mary, that according to your highest understanding you were and still are devoted to the path of the Ascended Masters, that you were and still are a strong supporter of our beloved Church and that your generous heart, full of compassion for the sick and the downtrodden, will be the star by which we remember you and recognize you on the cosmic highway. Till we meet again, God be with you.”
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
This dictation by beloved Lanello was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet during the Christmas Eve Candlelight Vigil, December 24, 1993, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. The dictation is available on video- and audiocassette: Videocassette (includes the dictations by Mother Mary and Jesus): 1 hr. 53 min., HP94002. Audiocassette (includes the service following the dictation): 60 min., B94003. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Lanello’s direction.]
1. Mitchell Mandell. See the January 1994 issue (vol. 6, no. 1) of the Royal Teton Ranch News.
5. John 1:14.
6. John 1:9.
7. Matt. 6:23.
8. Watchmen upon the wall. Isa. 21:5-12; 62:6; Ezek. 3:17; 33:7.
9. Matt. 7:1-5; Luke 6:37, 38.
10. II Cor. 6:17.
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