Vol. 37 No. 19 - Beloved Shiva and Parvati - May 8, 1994
Easter Retreat 1994
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Sing with Me! Dance with Me!
Banish the Ignorance!
Shiva in the heart. Shiva in the heart. Shiva in the heart.
I am duly welcomed to your heart, beloved. <1> Therefore, in the cosmic dance let Guru and chela be one–be one with Shiva and Parvati. (Now be seated in my heart.)
This is the cosmic dance. And the cosmic dance is at its peak when the interchange of light does allow you to flow into my heart and me to flow into your heart. Thus you discover the balance of Alpha and Omega. Divine Lovers are one, then change polarity, then separate, then unite again, thus sustaining the masculine and feminine counterparts of God in a cosmic interchange.
This great dance of Nataraja, beloved, is for the sifting, for the leveling, for the consuming of the astral ka and the corpses.It is purification so that all that is done with might turn to ashes and that out of the ashes there might rise again that soul that has reached a new level of union in God. This divine union supersedes all others.
When you are in a union of hearts in the sangha, you know this divine interchange. For each one does share with another and another the community spirit that embraces the cloven tongues of fire associated with the Holy Spirit in the West. Indeed we are cloven tongues, a single tongue divided. This is the manifestation of the Father-Mother God.
I am grateful to seal these ceremonies with Parvati, to accelerate the fire of your being, to receive love and to send forth such a scathing judgment upon the seed of the wicked as to scorch the earth beneath their feet. Yes, beloved, there is an end to wickedness, but there is no end to the goodness of God.
Let the fire flow, then. Control the fire.
Be not ignorant. Be not ignorant. Ignorance will shortchange you, for what you do not know you cannot become. If you place one foot before the other, you must know the path. You must know where you are going in order to take the next step and leave your footprint for another to follow in.
Ignorance, then, is inexcusable in this age when the writings of ancient treatises, teachings by the Buddhas and the great Gurus of all time are made available to you in English and in many languages. There is no excuse for ignorance of the Path, ignorance of the temptations, ignorance of the antidotes to the temptations. But this self-knowledge requires study.
Turn off the television set! Turn it off, I say. Do not spend your precious moments in front of the TV set except it be to check on what is happening in the news so that you can cry “Shiva! Shiva!” into the core of every untoward condition in the planet.
Oh yes, beloved, waste not the moments on such idleness of idle chatter as is carried on, amplified by satellite. It would be sickening except, joining forces with me, you shall have the power to quench all of this rather than quench the Holy Spirit.
We come to dance. We dance on this property. We multiply ourselves. We wash the earth. We purge and consume it of astral records. Thus we elevate the vibrations of the land that is consecrated. Guard it well, for many shall come and auras must have room and mountains must have paths for Guru and chela to walk and talk on and merge in the cosmic dance.
Ho, then! Ho, then, ye who would fulfill the promises you have made unto God and the reason for your being. Comes the intensity of the ruby fire! Ruby fire is able, is well able. But beware of it, for ruby is a strong potion and it can bring out the anger. And when it brings it out, you forget that it is come out to be cast into the violet flame.
Now consider the dance of the electrons and the atoms. Think of movement contrasted with stagnation. Think of immortality as perpetual motion. Think of mortality as stillness, the equivalent of death.
Move, then. Let the thoughts of the mind move in penetration. Let the rays of the mind penetrate weaker minds and by the power of God infuse those minds with an injection of cosmic wisdom.
Be that wisdom. Anoint your bodies with the oil of wisdom–and the mind and the chakras–and all who come near your aura will know a new understanding.
Banish the ignorance. It is a disease that you have all had and it is a contagious disease. When all are ignorant, all are content at the level of ignorance to which they have gravitated. If there be not one among them to tell them there is a better way, there is a path of self-transcendence, they will so remain for indefinite time and space.
Thus, I hurl the challenge: Be Shiva! Be Parvati! Be Shiva! Disturb the cosmos–dance with me. I will train you by placing my Presence over you. Dance with me in the circle of fire. Follow the courses of my hair to the uttermost reaches of finite time and space. Let the cosmic dance propel you higher and out of the prison house that this Matter cosmos can be.
I AM Shiva, here to amplify and implement all that has gone before in this retreat. By the power of resurrection’s flame, I call you! I call you out from the tomb of matter! I call you out to become your highest self. Accept nothing less.
Shiva moves at the call of the hosts of heaven. Shiva moves in diverse places. Shiva comes to this nation. Shiva comes for the awakening.
May you all be Shiva. That is my command this day: Be Shiva. Oh, some may say, “That proud fellow, he wants everyone to be himself. What conceit!” Nay. Nay, I desire to see the flames dance in your auras and to have others recognize those flames.
I am in the Godhead. You are in the Godhead. I know it. You do not know it, at least not all of the time. Put away childish things. Come into the arena of the Gods. Counsel with the sons of the Gods, and know that your merging with the cosmos is nigh.
The theme of our retreat has been to goad you to the highest achievement possible so that you will not set your standards by what others have done before you, embracing the via dolorosa, <2> being burdened with sadness and death and the sense of sin and being the sinner. You have transcended all of that, or have you? Have you indeed?
If not, beloved, consider it a crutch. Cast your crutches into the fire. Be sinless. Be sinless, for God has taken away the sins of the world through his Sons, through his avatars.
Sin is the work of the Devil. And when you have committed sin, then you stand and say, “I can never hold my head high again.” And I, Shiva, will say: “Come dance with me! We will dance away your sins. We will cause the atoms to sing and dance throughout your being. You shall know yourself centered in the Godhead. You shall not be moved!”
And if you have sinned and others say, “Aha, aha, he has sinned,” <3> you will say, “Never mind. Never mind! I will bear the burden of it. But I will move on and know I am purified and made white by my work in God, by my service, by his grace, by the reality that God does not accept my sins written in concrete.”
Yes, think of the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, where the names of the movie stars are engraved in bronze stars in the concrete–and, with their names, all their sins and prides and fames. Pray you will not write your name in bronze or in concrete, but write the name of God within your heart and accept it now and for always.
O beloved, most of you simply need a cosmic adjustment, a realignment of your soul with the reality of your God, that is all. In the twinkling of an eye this can take place. In the twinkling of an eye the last trump of sin and death and mortality will sound! <4> And then you will say to yourselves, “Why did I wait to the end of my life to walk the earth with the immortals, to have my immortality, to have the joy of freedom and to give that freedom to all?”
Blessed ones, it has been a habit of the human consciousness to think that death is the portal to eternal life. Nothing could be further from the truth. The portals of eternal life open to the one who dares step through, no matter what octave he abides in.
The portals of eternal life are here and now! Accept your immortality today and live in it! And know that as you do, your body elemental accepts it, your whole consciousness accepts it. The great rushing stream of life cascading from your Mighty I AM Presence will fill in the matrix. And, yes, you will begin to see the contrast between the immortality of the lively stones of your being and the deadness of the mortality of so many who walk the earth in the death consciousness.
Yes, beloved, we want you to have happiness, to have joy, to have freedom, to know what it is to be immortal and free here and now. Fight death every day. Vanquish it every day! For another form of it will pop out of your electronic belt every day. Cast it out as Death and Hell. I say it again, as others have said it before me: Do not accept the levels of Death and Hell. And see that all of Death and Hell itself trembles before your step, before your voice! It is much easier than you think to intimidate the devils.
I will be there. Go after it, beloved! Clothe yourself in the armour of Archangel Michael and hosts of the Lord and challenge these fallen ones. And then remember to stand fast when they deliver their counterchallenge.
So, beloved, pretty soon wherever you walk they will fear to tread. They will know you have your feet planted solidly on the sacred ground of eternal life, and they will flee from you. They will flee from you–as it is written, “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you!” <5> But the nonsense of small minds entertaining the puny power of any devil is simply ridiculous.
So, then, beloved, fear not the greater darkness or the lesser darkness. Fear not the Dark Night of the Spirit or the dark night of the soul. <6> Many saints have trod these pathways, saints of the East and the West and of past golden ages. They have made it. They have proved the Path. They have survived! They are alive and well in all octaves of heaven!
Fear not that you will fail. But fear to fail because you have retained the failure consciousness. This is the trap the fallen ones spring–your own sense of failure. This sense is despicable in view of what you have and what you know!
Do not indulge it. For I, Shiva, will indulge none of you who entertain the failure consciousness, the self-doubt consciousness! I will come to you. I will shake you! I will spank you! I will compel you to dance with me until you have shaken all of this substance right out of your life.
Enough is enough, beloved! Get on with the conquering of this world. As it is written, you have other worlds to conquer. But the first world you must conquer is yourself.
Therefore, I, Shiva, will dance on the graveyards, on the cremation pyres and on the very earth where those cremations take place. I will move on the Ganges. I will move in your being. I will cast out Death and Hell.
You must go back, go back, go back to those places where you initiated spirals of death in various ages, where you allowed yourself to be cursed by black magicians and have not broken those curses. And your body elemental has to this day continued to outpicture those curses because you have not enlightened your body elemental to the fact that those curses have no power over him.
You have lived long centuries upon the earth. And these fallen ones have come along with their insidiousness, when you were dense and in ignorance and in the bane of ignorance, and have planted in your organs and in your beings that consciousness of the curse.
They are accursed, beloved! And they have been cursed by Almighty God. Therefore they attempt to transfer those curses to others. Do not accept it. Cast it out, beloved!
You need only your Mighty I AM Presence and Holy Christ Self to do this. You need not another to do it. You have the sword of Archangel Michael. You have the dance of Shiva and Parvati. You have the circle and sword of Astrea!
Be independent sons and daughters of God, not continuously dependent on others to help you do this and help you do that and heal you, et cetera, et cetera. Become conquerors of your own lives! This is my challenge to you. It is a challenge to be independent from all of these dark ones.
And I tell you, beloved, what they fear most is those Lightbearers on the planet who are fearless, who do not accept their cursings and who cast them out. They fear, beloved, the independent soul who has absolutely no fear, for he is rooted in God and he is strong in his physical body, strong in the desire body, strong in the mind and the will, strong at every level of being and strong in the ch’i of the chakras.
This is the fire that you need! This is the fire you can have! And you know how to get it! Therefore I say: Get it! Keep it! Move on! And be one with the Great Kali. Be one with the great Goddesses of heaven who move against the devils that taunt and haunt you.
No more ghosts, beloved. No more ghosts. In you is the reality of God!
I say, be doers! Do not sit back and think that you are here on this long path until the hour of your transition and you will make increments of progress daily that hardly amount to the thickness of a piece of paper. No, beloved, do not sit back and enjoy this Path. Get up off your seats, beloved, and stand for the victory of your being. And slay all unreality this day and do it in my name!
[Congregation stands.]
And now I shall shout with you until you have shaken from you those things that you have carried from lifetime to lifetime! Therefore I say to you and you say to me:
[Congregation gives the fiat with Shiva, clapping:]
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Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! Shiva! |
Now send your fiats into the ruby fire of Shiva and Parvati, fiats for the exorcism of your being of all that excess baggage that you have indulged. Do it now, for I AM here!
[Congregation gives fiats.]
Indeed you have appeased me. You have appeased the God Shiva and his consort Parvati, but only for today! I shall be back on the morrow and the next day and the next. And I expect that you shall appease me by continuously stripping from yourselves these dyed-in-the-wool images of what you think you are and what you think you are not.
Rubbish. Rubbish! Rubbish! Throw it into the cremation pyre, beloved, long before the soul quits this mortal form. Throw it into the cremation fires and cremate your false concepts of yourselves!
This is what I desire to see–that the all-consuming fires of the ruby ray purge you so that you may ascend to the lap of Lord Krishna, that you may ascend to the lap of Lord Brahma and that you may know that you are welcome in that lap, a child of God, a son, a daughter of God indeed.
See, then, see, then, how the devils of the entire earth do tremble now. Let them not trip you up! Be mindful, beloved, for you cannot allow your mind to wander and read this and that nonsense literature and listen to this and that continuous chattering and chattering by those who have no control of the Kundalini fires and do not conserve their energies.
Beloved ones, be alert, for the devils will continue to attack you until they see you are invincible! invulnerable! invincible! invulnerable! This is the key. Walk in the image of God. Rebuke the devils. Some will flee from you and, believe it or not, some will be converted by you, for they are indeed imprisoned angels or imprisoned elementals.
Think of that! Think of the empowerment for the conversion of those who have been enslaved by black magicians. Think of what joy it is to have that power. And then think what paltry levels of your mortality you are asked to give up in order to receive that empowerment.
Consider the bargain that God has offered you this day. Think how you have run to Filene’s Basement and other discount stores to get those bargains, as though they were worth something. A few dollars off here and there, and so you spend that which you need to pursue your path.
Yes, beloved, God offers you the greatest bargain of all! And I have come to bargain with you this day. For I will give you of myself if you will let go of those elements that are no part of you. For many of you fantasize and indulge in the oddest concepts I have ever heard of anywhere!
Now let us look at reality as the place of the Middle Way, the Middle Way of Gautama Buddha, the Middle Way of rightness in all things. Yes, beloved, believe it or not, you can come to the Middle Way and be rid of your double-mindedness, enter the All-Seeing Eye of God of your Christhood and conquer yourself and this world and place an offering on the altar of God that will remain there so long as there is a planet and a civilization.
Think of how your works and what you accomplish can leave for posterity an open door–an open door to the dance of Shiva and Parvati, an open door to the hearts of the Seven Holy Kumaras! Yes, leave a record that is worthy and do not fear the work. Work while you have the Light. Yes, work while you have the Light, for the day cometh when no man can work. <7>
I AM Shiva and Parvati. And I promise you, we will hound you, we will go after you. And when you think you are in deep trouble, you are in deep trouble because we are allowing your troubles to fall upon you so that you may utter the fiats to Shiva and Parvati, [and] to the Holy Ghost.
Yes, beloved, your troubles will come tumbling down following the descent of ascension’s fires until there are no more troubles on your tree of life but only the fruits of the Spirit, the fruits of the sefirot. Yes, indeed, beloved, be willing to be done with those troubles!
And therefore when you say, “I’m in a heap of trouble,” let your neighbor say to you, “Remember what Shiva said. Shiva is letting your troubles descend that you might demonstrate your fierceness before the devils and the troubles and the consciousness of sin and the sense of sin and the condemnation of the world.”
Be of good cheer; the Lord and Saviour has overcome the world. <8> Now you overcome it, beloved! And put all of that criticism, condemnation and judgment into the sacred fires, and let Death and Hell tremble this day.
For we are one! And I AM bonding you to my heart if you will it. And if you do not will it, that is also your choice. But I do not intend to leave any of you alone.
Therefore sing with me. Sing our cosmic dance, for we shall have that victory much sooner than you had planned. So be it!
[32-second standing ovation]
I AM Shiva! I place the ruby dot on your forehead that you should remember that ye are also Hindus, ancient Hindus of the Ancient of Days. Look through the third eye and behold your God!
Blessing of Holy Communion by Jesus Christ
In the heart of the Holy Spirit, I, Jesus, come now to you to give of my Body and Blood, for thereby you may implement all directives from the Godhead. Thus, I bless this bread and this wine. I bless it in the Holy Ghost. I bless it in the Father-Mother God. I bless it from my Sacred Heart.
Drink of me and eat of me. For this Eucharist is our oneness until the fullness of your ascension in the Light. Claim it as the happening of the Eternal Now.
My beloved, I pour myself into you that you might reach for the star of your Presence and cast away all idols of witchcraft, darkness and nonreality.
In the brilliance of the noonday sun of the I AM THAT I AM of the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, receive me now unto yourselves and know that I come for the sealing of the transformation of your beings, brought by the seraphim and Lord Shiva.
In my heart I love you forever.
This dictation by beloved Shiva and Parvati was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, on Easter Sunday, April 3, 1994, during the five-day Easter Retreat 1994, held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Shiva and Parvati’s direction.]
5. James 4:7.
6. The Dark Night of the Spirit and the dark night of the soul. See vol. 37 no. 1, p. 11 n. 1.
8. John 16:33.
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