Vol. 38 No. 39 - I AM the Witness

I AM the Witness

In a Nationwide Competition
El Morya and His Chelas Tipped the Scales

For nearly two years, the Teaching Centers and Study Groups in time zone 18 have worked together in a coordinated effort to fulfill El Morya’s stated objective of placing his Presence in the cities for the saving of the cities and the saving of the nations.<*> We total the El Morya’s Day vigil decree hours throughout our zone each month, publish a bimonthly newsletter dedicated to the purposes of El Morya and, in general, strive to maintain our enthusiasm for this cause. At the 1994 summer conference we manned an El Morya’s Day table in the cafeteria tent in the Heart; as a result, the effort is underway to similarly organize time zones 19, 20 and 21.

I would like to submit the following article, recently published in The El Morya Report newsletter, as a testimonial to the power of beloved El Morya in our cities:

“Detroit and the five other cities winning the federal government’s massive empowerment zone sweepstakes had to have more than luck on their side,” proclaimed the Detroit News on 12-21-94, announcing the results of a fierce, 19-month, multimillion dollar competition between 78 cities nationwide. Taking into account that five of the six winning cities are in time zone 18, it’s obvious that El Morya and his chelas are what tipped the scales in this race!

In a nationwide competition that could have been dreamed up in the Darjeeling Council chambers, the Empowerment Zone Initiative, announced by the Clinton Administration in May 1993, invited all U.S. cities to submit applications for prizes consisting of millions of dollars in grants and tax breaks.

The initiative was described as a new economic revival plan that would give cities the funding and flexibility to develop step-by-step plans to generate business, create jobs and improve life in the nation’s worst neighborhoods. Applications had to show proof that local governments and corporations of the cities applying would accept the responsibility of revitalizing their most blighted areas.

Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, and Philadelphia-Camden N.J. are the six winning cities (judged on the strength of their applications), which will each receive $100 million in grants plus tax breaks for businesses that locate or expand in their empowerment zone areas. All but Chicago are in time zone 18.

Haven’t we in time zone 18 been championing our beloved El Morya’s cause, month after month for nearly two years now, dedicating our efforts for the saving of the cities so that the nations can be saved? And what indeed is the Empowerment Zone Initiative, but a federally-funded project to revitalize and reclaim the most ravaged areas of the nation’s cities!

Chelas of El Morya, let’s celebrate another victory, in the name of our Chief!

On October 8, 1994, El Morya announced: “This night I place my Electronic Presence over you each one, over each one in the world who calls himself a Keeper of the Flame and who is a Keeper of the Flame, each one who may read our books, who may read our Pearls, those affiliated and those not affiliated. You see, there are many bright and fiery blue-flame souls in the world, beloved, and I place my Electronic Presence over them also” (Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 37, no. 40).

We in time zone 18 were gratified that our efforts may have contributed to this mighty dispensation. After many months of dedicated effort, we could claim El Morya’s Presence not in our cities alone but all throughout the earth!

The recent announcement of the six winning cities in the Empowerment Zone Initiative, five of which are in time zone 18, was like icing on the cake. The Detroit Teaching Center has spearheaded the time zone 18 coordination effort; and the Detroit application in the 78-city contest was hailed by the federal government as the top application, a model for the nation. Coincidence?

Praise God, praise El Morya! It has been exhilarating working on this cause these two years! The El Morya’s Day vigils (as well as those to Omri-Tas, Saint Germain and Surya) are for many of us the highlight of our month. We are so grateful for the opportunity to reap a mighty harvest of Light, and we are grateful to you, Mother, for making it possible for us to partake of this feast of joy.

*See 1992 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 35, no. 48, p. 605, and no. 68, pp. 770-71; 1993 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 69-71, 73, 77-80 and accompanying time-zone map.

I want to thank you and El Morya for accepting me as a Permanent Staff member. I want to tell you something that has happened that I believe is a direct result of El Morya’s intercession.

I have had scoliosis (a bad curvature of the spine) for many years. Dr. has treated me and the condition is stable, so it doesn’t cause me day-to-day problems. Several weeks ago he treated me and the condition was pretty much the same.

Yesterday, however, he gave me a treatment and said there had been a dramatic improvement! He couldn’t understand how there had been such a visible change in only a few weeks. The thought that came to me was “El Morya fixed my back.” The only thing that is different in my life since I last saw the doctor is that I am now a Permanent Staff member.

I am truly grateful because, even though the condition was stable, it could have caused me problems in the future. I feel that El Morya has given me a grace so that I can serve better.

I thought you would like to hear of a “Lifeline to the Presence” phone call I received recently from a young man in Michigan who was suicidal. As you know, several years ago you had us print the following message in all of our books:

At Summit University recently, you instructed the students to give decree 7.11S, “The Suicide Entity Decree,” three times whenever they hear of suicides or suicide attempts. You explained that suicides often occur in threes and that the suicide entity particularly stalks our youth.

This week at the Office of Ministry we received reports of a rash of suicides and suicide attempts. Among those who committed suicide were three relatives or associates of Keepers of the Flame. A son of a Keeper of the Flame unsuccessfully attempted suicide. All four were young men, ages 17 to 25. We gave decree 7.11S three times as soon as we heard.

That night you came to the Ascension Service and instructed us to again give decree 7.11S three times for all souls upon the planet who were beset by the suicide entity. You then led a powerful session of decrees to beloved Surya. Seven Teaching Centers, including the Detroit Teaching Center, were connected by phone patch to the service in King Arthur’s Court.

On Sunday afternoon, a 23-year-old man called from Michigan and told me he had been suicidal the day before. He was staying with friends, as he was out of work. He had no money and no family support. He told me of a childhood and a life filled with problems, even attempts by others against his life. He is a devotee of Jesus and prays “all the time.” He once saw you on cable TV, and a friend in Arizona sent him a couple of books, including The Lost Years of Jesus. But no one near him understands spiritual matters.

On Saturday he was so low and depressed that he seriously planned to take his life. He described himself as a “fighter” who does not normally “give up.” He knew suicide was not the answer but he was “at the end of his rope.”

He did not go through with the suicide because he had some kind of vision or dream that night. A lady (who “seemed to be the lady in the cable show”) appeared to him and said that he could not take his life and that he must call the number in the back of The Lost Years of Jesus and speak to one of her representatives!

He said it was a command and he knew that he could not disobey it. She was very insistent. She also told him to find the “teaching” that he needed. He called his friend in Arizona, who also urged him to call the Inner Retreat and so he did.

Mother, he was astounded by his vision or dream of you. He said he called because you had told him to call and speak to your representative. He wanted you to know that he had been obedient. I explained that I was a minister of our Church and therefore your representative and that I would tell you that he had called.

The young man told me that Jesus also visited him and told him some things that he did not fully understand, something about a “mission.” He was very moved that Jesus should come to him, as he felt so unworthy. However, he said it was a very powerful experience and he had no doubt it was the Lord.

He told me, “I will do whatever it takes.” He did not know what to do with his life but he loved to help other people and wanted to be a minister some day. I told him that he was not unworthy but he was a child of the Light, a son of God. I explained that he was very precious to God and to us.

He wanted confirmation of his experience. Was this the lady on the cable show? Is she the same one who wrote the book? I explained that I did not doubt that you had indeed visited him in his vision or dream and that you often ministered to your many students at inner levels. I told him how glad I was that he did not commit suicide and I explained the Ascended Masters’ teaching on suicide, as given by Elohim Apollo and Lumina in the 1995 Pearls of Wisdom (vol. 38, no. 31):

I then told him about our path and Teachings. I described the Chart of Your Divine Self and briefly explained karma, reincarnation, the violet flame and the science of the spoken Word. He told me that he had never felt so “heavy.” I told him that he needed to give prayers to Archangel Michael for protection as well as decrees to transmute the karma that was making him feel so heavy. I taught him a short decree to Archangel Michael and a violet-flame mantra.

With his permission, I made an invocation for him while I used my Archangel Michael ritual sword. You have instructed ministers and counsellors to do this at the conclusion of a counseling call. You tell your staff and counsellors, “It is the call that makes the difference. It doesn’t necessarily have to be my call.”

You have also instructed us to call upon the mantle of the Messengers to overshadow us as we make the call. At your instruction many staff members, ministers and counsellors keep wallet-size pictures of you and Lanello at their desks so that the two Messengers are right there with them as they “make the call.” I keep mine right on my computer.

I also called to the angels to be with him, to comfort, heal and guide him and to help him to fulfill his divine plan in this life. I asked the angels to help him to find a job and a place to stay and to show him his mission in this life.

I asked the violet-flame angels to lift his burdens. I charged Archangel Michael and the seraphim to protect him. I called to the hosts of the LORD to bind the suicide entity attacking this soul and all souls of light on the planet. (You have taught us to maximize our calls rather than to pray for just one soul of light, as the angels can just as easily go to all souls with the same problem.)

Mother, he was a different person at the end of the phone call. He said he could really feel the effectiveness of the call and he was very touched by it. He was so happy to have someone to talk to about these things. He said, “I have never been able to talk to anyone about these things and I am not used to it!” I explained that we have a whole church full of people who love to talk about these things and more!

I promised to send him some material and he agreed to stay with his friends until he could receive a package from me. The next day I sent him the Angels booklet, the Heart, Head and Hand Decrees booklet, the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity brochure, the Pearls of Wisdom brochure, a profile brochure that tells about our organization, the New Year’s conference flier, your 1995 Pearl of Wisdom “On the Soul” (vol. 38, no. 29), as well as the new booklet, A Special Dispensation from the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood, and some wallet cards. I contacted the Detroit Teaching Center, which is two hours away. They will pray for him and will send a Keeper of the Flame who lives nearby to visit him.

Mother, as a minister I know that answers come in many ways, as you have often said. Through our diligent prayer, meditation and application of the Word as we wait upon the Lord, he will reveal to us the answer to the situations which burden us. Any of us may make the call to your Holy Christ Self and Electronic Presence, and you will stand by our side 24 hours a day, guiding us always.

In fact, you have told us that the moment a chela writes to you or calls to you, you receive the letter or call on inner levels. You have said that you know our burden before we even write. I believe that with all my heart because I have experienced it even before I joined staff. Many chelas, including myself, have found the answers they were seeking even before they put the letter in the mailbox.

In times of difficulty, we need to remember that you work with each of your chelas on inner levels. As we maintain the tie of love to your heart and the heart of beloved Jesus, as this beloved soul did, you will guide us through our every trial.

Beloved Mother, what a blessing to all life that your mission goes on at inner levels and that you can come through to a soul so clearly and so tangibly to save his life. This blessed soul told me there was “no way he was going to disobey” what you told him to do! It was a command! How grateful I AM to be a small part of this wonderful rescue mission! And how grateful I AM that God has sent his Messenger to us that “not one of these little ones shall be lost”–if we make the call!

I would like to witness to the power of a call to your Causal Body. Although the incident happened several years ago, I feel prompted to share it with you now.

I was going through a very difficult time in my life. It seemed that every negative record of this embodiment, and perhaps other embodiments, was coming up at once. My husband was away and I felt alone and vulnerable. I cannot describe the pain, agony and despair I was going through. I didn’t understand what was happening and I felt helpless in the grip of this energy. It seemed my calls and decrees weren’t working.

One night I felt so disturbed that I thought I would die. I couldn’t sleep, and the emotional pain was unbearable. I was pleading with God and every Master I could think of for help–all to no avail. I then remembered hearing from you, or someone, that a call could be made to your Causal Body in time of need. So I made that desperate call.

Much to my astonishment, almost instantaneously, a deep feeling of peace came over me. I fell into a restful sleep and awakened with a renewed strength to face the day.

Thank you, dear Mother, for your love and protection. What a wonderful dispensation! I am ever in debt to your great Causal Body.

The recent Pearl of Wisdom by the Elohim Apollo and Lumina (vol. 38, no. 31) contains good teaching on suicide. I noted a similarity between these teachings and what I had read in the book Return from Tomorrow by George G. Ritchie. In this book, Ritchie, a psychiatrist, tells of a near-death experience he had at age 20 in a military hospital. While he was clinically dead for nine minutes, Jesus took him on a journey and showed him, among other things, vast numbers of non-physical beings (discarnates) who roam the earth after death. He also showed him the pain and regret suffered by those who commit suicide. Ritchie writes:

Keep your eyes on Me, Jesus had told me....Without Him before me, in fact, I could not have endured the things He was showing me. As fast as thought we travelled from city to city, seemingly on the familiar earth...except for the thousands of non-physical beings that I now observed also inhabiting this “normal” space. In one house a younger man followed an older one from room to room. “I’m sorry, Pa!” he kept saying. “I didn’t know what it would do to Mama! I didn’t understand.”

But though I could hear him clearly, it was obvious that the man he was speaking to could not. The old man was carrying a tray into a room where an elderly woman sat in bed. “I’m sorry, Pa,” the young man said again. “I’m sorry, Mama.” Endlessly, over and over, to ears that could not hear.

In bafflement I turned to the Brightness beside me. But though I felt His compassion flow like a torrent into the room before us, no understanding lighted my mind.

Several times we paused before similar scenes. A boy trailing a teenaged girl through the corridors of a school. “I’m sorry, Nancy!” A middle-aged woman begging a grey-haired man to forgive her.

“What are they so sorry for, Jesus?” I pleaded. “Why do they keep talking to people who can’t hear them?”

Then from the Light beside me came the thought: They are suicides, chained to every consequence of their act.*

It always gives me pleasure to see the teachings of the Ascended Masters confirmed through the personal experience of individiuals not connected to our organization. The many paths do indeed lead back to the one Source. May the Teachings soon circle the earth!

*George G. Ritchie with Elizabeth Sherrill, Return from Tomorrow (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, Fleming H. Revell, 1978), pp. 58-59. Available through Summit University Press, <#>3877P.

Last night I received the blessing you gave individually to each conferee at The Convening of the Stars. I witness to the healing love of God you bear.

As I waited my turn, I watched hundreds of conferees and children file past you, each pausing briefly to receive the blessing sponsored by Archangel Gabriel. I meditated on the flame of love and was caught up in your garment, enfolded in the pure love of God.

Tears came to my eyes as I sensed the figure-eight flow of love between you and each one, and I felt my own hardness of heart melt away. Resentments I have had toward situations and individuals passed into the flame of Divine Love to be consumed.

A few minutes before I received the blessing, I walked past someone with whom I have had many negative interactions. I know our karma goes back lifetimes, for nothing in this life serves to explain this challenging situation. Yet when our eyes met, they met in love, acceptance, peace, joy. I felt that if this love continued unbroken in me and in our Community, there would be no possibility for war to continue on the planet.

In the past, I have often felt unworthy to be on the receiving end of your love. And fearing that my love would be rejected as imperfect, I have often failed to extend it. Finally, fearing to relive memories of being unloved by my parents, family and friends, I have often closed my heart to avoid feeling that pain. At times I feel as if I am wearing a lead jacket around my heart to keep love out because I know that love will stir up records of hurt. For I have experienced that the flame of love exposes the wounds in order to heal them.

Mother, what was so extraordinary about the blessing last night was not that you showed your profound love for each one, for I have seen and felt this many times. What touched me so deeply was that because of the assurance I felt in your love for each one, including myself, my own heart was open to receive it. Consequently, my love for you could also flow freely. When I came before you, our eyes met–for a moment expressing the timeless love of Guru and chela, Divine Mother and child. I yearned with all my being to be all love as I experienced that you are all love.

But there was more to this miracle of healing love: Before I retired last night, I prayed for resolution about my marriage. I married late in life. I feel I have had many embodiments as an unmarried religious, and I love the simplicity of that life of devotion. Although I have not considered ending my marriage, I have at times felt a certain warring in my members as I have wondered whether God had intended me to remain single. And I have at times felt that the path of marriage was somehow less honorable than that of the unmarried devotee.

This morning I awoke from “dreaming” that my husband and I had been with you last night. In the dream you stood on the high altar. My husband and I stood next to you but on the platform one step below, before Jesus’ portrait.

You took an album from the altar and showed us many photographs of twin flames and couples who have made their ascension from the married state. You also showed us a beautiful photograph of yourself and Edward at the time of your engagement. The key element in each of those photographs was the purity of love the couple shared–a love that put God first, a love that beheld God in the beloved.

You told us it was our destiny to follow in their footsteps. You counseled us on the sacredness of marriage, on chelaship and on our dharmas, and ended by saying ours was not an easy path but that by the grace of God we could win our ascension through it.

I awoke with renewed determination to make my marriage the ladder my husband and I climb to our ascension. It gave me such peace to know from the high altar that our marriage was ordained by God and that it can be the vehicle for our ascension.

Beloved Mother, in gratitude for your unending love for my soul and for the healing and comfort you continually extend, I offer my striving toward wholeness, toward fulfilling in honor all to which I am called by God, and toward becoming all love.

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Vol. 38 No. 39 - I AM the Witness - September 10, 1995