The Communion Cup of the Everlasting Gospel
Thanksgiving Day Address 1996
Part 1
Let scintillating light rays pierce the gloom of mankind’s karma! So intensify, Elohim of God, Elohim of Peace, Uriel Archangel, Aurora! So come forth! Penetrate through the fabric of the earth, of the soul, of the mind, of the heart.
Indeed, let the hearts of the people be purged of all impurities lest there come upon the nations a great burden of darkness. Therefore I do recommend that you make sacrifices in the form of penances, fastings and prayers for the alleviation of world karma.
I welcome you to my heart on this Thanksgiving Day. It is the eve of another year and the beginning of the prophesied shortening of days for the elect’s sake. Therefore I remind you of the words that I spake long ago: “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved. But for the elect’s sake, those days shall be shortened.” <1>
It is the hour of the judgment of the fallen angels whose time is come. And as I said, their flesh shall in no wise be saved. For unto this very day they have refused to bend the knee and to confess that my mantle is the mantle of the avatar of the Piscean age.
Thus I speak to you of the role that I have fulfilled during these 2,150 years that will shortly come to their conclusion. <*> You yourselves have experienced sudden changes; and whereas you have thought to walk to the right, you have walked to the left. Simply put, the people do not know which way to turn.
History is replete with the rise and fall of ancient and modern civilizations. These events have passed before humanity again and again. And for some it is as if in a night and a day their whole world were collapsing. People have carried these records lifetime after lifetime through the collective unconscious. But today these records are being brought to the surface so that the individual might know that the hour of the descent of his specific karma draweth nigh. And as a result, there is a malaise running through the stream of the planetary psyche.
A Twenty-Four-Hour Dispensation
The floodgates are opened! The majesty of Sanat Kumara appears! And, lo, this Great One does determine the signs, the seasons and the cycles wherein each one may choose to take the opportunity for Christhood. Yet I caution you that the road not taken may be an opportunity lost for thousands of years.
As you know, my servant John recorded the Book of Revelation under my direction. I refer you to 3:20, 21: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
Therefore I bid you open the door and invite my Sacred Heart to be one with your heart. Yes, beloved, receive me into your heart during the next twenty-four hours that I might heal your heart. Allow me to heal your pain and allow yourself to receive my grace. If you are able to transcend your pain and to reach out to me, I will surely draw your soul into the heaven-world on this Thanksgiving Day.
The recording angels who serve the Keeper of the Scrolls are walking up and down the land inscribing in each one’s book of life whether or not a given soul may receive divine intercession in the coming dark days. Some have no meritorious deeds and no sacrificial acts to their credit, for they have not extended themselves on behalf of the poor, the needy and the downtrodden.
We enter a period of the intensification of the Dark Cycle. Therefore, as I said to my apostle Paul, who in my name preached to the Thessalonians:
| But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. - I Thess. 5:1-9 |
Those whom the Keeper of the Scrolls has singled out as selfless servants of God will receive a mitigation of their karma in these twenty-four hours. This dispensation is unto those who have received Saint Germain into their hearts and who religiously apply his violet flame for the transmutation of personal and planetary karma. And thereby, through the Holy Spirit, they are balancing their karma and moving on in the ascending cycles of being. However, those who have shunned the path of universal freedom that I, Jesus, have offered them, lo, these two thousand years, have, then, a mountain of karma and a mountain of neglect.
A Mountain of Karma
I bring to your attention the file of a staff member who departed this Community some years back. The Messenger had made known to him <**> that the substance of his karma was, on the astral plane, as molten lava flowing out of an active volcano, typifying that one’s perpetually flowing conscious and unconscious anger.
The Messenger also told him that when the lava solidified, it would represent the sum total of his karma. And due to such a horrendous karma, he would have to crawl up that mountain, metaphorically speaking, on his hands and knees in order to balance lifetimes of karma wherein he did heap fiery coals of indignation upon blameless souls. And although his karma was upon him, he would not and did not cease to criticize the Messenger and other members of our Community.
Imagine having to climb such a mountain of personal karma while crying out to God for mercy when one’s offense has been to withhold mercy from others! How would you feel if your karma were a mountain of molten lava turned into volcanic rock? Yet that hardness of heart produced a solidification in him that is also the blind spot of many, though they will not admit it.
Many have created mountains of karma that one day they will have to cast into the violet flame–shovelful by shovelful. Their only alternative to this backbreaking task is to choose the second death. <2> This alternative is the choice not to be. In this scenario, the mercy of the Great Law cancels out the soul. And this, my beloved, is the fork in the road that many are coming to at the end of the twentieth century–to be or not to be, to exist or not to exist.
Unfortunately, many choose not to be and not to exist. They would rather pass into oblivion than move the mountain of their karma shovelful by shovelful. They say, “It is too hard! It is too hard!” And whereas Moses taught them to choose Life, not Death, <3> they have chosen Death, and God respects their choice.
Indeed many, even those who have touched the hem of the Messenger’s garment, have not given their life to God that their life might truly beget eternal life. Thus there comes a time at the end of each age when there is no more mitigation for the sins of the soul save the cumulative good karma, which the Keeper of the Scrolls has recorded in the soul’s personal book of life.
This, then, is a serious matter. For each man stands on his own, whether he shall rise, whether he shall fall, and whether or not he shall be master of himself. As I have written: “If we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries [i.e., the fallen angels whose time is up].” <4>
Intercession Is Restricted
Down through the centuries God has interceded on behalf of his sons and daughters. But at the end of this age, intercession is restricted to those who have cast themselves upon the living rock of the Universal Christ. We four–Lord Sanat Kumara, Lord Gautama Buddha, Lord Maitreya and I–are one. I count myself the least among these.
And so, beloved, for some it is the day and the hour of the recompense. Millions are in pain–children, the elderly, the rich, the poor. Are they miraculously cured? Do I walk in their midst and forthwith take upon myself the burden of their karma? Nay, I do not!
For they have made their beds of pain and they must lie in their beds of pain until they are ready to take responsibility for their karma. For the fulfilling of the law requires that “every man shall bear his own burden [of karma].” <5> I myself, by cosmic law, am no longer permitted to bear the sins of the world–mankind’s cumulative negative karma of the last 25,800 years. <6>
We the hierarchs of the Piscean age are moving on and you must move with us. Therefore if you have been chary with your decrees, we put you on notice that this is the day and the time and the place to accelerate your use of the science of the spoken Word. For only those dynamic decrees that you have given will stand you in good stead. And those dynamic decrees that you have not given will, of course, not stand you in good stead. And thus whatever you should have done, might have done but have not done–perhaps because of your procrastination–will be a zero in your personal book of life.
Beloved, it is time for you to assess your world. Today the nations are helpless to deal with the millions of displaced persons who are running from their governments, their armies and opposing tribes who are committing genocide.
Think, then: Are any of you better than the least of these the brethren or greater than the greatest of the Ascended Masters?
Remember, you were not chosen because you had the violet flame upon your arrival at Maitreya’s Mystery School. You were chosen because Saint Germain called you to his service and because your soul had proven her merit in this and previous lifetimes.
And so, forevermore and day by day, give praise and honor to Saint Germain, for by his gift of the violet flame you have internalized some portion of the living fount of cosmic freedom within your four lower bodies. And as a result, you may come to know an extraordinary resurrection in this life.
- to be continued
* the age of Pisces. Each astrological age lasts approximately 2,150 years.
1. Matt. 24:22.
3. Deut. 30:19.
5. Gal. 6:5.
6. Karma of 25,800 years. See pp. 30-32, this volume.
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