Vol. 40 No. 51 - Beloved Lanello - December 21, 1997
Thanksgiving Day Address 1997
. . . But the Sweet Heart of Jesus Is Greater
My beloved, I am in your midst, for I have desired to be one with your heartbeat. So I come on this Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1997, as your Lanello, to be with you as we have celebrated so many Thanksgiving Days throughout our nation’s history.
O blessed ones, truly of the heart of Jesus, won’t you be seated.
The joy of my heart is with you and in you, each one. May the flame of your temple be ignited and reignited daily for the joy of our Jesus.
Let all be at peace whether at home or abroad, for God is here to deliver you this day. Know that when you are right with God, naught can take from you the path of your ascension, the balancing of your karma and the challenging of the fallen angels.
Now as the Church moves forward, will you not put behind you the negative elements of the two o’clock line of the Cosmic Clock--doubt, fear, human questioning and records of death.
Sometimes you do not even know that these burdens weigh heavily upon your body and your soul. Let them be heavy no longer. Let our entire worldwide Community come together with such joy through the understanding of the presence of Jesus in our midst in all octaves.
I say again, where there is fear and doubt, nothing can succeed. So many are straying apart, not realizing what their great goal might have been had they ultimately trusted in the Lord.
You have rejoiced to see me balance 100 percent of my karma in the past year. This has taken me a long, long time, beloved. But I tell you, no matter what, the ancient records must be dissolved. You can look them straight in the eye and say: “I will deal with this. I will decree for thirty minutes a day or an hour a day and I will deal with my human creation. I will cast it into the sacred fire. I shall be who I AM. Yes, I shall be who I shall be.”
Know that no matter who you are on whatever level of consciousness, God assigns to you that which is meet for your victory. Trust, beloved--trust in God, trust in yourself.
I Am Always Smiling
When you see me as you pass by me in the court, <1> when you see my smiling face, know that I am always smiling. I am always knowing who you are and who you shall become. And I see you scanning the heights and moving on unto eternities of eternities.
What a joyous sense to be able to open one’s heart, one’s chakras, one’s being and to give one’s all to life knowing that the simple flower, the simpleness of a child, the profoundness of hoary age can always come and be an opening presence. Therefore, I ask you anew today to open the door to my heart even as I am opening the door to your heart.
Come with me now. Let us consider our members throughout the world who are burdened whom we do not know in the physical octave. Let each of us reach out for our own Causal Body as though pulling down a giant balloon, a great sphere that encompasses the earth, to share with them the grace of God we have stored there over the centuries.
Comfort Those in Pain
Let us comfort those who are in pain. Let us bring solace to children who are in pain. Let us make our statement and know that there is so much that we truly can do when we have the keys, the excellence, the training and the determination to reach out to those in need.
Know that everything that you give to life comes back to you ten thousand times ten thousand. And everything that you withhold simply becomes a stone in the very heart, a stone in the very chest of one’s being. How and where can anyone go with that state of mind?
I have known many individuals who have retained hardness of heart. I consider them poor souls. I have tried to help them on many an occasion. Sometimes it would go well and sometimes it would not, but, in any case, I knew what their future would be. And therefore I would give it a try again and again, even though there were so many that did not want to hear my voice. They would stop their ears, even as those two thousand years ago stopped their ears at the stoning of Saint Stephen. <2>
So you see, beloved, when evildoers come upon the scene and they are turned back and bound, they have no power. I counsel you to strip them of their power, for then they will shrivel up. And then they must find their own place of nonrest.
I Would Give You a Morsel of My Being
Now I would give to each and every one of the chelas of this movement throughout the world a morsel of my being, a morsel that defines something that we all share together, like a crumb from the Master’s table, a crumb from the table of sweet Jesus. Thus we go to the Communion table and we break the bread. We sup together.
And even at times we go through the severe pain of ultimately discovering a Judas in our midst. But, beloved, this is the way the earth turns and this is how evil must be exposed. Many of you have not encountered evil in people and it is very hard for you to believe that evil can be a reality. Indeed it can be.
But the sweet heart of Jesus is greater. Remember to say that every day. When tests come along, say to yourself, “But the sweet heart of Jesus is greater.”
Be willing to lay down your life for others as Jesus laid down his life for you. This initiation will come, perhaps in the hour of passing, perhaps very soon, perhaps even in your youth. For you need not pass on to take the initiations Jesus demonstrated. You may take them earlier rather than later and live a full life as a Christed one.
El Morya has given to me, therefore, the opportunity to initiate you in this Mystery School so that you may pass your tests and move on. You need not carry around excess baggage, for you have such an opportunity to transmute it and give so much more to the entire hierarchy of light.
Go to the Heart of Sweet Jesus
So, beloved, if you would accelerate on the Path and have your burdens lifted, go to the heart of sweet Jesus. Go to that heart and then you will gain attainment and you will know the meaning of the crucifixion. You will know the meaning of the ascension. And you will surely know forever and forever what is eternal life.
May you walk and talk with me. For as I have accomplished the balancing of 100 percent of my karma, I am fully here for you. I know your burdens. I know the special place in your heart that sometimes aches and sometimes rejoices. I know these things. And your Mother Elizabeth also knows these things.
Therefore consider not the past but enter a new age, a fiery white light, a fiery core of being, of knowingness that you can have unlimited consciousness in the Mind of God right here and now.
Yes, I have experienced great pain and persecution in many, many lifetimes. It was for my good. I learned many lessons. I was then able to go before my Lord Christ and know that he would see me through when great darkness should come upon me in the dark night of the soul.
Know these things, beloved, and always remember that you are not alone nor are you exempt from these trials. So prepare, as I have said. So see through the veil. So mount the spiral of attainment. So rise to the level of your I AM Presence. Touch the hem of the garment of your I AM Presence. Walk and talk with your Holy Christ Self. Do these simple things on the homeward way.
And above all, beloved, no matter what it takes, be a true friend to all. There is no reason to pretend. There is no reason not to give to all that which everyone must have--divine love, tremendous divine love, and loving support in time of trial. This give to the one sitting next to you and to millions of souls who cry out today for your helping hand and your love.
As we go forward in the holiday season, remember that when the year turns you will receive greater and greater planetary karma. Let your invocations to the violet flame be given to Saint Germain and El Morya. And may you know that in your heart is a victory that can never be undone and that no one can take from you which grows and grows until an entire planet can receive the mighty V of Victory from Venus.
Think big, beloved, for the bigness of your thoughts will bring this solar system and vast reaches of the stars even to your very heart.
Now meditate on those things that you are determined to do, that you will do because they are so necessary in this hour.
Messenger’s Thanksgiving Day Address
It gives me such great joy to welcome all the wondrous lifestreams throughout the world who sense our coming but have not quite made that tie with us. The tie that binds us together is in all of us and it is in every lightbearer of the world. I am sure that our students in Russia today have felt what it means to be in this court and to know such a tremendous presence of your hearts, your Causal Bodies and your threefold flames.
I trust you will know just how much you have given to our world through the decrees we’ve given today, just how much you have taken the Light, consumed the Darkness and challenged every foe who would dare to come before this glorious Buddha who sits in our midst. <3>
I would like to give you a message based on the theme of Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation. Lincoln gave this proclamation on October 3, 1863. Here is an excerpt of what he said:
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the everwatchful providence of almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
As you know, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims who had sailed to America and landed on Cape Cod Bay in November 1620. These Pilgrims were Puritans, a sect of conservative Protestants originally from England. They were on both a spiritual journey and a mission to create a new civilization under God.
Before disembarking from their ship, they joined together in a covenant, later known as the Mayflower Compact. They knew that they would not be able to survive and preserve their community without agreeing to work for the common good. Solidarity was the key.
They built their colony in the wilderness of New England and their first winter was severe. Almost half of the colony died. But the fall harvest was plentiful. So their governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of prayer and thanksgiving to God. The Pilgrims also celebrated with a three-day fast. They invited ninety-one Indians who had helped them survive their first year.
In their book The Light and the Glory, Peter Marshall and David Manuel <4> write about the Puritans who settled in New England.
One of the greatest mysteries that we faced in our search was the question of what finally became of the Puritans. They had seemed to be prospering in every way--the hard times were behind them, there was plenty of good land and plenty to eat, spacious houses, and they were living in peace with the Indians. Spiritually, for the most part, they were deeply committed, obedient, and fulfilling the terms of the covenant. And God was blessing them beyond all measure....Then, like a fire slowly dying down, the spiritual light began to dim, until, by the beginning of the 1700s, what had been a blazing light...had become only a faint glow from smoldering embers....
We found our answers mostly between the lines of a number of sad accounts of...compromises....And we found something else: countless recorded instances of what the Puritans called Divine Providence--the extraordinary intervention of God on behalf of His people when they are in covenant with Him. Time after time, God would pour out His grace and mercy on the Puritans and protect them from dangers they could not foresee....
So numerous were the blessings that God set before His people of the new Israel who were seeking to obey His commandments, that Cotton Mather’s Magnalia devotes hundreds of pages to chronicling just some of the occurrences of Divine Providence. One marvelous account of God’s supernatural care for His children occurs in Book II of the Magnalia:
“For instance, an honest carpenter [was] at work upon a house where eight children were sitting in a ring at some childish play on the floor below; he let fall accidentally from an upper story a bulky piece of timber just over these little children. The good man, with inexpressible agony, cried out, ‘O Lord, direct it!’ and the Lord did so direct it, that it fell on end in the midst of the little children and then canted along the floor between two of the children, without touching [any] one of them....But the instances of such things would be numberless.”
Another instance of God’s taking a personal hand in the saving of Puritans’ children is described by John Winthrop in his journal. It involved his two daughters, who, in February of 1632, “were sitting under a great heap of logs, plucking...birds, and the wind [drove] the feathers into the house, [so] the Governor’s wife [sent the daughters] away. They were no sooner gone, but the whole heap of logs fell down in the place, and [would have] crushed them to death, if the Lord, in His special providence, had not delivered them.”
The Magnalia also contains tales of miraculous deliverances at sea:
On September 10, 1676, Ephraim Howe, his two sons and three other men set sail from Boston for New Haven. Contrary winds and a storm blew them far out into the Atlantic and held them captive. Their exposure to the elements was lethal and with little in the way of victuals aboard, one by one they began to die.
First, Ephraim lost his two sons....But the storm raged on, finally driving them ashore on a desolate island near Cape Sable. The other men died after a few weeks, because there was nothing to eat but an occasional fish, or gulls which they could shoot....Ephraim survived alone.
Month after month went by, and although he could see fishing vessels on the horizon, none ventured near.
[The Magnalia says:] “The good man, while thus deserted, kept many days in prayer, with fasting, wherein he confessed and bewailed the many sins which had rendered him worthy of these calamities, and cried out to God for his deliverance. But at last it came into his mind that he ought very solemnly to give thanks unto God for the marvelous preservations which he had hitherto experienced, and accordingly he set apart a day for solemn thanksgiving unto God, his gracious preserver, for the divine favors which had been intermixed with all his troubles. Immediately after this, a vessel belonging to Salem did pass by that island, and seeing this poor servant of God there, they took him in. And so he arrived in Salem, July 18, 1677. [Less than two months shy of a year from the day he had departed!]”
Our favorite of these sea stories involves two ships in distress. The first, under the mastery of William Laiton, was...bound for Barbados, when, some thousand miles off the coast, she sprang a leak which could not be staunched. Her crew was forced to take refuge in their longboat. It happened that they had a plentiful supply of bread, more than they could possibly eat, but so little water that after eighteen days of drifting, they were down to a teaspoon per man per day.
Meanwhile, another ship, captained by one Samuel Scarlet, was having its own difficulties, being “destitute of provisions, only they had water enough, and to spare.” They spied the drifting longboat, but as Scarlet made ready to take them aboard, his men:
“...desired that he would not go to take the men in, lest they should all die by famine. But the captain was a man of too generous a charity to follow the selfish proposals thus made unto him. He replied, ‘It may be these distressed creatures are our own countrymen, and [anyway] they are distressed creatures. I am resolved I will take them in, and I’ll trust in God, who is able to deliver us all.’ Nor was he a loser by this charitable resolution, for Captain Scarlet had the water which Laiton wanted, and Mr. Laiton had the bread and fish which Scarlet wanted. So they refreshed one another, and in a few days arrived safe to New England.
“But it was remarked that the chief of the mariners who urged Captain Scarlet against his taking in these distressed people, did afterwards, in his distress at sea, perish without any to take him in.”
One seldom tires of hearing new accounts of God’s wondrous faithfulness toward those who love and seek to remain faithful to Him. The same Psalm 107 with which Mather opens his sea accounts also contains these words: “Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!”
But a very subtle and dangerous change was taking place in the heart attitude of Puritan New England. The ministers could see it coming, and Sunday after Sunday they had warned their congregations with such passages from the Word of God as this one from Deuteronomy:
“Take heed lest you forget the Lord your God, by not keeping his commandments and his ordinances and his statutes...lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God....
“Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may confirm his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
“And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you this day that you shall surely perish.” <5>
And this was exactly what was beginning to happen [to the Puritans] in God’s New Israel, just one generation after the arrival of the first comers. For faith was not something that could be passed on from generation to generation, or imparted by baptism or the partaking of Holy Communion. In order for faith to come to flower, it must be planted in the soil of gratitude.
In Psalm 35 we read: “Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
“And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.”
The heart of Abraham Lincoln lives in our hearts, and we are grateful he saw the future of America and the future indulgence that we might take upon us.
Many, many people across this nation enter into the true spirit of Thanksgiving and bring food to others who would otherwise not eat. So America is a generous nation. Let us keep our hearts generous, because if our hearts become like stones, then we will be able neither to give nor to receive.
Messenger:
Please place your consciousness upon Lanello’s heart, his magnificent Causal Body, his crown chakra, and ask him to place the wonders of his being upon you so that you are nevermore burdened by the cares of this world. For with Jesus, beloved Lanello will take your cares upon him.
Blessing of Holy Communion by Mark Prophet
O violet-flame angels of Saint Germain, wing thy way to us once again, and let us feel the freedom flame pulsating forth in God’s own name. We see thy light and feel our victory flooding forth in purity. We feel the calmness of thy presence, the holy breath of eternity.
The mundane world and all its fame goes down in dust by holy flame. We are consecrated, Lord, to thee. Our souls at last are made to be the fullness of our victory.
Beloved violet-flame angels, we call to thee now to pour out mercy over the world, over the White House, in our nation’s capital, over the houses of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives, invoking, then, an action of mercy to strip our representatives of all doubt and fear. And let them feel the pulsations of the people of this nation and world going to them and asking them, in God’s holy name I AM, for the needed bread of this hour, the requirements of mankind, pure righteousness in God’s own action expressed as God-government.
We call now also that the world be illumined. O Holy Spirit of truth, illumine them. And let their calls and their deeds, heart, head and hand, also be righteous in thy name.
We ask that the people of this land be united as never before in justice and truth and righteousness. Let selfishness and greed cease to exist in their consciousness. Strike a blow, then, for the cause of freedom in Saint Germain’s name and establish the harmony of the sacred spheres within them. Let the Congress feel this also, and let all of the confusion and sinister developments of the past be wiped away on the instant by the power of the God-flame.
Let the victory of immortal spheres descend upon the earth. And from the cup of light that is America, let it go out to the world that all may partake of the sacred elixir--the elixir of immortal freedom from fear, doubt, confusion, disarray, disorder and all that is not the pure Christ.
For here in that place which we have dedicated to the three kings and named the Chapel of the Three Kings, we ask that we may see the star of Christ, the star that led the Magi, that we may envision for the world the concept of the pure Christ found by these holy men of old, these men so wise.
May we, in partaking of their wisdom, find at the feet of our holy Morya El all that is goodwill for men and for freedom. May we find here at the feet of Djwal Kul that holy wisdom that passes over forest and stream and sheds forth a calm delight in the universe. And in the magnificent conceptions of our beloved Francis, Kuthumi dear, may we here enter into holy golden wisdom’s flame.
So consecrated, then, to holy wisdom, know that the power of divine wisdom and illumination shall flow forth through us from God. Then the world shall be illumined because of our concept. And because we have seen his star, all men may join in this. For there is no office, no holy office, no position, no holy position, no fixation in time or space or eternity that man cannot obtain for themselves if they will position themselves in the selfsame charted realization.
All the love of the angelic hosts, all the love of the Cosmic Beings is a shared love. The lofty position, cosmic nobility, is not one of selfish grandiosity but a complete revelation for all whose eyes are pure enough to behold it.
For the pure in heart shall see God, not only in themselves but in others. The pure in heart shall see the Ascended Master consciousness and concepts. The pure in heart shall kneel before the infant Messiah and watch the stretching of his limbs within themselves and within humanity.
The straw of the manger shall become strands of golden wisdom, nestling the Christ consciousness. And his feet shall ultimately tread upon the straw. And his breath shall scatter the straw as the winds before the hurricane, and he shall be triumphant. And the Christ consciousness shall emerge triumphant in all men, not as one life lived two thousand years ago but as an ever-present concept of God our Father lived today and forever.
And I saw him whose robes were white as snow, whiter than fuller’s earth could white them. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and upon his garment was written a name, King of kings and Lord of lords.
We see that this Manchild of God is revealed in each of us and that none of us need fear because Christ is with us. For he is the Messiah of all who will receive him within the temple of their being. He rends in twain the veil between the Holy of holies and the holy place within them. There, through the star doorway, they will look into the victorious realms of spirituality and divine union to see the majesty of the Son of God ensconced upon each noble brow that is touched by the God-flame. They will see his one manifestation in many, e pluribus unum, one out of many and many out of one.
And this great nation fathered of God (as was Isaac, the child of promise) shall expand and become a fount of freedom to the earth. For I will make of thy seed as the stars of the sky and the sand of the sea innumerable.
So we recognize this day, O God, the work of The Summit Lighthouse to teach mankind of thy starry radiance and of their own starry radiance. They have searched the world for salvation and salvation has been planted in them, in the Eden within them, at the place where the four rivers do meet as the conjunction of the waters, the conjunction of mastery of the four lower elements. So it can truly be said, the Lord thy God hath planted in the Eden within thee the full substance of thy peace and being.
In this river of being and Be-ness flowing out to the four corners of the earth, there is intended to be only self-mastery and victory. This is intended for all. But the mayic delusions of the world and the clouds that surround religious orders hinder mankind’s vision. So they abide in darkness and shadow, and pain is their lot. And they are driven from the Garden while the flaming sword of the Word keepeth the way of the tree of life. They know not all that shall be or all that has been or even all that is.
Yet we call for the unfoldment in this thy body, O God. And in thy body everywhere upon the planet, the Christ radiance and the wedding garment signify the union between that immortal substance implanted in the Eden within and in the great macrocosmic world.
We ask for the fruit of thy holy substance to manifest within us. We ask for the fruit of thy holy substance to manifest through us. We ask for the fruit of thy holy substance to give us the order and direction of heaven each day that in the receiving of this Sacred Eucharist, this Body of Christ, we may all be partakers of thy grace. Our communion, then, is a coming into union with God, not an outer concept or idea but an inward action of the Great Law.
Our hearts rejoice in thy majesty. Tabernacled within us, the wilderness seemeth less ponderous. Tabernacled within us, we feel the very veil itself is saturated with thy fire. Tabernacled within us, we perceive our role in expanding thy light.
Our human will acts to impede the progress of thy light through our land--the land of our being, our desert self, parched and dry--and we require a flow to be established daily. The waters flowing forth from Eden will cause the desert to bloom as the rose.
And this same Jesus, whom ye have seen go into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go. Ye men of Galilee and Nazareth, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? We recognize the fullness of our immortality lieth within, even at the very door.
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“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
The dictation by Lanello printed in this Pearl of Wisdom was given by the Messenger for the Great White Brotherhood, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 27, 1997, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana.
[N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Lanello’s direction.]
1. Lanello is referring to his bust in the rear of King Arthur’s Court.
2. Acts 7:57.
3. The Messenger is referring to the six-foot Buddha who sits in front of the platform and altar.
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