Vol. 42 No. 42 - Beloved Sanat Kumara - October 17, 1999
First New Year’s Convocation of The Summit Lighthouse
Listen to the Harmony of the Spheres
From the rolling sphere of our planetary home, I bring you, friends of light upon the planet earth, my radiation and that of beloved Venus, and we bring salutations to friends of old and friends of light.
Peace be unto you, children of the Most High God, and the eternal benevolence that I hope you upon this planet will soon use in all your relationships with one another. The salutations of grace that were used in the early Christian Church, “Peace be unto you” and “Grace be multiplied” are abundant, manifest expressions of our great enfolding Love.
This eternal Love, which comes from God, flowed through me long ago as I sat in the great halls of Shamballa, that great city of light in Asia’s past, and was known then as the Ancient of Days. Today I would ask you to leave behind in consciousness the darkened spheres of earth, the ordinary human effluvia. I would ask you to rise in your arms of light and journey back up toward our planetary home on the great shaft of light on which I came. In consciousness travel with me to perceive a vision of our lovely planet, as [an image of what] earth shall some day become.
Blessed ones of light, as I gaze out upon this beautiful solar system and behold the rolling spheres, including the great concentric rings of Saturn, and as I listen to the music of the spheres, I am ever mindful of my great longing to see all this magnificence and beautiful light and radiance communicated to each one of you, that you may sense or feel the radiance of the Ancient of Days and share the blessings I have long known.
Mankind have often felt and thought and wondered why they were not elevated and raised to the station of a Cosmic Being or a God. Blessed ones, there is that constant known to you as time. The purposes of the Eternal Father are, as you are well aware, to bring everyone to a state of absolute God-peace and bliss, but there is always the element of time, the cycles of evolution. Therefore I commend you to the patience of your own I AM Presence.
I commend you to the patience of blessed Gautama, who spoke to you last evening. I commend you to his patience that you may learn to wait expectantly for the manifestation of every good and gracious and perfect thing within your lifestream.
The Power of Love Anchored Our Radiance Here
I recall the great struggle among mankind throughout the countless ages of the past to find physical substance to nourish their bodies. I also recall the struggle to mine the precious metals of the earth, to externalize knowledge. I have observed the rise and fall of empires. I have observed the great drama of life upon this planet, and yet, in our separation from blessed Venus and our voluntary exile upon the earth, it was the power of love that anchored our radiance here.
We found little encouragement from the mass mind; we found little expression among mankind of the great hope of God. Only the few, just the few whose devotion was poured out in adoration to the great Presence and to the light from the Great Central Sun enabled us to anchor and sustain the power of protection for the earth until her evolutions could arrive even at their present state.
Now I have returned to Venus, but I remain the Regent of the Earth, serving the beloved Gautama and continuing to guide mankind of earth in his search for peace, for reunion and identification with his own God-self. Blessed ones, were you to be physically transported to our planet, I have no doubt that it would provide you with a great education.
I have no doubt that you would be somewhat startled by our mode of life and also by what would seem as innovations and inventions. But, blessed ones, for countless numbers of years, individuals from the more underprivileged areas of the world have journeyed to the more enlightened countries and returned from them, yet those countries remain to the present day in a comparatively unenlightened state.
A great problem is involved here and that problem concerns the anchoring and the externalization of knowledge. Long ago it was declared, “There is nothing new under the sun.” <1> Blessed ones, it may be true that there is nothing new under the sun but the sun itself, but I tell you, you must develop a consciousness of the newness of God. You must be grateful for each unclouded moment that comes into manifestation, because it is a pure sunbeam, a pure globe of light, a globe of eternal radiance.
Think you, mankind of earth, that those of us who are servants of the light in its highest hierarchical spheres would bring a disturbing influence to mankind? Do you think that it is up to us to create shadow? I think you are well aware that shadow is created here, largely and primarily through ignorance. Those individualswho nailed the beloved Jesus [to the cross] at Golgotha believed that they did service to God.
I, therefore, declare unto you today that the individual Gethsemanes that come to mankind as a result of their own misconduct are for a reason and a purpose: the externalization of beauty. Often thorns on the path help individuals realize the beauty of the rose; but, as beloved Morya has often told you, all of the ascended host are ever so anxious to break and blunt the thorns of life until they no longer exist and are replaced by a crown of light.
Constancy of Heart
As the Ancient of Days, I therefore wish to stress constancy—constancy, constancy that comes from the heart; constancy that knows humility; constancy that has full faith in its own divinity. Pause now and listen to the music of the spheres, for I have for you today an inner message that is simple yet important. Hear, then, the music of the spheres.
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O hallowed grains of sand that compose the planet earth, O hallowed trees and land, O hallowed forms of men, blessed may you be and blessed be the fruit of life upon your earth.
Beloved ones, as the song goes, “’Mid pleasures and palaces though you may roam, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home,” <2> and I think that the heart of God is your home. Therefore, wherever you may wander upon the earth, wherever you may wander in thought, know that in the simplicity of life there is great beauty.
What men think of as common clay is in reality the infinite light of God. When I say, “Hallowed be the grains of sand of the earth,” I imply that they are made of creative light from the heart of God. They bear no malice to mankind. They bring forth no cruel thorns to mar the perfection of life. They are not accountable for the disputes and the discord in which men rage, nor for the warfare that stimulates the worst in human nature. They are pure and lovely.
The atoms and electrons that compose your body and yourself, they in themselves are beautiful and they serve you well twenty-four hours a day, functioning in an electronic manner to provide you with a vehicle and a physical form through which to express.
The Quality of the Heart
The councils of the Great White Brotherhood have constantly planned in divine omniscience for the upliftment of mankind. But as rapidly as the plans were brought to some degree of fruition, through human cupidity and carelessness they were dashed to pieces and aborted. This is not the fault of the ascended host or the hierarchy of heaven. If anything, our love for humanity has increased today rather than diminished, because from among you, O sons of men, men and women and even children have arisen in the blessing of the ascension.
It was not too long ago that a very, very lovely child in a mountainous region of Italy made the ascension in the light; [it was] even before the Christmas season this past year. Therefore those who have made the ascension have joined and swelled our ranks and choruses and those who are cut free from your octave represent our best hope.
There is one specific characteristic concerning those who have made the ascension, and that is the quality of their heart. And at times we decry the human intellect, for I would point out to you that it was the serpent who was reputed to have whispered in the ears of Eve in the Garden of Eden and to have destroyed her peace and happiness by saying, “Take, eat of this fruit. Ye shall not die. Nay, ye shall become as wise as God.”
Blessed and beloved ones, as has been said, “A little knowledge is sometimes a dangerous thing,” for it is relative knowledge, finite knowledge, the human intellect. I warn you this day, therefore, that it is the quality of the feelings in the heart that is most important and they are the necessary virtues you must have in order to make your ascension in the light. They whose inner motives are pure will do all in their power to see that their outer actions and conduct are pure.
As we have observed the candidates for the ascension in the Temple of Luxor, we have constantly observed one quality [within them]: a desire for themselves to be erased, if necessary, in order that God may be expressed; a willingness to accept censure from mankind or from one another; a willingness to be humble and to work for the universal good and the cosmic purpose.
Blessed ones, we again return to the intellect. You know these things but the reason you do not carry them out is often the result of the human intellectual mask, the persona, the assumed mask of your own individuality. You are as much a part of God today as you ever shall be, and yet this is often not known, not realized, not assimilated, not accepted. In the acceptance of the perfection of your Presence, you will find peace and you will find happiness as the only Divine Reality.
We would love to see large numbers of individuals become saints. We would love to see all men become saints in manifestation. The surest and quickest way for this to come about is to cease all criticism, all condemnation, all gossip--all of the things that we have told you can never produce perfection.
The Necessity of the Hour
I would love to bring you today a great message of moving inspiration. I would like to speak of some of the great spiritual laws. But at the present hour it remains a cosmic necessity that I speak about the lessons you have long been taught, because the mankind of earth unfortunately are still not practicing the knowledge that has been given to them through the centuries by the great Masters and Teachers of Wisdom.
Therefore, I choose to take my time today to reiterate, to repeat, to stress the same lessons that have been stressed by all the Masters in the past: The need for absolute devotion to God; the need for toleration and kindness to one another; the need to look for all the good and benign qualities in one another; the need to hold the balance, to keep your flame steady and to remain undisturbed when the forces of the elements rage around you.
Conditions that disturb you, blessed ones, are not the result of any individual human action. In almost every case, [what disturbs you] is the result of a momentum builded in the past by either yourself or by another. It is the result of accumulations and vortices used by the sinister force, in much the same manner as a tornado, to move across the face of life where happiness is, to bring a disturbing condition there.
Anchor the Harmony of Our Sphere in Yours
All of this we would end with the great sunlight of God’s Love. We would see the coming year and all the years ahead as days of eternal rapture. The only way this can be, either individually or collectively, is for the harmony of our sphere to be anchored in yours. That is why I asked you to listen to the harmony of the spheres.
If you did not hear the harmony of the spheres, it does not mean that it was not poured out tangibly in our octave. It simply means that you need greater attunement with your own God Presence to be able to hear those eternal raptures and harmonies of our octave. The fault, then, lies not in the divine instrument but in the receiving and hearing ear.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear” <3> what Sanat Kumara saith unto the mankind of earth. For look you well to this: When your consciousness is capable of accepting the perfection of God by reason of acknowledging its existence and when you can look up to that which is above from whence cometh all your strength, then you will be ready to receive it by your receptive attitude and you will maintain harmony not only here but wherever you are twenty-four hours a day.
Blessed ones, this is the state in heaven to which we belong. This is the character of our octave. When you make it the character of yours and then accept it, blessed and beloved ones, you will be free! It is a gift eternal. Your hands have but to reach out and take it.
These are no idle words, but you must not abort the gift before it comes into manifestation. You must have faith, you must have humility and you must have kindness. And you must be steadfast in God’s eternal comfort.
I thank you and I bless you with all the love of Venus:
O thou sacred Seven Holy Kumaras, all sons of the flame from Venus, blaze, blaze, blaze the magnificent radiance out through this planet.
Let all within this forcefield, according to their ability, receive their divine portion. Expand the capacity of all to receive a greater abundance throughout the coming year and through all the ages ahead, that this blessed and beloved planet earth, this lovely world, may indeed become the perfection of our planet and all the perfection that God intends forever!
Now, I seal you in a great unfed flame of love, wisdom and power. I invoke the power of the Lords of the Flame from Venus to blaze and blaze and blaze through you until you are aware that our love is made manifest in a palace; our love is made manifest in a humble peasant hut and our love is made manifest everywhere.
All is Life. All is God. All is Love. And this is our gift to you today--the old, ever new story that will lead you, when you truly receive it, to the everlasting glory of the eternal spheres.
I thank you.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
This dictation by Sanat Kumara was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood, Mark L. Prophet, on January 1, 1961, in New York City.
1. Eccles. 1:9.
2. “Home, Sweet Home,” by John Howard Payne (1791-1852).
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