Vol. 43 No 32 - Beloved Lord Maitreya

Vol. 43 No 32 - Beloved Lord Maitreya - August 6, 2000

Become the Buddha

The Wooden Begging Bowl

Hail, O infinite fire of love! I send love arcing from the plane of reality where I am into the valleys and the mists of maya where you seem to be but are not.

I reveal my face, face-to-face. I am the lover of your soul. I am the Beloved, drawing you nearer and nearer to the goal of life that is love. When you see me face-to-face, you remember the ancient mysteries and the Ancient of Days. Suddenly you remember your origin and the vastness of the void of reality, which contains the stars, the deities—angles of God’s consciousness. Immediately you leave all and run for the sun. You run into the arms of the sun and you keep on running and keep on running. You run home to love.

This is why God does not reveal himself fully, wholly, day by day. So many would abandon the cares, the karma of this world and the duty to be the dharma and the duty to open the way for all beings to live. Therefore the veil covers the reality of who you are so that the spirals of life may continue and God may realize himself as God even here below.

I AM the love magnet, drawing untold evolutions to the love-magnet center of life. I come to initiate your soul by love. I give to you, then, the token of my heart flame whereby you are seized as by Cupid’s arrow, enamored of God, in love with God and in search of only one embrace, the divine embrace, the everlasting embrace whereby you, no longer alone, are all One. Nevermore to go out, but only to be, to atone for all life, to bring love, to excel in love, exceed in love, expand in love and thereby realize the discipline that is required of the overcomer on the Path.

A Wide Spiral of Love

Yes, I am the coming Buddha who has come. I have released my spiral in this age and it is a wide spiral of love. I have surrounded you and every soul of light with a spiral that has become a geometric swaddling garment, a fohatic light for the All to become the One within you.

Blessed hearts, the path of initiation is only that you might put on, increment by increment, the garment of the Lord and therefore retain identity. If God were to bestow upon you the sacred-fire mystery all at once, you would become the self that was dissolved in the Self; and only God, without the individualization of your flame, would remain. But you become hierarchy, you become the keystone, when you agree to pass, line upon line, through the initiations of the sacred fire.

I come, then, for the transfer of the light of my heart. This night it is simply an intensification of God as love in your heart—a love for the Person of God, the personal manifestation of God that dwells concomitantly with the eternal Spirit. To be in love with a Person of God is to be assimilated by that Person and therefore to become that one—simple mystery of the Buddhic path, simple mystery of the light. But I am Maitreya; I am the initiator of the love spiral.

The Begging Bowl of Consciousness

Now perceive the bowl of your consciousness, hewn out of natural wood. Now, see, as I pour the elixir of love into the wooden bowl. Have you thought of yourself as the begging bowl? Have you thought of the carrying of the begging bowl as initiation on the Path, the key to the realization that man is a beggar before God and when he ceases to be ashamed of that truth, he will ask and receive the elixir of love?

In the secondary manifestation, the monk with the begging bowl must learn the perfection of indifference, for some deposit love in the bowl and others, hatred. They despise and reject the Christ in the one who comes; therefore they renounce the position of God in themselves and the opportunity of God to give unto God the fullness of the requirement of the hour.

Blessed ones, in this cycle of the coming Buddha who has come, all life on earth receives initiation hour by hour, day by day; until my coming in the flame of the Cosmic Christ for this age, it was only those who would seek and find the Guru. Now, with the acceleration and the compelling of the Law and the compelling of earth’s evolutions into oneness with that Law, none are exempt.

Lo, the day is at hand and every lifestream must give accounting to the Guru Maitreya whether to enter the mainstream of initiation of life or to be found high and dry upon the shore without identification with the movement of God. I pray, then, that you will pray that every form of life on earth might reach for the next rung and the next rhythm in the movement of consciousness.

I ask you to pray for the deliverance of souls, for their salvation through Jesus Christ, through Gautama Buddha, through the I AM THAT I AM, through the message of God unto Mohammed, through the sayings of Confucius, Zarathustra, Melchizedek, Lao Tzu—all who have carried the flame of Mother, East and West.

The Elixir of Love

I ask you to pray that the deliverance of souls come quickly and that the manifestation of God-consciousness on earth be the fulfillment of the realization of love and only love.

Hear the bubbling, crystal waters of the elixir of love that I pour carefully into your bowl. Your soul extends to me with outstretched hands the wooden bowl of life. I pour into this hemisphere of self and I say to self, Drink ye all of it. <1> Drink of the elixir of love and let love be the fullness of the message of the sacred heart, intensifying and burning within your heart—burning and expanding until you yourself are consumed by all-consuming love and in that consummation realize the Self in higher and higher spirals of being.

Love does not leave you where it finds you. Though you may be devastated by love, yet love, in stripping you of the guises and disguises of the former self, does propel you to a higher realm of consciousness where you are the lover, the beloved, the soul fused in the One.

I come, then, to initiate you in the love ray, with Paul the Venetian, Chamuel and Charity, Heros and Amora and all the Buddhas of infinite love. I come that you might seek God as the Divine Lover of your soul, that you might seek me as the personification of that Lover, that you might realize yourself as Mother and, in your meditation, flow in and out of Maitreya as the stream seeking the vortex of light that is the ascension flame, seeking and finding the fulfillment of the soul and the Self by the spiral of the ascension that is the quintessence of God’s love for all life.

The ascension, my beloved, is the consummation of our love. And in this marriage of your soul unto me, unto God, know the eternal bliss and the entering in to the Home, the sacred OM.

Visualize My Coming

I am Maitreya, sustaining the flood tide of love. As you think upon me, visualize the moment of my coming. With your wooden begging bowl held out to me, your soul has the opportunity of the soul to make the transition from beggar to prince and so to know yourself and reign in life as the beloved son, the beloved daughter.

Beloved ones, meditate upon the movement of the flow of the bubbling elixir of life as it fills the wooden bowl of consciousness. See me as I am depicted before you in the ancient statue that bears my name and my flame and my Electronic Presence.

Visualize the coming Buddha coming into your life, always with the initiation of love. Drink in love, be filled with love and sustain the love we share in the very midst of the hatred that sets itself against the fulfillment of love in the age of Aquarius.

Now, then, by the love I impart, be the focal point for the transmutation, the consuming of war that comes from hatred, prejudice that comes from hatred, anti-Christ, anti-God that is the hatred of the Self—self-annihilation, the hatred of the little child, the unborn, the mother and the father and the Spirit.

Blessed ones, the annihilation of the Person of God is the ultimate hatred of the Fallen One, for the Fallen One’s sin is to refuse to bend the knee and to confess the name of the Cosmic Christ in Maitreya, in Jesus, in Krishna, in Christos, in your eternal Christ Self. Therefore understand that the lie of the denial of the personification of God originated in the pride of the Evildoer who would not worship the Son of God but made himself equal with God, who would give homage to God only on the basis of a pride-filled equality, almost as a patrimony, as a condescension.

Blessed ones, he who does not recognize the holy child as God and worship the God within the child denies the Lord God himself. Which of you would acknowledge anyone who denied your offspring while saluting you?

Your offspring is yourself. The eternal Christ, incarnate as the Word in many sons and daughters, is the Self of God. Those who know not the Christ are as pagans, as idolaters, and they cut themselves off from the Eternal One. By that denial of the love of the only begotten Son and the love of God for the soul of humanity in sending that Son, they have therefore lost contact with the threefold flame of their own divinity, which contains Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I AM Maitreya. I stand before you in the fullness of my stature. As I confirm myself to your inner eye as the personification of God, I open the door for you to stand upon the platform of life as the personification of the Christ and to be the open door for that self-same realization in all humanity. Therefore I must declare myself the Person of God else deny forevermore your capacity to be the Son.

I have shared my communion cup of love. I have filled your beggar’s bowl; therefore you are no longer the beggar in life but the inheritor, the joint heir with the Universal Christ. Expand your Christ Self-awareness from the point of the heart to the point of Jesus Christ to the point of Gautama Buddha and know me as I AM--the initiator of all levels and planes of Christ consciousness.

I call, then, unto the twelve tribes of Israel. I send the lifeline of the pure Son of God and I say to all: Worship the Son, for only by worshipping the Son can you become the Son. This is the eternal message sent from the Father, which I confirm to your soul with the nearness of his heartbeat and his very breath.

I AM in you, Maitreya, the coming Buddha who has come to call you home to love.

“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”

This dictation by Lord Maitreya was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Saturday, December 3, 1977, in San Francisco, California.

1. Matt. 26:27.

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