BOOK ONE
Mark L. Prophet • Elizabeth Clare Prophet The Everlasting Gospel
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Climb the Highest Mountain The Path of the Higher Self book one
Mark L. Prophet • Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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We wish to express our heartfelt gratitude to all who have made possible the publication of this volume—our heavenly Father, our beloved Masters Jesus Christ, Saint Germain, and El Morya; Mother Mary, Archangel Michael, and the hosts of Light without number; our faithful staff, our dedicated co-workers and friends throughout the world, and our patient children:
To all who have stood with us as the sentinels of a new age—a Golden Age of opportunity for the children of the Light—to all now ascended who “loved not their lives unto the death ” we say.
Thank You.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth , and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
Revelation
xvii Authors’ Message to the Reader xxva Tell Them
1 CHAPTER ONE
Your Synthetic Image
3 An Allegory 5 The Quest for Reality 8 The Soul: A Living Potential 13 The Dethroning of the Synthetic Image 17 The Enthroning of the Real Image
23 CHAPTER TWO
Your Real Image
25 The Light Emanation of Eternal Purpose
29 The Spirit: Birthless, Deathless, Eternal
33 God the Macrocosm, Man the Microcosm
37 The Invasion of the Microcosmic Circle
41 Manifest Immortality: Putting on the New Man
45 Vestiges of the Synthetic Image Replaced by Real-Eye Magic
50 The Discovery of the Real Self in the Natural Order
57 The Real Self-Mastery of the Natural Order 63 CHAPTER THREE
A Heap of Confusion 65 Order: The First Law of Being
70 The Ideal Society 84 Departure from Innocence 93 The Coming of the Laggards 106 The Warping of Man’s Vision 112 The Psychology of Mass Control 121 The Force of Human Error 124 Strategies of Control 132 A Thrust for a Purpose
141 CHAPTER FOUR
What Is Individuality?
143 The Divine Blueprint
148 The Christ of Man
157 Resources of Individuality
164 The Four Lower Bodies
173 The Science of Individuality
188 Freedom in the Macrocosm through Self-Mastery in the Microcosm
194 Individual Fulfillment through Service to Life 211 CHAPTER FIVE
What Is Consciousness?
213 Mind and Self, Will and Consciousness: Structures of Identity
221 God Self-Awareness through Christ Self-Awareness
231 Heart, Head, and Hand
240 Consciousness: The Magnet of Individuality
245 The Scientific Realization of Consciousness
253 Liberty Born of God’s Consciousness 260 Conscious Penetration of the Macrocosm
267 CHAPTER SIX
God in Man
269 “I AM Where I AM”
274 The Chart of Your Divine Self
285 The Flame within the Heart
322 The Sanctuary of the Most High
333 A Pillar in the Temple of My God
348 Our God Is a Consuming Fire
362 If I Wash Thee Not, Thou Hast No Part with Me
375 CHAPTER SEVEN
God in Nature 377 The Flow of Creation
388 The Father-Mother God in Spirit and in Matter
408 Becoming One with All Life through the Holy Spirit
444 Servants of God and Man in Nature
470 Ecology and Cataclysm: Personal and Planetary
490 Extraterrestrial Probes
518 Harmlessness toward Life
567 NOTES
589 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
590 INDEX OF POETRY AND INVOCATIONS
591 INDEX OF SCRIPTURE 599 INDEX
Contents
COLOR PLATES — Paintings
Climb the Highest Mountain by Nicholas Roerich
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266 She Who Leads Ancient Pyramids Hieroglyphs of Nature Kanchenjunga Fiery Summit Silent Sages Path to Kailasa River of Life
COLOR PL ATES —Photographs
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554 The Royal Teton Ranch
A Celebration of Life at the Inner Retreat
PLATES —Illustrations
by Auriel Bessemer
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138 Renewing Courses
426 The Dragon Shalt Thou Trample
CHARTS
295 Maltese Cross: Focus of the Distribution of Energy from Spirit to Matter
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330 The Chart of Your Divine Self
‘TAM the Resurrection and the Life ”
TABLES
370 Flame Color-Qualities of the Seven Rays
450 Hierarchs of the Nature Kingdom
564 The Seven Rays and the Seven Chakras
To You Who Would Climb the Highest Mountain:
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Truth is the summit of being .” 1 We have called that summit God—indeed, the God of all Truth—and it is to that Summit that we would direct your consciousness through the writing in this book.
“No matter what our religion,” observed Le- comte du Noiiy, “we are all like people at the bottom of a valley who seek to climb a snowy peak that dominates the others. We all have our eyes fixed on the same goal, and we agree that there is but one summit to reach. Unfortunately we differ on what road to take. Guides come forward and we follow them. Some go one way, others choose different paths. All are convinced that their trail is the best, and all are sincere. By following them we approach the one goal, but when the groups which started from different points meet, instead of uniting, they seek to convince each other mutually that it is they who have discovered the best road, and they sometimes end by throwing insults and stones at each other. Yet they know that one day, provided they never stop ascending, they must all meet at the top of the mountain and that the road to reach it matters little .” 2
We uphold, as God does, the right of every man to choose the path he shall take to the Summit of his
own being. Although we cannot make the journey for him, we would offer a hand to help him on the way. The climber will need ropes and picks to scale the jagged heights. These we have provided, together with maps and charts to assist him in avoiding the pitfalls and unmarked ways where danger lurks and where those who have “words without knowledge ” 3 may perish.
Before you embark upon your expedition to the top, it is advisable that you practice the techniques and test the equipment. The helps we present in the following pages have been successfully used by the summiteers who have preceded you. The experts, who are familiar with the markings on the trail, also recommend that you employ a trained guide who is qualified to show you how to overcome the unmerciful elements of wind and cold, ice or broiling sun that greet the climber sphinxlike, unyielding.
No matter what his faith, his creed, or his religion, the seeker can profit from the experience and the know-how of those who have gone before him on the Path. Many look to Jesus as the wayshower; others follow the Eightfold Path of the Buddha or the law of Moses. In the West they have pursued the calling of Saint Francis and Clare, of the Little Flower of Jesus and the Virgin Mother; in the East they hail Maitreya, Lord Krishna, Lao-tse, and Confucius. These and countless others have demonstrated the principles of Truth and left a record of exemplary lives. But whomever the seeker follows, it is results that count! If a man’s philosophy does not make him a better man, capable of contributing something of worth to his friends and to his society, then either he or his philosophy has failed.
We may well ask as we look at the world around us, Has Christianity failed or have men failed the
Christ? Our answer would be that men have failed because the complete teachings of the Master of Galilee, of John the Baptist, and of the prophets who preceded them have not been made available to the multitudes. These we must make plain. These we must free from the shroud of dogma. These we must set forth that the day might come which Micah foresaw when every man should sit “under his vine and under his fig tree ” 4 to be self-taught by the Great Mediator of the Word.
In your hands is a key—a key that will unlock many doors. No work has ever contained the practical and scientific explanations on the workings of your self and your universe which are to be presented in the volumes of The Everlasting Gospel. You will discover how you can work out your salvation not only with “fear and trembling ,” 5 as Paul said, but also with the love and dominion of the Christ.
Once you have put together the cosmic jigsaw puzzle—the pieces of which you will find one by one in the thirty-three chapters of the total work—you will possess not only the hieroglyph of living Truth but also the blueprint of your fiery destiny. If you take the Teaching apart piece by piece, making it a smorgasbord of concepts and ideas, you will deprive yourself of the magnificent comprehension of the whole. But if you dare to pursue the totality of the Teaching, you will soon realize the full value of the key.
Some of the facts contained in the writing will be familiar to you; others will not. The elimination of what is known to one reader and not to another would jeopardize the worth of the instruction. The concepts unfold “precept upon precept, line upon line ”; 6 and if carefully followed, they will lead you to your life’s destination. This is your destiny: to realize the divine gnosis, the universal saga of your Being, and to become
one with all Life. By following the most up-to-date road map to the Summit of your identity, you will see rising before you the foothills of your own Everest and behind you a cosmic panorama never before beheld by humanity in any age.
You will be shown mysteries 7 that will no longer be mysteries—secrets of the ages that will nevermore be secrets. You will find a linking-together of the whole tapestry of Truth in each multiform part. The glossing over of these parts may well abort the embryonic ideas that are intended to germinate in your consciousness until they unfold the magnificence of your own soul’s comprehension of the laws of Cosmos. These laws are made known in signs from far-off worlds, from the Pleiades as well as from the sun of our own solar system, from the sands of the Sahara and the tall pines of Darjeeling.
You will find herein the wisdom of the ages, the thoughts of a Christ, a Buddha, and the many savants and servants of the Word—all of whom are one in the Lord who said, “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd .” 8 You will find knowledge of a different kind- knowledge that has been withheld from the masses, knowledge that has been guarded in the retreats of the Masters for thousands of years. In the words of the Apostle, “We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory .” 9
We are concerned with the coming of the vanguard of Light upon the planetary body, “kings and priests unto God ” 10 who have heard the whisperings of the universe in heart and soul, who have brooded with the Great Spirit over the rites of creation—those who have been cast in the cosmic drama, reenacting
the ritual of a cosmos, a rose, a cell, or a conception in the Mind of Christ. These are they who are unafraid to involve themselves in Reality and thereby secure the mastery of self, of destiny.
As Diogenes with his lantern roamed the streets in search of an honest man, so we invite you, the reader, to raise the torch of your mind and without bias seek Truth within these pages; for here you will learn the code of your identity, of Nature, and of Life itself. And in the process you will find the power of the Holy Spirit by which each man becomes the king of his own kingdom and the priest of his own temple in response to the fiat of the Logos “Take dominion over the earth!” 11
Please recognize that we, as Messengers for the spiritual Hierarchy, have been commissioned to speak the unspeakable, to utter the unutterable, and to set forth in writing what no man has written. We have had to make plain in earthly tongue what heretofore has been penned in the tongues of angels. Words consisting of the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet, concepts boxed in by the dictionaries of men—these we have formed into sentences and paragraphs in an attempt to make plain the eternal precepts of Love.
At times feeling inadequate to the task, we have stood before the burning bush and asked our Lord as Moses did: “Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?” As God revealed himself to Moses saying, “I AM THAT I AM,” so he has said to us, “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.” 12
And so we have sought to spell out the pathos of a cosmos even as God has sought to create in you the awareness of himself. Not by our own authority, but
by the power of the living Word have we spoken the words of the Son of man who said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away .” 13
Within these seven hundred pages you will discover mandalas of Truth, conceptions from the heart of the Solar Logoi who declared to John: “I AM Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of Life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son .” 14
Through the written word you will be made aware not only of the intellectual concepts of Truth but also of the feelings of those concepts. As the positive and negative aspects of self, as mind and heart, these spell out the whys and wherefores of man’s need both to understand and to devote himself to the divine plan and to his reason for being. It would be folly to make the claim that these concepts are confined to these pages; for these were in the very breath of Life itself which in the beginning God breathed into man’s nostrils when “man became a living soul .” 15
Your newfound freedom will come not only from the formed but from the unformed as well, not just from what is said but from what remains unsaid. For words are but cups into which the mind must pour the substance of experience and devotion, the distillations of soul-knowing and the formulations that are idling just beneath the surface of awareness waiting to be energized by the Christ Mind.
If by living up to the full measure of your active understanding of Truth you “show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of Truth ,” 16 you will expand mankind’s consciousness of the Law of Life and serve as an avant-garde messenger of hope to all generations.
The Christ, whom so many proclaim and so few
understand, is not confined to a nation, to a people, or to a person. Christ is the Light emanation, the Solar Logos, the living Word by whom all things were made and without whom was not anything made that was made . 17 You are a fragment of the Lord’s Body, a measure of his attainment, destined to be a chalice for his Light that you might give a cup of living water to a humanity waiting to be filled.
The “key of knowledge” which was “taken away ” 18 is yours for the knowing. As the scribes and Pharisees lay in wait for Jesus and sought “to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him ,” 19 so some will analyze this work with one purpose in mind: to destroy it. Others will take the key and open the door to the Christ who calls: “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 .” 20
Inevitably, the profitable servant will enter into the joy of the Lord and the unprofitable servant will be cast into outer darkness . 21 Those who forsake dogma for Christ, bigotry for love, and ignorance of the Law for wisdom (wise dominion) will find the answers to life’s questions which they have long sought. And they will know the dominion of the overcomers: “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. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches .” 22
As the word of God was spoken by Jesus in parable, so the words of The Everlasting Gospel are hieroglyphs charged with both an inner and an outer meaning that can change your life and your world into the beauty and perfection which God intended you to manifest. You must take these hieroglyphs and eat them up—assimilate them into your consciousness—as
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the angel told John to take the little book and eat it up, warning him that it would make his belly bitter, but that it would be in his mouth sweet as honey . 23
If the prejudices and precepts of the world have kept you from the divine design, then these must be set aside, at least temporarily, while you explore this virgin forest where Truth lies waiting to be acclaimed in towering oak and tiny acorn, in bubbling brook and nodding flower. Instead of comparing each joyous burst of Life you find with the relics of civilization that you have left behind, savor each new concept for its own intrinsic worth; ponder and absorb a new comprehension and a new freedom.
To properly discern Truth, you will have to lay aside your preconceived ideas—even your most cherished beliefs—and give God the opportunity to lead you “in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake .” 24 Above all, remember Jesus’ words “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein .” 25
The enemy of righteousness may seek to impress upon you the need to immediately accept or reject our instruction. Be not mocked! True progress always manifests to those who in patience possess their souls . 26 Therefore, reserve your judgment until you have read the last word of the last chapter.
The purpose of The Summit Lighthouse is to publish the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, to shed light on the lost or distorted Teachings of Christ, and to provide humanity—every man, woman, and child, bar none—with the knowledge of Cosmic Law which, when applied, will lead him to freedom, to self-mastery, to the fulfilling of his divine plan, and to the reunion of his soul with God.
The Summit Lighthouse is not out to capture souls for membership, to tell people what to do and
what not to do, or to confine their worship of the one God within the narrowness of man-made doctrine and dogma. The Masters who sponsor this organization seek not to bind men through fear and ignorance, but to lead them through enlightenment on the true path of discipleship where each man gives answer solely to his God.
Pearls of Wisdom are letters written each week by the Ascended Masters to their disciples throughout the world, dictated to us as Messengers appointed by the Lord. They are sent “without money and without price” to all who ask for them. Those who desire systematic and graded instruction in Cosmic Law and who at the same time are willing to dedicate themselves in the service of humanity may receive the Keepers of the Flame Lessons sponsored by Saint Germain, the Knight Commander of the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity, together with the Maha Chohan, the Representative of the Holy Spirit, and the Seven Chohans of the Rays.
The Summit Lighthouse was founded to be an outer arm of the Great White Brotherhood. This spiritual order of Hierarchy is an organization of the Ascended Masters and their disciples united for the highest purposes of the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God. The word white refers not to race, but to the white light of the Christ that surrounds the saints and sages of all ages who have risen from every nation to be counted among the immortals.
Thus, The Summit Lighthouse is a fount of the living Word to which the prophet Isaiah called the people saying: “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price .” 27
On the ancient temple walls these words were inscribed: “Man, know thyself!” In order to know
himself, man must discover that which is false and that which is true, that which is synthetic and that which is real. Having done this, he can follow the Path that will lead him into all Truth.
Children of the Light, pursue this knowledge and be free! Children of the Light, awake! The day of victory is at hand! The Golden Age is nigh!
In the service of those who have climbed the highest mountain and those who are beginning the ascent, we remain
for the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood
The Royal Teton Ranch Thanksgiving Day November 27, 1986
Tell Them
Tell them,
Ancient Fires,
How the strata of the rock Cooled and formed the surface Of a verdant sphere to be.
Tell them.
Ancient Waters,
Of the coolants of the deep— Mighty cycles of perfection. Marine world now we see.
Tell them,
Mighty Atmosphere,
Of blue inspired veil,
Of lacy white cloud cover Curtained Cosmos does unveil.
Tell them of Creation That like clockwork telling time Shows the intricacy of Nature In a network so sublime.
Tell them of a seedling Filled with patterned destiny.
Tell them of a cedar tall That through sunshine was to be.
Tell them of a whisper That was heard within the soul. Tell them, Ageless Wisdom, Nature’s blessed goal.
Tell them of Reality
That plays hide and seek with men.
Tell them of a Golden Age That cometh onee again.
Tell them of the Buddha And of Christ upon the hill.
Tell them Truth. Reality That hungry souls do fill.
Tell them of electric spark That flashes 'cross the sky.
Speak of Immortality that cradles our humanity That one day none shall die.
Speak of Truth
That out the mouth of Christ did manifest.
That Pilate heard and questioned.
That now in truth is blessed.
Speak it loud and speak it long;
Tell in poetry and song
That tall upon the hills of time
An ageless wisdom now does chime—
Carillon bells from celestial towers Rung by other hands than ours,
Angel voices chiming in Raise an anthem now to win.
Tell them how that we who read Can in faith plant vital seed.
Watch them push their shoots right through Soil and rock and obstacle too—
Thrusting roots into the earth.
Seeking vital essence’ worth And reaching to the sun to claim That I AM real in God's own Name!
Tell them. then, that darkest night Waits the first dawn’s early light.
That man may see and catch the though That God in truth has to us brought An opportunity so fair An answer to a child’s own prayer.
Our Father, help us now to be Selflessly engraft’ in Thee That our nature then shall be Like a father’s heart of love:
Seeds from heaven up above Scattered here in garden fair- Sun and rain in falling there Can assist the planned delight And the victory for the right!
Tell them. Father. Ageless One.
Of Thy Nature’s Golden Sun.
Tell them of Thy Name and Spirit!
Tell them so that all may hear it!
Tell them so that none may fear it!
Tell them so that all revere it!
Tell them so that none may lose Life or gift—that all may choose Now and without fail to see That only Truth can ever be Clad with Immortality.
In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets.
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said. Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Revelation
Chapter One
Your Synthetic Image
