For an alphabetical listing of many of the philosophical and hierarchical terms used in Climb the Highest Mountain, see the comprehensive glossary, “The Alchemy of the Word: Stones for the Wise Masterbuilders,” in Saint Germain On Alchemy.
Authors’ Message
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Character,” in Essays, 2d ser., vol. 3, cent. ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., Riverside Press, 1903), p. 95.
2. Lecomte du Noiiy, Human Destiny (New York and Toronto: New American Library; London: New English Library, 1947), p. 128.
3. Job 38:2.
4. Mic. 4:4.
5. Phil. 2:12.
6. Isa. 28:10.
7. I Cor. 15:51.
8. John 10:16.
9. I Cor. 2:7.
10. Rev. 5:10.
11. Gen. 1:26.
12. Exod. 3:13, 14.
13. Mark 13:31.
14. Rev. 21:6, 7.
15. Gen. 2:7.
16. II Tim. 2:15.
17. John 1:3.
18. Luke 11:52.
19. Luke 11:54.
20. Rev. 3:20.
21. Matt. 25:23, 30.
22. Rev. 3:21,22.
23. Rev. 10:10.
24. Ps. 23:3.
25. Luke 18:17.
26. Luke 21:19.
27. Isa. 55:1.
Your Synthetic Image
1. Sir Edwin Arnold, trans., The Song Celestial or Bhagavad- Gita (London: Routledge & Regan Paul, 1948), p. 9.
2. Kuthumi, “‘It Does Not Matter!’” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 33), p. 142, $17.95; Understanding Yourself, quality paperback, pp. 62-63, $4.95; pocketbook, p. 76, $3.95.
3. Prov. 23:7.
4. Luke 11:52.
5. Rev. 13:8.
6. Isa. 40:1, 3.
7. Serapis Bey, 1967 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 10, no. 27; “The
568 Notes to Pages 13-44
Predication of God: Seraphic Meditations III,” in Dossier on the Ascension, quality paperback, pp. 139-40, $5.95.
8. God Meru, “The Hidden Man of the Heart," in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 37), p. 159; Understanding Yourself pp. 90-91; pocketbook, pp. 107-8.
9. Mark 5:9.
10. Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14.
11. Isa. 64:8.
12. I Cor. 15:50.
13. I Cor. 15:31.
14. God Meru, “The Ego,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 31), pp. 132-33; Understanding Yourself, pp. 46-48; pocket- book, pp. 55-57.
15. Gen. 1:26, 31.
16. Matt. 6:23.
17. Matt. 4:9.
18. I Cor. 13:12.
19. John 3:30.
20. Eph. 2:14.
21. Exod. 20:3.
22. Exod. 3:2.
23. Exod. 3:14.
24. Matt. 5:48.
Chapter Two Your Real Image
1. Jesus, “Prayer as Communication with Purpose,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 14, p. 54, $14.95; Prayer and Meditation, quality paperback, p. 29, $9.95.
2. Heb. 10:9.
3. Gen. 1:26.
4. Rev. 22:13.
5. Isa. 40:31.
6. John 10:10.
7. Luke 12:15.
8. Rom. 8:17.
9. Saint Germain, “The Sense of Permanence within the Framework of Impermanence,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 7, p. 29.
10. I Cor. 9:27.
11. God Meru, “The Ego,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 31), p. 132, $17.95; Understanding Yourself, quality paperback, p. 45, $4.95; pocketbook, p. 54, $3.95.
12. John 10:35, 36.
13. John 8:58.
14. God Meru, "The Hidden Man of the Heart,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 37), pp. 160- 61; Understanding Yourself, pp. 92 -93; pocketbook, pp. 109-10.
15. Ps. 51:5.
16. Luke 1:35.
17. John 1:14.
18. Josh. 24:15.
19. Job 22:21.
20. Exod. 6:7.
21. Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West, line 1.
22. Acts 17:24.
23. II Cor. 5:1.
24. God Meru, “The Hidden Man of the Heart,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood, pp. 161-62; Understanding Yourself, pp. 93-94; pocketbook, p. 111.
25. Matt. 23:27.
26. Rev. 3:14, 17, 18.
27. Lord Maitreya, “A Letter from Beloved Lord Maitreya,” Keepers of the Flame Lesson 13, pp. 10 - 11 .
28. James 1:27.
29. Exod. 20:3, 4.
30. Judg. 6:25-28.
31. Col. 3:9, 10.
32. Luke 1:46.
33. Eccles. 11:1.
34. I John 3:3.
35. Isa. 28:10.
36. I Cor. 15:50.
37. Gen. 3:21.
38. I Cor. 3:6.
39. Luke 19:40.
40. Matt. 5:48.
41. Heb. 11:1.
42. Saint Germain, “The Law of Transfer of Energy,” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 26; Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, pp. 9-10, $3.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocketbook, pp. 3-4, $5.95.
43. Matt. 28:20.
44. Matt. 28:18.
45. John 14:12.
46. John 18:37.
Chapter Three A Heap of Confusion
1. Dan. 5:27.
2. Saint Germain, “A Summoning to Cosmic Purpose, ” in Masters of the Far East (1971 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, no. 18), pp. 73-74, $14.95.
3. Gen. 1:26-30.
4. Isa. 66:1.
5. Saint Germain, “A Summoning to Cosmic Purpose, ” in Masters of the Far East, p. 71.
6. Prov. 29:18.
7. Saint Germain, “A Summoning to Cosmic Purpose, ” in Masters of the Far East, p. 69.
8. Lanto, “Identification with the Real Self," in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 29), p. 126, $17.95; Understanding Yourself, quality paperback, pp. 34-35, $4.95; pocketbook, p. 42, $3.95.
9. Rev. 21:2.
10. Matt. 5:48.
11. Seepp. 84-93, 493-95.
12. Matt. 18:3.
13. Rev. 21:23.
14. John 14:2.
15. Heb. 9:23.
16. Jer. 31:33.
17. I Cor. 11:3.
18. Eph. 2:20.
19. John 5:17.
20. See Studies in Alchemy in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 5, nos. 26-34; quality paperback, $3.95. Intermediate Studies in Alchemy in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, nos. 6-17, pp. 23- 81, $14.95; quality paperback, $4.95. Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocketbook, pp. 1-99, 153-251, $5.95.
21. I Cor. 2:9.
22. Matt. 28:18.
23. Gen. 3:24.
24. Gen. 3:22.
25. I Cor. 15:47-50.
26. Matt. 5:13.
27. Saint Germain, “Nature Yields to the Childlike Mind,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 15, pp. 69-71; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, pp. 71-74; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 231-35.
28. Gen. 3:11.
29. Rev. 12:7-9.
30. The Great Divine Director, “The Mechanization Concept,” in 1965 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 8, nos. 3-26, pp. 9-142, $16.95; The Soulless One, pocketbook, $1.95.
31. God Meru, “The Ego,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 31), p. 132; Understanding Yourself, pp. 45-46; pocket- book, pp. 54-55.
32. I Sam. 15:23.
33. Gen. 2:17; Saint Germain, “Nature Yields to the Childlike
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Mind,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, p. 68; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, p. 70; Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 229.
34. Prov. 14:12.
35. I Cor. 15:56.
36. Paul the Venetian, “In Christ ‘without Blemish and without Spot,'” in Masters of the Far East (1971 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, no. 17), p. 66.
37. Gen. 3:4.
38. Gen. 38:9.
39. II Cor. 4:9.
40. Exod. 20:5.
41. Saint Germain, "Nature Yields to the Childlike Mind." in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, p. 68; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, p. 70; Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 229.
42. Luke 16:8.
43. Matt. 7:20.
44. Eph. 6:12.
45. Dan. 7:9.
46. Gen. 11:1-9.
47. Gen. 1:26.
48. The “sons of Belial” are mentioned a number of times in the Old Testament: Deut. 13:13; Judg. 19:22,20:13;! Sam. 2:12, 10:27, 25:17; II Sam. 23:6; I Kings 21:10. 13;IIChron. 13:7. See "Concealed References to the Watchers (and Nephilim) in Scripture,” in Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: The Untold Story of Men and Angels, containing all the Enoch texts, including the Book of Enoch and the Book of the, Secrets of Enoch, quality paperback, pp. 263-303. $12.95.
49. Matt. 13:24-30, 36-40.
50. Cha Ara, "Sons of Belial: The Problem of Embodied Evil,” in Masters of the Far East (1971
Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, no. 5), pp. 17-18. 19-20.
51. Matt. 10:34.
52. Cha Ara, “Sons of Belial: The Problem of Embodied Evil,” in Masters of the Far East. pp. 18- 19.
53. Saint Germain, “Nature Yields to the Childlike Mind," in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, p. 68; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, pp. 69-70; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 228-29.
54. Zech.’13:7; Matt. 26:31.
55. Josh. 24:15.
56. Saint Germain, “A Summoning to Cosmic Purpose,” in Masters of the Far East, pp. 69-70.
57. I Pet. 1:19.
58. Rev. 3:12.
59. Matt. 26:52.
60. Luke 16:1-12.
61. Gal. 6:7.
62. Paul the Venetian. “In Christ ‘without Blemish and without Spot,’” in Masters of the Far East, pp. 65-67.
63. Luke 21:19.
64. Eph. 6:10, 11.
65. Paul the Venetian, “In Christ ‘without Blemish and without Spot,”’ in Masters of the Far East, pp. 67, 68.
66. Jer. 23: 23, 24.
67. El Morya, “Individual Responsibility,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 31, p. 139.
68. Saint Germain, "Spiritual Alliance,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom. vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 32-33; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, pp. 21-22; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 171, 172-73.
69. Saint Germain, “What Alchemy Can Mean to a Decaying World,” in 1970 Pearls of Wis-
dom, vol. 13, no. 13, p. 57; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, p. 58; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 214-15.
70. Rom. 3:8.
71. Mother Mary, "True Religion." in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 18, p. 84.
72. 1 Cor. 9:22.
73. I John 1:5.
74. Alexander Gaylord, ‘‘The Golden Rule Standard," in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 26, pp. 118-21.
75. Luke 23:12.
76. Luke 22:66.
77. I John 4:4.
78. Isa. 40:31.
79. Gen. 32:24.
80. Heb. 13:8.
81. Jude 13.
82. I Pet. 1:20.
83. John 8:58.
84. El Morya, “Universities of the Spirit,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 19, pp. 86-89.
Chapter Four
What Is Individuality?
1. John 11:25, 26.
2. Saint Germain, "Knowledge of that Power Which Will Transmute," in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 27, p. 125, $14.95.
3. Rev. 2:17.
4. John 5:17.
5. Saint Germain, “The Highest Alchemy,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 16. p. 74; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, pp. 76-77, $4.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocketbook, p. 238, $5.95.'
6. El Morya, “The Human Will," in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969
Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12. no. 13), p. 57. $17.95; The Sacred Adventure, clothbound, pocket edition, p. 97, $7.95.
7. Ibid.
8. Gen. 2:17.
9. Gen. 1:26-28.
10. Gen. 2:7.
11. I Tim. 2:5.
12. Gal. 4:19.
13. Phil. 2:5.
14. Jer. 17:9.
15. Jer. 17:5.
16. Hab. 1:13.
17. Rev. 2:7.
18. Matt. 3:17.
19. Mark 16:19.
20. John 10:30.
21. Gen. 3:24.
22. Saint Germain, "The Knight Commander’s Message," Keepers of the Flame Lesson 1, p. 11.
23. Matt. 10:39.
24. II Cor. 7:15.
25. Heb. 9:23.
26. Matt. 25:23.
27. Luke 15:7.
28. II Kings 2:1-15.
29. Luke 9:42, 43.
30. I Cor. 6:19, 20.
31. Matt. 10:33.
32. Serapis Bey, "The New Order of the Ages Begins,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 14, $14.95.
33. Jesus Christ, "Prayer as Communication with Purpose,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 14, p. 54; Prayer and Meditation, quality paperback, p. 29, $9.95.
34. Matt. 11:28-30.
35. Matt. 27:32.
36. Luke 23:42, 43.
37. Ps. 46:10.
38. Gen. 2:5, 6.
39. Mark 4:39.
40. Matt. 13:33.
41. 1 Cor. 5:6.
42. John 11:43.
43. Saint Germain, “The Law of Transfer of Energy,” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 26; Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, p. 9, $3.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocket- book, p. 3, $5.95.
44. Ibid., Studies in Alchemy, pp. 9-10; Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 4.
45. Mark 15:38.
46. Exod. 20:7.
47. Matt. 6:34.
48. Matt. 24:22.
49. Eph. 4:22, 24.
50. Mark 10:31.
51. Ps. 14:1.
52. I Pet. 4:5.
53. Rom. 7:23.
54. Rom. 3:23.
55. Matt. 13:12.
56. Job 14:15.
57. See “ Watch With Me” Jesus’ Vigil of the Hours, released by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, worldwide service of prayers, affirmations and hymns, 44- page booklet, p. 36, $2.00; on audiocassette B87096, $6.50.
58. Matt. 13:35.
59. Gen. 22:1-18.
60. Gen. 22:17.
61. Saint Germain, “The Highest Alchemy,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, p. 73; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, p. 76; Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 237.
62. Decree 40.00, in Prayers, Meditations, and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness, Section I, $2.95.
63. Gen. 2:18.
64. Rom. 8:7.
65. Gen. 25:29-34.
66. Matt. 6:24.
67. Serapis Bey, 1967 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 10, no. 19; "The Divine Right of Every Man,” in Dossier on the Ascension, quality paperback, pp. 58-59, 60, $5.95.
68. The Great Divine Director, “The Mainstream of Consciousness,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 46, p. 194.
69. Matt. 28:18.
70. I Cor. 15:26.
71. James 1:1; 2:14-24.
72. Eph. 2:8.
73. Eph. 2:10.
74. Eph. 4:11.
75. Matt. 22:37.
76. Heb. 2:3.
77. Matt. 5:44.
78. Luke 23:34.
79. John F. Kennedy, “‘My Fellow Americans. .. ’ Posthumous letter of President John F. Kennedy.”
80. II Cor. 12:2.
81. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, 5th ed. (Boston: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, 1906), pp. 264-65.
82. Acts 17:22, 23.
83. Mary Baker Eddy, Poems Including Christ and Christmas, 2d ed. (Boston: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, 1897), p. 39.
84. God Meru, “The Making of Man,” Keepers of the Flame Lesson 16, p. 24.
85. John 14:12.
86. Luke 21:19.
87. II Pet. 3:8.
88. Rose of Light, “The Bonds of Love Can Never Be Broken,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 29, p. 118.
Chapter 5
What Is Consciousness?
1. Serapis Bey, 1967 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 10, no. 15; “The Triangle within the Circle,” in Dossier on the Ascension, quality paperback, p. 26, $5.95.
2. John 6:68.
3. Prov. 2:6.
4. Saint Augustine, Confessions of Saint Augustine, trans. Edward B. Pusey (New York: Random House, 1949), pp. 166-67.
5. Ibid., pp. 169-70.
6. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, s.v. “consciousness.”
7. Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, trans. R. B. Haldane and John Kemp, vol. 2, 2d ed. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1891), p. 328.
8. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951), p. 236.
9. Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, ed. Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel and John Veitch, vol. 1, Metaphysics (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1863), p. 132.
10. Lanto, “Identification with the Real Self,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 29), p. 123, $17.95; Understanding Yourself, quality paperback, p. 30, $4.95; pocket- book, p. 37, $3.95.
11. Gen. 1:3.
12. Jesus, "The Light of Prayer," in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 13, p. 50, $14.95; Prayer and Meditation, quality paper¬
back, p. 23, $9.95.
13. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (London: Macmillan & Co., 1933), pp. 67-91.
14. Durant, The Story of Philosophy, p. 26.
15. Phil. 2:5.
16. Rev. 1:18.
17. Lanto, “Identification with the Real Self,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood, p. 123; Understanding Yourself, p. 30; pocketbook, pp. 37-38.
18. Matt. 6:28, 29.
19. Luke 12:22, 23; Matt. 6:26; Luke 12:25, 26.
20. Matt. 6:33.
21. “Watch With Me" Jesus' Vigil of the Hours, 44-page booklet, pp. 16-18, $2.00; decree 60.02 in Prayers, Meditations, and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness, Section II, $2.95.
22. Matt. 6:24.
23. Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, pp. 333-34.
24. Matt. 6:22.
25. El Morya, “The Ownership of God’s Will,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 11), p. 47; The Sacred Adventure, clothbound, pocket edition, pp. 57, 58, $7.95.
26. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, trans. Arthur Mitchell (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1911), pp. 179, 262.
27. Ibid., p. 264.
28. Ibid., p. 270.
29. I Cor. 14:32.
30. Henri Bergson, Mind-Energy, trans. H. Wildon Carr (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), pp. 10-11.
31. Luke 19:37, 39, 40.
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32. Mark 8:35.
33. Jesus, “Unbroken Communion,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 10, p. 40; Prayer and Meditation, p. 5.
34. Ps. 82:6; John 10:33-36.
35. Ps. 46:10.
36. Matt. 19:26.
37. Saint Germain, "Commanding Consciousness,” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 33; Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, pp. 64-65, $3.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocket- book, pp. 69-71, $5.95.
38. John 10:4.
39. Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Lewis W. Beck (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1959), p. 80.
40. Saint Germain, “‘Create!’ and the Cloud,” in 1970 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 46- 48, $14.95; Intermediate Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, pp. 40—44, $4.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 194-99.
41. Serapis Bey, 1967 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 10, no. 27; “The Predication of God: Seraphic Meditations III,” in Dossier on the Ascension, pp. 137-39.
42. Matt. 6:2, 5, 16.
43. El Morya, “The Ownership of God’s Will,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood, p. 48; The Sacred Adventure, pp. 59-61.
44. Matt. 9:17.
45. Oxford Universal Dictionary, 3d ed., s.v. “ritual.”
46. El Morya, “The Human Will,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 13), p. 58; The Sacred Adventure, pp. 98-99.
47. God Meru, “The Ego,” in
Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 31), pp. 131-32, 134; Understanding Yourself, pp. 44-45, 48; pocketbook, pp. 53-54, 58.
48. Matt. 6:23.
49. Ps. 121:4.
50. El Morya, “A Sacred Adventure,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood (1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 14), pp. 60-62; The Sacred Adventure, pp. 109-14.
51. World Mother. The Spirit of God is both Father and Mother, an androgynous fiery ovoid of Power, Wisdom, and Love. Mankind have readily identified that Spirit as Father, but seldom do they pray to the Divine Mother as the counterpart of the Divine Father. This prayer to the World Mother (the Being who holds the office and responsibility of the Divine Mother for a planetary home) is given to enhance your appreciation of the Feminine aspect of the Deity and the nearness of her flame through the hierarchical offices of the Great White Brotherhood.
Chapter 6 God in Man
1. Acts 17:28.
2. Matt. 6:22.
3. Light. Although we have explained that Light is capitalized when it means the Christ consciousness as the personal Presence of the Lord, the First Cause behind the effect we perceive as physical or spiritual light, in some cases this is a moot point since the consciousness of God cannot be separated
from his light or energy. Carrying this theological concept to its logical and ultimate conclusion, light should be capitalized in every instance; this we refrain from doing, elevating only those L's for which a member of the Trinity or the Divine Mother as the Person of God may be directly substituted.
4. John 1:5.
5. Jer. 31:33, 34.
6. John 1:14.
7. I Cor. 11:24.
8. John 1:14.
9. Acts 10:34.
10. I Cor. 3:16.
11. Matt. 25:40.
12. Col. 2:9.
13. Heb. 7:25.
14. Matt. 18:12.
15. Matt. 15:14.
16. Kuthumi, “The Perfecting of the Aura, ” in Masters of the Far East (1971 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, no. 21), pp. 84, 85, $14.95; The Human Aura, pocketbook, pp. 3, 5, $4.95.
17. Gen. 3:21.
18. Deut. 6:4.
19. I Cor. 15:41.
20. Matt. 2:2.
21. John 10:1.
22. Kuthumi, “The Intensification of the Aura,” in Masters of the Far East (1971 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, no. 25), p. 100; The Human Aura, p. 29.
23. Matt. 27:50.
24. Eccles. 12:1-7. Editorial commentary on Ecclesiastes: Note the editorial comment (Eccles. 12:8-14) that follows this profound yet veiled teaching. The editor appears to praise Ecclesiastes, but in fact his remarks are highly questionable in their
intent. Verses 8 through 11 seem calculated to put the reader off guard before he reads the word of stultifying caution in verse 12: "And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Edwin T. Ryder states in Peakes Commentary on the Bible (Matthew Black and H. H. Row- ley, eds. [Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: Nelson. 1962, p. 467]) that this verse “generally may be taken as a corrective against Koheleth's [the Hebrew word for Ecclesiastes] heterodoxy or as a caution regarding the voluminous non-Israelite literature such as was available in the great library of Alexandria.” In The Interpreter's Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1956), vol. 5, p. 88, O. S. Rankin comments that "the first epilogue [Eccles. 12:8-11] may have been written several generations before the time of the writer of the second epilogue [12:12-14]. . . .The writer [of the second epilogue] has in mind Koheleth as a student and thinker, whose views require some corrective emphasis.”
Those who would tamper with the word of God are not so foolish as to counter it directly; rather they suggest in a roundabout way that the reader take the teachings “with a grain of salt.” Verses 13 and 14 are an attempt to convince the seeker that a simple religious faith is all that is needed and that an understanding of the deeper mysteries is not required. “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter,” he says. "Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” This, of course, is true; but it is only a part of the truth. For in order to maintain the necessary respect (fear) of the Lord and to keep his commandments, man must have a scientific understanding of the Law —the very teachings which Ecclesiastes set forth in the twelve chapters of his writings contained in the Bible and in other documents written by this holy one of God which have not been preserved but are available for study to initiates who frequent Jesus’ retreat in Arabia. Flere the Lord has guarded a vast library of the teachings of the Cosmic Christ set forth by world teachers and some treatises not published since earth’s early golden ages.
Verse 14 says that “God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Without question the Lord shall bring man’s works to judgment. “The fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is” (I Cor. 3:13). But if man’s works are to be found acceptable unto God, he must know and practice His laws and be willing to study to show himself approved (II Tim. 2:15). His must not be the attitude that “much study is a weariness of the flesh,” but one of joy and enthusiasm in the pursuit of the science of the sacred Word.
Paul’s commentary on those who close their ears to the true
message of the Divine Mediator and on the dogmatic interpretations of the religious leaders of his time was "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (I Cor. 2:14).
25. Eccles. 1:2; 12:8.
26. Saint Germain, 1967 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 10, no. 7; “A Valentine from Saint Germain,” in Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocketbook. pp. 350-52, $5.95.
27. Luke 17:21.
28. Prov. 16:32.
29. Luke 21:19.
30. Lord Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton. 5 April 1887. quoted in John Bartlett, comp., and Emily Morison Beck, ed.. Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, 14th ed., rev. and enl. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1968), p. 750.
31. II Pet. 1:19.
32. Gen. 1:16.
33. Col. 3:11; I Cor. 15:28; Gen. 1:26, 27.
34. Decree book. See Prayers, Meditations, and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness, a handbook of daily invocations to the sacred fire you can use to command the flow of God's power, wisdom and love through your heart for the alchemy of positive change, to balance and expand your threefold flame, transmute the records of past lives that are often
the cause of current physical and emotional burdens, free yourself from unwanted habits, and direct God's healing light into the cause and core of community, national, and world problems. Sections I, II, and III, $2.95 each. See also Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Science of the Spoken Word, quality paperback, $7.95; The Science of the Spoken Word: Why and How to Decree Effectively, 4-cassette album, A7736, $26.00.
35. Matt. 10:36.
36. Matt. 13:24-30, 36-43.
37. Luke 6:39.
38. John 15:13.
39. Rev. 3:16.
40. Luke 23:34.
41. Ps. 61:2.
42. I John 4:20.
43. I John 4:21.
44. II Cor. 5:6.
45. I John 4:18.
46. John 21:6.
47. I John 5:7.
48. John 3:16.
49. I John 4:7.
50. Gen. 2:18.
51. Gen. 22:17.
52. I Cor. 12:4-11.
53. John 13:34, 35.
54. John 15:13, 14.
55. Luke 23:34.
56. John 8:32.
57. Matt. 9:27-31.
58. Mark 5:25-34; Luke 8:43^48.
59. Heb. 12:6.
60. Rev. 21:2, 9-27.
61. Saint Germain, “A Trilogy on the Threefold Flame of Life," in Saint Germain On Alchemv, pp. 267-69, 270-84, 302-3,304- 5,308-9,311-12,315,321-26, 328-29, 335-38,339-45.
62. Ps. 1:2; Josh. 1:8.
63. Rom. 8:17.
64. Matt. 7:3.
65. Kuthumi, “The Colorations of the Aura," and "The Strengthening of the Aura,” in Masters of the Far East (1971 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, nos. 23, 26), pp. 91-92, 93-94, 103-4; The Human Aura, pp. 15-17, 18-19, 33-34.
66. Matt. 6:19, 20.
67. John 14:2.
68. Matt. 25:14-30.
69. I Cor. 15:47.
70. I Cor. 15:41,42.
71. II Tim. 2:15.
72. Phil. 4:7.
73. Will Rogers, Address at Tre- mont Temple, Boston, June 1930.
74. William Shakespeare. Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1, line 67.
75. Matt. 5:12.
76. Gen. 4:9.
77. Matt. 5:41.
78. Matt. 18:22.
79. Matt. 5:44.
80. See motto of Father Flanagans Boys’ Home, “He ain't heavy. Father. . .He’s nTbrother," Boys Town. Nebraska.
81. Luke 2:14.
82. Heb. 10:9.
83. I Cor. 15:40.
84. The Great Divine Director, “The Causal Body of Man,” Keepers of the Flame Lesson 12, pp. 15, 16.
85. Ps. 103:15, 16.
86. Rev. 3:12.
87. See pp. 8-9.
88. Ps. 91:4.
89. Zech. 2:13.
90. Zech. 2:5.
91. Gen. 18:14.
92. Jesus, December 25, 1970,
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93. Luke 4:28-31.
94. Eph. 6:16.
95. Eph. 6:10-13.
96. Eph. 6:14-18.
97. Exod. 13:21, 22.
98. Ps. 91:1.
99. Isa. 45:5.
100. Isa. 45:11.
101. Gen. 1:26.
102. Acts 7:49.
103. Matt. 6:10.
104. Matt. 7:7,8.
105. Mai. 3:10.
106. I John 2:1.
107. James 1:17.
108. Gen. 4:3-5, 22:1-14; Exod. 12:3-14.
109. I Sam. 15:22.
110. John 6:53.
111. I Cor. 11:24.
112. Ps. 19:14.
113. Eccles. 7:29.
114. Gen. 11:1-9.
115. Ps. 1:1.
116. Matt. 4:9.
117. Eph. 2:14.
118. Josh. 6:4.
119. Ps. 23:4.
120. Ps. 23:6.
121. Ps. 91.
122. Job 14:15; Acts 2:1-21; Rom. 10:13; Isa. 65:24.
123. John 17:11; “ Watch With Me" Jesus’ Vigil of the Hours, 44- page booklet, p. 19, $2.00.
124. Matt. 6:6.
125. Exod. 20:4.
126. See p. 14.
127. Serapis Bey, 1967 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 10, no. 22; Dossier on the Ascension, quality paperback, pp. 87-88, $5.95.
128. Heb. 12:29.
129. Matt. 13:29.
130. Lanto, “The Essence of the Higher Consciousness,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood <1969 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 12, no. 26), pp. 109-10, 111-12, $17.95; Understanding Yourself, quality paperback, pp. 8- 9, 11-12. $4.95; pocketbook. pp. 11-12, 14-15, $3.95.
131.1 Cor. 15:42-45. Lanto, “The Essence of the Higher Consciousness,” in Kuthumi On Selfhood, p. 112; Understanding Yourself, pp. 12-13; pocketbook, pp. 15-17.
132. Gen. 3:17.
133. Prov. 14:12.
134. John 16:24.
135. Job 22:28.
136. The Great Divine Director, “Error,” in The Mechanization Concept (1965 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 8, no. 1), pp. 29- 30, $16.95.
137. Saint Germain, “Methods of Transfer.” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 32; Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, p. 47, $3.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 49.
138. Acts 2:1-4.
139. Ezek. 20:47.
140. II Kings 2:11-14.
141. Exod. 3:2.
142. Matt. 3:11.
143. Luke 12:49.
144. Heb. 1:7.
145. I Cor. 3:13.
146. Ezek. 1:4.
147. Mai. 3:2.
148. Rev. 1:14.
149. G. R. S. Mead, Echoes from the Gnosis, vol. 6, A Mithraic Ritual (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1807), p. 25.
150. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act 4, sc. 1, lines 183-86.
151. Kuthumi, “The Strengthening of the Aura," in Masters of the Far East, p. 105; The Human Aura, p. 36.
152. John 13:15.
153. John 13:1-20.
154. I John 4:2.
155. Mark 10:43, 44.
156. Matt. 11:12.
157. John 12:44, 45.
158. John’s Gospel gives the supper in the house of Simon the leper before Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, whereas Mark’s Gospel places it afterwards.
159. John 12:1-8.
160. I John 4:3; Job 19:26.
161. Isa. 52:7.
162. John 12:13.
163. Mark 14:3-9.
164. John 12:32.
165. Sixth Ray ministration of our Lord. It is the purple- and-gold flame of ministration and service that Jesus applied in this ritual of the washing of the disciples’ feet —the purple symbolizing the consecration of the body, or the Matter aspect of man, and the gold symbolizing the consecration of the blood, or the Spirit aspect. The purple ray intensifies the action of the blue, the power or Father consciousness in the material form, whereas the gold is the adornment of the Divine Theosophia, the wisdom of the Motherhood of God.
166. John 14:6.
Chapter 7 God in Nature
1. Saint Germain, “The Crucible of Being.” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 5, no. 34;
Studies in Alchemy, quality paperback, p. 88, $3.95; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pocket- book, p. 99, $5.95.
2. Luke 17:20, 21.
3. I Cor. 3:16.
4. John Godfrey Saxe, “The Blind Men and the Elephant.”
5. Saint Germain, “The Crucible of Being,” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom; Studies in Alchemy, p. 67; Saint Germain On Alchemy, p. 73.
6. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, s.v. “pantheism.”
7. Standard College Dictionary, 1963 ed., s.v. “pantheism.”
8. Oxyrhynchus Logia (Agrapha), Fifth Logion. in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, ed. Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett, 11th ed. rev. and enl. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1938), p. 1126.
9. The Maha Chohan. 1964 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 7, no. 48.
10. Gen. 1:26, 27.
11. I John 5:7, 8.
12. John 14:16, 17.
13. I Cor. 13:12.
14. Matt. 6:23.
15. Pallas Athena, “ Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock,’ ” i n Masters of the Far East (1971 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 14, no. 44), pp. 178-79, $14.95.
16. Gen. 2:6.
17. Isa. 1:18.
18. II Cor. 6:16.
19. Sanat Kumara, “The Space Within,” in 1968 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 11, no. 25, p. 99, $14.95.
20. Matt. 17:20.
21. Sanat Kumara, “The Space Within,” in 1968 Pearls of
5H0 Sole% to Have'. V/6 444
WtuH/m. pp. 100-101.
22. Luke 1:52.
23. John 1:14.
24. Mwier Mar). ~A Letter frorr. Mother Mar)," Keepers erf the Flame Lesvm 16. pp. 9. 11.
25. S<jr>i 7 • e Arr.at A Repository of God's Good." :n 1970 Hearts of Wisdom, .erf. 13. no. 32. p. 141. $14.95.
26. Marie 10:15.
27. John 5:17; Sursa. TheArha: — A Repo : tor. of GoC . Good in 1970 Hearl% of Wttdom. pp. 141-43.
28. Helios. 1 AM In anc Ber.ind me Sar. in I 970 Hearts of MVi-
verf. 13, no. 29. p. 131; decree 20.20 in Hra.er 'Aedi- tations, arid Dynamic Decrees for the Comm? He .olulion in Higher Consciousness, Section 1. $2.95.
29. Pros. 6:6.
30. Job 9:7-8; Helios. “I AM In and Behind the Sun." in 1970 Hear Is of Wisdom, p. 130.
31. Luke 2:14.
32. Hab. 2:20.
33. Res. 11:15.
34. I John 3:2.
35. I Cor. 11:24.
36. Helios. "A Decade of initiation for the Earth." in 1970 Hearts of Wisdom, sol. 13, no. 2. pp. 6-9.
37. Helios. October 12, 1970. “The Meaning of Life: Advice to a Planet." audiocassette BS5068. $6.50, on On/, Mark 9, 4-cav sette album. A8506S. $26.00.
38. Matt. 26:27.
39. John 14:26.
40. John 14:17.
41. Dan. 2:22.
42. Acts 2:1. 2.
43. John 3:5-7.
44. John 10:30.
45. John 3:8.
46. Luke 21:19.
47. Acts 9:5.
48. Titus 3:5.
49. John 17:22.
50. Matt. 10:34.
51. Matt. 18:11.
52. Ps. 69:9.
53. Matt. 6:9.
54. Isa. 61:1,
55. John 5:35.
56. John 3:19.
57. Man. 7:15.
58. John 14:6.
59. John 8:32.
60. Matt. 24:24.
61. Man. 7:7.
62. I Cor. 15:52.
63. Mark 15:38.
64. Matt. 28:6.
65. Matt. 9:12.
66. John 8:12.
67. Rom. 12:2.
68. Mark 13:14.
69. Matt. 3:17.
70. Mark 8:36.
71. John 21:15.
72. Isa. 40:3.
73. Matt. 19:26.
74. Heb. 12:6.
75. Luke 18:18.
76. Matt. 25:30.
77. Jer. 6:14.
78. Matt. 5:26.
79. Gen. 32:26.
80. Gen. 4:9.
81. Exod. 3:5.
82. John 14:27.
83. Matt. 23:24.
84. Matt. 17:21.
85. Matt. 11:30.
86. Matt. 17:4.
87. Amaryllis, "The .Mystery of the Cosmic Circle of Life." in Kuihumi On Selfhood V1969 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 12. no. 19). p. 83. $17.95.
88. Mark 4:39.
89. Ps. 46:10.
90. Ps. 8:5.
91. Heb. 10:9.
92. Ps. 24:1.
93. Matt. 6:28.
94. Hose of Light. 1963 Hearts of Wisdom , vol. 6. no. 13.
95. John 15:5.
96. John 8:31.
97. Rev. 22:2.
98. Exod. 3:2.
99. Gen. 3:16-18.
100. Dan. 4:35.
101. Gen. 2:7.
102. John 14:18.
103. Matt. 5:4.
104. EI.Morya. 1964 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 7, no. 15.
105. Archangel Michael. “The Nature of Faith/' in 1968 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 11. no. 47, p. 198.
106. IThess. 5:3.
107. El Morya. A White Haper from the Darjeeling Council Table,
p. 2, SI .00.
108. Matt. 12:37.
109. Gen. 2:2.
110. Gen. 1:31.
111. The Maha Chohan, 1966 Hearts rjf Wisdom, vol. 9, no. 36.
112. Ibid.
113. Isa. 30.20.
114. Gal. 6:7.
115. God 'labor. " The Earth Is the Lord's, and the Fulness Thereof,’" in Masters of the Far Fast (1971 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 14. no. 15j, pp. 59-60.
116. II Pet. 3:5-7.
117. Ezra 9:13.
118. Saint Germain. “Avert Disaster. Cataclysm, and Prediction by Rjght Action. Dynamic Decrees, and Change in Thinking, in The Mechani¬
zation Concept 11965 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 8, no. 40), p. 185. $16.95.
119. Jon. 3:10.
120. Saint Germain, “Avert Disaster, Cataclysm, and Prediction by Right Action, Dynamic Decrees, and Change in Thinking.” in The Mechanization Concept, p. 186.
121. El Morya. Encyclical on World Good Will,'p p. 17-19, $1.50.
122. Matt. 7:22, 23.
123. Luke 21:25. 26.
124. Saint Germain, “Avert Disaster, Cataclysm, and Prediction by Right Action, Dynamic Decrees, and Change in Thinking," in The Mechanization Concept, pp. 186. 188.
125. Hab. 3:11.
126. Matt. 12:31, 32.
127. Saint Germain, "Avert Disaster. Cataclysm, and Prediction by Right Action. Dynamic Decrees, and Change in Thinking,” in The Mechanization Concept, p. 186.
128. El Morya. 1964 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 7, no. 15.
129. Mighty Victory, “The Passion for Victory,” in 1968 Hearts of Wisdom, vol. 11. no. 33. p. 139.
130. Gen. 2:23.
131. Gen. 2:18.
132. Gen. 2:21.22.
133. Gen. 2:23.
134. Gen. 3:21.
135. Gen. 2:24.
136. Matt. 19:6.
137. John 1:3.
138. Gen. 3:20.
139. Acts 2:3.
140. Lemuria. According to the findings of James Churchward, archaeologist and author of The
5H2 Notes to /'ages 494 496
Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland extended from north of Hawaii three thousand miles south to Easter Island and the Fijis and was made up of three areas of land stretching more than five thousand miles from east to west. He estimates that Mu was destroyed approximately twelve thousand years ago by the collapse of the gas chambers which upheld the continent (The Lost Continent of Mu |New York: Ives Washburn, 1931], pp. 252, 282-83). We are not at liberty to release the exact dates of the sinking of Mu and Atlantis.
141. Rev. 17:1.
142. Rev. 12:1.
143. James 1:27.
144. The sinking of Atlantis, the largest colony of Mu (according to Churchward, Atlantis sank 11,600 years ago [The Lost Continent of Mu (New York: Ives Washburn, 1931), p. 264)), ensued as the result of the total perversion of both the masculine and feminine uses of the sacred fire in the latter days of her civilization. In the Fertile Crescent, where the dawn of a new civilization once again reappears, we find the culture of the Divine Mother appearing in many forms. It also appears throughout Egypt and Asia Minor, and later in Greece and Rome. Remrtants of the antediluvian culture are seen in the worship of the Moon Goddess, known by various names throughout the cultures of both East and West. Her
various titles merged into maia, mayo, and Maria all deriva lives of mother. The Hindu con cept of maya is the personihca lion of illusion the inaccessible or the unreachable. And truly the mother form had become almost a chimera of unreality with the veiling of Matter and the pollution of the astral plane that reduced the moon to a reflector of the world of illusion that had been superimposed upon the Mother Image.
The symbol of the veiled goddess depicts the dark period of history when the Mother could no longer be identified through the veil of maya. The role of the moon as the reflector of both the fire of the sun and the water element of the earth makes it the eminently feminine symbol of creation shining in the night, or the passive plane of consciousness, Thus, to the ancients the sun was the symbol of Father and the active spirit of the day, and the moon was the symbol of Mother and the passive manifestation of the night. Very few of the world’s cultures are without the traditional symbol of the Mother, a being half human and half divine who brings forth the immaculately born Son sent forth from the Father to give Life as an avatar of the people.
Surrounding Mother and Son is the unseen but very present essence of the Father Spirit, the all-pervading Presence whose purposes are fulfilled in Matter through the
Mother Image. I he goddesses of these ancient cultures came to be called the Mother of God, for through them man kind perceive the incarnation of the divine archetype. Arid therefore the title Queen of the World, Virgin Mother, and the Celestial Light were in use- long before their culmination in the figure of Mary the Mother of Jesus.
145. Adolph Lrrnan. A Handbook of Egyptian Kehgion , trans A. S. Griffith (London: Archi bald Constable & Co,, 1907), pp. 244 45.
146. Manly P. Hall. The Secret Teachings oj All Ayes, 11 th ed (Los Angeles: Philosophical Research Society, 1957), p. XLV.
147. Rev. 13:8.
148. Rev. 12:15-17.
149. Encyclopaedia Hritunnica, 1954, s.v. "Hypatia”; H. P. Biavatsky, hr, Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ant tent and Modern Science and Theology, vol. 2, Theology (Pasadena: I heosophical University Press. I960), pp. 53, 252- 53; Hall, Secret Teachings ttj All Ages, pp,
( XCVII CXCVIII.
150. Henry Wadsworth I.ongfcllow.
Santa l ilonieria Jari/a 10,
151. Prov. 4:6 9, 3:18.
152. Matt. 28:18.
153. 1 Tim. 4:2,
154. The Maha Chohan, "Cleave Only to the Real,” in 1970 Eeurls of Wisdom, vol, 13, no, 33, pp. 144-45.
155. Isa. 40:31,
156. Matt. 24:23-26.
157. I Cor. 11:29.
158 Henri l.stienne, l.es Premiers (1594), in Hart ten's Toni i liar Quotations, ed. L.mily Mor non Beck, 14th ed. rev. and cnl, (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1968), p. IKK.
159. Gal. 5:1.
160. Luke 19:10.
161. I! Cor. 5:17.
162. James 5:16
163 The Maha Chohan, 1966 Hear Is of Wisdom, vol 9, nos. 27, 28.
164. John 10:16.
165. John 14:2.
166 Hilarion. 1961 Pearls oj Wis dorn, vol. 4, no. 9.
167. Acts 17:26.
168. Matt. 11:12.
169. Ps, 139:14.
170. Dan. 7:9, 22.
171. Sana! Kumara, "The Space Within," in 1968 Pearls oj Wisdom, pp. 99, 101 2.
172 Albert Schweitzer, personal conversation with Lather Charles Carrol I, January 1961. Lambar6n6, Gabon.
173. lather Paschal Robinson, trans., The Writings of Saint E ranc is oj Assist (London: J. M. Dent & Co,, 1906), pp. 152-53.
174. Webster's Seventh New Co He giate Dictionary, s.v. "ecol ogy."
175. Gen. 1:26.
176. Matt. 10:30.
177. John 14:2.
178. Gen. 1:28.
179. I Pet. 1:19.
180. I Cor. 15:3,
181. John 16:33.
182. John 20:17,
183. John 17:4,
184. I John 4:2. 3.
185. John 6:63.
186. Dan. 5:25-27.
187. Gen. 6:3.
188. Matt. 10:33.
189. Matt. 5:5.
190. Deut. 10:17.
191. Goddess of Liberty, Liberty Proclaims, pp. 34-35.
192. Rocky Mountain News, 12 March 1972.
193. Jer. 2:34; 19:4; Matt. 2:16.
194. El Morya, Encyclical on World Good Will, p. 5.
195. Isa. 9:2.
196. Goddess of Liberty, Liberty Proclaims, pp. 20-21.
197. Job 1:21.
198. El Morya, Encyclical on World Good Will, p. 4.
199. Saint Germain, “The Crucible of Being,” in 1962 Pearls of Wisdom; Studies in Alchemy, pp. 80-81; Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 89-90.
200. Fallacy of a one-world solution to environmental problems. In attempting to solve our environmental problems, well-meaning individuals have proposed a number of solutions. One that has been widely discussed is the establishment of some form of world government wherein centralized control over the world’s ecosystems would be administered by a group of environmental specialists. To eliminate imbalances in the biosphere and discrepancies in the economies of the nations, the proponents of this plan advocate the redistribution of natural and human resources on a global scale, thereby giving to every man and every country their “fair share” of the earth and its atmosphere —a patch of
land ’neath a patch of sky.
While we acknowledge the sincerity of the majority of those who are working to improve man’s lot, we must point out that within this plan there are certain marked inconsistencies with cosmic law. To begin with, a one-world government is not recommended by the Hierarchy. Until the Christ rules in the heart of the individual, the individual is not fit to rule the world. It must be understood that nation-states were instituted by the Ascended Masters to serve as the final point of transition between the imperfect society that evolved after man’s expulsion from Eden and the perfect society that will be outpic- tured in the golden age —a society based on a one-world government headed by the Prince of Peace and those who have attained self-mastery through the Christ consciousness. The abuses that have occurred within and among the nation-states are not the intent of God, but rather a reflection of man’s ignorance of and indifference to that intent; and this is to be expected, given his present imperfect evolution.
The Brotherhood cautions against the premature uniting of peoples, even for the purpose of solving the problems of the planetary ecosystem. For because of their group karma and their divine destiny to manifest an aspect of the Christ consciousness as a nation. the peoples of the world require boundaries of identity
that enable them to fulfill their reason for being. The nationstate system is not inherently evil, nor are its citizens inherently selfish. For by evolving their own individuality and respecting the right of others to do the same, they enhance the evolution of all other states and the entire planetary body.
The uniting of the peoples of the world will come about naturally as individuals and nations strive toward and achieve perfection and unity through the Christ. Meanwhile, the Masters urge every family, every community, state, and nation to begin earnestly to seek solutions to their environmental problems. When this project is carried out selflessly with the general welfare as the only motivation and people are willing to make sacrifices for one another, then and only then will true progress be made.
The belief that the dangers inherent in a worldwide system of ecological control would be eliminated by the rule of an intellectual elite is also subject to serious question by the student of the Masters. While the Hierarchy acknowledges that only the most highly qualified and the best educated among mankind should have the final word on environmental controls, their judgment and man's judgment of who is most qualified and who is best educated do not necessarily coincide.
While rule by an intellectual elite is acceptable in
theory, we would point out that in practice such a system can be both unwieldy and dangerous. The unwieldiness of the plan lies in the enforcement of the decisions reached by the world governing body. Nothing short of an international police state with the power to override the sovereignty of the nations could effectively put such a plan into action. The danger in the plan lies in man’s assumption that by his intellect alone he can arrive at the judgments of God.
While it is often true that the trained mind can best attune with the Christ Mind, it is also true that the best minds can be trained according to the worst concepts. Such minds will reject the promptings of the Christ because they have been preconditioned by the warped perspective of the carnal mind. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers, through no fault of their own, have been deprived of even a basic understanding of the laws of karma and reembodiment and the place of our planet in the cosmic scheme. Yet they are developing ways to alter man’s entire life pattern to conform to the man-animal they have been educated to believe in. When man’s best is not good enough to become a universal standard, then it is best that his sphere of influence be less than universal. The removal of the nation-state removes the last means of limiting the proliferation of error until man himself is able to transcend the
limitations of his false indoctrination.
We must conclude that until the “specialists” who are slated to take charge of the proposed one-world ecosystem acknowledge the Christ- potential of every member of the biosphere and self-mastery becomes the primary goal of education, until the purpose of government is seen to be the protection of the Christ in every man, a worldwide system of control is in danger of being used by the wrong people for the wrong ends. Only when the specialists themselves are working consciously toward oneness with the Christ Self can they be trusted to preserve the freedoms that are essential to every man’s realization of the Christ; only then can they be trusted to carve out the destiny of an entire planetary evolution.
In examining the belief that man's ecological problems can be solved by a more equitable distribution of human and natural resources, the Ascended Masters would point out that it is precisely because the energy quotients of individuals are not equal that the theory of the equal distribution of man’s resources is untenable. Individual effort to develop the divine spark and to expand the qualities of the Godhead is the determining factor of man’s individual status as a son or daughter of God. And as the Parable of the Talents (Matt. 25:14- 30) illustrates, the use man makes of his talents in one
embodiment determines how many he will merit in the next. Individuals and nations whose efforts to work the works of God have been greater than that of others who have had the same opportunity have earned the right to draw a greater allotment of wealth, energy, and talent from the universal Source.
Just as no man can take from another his treasures in heaven, neither can an individual or a political unit demand from another wealth and goods which it has not earned through honest labor. The very fact that a person or a group of persons is born in a certain time and in a certain place to a particular race and family in a particular nation and continent is an indication (1) of his karma, good and bad—of what he has and has not earned the right to enjoy —and (2) of his dharma — that service which it has become his duty, according to the will of God and his divine blueprint, to fulfill.
The plan for a one-world ecosystem will not work because it does not take into consideration the delicate balance of the spiritual ecosystem — the interaction of the causal bodies of the ten billion plus souls assigned to the planetary schoolroom. Individuals, groups, neighborhoods, communities, cities, states, and nations comprise ecosystems within ecosystems with interdependencies and interlocking energies. To take them apart
and put them back together again like a game of blocks — to shuffle people and things like a deck of cards and deal a new world —is a violation of cosmic law so serious as to spell the ultimate end of the biosphere. Total control of a planet and its people equals total destruction of individual fulfillment of the Christ-potential through individual initiative. If you destroy a man’s incentive to create, you destroy the man, making him an animal. And if at the same time you destroy the identity of a nation by depriving it of its destiny, you are left not with a golden age, but with an animal farm.
Some argue for a world organization on the grounds that man has a recognized need to expand his sphere of identity, that is, to transcend his identification with his self, his family, his clan, and his nation to include all of his world. They say that man’s desire to express his individuality and to retain his freedom to act as he chooses is the underlying cause of all the problems of ecology. They conclude that man must give up his self-centered habits for the good of the whole human family of which he is but a single member.
We are well aware of the fact that man must learn to identify with man if Life is to continue on this planet. He must be his brother’s keeper; and through identification with that which is real in self and society he must surrender
his selfish desires if he is to continue to progress both spiritually and materially. But this man cannot do as long as he retains his carnality —his self-image as a man-animal through which he has functioned since his fall from the grace of the Christ Image. Therefore, if he would rid himself of his selfishness, he must rise from the plane of identification with animal life to claim his inheritance as a sinless, selfless son of God. Only then will he be able to expand his sphere of identity and through the power of divine love include the entire world in his Self-conscious awareness.
One of the great fallacies of our time is the projecting of mankind’s current imperfections on the white page of the future. If instead, through invocation to the sacred fire, mankind would transmute in the present the evil, or the energy veil, which Jesus said was sufficient unto the day, they would be given the resources to meet the challenges of the future. And their future’s problems would not be compounded by their failure to solve the problems of the present.
. Ezek. 1:4.
. Jer. 6:14.
. Heb. 11:6.
. I Cor. 3:11.
. Matt. 13:12.
. I Pet. 1:7.
. I Thess. 5:3.
. I Cor. 15:40.
. Gen. 1:29, 30.
. Gen. 3:18.
. Exod. 20:13.
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212. Elementals bear world karma. The quantity of energy which mankind have mis- qualified down through the centuries in their lack of reverence for Life is so great that if they were required to bear the full weight of their karma, they themselves would be bowed to the ground, walking on all fours as animals. Rather than consign the souls of men to animal forms to expiate their karma, the mercy of the Mother has allowed the elementals to balance a great portion of mankind’s karma by working out the cycles of their misqualified energy in the physical bodies of the animals which they ensouled. By this dispensation man is not required to reincarnate in an ani¬
mal body, even though his karma might indeed dictate such a fate; for the Lords of Karma, who interceded on mankind’s behalf, knew that should this come to pass, mankind’s evolution, insofar as the expansion of the Christ consciousness is concerned, would effectively be brought to a halt.
213. Rom. 14:2-4.
214. Matt. 9:12.
215. John 12:32.
216. Matt. 9:17.
217. Matt. 12:45.
218. II Pet. 2:19-21.
219. Rev. 3:18.
220. Heb. 12:6.
221. Heb. 13:2.
222. II Cor. 5:1.
223. The MahaChohan, 1964 Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 7, no. 24.
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