" . . . The Mighty I AM Presence has the authority and the power to instantaneously arrest and reverse any cycle and to cause a complete erasing, a disintegration of it, right back to the twelve o'clock line.

" . . . I say to you, you must demand and command it in the name of the Christ-that every single cycle of every single cell and atom within your form that is not outpicturing the perfect cycles of the Christ consciousness is now dissolved, is now arrested and turned back by the authority of your God Presence! If you will but make that invocation each morning you will find in a very short time that only the cycles of immortal Life and your divine plan fulfilled and your ascension will prevail."

"Jesus and Saint Germain are 'the cherubim guarding the Holy of Holies. These personages of the light who are depicted to the right and the left of the chart of the I AM Presence are focuses
—wherever they are placed—of safety. For all elemental life bow before these two hierarchs of the age, and they protect all whose vibration is in harmony with these two servants of the Almighty . . .

"'Do not make the mistake of thinking that they are mere pictures on the wall,' . . . Through them we employ the alchemy of the living Word, and we anchor in your home the forcefield of light that is for the sealing of the house against the coming of the plagues of the Lord upon the seed of the wicked' and the 'accelerated return of karma . . . Do not neglect your daily alignment in each twenty-four-hour cycle with these two emissaries of the Great Central Sun, for through them the four cosmic forces release a circle of fire and the full momentum of the Great Central Sun messengers.'"

Who was Jesus' teacher?

What was the real meaning of the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day?


Q: Mrs. Prophet, thus far we've talked about the nature of the self and obviously you have a concept of the self that is quite different from that of most people. Could you explain in more detail what your concept is?

ECP: You know, Doug, I think that the understanding of the Real Self is the most important understanding that the individual can have in life. If we fail to understand the nature of the Real Self, we never really quite gain an orientation or an integration in our life.

The Self begins with that which is the permanent atom of being and the cause out of which the effect proceeds. For want of any other name, I call this cause the I AM THAT I AM, the Presence of the I AM, or the I AM Presence. I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being and I see it as a sphere of intense light that marks the point of my origin. It is the permanent part of me, of which I am very aware, and the point to which I will return at the conclusion of this life.

I have diagrammed this Real Self in relationship to the outer evolving self on a chart that is called the Chart of Your Divine Self. The Chart has three parts and, in a sense, could be called the trinity of our identity.

First, there is the upper figure, which is a sphere of light. Then there is the lower figure, which represents the soul evolving in matter, or in time and space. Between the sphere of light above and the soul evolving below is the consciousness of the Mediator, or the go-between.

The go-between is that portion of the Self that can translate to the soul something of the I AM THAT I AM; it is that portion of one's being that is real enough to yet stand in the Presence of God. We call this Mediator the Christ Self, or the Real Self. It is the Self that we are in a state of becoming through our evolution, through all of our experiences in time and space. You might say, for example, that the lower figure in the Chart would be the man Jesus. The middle figure would be the Self, the Christ. And the upper figure would be the one whom he called Father.

We now see a relationship of Father, or the All-Father, the Son, and the soul that is endowed with a flame of the Holy Spirit. That flame is the spark of life. It is the threefold flame of life—a very real spiritual flame that is focused within the body at approximately the point of the heart. It is sealed in what is called the secret chamber of the heart. This threefold flame endows our being with consciousness, with self-awareness, with all of the faculties that we enjoy that are above the animal kingdom. It is the sacred fire that we are to become and that we are to implement and use as our resource for living and for evolving while we are on earth.

The three figures in the Chart, which are now separate because of our limited consciousness, will one day become one. We see this in the life of Jesus. As he matures from birth to manhood, he walks more and more in the stature of his Real Self, his Christ Self. We find him in the temple discoursing with the doctors at the age of twelve. This is a sign that the Christ Presence, or the Christ Self, is overshadowing him and he is speaking the word of that Christ.

We find him at the age of thirty in the full presence of the Christ so that his disciples recognize him as their Master. He calls them away from their nets to become fishers of men. He changes the water into wine, begins to heal, to cast out demons—all this because the man Jesus has merged with the Inner Self, the Christ. He walks the earth for three years performing not miracles but the functions of cosmic law. And then walking up Bethany's hill with his disciples after his resurrection, he disappears from their midst and the cloud receives him out of their sight. This cloud is the same cloud that appeared to the children of Israel. The pillar of fire and the cloud represent the I AM THAT I AM, the eternal Presence.

Jesus accelerated to the level of the Christ; then Jesus, the Christ, accelerated to the level of the I AM THAT I AM. This is the nature, the true nature, of the Three-in-One. And we as heirs of Christ, heirs of Jesus, have come to realize that same oneness—three out of one, one out of three.

Q: In other words, the Trinity is something that is present in all of us all the time?

ECP: The Trinity is anchored in us in this threefold flame of power, wisdom and love. The Father represents the power of the Law, the Son is the wisdom of the Law, and the Holy Spirit is the love-action of the Law. So the Trinity exists in us as potential. Until we have realized that potential, our relationship to Christ and to Father remains a separate one.

And therefore, on the Chart we depict these three figures—one on earth, one higher above, and one still higher so that the distance allows individuals to think in terms of heaven and earth.

Q: Where does an Ascended Master fall on this Chart?

ECP: The Ascended Master is one who has walked as the lower figure in the Chart. He has evolved as a soul who has first realized his Real Self as the Christ (the middle figure), become anointed with that Mediator-Self, and then reunited with the I AM THAT I AM (the upper figure) at the conclusion of his life. Therefore, the Ascended Master would be beyond the material plane, in the Spirit plane and yet as close as the air we breathe.

Q: When Jesus prayed to the Father, was he actually talking to himself, his Real Self?

ECP: He was talking to his I AM Presence and he was also talking to his inner teacher. Jesus had a teacher. It is customary for us to think of our inner teacher, or our inner guru, as Father. The teacher whom Jesus acknowledged on the Path as being one with his I AM Presence was one who is called Lord Maitreya, or Maitreya the Coming Buddha of the East.

Maitreya attained the Christ consciousness many centuries prior to the final incarnation of Jesus. He sponsored Jesus and was the one (in addition to Jesus' own I AM Presence) whom Jesus called Father.

Q: Jesus' life and teachings were in the Middle East. How was it that he was initiated in the teachings of the Far East?

ECP: The Gospels do not tell us where Jesus was between the ages of twelve and thirty.
This was a long period of time for our beloved Master, considering what he accomplished in three short years. Ancient Buddhist manuscripts say that during these seventeen years Jesus traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh and Tibet, where he was known as "Saint Issa."

If we could have known Jesus between the ages of twelve and thirty, we would have found
him in the Far East studying, practicing and teaching the laws of science and truth that he demonstrated publicly in the final hours of his Galilean mission. Even when I journeyed to India, I was told by a number of guides that there are records saying that Jesus was there. It is my understanding that during his seventeen "lost years" Jesus also studied in the retreats of the Ascended Masters in Egypt and the Himalayas.

We know from our verification by the Ascended Masters that Jesus was humble and that in preparation for his mission he desired to be trained in the very first steps of initiation. Many of the teachings that Jesus brought forth—in fact, his mantra "I AM the way, the truth and the life"
—are actually taken from the Sanskrit, which comes down to us through India from the ancient continent of Lemuria as the language that our early ancestors used to meditate upon God and to practice the science of the spoken Word.

Q: So the Chart of Your Divine Self, in which the Christ that we're familiar with is identified as the middle figure, relates to the teachings of the Far East. Where would Buddha fall on that same Chart?

ECP: Buddha, as Siddhartha, the child who was born a prince into wealth and the surroundings of opportunity, becomes the soul who must mature and discover the Real Self. Prince Siddhartha left home to find the cause of suffering but discovered also the Real Self, which he defined as the Buddha. This is because his meditation was upon God through the crown chakra.

We call one who has attained the realization of God through the crown chakra "the Buddha," whereas we call one who has realized God through the heart chakra "the Christ." In reality, the Christ Self, or the Real Self, contains all elements of consciousness.

Q: What is the crown chakra?

ECP: Chakra is a Sanskrit word. It means "wheel" or "center" and refers to seven sacred centers in our temple. The heart is the principal center. Above the heart chakra are the throat, third-eye and crown chakras. Below the heart are the solar plexus, seat-of-the-soul and base-of-the-spine chakras.

These seven centers are seven openings into another dimension, and by meditation upon these centers we can experience God in different planes of consciousness. Each center, which is depicted as having a different number of petals, has a different frequency or vibration. If we center our meditation in the heart, we commune with love. If we center our meditation in the crown, we are communing in wisdom. If our meditation centers in the third eye, we have the power of concentration in truth. And the throat chakra, the power center, gives us the science of the spoken Word.

Q: This might seem to imply that Buddha represented a higher evolution than Jesus. Is that true?

ECP: I don't know that we would call it higher. We would call it the way of the East. Buddha demonstrated the way of self-mastery that was the dispensation for the evolutions of the East. Christ showed it for the evolutions of the West. We've reached a period now where there's an exchange between East and West, and we who live in the West must also pursue the type of mastery that Buddha demonstrated.

"I am your Jesus. I truly walk with you. You have but to call to me and to maintain a pure heart. I may come and bond with you and you may bond with me by the special quality of your purity of heart. When the heart is pure, all other levels of being can be purified. Therefore let the heart be pure and true and loving, bearing the cosmic honor flame.

You Are Called to Your Christhood

"Yes, Christhood is the call. I come to call you to your Christhood, for you were Christs long ago when you were with me on Atlantis . . . "

"We together form a figure eight, as Above, so below.

" . . . Draw a circle of light around the figure eight. Seal your heart and being with mine and know how the movement of the light as the figure-eight flow can deposit to you, oh, so gently, portions of myself. Even as you partake of portions of the Bread of Life and the Body of God and the Body of the Lord Christ day by day in Communion, so take unto yourself the light essence of me and the life essence. Mirror my threefold flame to increase your own. Mirror my great desiring as the desire body of God and make it your own. Make everything that I am your own and know your Real Self."

Your Holy Christ Self Has a Unique Personality
Command Him to Enter In to Your Life

"Take note that you are becoming your Holy Christ Self as you merge with him, not just once in a while but hour by hour and every twenty-four hours as you walk and talk with this very special teacher.

"Beloved ones, there is no such thing as a carbon copy of the Holy Christ Self. Each one's Holy Christ Self is totally and utterly unique. You might think that there is a long line of cut-out soldiers coming together and coming apart like an accordion, but it is not so. Your individual Holy Christ Self has a very special personality. That personality has been developed over aeons of being the Christ in action.

"Thus, beloved, you have unique talents. Those talents come from your Holy Christ Self and from your labors in the fields of this civilization and others on the planetary home. Realize, then, how different you are, one from the other, and yet how you may be the All-in-all as the Universal One.

"Are we not, then, unique molecules of light? And when we merge, do we not find that togetherness of the individual molecules that make up the Universal Christ Presence? And do we not also know that peripheral manifestation that brings uniqueness everywhere throughout the cosmos? And thus the cosmos does expand.

"You have been apprised that many souls are waiting to embody on earth. The need for their presence here has never been greater, beloved. I call upon all of you, whether you have been parents or whether you will be parents, to perfect your Christhood so that you may receive souls who are fragmented, souls who are burdened, souls who are sorrowing, souls who are carrying heavy levels of unreconciled karma that go back thousands of years.

" . . . As I am seated here, I look at the endless highway. And this endless highway, beloved, leads to the throne of Alpha and Omega. You are building bridges to the Great Central Sun. You are building bridges to the sun of Helios and Vesta. Yes, you are building bridges to the heart of your Holy Christ Self.

"This blessed disciplinarian keeps after you, for he knows what you must do in order to have your victory. Listen to that still small voice, for it is not so still or small at all. It sounds like thunder within the ear and indeed it is. For your Holy Christ Self is stern with you, compelling you to shed those substances not of the Light and to enter into that sacred bonding that will never be undone, the bonding of your soul to your Holy Christ Self, the bonding whereby you shall gain immortality.

" . . . Remember, then, the ancient days of Atlantis. Remember when you walked and talked in the person of your Holy Christ Self. For that was the high attainment of the golden age of Atlantis and especially of priests and priestesses who served in the temples there, many of these being yourselves.

" . . . Remember, your Real Self is your Mighty I AM Presence. Your True Self is your Holy Christ Self. Therefore, draw down that Power, Wisdom and Love and know the victory of your soul!"

"In the presence of the Great Central Sun I behold your lifestreams, one by one, and those of all Lightbearers who descended to this planet and system of ours from the beginning. As in a flash one sees his whole life in a moment of life and death, so I, Helios, perceive in a moment all that you and your twin flame have done since the beginning, the very beginning and origin of your wholeness in the Central Sun.

" . . . So, beloved, with all desiring let all forces of your being now come into alignment by the Great Central Sun Magnet. This presence, beloved, will be manifest for each and every one who does both see and hear this dictation. Thereby you can reconnect to the original giving of my Word. I am reaching everyone who does make eye contact with me through this Messenger.

" . . . We are establishing ties of reinforcement, yet you must reinforce them daily. For there is a decay rate, a disintegration factor, if you will, when you are not sustaining the [action of] giving the Flame of Mother within you unto the Spirit cosmos and specifically unto those of us with whom you are well acquainted. This gift [of reinforcement] does come to you when some are bowed down even with a sense of hopelessness while others are artificially buoyed up into a state that is beyond the reality of the moment.

"Sense, then, your centeredness in the Cosmic Christ through your heart. Center, then, in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ. Be infilled with the Body and Blood of Alpha and Omega through him, through us!

"All who have ascended contain this Light, beloved. We give it to you, but we are one half of the whole and you are the other half. Heaven does not take from you your free will. And the [exercise of] free will [in the decision] to be silent, this is the most dangerous decision of all.

"Not only do you have an obligation to use the power of the Word to increase the intensity of that Light here below, to create your own central sun magnet, to have such a mighty thrust that our return to you can wholly fill your house, but you also have the obligation to use the spoken Word to speak out in the face of injustice, to admonish those who go in paths of self- destruction, to rebuke the devils who would rob and steal the Light from my little ones and let them tremble before the living God within you.

"Never more important has been your voice giving Truth to the people, exposing the Liar and the lie, as the Messenger did last evening.

"The conspiracy of the forces of Darkness in the earth is far greater than many are given to understand. For [the people] have not perceived that some from amongst the fallen angels have chosen to embody Evil, to spawn an energy veil that does cloud the issues and entrap the children of the Sun in a net of grayness.

"O beloved, as Mother Mary has come to you to tell you that some souls will be lost on the
astral plane unless the call is made for them, unless the rosary be given, so I come to repeat these words. You stand in a moment of cosmic history when by your prayers alone, by your prayers alone for the saving of souls, you may balance all of your karma.

"Let the devout hear me! Understand that God has so great a need for your devotions and prayers on behalf of those who are as shorn lambs, who do not have the protection of Archangel Michael unless you call it forth in their behalf as they go to war, give their lives to the cause of freedom that they believe in-even while they are being used by the forces of Darkness in an ages-old conflict that has nothing to do with freedom but with power struggles.

"We have seen the records. You have seen them in part. Know, then, that your prayers may invoke the intercession of angelic hosts for the saving of many souls who at the end of an age could be lost-for they have lost their divine spark and their divine momentum, yet they are not evil per se. And that call, that intercession for the saving of souls can result in the balancing of your karma and your victory. Heroic deeds are in order but prayer is the greatest heroism in this day.

"Your prayers have already spared many lives across the earth and in this war of Lightbearers on all sides. May you continue to keep the vigil for those who know not how to pray, who know not that the science of the spoken Word must be exercised in the physical octave else, the Law declares, those of us in heaven may not intercede, not even a fraction.

"Prayer is the key to salvation in this age. When you couple it with good works and the cosmic honor flame ablaze in you always, you will know an acceleration unprecedented.

"I AM Helios of the Sun. I am concerned for all upon this planet. My legions come in numberless numbers, angels accompanying me on my way. I shall move throughout this earth. I may stay many weeks. I may go after the conspiracies of other systems of worlds who have sent their spacecraft to move against the Light of the living Christ in my own. I shall give you labors! I shall tarry. For many are worthy, many have called, not the least of whom yourselves.

"The refinement of the science of the decree as practiced in this Church Universal and Triumphant has reached truly a pinnacle of power through and unto those who use it. It is the consummation of all past ages of those who have mastered the science of invocation at the altars of Atlantis and Lemuria and throughout the long dark night of earth's history since.

"Thus, the perfecting of the use of these decrees is the most positive act you can take as the result of your acquaintance with this Path.

"May the joy of God attend you! May my angels attend you!

"I receive from the Central Sun now a certain fire. I communicate it to you, beloved, heart to heart.

"Now out of the God Star there does descend Surya for the triumph of this Church as the Mystical Body of God, for the victory over all persecution of freedom of religion in every nation upon earth. I proclaim it!

"Let every man, woman and child be free to choose the path of Light as long as [they know] it is the path of right and righteousness unto all.

"Let all be free to discover, to internalize the Word, to worship according to conscience.

"Let all those who would come between anyone and his true God be bound in this hour by legions of the Central Sun!

"May all who hear this fiat of the Lord repeat it in time to come until all persecution, mockery or ridicule of anyone's faith is put down and all may come and reason together in the heart of the living God. Let them see and know the Truth!

"O God, open their eyes that they might see beyond this veil and see the numberless numbers of hosts of Light and saints awaiting the triumph of those upon earth ere they move forward in the resurrection and the ascension.

"I shall intercede in all conditions for which you give prayer and invocation during the coming fortnight. The call to me will result in an answer, an answer that is warranted by those involved and in some cases greater than that which is warranted. I have not promised total healing for all but I have promised an answer to your call. Whatever that answer is, know that I shall give to you the full cup that you are able to drink, the full measure that you are able to contain.

"If you desire to increase your capacity to receive, then fast and pray and invoke the violet flame and the legions of Light and implore God before your altars in your homes and places of worship to give you the expanded aura multiplied by Helios and Vesta that can contain the rain of eternal Light.

" . . . Know that you are loved and love in kind, and let us see what glorious golden pink glow-ray may flood the minds and hearts of all, giving new illumination and hope and joy and faith and charity to all.

"I close the curtain on this moment, but I have left a portion of myself in your heart. Breathe
upon that tiny coal! See the fire burst! I give you potential: you must give me a God!"

"Therefore, as Abram moved in stages and each place that he went he builded an altar unto
the LORD God whom I revealed to him, so do thou likewise. And let the altar of thy heart and
the altar of thy house be then entrusted to my care. I have come not only to dedicate an altar and a sanctuary, I have come to rededicate hearts whose full fire of dedication and devotion must yet be tried by the ruby ray—whose full fire of purpose, as was Abram’s, must yet be known and displayed to the soul.

" . . . Therefore I call to all Lightbearers of the earth in this hour to truly build an altar to the Lord and an altar to myself, Archangel Michael. And I call for this as Mother Mary has appeared and called for the building of churches in her name. For to me is given the dispensation—and that dispensation [is] to bind the hordes of Death and Hell and to work an extraordinary work for the Keepers of the Flame in this activity.

"Thus, we do announce to you the beginning of that inner work that must proceed for many of the Lightbearers on earth for the clearing of records which do impede the full work of the Teaching Centers and Study Groups and individual chelas in the service of the Light.

" . . . Therefore, I have directed [the building of] this altar and set it as a prototype under the direction of the Messenger that you might see what I desire to have even in a simple room, a small room where only two or three may fit, even a closet if that is all that is available. But, beloved hearts, let me have the color and the quality and the fire; and therefore you will see I will place my pillar where you erect such an altar.

"I will place it there and I will use the twin pillars of my being to anchor in this continent the maximum forces that you allow me to do by your call and by your life to avert war and those coming predictions that will surely come to pass upon this continent, I tell you, as prophesied, unless you can see the Light and know that in addition to the altar, which is the first step, there must be a reaching out as never before to find those Lightbearers.

" . . . Understand therefore, beloved, that we seek no continuing city here, but we seek to build
an altar unto the LORD that the LORD might be glorified, that his pillar of fire in the earth might utterly consume and wipe out from this continent that darkness of Death and Hell. When you shall have performed this service [as Abraham did], you will be called to move on.

" . . . And therefore, beloved hearts of Light, know that Alpha and Omega as the twin flames of God anchor now this wholeness and this action of the sacred fire. And wheresoever you shall so establish this altar in like manner and play this dictation and be pure of heart and keep the harmony, so I will come and so I will establish that forcefield.

"And so it is done. And Alpha and Omega have decreed it. They have called it forth. And these pillars extend from the heart of the earth to the heart of the Great Central Sun. And they are sustained so long as this altar is kept, and when this altar is no longer kept they are withdrawn.

"And therefore keep the flame. Keep the flame of Life and of Freedom and of the Will of God.
And tend to the flame, O bhikkhus. Tend the flame, O devotees of Buddha! Tend the flame, O devotees of Sanat Kumara, Alpha and Omega! Keep the flame in the heart of the earth!

"Archangel Michael I AM! And I cry to you, O people of God worldwide: Wake up and fulfill your role, for only then can God choose and in so choosing know that he, too, is chosen by you.

"In the oneness of the Trinity, I AM where thou art. We three—God, Archangel Michael, and the Son of God in you!

"It is done! May you act upon it and be free! I AM THAT I AM evermore in the heart of the devotee of freedom. In the heart of earth I stand until the Lightbearers are free and the dark ones bound.

"In the name of Mother Mary, I bow to the Blessed Virgin at this altar. May you also kneel to her honor.

Consecration of the Altar Chalice to Mother Mary

"Blessed Mother of God, I consecrate this chalice of the will of God, offered here in my name, to thy diamond heart and the diamond heart of El Morya and thy chelas forever.

"Blessed Mother of God, Mary, in thy name we serve to rescue thy children. Let thy honor, thy beauty, thy love, and thy presence be vindicated. Even so, as thou hast placed with Raphael the healing thoughtform over this place, let it be done unto all who so qualify themselves on the path
of Light as these blessed servants have done.

"Therefore that which is done in secret the Lord God shall reward openly. Seek diligently, therefore, the service of the chela and let thy God reward thee, O children, for truly the reward of all lifetimes comes due. Beware and be at peace."

"Let, then, the altars of this retreat and the altars of Keepers of the Flame in the earth experience once a day a little of the fragrance of frankincense burning that you might also know that Morya himself steps through the veil of frankincense."

"You can visualize your Christ Self in the person of the roaring lion, the king of the beasts. And this mighty lion, seated in perfect poise, holds a single right paw over that beast. The beast cannot move. The lion then holds down the beast until you—as chela, as soul—assimilate it into the Great God Flame.

"This is the very feast of Almighty God. It is the great supper whereby all of the beasts of human creation are devoured in the flame and are no more. Thus the roaring lion of the Great Guru himself and the Ever-Present Guru is ever-present now, holding that right paw on the beast of the nonentity.

"Go about your business, chelas of God’s will. Put on the mantle of a new heart and mind. It is not necessary to be human any longer. You are not the ‘hewn’ man. You are made in the image and likeness of God.

"Cease your strutting about to be good humans doing good works, always busying yourself to reinforce your self-image as a good human being. Cease all of this. Become zero that God may become the one-hundred percent of Being where you are."

"Thus, beloved, this great thoughtform, which is large in dimension, does also retain at the very top the paintings of Saint Germain and Jesus, originally done by Charles Sindelar, and the Chart of the I AM Presence. When all of this is seen together in the grandeur of dimension, you can see that it fits very well on this giant tapestry."

The I AM Presence Revealed to Moses

"You will remember that Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

"And the angel of the Lord [it was Archangel Michael who was the angel of the Lord’s Presence] appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

"And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

"And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

"And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon
thou standest is holy ground.

"Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

"And the Lord said, delivering his message to Moses through Archangel Michael:

"I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

"And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

"Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

"Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

"And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

"And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

"And Moses said unto God, 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?

"And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I AM hath sent me unto you.'

"And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.'

"Now let us look again at the Chart of Your Divine Self as we invoke the protection of the I AM THAT I AM who revealed himself to Moses. This name of the Lord, in the Hebrew the YOD HE VAU HE, belongs to you and me. And let us not forget that God gave it to us through his prophet Moses by the message of the burning bush sent through his emissary Archangel Michael:

"This is my name forever, and this is my memorial [the memory of myself which I seal in your heart—my Divine Image (a photograph of myself for you to love and cherish), my Electronic Presence, a replica of myself with you] unto all generations. I AM is not only the name of your Inner God. I AM is your Inner God. And when you call upon that name and that God, your Mighty I AM Presence will answer you without fail.

"Let us meditate on the I AM THAT I AM, or the 'I AM' Presence, as we say. Always see it pulsating in the center of the ‘cloud’ of sacred fire and the rainbow spheres. That’s how John described the Presence:

"And I saw another mighty angel [of the Lord] come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

"And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

"And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders [Elohim] uttered their voices.

" . . . Your beloved I AM Presence is your Master. You will not allow the carnal mind to be your master. You will not allow your bad habits or your lusts to be your master. 'I AM Presence, Thou art Master!' And when you decree this for your life because you love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might, that LORD who is your Mighty I AM Presence descends into your temple and strengthens you in your freewill election to be your God in action.

"See the dazzling white light of your Presence, brighter than the sun shining on new-fallen snow, coalescing to form your tube of light. It extends three feet or more in a radius from your heart chakra, surrounding you in the absolute God-protection of your Mighty I AM Presence."

"And when you see that frame, if it is empty, you will want to fill it. And so I will take you to that place, ‘The Atelier,’ where you can work with other artisans who are learning the art of living Love by the discipline of the hand and the discipline of expression so that you can draw the image of your own Christ-perfection. And when it is the best that you have to offer, it will be placed in your frame. And when you come again before that frame after many months of purging and self-purification, you will say undoubtedly,

'Beloved Paul, may I have another opportunity to express my Christhood, to draw the image of myself? For I have perceived a new aspect of that image, and I would like to have this, my best offering, now placed in my frame.’ And, of course, you will have the opportunity.' "

See Paul the Venetian, “The Art of Living Love,” in Lords of the Seven Rays: Mirror of Consciousness, Book Two, pp. 112-13.

Nurturing the Soul of Community

Make Heart-to-Heart Contact
with Helios and Vesta

In preparation for today's dictation we are going to practice meditations and exercises the Masters have given us to make heart-to-heart contact with Helios and Vesta. We have been told how important it is to make that contact daily.

Helios and Vesta are our key sponsors, for they are the Father-Mother God of our solar system. They are the twin flames who focus for us the light of the Father-Mother God in the spiritual sun behind our physical sun.

Ikhnaton and Aton

Perhaps one of the best ways to understand the role of Helios and Vesta is to look at the Egyptian Pharaoh Ikhnaton, who, as you know, was an embodiment of Mark Prophet. Thirty-three centuries ago, Ikhnaton recognized the one God in the spiritual sun behind the physical sun, and he called this God "Aton."

Ikhnaton visualized the Infinite One, Aton, as a divine being "clearly distinguished from the physical sun" yet manifest in the sunlight. Ikhnaton gave reverence to the "heat which is in the Sun,"as he saw it to be the vital heat that accompanied all life. <1> To me, that says that Ikhnaton understood that the heat of the sun represented its spiritual energy.

Ikhnaton created a symbol that depicted Aton as a golden circular disk from which diverging beams radiated. He was careful to point out that the solar disk itself was not God but only a symbol of God. Each diverging beam, or ray, ended in a hand extending over every person as a blessing, and in some depictions the hand brought the ankh, the symbol of life, directly to Ikhnaton and his Queen.

Ikhnaton also saw God as a personality whose "beams nourish every field" and "live and grow for thee." <2> These beams are the very seeds of light and sparks of light that form our own threefold flame in the secret chamber of our heart. Padma Sambhava once told us, "God's infinite rays of light are a part of you, for all rays and all sons and daughters of God hail from the one Source." <3> In other words, we, at our very core and in our very essence, are also formed of God's light.

Ikhnaton wrote a hymn to Aton that has often been compared to Psalm 104 because it expresses many of the same ideas of the one God imminent within his creation and within
the heart of man; it also shows that Ikhnaton knew he owed his very life and success to Aton. Let us look at some lines from the hymn:

Hymn to Aton

Thy dawning is beautiful in the horizon of heaven,
O Living Aton, Beginning of life!
When thou risest in the eastern horizon of heaven,
Thou fillest every land with thy beauty;
For thou art beautiful, great, glittering,
high over the earth..
Thou art in my heart.
There is no other that knoweth thee,
save thy son Ikhnaton.
Thou hast made him wise in thy designs
and in thy might. <4>

Hymn to the Sun

Like Ikhnaton's sun-disk, Helios and Vesta represent the Infinite One, who extends to us the life-giving rays of our divine source.

In 1970 Helios gave to Mark Prophet a prayer that reflects the same understanding of the power of the sun that Ikhnaton had. It is our "Salutation to the Sun." Let us give it together and as you recite this decree, visualize Helios and Vesta as radiant beings of light in their etheric retreat, the Temple of the Sun, situated in the spiritual sun behind the sun.

Holy Amethyst once gave a dictation in which she took us on a journey to the sun in a chariot of violet fire. She described Helios and Vesta as "twin flames of pink and gold standing arms outstretched" to receive us in their temple. When we grew near to the Temple of the Sun we found "not greater heat but greater light" and "a coolness and a delight." <5>

In giving this decree, I would like you to really make contact with that energetic, life-giving source that is the spiritual sun behind the sunof our world.

Salutation to the Sun

O mighty Presence of God, I AM, in and behind the sun:
I welcome thy Light, which floods all the earth,
into my life, into my mind, into my spirit, into my soul.
Radiate and blaze forth thy Light!
Break the bonds of darkness and superstition!
Charge me with the great clearness
of thy white fire radiance!
I AM thy child, and each day I shall become
more of thy manifestation! (3x)

A Daily Ritual

On New Year's Eve 1994, Gautama Buddha reminded us how important it is to make a daily ritual of facing the Sun of our I AM Presence and the sun of Helios and Vesta. "Recognize," said Gautama, "that all sons and daughters of God...have the possibility of meditating upon the Great Central Sun through the Sun of their I AM Presence and the sun of Helios and Vesta. This meditation can produce in you a feeling of intense heat or a glow over the third-eye chakra and surrounding the head as a halo.

"With concentrated visualization daily, you can establish such a strong tie to the Great Central Sun as to make you almost oblivious to the darkness of the earth. You must always put this darkness behind you, and when you invoke your tube of light, visualize the rays of the Great Central Sun streaming down upon you within and without." <6>

We are going to practice this meditation. First of all, center in your heart. In your mind's eye face the Sun of your I AM Presence above you-your own personal energy source. See the brilliant, intense white light of your I AM Presence, surrounded by the magnificent, pulsating spheres of your Causal Body.

Receive the light of the sun behind the sun in all of its glory, all of its tempered manifestation on behalf of those who dwell on this planetary home. See the circling, many-colored spheres of your Causal Body around the scintillating white light of your I AM Presence.

In the name of Almighty God, we call for the spheres of the five secret rays and the seven colored rays. We call for this action of the sacred fire to pulsate within us for our purification. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother, we accept this done this hour in full power, Amen.

Now extend that visualization to Helios and Vesta, our Father-Mother God in the spiritual sun behind our physical sun. See and feel the rays of intense energy from this life-giving source pouring down upon you and making contact with your heart.

Place two fingers of your right hand on your heart. Hold those fingers there and feel the energy regenerating your heart. Let your heart be a receptacle for the action of the sacred fire. Let it be a receptacle for Divine Love. Let it be a receptacle for forgiveness, for all things that must come into balance, for all that we may know or not know about ourselves and our brothers and our sisters and the millions upon the planet who need these light rays from Helios and Vesta.

Now extend that visualization to the Great Central Sun, the supreme energy source in the center of the cosmos. And as you invoke your tube of light, visualize the rays of that Central Sun streaming down upon you, contacting the deepest levels of your being.

Let us give the "Violet Fire and Tube of Light Decree."

[Decree 0.01, "Violet Fire and Tube of Light Decree," given 3 times.]

A Cosmic Interchange

The next exercise we're going to do is taken in part from instruction Padma Sambhava gave us in 1995. This exercise is a cosmic interchange whereby you give yourself to Helios and Vesta and they give themselves to you on the return current of their love.

Padma Sambhava encouraged us not to go a day without engaging in this ritual. "In a sense," he said, "you become Helios and Vesta and they become you." <7> So this is like the figure- eight flow; there is a cosmic interchange of energies between you and God.

When I told you at the beginning of this conference that we had an unparalleled opportunity to engraft our heart to the heart of God, I was thinking of this meditation as one of the ways we could do it and keep on doing it when we returned to our homes. The exercise we are going to do involves extending the light of our heart in a filigree thread that makes a direct line of contact from our heart to the heart of Helios and Vesta.

Please center in your heart.

[Meditation music begins.]

Visualize yourself as your spiritual reality depicted in the Chart of Your Divine Self. See your Mighty I AM Presence and Causal Body above you. See your tube of light around you and the violet flame burning within that tube of light. See your dancing threefold flame in the secret chamber of your heart. See that spark of fire from God's own heart .

Now extend the light of your heart in a filigree thread directly to the heart of Helios and Vesta. Visualize it and intensify it. Over this thread of light, send your love missiles to Helios and Vesta. Feel when you have made contact with the heart of the Father-Mother God in the Sun behind our sun. And feel now the return current of their love for you.

Guard the flow and keep the filigree thread intact so that the currents of the sun may continue to flow to you. As you practice this every day, you will be able to instantly establish this contact, for in reality, time and space are nothing. Now feel the sunbeams of Helios and Vesta warming the chambers of your heart.

Feel these sunbeams flooding your entire body, even your soul. Now, with your mind's eye, direct Helios and Vesta's needlelike rays from your heart into the cause and core of darkness. See those rays penetrating right into some point or many points of darkness on this earth. See them dispersing this darkness, chasing away the darkness and replacing it with radiant bursts of light, light, light.

Now, as we give together decree 20.21 to "Helios and Vesta," go through the steps of this visualization again—extending the light of your heart to the heart of Helios and Vesta, making the contact, feeling the return current of their love. [pause]

Send the rays of light you have received from Helios and Vesta into the core of darkness. And as the light contacts the darkness, see it transformed by the alchemy of Helios and Vesta into light, all light, light, light, light, light.

Let us give decree 20.21 to Helios and Vesta.

Father-Mother Light Mantra

Helios and Vesta!
Helios and Vesta!
Helios and Vesta!
Let the light flow into my being!
Let the light expand in the center of my heart!
Let the light expand in the center of the earth!
And let the earth be transformed into the new day. (9x)

Transform Elemental Life

Now we're going to give this decree again with a different visualization. Close your eyes and see the light flowing from Helios and Vesta through your I AM Presence and Holy Christ Self down into your threefold flame.

[Meditation music begins.]

Now visualize that beam extending down into the white-fire sun in the center of the earth that is called the Sun of Even Pressure. As this beam of light reaches the Sun of Even Pressure, see its rays emanating out in all directions. See millions of needlelike rays penetrating into every area of the earth, cleansing the earth and holding the balance for elemental life.

Hold this visualization of the beam of light continuously flowing from Helios and Vesta through your heart and into the center of the earth. And see those rays shoot out from the center of the earth to cleanse the whole planet.

Let us give decree 20.21 again.

[Decree 20.21, "Father-Mother Light Mantra," Given9 times.]

Holding our contact with Helios and Vesta, let us sing song 587, "Adoration to the Great Central Sun." Please sing to all elemental life. Send them tremendous love flames from your heart that they might accelerate and accelerate and win their threefold flame.

[Song 587, "Adoration to the Great Central Sun, sung once.]

This meditation was conducted by Elizabeth Clare Prophet prior to Helios and Vesta's
dictation on Monday, October 12, 1998, at the 4-day Harvest Class Nurturing the Soul of Community held October 9 to 12 at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana.

1. James Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912), pp. 360, 361.

2.Cyril Aldred, Akhenaten: Pharaoh of Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson, Abacus, 1972),
p. 133.

3. Padma Sambhava, "God Is Just: All Will Receive Their Just Reward," October 6, 1995, 1995 Pearls of Wisdom.

4. Breasted, History of Egypt, pp. 371, 375.

5. Holy Amethyst, "Journey to the Sun in a Chariot of Fire," July 3, 1971, unpublished dictation.

6. Gautama Buddha, "Shamballa: Point of Origin, Point of Return," February 5, 1995, 1995 Pearls of Wisdom.

7. Padma Sambhava, "God Is Just and All Will Receive Their Just Reward."