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Occult.
That which is hidden. The "occult" mysteries of the Great
White Brotherhood held in their retreats for thousands of years
are currently being brought forth by the Ascended Masters through
their Messengers. There is evidence in scripture and other writings
not included in the Bible-such as the Gnostic gospels, especially
the Gospel of Thomas and the Secret Gospel of Mark-that the apostles
kept a secret and advanced teaching given by Jesus to his inner
circle. Did Paul allude to this when he said, "We speak the
wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained
before the world unto our glory"?
(I Cor. 2:7. See James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library
in English [New York: Harper and Row, 1977]; Elaine Pagels, The
Gnostic Gospels [New York: Random House, 1979]; Morton Smith, The
Secret Gospel [New York: Harper and Row, 1973]. For a list of lectures
by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on the Lost Teachings of Jesus and Gnostic
texts, send for a Summit University Press catalog.)
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Omega.
See Alpha and Omega.
Path.
The strait gate and narrow way that leadeth unto Life. The path
of initiation whereby the disciple who pursues the Christ consciousness
overcomes step by step the limitations of selfhood in time and space
and attains reunion with Reality through the ritual of the ascension.
(Matt. 7:14. See El Morya, The Chela and the Path.)
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Pearls
of Wisdom. Weekly letters of instruction dictated by the Ascended
Masters to their Messengers Mark and Elizabeth Prophet for students
of the sacred mysteries throughout the world. The Pearls of Wisdom
have been published by The Summit Lighthouse continuously since
1958. They contain both fundamental and advanced teachings on cosmic
law with a practical application of spiritual truths to personal
and planetary problems.
(For introductory 12-week series, send $5.00. These priceless, very
personal messages are also available in bound volumes.)
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Physical
body. The most dense of the four lower bodies of man, corresponding
to the earth element and the fourth quadrant of Matter; the body
that is the vehicle for the soul's sojourn on earth and the focus
for the crystallization in form of the energies of the etheric,
mental, and emotional bodies.
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Portia.
The Ascended Lady Master. Through thousands of years of service
to God on the Seventh Ray of justice, freedom, mercy, forgiveness,
alchemy, and sacred ritual, beloved Portia attained to the embodiment
of the God Flame and God consciousness of divine Justice as divine
Opportunity. Hence, she is called the Goddess of Justice or the
Goddess of Opportunity. Representing the Sixth Ray of service and
ministration on the Karmic Board, Portia keeps the flame of justice
and opportunity on behalf of the evolutions of earth. Beloved Portia
is the twin flame and divine consort of Saint Germain. Together
they direct the next two-thousand-year cycle, the seventh dispensation
known as the Aquarian age.
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Power,
Wisdom, and Love. The trinity of the threefold flame-Power representing
the Father, Wisdom the Son, and Love the Holy Spirit. The balanced
manifestation of these God-qualities in and as the flame within
the heart is the prerequisite to personal Christhood. Attributes
of the Hindu conception of the Trinity as (1) Brahma, the Creator,
(2) Vishnu, the Preserver, and (3) Shiva, the Destroyer of evil/Deliverer
of souls. According to the Eastern tradition, the Divine Mother
is the universal force, Shakti, who releases the light/action, energy/consciousness
of this threefold flame of Spirit into the Matter cosmos through
the precious hearts of her children. See also Threefold flame.
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Presence.
See I AM Presence.
Psychic.
(From Gk. psyche 'soul'.) One who has developed his soul, or solar,
faculties for heightened awareness of the physical, astral, mental,
and sometimes the etheric belts of earth and her evolutions. A psychic,
or one who is psychic, has, in this or previous embodiments, developed
faculties of sensitivity or extrasensory perception not generally
accessed by mankind. This may include altered states above or below
the normal threshold of awareness and the tapping of the computer
of the subconscious or the superconscious mind. Although some use
these faculties constructively with a respectable degree of accuracy,
in many cases the information as well as the discrimination thereof
is unreliable.
The
term "psychic" has come to be used synonymously with the
term "astral" in its negative context and pertains to
the penetration and manipulation of energy at the level of the astral
plane. According to the Ascended Masters, one who has involved his
energies in the psychic, psychicism, or psychic phenomena is functioning
on the lower astral plane. Thus, by the strong ties established
with entities of the lower octaves, he postpones the day of his
true spiritual development and oneness with the penetrability of
the Godhead. Conversely, through oneness with God and direct apprehension
of the higher octaves, he may derive spiritual benefit for his soul
in the etheric plane (heaven world), journeying in his etheric sheath
to the retreats of the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood
and the cities and temples of light located in that plane. True
spiritual God-mastery is not measured by clairvoyance or psychic
phenomena but by the God-control of the sacred fires of the heart
and adeptship on the path of Love.
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Raphael. See Archangel.
Rays.
Beams of light or other radiant energy. The light emanations of
the Godhead which, when invoked in the name of God or in the name
of the Christ, burst forth as a flame in the world of the individual.
Rays may be projected by the God consciousness of ascended or unascended
beings through the chakras and the third eye as a concentration
of energy taking on numerous God-qualities, such as love, truth,
wisdom, healing, etc. Through the misuse of God's energy, practitioners
of black magic project rays having negative qualities, such as death
rays, sleep rays, hypnotic rays, disease rays, psychotronic rays,
the evil eye, etc. See also Seven rays.
(See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven
Rays.)
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Readings.
Probings of the records and soul memory of past, present, and future
and of planes of consciousness beyond the physical. If readings
are done by a psychic or through regression by hypnosis, they may
be a probe of or an accessing of the astral body and astral belt
of the earth, hence the human consciousness in all its personal
and planetary astrological aspects. Since this takes into account
experiences of the lower self without benefit of the soul's ongoing
integration with the Higher Self and its point of perspective-looking
down upon herself from the plane of causation to the plane of effect-such
a reading is at best one dimensional. It may be a rerun that evokes
deep emotions, but it will fail to re-create the rapture of the
soul's self-transcendence in Higher Consciousness-the victorious
denouement of her passage through the dark night.
Readings
by an Ascended Master on behalf of a chela are given in order that
lessons may be learned, goals set, and right choices made based
on the totality of the life picture, involving the karma of the
scene, the priorities of self-mastery, service with one's twin flame,
and a vision of future freedom. The realization of this freedom
may depend on a commitment to sacrifice in the present-to willingly
embrace obligations and debts in a one-pointed striving for the
mark. When the Ascended Masters give a reading, they give it for
the disciple who wants to know not for curiosity or self-importance
but that he may pay the price for the soul's separation from the
Law of the One, balance karma, get off the treadmill of reembodiment,
serve the I AM Race and their endeavors on behalf of humanity, reunite
with his twin flame, and ascend to God. The Ascended Masters present
an accurate assessment of the soul's integration with the Christ
Self in the four planes of Matter. They quicken the memory of the
divine plan for this life and tell their students what is their
progress on the Path. On the basis of the evaluation of the Lords
of Karma, the Masters reveal what is most essential to the soul's
salvation, drawing from the Book of Life and the hall of records
maintained by the Keeper of the Scrolls.
Since
a reading taken from the subconscious opens the records that have
been sealed in wisdom's name by the Christ Self for this lifetime,
the Ascended Masters recommend that instead of a reading the violet
flame be invoked to "clear," i.e., transmute, these records
without prior probe in order that the soul may daily ascend to God,
transcending the past, living in the Eternal Now, strengthened by
Higher Consciousness. The violet flame itself may reveal to soul
and mind flashes of the past as these pass into the flame for transmutation.
Transmutation by the violet flame frees us to be who we really are
by our victories in God, unencumbered by the mésal-liances
of our yesterdays.
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Real
Image. (1) The true image of God after which man (male and female)
was made in the beginning. The Real Image is the likeness of God,
the Christ, or Light-emanation of God; it is the blueprint of the
true identity of the sons and daughters of God. (2) The face of
God mirrored by his angels and innocent souls.
(Gen. 1:26, 27.)
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Real
Self. The Christ Self; the I AM Presence; immortal Spirit that
is the animating principle of all manifestation. See also Chart
of Your Divine Self.
Recording
angel. The angel assigned to the soul to record all her actions,
words, deeds, feelings, thoughts-in short, her comings and goings
in the planes of Mater. The recording angel records each day's events
and turns them over to the Keeper of the Scrolls, who is the head
of the band of angels known as the angels of record and of all recording
angels assigned to the lifewaves evolving in time and space.
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Retreats.
Focuses of the Great White Brotherhood chiefly on the etheric plane
where the Ascended Masters preside. Retreats anchor one or more
flames of the Godhead as well as the momentum of the Masters' service
and attainment for the balance of light in the four lower bodies
of a planet and its evolutions. Retreats serve many functions for
the councils of the hierarchy ministering to the lifewaves of earth.
Some retreats are open to unascended mankind, whose souls may journey
to these focuses in their etheric body between their incarnations
on earth and in their finer bodies (during sleep or samadhi).
Many
of the Masters' retreats, including their mystery schools, were
anchored in the physical plane during earth's earlier golden ages
and even after the Great Rebellion of the fallen angels and the
Fall. In the face of desecration and destruction of their shrines,
the Masters withdrew their centers and their flames to the etheric
plane, hence the term "retreat." Following the ascension
of the Messenger Mark L. Prophet on February 26, 1973, the children
of God were given renewed opportunity from the Lords of Karma to
balance their karma by attending classes at the retreats of the
Seven Chohans, the Maha Chohan, and the World Teachers. On January
1, 1986, Gautama Buddha and the Lords of Karma granted a petition
of the Lords of the Seven Rays to open universities of the Spirit
in their etheric retreats for tens of thousands of students to systematically
pursue the path of self-mastery on the seven rays. Traveling in
their finer bodies during sleep, students spend fourteen days at
each of the retreats of the Chohans and the Maha Chohan.
(See "The Opening of the Temple Doors," in Pearls of Wisdom,
1973, vol. 26, nos. 10-19. El Morya, The Chela and the Path, chap.
5. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven
Rays, Book Two, pp. 302-9. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "The Message
of the Inner Buddha," in Pearls of Wisdom, 1989, vol. 32, pp.
419-28.)
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Root
race. See Manu.
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