Lecture & Pentecost Sermon before Dictation by the Maha Chohan, May 19, 1991
Lecture and Pentecost Sermon May 19, 1991
Sermon given prior to Dictation by the Maha Chohan
Sermon Content and Chapter Markers
00:00:26 Invocation
00:07:24 Sermon Begins
00:28:24 Pause and give “Surrender Rosary,” the “I AM Lord’s Prayer”
00:28:32 Reading of the resurrection of Jesus Christ according to the writing of Mark
00:30:44 Messenger’s comments on this scripture
00:31:44 “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved…”
00:36:34 Reading from the book of Luke
00:39:22 teaching, written down by Luke
00:43:01 Teaching and reading from Luke
00:48:57 Teaching on the coming of the Lord
00:53:46 he will purge us with his fire
00:55:50 Prophet Joel, quoted by Peter
00:58:52 David, the prophet
01:00:29 the day of conversion by the Holy Ghost
01:02:18 guard the spirit
01:03:16 God is our Saviour
01:06:03 Holy Spirit is the great multiplier of the grace of God
01:08:20 fruits of Pentecost as they manifest in the apostles
01:10:48 Build your cord of faith
01:12:19 Be tied to the Sun of your I AM Presence
01:14:07 the power of the Holy Spirit
01:18:23 Jesus is appointed by my Father in heaven to save my soul
01:22:36 Closing message, Dictation by The Lord Maha Chohan follows
SERMON TRANSCRIPT:
INVOCATION:
In the name of God I call forth the light of the Holy Spirit. Let it descend now upon all who are assembled in this holy place. Let thy Spirit, O God, cleave asunder the Real from the Unreal. Strip from us in this hour our outworn garments. Raise up thy mighty Spirit in us.
Thou who art worthy, make us worthy in thy sight. Intensify and intensify thy light, O God. Light of the Holy of Holies, come forth as the refiner’s fire. I beseech thee. Let the reality of God appear. Let the unreal self be bound. Let the power, the wisdom, the love and the purity of the Godhead descend.
O God, send thy legions of seraphim. O seraphim of God, lock thy mighty presence round about us. Make us uncomfortable this day that we might become comfortable as they comforters.
O God, banish ignorance and malice and human consciousness and sympathy and the lusting after the flesh and the things of this world. O God, deliver us from ourselves. O God, deliver us from Death and Hell. Preserve our souls. Preserve our bodies. Preserve our minds and hearts and spirits only as thy chalice for thee.
O thou Holy Spirit, come unto us! Who shall stand in the day of the Messenger of the LORD and the refiner’s fire? Who shall stand in that day, O God? Therefore, we say, strip us, O LORD, Maha Chohan. Make us ready, O God, to be thy chalice this day henceforth and forevermore.
We decree it, O God. In the name of Alpha and Omega, in the name of Helios and Vesta, the Four and Twenty Elders, Seven Mighty Elohim. Let thy mighty wind blow through us. And let there be the cleansing, let there be the cleansing, let there be the cleansing, O God and the infilling.
Fill us with Light. Let us give thy Light to be emptied, self-emptied and filled again for the washing of the waters of the Word, for the washing of the blood, for the washing of the flesh, O God, we come. We will walk the earth. Let us walk this earth in bodies of Light. Let us preserve our sanctity. Let thy holiness be emblazoned upon each and every one of our chakras. Let them spin by the power of the sun.
O mighty Sun, in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, spin in this hour. And let thy Light multiply and therefore, O God, we do surrender in this moment. We do surrender all human consciousness. For we cannot idle in the shallows any longer. We must rise to the heights of Higher Consciousness.
O God, sweep us up now in the garment of the Holy Ghost. Sweep us up. So we must leave behind and we do leave behind the tatters of the old self. We go forward, O God. We do not look back. We do not desire after the fleshpots of Egypt. Purge us this day and send thy legions of Light to maintain, maintain, maintain this level of thy Light which thou dost bestow upon us.
In the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother, I summon legions of the Maha Chohan. Come forth and prepare us. O God, we in thy name take heart and courage to know pain of letting go that we might know the bliss of thy Allness. The bliss of thy Allness we would know, O God, and we shall know it. For thou hast decreed it. Thou hast ordained it. Thou hast willed it, O God! And we receive thee now. We receive thee now, O God. O Father and Son, come into our temple!
Therefore, seal us in the loving God-obedience of the Son Jesus Christ. Seal us that we might magnetize by that loving obedience our LORD, the Maha Chohan, as our Guru of the way of the Holy Ghost.
O God, we come prepared to offer our all, even the smallness of our allness, that thou mightest bestow upon us thy Allness, increment by increment by increment, sealing it, maintaining it, and moving forward in our own God-mastery, which thou hast called us to.
O Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, we attend thy grace this day, Amen.
SERMON BEGINS
Let us join in giving together our Surrender Rosary. Please be seated.
We will sing the “Hail Mary” and the “Introit.”
This ritual, this ritual of the Surrender Rosary, is a joyous ritual. We participate it, in it today because we understand that God comes to us today to offer us the gift of gifts, even an increment of his Holy Spirit, for the enfiring of our threefold flame, for the bonding of our souls to our Christ Self.
This is the day of Pentecost. This is the day that the LORD hath made. Let us be glad and rejoice in it. Let us give our old lamps for new. And in this instance, the new lamp is the lamp of the I AM THAT I AM, the Sun that lights our way. That I AM Presence and the full cosmic consciousness of all-knowing that it brings we must value above all other things.
In this year we have sold many worldly possessions to gain the victory of Saint Germain’s message to us for preparation. Let us understand that now we must sell all we have that is of the lesser consciousness that is not of the Christ to have the one pearl of great price, truly the living, breathing Holy Spirit upon us, truly the Christ Self abiding in our temple day and night.
Would you not give all of your human consciousness for that living Presence, my beloved? [“Yes!”] If you would give it, I say, then give it again and again and again all the days of your life and call upon the LORD to infill you. And remember what is important to you. And remember you are ascending sons and daughters of God. You are in the heart of Jesus and Jesus is in your heart. And you cannot walk about as dullards in a state of human confusion and out of alignment, going this way and that way and being drawn here and there by every mood and moment of adversity or every high of human pleasure.
You must understand that all of these pulls is de, are depriving you, all of these pulls do deprive you of your mastery, your victory, your ascension. And you are doing it every day almost unconsciously. And this is the day when the clap and the thunder and the lightning of the Holy Ghost descends. And we are prepared for it. And you must know that that which is given must be held fast to.
The motto of our fraternity is “Hold Fast What Thou Hast Received.” I perceive that you do not hold fast what you have received because you do not value it. You do not see the precious oil, one drop per dictation, that is given to you that you must cherish and put in the vial of your heart and in the secret chamber, that the threefold flame might burn and expand.
You must treasure the light because it comes morsel by morsel, not suddenly to overtake you, to blast you or destroy you. This is the path of individual initiation. Receive the drop and multiply it by the many drops you have already retained. You must understand that the teaching is in your hands and yet the value that you must place upon it must be far greater, the value of the consecration of time, the value of the desire to be alert and therefore to take care of the physical body and to see to it that it is truly the temple of the living God.
Let us crack now the influences that are degrading of this Western civilization in which we live and know that our Gurus come from the East and in the traditions of the great Masters of the Far East. Let us study the life of Ramakrishna, Yogananda, Milarepa, Gautama, Maitreya. Let us study Jesus’ own self-discipline and what he put himself through that he might have that light raised up.
Let us enter into an era of realism. And let us know that the mighty work of the ages is that daily striving to know that “this day I have achieved the sealing in my temple of Christ my Lord. And I will attain that bonding in this life. This is my goal. For I know that I cannot ascend to God in this life if I have not attained that bonding.”
You must seek after it. You must know your devotions. You must know that to sing unto the Lord in your heart that song of praise through the day and the night will divest you of the tempter and the spoiler and the fallen ones who come to tell you to annihilate the self, to deny the self as God, to parade the self in the preening of the body and in the attractions of the flesh.
If we are the salt of the earth, then let us see that our savor is as none other salt in this earth. Let us see to it that that salt may truly be the salt of the entire world.
This essence that God has given to us can ignite a planet. Yet you still seek in the outer for gain, for achievement, for money, all kinds of things outside of the inner God that is the power to draw millions into this activity of Light. The only thing that stops the millions from entering in, I tell you, is the absence of God consciousness and the attentvness, the attentiveness to it by ourselves. We must have a lodestone. We must have a nucleus. We must have a power that is equal to the neutralizing of the dweller-on-the-threshold and the forces of Darkness that surround the Lightbearers who should be here. We must be able to draw them because we can deal with the forces of Darkness that oppose them in their very own psyches and in the world at large.
You are proving this daily by your staying power in coming to this court and giving the calls with me for the binding of those fallen ones as Hercules and El Morya give us our labors.
This is valuable work. It is the mighty work of the ages. As you slay that which is without and join me in that work, you are also receiving the good karma whereby God does enter your electronic belt, El Morya can descend into it, and you can feel the freedom from ancient forces that have lurked in the unconscious, that are untouchable except when you are willing to give that service and that work of the ages.
This is the place of alchemy for the entire planet earth. God has shown what he will do through our calls. We must not weary. We must call for our vision today. We must know that we must be here, we must be on our knees, we must be imploring God. If Christians and other religious peoples upon this earth can do this, how can we who have the greatest of salvation neglect that spirit that does impel us, that does tell us that the enduing of our beings with that spirit is what this path is all about?
This is the most precious of all holy days. When Christ is born in a manger, there we have the promise and hope of salvation for two thousand years. And when he reaches the fullness of his glory and his resurrection, it is for our resurrection. And when he has his crucifixion, it is so that we know we must walk in his footsteps and also know that crucifixion. And when he has his ascension, we know we can have ours. But on the day of Pentecost, Jesus does deliver to us his Causal Body, his spirit of the LORD garnered for us. And he does empower us.
What is our path all about except the empowerment?–the empowerment by God! Can you do anything if you are a wimp, spineless, weak, and have no memory and no thought? You can do nothing without the power of God! And if you have not the power of God this day to move mountains by faith, then I say shame on you! For the power of God has been available to you from the moment you contacted this activity of Light. And that power of God comes to you increment by increment.
Ye have misused the power of God in past ages. And you have come naked without it. Now you are called by the great Chohan, Morya El, Lord of the First Ray and Buddha in his own right. You are called by him because he knows you need the empowerment. You will not have the empowerment if you do not give your obedience to firstfruits, your trust, your faith, your hope in God, your love of his Law daily.
“Be ye faithful over these few things, these little things. I will make thee ruler over many.” Will you not hear that blessing? Will you not long for it? Will you not live for it to hear God say to you, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things, obeying the Laws of God; therefore I will make you ruler over many. I will make you ruler over demons. I will rake you ruler over fallen ones. I will make your ruler over your own lusts and addictions and your own going astray and your failure to heed the call of your Holy Christ Self. I will make you ruler over yourself and then you can be ruler over Death and Hell and heaven, too.”
The empowerment that Jesus received at the conclusion of his written mission in the Gospel was, “All power in heaven and earth is given unto me.” This is the goal you are striving for. The power descends in the dictation. It will activate in your records of disobedience, records of misuse of the throat chakra and the First Ray. And there is the First Ray Master, loving you, teaching you. And yet in that density of the old karma you are tempted to go out of the way of the Law once again. And therefore you fail your tests and know not you are even being tested or that you have failed them!
So I have come to awaken you that I might not be ashamed to deliver the message of the Maha Chohan this day. You must be awake. You must be awake as bodhisattvas. You must long to qualify when you put your body to rest at light, when you put your body to rest at night to go into the octaves of the Tushita heaven, into the eleventh heaven where the Bodhisattvas abide with Lord Maitreya. You must desire to enter the first level of the etheric level and then the second and the third and to be received into higher and higher levels of the light of God.
The Ascended Masters have revealed that the dictations that are given in this Church Universal and Triumphant come from the eighteenth level of the etheric octave, the eighteenth level of heaven. From that point of the etheric plane, God in the person of his Sons and Daughters and Archangels and Elohim does speak to us. The very speaking of the Word from that level does accord to you immense power.
But, you see, the power is poured into old bottles, old wineskins, the old thoughts and feelings of limitation, absence of self-worth, all of the limiting human conditions of self-condemnation, world condemnation, the condemnation of the fallen ones. And so instantaneously without your conscious awareness that power of God is misqualified. And there you are, using the power of God to affirm your helplessness once again.
Do you see the sudden descent of the Holy Spirit each time we receive a dictation is to shatter the old wine bottles? It is not simply the story hour of the Masters. It is their desire to work change, mighty change, to accelerate us that we might have the presence of mind and the great vision and keep that vision and keep it daily, the vision to know that if we can fix our eye on the goal and be determined and go through any hell, any darkness, any fire, any fury of the fallen ones, God will allow us to skip certain steps.
To skip a step means you must pass by sheer will because you do not have yet the attainment. You can do it. I know this experience. You can make up your mind that, come hell or high water, you will walk the straight and narrow path. And when you determine to do that, you enter into a spiral of service. And as thy day is, so shall thy strength be. For God will supply that strength. And as you do this, Morya carries the karma, you render the service, the work is done and you find yourself yards ahead of yourself as you knew yourself yesterday or six months ago.
Or you can find yourself in the opposite direction. For there is no automatic progress in Montana, in this church anywhere in the world. We are not any closer to God at this altar unless we have a right heart. You may make a trek from the farthest corner of this planet and if you do ha, if you do not have a right heart, that flame will not touch you. It will heal you.
And therefore, in a six-month period you can slide backward and not even know it because of your failure to make your attunement with your God daily. And when you say that tube of light, it is a moment of attunement. And you can lose by increments and become out of touch with your threefold flame and out of touch with your Holy Christ Self, allowing all of the thoughts of business and the day’s occupation and all of your responsibilities to occupy your mind every waking moment.
This is not choosing the better part. And it is not the discipline of the mind. And when you put your head to rest at night, you must be thinking upon the Lord your God. And these are not mere words. I impress them upon you because you hear me speak! But you do not do! You must go forth and be this Light!
One million souls in embodiment upon earth who were with Jesus thirty-five thousand years ago in his golden-age civilization, those of highest attainment on planet earth, yet they have almost all lost their bonding to their Holy Christ Self. And once upon a time they had known life having balanced 50 percent of their karma and having been bonded to that Holy Christ Self.
They are here today! They should be members of this organization. They should be communicants. And I will tell you that that tremendous white cube that we must be together as we are extensions of this altar of the Holy Grail around the world, one body, brothers and sisters under the Divine Mother, we must be that Presence of Almighty God whereby the city of God that is set on a hill will not be hid. And it is yet hid to many.
The Light must shine brighter from our retreat. It must shine brighter because we love our El Morya, because we will do that will of God, because we will earn the right to be trusted to hold in our hand that fire of Prometheus unbound, that fire of the power of God’s will! And God will know and we will know by the commitment in our heart, by our oneness with the Christ, that we can be trusted not to abuse or misuse one erg of that power.
This is why you are here today! You are here because you want something more than you had yesterday. And I am here to tell you how to get it and how to keep it! Do you want it? [“Yes!”] Then let us surrender unto our God this state of consciousness that is no longer native to our soul.
My God has said to me this day, “You are not of this world.” And I say the same to you. If you are not of this world‑-and you are not of this world, for I tell you‑-then do not abide its fashions, its signs, its influences, its calls, its pulls and its attempt to occupy your attention night and day.
Jesus made this statement very clearly. “I am from Above. Ye are from beneath.” Know, then, that the mass consciousness and the fallen ones are from beneath. They are out of Death and Hell. They shall return to death and Hell. And they shall abide there until their time is up. You are from Above. You must return to the Above, to the highest kingdom of God until you attain the level thirty-three of the etheric octave and ultimately enter in to that Spirit cosmos beyond.
You are from Above. You are sent from Above to accomplish a certain task and purpose. And you must desire to accomplish it, no matter what it costs you, no matter what the pain, no matter what the travail and the tears and the sorrow. No matter what insult you must endure. You will balance your karma. You will fulfill that mission because you are going Home. And you intend to take at least a million souls with you. Therefore [13-second applause], therefore, let us give that Mystery of Surrender, which is no mystery any more, for our beloved Jesus Christ and Mother Mary have enfolded, they have unfolded the precious flower, the rose of the heart, and the shown us the mystery of eternal Life.
*Sermon is paused here and “Surrender Rosary,” the “I AM Lord’s Prayer” given, led by Messenger.
I shall read to you concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ according to the writing of Mark.
9 Now when Jesus was risen th, Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
10 And she went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
11 And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
12 After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.
13 And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
14 Afterward [Jesus] appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.
[Mark 16:9-20]
I would like to give you some comment on this scripture. It is apparent that there is an inner circle of devotees and disciples of Jesus Christ, both men and women, to whom he has given the mysteries of God. And it is apparent that there are others who do not have those mysteries and are unable to believe when the word of the Lord is given to them.
We need to understand the soul wed to Christ, understanding and believing and confirming the acts of Jesus Christ and those who did not at that time, they could not bear witness, for they did not have the bonding to the living Christ, though they were his outer circle of disciples.
We read the verse “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned.” You have heard Christian preachers preach this for centuries. This is the understanding of the Ascended Masters on this scripture. We know that there are those in the earth who have known Jesus Christ long ago, even before the world was, even in that golden age civilization 35,000 years ago on Atlantis. There are those who had the bonding to their Christ Self. There are those out of that civilization, one million by number, who made their ascension. There are those who reincarnated. Along the road of life, being absent from their Lord in the flesh, going the way of the world, they lost that bonding and some even lost their Holy Christ Flame.
God did send his Son into the world, the Son Jesus Christ, to save those who had lost their tie, lost the walk, the inner walk with Christ, lost that bonding. He appointed him as the initiator to reinitiate the igniting of the threefold flame of the heart, to reinitiate the alchemical marriage of your soul to your Holy Christ Self. He is the initiator of this reunion. And because those who received it originally received it from him, so those who lost it must receive it again from him.
And therefore those who believe in Jesus Christ require the baptism, the sacrament whereby we dedicate ourselves as God and holy angels dedicate us to his will. When we enter into that will we are qualifying ourselves for that reunion and that renewal of the flame.
The requirement to receive Christhood is to accept that Jesus Christ is the incarnate Christ, that he fully embodied his Holy Christ Self, that he fully embodied the Word which was with God in the beginning. We must acknowledge our initiator in order to receive the initiation. And therefore if we do not believe that he is the Christ, then we cannot possibly believe that we are the Christ, being lesser individuals. Thus you see we receive the judgment of our nonbelief, and so the scriptures say, “He that believeth not shall be damned.”
This is why when I speak on behalf of our church, I say to people that every member of this church accepts Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour. I say that in your name and in the name of your soul not because I desire to impose this doctrine upon you but because I teach it to you and it is my prayer that you will see it, that you will understand and that you will know that Jesus has said, and it is true, “I am the open door which no man can shut.” Jesus is our Saviour because he has saved us for that Christhood once again.
Understanding this, we can surely accept this writing of our beloved Mark, having seen, then, their hardness of heart, their unpreparedness to know the risen Saviour, having realized that some of the mysteries were not given unto them, perhaps the true realization of just what took place from Good Friday to Easter morning. And so there is a gap in their consciousness and some of these disciples have reincarnated to the present day. That fulfillment of Jesus’ mission is the background for Pentecost.
The Gospel writer Luke wrote the book of Luke and he also wrote the Acts of the Apostles, the book of the New Testament that immediately follows the first four Gospels. And so he opens the Acts of the Apostles as he speaks to one to whom he is writing. He says, “The former treatise have I made,” the former treatise being the book of Luke,
1 O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by…in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
[Acts 1:1-11]
This teaching, written down by Luke, confirms what each of the Gospel writers says, that Jesus ascended into heaven. We understand that this is the conclusion of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. We understand that, having gone through the public crucifixion, he will make his exit from this scene and move on, finally reaching his ultimate destination in India.
We understand that Jesus survived the crucifixion. Whether you believe that he died on the cross or that he was taken down from the cross and revived, what the truth of the matter is is that Jesus Christ went through the initiation of the resurrection, through that experience, which means that he was clothed with the Spirit of the Resurrection all the days of his life, which numbered 81 years, as he spent his life in Kashmir, passed on there and did ascend from the etheric retreat of Shamballa.
This, therefore, making his exit in that cloud and as it says “ascending into heaven,” we know that Jesus occupied the consciousness of the etheric octave and emboding it, and embodied it, the planes of the etheric octave. We know that he used the cloud, even the coalesced cloud of infinite energy which Saint Germain has taught you to invoke. He used that cloud and therefore exited the scene. This was not the day of his final ascension, but it was the day of an ascension because the resurrection itself is an acceleration of the atoms and cells of the four lower bodies. Some of his disciples were privy as to his whereabouts and what he would be doing, others were not. One thing he knew, were he to be seen again in that area he would be crucified again.
And so with this background and this farewell, what is he, what he is promising them is that he will be with them again, “not many days hence.” And they will “receive the Holy Spirit.” This is the final initiation of the Guru to this group of disciples. And the scriptures say that on the day of Pentecost there were a hundred and twenty in number present at that occasion.
We know that the descent of the Holy Spirit is the descent of the mantle of the Guru. Jesus was imparting the spirit of the I AM THAT I AM of his own God Presence. He was also imparting that light which could be given through his lineage under Lord Maitreya, Gautama Buddha, Sanat Kumara. And therefore they were given a transfer of light that would sustain them for their mission all of the days of the rest of their life when they would go forth preaching the Word, many of them, several of them being crucified as Jesus was crucified. This is a parting because they will be going in different directions with different assignments. And this is a new beginning for each one.
So Luke records:
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
15 …(the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
This is that hundred and twenty and whosoever should gather with them. This one accord is in the spirit of Jesus Christ, in the spirit of the I AM THAT I AM. It is often a rare occasion when so many disciples can be together, one in the harmony of their Lord. But on this day it was so.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon the head of each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, and the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Did they speak the language? Or did every man hear them in his own language?
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
They were speaking of God’s works because the Holy Spirit is the spirit of God working through man, God working through Jesus Christ, God working through you, every one of you. From the babe in arms to the child in the womb to the hoary head of age, you are apostles of the living Christ as you receive that Holy Ghost this day.
12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will por out in thod daz, I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
Do you believe it? [“Yes!”] Hallelujah! Praise your Lord! Hallelujah, praise the Lord! Hallelujah, praise the Lord! Hallelujah, praise the Lord! Hallelujah, praise the Lord!
I believe it! I believe it! I believe it! I believe it! I believe it!
17 …and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
They shall see the vision. They shall know the Lord and therefore they shall know the outworking of events in this time.
19 And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord I AM THAT I AM shall be saved.
[Acts 1, 2:1-21]
And that notable day of the coming of the Lord is the coming of the I AM THAT I AM, the Mighty I AM Presence and descending with glory, with Light, with Love and with judgment.
That notable day of the coming of the Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ coming into your temple. Can the Holy Christ, can the Holy Spirit come into your temple if Jesus Christ be not received by you first? I tell you, no. You must receive him first. And that notable day of the coming of the Lord is when you finally bend the knee and receive him as your Lord and Saviour and know that with the quickening and the descent of his entering, so does come your Holy Christ Self. And finally you walk the earth with that Mind of God which was also in Christ Jesus. That is what you desire, knowing the fullness of the Mind of God and knowing en, that in the weakness of the flesh you do not yet in this flesh see ful, the fullness of that Mind of God. O to know the Mind of God and to walk in that Mind. That is our deep desiring as we desire to serve.
The notable day of the coming of the Lord, therefore, is preceded by the descent of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Christ Self. And if you do not go through that process of initiation lovingly and willingly, then the notable day of the I AM THAT I AM will come. And that day is a day of judgment prophesied by Isaiah.
And those who have not entered in by that day, those are the ones who say to the mountains, “Fall on us.” And they hide from the face of their God, for they have not made their peace with the Prince of Peace.
This is what we are seeing in all the earth this day. Let us not forget that we are not an exception to this Law. If we do not receive that Christ truly and truly know that this human self must dissolve and that the Christ, in coming into this temple, because the Christ is not of this world, will be crucified. If you choose to have Christ dwell in your temple when that crus, when that Christ is being crucified, you feel it as the crucifixion because you and Jesus Christ and the Holy Christ Self are one.
And I tell you truly, this is the reason for the avoidance technique whereby you do not fully receive the Christ into your temple because you know in your heart of hearts that when that day comes, you will go through that crucifixion. You might as well not deny it or postpone it because if you do you will not be able to deal with the descent of the I AM THAT I AM coming down upon you.
And I tell you, this is the calling of this life. I have had people say to me, “I have seen you suffer. I have seen you suffer all of my life. I don’t want to suffer like that.” And I have said, “Well, I haven’t really suffered and I am sorry that it has appeared that way and that I have set that example to you. But sometimes the burden was very heavy and I wasn’t always smiling.”
It is written about Jesus that no one ever saw him smile. I am not quite so sure about that. [laughter]
But I want to tell you that it is not an easy road. And this Western civilization has taught us that the way to get along socially is to continually laugh and tell jokes and make light of things and not get too excited about anything because life is too short. Well, I’ll tell you, life is too short. It’s almost too short for you and me to realize fully that Christhood in our temple and make it out of this body alive and well in the ritual of the ascension. It takes every moment, every caring, every loving of the rest of your life to do this. But Jesus did do it. And we are a part of him.
Today we know ourselves as his flesh and his blood. We are his manifestation. We are his own. He has called us, called us from that ancient civilization, called us again and again and again. And finally, finally the chelas wake up to the realization, “This is the day that I was born. God has begotten me this day. I am his son. And that Christhood can come down and I will pull and pull and pull until because I have so much Light, Christ will no longer resist entering into my temple.”
This is the day for the recognition. It’s like surgery, having your wisdom teeth pulled, any other confrontation with your karma that you can imagine or not imagine until the day it descends. You have to say to yourself, “I might as well do it now while I am strong, while I have the moment, while I am here on the battlefield of life, whatever it is. God knows the days and the hours of his choosing to give me the maximum difficulty and the greatest challenge because he wants me for himself, he wants me for his own. He wants me to ascend in this life! Alleluia!” [“Alleluia!”]
That’s you! That’s me! That’s all of us! He wants us for his own. And he will purge us with his fire. Why not run into the fire? If you don’t run into the fire of heaven, the fire of hell will chase you from behind. And where will you go if you have not prepared to be swallowed up in the fire of heaven, which also swile, swallows up all the fire of hell that is chasing you.
I tell you, there is no greater glory and joy than to face tribulation fair and square, meet it right there. Meet the adversary and walk right through him. And that’s what you’re going to do from this day on. No more karma-dodging. No more crucifixion-dodging. No more persecution-dodging. Take the fire of God and quench it all. Let the roaring fire of the Holy Ghost go through you until those hordes of hell run and are consumed by the oncoming armies of God who have come from the other side to rescue th, to rescue you and to defeat them. [15-second applause]
Therefore, it is written by the prophet Joel, quoted by Peter on this day, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. The name of our God is I AM THAT I AM. The name of our Saviour is Jesus Christ. And all of the saints and Ascended Masters are one in those two names. And there is no division in the Mystical Body of God, the true body of God in heaven and on earth.
So Peter said,
22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25 For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
What Peter may or may not have known is that Jesus, the soul of Jesus, was incarnated as David, King of Israel. David is saying, “I foresaw the Lord always before my face.” The Holy Christ Self, the living Christ whom Jesus was, was with David and was in him. And his heart rejoiced in that living Presence because he knew that by that Christ, his own soul would not be left in hell nor would he see corruption.
28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thow, with thy countenance.
Those are the words of David in anticipation of his life as Jesus Christ.
Peter then says,
29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
David, the prophet as well as the king, foresaw the day of his fulfillment of the full incarnation of the Word that he would bring and bear.
33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and have receving, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
34 For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
35 Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
David is saying, “The Lord has said unto my Christ, sit thou on my right hand,” but because David himself was bonded to that Christ, the Lord God is speaking unto David whom Samuel anointed, “until I make thy foes thy footstool.”
37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in the heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
This repentance and this baptism must be complete and all encompassing. This is conversion. This is the day of conversion by the Holy Ghost whereby the very Holy Ghost itself empowers us to repent fully of the entire bag of the human consciousness. And in that repentance and determination to move forward, we receive baptism, baptism into the church of God, the Church Universal and Triumphant, for that baptism is the sacrament that seals our repentance. The power of God seals it and we are aided and assisted by his angels all the days of our life to keep that initial moment of the turning around, which is what conversion means, “to turn around” the soul 180 degrees.
We face the sun of the Mighty I AM Presence and the Central Sun and we say, “O my Father, O my Mother, I am coming Home! Alleluia! I am coming Home! I am coming Home! I am coming Home!”
One day we turned and walked away from the Sun into the darker sectors of the universe. We walked away from the I AM Presence. Conversion is when the Holy Ghost of Jesus Christ enters your life and you turn around and it’s a real turn-around, no more backbiting, no more gossiping, no more false witness against the neighbor, no more entering into negative spirals. This is the conversion you call for this day and every day.
And guard the spirit that has entered you, for the spirit can leave suddenly, just as suddenly as that Spirit descends into your temple if you betray that Spirit and do so with dishonor and continue to do so. That Holy Spirit will quit your temple.
So you must pray and you must know that baptism and entering in to the community of God, the sangha of the Buddha, the church that Jesus and Gautama have given us, is an important part of your protection, the circle of that community, that sangha, is the tying of our hearts whereby God may rescue us when we may stray, God forbid, again.
39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Remember that it is God who calls us. We cannot call people but he calls us. He calls each and every individual heart. It is our job to cut them free to hear the call, but God is our Saviour and theirs. Let us remember that. We are not Saviours but God is our Saviour.
40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
And he is saying it today. Out of the Spirit of the Lord again Peter speaks to us and says, “Save yourselves from this untoward generation.”
41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.
44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart.
O Lord, give us singleness of heart this day! Let our hearts have one direction, one purpose, one love, one striving! Let us not be divided in our hearts, a part for the world and a part for Christ. Jesus said, “Friendship with the world is enmity with God. Friendship with God is enmity with the world.” It is a hard saying. Teach it to your children while they are young. Because the saying does not change for them when they desire to go out and know the world and be like the world. Better they be taught when they are little and understand than when they are in their teenage years and enter into the years of forgetfulness and temptation.
Let the children be taught the meaning of the Path and the joy, the literal joy of persecution. Do not allow them to enter into self-pity or yourselves either. Understand, if there is no persecution, it is the sure sign that there is no Christhood there. For only Christ is persecuted in you. Human beings are not c, are not persecuted by the fallen angels, only Christed ones.
“Singleness of heart.” They were one accord in the temple,
47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
[Acts 2:1-47]
The Holy Spirit is the great multiplier of the grace of God in this Community. Let us call for grace. Let us be our God in action. Let us have one heart. Let us rise above the karma, the pettiness, the pain, the hurt, the squabbles over money and who will pay for this and who will pay for that and all of the leftovers of the shelters and this and that.
Don’t you see the point? It is a testing of souls. What is more important to you, the money itself or that in arguing over it you lose the grace of the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit itself will multiply everything that comes into your hands. God is waiting to give you the riches of heaven, but there are tests to be passed, tests to be passed, tests to be passed! And you’ve got to see through the argumentation and the division and then the pain of this human argumentation and division.
We must rise above it. We must determine that there is a God-solution to every single problem, squabble, difficulty, karma, financial situation in this Community. And we will pursue that God-solution with our decrees, with practicality, with our master mind alliances and with the true desire to work the works of God and we will have our victory without division! [10-second applause over:] Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! [20-second standing ovation]
Please be seated.
I am going to read on. I am going to read on because you will see the fruits of Pentecost as they manifest in the apostles.
[Messenger reads Acts 3.]
1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Faith is the cord that is strong. It is the cord such as that worn by Saint Francis with the three knots of chastity, obedience and poverty. That cord is the cord whereby you are tied to the living Christ, to the living witness, to the Ascended Masters, to your I AM Presence. And your absolute faith is that strong tie. And God can do naught else but send to you over that cord his mighty healing love.
Build your cord of faith because it is of the First Ray. It is part of obedience. It is part of love’s obedience. And you will know the tremendous benefit of that connection.
the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
He could sustain the matrix. He could see the vision. He believed he would be healed. He saw it, he accepted. He knew that God by his Holy Spirit had healed him.
17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hat so fulfilled.
19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted–
Repent! Shed the old sackcloth and mourning. Be willing to pay your karmic debts. Repent from your former ways. Be converted! Be spun around into a positive spiral by the Holy Ghost. Be tied to the Sun of your I AM Presence that your sins may be blotted out by the violet flame, by the sacred fire, by the call that God has given you.
…when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
[Acts 3:1-26]
The first fruits of the Holy Spirit are the oneness and the harmony of the Community of believers, their possession of the Holy Ghost allows them to share all things and partake together of God’s blessing. Then we see the fruit of marvelous healings built upon the foundation that the power of the Holy Spirit gives everyone to understand.
I have heard one, a hundred, ten thousand people tell me that they could not understand a word I was saying but they knew exactly what I was saying, whether those who speak English and didn’t understand the vocabulary but they got the message and believed or those from foreign nations who would listen to dictations and have no knowledge of English whatsoever but receive the Holy Spirit, confirm and witness to the Lord God and they entered into the Path. The Holy Spirit transcends all the division of language and enters into us because the people of God are of one heart.
The gift of tongues and speaking in tongues, according to the Ascended Masters for us, is to give the right word at the right time and place to the right person. Speaking the language of that soul exactly as that soul thinks and understands, interpreting the teaching to his or her level, this is speaking in tongues. This is the true speaking in the tongues of the Holy Spirit.
And then again there are those such as Mark Prophet who also spoke in the tongues of angels and Archangels and I am witness, for I heard him speak in those tongues and he would not allow me to record him for you to hear him speaking in the tongues of Archangels. And there are Christians today filled with demons who speak the language of the lower demons that they are possessed with. And in their ignorance and their pride, spiritual pride, and in their inordinate desire to receive the gift, they have allowed demons to enter in, for they have not been prepared or fully prepared themselves for the Holy Spirit.
So now we read what comes upon Peter and John also as a result of receiving the Holy Ghost.
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
4 Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,
6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
7 And when they had set the in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
10 Be it known unto you all, and to…the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.
11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
12 Neither is there salvation in, in any other, Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
If a Christian ever tells you or asks you, “Do you believe that Bible verse?” you will say, “Yes I believe it. Jesus is appointed by my Father in heaven to save my soul.”
And what has he saved you from? He has saved you from your sin and your karma and saved you for another day and another life and another life if necessary to balance that karma. He has saved you for the reigniting of the threefold flame and for the bonding to your Holy Christ Self.
Yes, he has stood when your soul could have been lost forever had there not been the Divine Mediator, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Alleluiah! Alleluiah!
13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.
17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in his name.
18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus.
19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
22 For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.
23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
27 For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
28 For to do whatsoever thy hand, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word–
And I say to God this day, “O God, grant that these thy servants shall speak the Word of the lost teachings of Jesus Christ and the Ascended Master Saint Germain and El Morya with all boldness, for the hour of the coming of this Everlasting Gospel is now!” [12-second applause]
…that with all boldness they may speak thy word,
30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
[Acts 4:1-31]
To the boldness of Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost and every one who has merited the fruit of heaven through the ascension I commend you this day. Praise the Lord!
Dictation by the Beloved Maha Chohan, Pentacost Address May 19, 1991
This Pentecost Sermon was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Sunday, May 19, 1991, at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana, in celebration of Pentecost (May 30).
What is Pentecost?
Pentecost [from Greek pentēkostē, literally “fiftieth day”] is the religious feast on the seventh Sunday, or fiftieth day, after Easter celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. Also called Whitsunday. Whitsuntide is the week beginning with Whitsunday, especially the first three days of the week.
The first Pentecost
Acts 2 records:
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
This means that they were in harmony with the Christ flame within, so much in harmony that they were even found in one place in time and space, fusing their heart chalices and their consciousness in Christ.
Harmony is a prerequisite for receiving the Holy Ghost—harmony in the four planes of Matter, which correspond to your four lower bodies, harmony in your soul. It means eliminating even silent resentment or silent irritation, fuming, fretting, reacting to human conditions, or becoming disturbed or annoyed. It means holding the flow of the sacred Word of God. This is the kind of harmony they had, and so they were the perfect chalice for the dove of the Holy Spirit.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.[1]
These cloven tongues of fire are twin flames. They are the flames of Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending. They are the flames of the Father-Mother God. One of these flames is the flame of your I AM Presence, and the other is the flame of the I AM Presence of the one who is known as your twin flame. The Father-Mother God always manifests as the Divine Us, as wholeness. But for manifestation in Matter in time and space, souls who came forth from the fiery ovoid came forth either as the masculine counterpart or the feminine counterpart of the whole.
The wholeness of God, of the Father-Mother, was manifest on that day of Pentecost. The word Pentecost is derived from a Greek word that means “fiftieth day.” So it is related to five, which is the number of the secret rays. The seven rays are the outer rays of Christ-awareness, and the five secret rays are the inner awareness in the white-fire core of being.
So on Pentecost there were cloven tongues of fire, twin flames of the one Father-Mother God. This gives us the key to understanding what the Holy Spirit brings. It brings integration of consciousness. It brings wholeness. It completes our aloneness and allows us to experience all-oneness. Where we have lack, we are filled with the gifts of the Spirit.
The separation of Light and Darkness
In his address on Pentecost 1991, the Maha Chohan said:
From the mount of salvation somewhere in the etheric octave I descend, not alone to this place but all the way to the deepest levels of Death and Hell. For in the hour of the descent of the Holy Spirit all are touched. Some are quickened to everlasting Life. Some receive the judgment of the Holy Ghost. Know, then, beloved, that to each one upon earth there is a visitation of the Holy Spirit, there is the measuring of the lifestream, there is the dividing of Light from Darkness.
This action of the Holy Spirit is an annual Pentecost event. All souls in all octaves of planet earth should prepare themselves from Easter Sunday to Pentecost through prayer and fasting, worthy deeds, study of the scriptures and dynamic decrees to receive the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
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