LECTURE: Lesson One from the Holy Spirit: Who & what is the Holy Spirit? June 26, 1994
Lesson One from the Holy Spirit:
Who & what is the Holy Spirit?
June 26, 1994
Lecture Chapter Markers
00:04:06 Invocation
00:04:05 Lecture: Lesson One from the Holy Spirit, Excerpt
00:49:50 Song 174, The Holy Spirit Streameth
LECTURE TRANSCRIPT
INVOCATION
In the name Almighty God, I AM THAT I AM, let thy light descend. Fill all the house with thy Spirit, O God. Let the winds of the Holy Spirit blow through us now, cleansing, purifying, emptying the chalice that we might be filled.
O Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, Almighty God, let the divine design for this conference, “The Environment of the Soul: FREEDOM 1994: Building Community through Self-Mastery,” now descend into the physical octave, now descend into our physical atoms, into our minds, into the Mind of God and out of the Mind of God, in which we are one.
O Lord most holy, thou who hast ordained the Great White Brotherhood of ascended beings, Masters, angels and Archangels and all evolving in all planes of being, take us to thy heart. Let us remain in the oneness of the heart of God together in these days. Let us know the Holy Spirit as our friend, comforter and ever-present, watchful and guardian of our post.
O Lord, receive us now. We gather in the name I AM THAT I AM Padma Sambhava, Jesus Christ, Lord Maitreya, Lord Gautama Buddha, Lord Sanat Kumara. O Seven Holy Kumaras, touch our chakras. Seven Mighty Archangels, mwe send thee hour upon hour for the clearing of the records of darkness and greed throughout the earth. Consume war within and without!
We come to celebrate thy love, O God, and we seek thy will and through thy will thy empowerment of the Holy Ghost. O Lord, we are grateful. Therefore to that end we take, then, the sword Excalibur of our sponsor El Morya for the dividing of the way of Light and Darkness that Darkness might be consumed and Light prevail.
O flaming sword ov Eden, flaming sword of Eden, keep the way of the Tree of Life within us. We send forth the flame of that fiery sword. Cleave asunder the Real from the Unreal and let us be restored to the house of Maitreya, the Mystery School.
Therefore in God’s holy name I summon legions of angels of the Seven Archangels, seraphim and cherubim of God. Go forth now. Let there be the dividing of the way within our hearts, withing our members. Let all that is not of the Light be bound! by the mighty sword of God. Let all that is real be reinforced. And let there be healing! daily and hourly at all levels of our being.
This we decree, O Lord, in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and the Divine Mother, Amen.
LECTURE
I found out that trying to nestle the Holy Spirit in five lectures is absolutely impossible. But what I will endeavor to do is to bring to you the Holy Spirit in the major appearances of that Spirit of God moving in, through and among us from Genesis to Revelation, to give you so much profound insight into this Holy Spirit, the prerequisites to your worthiness to be one with that Holy Spirit, that if you take all of these things and seal them in your hearts, you will be well on your way at the conclusion of this conference to having a daily walking and talking with that Holy Spirit in full confidence that God has ordained your oneness with the Holy Spirit. So we begin at the beginning.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [that is, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God] moved upon the face of the waters.” Thus we see that the opening verses of Genesis record the presence of the Holy Spirit as integral to the creation, the creation of worlds, universes, the cosmos and, most specifically, you. God is there in the Beginning. God breathes into us as the Holy Spirit the breath of life when we take our first breath and God the Holy Spirit withdraws from us that breath at the hour of our transition.
So the Holy Spirit was with the children of Israel during their exodus and journey through the wilderness to the Promised Land. They followed the Holy Spirit, who manifested as what? We all remember‑-“a pillar of cloud by day,” “a pillar of fire by night.” That was the presence of the Holy Spirit. Claim it for yourself right now, that God is always going before you with that cloud by day, that pillar of fire. That is your protection. Be not superstitious that anything can touch you, for the Holy Spirit is with you.
As Pharaoh and his armies pursued them to the Red Sea, “Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.” That is a wonderful quote to recite when you have fear about the small and the greater burdens of life and challenges. Fear ye not. Stand still. Don’t tremble and quake and be filled with anxiety and imperil. Stand still and behold and expect the salvation of your God. It is this faith that opens up your heart and lets the Holy Spirit in.
Moses says, “The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.” Be still and know that I AM God. That is the message of the Holy Spirit. “Let me do it. I am here to do it for you. I will take care of the adversity, the enemy, your needs, all that you must have to be victorious.”
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Lift thou up thy rod, stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. And the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.” The waters of your human consciousness can be divided. Put one to the one side, one to the other and walk on the dry ground of the Lord and don’t be moved by your emotions. Don’t be moved as things come in upon you and you begin to tremble and shake and say, “Woe is me. What shall happen to me?”
“The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went in after them [in] the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots and his horsemen.” No word was forthcoming from the God of Israel to warn Pharaoh. They had no sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.
“In the morning watch, the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians and took off their chariot wheels that they drave them heavily so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. [And it was so.] And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea. And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. There remained not so much as one of them.”
Remember the right hand. Remember, when you raise your right hand you are slipping that hand into the hand of God, and God will go for you and work for you and raise you up.
Scripture records the Holy Spirit’s spectacular presence in nature during the Israelites’ sojourn in the wilderness. Two months after the Israelites left Egypt, the Lord said unto Moses: “Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud”‑-a thick cloud. Have you ever been a, in a thick cloud of fog? You couldn’t see through it to the other side?‑-“that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever”-the cloud, the wonderful cloud of the I AM Presence, the cloud of the Holy Spirit.
“And it came to pass that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.” The thick cloud was the presence of the Holy Spirit‑-the medium through which God in the Absolute communed with man in the relative.
So what is the Holy Spirit? A type of mediator, mediating between the absolute intensity of God, the absolute intensity of the sacred fire that would consume us on contact, mediating, then, between that intense, absolute God and the frail human, the imperfect human, the human that has not even found its own immortality in all these centuries of reincarnating.
Then again, in the wilderness the Israelites Korah, Dathan, Abiram and 250 other prominent men challenged the authority of Moses and Aaron and vexed the Holy Spirit. What does it mean to vex the Holy Spirit? It means to deny that Spirit, to cause that Spirit to become angry in the sense of the wrath of God.
To go against the Holy Spirit is the greatest crime there is. The Bible says that you must never swear using the name of the Holy Spirit. People swear using the name of God and the name of Jesus Christ. But that sin of swearing using the name of the Holy Spirit is fraught with gravity and serious karma. So they challenged the authority of Moses and Aaron and vexed the Holy Spirit. You never want to be in that position. Therefore guard your thoughts and feelings and actions.
The judgment of the Holy Spirit fell upon them. Do never, never do anything that will cause the judgment of the Holy Spirit to come upon you. The earth opened up and swallowed up Korah, Dathan and Abiram and their families. Fire descended from heaven‑-it was the fire of the Holy Ghost‑-and consumed the other 250. This is an example of the swift and sudden judgment of the Holy Spirit whuna, when the people have so violated the I AM Presence of their God that divine mercy is no longer an option. Then many thousands of years of accrued karma descends.
You can see thousands of years of accrued karma descending in ancient and recent events, such as A.D. 79. The sudden eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city of Pompeii. Was it an accident of nature? Of course not. Century upon century upon century these people had been ac, accumulating their karma. And one fine day that karma became top-heavy and so ves, Vesuvius erupted and they were all buried.
August 1992, Hurricane Andrew left 33 dead, 300,000 homeless, 60,000 homes destroyed. The fall ’93 earthquake that rocked central India, 300 miles south of Bombay, east of Bombay, left 30,000 dead or missing and more than 100,000 homeless.
This is the exactitude of the working out of the law of karma, as a man soweth, that shall he also reap. We must remember this and not think that because life just rolls along and we seem to lead a charmed existence that any day there may not come upon us the return of a karma that is ancient, from ten thousand years ago, fifty thousand years ago. The cycles of karma grind slowly but they do grind on.
What can we do? We can decide to get the Holy Spirit and live in accordance with the ordinances of God’s laws and use the violet flame to transmute that past karma before it catches up to us, overtakes us and deprives us of the fulfillment of our mission. We never know when the day dawns what blessings of good karma we have made will come upon us to put the wind in our sails for victory or what negative karma may come down and deprive us of the fruits of our sowings.
When Joshua led Israel, the Spirit of God empowered him as the great warrior captain in m, in Israel’s military campaign to conquer the Promised Land. Under his leadership the Israelites conquered thirty-one powerful rulers in Canaan in just a few short years.
The spectacular events at the battle of Jericho bear witness to the presence of the Holy Spirit in their midst. After the Israelites marched around Jericho, seven priests blew seven trumpets and the people shouted with a great shout. Those priests directed and released the sacred fire of their seven chakras for the leveling of that city, which was a city of sin, a city that must be conquered. The walls of the city fell down flat and they took the city. God, the Mighty I AM Presence, overshadowed Joshua and his men, Archangel Michael came as the Captain of the Lord’s hosts, but it was the Holy Spirit who triggered the action of the victory.
Now you are seeing the Holy Spirit as a facilitator, as a mediator, as a very present help in need, as an essential element in our lives. And as we continue on with this teaching, we will come to understand just what a disciplinarian the Holy Spirit can be. The Holy Spirit demands that we rise to his level. We cannot bring him down to our level. We must rise to his level and in that rising there are things that we will have to dispense with, set aside and say, “I can no longer act in this wise. I can no longer be this kind of person because I know in my heart it is an offense to the Holy Spirit and I do not want to offend the Holy Spirit.”
Next comes Elijah’s contest with the prophets of Baal. This is always very entertaining for children. They can root for their hero and they can be glad to see his victory. Elijah’s contest is another example of the tangible power of the Lord’s Spirit working through his anointed prophets. The First Book of Kings says, “And Elijah came unto all the people [of Israel], and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.” They answered not a word because Elijah was filled of the Holy Spirit, ordained by God, and they dare not speak out in his presence.
“Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.” Numbers don’t count, do they? They don’t count at all. It is the one that is right that counts, though five million may shout in the other direction.
23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
24 And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord [I AM THAT I AM]: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.
From morning until evening, the priests of Baal called on the name of Baal, but there was no response. In the evening Elijah prayed:
36 Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and…Jacob, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
37 Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord [I AM THAT I AM], he is the God; the Lord [I AM THAT I AM], he is the God.
Let’s say it all together: The Lord I AM THAT I AM, he is the God! The Lord I AM THAT I AM, he is the God! The Lord I AM THAT I AM, he is the God!
This, too, was the outworking of the Holy Spirit‑-the Spirit of the I AM THAT I AM‑-that rested on the prophet Elijah. If you serve the Lord your God all of your life in integrity and in purity, that God will rest upon you also. Desire that! Strive for it. Put everything else aside for it and yet know that God wants you to be happy in your families, in your churches, in your schools, in your social activities. We can keep all the commandments of God and have a good time besides.
Elijah would not allow the people to halt between two opinions. He wouldn’t allow them to be wishy-washy and say, “Well, maybe it’s this, maybe it’s that,” in that relative consciousness. He drew a line in the sand and said, “If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, follow him.” He challenged them to rise above duality and personality, choose the living God and denounce the dead god of Baal.
It is easy for us to take what we want from the living and the dead God to suit our rela, our relative situation ethics. But if we do, we will never be empowered by the Holy Spirit. So make up your mind today whether you want to rewrite the Ten Commandments to give yourself license to do anything or whether you want to walk in this life to the point of your victory and be empowered by that Holy Spirit so that you can do something about the people you meet every day who are sick, who are burdened, who are dying, people all over the world.
Wouldn’t you like to move when you move out of your body at night and minister with the angels in that cloud of the Holy Spirit, to be able to heal and save the children, millions of children, who are dying today of hunger, who are not being cared for, who don’t learn their lessons, who have no future, who are emaciated? When you look at Rwanda, we thought Bosnia was the ultimate, but look at Rwanda. And here we sit.
And what is the matter with us? What is the matter with us is that all of us need to sacrifice to get the Holy Spirit so that when we work out of the body or in our prayers they are effective and evil in the earth is bound and the seed of the wicked are bound. We cannot just have the knowledge of the Law and the knowledge of the Teachings of the Ascended Masters and give our decrees for our own pet projects and this and that and a very private walk with God that is self-centered.
We need to know that we have the Teachings of the Ascended Masters because the Ascended Masters need vessels to bring people out of their misery and tie them back to the reality of that Christ-flame, that God-flame. We can’t go half the way in this Community. We have to go all the way, deciding that we are not an exception. No one is an exception! Everyone can receive the Holy Spirit if he is willing to meet the requirements.
The Holy Spirit is an all-or-nothing proposition. And the Father-Mother God, the Son and the Holy Spirit demand 100 percent of your love and obedience. And you will find such joy in living, you will never again think that living by the laws of God puts you in some kind of puritanical straitjacket. Nothing of the kind is true. The Holy Spirit is a great liberator. I am a free spirit!
How many people here today are free spirits? [“I am!”]
Be sure you can say, “I am.” Be sure you can say, “I’m a free spirit.”
Are you truly free from the bondage of your own psychology, your own karma? Are you free from all of the shackles of this world? Are you free from your ego? Are you really a free spirit? [responses] Or do you do what the world wants you to do and go with the trends of the world?
Search your heart! When, when thoughts come to you regarding this, write them down in the pad you’re writing on and keep writing and tell yourself how much of a prisoner you are and how much of a free spirit you are.
God made you to be a free spirit, to kowtow to no one! You have to say or when you can say to the one God, “I will have no other gods before you‑-including my ego self,” then you will be well on your way to oneness with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit was upon the prophet Elisha when he brought the dead son of the Shunammite woman back to life. Entering the room where the child was, he shut the door and prayed to the Lord. He kept everybody out‑-nobody’s doubts, nobody’s fears, nobody’s wailing. He entered in and he shut the door and he prayed. He was alone with this child. Then he performed a mighty alchemy. He laid himself upon the boy, putting his mouth upon his mouth, his eyes upon his eyes, his hands upon his hands, his chakras upon his chakras.
As Elisha lowered himself unto the boy, the child’s flesh grew warm. Again he laid upon the boy and the child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. That’s the kind of miracle you want to be the instrument of. You are not the doer; you are the chalice, the instrument of healings such as these when you make yourself ready.
Now we turn to Jesus’ life‑-it is a study in his oneness with the Holy Spirit. He, the Son of God, was never separate from the three Persons of the Trinity. God confirmed the presence of the Holy Ghost with him by signs appearing. And each test the Father and the Holy Spirit gave him he fulfilled so that we, his disciples, might take from his example and pass the same tests that Jesus passed.
Don’t think about Jesus being tempted in the wilderness as an isolated experience. You have to go through that temptation, and sometimes many times over.
Jesus comes “from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him. John forbids him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? Jesus answered, sai, sayn, Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.”
What Mark Prophet al, always taught was that John the Baptist was the reincarnation of the prophet Elijah. Jesus Christ was the reincarnation of Elisha. They had a long, established Guru-chela relationship, Master-disciple relationship. But in this case Jesus is saying, John the Baptist is saying, “I must decrease and he must increase.” In this lifetime John the Baptist went before Jesus to proclaim him as the Lord and Saviour of the Piscean age. It is a beautiful thing.
And so, when John says, “I need to be baptized of thee,” Jesus says, “Suffereth it to be so now.” They understand that hierarchical relationship where John the Baptist was his Guru and in this life John will recede as Jesus comes to the fore.
So here it is baptism at the age of twenty-nine or thirty. He “went up straightway out of the water: and…the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Holy Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” I always interpret this “in whom I am well pleased” as God is saying, “In whom I AM. I dwell in this Jesus and in that dwelling within him I am pleased with his state of consciousness.” Here the Holy Spirit and the Father confirmed him as the Son of God and of God incarnate.
That is an initiation that you can look forward to and prepare for, that wondrous initiation of hearing that divine approbation. It is not exclusive to Jesus. Every word Jesus spoke, everything he did was that you might go and do likewise, but not of your human self but of your own real, Christed Self.
The Holy Spirit was with Jesus for his next test. We read in Luke, “Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil.” You know that forty is a recurring number in the Old Testament. It is more symbolic than always actual.
God will allow the Devil to test us just as he allowed him to test Jesus. We must pass these tests! We must anticipate them. We must know that they will come. We know what the tests of life are. They’re very basic. You don’t simply go through life la-di-da and the test descends upon you because this is the day for your exam and you haven’t prepared, you haven’t thought about it, you haven’t even considered that you will have such a great challenge.
And you know what? Sometimes God tests us again and again, even if we pass our tests each and every time. And that’s because God has the right to test our mettle. We have the right to be tested again and again because we want to see where we are on the path of life. To prove we are not waning in our love for him and our resolve to keep his commandments, he does that. He keeps on testing us because until we are ascended in the Light and free we are not free from the temptations of the flesh.
After this Jesus “returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee” and he taught in the synagogues. “As his custom was, he went into the synagogue [in Nazareth] on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.” These are the words of Isaiah and this is the commission that God gave to Isaiah. But he gave the same commission to Jesus. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me” for a reason: “Because he hath anointed me, number one, (write it down) to preach the gospel to the poor.” The poor are those who do not understand the teachings of the path of God so they need to be preached to, they need to be given that teaching.
He hath, this is number two, “He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted.” Healing the brokenhearted is something you will hear more about from our experts in psychology who will be lecturing here, how to heal those who suffer and who mourn, how to heal those who simply cannot pick up the pieces of their lives and move on because they have been through such sorrow or such brutalizing or such torment.
Three, “to preach deliverance to the captives.” Captives of what? Those who are enslaved in their bodies but those who are enslaved in their nyne, in their minds also, enslaved by ignorance.
Four, “recovering of sight to the blind,” the blind who cannot see God, the blind that cannot see the error of their own ways. They are blind because they have not been taught.
“To set at liberty them that are bruised”‑-bruised, burdened, bowed down, mistreated.
Six, “to preach the acceptable year of the Lord,” the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, that is, repent and be saved because the Lord is coming.
“He closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all of them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.”
Thus the prophecy of God to Isaiah is fulfilled in Isaiah. Hundreds of years later it is fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And now at the turn of the Aquarian age it must be fulfilled in you. God has called upon you to do these six things. Please do not take the Bible as something ancient that has no relevancy to today. Many souls will be lost if we don’t step into the mantle of our calling. Today Jesus calls us to the baptismal fount of the Holy Spirit that we also may accept our role in fulfilling these promises.
Later, after this public event, when the turbulent sea was threatening to overtake his boat, Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit. He rebuked the great wind and said to the sea, “Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.” Thus, by the power of the Holy Spirit and the authority of his Sonship, Jesus commanded the elements and the elemental, the elementals, the Nature spirits. He commanded them to obey him and they did.
By the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus exorcised a legion of unclean spirits from the Gadarene demoniac. The spirits entered into a herd of two thousand swine, who ran off a cliff into the sea and drowned. Casting out demons out of animals, out of people, out of the human body that is defiled is another work of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will work that work through you when you are ready.
Always one with the Father and the Holy Spirit, Jesus raised from the dead the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue. The people at Jairus’s house, who were weeping and wailing, were astonished. Jesus had the Holy Spirit’s power to raise the dead by reigniting the threefold flame, breathing upon them the breath of life and commanding the spirit of the deceased to reenter the body temple.
Jesus spoke of the power of the Holy Ghost as rivers of living water. The Gospel of John says, “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” “He was speaking of the [Holy] Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for the [Holy] Spirit had not yet been given [to the disciples] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.”
What is the belly? The belly is the place of the solar-plexus chakra. It is the place of the sun, the place of peace, the place of pure desire. When we have the Sun shining, the Sun of the I AM prese, Presence shining in that chakra, when we maintain peace, when we purify ourselves of wrong desire, then we can become one with the Prince of Peace. His healing to the nations will flow out of your solar plexus as rivers of living water.
When Jesus sent forth the apostles to preach and heal, he told them that the Holy Spirit would be with them, “And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the [Holy] Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.” My friends, as disciples of Jesus, let us accept that promise for today and know that God has ordained that the Holy Spirit speak through us also.
Jesus promised his apostles before his crucifixion that the Holy Spirit, whom he called the Comforter, would come to them. He said, “I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. Even the Spirit of Truth [the Holy Spirit of Truth]; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” All the foul spirits, the lower spirits, the lower orders of spirits and demons must be exorcised from you so that you create a temple that the Holy Spirit may live in twenty-four hours a day.
“The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have [told] you.” “When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”
“It is expedient for you that I go away.” There are many reasons for this. If Jesus had stayed with the disciples forever, they would have been dependent upon him. They now had to become all that he taught them that they could be. Further, “If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.” The age was turning. The cycles were turning. Jesus Christ had been with him. They knew in the previous da, dispensation the power of the presence of the I AM THAT I AM. Now they were entering the period of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus says, “But if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment.” Three things he will reprove the world of: sin, righteousness and judgment. “Of sin, because they believe not on me.” Isn’t it the greatest sin of all that the living Saviour has come, is here still, always will be, but they believe not? “Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more.” There is the righteousness of men, which may be self-righteousness, and then there is the righteousness of God. And that righteousness is the right use of God’s Law. “Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you into all Truth.”
Jesus made other key promises to his apostles before he left the Palestinian scene. At the Last Supper he said, “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.” This means that the Mighty I AM Presence, your own individualized God Self, and your Holy Christ Self will dwell in your temple because you love him and keep his words.
How many people say to me, “My Holy Christ Self told me to do this or that but I didn’t do it.” People say that to me matter-of-factly. The most precious contact you have with the living God is your Holy Christ Self.
Why does your Holy Christ Self give you direction? Why does your Holy Christ Self comfort you, teach you, warn you? Because the Holy Christ Self is your Teacher. And if you keep that state of listening grace, listening with one ear to your Holy Christ Self and obey the Holy Christ Self, you will have many shortcuts in life. You will not have to go all the way around Robin Hood’s barn to find the door.
But moreover, the Holy Spirit is testing you. The Holy Spirit is testing you to see that you will be obedient at every juncture when he speaks to you. When you can guarantee that you will respond to the Holy Christ Self and keep yourself in the God-flame and in your tube of light so that you are not mistaking foul spirits for the Holy Christ Self, then the Holy Christ Self can teach you more, can empower you, can release increments of light to you.
I ask you to begin exercising this immediately and never stop till the hour of your victory, listening to the inner voice of God within you and obeying that voice. There are times when you can be tired, when you can be sick, when you can be weak and then is when the voices of foul spirits, lower astral entities, will start speaking to you and telling you all kinds of nonsensical things.
When you are in an unbalanced state physically and you do not have your strength, you do not have your light centered in your chakras, you are not centered in your I AM Presence, then these foul spirits may come along and really wreak havoc with your consciousness. They can tell you to commit suicide, to jump out the window, to do all kinds of crazy things.
And this is the place where if people ke, continue listening to the wrong spirits and not to their Holy Christ Self because they’re incapable of reaching the level of the Holy Christ Self, that that is where they go off the deep end and ultimately are entertaining so many spirits that they need to be o, on medication. But then they do not take the medication because their spirits tell them not to take the medication. And so, it’s a very dangerous place to be, to be off-centered, to be off-centered, to not have the balance in your four lower bodies so that you are attuned at all times with your Holy Christ Self.
Others tune in to foul spirits by the desire to be channels at psychic levels. They are not empowered by the Holy Spirit. And only if you have the Holy Spirit can you deliver accurately the Teachings of the Ascended Masters or what the Holy Christ Self of anyone is saying.
So this is the danger of the Path and this is why El Morya saw to it that I introduce to the Community the basic macrobiotic diet, which establishes balance in the organs, balance in the mind, the body and makes you strong, have the sacred fire in your chakras, have your ch’i, have your energy and not be weak and limp so that you cannot even maintain the Light of God in your body temple. Often those people who become deranged and psychologically ill and not able to function normally in society, all they need is a correction of their diet, right diet, and the willingness to stop talking to discarnate entities.
Jesus says, “He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: yet the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.” On the way to the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told the apostles, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth [much] fruit and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye…ask the Father in my name, he may give it you.”
This is a very important principle in the Master-disciple relationship. We do not choose the Master but the Master chooses us. We may say we’ve been a chela of El Morya’s for many years, but the question is, has he chosen us to be his chela? We don’t choose the Master; the Master chooses us. And he chooses us when we qualify ourselves.
And the most fundamental qualification that you have to have to have an a, Ascended Master sponsor you is dependability. Dependability. Are you a chela one day and something else the next? Can the Master depend on you night and day because you have your equilibring, your equilibrium and you are not moved from it?
And constantly in the back of your mind is the sense, “I’m a chela of El Morya. And if I’m not one now, by golly, I’m determined to be one and I’m determined to be one to serve this Master, to do the work that he needs to have done. And I have the hands and feet and I have the mouth. And therefore I will apprentice myself to El Morya until the day comes when he will be compelled to take me as a chela because I have fulfilled the matrix, the mold of the pattern of his disciples.” So we need to earn the right by the Holy Spirit to become disciples of Jesus or anyone.
The words of David come to mind apropos this very point. He prayed, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.”
At this point let us sing a few songs to the Holy Spirit and while we are singing let us tune in to a new level of oneness to the Holy Spirit, which you are already gaining.
[Song no. 174, “The Holy Spirit Streameth,” sung 4 times.]
This is an excerpt of Lesson One from the Holy Spirit (a five part lecture series): Who and what is the Holy Spirit? Given by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on June 26, 1994 during FREEDOM 1994: “The Environment of the Soul” held at the Royal Teton Ranch.
What is the Holy Spirit?
Third Person of the Trinity; the omnipresence of God; the cloven tongues of fire that focus the Father-Mother God, also called the sacred fire; the energies of Life that infuse a cosmos. In the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the Holy Spirit corresponds to Shiva, known as the Destroyer/Deliverer because his all-consuming Love, when invoked in the planes of Matter, binds the forces of evil and transmutes the cause and effect of man’s miscreations, thus delivering him from the prison house of karma and its dark denizens.
Prana is the essence of the Holy Spirit that we take in by the sacred fire breath through the chakras to nourish the four lower bodies. The Holy Spirit focuses the balance of the Father-Mother God in the white-fire core of being. The exorcism of foul spirits and unclean entities is accomplished by the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit in the name of Christ and the I AM THAT I AM. The nine gifts of the Spirit are powers conveyed to the Lord’s servants to bind death and hell and work his works on earth.
The Person and the Flame of the Holy Spirit is the Comforter whom Jesus promised would come when our Lord took his leave—to enlighten us, to teach us, and to bring all things to our remembrance that beloved Jesus has taught us, both in heaven and on earth. Each time a son or daughter of God ascends into the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM, the Holy Spirit descends to fill the void and to magnify the Lord’s Presence on earth. This is the ritual of the descent of the Holy Ghost promised by Jesus to his disciples when the Master said, “Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high,” which took place on Pentecost.
The nine gifts
The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are (1) the word of wisdom, (2) the word of knowledge, (3) faith, (4) healing, (5) the working of miracles, (6) prophecy, (7) the discerning of spirits, (8) divers kinds of tongues, (9) the interpretation of tongues.
The representative of the Holy Spirit
The representative of the flame of the Holy Spirit to earth’s evolutions is the ascended master who occupies the office of Maha Chohan. The Holy Spirit is the Personal Impersonality of the Godhead and is positioned on the west side of the City Foursquare.
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