Song 518 – EXCELSIOR (9x)
Song 518 – EXCELSIOR (9x)
Words from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shades of night were falling fast
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ’mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device
Excelsior! Excelsior!
His brow was sad; his eye beneath
Flashed like a falchion from its sheath
And like a silver clarion rung
The accents of that unknown tongue
Excelsior! Excelsior!
In happy homes he saw the light
Of household fires gleam warm and bright
Above, the spectral glaciers shone
And from his lips escaped a groan
Excelsior! Excelsior!
“Try not the Pass!” the old man said
“Dark lowers the tempest overhead
The roaring torrent is deep and wide!”
And loud that clarion voice replied
Excelsior! (Excelsior!) Excelsior! Excelsior!
Interlude—4 measures, 2/4 time
“O stay,” the maiden said, “and rest
Thy weary head upon this breast!”
A tear stood in his bright blue eye
But still he answered, with a sigh
Excelsior! Excelsior!
“Beware the pine-tree’s withered branch
Beware the awful avalanche!”
This was the peasant’s last Good-night
A voice replied, far up the height
Excelsior! Excelsior! Excelsior!
At break of day, as heavenward
The pious monks of Saint Bernard
Uttered the oft-repeated prayer
A voice cried through the startled air
Excelsior! (Excelsior!) Excelsior! (Excelsior!)
Excelsior! Excelsior!
Interlude—4 measures, 4/4 time
A traveller, by the faithful hound
Half-buried in the snow was found
Still grasping in his hand of ice
That banner with the strange device
Excelsior! Excelsior!
There in the twilight cold and gray
Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay
And from the sky, serene and far
A voice fell, like a falling star
Excelsior! Excelsior!
Excelsior! Excelsior!
MARK L. PROPHET: As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), he became the most popular of American poets of the nineteenth century. He was an excellent teacher, first at Bowdoin and later presiding over the modern language program at Harvard for eighteen years. Longing for literary freedom, however, he left his post and began writing the poetry that captured the spirit and heart of America and the abiding flame of his guru, El Morya. It was his own soul of which Longfellow wrote in the narrative poem of the legendary Iroquois chief Hiawatha.
Who is Lanello?
The ascended master Lanello was recently embodied on earth as the twentieth-century mystic and messenger for the ascended masters, Mark L. Prophet. In this and in many previous embodiments, he and his twin flame, the messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet, have served the Great White Brotherhood and sought to set forth the true teachings of Christ.
Embodiments
Thousands of years ago, when the bodhisattva Sanat Kumara came from Venus to keep the flame of life on earth, Lanello and his twin flame and other light evolutions of the planets of this solar system were among the sons and daughters of God who accompanied him. The history of Lanello’s mission is the story of a soul seized with a passion that is the love of God.
Master of Invocation on Atlantis
On Atlantis, he was a priest of the sacred fire and master of invocation in the Temple of the Logos.
Ruler in the Incan civilization
Lanello was embodied as a ruler of the Inca civilization.
Noah
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As the prophet Noah, he received the prophecy of the Flood and exhorted the people for over a hundred years.
Lot
He lived as Lot, “Abram’s brother’s son,” in the twentieth century B.C.—the man of God in the wretched cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Ikhnaton
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Thirty-three hundred years ago, as the Egyptian Pharaoh Ikhnaton, he overthrew the tradition of idolatry, challenged the false priesthood, and established a monotheism based on the worship of Aton, God of the Sun. During his reign, Egypt enjoyed a golden age of art, poetry and music.
Aesop
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As Aesop, he was a Greek slave in the sixth century B.C. who won his freedom as a master of didactic stories and fables, though he was murdered by the townspeople he sought to serve.
Mark the Evangelist
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Then as Mark the Evangelist, he wrote the account of the works of Jesus—the Gospel of Deeds—as confided to him by Peter the Apostle. His mother was one of the most devoted of the women disciples, and Mark remembered when, as a boy, Jesus celebrated the Last Supper in the Upper Room. He was raised an Essene and, being well-educated, was chosen Peter’s chief disciple and secretary and was taken to Antioch to assist Paul. He became an exponent of the deeper mysteries of Christianity and founded the Church at Alexandria, where he was later martyred.
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Mark L. Prophet
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As the twentieth-century master Mark L. Prophet, he was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1918, the only child of Thomas and Mabel Prophet. His father passed on when he was nine, and he and his mother endured the hardships of the depression years. When a boy of about eighteen, while working on the Soo Line Railroad, he was contacted by the ascended master El Morya, calling him to his mission.
During World War II, he served in the U.S. Air Force and his training under the master continued. In 1958, El Morya directed him to found The Summit Lighthouse in the nation’s capital. Mark himself typed the first dictations given by the ascended masters, called “Ashram Notes.” He was joined by his twin flame, Elizabeth, in 1961, and together they fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus set forth by John the Revelator of holding the office of the “Two Witnesses” and the “Other Two” in this age.
The ascended master
On February 26, 1973, Mark passed on and his soul ascended to the plane of the I AM Presence to carry on his work with the ascended masters and to make contact with their unascended chelas. As the ascended master Lanello, he continues to direct the activities of The Summit Lighthouse, the “Ever-Present Guru” who has said: “Ours must be a message of infinite love and we must demonstrate that love to the world.”
Lanello’s first public dictation was given April 20, 1973, just two months after his ascension:
As I have thought this night upon the many subjects on which I would choose to discourse, I have drawn the conclusion that it is always the most expedient to speak of practical things, even when the heart would sing to the poetic cadences of the music of the spheres, for I am concerned that you wear my mantle—those of you that I have known for so long, for so many embodiments. And therefore, I have enlisted the service of my angels over these past weeks, thinking of what I could do to bring you my joy; and I have asked the angels to sew you a replica of my cape—my blue cape that I have worn even in the physical octave. And I have asked my angels to place that cape upon your shoulders this night, and it might very well come to pass that you shall feel even the fabric of that cape as it rustles around your ankles and around your arms.
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