Angel Singing in the Chapel, Teaching on Forgiveness by Mark L. Prophet – Jan 1968
Tape of Angel Singing in the Chapel,
Teaching on Forgiveness
by Mark L. Prophet
January 13, 1968
A Saturday Morning Service
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TRANSCRIPT
[organ softly plays unidentified melody]
MLP: Well, good morning. Where is‑-oh there he is. I’ll let you have this for the time being. This nice pencil. I believe most of you are aware of the visitation of yesterday which occurred at what time?
Woman: A little after one o’clock.
MLP: A little after one o’clock, there being no service here. Ruth and Erwin were here. Ruth was playing the organ; Erwin was here meditating. And apparently there were other beings in the invisible here who decided to make themselves visible or audible, at least audible visible. And so at the end of the piece, she was coming to an end, a beautiful soprano voice, deep throated and with marvelous control, was heard filling the chapel. It was later checked and no one in the house had been outside, was singing in. And only those two people were in here and they weren’t singing. When the organ quit playing the other‑-the angelic being, or invisible being, continued to sing, very briefly of course, but apparently as if they were caught, like a leprechaun.
We who heard it first replayed from the tape which happened to be on, were astounded at the tremendous radiation that filled the chapel when it was played. And we all had the same sense of an other world, and yet of the reality of the other world. This is the second manifestation that I have ever witnessed in my life, and as most of you know, I’m not a phenomena hound. I’m not someone who runs around looking for phenomena. On the other hand, when manifestation of this kind, or visitation of this kind, occurs, we can only be grateful for it. Because it went‑-it was unsought. And I feel that it was perhaps one of the things that the Masters may have done for us to inspire our faith, to ra–rocket it up, boost it, and perhaps even to assist us in communicating these things to other people so that they will understand that this chapel is under the radiation of the Great Ascended Hosts.
I think one thing that it did for me, and jolted me at-‑in the process, was to realize that familiarity that often breeds contempt in all people is a subtle thing, too frequently I am afraid, causes all of us to improperly appreciate what we have in the chapel and in the entire establishment of the Masters here. I don’t say this in a condemning manner at all. I say it in, in an admonishing manner, as a definite admonishment to everyone.
I think that it goes without saying, then, that increased reverence for the Masters, and for the chapel, and for the tremendous purposes which have brought us together, should be, be developed. And we should develop it speedily, spontaneously.
I know as far as I’m concerned it gave me a quite a boost. At first I didn’t think much of it, and then as I began to examine a little more I began to wonder if Ruth Farnam or Erwin Arndt were uh, Edgar Bergans, and that the uh, this was a Charlie McCarthy manifestation and one of them singing. But I soon discarded that as I think you will too when I asked Mr. Ladd to please play it for us this morning so that all of you can hear it again, and I want a fuller volume than you’ve had previously.
Al Ladd: [unintelligible]
MLP: Oh. It shows you what he thinks of it. I uh, rather regret that this was not a bit uh, more sustained. I, I wish that we had heard actual‑-though the actual the song. Apparently, in checking it out on the inner, I have been told that the being was singing in a higher octave with the music all the time, and then uh, felt drawn by the quietness of the chapel and the meditation, and the total complex. No people were there, only two people, you see, and they were in meditation and prayer. And uh, so they began to come closer down, I mean. And as they dropped into the octave here toward the earth, that the coming down also reduced the vibratory level until it approached or approximated the earth level. And at that point of juncture, it became audible, you see. A person with higher senses could have heard it before.
Woman: [unintelligible]
MLP: You sensed it before, of course. And this is the experience that often occurs to probably most all of you. You get some tremendous uplift in here at various times. It’s because you have the accompaniment of the Ascended Hosts, the Ascended Masters singing with you, or cosmic beings, or angels. Well, you take it sa‑-for granted as an inspirational thing and are not quite aware of their presence. But apparently when uh, propitious, or the right time comes, they do and can descend into this octave. And they do become audible at that point. And they become inaudible again as soon as they withdraw.
So I thought that some of you had not had the opportunity of hearing this, and this Saturday morning it would appear to be a very good thing if we gave you that opportunity. Yes?
Woman: [unintelligible] Sigrid?
MLP: Have they not heard it?
Woman: No.
MLP: Yes. [long pause] I don’t like the idea of everything that happened at Lourdes. I remember at Lourdes and Fátima and various other places, how that the commercialists soon were there, and that they were selling various pictures, religious relics, and items, to the people as the came there, including‑-and also including food and what not. Therefore, I don’t want you to think that this is something that I would have a desire to commercialize on. However, if it should develop that we can play this, and, and uh, boost it up so it can be more audible than what it was before, by electronic devices, I would consider putting it on another tape, and then eventually on a small disk with the story of it, and offering it free of charge to all who become Keepers of the Flame, or something like that, you see. And I think that that way it might uh‑-it would not be a commercial thing, but it would be used to spread the faith, you see. And it may be that that’s what heaven has done. [sound of footsteps]
Where is Beulah? [reply unintelligible] Why? Why didn’t you find out? [reply unintelligible] Well I think that would do her good. I mean, can’t we hear the calls from in here? [reply unintelligible] Well it’s for her good. [sound of footsteps and door closing] Humph!
Uh, incidentally, I want to thank all of you for your prayers for my recovery. I uh, would urge that you don’t abandon those prayers at this moment, at this moment, because I’m still uh, taking some medication, and uh, the doctor is going to check me at one o’clock today. I feel much, much better. The condition has primarily abated and all of that, but it was very traumatic. Uh, the psychic and uh, mental shock was the most severe almost of my life.
Woman: We won’t [unintelligible].
MLP: Okay. And the severity of that shock uh, does not completely wipe out the whole of it instantly, but I feel that the Masters have done a great deal, and I’m so grateful to God that I am almost speechless at this moment. I have‑-I don’t feel as if I can hardly talk at this moment for my gratitude. And I only pray that the Karmic Board will give me the opportunity of making up my gratitude by some worthy act which God will do through me in appreciation. I ask him to do it through me, and I offer myself to him. Because I feel that all of our good health, and the things that we take so for granted, are blessings that we are accountable for, also‑-blessings of opportunity. Life is an opportunity.
Incidentally, I want to say this, that the hippies in Pennsylvania, six of them at one time, have been struck blind by looking at the sun while under the influence of LSD. And the blindness is permanent according to medical officials. They have completely ruined the retina of their eye and they have no vision at all. And they are being led around by the hand and, and the society for the blind and schools for the blind. Their parents are asking how could this happen. Well they literally attacked me when I went against LSD out in Seattle. Mothers got up in Portland and Seattle and, and said that they thought I was crazy and that I had no business making such statements. They were alo‑-right along with Doctor Leary. They were all in favor of the fact that turn‑-tune in, turn on, and drop off, or something like that. And uh, they thought that I was doing a terrible thing. I was speaking against the sacraments when I spoke against it. But I have never changed my stand, because I, I spoke the official stand of the Great White Brotherhood. [child loudly talking] That’s all right dear, she can stay in here.
Woman: She wants to hear the angels.
MLP: You want to hear the angels?
Child: Yeah.
MLP: Then you have to be absolutely quiet or they will not sing. You cannot make any noise or talk, do you hear me?
Child: Yeah.
MLP: All right. Now we’ll…[clicking sounds]
Man: [unintelligible]
MLP: It’s very brief. [clicking sounds] [angel tape is played] Did you hear the singing? Play it once more now because you have to catch it up. The sound is coming down at the very end there. All at once it gets louder and then it, it comes [Mark makes singing noise] and then it drops, and then she stops playing and you still hear the continuing of the, of the, of the sing‑-the singer, the vocal sound still continues. [tape played again] Did you hear it? [affirmative replys from audience.] Did you hear how full-throated it was? I mean, it was a controlled voice. I mean it was, huh?
Woman: [unintelligible]
MLP: Can you make it louder?
Man: [unintelligible]
MLP: Well can’t you bring up the…
[Mark clears throat] isn’t that the treble? Can’t you raise the treble? Doesn’t it…? [plays tape again] You got it didn’t you? Did you hear it a little better that time? [child talking] She likes it! [child talking] [tape is played again] You hear the organ stop and then the…? That’s quite a marvelous thing, isn’t it? First time. Well, I think now….
Child: We’re going to decree.
MLP: We’ll sing together, “Joy To The World.” We’re going to sing back to the angels. One fifty. [piano plays and all sing “Joy To The World,” number 147 in current songbook] Please be seated.
Seventy point eighteen. This is a violet flame day and we ask for an intensification of the violet flame upon the planet. Our beloved Ascended Master Jesus, our beloved Ascended Master Saint Germain, our beloved Godfre, and all that have to do with the release of the violet transmuting flame, from the heart of our beloved Arcturus, our beloved Archangel Zadkiel, Holy Amethyst, and from the violet fire cauldrons in Wyoming, and everywhere upon the planet where there are great focuses of the violet flame. We ask for release to the earth of that flame, and an intensification this morning of violet flame action to remove the cause and core of human discord in hospitals and homes where there is sickness, in places of incarceration, in places where individuals are being given correction in the halls of justices, young men and women in the hands of police officials throughout the world, in prisons and prison camps, in Russia as well as in the United States. We ask for removal of the cause and core of all resentment, rebellion, and feelings of human viciousness and vengeance, which of course as residual uh, magnetism of a negative nature, are the cause of tremendous activity in the elemental world, as well as the disturbances that are created in the world of the people themselves and those that are around them. Let us give this 70.18 to our beloved Arcturus as we call together for the removal of the cause and core of all human discord in ourselves as well as others. [all decree 70.18. 1x]
Now let’s take 70.16, “The Law of Forgiveness,” as we forgive our enemies, as we forgive ourselves, as we forgive the world, as we call for the forgiveness of the world amplified between hearts. There are people all over the world today who will not give uh, the feeling of forgiveness to one another. They have a hardness, and they say, “Whatever this person did to me was too great, and I will never forgive them never, never, never!” And they seem to rejoice in the fact that they can say that they will hold a feeling against another person and will never forgive them. That never is a long time, dear hearts! Never is far too long a time. And if never, then never will humanity, or will God be able to bring his plans into fruition.
This would give man the control of the plans of God. Because as long as people would not forgive one another, the kingdom could never come in, and therefore man would become greater than God.
Well, this can’t be. And human rebellion cannot stay the hand of God. And therefore, from time to time, the bodies of people are broken through sickness, disease and death, and they have to start all over again. And in the realms in between they are shown the law of cause and effect and why they should have forgiven, which they readily admit at inner levels. And they say, “Well, I will not be that way when I go down again.” These vows are far too frequently broken, and people do once again reestablish the same old hardness of heart that caused them to have their bodies broken prematurely in some cases, uh, in the past.
Therefore, let us all understand the need to be absolutely without question unequivocally a forgiving person. This does not hurt us at all. If it hurts us any it’s the human that’s hurt. And if the human is hurt then it needs to be. And we should rejoice that we may understand the drama that was brought out by John the Baptist and Jesus, where Jesus said, that greater than he‑-gr‑-no greater had ever been born among women than John the Baptist. And John the Baptist said, “He who cometh after me, uh, is so great that,” he said, “I’m not worthy to even untie his shoes.”
And we realize, then, that the statement was also made, “He,” that is the Christ, “must increase, but I must decrease.”
And there we see the greatest that is born among women, as the measure of any man, I mean we all have to understand that we must‑-that the Christ in us‑-must increase, and that the human, the John the Baptist side, must decrease. And therefore, it’s not wrong at all to be able to bring down the ego, and the ego that says, “I’ll never forgive because what you did was so awful. It was so terrible that I will never forgive you.”
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you is the absolute tenet of the Great White Brotherhood. It is the one supreme law of the One, externalized as the law of justice between lifestreams. If you would never then be forgiven by God, then don’t forgive others. And that’s all that you have to have happen. And I have also myself seen a certain law involved in this, that the longer I would take to forgive someone for something they would do to me, the more I would have to handle in my own world. Because we cannot govern others, but we can govern ourselves. And he that governs himself is greater than he that keepeth a city, because he sets the example for the whole city.
“Ex,” the Latin, “out of,” “exit,” “ex,” “ex-ample.” Ample of course here is applied more or less to the efficiency. When you say something is ample, it is sufficient. So it’s out of the sufficiency of grace in your heart that you express forgiveness to mankind everywhere, and do it permanently and speedily. The faster the quicker.
Gandhi shot to the death and dying, with a wound, gaping wound in his stomach and his life blood gushing out, made the sign of forgiveness and blessing to the man who shot him. He did it immediately because he knew the law of the One, he knew the law of the Brotherhood.
Many times people fail to forgive those they know more intimately, those that they know the most, the ones that are closest to them, because they feel they have greater justification for holding it against them. Familiarity that breeds contempt again. If it’s a stranger, they can‑-the stranger steps all over the feet and crushes their arches, and then says, “Oh, I’m sorry, excuse me,” they can say, “Oh that’s all right. That’s okay. Don’t worry about it.” But if it’s a child that steps on their toes and scarcely hurts it, and they happen to know the child‑-they know who the child is, maybe it happened before and the child bumped them in the crowd‑-they can get very angry and say, “You hurt me.”
I’m just using this as an illustration. It has no reality in any events that happened. But it is true that sometimes the ones closest to us in families, uh, have a greater difficulty. You understand this. They have a greater difficulty in forgiveness because they say, “Well they should have known better. They knew me,” you see. There are no, no conditions we can make for the avoidance of forgiveness. We must understand that. There are none.
Yet when, when I went out here to Carson, the sin that I committed was being a member of The Summit Lighthouse, a doctrine that they couldn’t accept or didn’t believe. So they immediately turned away from me because of the hardness of their own hearts. You understand. They had that already that hardness in their hearts, you see. “Those people are awful!” And this, of course, is something that people often do in the world among religions. They categorize other religions in order that they may consider them to be anathemas. I trust that we will not do this.
We may see that some of the religions of the world are a bit raw. I have had an awful lot of contact with Unity school, yet my mother studied Unity, and I was brought up reading their periodicals, and I developed some metaphysical sense from them, and a lot of blessings in it. Yet, a Unity group in this country in the Midwest, en masse almost, totally hated me without a cause. And I was not preaching at the time. It was through gossip. Some person in their group didn’t like me and passed it to the others, and they all gave me the cold shoulder. The whole group.
Yet, we have many adherents in Unity. We had a Unity minister here recently at one of our conferences in October, and he said it was the greatest experience of his life, and he was very thrilled with it.
So we see it is not the teaching, it’s the people. It’s not all the people, it’s some of the people. And while we may be inclined sometimes to make waving generalities of condemnation–any of us might do it–of whole races, of whole segments of religion, this is not justified in the light of reason. So we have to conclude that total condemnation should never be given, and forgiveness should be extended to people who err. This will make us the recipients of such things as happened yesterday in the chapel, in perhaps increasing measure. For I have no doubt that as we approach the golden mean of the golden rule, as we begin to come to a place where we can subjugate our human self, that like a bunch of wild horses wants to sometimes get out of the stalls and kick over the china.
If we can subdue ourselves and let the Christ be enthroned that the uh, work that we are going to do here will truly magnify itself. And as I have thought much of recent date on the word, “life,” and recognize its dual application, life in the main, having been thought of by us from the personal pronoun standpoint as our own, in contradiction‑-stinction of the Master’s statement, “Your life is not your own, for ye are bought with a price.” And I have come to realize that most people consider their life from the standpoint of the things that give them pleasure, “What pleases me?” good food, you know good eating, gemütlichkeit, you know, the friendship between people, the uh, social aspects of living, coffee and tea and pizza, [Mark chuckles] and all of the things that we associate with friendship‑-and uh, I mean, this is pleasure–and driving our cars and going on trips, seeing operas and moving pictures, and reading good books and having fruit and warmth and good clothes, and with all the things that we have as our life, then the security that we feel comes either with pensions, old age assistance, or retirement funds, or cash in the bank, or ample stock on the market‑-any of these things that appear to give us some measure of security‑-all these things we consider our life. And that is only one aspect of life in this dual manifestation. And it is not the most important.
The other aspect of our life is of course our spiritual attainment, what we really are, what God measures in us as wealth, what God measures in us as a whole garment‑-not a garment that we rend, but a garment that we keep solidified by light, by the healing flow of our love for people based on divinity, our love that flows through us through the violet flame, through the songs, through the decrees, through our service that we render. This love, regardless of what man may measure us by is measured by God.
I might measure someone here, or some stranger coming in might say, “Oh, well all she does is wash a few dishes out in the kitchen. She could be working in a restaurant for sixty dollars a week washing dishes and that wouldn’t make her any better. I mean, I don’t see anything saintly about any of those people. They’re just working there for a cause they believe in. It doesn’t have any great meaning. They could work in the world for a few bucks and it’d be the same thing. It doesn’t mean anything.”
People can say that. No it doesn’t mean anything. No it doesn’t mean a thing unless you make it mean something. And it’s what the people here make it mean that counts. And what you make it mean has to include the other side of the dual life, not just the mundane side, not just the side of security.
Supposing we had to live in the desert and had one big tent, and the whole bunch of us had to wrap ourselves up with robes against the swirling sands. We had to carry our water around in animal skins and hunt for water holes and ride on camels or horses, and walk sometimes, and had to endure the burning heat of the sun and the fierce cold of the night. What if we were in that part of the country and we were still in a spiritual group wandering around in the desert. I wonder how many of us could endure. I wonder how many could endure even if we were all young. I wonder how many would endure the rigors. What we have here is by the grace of Saint Germain. And it is Saint Germain that desired‑-I can tell you now, that is behind the house. Morya is behind the activity, and Saint Germain is the one who pulled the strings, with the cooperation of Master Morya, to see that we got the house. Morya used his energies, but it was Saint Germain’s gift to Morya to house the activity. Because the Master Saint Germain wanted this Citadel of Freedom, for Saint Germain. [Mark yawns] Excuse me.
So we see then that what we have on the outer is really quite lovely, and it will be more so and can be made more so. There’s a great deal we can do to decorate it still more and furnish it, until it truly becomes a house that the angels can sing in every day. Because it is not only the physical instruments of decor that we put on the walls, but it is what we put in our hearts [when?] we come in here. What we come in here with? Do we come in here to give or to get? If we come in here to give, then we give our energy. And the law is inexorable. The law says if we give we must get.
[side two of cassette dub. Apparently the same service, but no overlap on tape.]
Here is one where uh, obedience to the Masters is the requirement. Because we dare not let this year go by without good fruit. Simply because they struck Elizabeth and I down, and we are far from recovery, and I have a chest cold at the present time, and I certainly don’t have as much energy as I’d like to have.
All of you that can, in your prayers and calls for Elizabeth’s and my help, well help us once again to get on our feet. I hope you realize that this whole thing comes not from God, that its purpose has been very defeating to the book. As the weeks go by, each week that’s lost puts the book so further behind. And if they can start a major world war before the book ever gets on the market, and restrict our travel, restrict people’s acceptance, restrict the dissemination of it, you see, they can get people so embroiled in military conflicts and political conflicts, and class struggles, that they’re not able to absorb or put their attention on the Master’s work. And this is what they did when the Ballards first started out, and immediately they plunged the world into World War II. And the Ballard activity got caught up in the jaws of all that, you see. And they had all their secret submarines and all that type of thing you know, the three secret submarines that were destroyed and all the different things you read about in their work.
Well, we don’t want that to happen. So we do want to ask that forgiveness will be used all over the world, and prudence and common sense, and especially in our own midst here. Because none of us want to have sickness. None of us want to retain it. We want to deflect the things that are thrown at us, and we’ve seen plenty of deflecting.
So let’s give this forgiveness decree and understand what we’re doing. [all decree 70.16 until Mark stops about two thirds the way through]
Sigrid, why are you not decreeing?
Sigrid: [unintelligible]
MLP: Oh, I see. Well, I mean you are decreeing, then? [reply inaudible] Well I saw no lips moving.
Sigrid: [unintelligible]
MLP: Okay. Well I‑-you, you can understand as the, as the director, and I want you all to take notice of this, if you find anyone with lips that are not moving, and they’re not decreeing, you have a right to stop and inquire as to their decreeing. Because I don’t want staff members as a rule not to decree out loud. There are exceptions if someone is not well enough and they can decree mentally, it’s all right. But at least determine that they are decreeing, and that nobody in the group is either sleeping or is in any other state. I didn’t think she was sleeping, but I mean that’s a point. I mean you just have to do it. Because you do, and I, I would suggest to you, Sigrid, that you would try to decree if you can‑-audibly. You don’t have to do it so loud, but you can uh, can’t you follow it with your lips? [reply inaudible] I see. Is it your throat?
Sigrid: No, I’m [unintelligible].
MLP: Physical weakness. I want you to know something, that I came in here one day so weak that I was afraid I would faint on the platform. And no one knew it. And I gave a decree, and I found that the more I threw out of energy in that decree, the more energy I got. I just want you to know that, because it worked with me. And I, I, I got so much energy through me eventually that I flushed out the weakness and I got quite a bit of strength. So I’m just giving this as an illustration and a lesson, you see. It actually worked with me. And I don’t‑-I won’t criticize you, or anyone else, if they, if you don’t do it, but I’m‑-I want you to have the teaching. Because it works. It absolutely works. Now, let’s go again from the beginning. [all decree 70.16, 1x]
Thank you dear hearts. I’m going to let Bill finish up if there’s any time left to finish. Or have I taken it all? No, I guess there’s about ten minutes. I uh, didn’t intend to do this, but I thought it would be nice once again to come back here on the platform and say a few words and decree with you a little bit. My heart is always with you when you’re decreeing. In the past ten or fifteen days I haven’t been very much able to do too much, and I see that I do have quite a cold. Uh, I didn’t realize I had a cold, but it’s quite in my nose and my chest. It makes me feel kind of dumpy. But uh, it’s a little harder to stand up here than to sit down there. Yeah. But uh, I’m sure that the violet fire will do the perfect work.
Of course, it seems they really gang up on you in the winter. I’ve always noticed this in lots of parts of the country, that uh, I think sometimes it’s a state of mind, and I think that we can break that. I’d like to have you, Bill, to work to the removal of cause and core of all mental depressions, senses of illness, and uh, frustration.
I had an experience the other night, I think the whole group here–and I know Sigrid will probably appreciate this‑-I was uh, very depressed up in my room, and had been for several days, because terrific pressures had built up, you see, in my being. And they were trying to tell me they were going to finish me and that I was done for. And uh, they had practically convinced me, you see. I mean there really wasn’t any basis for it, either. Sure I felt bad, but I mean you can feel bad and still not be done for. You can feel bad for twenty years. Some people do. Some people feel bad all their life. You know, they have little health problems that are annoying. Some people have migraine headaches that are terrible, and suffer all their life.
Well, suddenly the Master opened up my spiritual eye enough, and I saw that I had an octopus like beast that was‑-had covered my whole face and my body, and it bored into my internal organs, and had stuck siphons right in through me on the etheric. You understand what I mean, I think. It was like an octopus type of thing, and had planted itself with gray fish substance all over my body and it was just sucking the life blood out of me, and it also was pushing into me the venom of fear of death and fear of everything, and, and a sense of that I, you know, I‑-real‑-make me feel real sorry for myself, you know, that I was in bad shape.
Well, generally Elizabeth and I do our own clearance work together. In this case, she was talking to Bonnie and they were working on something up there. So I suddenly cut loose and I made a call to Astrea in my mind. And I encircled myself with blue fire. And then I called to God and Alpha and Omega in the heart of the Great Central Sun, to Jesus Christ, to Saint Germain, Mother Mary, and a few of the other great beings, and the spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, and I demanded that that thing be pulled off of me. And I saw it go. I want you to know that when it left, it was if the room was all dark and suddenly you pulled the curtains wide open and the sun came in. That left. And with it, once again a feeling of health‑-even though I was not corrected‑-began to flow through. And I also hoped. The biggest thing of all is the Light of Hope came in. And I saw that thing in the air hanging there above me like an old dead skin. And I called for its encirclement and its being removed. And then I got Elizabeth on it and we got the name of it, and we got the black magicians behind it, and we got it removed. The Master did it, of course, the great ones did.
I thought maybe you’d appreciate hearing this because it shows me that many times when we have symptomatics, conditions that are outer expressions‑-you understand now what I’m talking about‑-cause and effect relationship. Now I’m talking about effects, understand. These are the effects that are visible. You can see them. Behind the invis‑-uh, behind the visible causes, there are invisible‑-I’m sorry‑-behind the visible effects, there are invisible causes. And the removal and‑-of the cause and core of those conditions will many times change the whole outer pattern, at least make it bearable, and you can change it shortly thereafter.
Now I want to cite this to you as my own experience of recent date, and it does show that we must keep the faith. And we don’t need men like the man from [Bimini?] to “keep the faith, baby.” [laughter] I mean we’re not talking about that kind of thing. We’re talking about the real, genuine, Jesus Christ, the Great White Brotherhood, God magnificent faith in the reality of the universe. And it’s really keeping it.
So bless you all, and may this be a good Saturday for you, as well as tomorrow be a good Sunday. And I thank you for your prayers and your continuing prayers. And I say let us pray for all of our staff, because we do have a fine staff, one and all. They’re all good people. They all have similar problems. We’re all trying to work them out. And the stronger must always uphold the weaker, because you never know when you’re going to be the weaker. You may be the weaker today; tomorrow you may the strongest person in the place. The person that looks the weakest right now might be the strongest and holding everybody else up. And it’s happened again and again, and it will. And the strongest one may the weaker after awhile. But you keep on. We’re a brotherhood, we’re a team, we’re supposed to help and understand one another and be a friend to one another.
Of course, this works all ways, two ways, three ways, four ways, every way. We have to be a friend as well as to expect friends, you know, to come to us. And it’s sometimes a little difficult for us if we’re not‑-I know it’s hard for me, when I’m not feeling at all right, it’s hard for me to go out and be as, as affable and agreeable, and hopeful, and cheerful, as I would like to be. Yet I think we try.
And I am not displeased with the people we have here. I mean they’re tried and true, uh, no matter what may have happened from time to time that we’ve had little minor differences. We certainly are a team, and I think that this year is going to be just a beautiful year. It started awful rough for me. What I had was most uncomfortable, and the prognosis of it, I’m certain, I mean it, you just didn’t know what you were dealing with, you know. If you have a cold, you know it’s a cold, you might get over it. Sure it might be pneumonia, but on the other hand, at least you have a chance. You’ve had colds before. But, of course if you had a nosebleed everyday, or something like that, or your vision blurred and you couldn’t see anything, and you couldn’t see anybody and you had to re‑-walk around and grab the furniture. I didn’t have this, now, I don’t mean that. I didn’t have a nosebleed, either, or anything like it. But I’m just saying that if something unusual come up and you didn’t know what it was, like the time uh–was it Beulah I guess?–that came up that time when I, I put a vibrator one time on my eye upstairs. And uh, I scrambled by eyeball, and I couldn’t see anything in the room at all. Everything was‑-everything in the room was like one of the fat men mirrors. They went into shapes like this, and no matter which eye I used, it was the same way. I didn’t have any vision. I lost my sight by using one of those vibrators on my eye, that time I had that awful sinus attack.
Beulah came up and she made calls and made calls for about an hour, and put her hands on my eyes, and worked over them. And in about an hour the sight came back. It was the most unusual experience I’ve ever had in my life. I mean I’d be looking at you, uh, all day, and you’d look about uh, three inches high. I mean everybody wa‑-the whole room was all compressed together like this, and uh, like a television set when it’s, you know how it when it goes down toward the‑-how the picture goes down, drops down to the center, you know. Well it was just like it was hav‑-three quarters down. It was a little condensed picture. And to walk around like that was no fun.
So, I mean, we have a lot to be thankful for, for the protection and everything we have here. And I am looking forward to‑-regardless of what they’ve done, they hit me pretty hard at the beginning of the year now, the first of ’68. I really have had it. But I still have absolute faith this is going to be a victorious year for everybody, including you, Beulah. So God bless you all, and uh, keep on keeping on. [long pause–sound of door closing]
End of recorded service
This lecture and teaching was given by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood Mark L. Prophet during a Saturday Morning Service on January 13, 1968, at La Tourelle in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Mark Prophet – the Ascended Master Lanello
Mark Prophet ascended on February 26, 1973 and is known as the ascended master Lanello.
Behold! I AM Everywhere in the Consciousness of God!
Mark Prophet opened the door to heaven for us all. That’s how we know what we know about the Brotherhood and the path of the ascension. This is the meaning of the thread of contact.
He held it for us and never let go of it until he could place it in our hands and trust us to not let go. This is the meaning of hierarchy and the lineage of all who go before and after us. This thread is fragile and so is the grasp upon it.
“Behold! I AM everywhere in the consciousness of God!” That’s the mantra of Lanello. And one day you can wake up and be there—not in the afterlife but right here and now, forever there and ever here. You can live in two worlds at once—in God’s consciousness and yet fulfilling your physical responsibilities on earth.
This mantra is, was and ever shall be the communion of the saints that transcends all octaves and time and space, worlds without end: “Behold! I AM everywhere in the consciousness of God!”
Mark’s Hope: Contact Your Higher Self
Mark’s hope for us was and is that our souls will rise in a burst of joy and creativity through the discovery that we can truly contact the Mind of God through the Christ Self and the sacred fire raised to the crown chakra. His hope for us is that the Mind of God in us will be the open door to eternity and to the fulfillment of the spirals of our Causal Bodies here on earth.
Why Mark Prophet Ascended
One of the key reasons that Mark took his ascension was to see to it that the children of the light upon earth might traverse the dark abyss of the astral plane and arrive at their proper position, either in the etheric plane or in the octaves of light.
He wanted to collect all of us together. And the only way he could do it was to be everywhere in the consciousness of God. And so he took his leave of us and ascended.
Mother gave us a message of hope after Mark’s ascension. She said, “I know that through the sacred heart of Jesus and the immaculate heart of Mother Mary, Mark, as Lanello, has a direct tie to every soul of light on earth. I know that you can pull upon his mantle at any hour of the day or night and speak to him. Tell him of a need, personal or planetary, and he will answer that need to the fullest extent that the Great Law will allow.
“And I know that he is as fiercely dedicated to liberating each one of you here today and all who shall ever read these words as he was and is to liberating my soul unto the final victory of the ascension.
“For those of you who are beginning to understand the meaning of the fusion of heaven and earth through the Presence of Lanello, know that you have a Guru that you can hug. Know that you can hold on to that mantle and that you can tug. Know that you can talk to him, whether about the most mundane and simple things or about the most complex laws of the universe.
“He could explain the stars and he could point out all of the plots and ploys of the fallen ones designed to make us indulge our human consciousness and to detract us from the path of life.”
Mark Prophet Loved People
Lanello is a man who always loved life and loved people. There is nothing that would have delighted him more than to have remained in embodiment for two- or five-hundred years going all over the planet, loving people and talking to them. He just loved to talk to people and never ceased to be interested in people of all sorts.
Mark used to travel across the country. And wherever he would go—a café, a drug store, a gas station—he would stop and talk to the working people. He loved the working people. Mark Prophet is the guru of the little people, the farmers, the laboring classes all over America—as well as everybody else’s guru.
And so for him, to ascend was the ultimate sacrifice so that we could arrive at this point to serve in our mission. Mark worked hard and he worked long. He loved enough to master himself. Self-mastery is the key to adeptship. And Mark certainly demonstrated this.
Lanello, our Ever-Present Guru
And now as the Ascended Master Lanello, he still holds this love for us all. You may contact the magnanimous heart of Lanello, our Ever-Present Guru, through playing the melody “Greensleeves.” The keynote of his identity is contained within the notes of this musical rendition.
Those of us who knew Mark have formed the habit of writing letters to Lanello, telling him of our wants and desires, our burdens, our hopes and wishes. We place these short notes either in our copy of Climb the Highest Mountain or in the Bible and leave them for Lanello to fill. And do you know, he answers almost all our ordinate desires—those that are in accordance with the will of God.
The answer is not always instantaneous, but it is fun to look back over our lists after a period of time and see how many have been answered. Perhaps you would like to join us in this exercise. It is not too late!
In Lanello we have our model for victory. He is our living Guru. Always remember that he is saying to you and to me, “You, too, can make it if you TRY! You can make it in this very life!”
Saint Germain has told us, “Death is either the doorway to infinity or a point of reentry whereby man must eventually return to the finite to undo and redo and to finish that which he has left undone.”
For Mark Prophet, death and hell were swallowed up in Christ’s victory. Truly, Mark lived and died and ascended for his principles and his loves, which were God’s. He exchanged the body terrestrial for the body celestial (1 Cor. 15:40) that we all might live. We have come to know one who walked among us, who knew God and who became one with his everlasting consciousness. He bids us do the same. He takes our hand. He shows us the way.
And yet, Mark traveled a long and hard road in this embodiment to find his way. It was not easy. He began a long, personal search, with many experiences and great disappointments in searching for God.
He found that the religions of the world, and even the alternative movements, were not always what he thought they should be. But he kept right on searching. And somewhere along the line, the Ascended Master El Morya made his appearance. We have all heard, “When the pupil is ready, the Teacher appears.”
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La Tourelle
“La Tourelle” in Colorado Springs was the headquarters of Church Universal and Triumphant from January 1966 through the summer of 1976 and a Community Teaching Center from then until the sale of the property, November 1984.
In a dictation given at La Tourelle on April 11, 1971, Omega announced the establishment of a healing focus at La Tourelle, the erection “upon this place of a magnificent marble temple of Light … a replica of the cathedral in the center of the City Foursquare.” She said she had come to “consecrate each atom within the precious stone with the permanence of the resurrection spiral.” Upon the central altar in the center of this etheric temple, she anchored a “permanent focus of the resurrection flame.”
I, Omega, take the flame from my heart and I light the torch upon the altar of the Temple Beautiful. I say to you, mankind: Unto you this day is given directly from our hearts that flaming spiral which can give you your immortal victory if you will accept it, if you will work diligently and follow the teachings and the laws that have been given unto you. I, Omega, consecrate this flame to the resurrection of the planet earth, to the resurrection of every man, woman, and child evolving thereupon. And I consecrate this flame to the resurrection of elemental life, to their immortal freedom and their immortal identity in the heart of the one flame of the Almighty….
Those who come and make a pilgrimage to this place with hearts full of love, of hope, who only believe and who are willing to give their all to the Almighty, these, then, shall have the preservation spiral kindled within them to make permanent the God flame within their hearts, to make permanent every cell and atom in their four lower bodies in preparation for the victory of the ascension in the Light. Unto you is given the gift of the flame and a mighty temple. And upon the scroll of Alpha is written: This place henceforth shall be known as the retreat of the Great White Brotherhood—the Retreat of the Resurrection Spiral….
The cosmic cube is in place. And in the center of the cube, guarded by mighty seraphim who shall make a permanent novena to this place, is the resurrection flame…. Mighty and noble seraphim, I charge you—I, Omega, speaking in behalf of Alpha, charge you, as you make your cyclic rounds through this galaxy, to tarry in this place, to reconsecrate each twenty-four hours the Spirit of the Resurrection Flame.
Immortelles
Omega then announced the dispensation of “immortelles”:
I want you to understand that those who come with a clean heart and without human motivation and offer floral offerings upon this altar, those who will leave them there three days shall find them immortally preserved and charged with the resurrection flame that shall be a token of Love unto all people and a focus of the resurrection of the Divine Mind, the Divine Wisdom, and the Divine Love within them—the power of the Almighty of healing, regeneration, and newness of Life.
At the time of the passing of La Tourelle into other hands, the light of the entire retreat and forcefield was withdrawn and held in the etheric octave until the opening of the vast Retreat of the Divine Mother over the Royal Teton Ranch and adjacent park and wilderness lands.
The significance of this retreat of the Great White Brotherhood
On April 10, 1977, Gautama Buddha spoke of the significance of this retreat:
Since the coming, then, of the messengers and the anchoring there of the Retreat of the Resurrection Spiral, there has been an energy drawing thousands of life manifestations into an inner circle, guarding these manifestations by the very fohatic keys that are anchored within that retreat. And this guardian action is so that the inner soul alignment of these individuals who are to serve in the New Age may not be contaminated or tampered with by energy fields in the cities where there has been a perversion of the original source of light.
Therefore keep the flame of the retreat. For evolutions in many states benefit directly from that forcefield, and the entire continent receives the emanations. Is this not then true—as potential if not in fact—of every teaching center that is destined to become an ashram and to one day, by the purity of the devotees, become recognized as an outer retreat of the Great White Brotherhood?
Do you understand what this dispensation means—when a group of souls have concentrated a certain space in time to the light, when there is a guardian action, a forcefield of energy, when there is concentrated invocation and a working together in a sacred labor of souls committed to the flame?
Well, after a period [of time], when the cycles have turned and the Lords of Karma review the action of the group mandala, there is a deliberation by the Darjeeling Council and the Royal Teton and the councils of the very nations who are involved. And one by one there is a review of the disciples who serve in these centers, and then there is the casting of the vote by a certain council of the Great White Brotherhood.
The result of this vote is made known to Alpha and Omega, and the final decision then rests upon the twin flames of the cosmos. For it is they who send forth the flame in the center of the retreat whereby there is a sustaining action of the Great Central Sun Magnet in that forcefield. This then becomes the inner white-fire core, the sacred center for the center of life and for building in the cities, in the nations, as larger and larger circles of individuals benefit from that inner mandala and that inner flame.
This dispensation came to La Tourelle over the past years, after the staff there, and with the messengers, had submitted to certain disciplines of the Law. This retreat of the Great White Brotherhood, then, is an open door whereby souls may come into a closer contact with the etheric retreats and etheric cities of the Great White Brotherhood. It is an open door to the evolutions of earth of maximum import.
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