Orthodox Christmas 2018

sunset at Mt. Shasta, 1-6-1208

162. In upward flights we learn the great gift of patience. Radiant creative patience does not resemble the murky cloak of non-resistance to evil. Stooped non-resistance sits like unsuccessful fishermen; their stake of a length of yarn cannot check the dance of the elements. Creative patience holds the key to the new World, therefore patience creates a power which is intensified with each hour of reality. -M: Community 1926

36. Soul energy is called the organ of the fourth dimension. Indeed the fact of this dimension is relative–it only expresses the refined state of all feelings. Great refinement bestows the possibility of understanding supermundane conditions.

-Morya: Brotherhood 1937
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True spiritual God-mastery is not measured by clairvoyance or psychic phenomena but by the God-control of the sacred fires of the heart and adeptship on the path of love.
The things that fall into the category of the psychic include dealing with spirits and spiritualism, automatic writing, involvement with UFOs and methods of divination such as worldly astrology, tarot, the pendulum and Ouija boards. The psychic and psychic people have a peculiar vibration. It is a vibration of entities and of a lower energy rate, and by and by you learn to recognize these people.
There is a psychic net that the dark powers of the world use. They weave a grid of dark energy in the same way that the angels weave a grid of light. However the dark powers try to tie people together and have them pick up the vibrations of one another that are destructive. This is mob psychology; this is how it is used and how it spreads.
But there is a way to foil the plots of the sinister force and that is by the power of the spoken Word. We read “Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be establishe unto thee; by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” This means that the spoken Word–when that spoken Word is given with a certain speed and a certain rhythm and accompanied by mental visualization–will cut through the psychic net. The psychic realm is but a continuation of the physical plane and its many levels of consciousness.

-Messengers Mark and Elizabeth Prophet: Paths of Light and Darkness, chapter 2, 2003.
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Long ago on Atlantis the race of men then seeking to know, to dare, to do and to silently pursue the Laws of Life fell into the habit of thinking they had reached the ultimate in accomplishment because they were manifesting considerable control over material substance. Nevertheless such phenomena were and are by no means indicative of a true inner God-awareness and Self-control. Atlantean science like the present-day physical sciences seemed the highest, and materialism, atheism and sensuality, with gratification of personal wants, stood to the men and women of that day second only to the goals of the supreme state.

-Saint Germain, at page 7 of Paths of Light and Darkness, S. U. Press, 2003

pure ideas and noble forms

Pure ideas and noble forms are the archetypal patterns of the real Image. They are seeds of light which when planted in the subconscious and conscious domains of the fertile mind bring forth after their kind. Without these kernels of light rooted and nourished in the very substance of his soul man cannot hope to express perfection in his world. Each one is a lodestone of God-desire to become without all that which is within. Each one is a magnet that attracts from God above to man below the creative essence of the universe. And if these monads be abundantly scattered throughout his consciousness–each one a nucleus of reality, each one a forcefield of fervent faith, hope and charity, then man can indeed look to outpicture in the microcosm that which he has thought to be “the impossible dream, the unreachable star.”…
Thus after alternate periods of living in the synthetic world and then in the real, man comes to the feet of the masters of Wisdom where he learns that Life is to be found only in reverence for all that lives. Returning to the abode of his own thoughts he seeks to recapture the realization of that unity which he now knows must exist within the heart of the universe and even with the heart of a cell. He begins to turn within to tap the reservoirs of nature–he must explore the unknown as well as the known!…
The flame of the resurrection is invoked for the resurgence of Life wherever the flow of Life is interfered with or abruptly cut off–whether at the molecular level or within the organic bodies of entire communities and nations or in the environment of elemental life. Its colorful crystals are the cupbearers of renewal, rebirth, rejuvenation and restoration.
Passing though atoms, cells and electrons the flame transmits the spin of your soul’s joie de vivre, restoring the natural rhythm of your unique life cycles. Beginning with your heartbeat, then activating the pulsation of billions of atomic nuclei and sun-centers of your cells it regulates the figure-eight flow of spiritual energies in and out of your matter-universe.
The resurrection flame is the fount of bubbling joy that brings the smile of spiritual satisfaction to your face because you experience that inner awareness of your never-ending reason for being….
“I AM the violet-flame miracle healing of my heart every hour of every day now made manifest! And I praise the Lord of Life for my perfect healing now made manifest!” -Messengers Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Science of the Spoken Word, S. U. Press, chapter XVIII, 1983
-resurrection flame around physical heart
-Phylos the Tibetan

The most striving consciousness can affix the imprints of its thought

145. On pure soil do you begin my manifestations. I shall point out the time for every pure beginning. Need will not afflict you. Outer laws will not violate your inner order. Deem it a blessing to bring light amidst the dark and inimical hosts. We have determined to reveal the ways of enlightening cruel hearts – to soften them with the balm of beauty. But the iron of the dark spirit is colder and stronger than the words of bliss. Only with great travail can the hand of truth bend the prison bars. From Above rain words of truth, and men have unfurled umbrellas to shield themselves from the downpour of God’s clouds, but the shower will reach even their dry hearts. We strike evil blind, and by lightning illumine the path of Good. We send the gift of understanding to the manifested hearts. Only the blind will doubt – have patience for the future steps. –Leaves of Morya’s Garden 1924

370. Every energy has a creative power. The most subtle consciousness has the best receptivity. The most striving consciousness can affix the imprints of its thought. The creative power is affirmed by the centers possessing subtle receptivity. Each fine energy is reflected in the creativeness of the Spirit. Thought creates and it affirms each imprint! Thus do the Lords create, likewise does an agni yogi create. If humanity would understand how majestic the creative impulse of thought is, then every thought generated would be expended for the common good. Thus each pearl of spirit creates better possibilities. -Morya: Infinity 2, 1930

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at Harbin, China

If man could realize today are more perfect union with life than he did yesterday

270.  People are careful about their physical heart, for they have learned that the heart is the center of the physical life. But they have not yet sufficient information about the correlation of freewill with the Primal Energy, and regrettable disharmony is the result. Instead of the harmonious coexistence of the two forces, conflict and competition exist between them; one of the causes of the planet’s sickness lies in the uncoordinated forces of man. People should think about this.      -Morya: Supermundane 2, 1938
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Competition between people (under Casimir Poseidon) was never a factor of motivation; the only competition that man knew was that competition that he practiced with himself in order that he might transcend his former attainment through the invocation of more light and through greater mastery of the energies and talents entrusted to his care.  If man could realize today are more perfect union with life than he did yesterday, his reward was with him and his cup was full.
Contrary to the lie that man is a sinner and gravitates to the baser elements of his nature, man is inherently good, he polarizes to Good and to the highest representatives of God-good.       -Messengers M & E Prophet:  Path of the Higher Self, 2003, p. 63

 

V. Vasnetsov: paintings

 

-Vasnetsov:  Magic Carpet, 1880

 

—-Vasnetsov:  Saint Sergius of Radonezh, 1882

-Vasnetsov:  Ivan the Terrible, 1884

 

 -Vasnetsov:  Prince Ivan on Gray Wolf (detail), 1889

-Vasnetsov:  Virgin and Child, 1885-96

-Vasnetsov:  At his horse’s remains, 1899

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8.   If it were possible to make manifest all the records of the subtle world, humanity would be terrified at the gray shadows around destruction, half-wayness, betrayal, incitement to strife, blasphemy, intolerance and selfhood.  Thus on the fiery path let us remember about the danger of half-wayness and its undermining effect.       -Morya:  Fiery World 1935

London killer Ajao/Masood; Only when men come to the light

   born 12-25-1964, natal birthchart  shows Uranus and Mars conjunct Pluto in Virgo all square to Mercury in Sag and north lunar node in Gemini–this part shows great emotional/mental challenges; the Uranus/Mars/Pluto trine Jupiter in Taurus which in turn is opposite Neptune in Scorpio–this shows alot of testing connected to conceptions/perceptions.       -r.

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probed six years ago over alleged connections to four al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists–Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Syed Hussain and Umar Arshad, jailed for a total of 44 years in 2013 after admitting plotting to launch an audacious bomb attack on a Territorial Army base in their hometown of Luton.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/26/westminster-terrorist-linked-remote-controlled-car-bomb-plot/

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Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the senior national coordinator for UK counter-terrorism policing, spoke of Ajao/Masood:  “Whilst I have found no evidence of an association with IS or AQ (al Qaeda), there is clearly an interest in jihad.”   …Former friends said he converted to Islam while in prison in 2003; …mother was white, father black.     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/23/violent-extremist-dropped-polices-radar/

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Ajao had worked in Saudi Arabia in two stints between 2005 and 2006 and 2008 and 2009 before travelling to Mecca for a religious pilgrimage in March 2015….He was obsessed with knives and for 20 years, often under the influence of drink and drugs, committed crimes that led to spells in jail….His birth certificate lists only his mother Janet Alison Elms, then 17, who described herself as a “comptometer operator”, a mechanical calculator used in accounting….going by the name Adrian Ajao, his father Phillip’s name. Mr and Mrs Ajao now live on a farm in Wales.  Ajao was the eldest of three brothers.

He had his own band, which he named after himself, called Alternative Ad (short for Adrian), and played the drums and sang.  “He wasn’t a loner.  He was cheeky and always had a smile on his face,” said one former schoolfriend.  But Ajao, as he hit his late teens, began drinking and taking drugs….He moved from job to job after that as a sales rep and running a television installation business….Mark Ashdown, an old friend from school, who trusted Ajao enough in those days to pose in an affectionate photograph with his new-born son which was made public yesterday, said Ajao went off the rails after he was slashed in the face in a pub fight. After that, Ajao started carrying knives….He would get into fights regularly, often accusing his intended victims of racism before launching a surprise, brutal attack.  He would be jailed twice for slashing people with knives….

In 2004, Ajao married Farzana Malik but according to her friends, she fled in fear of her life.   “She was scared of him,” said the friend.  “He was very violent towards her, controlling in every aspect of her life – what she wore, where she went, everything.”   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/26/smiling-store-manager-became-jihadist-murderer/

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On her website, the mother of Adrian Ajao, Mrs. Janet Ajao says:  “I make bags, cushions and other textile goodies…Hello, I’m Janet and I live in rural west Wales with my husband, border collie and a few chickens.  Our home is tucked away at the end of a little lane, and it’s here that you’ll find me making bags and cushions.”  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/24/killers-mother-upset-revealed-sews-cushions-rural-welsh-farm/

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The immanence of the kingdom of heaven is now and always has been with the aura of every soul.  The great God-flame, the mighty I AM Presence, was given to man when he first sprang forth from the heart of God.  There is no need for men to placate God.  He is not a tyrannic being but One who bestows the highest graces upon His creation which He framed not in ignorance but out of the wisdom of His heart….

America is not the land of bondage; here the sweet air of freedom is yet breathed.

-Godfre:  Pearls of Wisdom 11:31

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Error intrudes  through the ego and through the rebellion of astral marauders, children of darkness, “wandering stars to whom is reserved the mist of darkness forever.”   Only when men come to the light can the light give them their freedom, and the forever referred to here is as long as men remain bound by darkness….The immutability of divine law and the fervor of the soul in application to express the perfection of the Deity generate a white-hot  heat.       -Kuthumi, in Prayer and Meditation, chapter 12, 1968               (portrait by Schmiechen, 1884)

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3-23-17      UK government could require newcomers to take an “integration oath” on arrival, in order to close the gaps in communities.  The measures would be part of a broader bid to tackle extremism.  Chuka Umunna, member of Parliament and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on social integration, welcomed the review.  A lack of integration of immigrants could leave “a vacuum for extremists and peddlers of hate to exploit,” he said.          http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2235485-uk-immigration-debate-remains-tense-2/

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scientists discover new organ in body

It’s located not far from the lungs, they tentatively are calling it “the heart,” but they’re rather uncertain what it does or why it exists.

This may remind us of a mystery called “us”, “we”, umm, “that weird guy.”  Today I remember there are two versions of us, we-—one called the mass consciousness, often wavering, generally habitual; the other called the creative potential or daringness.  The mass consciousness is perhaps horizontal-oriented, pragmatic at root; the creative potential means fundamentally our spinal column, vertical-oriented, theoretic–it keys directly, God willing, into creative energy and creative coordination, has potentiality to center upon and harmonize with the sun-centered beingness of life.

In other words we have an inherent challenge along the vertical axis; and if one can “stand, face, conquer” in this mode, then application into the horizontal axis of practical life directly follows at both cellular and as organized unit—whether individually or in terms of group potentiality.  But that peculiar new organ called “the heart” must somehow be woven into this intersection of vertical and horizontal axes, given that someone would intend that vertical and horizontal intersect.                  -R, Yreka, CA

-bottlenose dolphin in Louisiana waters

-conception of a higher life/purpose called “I AM”-Confucius statue in San Jose, CA park by Jack Fang, 1973

Tabqa Dam near Raqqa

  -Saint Louis Arch

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BEIRUT/AMMAN – A US-backed Syrian alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias on Sunday took a military airport in northern Syria held by Islamic State, close to the country’s largest dam that may be in danger of collapse.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a US-led international coalition, said in a statement they had seized the air base.

Earlier, SDF spokesperson Talal Silo said its fighters had seized “60 to 70 percent” of the airport but were still engaged in intense clashes with the ultra-hardline militants inside the air base and on its outskirts.

 The SDF, backed by US special forces in a campaign that has driven Islamic State from large swathes of northern Syria, fights separately from other rebel groups that seek to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.   http://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/26/17/us-backed-forces-capture-islamic-state-held-airport-near-euphrates-dam

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 JAN. 26, 2017  

JAN. 26, 2017    Islamic State fighters opened three turbines of Syria’s largest dam in central Raqqa province Monday, causing record floods in downstream rural Deir a-Zor and raising fears of a humanitarian crisis should the dam ever collapse or burst.  It is not an inconceivable notion given the current frontline between the Islamic State and the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces just two kilometers away.

It was unclear on Thursday whether the turbines were still open.  SDF forces hope to cross the Euphrates along the dam and seize the adjacent IS-held city of Tabqa, a key point along the road to Raqqa, 40km to the east, a Kurdish commander told Syria Direct last week.

Ground fighting and US-led coalition airstrikes have already reportedly hit the dam’s entrance in recent days.  But any military strike on the structure could likely cause “an immediate humanitarian crisis of historic proportions in all areas downstream from the Tabqa Dam,” civil engineer Abdullah Juwwad Sukran, who used to work at the dam, tells Syria Direct’s Mohammad Abdulssattar Ibrahim.

 Tabqa Dam. Photo courtesy of Rozana.

Abdullah Juwwad Sukran is the former head engineer of the Tabqa Dam, now living in Turkey.  He left his work and Syria in March 2013.

Q: How did the Islamic State open the floodgates?  How is this affecting residents in areas along the length of the Euphrates River?  How many floodgates are there?

The Tabqa Dam’s hydroelectric power station is built on the southern bank of the Euphrates River and features eight floodgates on its upper section.

Each floodgate is capable of releasing 1,800 cubic meters of water per second from the lake when opened at its widest.  When opened at its smallest, it can release 300 cubic meters of water per second.

IS has already opened three of the floodgates.  If they open the smaller gates, which are usually used to drain excess water from the lake, it would release at least 900 cubic meters of water flow per second.  If they add the water flowing from the turbines, this adds at least another 200 cubic meters per second.  The total water flow of 1,100 cubic meters per second can cause slight damage to land downstream from the dam.

http://syriadirect.org/news/former-tabqa-dam-engineer-‘we-could-see-an-immediate-humanitarian-crisis-of-historic-proportions’/

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– Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which comprises mostly of the Kurdish YPG have made important progress in the ISIS-held Raqqa countryside by reaching the northern outskirts of Tabqa city.        ISIS possibly overstretched in the area             https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-dire-position-sdf-attack-imperative-tabqa-dam/

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the love that is the hallowed circle of life

I come that you might know what it is to be Mother and to impart to you a veil of light like the veil that a bride wears, symbolizing the virgin consciousness.  And I place upon you one and all that veil which shields the consciousness from the impurities of the world and seals you in the immaculate light of the Cosmic Virgin.

I am grateful for the release of love and light from the heart of my beloved Saint Germain and my Son Jesus.  I come as the finisher of that faith of which they are the authors; I come to conclude a spiral of Omega.  I come that you might remember the love that is the hallowed circle of life.

I draw that circle around you now, around you each one together with your twinflame.  And there is imparted to each one of you by angels of Raphael’s band the truth of the Presence of your divine complement that you might feel a moment the wholeness of Father-Mother in life as Above so below.  It is the Christ consciousness of the counterpart that I would have you experience that you might see how the merging of energies in a spiral of wholeness is for your ultimate victory and your ultimate return.  This hallowed circle can never be broken but includes all of life also as the awareness of Self and Selfhood….

For the flame is God, and I claim no exclusivity in that flame or in that name, for as I have said before, all can be truly the Mother of God….I am the instrument of mercy, I am the instrument of grace.  So you too can and shall become instruments for the dispensation of virtues of light through the jeweled essence of the sacred fire that descends from your causal body….How good it is to arrive at the mark of victory knowing that you have left that mark definitely imprinted in the planetary home and etched upon souls, millions of souls, who will follow after you.                            -Archeia Mary:  6-16-1974 at Burbank via Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet      (illustration of resurrection flame, as in Science of Spoken Word, 1991; see also https://books.google.com/books?id=7tEkZt7KakkC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=clare+prophet+mark+definitely+imprinted&source=bl&ots=ESfbTfpIkL&sig=gEyJr7R1tN-FWTvKiefCbipg6ss&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwici9iFzvXSAhVI7oMKHU9fBJcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=clare%20prophet%20mark%20definitely%20imprinted&f=false)-in Prayer and Meditation, 1978

-possibly Hypatia of Alexandria

The martyrdom of Hypatia in A.D. 415 is an example of the raging of the serpentine force against the wisdom of the World Mother….So great was her wisdom, so beautiful her countenance, so eloquent her speech that she attracted thousands to the feet of the Divine Theosophia.     -Messengers M and E Prophet:  Path of the Higher Self, 2003, p. 418

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3-26-17    Hundreds of participants rallied in the Siberian cities of Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, the Kommersant newspaper reported.  Some 3,000 people also protested in Yekaterinburg, the capital of Russia’s Ural region.  Ten people were detained at the rally.

Navalny personally addressed demonstrators in Siberia’s Novosibirsk, Russia’s third city, via telephone.  More than 2,000 people met for the rally, a regional record, the tayga.info news site reported.      https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/hundreds-arrested-as-anti-corruption-protests-sweep-russia-57538