To Whom it May Concern:

     I would like to take this opportunity to update the membership of our Ascended Master organization. I feel like I am becoming a lot like John the Baptist - a voice crying in the wilderness. So, get yourself comfortable because I have my usual assortment of things to say and I am sure that you'll find the following rather interesting.

     Some people would consider me an insider as I am president of a teaching center as well as president of the Church of Canada. But our Church is a peculiar Church. Even Elders are not insiders. No, we are a tightly controlled organization that is on the fast track to nowhere. Rules and regulations abound everywhere. Our God has a name and it is Legalities. It is kind o flike we've become a secret society where only those at the very top know why things are done the way they are done. Sometimes it seems like we are in a Kafka novel where nothing makes sense.

     All the right things were said on World Vision Day. We have a real good bunch of people in our organization. We've caught the spirit of the new winds of Aquarius. As Dannion Brinkley said, "We can out love and out serve anybody on the planet.["] There is only one problem. The leadership does not have the vision to make this a reality.

     Our leaders are a bunch of control freaks. Out government model as clearly denoted in our articles and bylaws makes us up to be a theocracy. This is the model Mother brought forth because we had a Messenger who had direct contact with the Masters. However, in 1994 when the Summit Lighthouse entered the 12 o'clock line of a new cycle (our 4th), a new model came forth preparing the way for like in a post-Mother environment. This had the total backing of Mother and the Ascended Masters as clearly indicated in some of their dictations. Jesus said that we had little hope of enduring much beyond the year 2000 without a major change in the way we operate.

     Under the guidance of Gilbert Cleirbaut we ventured into new territory a major paradigm shift. From August 1994-August 1997, the etheric blueprint came forth. The power thrust of the first year under Capricorn soon gave way to the alchemy of Aquarius whereby it soon became evident how monumental these changes actually would have to be. The doubts, fears, and human questioning under Pisces resulted in many people yearning for the old ways that they had become accustomed to under the Piscean dispensation.

     August 1997 began our journey through the mental quadrant. The big question now was power [which] individuals were going to control the destiny of our organization especially with Mother moving to the sidelines. Under Aries initiations we always have the choice between identifying and becoming our human self or our divine Self. Those that thought they knew better (having chosen the human ego) conspired to work against Gilbert and his paradigm shift. This manifested under Taurus as being totally out of alignment with our divine plan as clearly outlined in Mother's lecture about her and Gilbert entitled, "We are a Team!" The new governance model for the Aqaurian cycle of our movement that Gilbert was hoping to have fully in place during our Gemini year was completely and utterly aborted. Having been backstabbed and abandoned Gilbert could do little else but resign.

     Because of the rejection of Gilbert's vision we have moved into the Omega side of the cycle with much of the membership in confusion and chaos. Without vision the people perish. Clearly our present governance model is not only unworkable but it's pathetic. How can you have a theocratic model without the prophet? When I came into the teachings the highest ranking person after Mother was Monroe Shearer. Since I don't have anything nice to say about him I won't say anything. Suffice to say that under our present set-up which is so top-down that the wrong person such as Monroe as president would be devastating to our movement.

     We are still searching for a new governance model. People are talking about 3-5 years to implement this. That is ridiculous because the models are already there whether Gibert's or the Wallaces'. Of course, our present leadership doesn't like these models because they attempt to empower the rest of us. God forbid that we have any say in the running of our Church. Sure we can offer our ideas and inputs but we have no power. Our leadership wants to hold on to the status quo as much as possible. And what is this status quo? What our leadership doesn't realize is that we have not returned to the old paradigm because that can never exist again without Mother. We have moved into uncharted waters. Our Board of Directors is not accountable to anyone above or below. This is totally unacceptable. The status quo we now have is simply this. We have self-appointed ministers with no business training running things in a very secretive way.

     To show you how secretive our leadership is check this out. At the Easter conference in Chicago, Sidney Bennett announced the search for a new president. It was his hope that someone within the organization has been especially prepared through many lifetimes to be able to take on such a position. Well, I can't speak for anyone else but knowing that I have served at the top levels of government many times including recent stints as Minister of Finance and Prime Minister I decided to offer myself as a candidate for the position of president. I also have a very good educational background in this lifetime having specialized in economics as well as having a graduate degree in a program that combined political science and law. Now it is my hope that the next president would have these kinds of qualifications and I would think that there are a number of others so qualified. But I have no idea who else is running for president because that information was withheld from me. They wouldn't even tell me how many people were in the running.

     [Editor's note: The reason is fairly obvious. The minute Arie found out who his "opponents" were, he would instantly begin the process of trashing their characters, as the following paragraphs illustrate.]

     What I do know is that Neroli Duffy and Kate Gordon are both running. All I can say is that if either or both of these two are appointed to this office again then this entire process has been a farce. These two are fine individuals but they are totally incompetent to hold this office. This is not a game. There is so much at stake here including the future of an entire planet. We are meant to be the forerunners in the bringing forth of a golden age. These two have already thwarted much of this from happening by their lack of vision and wisdom when it comes to understanding what the Aquarian age is supposed to be. If they continue their present course and stop the divine plan from coming forth again by their adherance to a model that is outmoded with the few controlling the many and the philosophy that these few know better than everyone else then I am afraid that they are likely to have to reembody for another 10,000 years until the get the chance to correct the mistakes they are making now. Like I said this is not a game. The president of our organization is holding the most important position in this world whether they know it or not. The responsibilities are enormous.

     Let me come at this from another angle. If I were president I wouldn't be able to fly off to Russia or Fatima like Kate and Neroli do knowing that others in our mandala are bereft because they can't fulfill their calling. How can I go off and do my own thing when others under me can't do theirs? How can I be smiling if I haven't done everything possible to help others be who they are supposed to be? How can I be smiling when children in our own community don't want to have anything to do with us? How can I possibly feel that I am doing a good job when someone like Nancy McNabb resigns because I have let our own children down? How can I be happy with myself when our senior citizens are allowed to wilt away without tapping into their experience and wisdom in not only the running of our church but in their getting involved with our children in so many ways?

     To be a church of love and compassion our leaders must support, encourage, and inspire others to bring forth their gifts and talents and not the other way around. Instead of just a few going out with the teachings of the Ascended Masters there should be hundreds out there doing this. We've got everything backwards. People should be empowered not held back. And anyway, there are probably hundreds who would be better or at least just as good at giving out these teachings as Neroli and Kate. The point is that we need an organization that supports and looks after its members. Even those that just graduated from the 3-year ministerial program but did not "make it" as lay ministers are very upset. They sacrificed so much and now have no idea what criteria were used to evaluate who made it and who did not. This is love? Our leaders can't even do simple things. Is it so hard to be straightforward, objective, and clear with our own most devoted members?

     It is hard for me to relate to Kate or Neroli thinking they did such a good job that they should continue. Think about this. When Sidney Bennett came to Montreal I have him a hard time over how he was going to use the funds from the sale of the North Ranch. His answer helped me understand his position. He said that the Church has never made a profit on any of its ventures. To me this is astounding. With all our resources and talented people how can this be so. The next president must have some business background. Kate and Neroli are in way over their heads. It's bad enough they they don't get it when it comes to the need for a paradigm shift but they are living in a fairyland when it comes to self-assesment. I want to stress that I am talking about them as presidents. They probably are much better ministers than I would ever be but as heads of a large organization there just is no comparison.

     Perhaps the best example of their incompetance is the sword policy/Andrew Blumenschein affair. This should have been a minor internal problem that should have been resolved quickly and respectfully if properly handled. Instead, it almost brought our whole church down. Furthermore, after giving Andrew a 6-month discipline they desided to make it permanent. This is punishment and revenge. A real leader wants to help people get back on their feet, to do what they can to bring healing and hope. Andrew doesn't even know why they are shutting him out. No, Kate and Neroli want us to support them when they should be supporting us.

     We should be the Divine Mother. We had the greatest example of that in our own Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Do our leaders go out of their way to help those supposedly poor souls amongst us who have lost their way? From what I have been able to observe from my vantage point both Neroli and Kate are sorely lacking in almost every quality needed for such a position. Vision and business acumen are virtually non-existent. The manner in which they deal with employees is callous and mindless. Perhaps the most damaging thing they have down [sic] has to do with their non-support of Gilbert Cleirbaut. It is one thing to be glad to see him go, it's quite another to hide the truth of this messy business especially by giving us the impression that the direction of the church had not changed when it had indeed. This is duplicity, a nine o'clock manifestation of the 3 o'clock perversion of control through conceit, deceit, and human arrogance.
          
At the conference Dannion Brinkley said that we should support the leadership and this is definitely true. But we must also not stand idly by while they fiddle and paint the barn while the world is burning. I believe that our Board of Directors would do better if they knew better. The things they are good at are those things that we did in the previous three 12-year cycles such as publishing and safeguarding the teachings. It is up to us to give them the higher vision that is absolutely essential in our present cycle. They certainly are not going to get it from Neroli who according to rumors already has the post of president locked up.

     We also heard from those who were around when Mark was alive. They reminisced about the good old days when we had rules of conduct, obedience to hierarchy, and a guru to correct and instruct us. But those days are over. The Masters and Mother made it very clear that we had to change and that Gilbert Cleirbaut was the man to implement those changes. Being new to the teachings he did not have a good understanding of the guru-chela relationship and certainly made some mistakes but he clearly had the vision of where we had to go. We have to pick up the pieces where he left off. We have to find a way to bring unity and harmony back to an organization that has truly lost its way. We have to somehow make our leaders aware that only a paradigm shift can save us from the same fate that has befallen all other groups who came before us. We have already lost may of our best people through a tragic mindset that destroys those that dare to be real.

     Finally, I'd like to make some comments concerning where we stand on the 14 Stations of the Cross. Our Church has recently begun our 3rd cycle of this cross. This means that these next 14 years come under the hierarchy of Pisces where Mother and her seed fall the 1st time. This is from the weight of world karma. Pisces also has to do with death and the death consciousness. What this means is that we in a life and death struggle whether we as a church will even survive intact. Other organizations that the Masters have sponsored have not been able to last very long. The only way we will be able to succeed where others have failed is by empowering our members so that we will not be left to the mercy of those who interfere with us truly becoming a community of the Holy Spirit because of the love and respect we have for each other. On June 27, 2001 we entered the 1 o'clock line of this 14 year Piscean cycle where we must bear the hatred of Saint Germain and all that is anti-love that opposes the Divine Mother. Certainly we have the love to succeed. All we need is direction.

     A Voice

     Arie Abravanel