For now, allow me to speak up again on behalf of America's effort to bring freedom to the people of Iraq. What a shining and noble cause it is. Radiant with the purposes of Heaven. Illumined by the understanding of all Holy Angels. But perhaps, in the minds of many, the importance of the effort, in terms of the very survival of America, is not very well understood. Let us remedy that, by shining a little bit of light into these stubborn shadows of ignorance.

     What I mean by a personal relationship, is that you can enter the person's presence at will, communicate with them at will, interact with them at will. You can see them smile, you can see them frown. You can hear them speak, and you know they can hear you speak by their instant reaction to what you say. In a personal relationship, you can enter into real conversations, and you can get them to tell you their opinion on most anything.

      Of course, the Masters are real persons. But they keep their relationships with their embodied students, for the most part, impersonal and indirect. There is a reason for this. The student's progress on the path would be significantly disrupted if the Ascended Masters allowed their divine personages to be wrapped up, within the mind of the student, with too many layers of misconception and error.

     At a certain point on the path, it will be imperitive that the student be able to conceive of the Master as the Master really is. The purity of the student's vision in this regard will actually help to boost the student into an expanded perception of divine reality. If the Master's person becomes wrapped up, again, within the mind of the student, with too many layers of misconception and error, the student will not be able to see the Master for who he or she is, and progress on the path for that student would be prematurely arrested.

     The problem has to do with the existence of a huge gap in contextual perception capabilities.

     Moreover, the name "I AM" comes to mean something to you, only after you have come to identify with God as your Father, and God as your Mother. If you do not identify with God in this way, the name "I AM" will never mean anything to you. Why is that? The name "I AM" actually does encompass the total reality of God. But, the nature of God is revealed only to God's Children. Do you see? Only a Child of God can come into an awareness of the nature of God, and thus, the meaning of the name "I AM". In other words, only that soul, who has adopted the posture of the Child, and looks to God as his Divine Parents, will have the context of awareness, or shall we say the chalice, into which the divine knowledge of the "I AM" can be placed.

     Of course, all of us, as a general rule, are Children of God. Yet we are in a state of forgetfulness when it comes to our true relationship with our Divine Parents. It takes time to be brought into a rememberance in this regard. And once you are brought into a rememberance in this regard, you will then begin to register the meaning of the "I AM". One must not make the mistake of concluding, from the fact that they obviously have no idea at all what the "I AM" is, that they are not Children of God. No, that would be a mistake. Again, it takes time for the student to be brought into a rememberance of its relationship to its Divine Parents.

     But I just wanted to note, looking at a notation in my journal, that the name "I AM" does become a lense through which the infinite beauty of God is impressed upon your awareness. And also, I am remembering, as I spoke a prayer for the healing of all the souls living in all of those houses down below the hilltop trail, how I saw that the name "I AM" encompasses the creator of all cosmic beauty, and I could see how this creator desires so much to raise his children back into an awareness of that beauty. In other words, when I said that name "I AM" in the context of this prayer, the identity of God as the creator of all the beauty in the cosmos was impressed upon my awareness.

     But in this, an important divine order, or succession of awareness, is again illustrated. The Masters will not reveal the beauty of God to that soul who has no proper context within which to place that revelation. As the soul comes into alignment with the proper context, which is to see God our Father, and God our Mother, as our Divine Parents, that's right, our Father, and our Mother, that's when we begin to see more and more of the beauty of God. Once that posture is adopted, every such impression can then build upon the proper foundation. Every such impression can then enhance our scope of knowledge concerning who exactly our Divine Parents are. And through successive revelations in this regard, we are brought into an ever more intense posture of appreciation, gratitude, adoration, and love in relationship to our Divine Parents. And in this manner, we are becoming more and more fully fused to their sphere of reality, and closer and closer to the day when we will be able, because our desires have become seamless in this regard, to live in that sphere of awareness constantly.

     And therefore, I would must say, that the highest priority in the daily lives of every student of the Ascended Masters, is to work with the Masters to bring about the expedited reconciliation between your soul, and God your Father, and God your Mother. Let the patterns of respect, esteem, honor, appreciation, gratitude, adoration, love, affection, admirmation, reverence, and cherishment be quickly re-established.

     Is such a child aware that he can become an astronaut? Do the avenues of education, and training, that are necessary for such a career exist in the forest among the animals? Not only does the child have no conception of his possibilities in this regard, he has no access to any of the avenues of opportunity that are necessary to fulfill such a dream, if the dream even existed within his heart.

     The same is true of every Ascended Master student. In every case, the transition from human to divine is a transition from the darkness and limitation of complete and total ignorance, to the light and freedom associated with the divine knowledge received from the outstretched hand of the Ascended Masters.

     The student must prepare himself to face the paradox that exists between the apparent impossible versus the reality of divine potential. The wolf child, when brought into the light of civilization finds that he is expected to become the very embodiment of Beethoven. And so it is with every Ascended Master student. The shining angel of divine reality with wings of radiate light will arise from the cocoon of not just ignorance, but the cocoon of concerted effort on the Path of Initiation.

     The ensuing television pictures give us the impression that this is a popular man among the Palestinians.

     But that impression is false.

     Those Palestinians rallying around Yasser Arafat in a show of support, have a similar taste for murder and death, and are no different in their essential moral character, than members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union rallying around their beloved Stalin, or members of the Nazi Party of Germany rallying around their beloved Hitler.

     As the supporters of tryants and dictators rampage through the streets, the great bulk of the population cowers in terror behind the perceived safety of their front doors. It has always been so. The majority of the Palestinian people are not fools. Just like the great majority of the people's of the old Soviet Union, and the great majority of the people of Germany, they knew that a band of murderers had taken control of their government, and any hint of opposition would immediately put their lives in danger.

     Yasser Arafat must go. He had the opportunity to empower his new prime minister to take action to destroy the terror networks. But he refused to do so. If anyone doubted it, he has shown his true colors. He stands for the survival of the terrorists. He is of no use when it comes to forging a peace process. You can't make peace with terrorists. You can only make peace with that element of the Palestinian culture that hates terrorism as much as God our Father hates terrorism. When these Palestinians make the effort to crush the terrorists in their midst, then Israel will have a real peace partner, and not before.

     Make no mistake about it. A soul of Light would never countanence, or encourage in any way the outright murder of innocent civilians. A Soul of Light would move quickly to stop this kind of mayhem, intuitively knowing the huge karmic debt that his society was accruing by their complicity. Remember that the Law of God requires that every gain made through such coercive methods must be forfeited. Yasser Arafat is not interested in the Law of God. That should be abundantly clear to everyone.

     Yasser Arafat must go. He is the head and the brain of that recalcitrant terror network that has the Palestinian culture in a death grip. If you cut the head off the snake, it may not kill the snake, but the people have a fighting chance of getting free from it as it writhes around on the ground in its new-found blindness.