Monday, August 7, 2006, 10:01 AM PDT

     Enough said.

     May you pass every test.

Saturday, August 5, 2006, 11:28 AM PDT

     The beautiful light upon the clouds, sunset or sunrise, even reflected upon the water of a lake, or upon the surface of the ocean, or upon a stream in the midst of a quiet forest, is a consciously designed and engineered representation, in the physical, of the radiant beauty of heavenly hearts and minds whose kind attention is always inclined in our direction.

     The visual perception of this (physical) beauty speaks to the heart, profoundly, yet by comparison to being in the presence of the bell itself, the outer representation is like hearing it ring at ten miles, its real and tangible beauty is apprehended only faintly.

     The inner reality, where the soul comes face to face with the true existence, constant service, and kind regard of these very precious hearts, is like taking a shower in Niagra Falls.

     Yet, into this much more profound beauty, the soul can be consciously immersed, and indeed, can stand in the very midst of what is like unto a Thomas Kinkade painting.

     Here is a soul on mission to be sure, to provide a reference point in matter, for a state of divine consciousness that can indeed be achieved by every Child of God who places their feet on the Path of Initiation sponsored by the Ascended Masters.

     In Kinkade's, "The Light of Peace", we see an accurate representation in the outer, of the beauty of contact with God-Reality in the Inner, which every soul is destined to experience, not after death, but in the here and now. This divinely designed and divinely engineered beauty, which we see in the natural world in many places, captured here in the aggregate by this work of art, transmitted into our eyes by the orderly and artful pulsations of light, which is then processed by the brain, forming a chalice of experience, which only then becomes available to be occupied by the sensibilities of the soul, can be experienced by the soul directly within a devotional framework at the altar.

     While this electronically captured and resized image is quite nice (click for a larger image), the beauty of Kinkade's paintings, and his overall mastery of light, can only be fully appreciated when you have a high quality print to look at, preferably nicely framed, hanging on a wall, and well lit. In a print you would see that the sky shadings are much more subtle than what this electronic medium can convey, and his ability to render dappled sunlight, for example upon the walkway, is very impressive. Homeward bound indeed. (more info).

     At what point can the soul expect to have this personal experience on the Path of Initiation under the sponsorship of the Ascended Masters? It is when you build a momentum on the passing of your tests. When God your Father understands that you are indeed serious about coming home, the internal doors will begin opening, and in rapid succession.

     That's the good news. Assuming you're not averse to the flame of determination and persistence. But here's something else every student of the Ascended Masers must consider.

     To have any sympathy at all for the rebellious behavior of Church Manager Linda Worobec, and to stand by and do nothing to hold her accountable for her wrongdoing, is to guarantee that you will never experience this inner domain of beauty. Never. I am telling you the truth. You will never experience it. And why is that? It is because souls who stubbornly refuse to pass fundamental tests, when it comes to standing up for the truth, when it comes to taking steps to safeguard the integrity of the Teaching, and thus, the integrity of the organization, are not initiated, and thus there is no building up of the Inner Light, which alone can provide a foundation for the establishment of the divine consciousness (consciousness of the divine), which the above experience represents.

     Initiation leads to results. But you must pass your tests to be initiated. The experience I have described belongs to every soul. There is nothing that the Ascended Masters want more than this, than to see every soul able, fully able, to bear witness to the above truth, indeed, to reside within that domain of beauty so vast, so deep, so personally close, that one could very well live with tears of constant joy and gratitude trickling down their cheeks forever. This is one way to understand the water element. Yet, the Path has requirements. These requirements must be met. The student must pass his tests.

     My friends, when you have a person in an office of great trust, who will stand in front of the congregation, and spit into the eye of the Master, YOU must do something about it. YOU must overcome your fear. YOU must overcome your hesitation. YOU must overcome your doubt. YOU must step forward in defense of what is right.

     May you pass every test.

Thursday, August 3, 2006, 7:28 AM PDT

     Every time the situation between Israel and her enemies flares up, and takes its place once again on the world's center stage, in the midst of the inevitable controversy, I always remember that New York Times Columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, an expert on the situation, said something very insightful about this situation, but, God Help Me, when the time comes, and the memory would be most useful, I can never seem to actually remember what he said. Why is that? What is the reason, by what modality of energy, does the jewel of truth become inaccessible in time of need?

     Though, I believe I will arrive at roughly the same place, though only after much effort and contemplation, later on in this article, in terms of the point of wisdom so easily articulated by Friedman, which is essentially, that the Palestinians, and by extension, the people of Southern Lebanon especially, NEED to have a Civil War, and the good guys need to win. Just like in America's Civil War, no one really wanted it, but it had to come, because of the stubbornness of those who allied themselves with evil, who were intent on making evil into a respectful and virtuous tradition for the whole nation. Sort of reminds you of the abortion debate. A nation could simply not march into the future half-slave, and half-free, and so it is with the situation in Lebanon, and in all of the Palestinian Territories. A nation simply cannot march forward into the future enslaved by so many tentacles of fear which are like unto iron chains which are wrapped around the minds of the people by an army of huge black spiders, i.e. the terrorists, i.e. the psychic slave masters, who live in their very midst, and thus, control their lives in so many ways.

     But my main intention here is to speak about this phenomena, where we observe this interesting (internal) situation, that when the Palestinians and their supporters (in this case the Lebanese) begin their woe-is-me wailing, at that point, the minds of the rest of us, those who are watching this drama unfold from afar, are literally incapacitated, when it comes to getting a clear sense of the truth.

     The Lebanese woe-is-me wailing certainly invokes a certain sympathy-based logic in the mind. For example, as we listen to this, watch how our minds are pulled in the direction of believing that the Israeli's are BEASTS and that they need to stop doing, what they are doing, and be NICE! But even as I am feeling my mind being pushed in that direction, I have a vague memory that counsels me to hold the line, and not let this go too far, that reminds me that this sage-like Friedman said something — it was in one of his Middle East documentaries that airs from time to time on the Discovery/Times cable channel — that would expose this logic as false, but I can't seem to remember it. The memory won't coalesce. Why?

     There is a reason for this.

     The collective mind of the Palestinian people, and their supporters, i.e. the collective haters of Israel, a category in which a large percentage of the Lebanese people have long resided, are trapped in a huge black cloud of emotional pollution. And even from afar, we receive, by the mechanism of sympathy, the great river of that emotional pollution into our own minds, which as noted, brings an instant state of incapacitation, when it comes to seeing and understanding the truth.

     This transmission of astral energies is as real as the transmission of radio waves, a region of vibratory activity that itself was unknown prior to the combined work of Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz, and inventor Nicholas Tesla, the work of each building upon the other, in the mid to late 1800's.

     The transmission of this particular astral energy occurs within a vibratory domain into which our current technology has not, as yet, reached. But, in future years, mark my words, we will see the development of that technology which will lay this truth bare. And this will provide an assist to all the peoples of the earth, when it comes to comprehending what is truth, and what is error, and thereby lay a firm foundation for peace.

     Consider the misqualifications of energy plotted on each line of the Cosmic Clock. The Palestinians (and their supporters) misqualify energy on every line, and all at once. And this fact speaks to the incapacitating impact of that energy upon the mind of anyone who receives it through the interconnecting socket of sympathy. Their minds are continuously engaged in justifying the righteousness of this emotional pollution. Their minds are not employed, as they should be, in the great and universally valued pursuit of truth, but only in justifying their hatred of the perceived enemy.

     Let a word be said about the consequences of investing one's life energies in this very foolish emotional and intellectual pursuit. From out of the midst of this emotional pollution, and the stubborn justification of it, a dark logic proceeds. And that logic will inevitably bring more of the same pain and suffering down upon their own heads. For this reason, we must guard against adding our own momentum of conviction or support to this inherently self-destructive behavior pattern.

     Let us not add the momentum of our own hearts and minds to this process of generating dark thoughts, from which proceed dark actions, which invariably produce more circumstances of pain and suffering, which will then tend to further amplify and further justify this existing emotional pollution. In this we have a veritable self-winding mechanism, keeping the spring of hatred tightly wound, driving forward this ever-repeating cycle, a self-enclosed loop of predictable catastrophe. They are literally trapped on a merry-go-round, chained by fear to the colorful undulating horses of pride and self-righteousness. But, let us all observe at least this truth, which is clear enough for all to see. There is nothing "merry" about it. Pain, grief, and suffering is the only thing which can be harvested from such foolishness.

     The current state of violence between Israel, and the forces of Hezbollah, not just in Southern Lebanon, but throughout the whole of Lebanon, is a case in point. As Israeli bombs reign down for one purpose only, and that is to kill the Hezbollah terrorists who are launching missiles into Israel, the supposed "innocents" are caught in the crossfire, and they are killed, and what do the survivors do? Do the survivors of these horrific events direct their anger at Hezbollah, as any sane mind would, and thereby determine to DO whatever is necessary to rid their country of this terrorist scourge? No. For them, to confront Hezbollah is certain death. Their minds are therefore immobilized (by these chains of fear) from gravitating into the domain of reason, and thus, they face a very limited range of internal intellectual options. Their pre-existing hatred for Israel is simply amplified. And because of this, when the cease-fire comes, they will continue to hate Israel, and most importantly, they will continue to do nothing to rid their country of the true culprit, which is the terrorist organization, Hezbollah, in their midst.

     And indeed, as the years march forward, under their own noses, i.e. under the noses of the supposedly "innocent", the terrorist organization will again gain strength, it will replenish its weapons, and once again, in the midst of the "innocents", the terrorists will again lash out at Israel, and Israel will hit back, in self-defense, and more "innocents" will be killed, which will again amplify this hatred for Israel which already resides in the hearts of the surviving "innocents." And so, this merry-go-round of self-destruction, will continue to go around, and around, and around.

     This is the core problem in the Palestinian and Arab lands generally. What might be described as the "good" people, the "innocent" people, because their minds are surfeited in this cloud of darkness, they will not confront and defeat the terrorists in their midst. Even when they are given the opportunity. This is true in the Gaza strip. This is true in the West Bank. And this is true in Lebanon.

     When we allow ourselves to sympathize with their plight, we ingest that river of darkness into our own souls, and what is the first thing that happens inside of our own minds? The truth disappears. We can't get a hold of the truth anymore. Our minds are coopted into that greater machinery of darkness, that greater machinery of self-destruction, which only has the capacity, at that point, to think thoughts that will keep that machinery of self-destruction alive. And so, we see people crying out for a cease-fire. And what would a cease-fire accomplish? It would keep Hezbollah entrenched in the midst of the Lebanese people, allowing them the opportunity to regain their strength, allowing them to prepare and plan for their next onslaught against Israel, thus, allowing this cycle of violence to continue.

     As our own spines are bent over by these powerful forces of emotional pollution flooding into our own psyche through the interconnecting socket of sympathy, the power of our own life force is thereby harnessed, to keep that merry-go-round spinning, around and around, and around. The definition of having "spine" in a psychological sense refers to the power of the base of the spine chakra that flows upwards, to keep the quality of truth elevated, even as the forces of darkness are trying to pull it down. When we allow this pressure of sympathy to cause our own spines to collapse, our own life energy descends into that same pool of emotional pollution, and we thus add the power of our own lives to it, becoming part of the problem, rather than being part of the solution.

     The truth is, when it comes to the war on terror, there is no such thing as a cease-fire, not if you want to be victorius over the terrorists.

     Israel faces a tremendous dilemma in this regard, perhaps even an irreconcilable paradox. The terrorists, in the West Bank, in Gaza, and in Lebanon, embed themselves among the people, like a cancer embeds itself among the friendly cells of the human body. And when the physician goes in to cut out the cancer, healthy parts of the body are inevitably destroyed. Good physicians try to minimize this, but there is really nothing that can be done to totally eliminate the destruction of healthy tissue in the process. Many more people would die of cancer, if the physicians had an ear for the cries of pain made by those cells which are being destroyed in the surgical process.

     In like manner, when the terrorists strike out at Israel, when the cancer grows arms, and directs a torrent of destruction in the direction of Israel's peaceful and benign society, Israel must respond in self-defense, but that response will inevitably kill some number of "innocents" along with the terrorists. As the community grieves these losses, in a manner that is uniquely Arab, and as the children listen to the wailing relatives at the funerals, they too become inoculated with hatred for Israel, and in this way, new terrorists are being fashioned to fill the ranks of Hamas and Hezbollah. Anyone whose psychology has been inoculated with hatred, a hatred that masquerades as a virtue, can be recruited into the terrorist ranks in one way or another. And this is more true today, because of the advent of satellite television, and the emergence of Arab broadcasters whose intent is simply to feed this bonfire of hatred, to ever greater intensity.

     Through hatred, and its dark and controlling logic, which is fundamentally founded on fear, the fear associated with the terror that is directed at any person who opposes the terrorists, the cancer weaves a logic of acceptance, support, and championship into the minds of the people. In this way, the cancer acts as if it were a vital organ of the body, and through fear, the people accept it, and support it, as such. Yet, there is no greater delusion that can occupy the mind of man. In the end, the cancer will always destroy the body.

     And as the airwaves are filled with these scenes of death among the "innocent", pressure builds upon Israel to draw back, and thus, they are never able to pursue the terrorists to a final end. As noted, the minds of the people generally, around the world, tend to absorb the dark clouds of emotional pollution and its false logic which pours out of the minds of these Palestinians and their supporters, in this case the Lebanese, and thus, they all tend to become, i.e. the people of the world, as blind as the Palestinians themselves. Let the killing stop, let the terrorists survive, so they can precipitate another cycle of violence just like this, or perhaps worse, sometime in the not too distant future. Because of this transmission phenomena, related to the transport of these energies of emotional pollution, across the planet, into receptive minds, no matter where they reside, the people of the entire world are recruited into this process of perpetuating this cycle of violence.

     This sympathy is always an inversion of truth. While it embraces the mind with a logic that demands the end of violence in the moment, it provides the only avenue for the survival of those who are solely interested in perpetuating that violence. This same phenomena is at work on the minds of many Americans today, when it comes to the current situation in Iraq.

     This is the cold hard truth, and if we make a determined effort to hold fast to it, this problem can be addressed effectively. The Palestinians, and the Southern Lebanese, continue to bring all of this down upon their own heads. When given the time and opportunity to defeat the terrorists in their own midst, they do nothing. They stand by, and allow the terrorists to become stronger, in terms of all manner of material and human resources. They stand by and do nothing as the terrorists operate freely in their midst, recruiting more people from their own communities to the terrorist cause. The cancer is right in front of them, and they allow it, in some cases encourage it to grow and spread. And finally the anger and hatred reaches a fever pitch within the terrorist stronghold once again, as it always does, and the terrorists lash out at Israel once again, and Israel defends itself, and again the "innocent" people die, more wailing funerals are held, and Israel is hated the more. And the merry-go-round continues to spin.

     And it goes deeper than that. They are shirking their responsibility to ensure that there nation is not used as a launching platform for attacks against another nation.

     And you can go deeper, directly to the issue of the spine, and its role as the supporter of truth within the mind. And you can go deeper, directly to the relationship between the strength of the spine, and the strength of the soul's relationship to God the Father.

     If you say that it is impossible for a people to cast terrorists out of their own midst, then you are voicing an ideology that will lead to the victory of the terrorists everywhere. The truth is, that a people can unify around a proper sense of responsibility and that they can, with the help of God, fulfill their responsibilities.

     If they had shouldered their responsibility, they would not be in this situation today. This is the lesson which the Palestinian people must accept, and those of Lebanon as well.

     Truly, a self-illuminating conclusion, if there ever was one. Indeed, this is true for every situation in which America finds herself. But it is universally true for all situations and circumstances in which any one, or any nation, might find themselves.

     Though it is important to rightly understand, when it comes to criticizing America, that the responsibilities that she has shirked are largely in the area of the divine, in terms of hesitating to take the steps necessary to fulfill her divine destiny. For example, the people of America, as nation sponsored by God to be beacon of liberty for the world, had a responsibility to overturn the ban on prayer in public schools which was illegally imposed on the nation by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. So far, the nation has shirked that responsibility. (Denying a race car the ability to make regular pit stops, will have disastrous consequences.) For example, the people of America, as a nation sponsored by God, as a beacon of liberty for the world, has a responsibility to overturn the legalization of abortion imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court upon the nation in 1973. So far, the nation has shirked that responsibility. (At the very least, denying a baseball team the opportunity to replenish its players, keeping the bench vacant of essential professionals, will have disastrous consequences.) For example, the people of America, as a nation sponsored by God, as beacon of liberty for the world, has a responsibility to affirm the timeless value of traditional marriage in the face of the homosexual onslaught. (Allowing the best Americans to become further demoralized by the inability of the nation to turn back the mud slide of moral degeneration, will have disastrous consequences.)

     Cancer incrementally destroys the proper functioning of the body, and it is not ripped out, it will eventually kill the body completely. Cancers must be identified as early as possible, and interventions for the removal of those cancers must be made, or all will be lost. How many people die of cancer every year in America? In 2004, more than 550,000 people died of cancer. (source).

     Indeed, just as any member of the Lebanese population standing in the rubble that is now all around them, can truthfully say, if they had shouldered their responsibilities, they would not be in that situation today, so too could any American stand at ground zero on September 12, 2001, and say exactly the same thing, if we had shouldered our responsibilities, we would not be in the situation in which we found ourselves on that day.

     On the one hand, I think you can get nearly universal agreement on the general validity of this principle, that when bad things happen to good people, it is because they have shirked important responsibilities. They refused, for one reason or another, to take action in certain areas which would have forestalled the arrival of misfortune on their own doorsteps. On the other hand, when it comes to identifying exactly what responsibilities have been shirked, this becomes problematic, because the culture has made, in all areas of shirked responsibility, a virtue out of shirking that responsibility. In other words, there are many advocates for the shirking of a particular responsibility, and they have made the shirking of a particular responsibility into a movement, and that movement has attracted followers, which represents, in most cases, a political force, which imposes an insurmountable obstacle to the fulfilling of that particular national responsibility. And thus, because the whole nation cannot fulfill its responsibility in a particular area, even if it is because of the obstructionism of a few, misfortune falls on everyone.

     As far as the current situation goes, this psychological propensity to shirk responsibility is a prominent characteristic of the Palestinian and Lebanese culture. And this cultural character flaw is the single greatest obstacle which stands in the way of them ever realizing their dream of a independent Palestinian State. For a truth, you can see that as the Lebanese people themselves succumb to this character flaw, forced upon them by the power of terrorist inflicted fear, they are losing their own nation to the control of the terrorists, and thus allowing it to become a perpetual battleground between the terrorists and those whom the terrorists attack.

     What this means for the Palestinians in particular, is that unless they overcome this cultural character flaw, they cannot be trusted with the sovereignty that goes along with an independent state. This is because nothing would stand in the way of the terrorists in their midst taking that state over, and turning it to their own purposes, as they have turned the existing culture to their own purposes, using it to launch more destructive attacks against Israel.

     When you focus your mind on the presence of this cultural character flaw in the Palestinian people, it is easy to see why it is, that all hope associated with the land-for-peace formula will turn out to be no more than profoundly compelling delusion. And moreover, why it is a delusion to think that if Israel would either do this, or do that, for example, go back to the 1967 borders, that this would solve the problem. Not so. The cultural character flaw would still exist, and the terrorists would be certain to continue exploiting it. As it stands now, all land released by the Israelis, into the hands of the Palestinians, have always been used by the terrorists to wage more war against Israel. The situation in the Gaza Strip, and Southern Lebanon are prime illustrations.

     For the Palestinians, and for the Lebanese, the path to peace is clear. Before Israel can make any further concessions, the Palestinian people must prove that they can overcome this cultural character flaw, and find the courage necessary to stand up, and to defeat the terrorists. They must take upon their own shoulders the responsibility which is theirs alone, to defeat the terrorists in their own midst. As they prove that they are both willing and able to ensure that a new Palestinian state will not be controlled by terrorists, and used as a launching pad for additional attacks against Israel, proving this by successfully denying the use of their current territories to the terrorists, then you would see that the Israelis will embrace them as brothers, and truly they can live side by side in peace.

     We must remember that Palestinians were given an opportunity to do this, with the adoption of the Palestinian Authority. I believe that is what the Oslo Accords where all about, which led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority. But, for all the time and opportunity they were given, they refused to disarm the terrorists in their midst, and when finally given the opportunity to vote, they voted the worst of them into the government, beginning with Arafat, and now Hamas.

     This exposes a tremendously deep pathology in the minds of the Palestinian people. There is nothing that the Israelis can to do to change this situation, i.e. to change hearts which are filled with hatred, a pathology I believe is related to demon possession, a pathology that spreads through the transmission of these astral energies to the people of other nations, which in turn exposes them to manipulation by the denizens of the pit, even in their own nations. This incessant blood-thirstiness on the part of the terrorists, is a product of direct demonic control.

     In a post cease-fire scenario, any international force that tries to go into Southern Lebanon to continue the process of disarming Hezbollah will come under the influence of these energies of emotional pollution. This means that they too will be reduced to a condition of spinelessness, sharing the very same fate experienced by the United Nations force, posted there for 28 years, which did nothing, even though it had the mandate to do all that was required.

     There is no human solution to this problem.

     Only a massive level of divine intercession can deal with this problem, and that level of divine intercession, for various reasons, can only be invoked by the United States. The restoration of the prayer to the public schools of America, would be an important intermediate step towards increasing the level of divine intercession available to deal with this situation. 70 million simple prayers made by the children of this nation, for God's Help in defending our nation and our allies around the world, would certainly help. You can see how God our Father would love to answer a simple prayer by the children of America, stated thusly, "O God, Please give us a world worth living in, a world without terror."

     Such a prayer would mitigate the terrorist problem substantially, and where national responsibilities require people to stand up against the terrorists in their own midst, the angelic host could fill hearts with the necessary courage to do so. Truly, to step onto the front lines of this battle, one must have the necessary inspiration to do so.

     But to actually solve the problem, you would need more. To bring about a situation in which this problem ceases to exist, you would need more. You would need the establishment of a Golden Age culture, tutored in the use of the Science of the Spoken Word, under the sponsorship of the Ascended Masters. In this scenario, you would have the invocation of the level of divine intercession that could completely erase this scourge of hatred from the earth. But Golden Age cultures, cannot pop up in just any place on the planet. There is only one place where it is feasible to establish a Golden Age culture today, and that is in the United States.

     But to the people of America, I would say, that a Golden Age culture cannot be built on the foundation of shirked responsibilities. As I have already noted, we can learn this important lesson from the people of Lebanon. Death and destruction reign down upon their heads, because they shirked a very basic responsibility, to defeat the terrorists in their own midst. And we can see that America too, faces a world-wide movement of terrorism directed against it, because we have shirked several higher responsibilities. Having years of opportunity, we have continued to shirk our responsibility to restore prayer to the public schools. Having years of opportunity, we have continued to shirk our responsibility to guard, by the force of law, the right to life of the unborn child. Having years of opportunity , we have, so far, shirked our national responsibility to embrace the Path of Initiation, by which, and only by which, a Golden Age culture can be born in America.

     And I would say to the members of Church Universal and Triumphant, who alone make up the vanguard of a Golden Age culture for America, being the seed from which this magnificent tree of golden apples will grow, that a Golden Age culture cannot be built on the foundation of shirked responsibilities.

     The members of Church Universal and Triumphant cannot continue in their present state of recalcitrance, shirking their responsibility to hold the leaders of this organization accountable for wrongdoing. As you can see from this discussion, at each fundamental level of Godward-Evolution, the people have their responsibilities to fulfill. And when responsibilities are not fulfilled, misfortune falls upon their heads. Our responsibilities are of the highest order. We must make every effort to safeguard the integrity of the Teaching, as it alone represents the foundation of the Aquarian Age. This means, that we have a responsibility to make sure that those who are in the highest offices of this organization, cannot use the power of their offices to corrupt the teaching and thereby corrupt the process of establishing the Golden Age Culture envisioned by the Master St. Germain.

     Allow me to remind the members of this organization, concerning the fundamental importance of the Teaching given to us on the subject of Rock Music, and Fallen Angels. If you think that this is not an important teaching, look at the fate of Sean Prophet, the first-born son of Mark Prophet and Elizabeth Prophet, the founding messengers of this Golden Age Movement. If there was any person on this earth that the Masters would hold out their hand, and lift back up into the Light, if the law would allow it, it would be Sean Prophet. Yet, he chose to rebel against this Teaching on the issue of Rock Music, and placed himself thereby under the control of fallen angels, who have subsequently made him into a puppet. The dance of darkness he performs on the stage of life today, as the editor of the Black Sun Journal, is traceable solely to those behind the scene strings being pulled by the false hierarchy who have nearly total control over what he says, and what he thinks. Nearly every twitch of the tongue, can be traced to the hand of the puppet master. How this person can live in a sense of personal integrity, I cannot imagine.

     Now, on this subject, a major act of rebellion was committed against the Teaching, during a preplanned program in the midst of a major church conference, on July 4, 2003, by Church Manager Linda Worobec, when she personally performed, in King Arthur's Court, a Beatle's Tune on the very Altar of the Holy Grail. The Ascended Masters teach us that the Beatles were Fallen Angels, and that they were responsible, as purveyors of Rock Music, for imposing upon the people of many nations, a level of darkness which has, and continues to corrupt and oppose their homeward path to God. For a leader of this organization to choose a tune authored by them, and to perform it on the Altar of the Holy Grail, is an act of the most egregious rebellion against the Ascended Masters, and leaves the idea in the minds of the congregants, that the Teaching on Rock Music, and Fallen Angels, need not be taken seriously by the student body. Again, the fate of Sean Prophet shows how foolish and destructive such an idea would be.

     This affinity for Rock Music, destroys the soul's capacity to make any progress on the Path of Initiation, and will eventually turn the soul to the dark side.

     Make no mistake about it. The person who resides in the Office of Church Manager, one Linda Worobec, has caused to be woven, into the minds of all church members, at least one thread of sympathy in this regard, for the progenitors of planetary darkness, and the death that is associated with it. And just one thread of sympathy will become like a mighty chain, as the soul adds, day upon day, its own life energies to the support and maintenance of it. And thus, a formidable obstacle emerges in the psyche, even a complex psychological cancer, with all of its attendant support mechanisms, which ultimately opposes all further advancement on the Path, not to mention all efforts to remove it.

     In this situation, which unfolded on July 4, 2003, many, in other words, numerous rules of the Path of Initiation were broken (the details in this regard having been documented in the more than 30 articles published in the Homeward Bound Journal over the last three years.). This individual should have been held accountable, by the Church Presidents, and the Board of Directors, for this wholesale breaking of the rules of the Path of Initiation. These individuals had upon their shoulders, this responsibility. Yet, they shirked that responsibility. By shirking that responsibility, these leaders became complicit in Linda Worobec's original act of rebellion, and added to this offense, the breaking of the rules of the path of initiation themselves.

     At that point, when the leaders of this organization refused to shoulder this responsibility, that responsibility shifted to the shoulders of each member of this organization. This responsibility came to rest upon the shoulders of each member of this organization then, and remains upon their shoulders to this day, not only to hold Linda Worobec accountable for her rebellion, but to hold the leadership in general accountable for their own personal irresponsibility in this matter. The earth should have stood still for this organization, and not allowed to rotate one further inch, until this situation had been properly adjudicated. Yet the membership shirked their responsibility in this regard, and continues to shirk their responsibility in this regard.

     A Golden Age culture cannot be built on the foundation of shirked responsibility.

     For the members of this organization, properly dealing with the Linda Worobec situation remains a fundamental responsibility. It is a fundamental responsibility of the Path of Initiation on two levels.

     First, the Path of Initiation requires, that a student identify all that is within him (or her) that would tend to shirk responsibility, and moreover, requires the student to consciously jettison that substance of irresponsibility, in exchange for an enthusiastic understanding of the importance of embracing that precise responsibility. This situation presents all Ascended Master students with the opportunity to confront this substance of irresponsibility in their own psychology, and to overcome it.

     As long as the opportunity is before the student, the student has a responsibility to take advantage of that opportunity.

     Secondly, all Ascended Master students are responsible for taking action in the present, to safeguard the integrity of the organization's future. This situation provides such an opportunity. In the process of holding these leaders accountable today, programs and procedures will be developed, and entered onto the record books of the organization, which in turn, can be referred to and applied in the years ahead, for the time when similar situations might arise. Those programs and procedures will serve as a ready made shield which will help the membership (in the future) to protect the organization from being controlled by the forces of darkness who may have succeeded (again) in turning a particular leader to the darkside.

     This is profoundly important, because the forces of darkness, in every generation, will assail the offices of leadership of this organization. The organization must be prepared to meet this inevitable onslaught. It would be eminently wise to develop procedures and programs to counter efforts by the darkside, to recruit members of the leadership. It would be eminently wise to develop procedures and programs to counter any success they might have in turning a particular leader, or group of leaders to the darkside. It would be eminently wise to develop procedures and programs to counter their attempts thereby to turn the whole organization to the darkside. When need itself, presents us with the opportunity to develop these defensive procedures and programs, we must take advantage of that opportunity, or the future itself will suffer from our neglect.

     Make no mistake about it. While she continues to hide behind a rather convincing mask of righteousness, it is nevertheless true, that Linda Worobec has been recruited. Her performance of July 4, 2003, and her refusal over a period of many years, to admit any wrong doing, is evidence of this truth.

     In our present efforts to come to terms with our fundamental responsibilities, let us remember, as national and world circumstances have illustrated, that the shirking of responsibility will always be made by a few to appear as a "virtue", and then they will become advocates of their new "virtue, and they will actively encourage others to adopt that "virtue", and thus a certain movement towards the shirking of that responsibility will be established replete with all the appropriate adornments of praise and righteousness. And moreover, we must understand, that a key part of this process, of making evil appear to be gold, they will use what power they have access to, to delegitimize all opposition to their new "virtue", by arguing that all who oppose this new "virtue", are actually the world's greatest fools, perhaps devils in disguise, to be treated as untouchables, and as objects for our collective contempt.

     And thus, with all opposition swept aside, this shirking of responsibility comes to stand, amidst the people, as a golden monument, even like unto the golden calf of old, and it is often the case that misfortune must come upon the heads of all before the people can come to their senses, and see this "virtue" for what it is, and abandon it, for a greater love for the principle of responsibility itself, at least in terms of the obvious long-term safety it offers the people, and for a greater love of the principle of right-action, in terms of fulfilling that responsibility, indeed, for a greater appreciation for the substance of truth itself.

     For example, throughout the Palestinian territories, throughout Lebanon today, it is considered a virtue to applaud and support the terrorist organizations, Hamas, and Hezbollah. And thus, what do they have all around them, but rubble and death?

     For example, in America, it is considered a virtue to oppose, ridicule, mock, and condemn, any effort to restore prayer to the public schools. No prayer in school, is considered the height of public virtue. It is considered, moreover, a virtue to support the right of a woman to kill her unborn child in the womb. More recently it is considered a virtue to allow homosexuals to establish the respectability of their lifestyle, and to use the very power of government in this pursuit, in lieu of traditional heterosexual relationships. And so, on September 11, 2001, we all stood in the midst of the rubble, in the midst of death, and ever since we have been fighting to make sure that we will not stand in the midst of more rubble, a fight that you can see will ultimately prove futile, when you understand the principle of responsibility, and the inevitable consequences associated with the shirking of responsibility.

     And for my last example, in the body of this Church today, it is now considered to be a virtue, to hold the leadership above all sense of accountability. It is considered to be a virtue to sweep their wrongdoing under the rug. It is considered to be a virtue to allow the substance of forgetfulness, in regards to what they have done wrong, in regards to the path rules which they have broken, to enfold the mind. It is considered to be a virtue to turn the coldest shoulder to anyone who stands up and argues the wisdom of holding these leaders accountable.

1. It has become a virtue to forget the great crime committed against the unity of this organization, when the current leadership destroyed the unity of the Russian Congregation in 2003. In the eyes of the current leadership, it has become a "sin" to remember it. If you remember, several members of the council of elders were forced to resign because of this "sin".

2. It has become a virtue to leave the image of the ape face upon the Chart of the I Am Presence, even though we all know that it was put there by an artist who has gone over to the support of a false hierarchy organization. Again, in the eyes of the current leadership, it has become a "sin" to even mention it.

3. It has become a virtue to parade the naked Statue of David before the eyes of the congregants, even though it is a known and indisputable fact that this "work of art" has always been, and remains, a focal point for the lust of homosexuals. Again, in the eyes of the current leadership, it has become a "sin" to speak about it.

4. It has become a virtue to defend the depiction of the mountaintop lighthouse, and parade that before the eyes of the membership, even though all lighthouses become useless when moved to the mountain top, and even though the artist who created this, was again, the same one who has gone over in support of a false hierarchy organization. Again, in the eyes of the current leadership, it has become a "sin" to remind anyone of this.

5. It has become a virtue to defend the depiction of bare breasts in the Everlasting Gospel, even though it is a scientific fact, that bare breasts always invoke the male sex drive, and create a condition of lust, which is the seed of adultery. It has become a "sin" to be so bold as to bring this up in polite company.

6. It has become a virtue, to stand by and do nothing, when the paragraphing of the Pearls, presented on line, remains destroyed. Again, it has become a "sin" to point to this.

     The only thing required for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing. Although, good men always take a beating when they step forward to do good, but this is the price of progress, which is worth paying, when juxtaposed to all the suffering and destruction that accompanies the triumph of evil.

     All of these areas, and more, present opportunities for Ascended Master students to step forward and champion the correction of mistakes, to nip in the bud the first shoots of disaster, and thus fulfill their responsibility to stand up for truth, to stand up for the integrity of principle, to stand in defense of the very integrity of this organization. Even to make the effort to establish a Golden Age Culture inside of the very organization which is supposed to be the vanguard for the Golden Age to be brought forward in America as a whole. Yet, in all of these areas, these responsibilities have, so far, been shirked.

     It is not only impossible to build a Golden Age culture on the foundation of shirked responsibility, but as world circumstances illustrate, it is simply impossible to escape the consequences of misfortune which always follow in the foot steps of shirked responsibility.

     May you pass every test.

Sunday, June 5, 2005, 9:29 PM PDT

     I Am the pearl of God realization that you wear on your finger. A man should be able to say that to his twin flame. Though I suppose, that years ago, this would not have been true, in as much as a pearl takes time to develop, incrementally, as it has been said before. In this work of art, the diamonds, 12 in number, signify the purity of the Will of God manifest on each of the twelve lines of the Cosmic Clock; even as indestructible determination. How else can all the layers of the pearl represent purity and luminosity? It is the only way.