The first thing that I would like to do in this exposition, which I have titled "Treasure Island", and for good reason, is to direct the reader's attention to the spherical cluster of shining diamonds, 2 to 3 feet in diameter, which the Masters revealed to me within the fabric of my very own awareness.  It is the sign and signet that the Masters have given to me, to help the community understand that I come to you with a sincere exposition of the truth in this issue area.

     You might wonder why our blessed Ascended Master brothers and sisters would feel it necessary to go to such extraordinary lengths to get the attention of the presidents, the board, and the church elders. Why?

     If the mission of this organization is not fulfilled, there is no other organization which can carry the banner of freedom and victory for the incoming Golden Age that would guarantee the survival of this planet.  If this organization does not succeed in its mission, the earth will fall into another dark age of terror, and chaos, and great suffering.   And so, everything, literally, everything rides on what the people in this organization decide to do with the rebellious souls which have stolen into the pilot house, who continue to carry on their drunken orgies of ego exaltation, oblivious to all the requirements of ascended master virtue, and from an apparent position of invulnerability, continue to hold hostage the very helm of Maitreya's Clipper Ship.

     Now, the successful fulfillment of this organization's mission, depends on a great expansion.  Just as a rose must be allowed to blossom, this great expansion must be allowed to take place.  But this expansion cannot take place as long as a culture of disobedience and rebellion to the Teaching itself is anchored within the leadership structure. 

      Unfortunately, and sadly, that is the case right now.  The actions of Rev. Linda Worobec, and the leadership's general support of her actions, even when those actions extend to the very destruction of organizational unity, has begun to establish this culture, or shall we say, this tradition of disobedience and rebellion against the Teaching itself, spreading the very tentacles of spiritual death and failure throughout the hearts and minds of the members of this organization.  

     Look to your left, to the Protestant community. Look to your right to the Catholic community. What you see are tens of millions of people, who call themselves Christians, feeding at the trough of false doctrine, and feeling quite good about it, smacking their lips with great relish, and rubbing their tummies with great satisfaction. Yet, every one of them, generally speaking, is headed for a rendevous with truth, but not with the scenario that the fallen angels have programmed their minds to expect, but rather, a rendevous with a big fat "F" on their report card at the end of this life. But not only that. All of them face a return to the treadmill of reincarnation, and under life circumstances far more painful than what we experience today, very possibly, if the mission of this organization fails, a world in which the Path of Initiation has been withdrawn, and only the darkness of evil virtue covers the land. And so, when you say to yourself, it can't happen here, well, it has happened in every other religious tradition ever established on earth, and it is happening right now in this organization. The fallen angels have entered in, and they have started this process of the corruption of truth right in front of our very eyes, upon the very Altar of the Holy Grail.

     This culture, this tradition of disobedience to the Teaching which they have inaugurated, is not a path that will lead this organization up the mountain to the pinnacle of victory.  No.  Quite to the contrary.  It is a path that will lead to the complete and total failure of the ascended master mission, notwithstanding the syrupy words which flow like great volcanic estuaries from the very pinnacle of the current leadership structure.

     I am sure that you can understand why it is, that the Master's cannot apply the alchemy of expansion to the qualities of disobedience and rebellion.  And so, as the Ascended Masters are faced with this situation in which the leadership seems hell bent on walking away from the sunshine of victory, they face a very disappointing and discouraging prospect.  They face the very real prospect that the mission of this organization may indeed fail.  And so, extraordinary means are necessary, right here, right now, with the hope that the attention of those in the leadership with good hearts, can be attracted away from the black magnet of idolatry, back to the pole star of truth, as that truth has been set forth in the Teaching, and that they can be persuaded, and even find the courage,  to stand for that truth, and establish that culture, that tradition, which we will call the championship of truth, within the leadership structure itself, that is so painfully lacking today.  

     And therefore, I come before you with this sign, and signet, this witness of a spherical cluster of shining diamonds, 2 to 3 feet in diameter, revealed within the very fabric of my own awareness, with the hope that the flame in each good heart will leap to embrace the glistening jewels of truth that will be set forth within this exposition.

     Before getting into the body of my exposition, regarding Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, both the movie and the book, I would like to help explain, in more detail, why disobedience and rebellion to the Teaching is so destructive to the purposes of the Ascended Masters.

     Now, when the soul starts out on the path, the reality of God is a total abstraction.  This abstraction is not comprised of any distinct or tangible outlines of knowledge.  This abstraction is totally, and completely, fuzzy and non-distinct.  Let's be honest with ourselves. This is the truth. I believe that one of the deeper meanings behind the admonishment to self-empty, is to discard all illusions which have us believing, erroneously, that we might know who and what God is. We don't. But we will find out. That is what the path leads to. Let the path place the gifts of divine knowledge into our hands. And as a prelude to our reception of these gifts, let us quickly drop the baubles of illusion to which we currently cling.

     Now, as the soul walks the path, and invokes these initiations of light, and as these levels of Light are anchored (assimilated), the Reality of God comes into greater and greater focus.  At first, the levels of Light that are added, do not add anything significant to the soul's personal knowledge of God.    When you go from 100% fuzziness, to 99% fuzziness, the Reality of God is still mostly fuzzy.  Even at 90% fuzziness, the Reality of God, from the standpoint of personal knowledge, is still  mostly fuzzy.  Even at 80%, or 70%, or 60%, or 50% fuzziness, the Reality of God, from the standpoint of personal knowledge, is still  mostly fuzzy. The Reality of God really only begins to come into a degree of focus that the soul can relate to, when the level of fuzziness is reduced to 10% or less.  Beginning at that point, the focus is sufficiently distinct, to where the soul can say, God is REAL to me.  Or more precisely, God my Father, God my Mother, THEY are Real to me.  Yes, the Divine They. I am their child.  I FEEL like their child.  I can SEE, finally, that I am their child.   Yes, I am the Christ Child.  That is who I am.  I can see it.  I can feel it. That is what I am.  And the relationship, between the child, and the Divine Parents, grows only closer and closer from there.

     Now, this relationship, between the child, and the Divine Parents, is the greatest treasure the soul can know.  And the Ascended Masters want every soul to enter into that treasure of divine knowledge, divine being, divine relationship.  And that is what they are always working towards.  And this is the purpose of the Teaching.  That is where the Teaching leads.

     For the soul to make progress on the Path of Initiation, the soul must take its tests, and pass those tests, most especially, on the 4 o'clock line of the Cosmic Clock.  These are the tests of God-Obedience.

     Living within the culture and norms which the fallen angels have established, wherein the human ego is king, and Christ is crucified, where God is as relevant as a slug in your garden, trying to fit itself into the chains of social acceptability, we see that the soul has taken on various habit patterns of rebellion and disobedience. And these patterns form an inner barrier, as we shall see, between the soul and God. The idea is to undo this barrier. And towards that end, the soul must face each point of its self-identity which has become composed of the very substance of disobedience to the laws of God, patterns of identity which it has expressed in the past, over the course of many lifetimes. Yes, each of these points of rebellion must be faced, consciously, and the soul must choose to discard each of these points in turn, replacing it with an expression of divine obedience (which is always an act of love and respect for the priorities of God our Father). Each link in the chain which binds the soul to the culture of death, must be replaced by a golden thread which reconnects the soul to the divine culture of God, and the everlasting life associated with it. This is one of the most important and central themes of the path of initiation whereby the soul is consciously choosing to surrender each point of disobedience and rebellion, step by step. As each surrender is made, a level of Light is added to the soul's consciousness, and as the days, weeks, months, and years roll on, the Reality of God becomes more distinct to the soul, as noted above.

     For the benefit of those who have not studied the teaching on the Cosmic Clock, and perhaps for those who have, but who have forgotten the key points, I would like to take just a couple of minutes to set forth the fundamentals. Here is a general diagram of the Cosmic Clock. Remember that each quadrant is associated with one of the four lower bodies. Ideally, the purity of the threefold flame, which contains our divine identity, is radiated out from the heart, in a balanced and unobstructed manner, into each of the four lower bodies, etheric, mental, emotional, and physical.

     The following Flash movie contains a brief introduction to the subject area. To watch it, click the "begin" button.

     (We had a good illustration of this in the United States last summer, wherein we observed mayors of various cities in California and New York, rushing to grant marriage licenses to homosexuals, even though it is clearly against the law. Their hearts and minds are filled with what appear to be laudable expressions of compassion for these homosexuals, and faithfulness to what they perceive to be their constitutional right for equal protection under the law. Little are they aware that they are accelerating the destruction of civilization itself. Yes, to them, their acts appear to be of the highest virtue, but in all reality, there is no Light content in them, no Divine Virtue in those acts, but rather, they are using the light of God to further the institution of rebellion, which is defined as a misqualification.)

     On the other hand, when the energy of each line is properly qualified, what you have then, is your standard Christ Consciousness. In other words, the Son, i.e. YOU, is CONSCIOUS, of the Reality of God associated with the God- Quality on a particular line. And when you are conscious of that God-Quality, in terms of it actually living within the fabric of your being, you are no longer tempted to impress the energy of God with those patterns of relativism and mortality listed above.

     The reader will remember, that in the first general diagram of the Cosmic Clock above, in Figure 1, I placed the symbol of the heart at the center of the chart. The purpose of this was to illustrate a very important concept, and that is, that the four lower bodies of man, each one, is intended to serve as a chalice for the pure light of the threefold flame that originates in the heart. This light is supposed to crystallize, within each of the four lower bodies, into the divine structure of the soul's identity in God. And that structure will be like unto a diamond which transmits the light of the heart out into the world in an unobstructed manner according to the geometry of the chiseled facets. We might say that each atom of which this diamond is composed, represents a single well-defined point of God-Contact. And these atoms are arranged in such a way, according to the equation and laws of God-Harmony, that while the mass of the diamond itself is unmovable, or nearly so, the substance of which it is composed will nevertheless transmit the Light of God without distorting it.

     We can add this symbol of the heart to the forgoing chart, to illustrate the concept of the barrier I mentioned above, and the principle of blockage that it introduces.

     Now, this is where the understanding of people has been traditionally, and historically, very thin indeed. The Violet Flame will not totally consume that black ring. No. Why? Because the black ring is composed of freewill choices. Only right choices can completely breakdown that black ring. Remember, a wrong choice places more opaque substance between the soul and God. A right choice actually establishes a microscopic diamond filament of contact, that the angels are able to thread right through the barrier. These are the sinews of clarity that I talked about above. One microscopic diamond filament of contact, does not bring much clarity of vision to the outer awareness of the soul. But thousands of microscopic diamond filaments will. Do you believe that it is a coincidence that our technology gives us a perfect metaphor for this in fiber optics? It is not a coincidence.

     What is the violet flame for then, if it cannot break down the barrier all by itself? Actually, the truth is, that if we were actually able to see how much the violet flame consumes of the barrier, as compared to how much of it we are responsible for dismantling ourselves, the violet flame will be seen as our great liberator, because it probably will account for 90% or more of all barrier reduction. What explains this, is that we are creatures of habit, and habits take on a life of their own after a while. Once we make a bad choice, we will oftentimes make a habit of repeating that bad choice ad infinitum. And these momentums are carried forward, from lifetime to lifetime. And so, in many cases, we have built up that barrier by repeating bad choices in one specific issue area, lifetime after lifetime.

     For example, let's say that some event occurred in the far distant past, where you came into a confrontation with a particular individual, and because of what that individual did, well, you punched him in the nose. That was wrong. And the law of karma will require you do undo that. So you are brought into contact with him again during a subsequent life, and he does something else to provoke you, and you punch him in the nose again. That was wrong. And the law of karma will require you do undo that. So you are brought into contact with him again during a subsequent life, and I am sure you can understand where this is going. The same thing happens, and this goes on, and on, and on, over several hundred lifetimes. Now, each time you punched this guy in the nose, all of the life energy, memory, mental, emotional, physical, that went into that act, added to the barrier between your soul and the regions of Divine Reality in your own Divine Heart. Each time you punched that guy, you became more alienated from God because of the increasing thickness of the barrier.

     But finally, you find the Path of Initiation, the Ascended Masters, their Teaching, and you have come to understand what the Law of God requires in such situations. After studying the law, you are given certain tests, to see if you will punch someone in the nose in a similar situation. Let's say that you are tested on this particular issue one-hundred times. Let's say that you fail the first couple of tests, but then, because of your connection to the Ascended Masters, you get the sense of what it means to fail a test, this is not a good feeling, and you are given more tests, and you start passing those tests. And finally you arrive at a point in your life where you have passed 90 consecutive tests in this issue area. You have mastered this weakness. The Masters are sure that you will never punch someone in the nose ever again, at least under those circumstances. And so, that portion of the barrier between you and God, which represented the accumulated misqualified energy associated with 1000 nose punches from hundreds of past lives, can now be consumed by the violet flame. Of course you have to spend the time before the altar, giving your violet flame invocations. But this is far better than having the law of karma bring you to the doorstep of each of those individuals that you punched in the nose, which could take several hundred more lifetimes. This is what mercy is about. You are expected to learn your lessons. You are expected to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, through testing, that you have learned your lessons. This cannot be escaped. Once you have proven that you have learned your lessons, then, and only then, can the mercy of the law come into play, and allow the repetitious records of foolishness in that area to be consumed by the violet flame. But even here, you are still responsible for putting in the invocation time before the altar.

     Therefore, from this we can understand, that the importance of passing tests, is really a two-fold proposition. We can see that the barrier of misqualifed energy that exists between the soul and God is broken down, dissolved, transmuted, in one primary way, and that is through the invocation of the violet flame. But this is the most important truth. The mercy of the law, which the violet flame expresses, cannot kick into action in a particular issue area, until the soul has come to grips with the law, comes to understand that law, had taken many tests on a particular point, and passed them. Only then does the violet flame consume the bulk of the barrier associated with all past misuses of energy in that area. This is a really important principle. When you see someone refusing to pass a test, you see someone that is actually standing their ground in the region of rebellion, and outer darkness. That are not making the choices that would allow the violet flame to consume the barrier that exists between their soul and God. They are choosing to remain in outer darkness.

     Here I have highlighted what is referred to as the Ruby Cross, consisting of each of the lines, in each of the four quadrants associated with the pink aspect of the threefold flame, God Love in the Etheric quadrant, God-Obedience in the mental quadrant, God-Gratitude in the emotional quadrant, and God-Vision in the physical quadrant. There is a great key (implied) here, by this diagram, that will help one come to grips with the question of how much success we are actually having in anchoring the quality of God-Obedience in the mental quadrant. And this applies both individually and collectively. This is the key. The Ruby Cross is one single energy mechanism. The power, intensity, and purity of the quality of Light on one line, can never rise above the lowest level manifest on any one of the other three lines.

     Here I have highlighted just the 4/10 Axis, consisting of the 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience, and the 10 o'clock line of God-Vision. This is the axis on which we either pass or fail those tests that deal with the substance of rebellion most notably.

     Focusing our attention exclusively on the 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience, reveals another very important truth. Our capacity to pass our tests on the 4 o'clock line, depends entirely on the level of Gratitude and Love already anchored on the 1 o'clock line, and 7 o'clock line respectively. These qualities, even in their embryonic stages, combine to form the quality of allegiance and faithfulness to God's Law. This is the context within which the soul will either pass, or fail a test. You have heard the Messenger speak to this, that a particular person did not pass a test, because they did not love enough. When it came right down to it, they did not appreciate and respect God enough, to adhere to his agenda.

     Now, we cannot, be freewill choice, or through the exercise of our own will power, directly increase the level of love we have access to, or the level of gratitude we have access to, at a particular point in time. This is not within our direct control. During the process of passing a particular test, we must make do with what we have. We must make the right choice, primarily based on what we understand to be, what we know to be, the right way to go, and we will do that according to the level of appreciation that we currently feel in relationship to our knowledge in this regard. I believe the Masters have set this principle upon the table, that ascended master students will always know what is the right way. The Masters, and their angelic co-workers, will always be present to remind, through the voice of conscience. Whether the soul will choose that way, i.e. the right way, or not, will depend on the level of appreciation they have for the agenda of God, which is the agenda of the Masters, which is the agenda of truth.

     Clearly, tests are tests, because they are difficult, because we are actually facing that substance of anti-love, and anti-gratitude, and even blindness, and the strong desire to do wrong, all of which is associated with our past momentums of misqualifying light on the Ruby Cross. And so, we make our choices under the pressure of these dark storm clouds. And the decision we make truly hinges on the level of appreciation for the Masters, for the Teachings, for God, that we have garnered on the path up to that point.

     Therefore, it is only when a test is passed, that the way is made clear for the multiplication of the Light of both Love and Gratitude on the Ruby Cross. In each test, the soul has faced its momentum of ingratitude. In each test, the soul has faced its past momentum of anger against God himself. In each test, the soul has faced its own self-inflicted blindness. In each test, the soul has faced its desire to do wrong again. And in communion only, with a little flickering candle of internal knowledge, the soul will see that it must not bend the knee before these forces, but rather, it must choose to do right in spite of them. And when the soul finally makes this distinct and well defined choice to disregard these contrary forces, that is when the Masters can take those contrary forces off the table, clearing the way for an increased level of Light to be anchored in the temple. This is the only path that leads to the increase of the fires of God-Vision, God-Gratitude, and God-Love, in that order, in the temple of the soul.

     This is an important principle. It is no coincidence that the line of God-Obedience, the 4 o'clock, is in the center of the mental body. This is where the freewill of the soul is exercised. The choice to rebel, or obey, takes form within the mental body first.

     This helps us to understand why the heart chakra itself is plotted on the 3/9 axis of the Cosmic Clock. The emanations of the heart, that wisdom, that love, and that power, are supposed to provide the soul its sense of identity, its sense of reality, its sense of direction. Where does our sense of identity exist, if it is not within the mind? Where does our sense of reality exist, if it is not within the mind? Where does our sense of direction coalesce, if it is not within the mind? All of these things are products of the mind. Therefore, this placement underscores the obvious. The Divine Heart, and the Divine Mind, they are intended to be One.

     Let's be very clear about this. What we are talking about here, is the process whereby, the relationship between the soul, and God, is healed. You cannot love what you cannot see. The great gulf of darkness and ignorance which currently separates the soul from its Divine Parents, is progressively bridged by multiplying the sinews of divine clarity. When the soul can see God again, God the Father, and God the Mother, the soul will understand that there is no reason to maintain any further degree of separation, there is no fear anymore, but only adoration, cherishment, and love, and the gap between the two, will close quickly. And lo, the potential of the ascension appears upon the horizon of probability. What is the ascension? It is the prospect of moving permanently into a region of precious paradise, which is taking form, in the present moment, before the soul's inner vision, a little bit at a time.

     Now, when a particular test is presented, and the soul decides that it will not pass that test, that it will bypass that test, that is where the initiations for that soul will stop.    If the surrender (of the substance of disobedience)  is not made, the next level, or increment of Light, cannot be added.  And no further levels of Light can be added, until the soul passes that particular test.  Therefore, the process by which the relationship between the soul and God is healed, comes to a stop for this soul. 

     The act of rebellion blocks the healing process.

     The internal structures of darkness which stand between the soul and God, should be seen as nested spheres, like the structure of an onion. In the process of building up the various layers of rebellion, the soul paints additional layers of rebellious substance, rebellious thoughts, feelings, memories, actions, onto the existing outer surface of this spherical barrier. This process began a very long time ago. For souls embodied on this earth, as a general rule, the onion is very large, with many millions of layers. The divine heart is located way down very deep at the center of the onion, and the soul has created a life for itself outside of the onion. The onion is known as the false heart, the synthetic heart, which embodies the fallen soul's sense of ego-centric priorities all of which conflict with the priorities inherent in the divine plan. The process of undoing these layers of disobedience, starts with the outer most layer, which represents the most recent patterns of disobedience, and works through the layers, one at a time, until it finally arrives at the inner most layers. You can see why you cannot skip a layer. If the soul decides to keep one layer, it must understand that there is no way to move around that layer, under that layer, above that layer. If the soul is to continue the healing process, when a particular layer of disobedience comes up for transmutation, it must be put into the flame at that point. Otherwise, forward movement on the Path will stop.

     Now, what we have developing in the church hierarchy is a culture, and a tradition, established by the July 4, 2003 actions of Rev. Linda Worobec,  that sends the message to the membership, that it is ok to be rebellious and disobedient to the Teaching, which is actually, God manifest in our presence. Again, the Teaching is God the Father manifest in our presence. In subsequent months and years, the leadership has collectively promulgated the false idea that there are no consequences associated with this rebellion and disobedience, that progress up the mountain can continue apace, despite of it, that Linda Worobec herself, and all members of leadership, and the organization as a whole, can continue on, in good stead with the Masters, even in that disobedient and rebellious state.  And as this example permeates through the organization, souls follow that example, and they decide they do not have to surrender their points of rebellion either, and the process of initiation stops for many, not just for her. More importantly, the process of healing the soul's relationship with God stops, and the core mission of the organization is thereby thwarted. 

     What we are talking about here, is not just the thwarting of the alchemy of healing throughout the entire organization, but the thwarting of the  alchemy of expansion as well.

     The majority of souls in this organization must cooperate with this process of taking their tests, and passing their tests, on the 4 o'clock line of the Cosmic Clock, so that the Masters can add levels of Light to their consciousness, that will eventually bring the Reality of God into focus for them.  As more and more souls make progress in this process of healing, they will rise into the knowledge of their place in the Divine Family, residing, finally, at that golden nexus in the heart, where they experience not just the constant flow of respect and consideration from God their Father, and God their Mother, their Divine Parents, but the constant flow of respect and consideration from all members of the heavenly divine family.  These divine relationships, and the golden flow that characterizes these divine relationships, are worth more than a billion treasure chests full of earthly gold and rubies.  The soul's sense of self-worth, before God, and within the divine family, expands beyond the confines of the earth itself.  As several hundred, or perhaps several thousand Ascended Master students rise into this conflagration of cherishment, understand what it is that's radiated out into the world.  Radiated out into the world is this monumental sense of self-worth in God,  the actual Light of eternal and immortal VALUE, that soul's can read, and which will form a magnet, that will be able to draw millions of souls into the Teaching.

     But there is more. Each soul that makes up this collective conflagration of immortal VALUE, at the center of its individual identity, it will CHERISH the divine relationships that are associated with its unique place in the Divine Family. It must be understood, before the fact, that this cherishment is empowering in its own right. Why? From out of the midst of that sense of cherishment, springs two fundamental forces which fuel the dynamism of expansion, from the inside of the organization itself.

     Cherishment means, that the soul is in a very precious place. Cherishment means that various elements of divine beauty play like unto the very symphony of paradise upon the fabric of the soul. And the soul says to itself, this is assuredly a very blessed place to be. And out of that cherishment, springs first, the desire to draw all other soul's on the planet into that same golden sphere of experience. This is because the soul understands intrinsically, that what it cherishes so deeply, all souls would cherish just as deeply (if they had the opportunity to experience it). In other words, it is so very clear, that everyone would want to be in that same place, in terms of finding what is rightly described as the soul's Divine Home. And so, the soul looks beyond the treasure that is in its own hands, so to speak, and looks out into the world, where there are so many souls who would love to have the same treasure.

     Moreover, this natural extension of awareness is reinforced, in a rather monumental manner, because in cherishing the Divine Family, and the Divine Parents that created it, the soul receives what I would call a natural self-evident awareness, that each soul, in fact, has its rightful place, within that Divine Family.  In this respect, the Great Desires of God our Father, and Mother, their Hopes and Dreams, play upon the fabric of the soul itself. And we experience this Great Truth, that our Divine Parents desire to draw all those who have fallen away, back home.  And therefore, our own desires, become a transmission conduit, for the larger, and infinitely more majestic desires of our Divine Parents.

     It is important to grasp this great truth, that the desires of our Divine Parents in this regard, because those desires embrace the whole mass of their enslaved children with the beauty of absolute freedom, especially from all suffering, will become, and naturally so, a constant object of our adoration. In other words, we come to adore the desiring of our Divine Parents. We adore these desires, because somehow, our Divine Parents allow us to experience the joy of freedom on behalf of all those whom they would set free. And so, in all of this, we discover huge new reservoirs of motivating power. And these huge new reservoirs of motivating power, are absolutely essential when it comes to fueling the expansion of this organization.

     All of this will come to pass, when the Path of Initiation is understood, when all souls take seriously this great truth, that tests must be passed, at the time the tests are presented, that tests cannot be bypassed. And once there is no more bypassing of tests, the healing process can proceed quickly forward, and all of these things can come to pass far more quickly than anyone could have previously imagined.

     All of this must occur while the members of this organization are still in physical embodiment, long before they ever make their ascension. That magnet of immortal VALUE, must be anchored in the physical NOW if it is to have any tangible impact when it comes to expanding the organizational reach of the Teachings of the Ascended Masters.

     If a culture of rebellion and disobedience is indulged within the leadership structure itself, the process of healing the relationship between the soul and God, cannot proceed to fruition, and that fact will completely thwart the alchemy of expansion described.

     What is important about this situation, is that Linda Worobec's July 4, 2003 behavior of disobedience and rebellion,  presented that 4 o'clock test of God-Obedience, not just to Linda Worobec herself, but to every member of this organization.  

     Now, the leadership's support of Linda Worobec helped greatly in this (corrupt) process of persuading people to bypass this initiation.  They were persuaded, erroneously, that the wise thing to do would be to move on.  And because Linda Worobec is still there, defiant as ever, this represents a test that the organization has failed collectively.  

     Concerning the performance of a piece of Beatle's music on the very Altar of the Holy Grail by a Church Minister, and the very Manager of the Church itself, every single member should have stood up and said,"Linda, that was wrong, and we won't stand for it.  Linda, if you don't come into alignment with the Teaching, you have to step down.  We will not tolerate a leader that presents the example of disobedience and rebellion to the congregation.  You are putting in jeopardy, the very mission of our organization." 

     You see, this is the 4 o'clock test.  The soul must choose truth and obedience, over error and rebellion, even when that error and rebellion is wrapped in a glittering personality with apparent moral authority.  Now, we all know that fool's gold glitters just as bright as real gold. But when you pick it up, you find out that it is not the real thing. As I will show here, Linda Worobec's authority, is like unto fool's gold. It glitters only with the authority related to her association with the Messenger. Take the Messenger away, and there is no weight to her moral authority. Though the glitter remains. And people are fooled by that glitter. And that's why they call it "fool's" gold.

     That is the test of idolatry that is also presented on the 4/10 axis of the clock.  But the membership did not pass that test, and therefore, the process of initiation for the organization as a whole, has stopped.  We cannot move forward, until the organization as a whole comes to an understanding of the importance of this test, and makes the collective decision to pass it.

     Look to your left, to the Protestant community. Look to your right to the Catholic community. What you see are tens of millions of people, who call themselves Christians, feeding at the trough of false doctrine, and feeling quite good about it, smacking their lips with great relish, and rubbing their tummies with great satisfaction. Yet, all of them, have come to a place on the path, where they are fused to falsehood, beyond which they cannot move. And as I noted before, every one of them, generally speaking, is headed for a rendevous with truth, but not with the scenario that the fallen angels have programmed their minds to expect, but rather, a rendevous with a big fat "F" on their report card at the end of this life. Moreover, even in the midst of their self-satisfaction, all of them face a return to the treadmill of reincarnation, and under life circumstances far more painful than what we experience today, very possibly, if the mission of this organization fails, a world in which the Path of Initiation has been withdrawn, and only the darkness of evil virtue covers the land. And so, when you say to yourself, it can't happen here, well, it has happened in every other religious tradition ever established on earth, and it is happening right now in this organization. The fallen angels have entered in, and they have started this process of the corruption of truth right in front of our very eyes, upon the very Altar of the Holy Grail.

     And so, you can see why the false hierarchy tries to corrupt leadership. If you can corrupt leadership, you can arrest the progress of the whole body of God on earth.  That's the meaning behind the statement in scripture, referring to the Pharisees, that you do not enter in yourselves, and you thereby keep everybody else from entering in.   

     If the false hierarchy can manipulate a leader into taking a stand for a lie, and the people will not confront that lie, and overturn that lie, their initiations, collectively, stop.  They sort of mill around in circles in a synthetic state of adoration for their false leaders for the rest of their time in embodiment.  In this way, the purposes and plans of God are thwarted.  And that is where we are today.

     The future success of this organization depends on this one test, right here, and right now.  Pass it, and we move on to greater releases of light, a more tangible sense of the Reality of God for each one of us, and higher tests.  If we fail it, we write failure (for this mission) onto the future for all time. 

     How many of you want that to come to pass? Well, it is already here. This is actually what will come to pass if things are not turned around. Excuse me for pointing this out. The train has already left the tracks. The whole kit and caboodle is falling into the canyon as we speak. If we stand by and do nothing, it will hit bottom. But if we turn around and pass this test, individually, and collectively, it will be the same thing as unleashing superman, who will swoop down in the nick of time, grab the whole train in his arms, and lift it safely back up the side of the mountain, and place it gently back upon the tracks, from whence it will chug-a-chug itself merrily on its way to the very summit of victory.

     This is the context within which we must see the destruction of the unity of the Russian Congregation, and the destruction of a publishing operation there, that had theretofore published more than 700,000 Ascended Master titles. This is the actual fact of destruction manifesting before our very eyes. When I say that the mission will be destroyed if we don't pass this test, there is the first example. And there will be others. Once the slide down the mountain starts, there is only one way to stop it. One must retrace steps, and pass the test which was initially failed, which initially started the organization's slide into the abyss of failure.

     In the course of watching various movies on this particular evening, and into the early morning, I saw an advertisement for a movie called "Ransom" starring Mel Gibson, who played the president and CEO of a medium sized airline, who had his son kidnaped, and this movie was about getting his son back, and I said to myself, "I really want to see that movie." I mean, I REALLY wanted to see that movie. It was to play the next night on the USA Cable network.  I mention this here, because the content of "RANSOM" has an important role to play in the discussion below.

     Now, the movie that I saw on this particular evening, Thanksgiving Day evening (2003) to be exact, which I would like to discuss at some length here, was Treasure Island. This is the classic 1934 film, produced in black and white, starring Wallace Berry as Long John Silver, and Jackie Cooper as the cabin boy Jim Hawkins, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), first published (in book form) in 1883.

     Before getting into the content of the movie itself, I want to point out a few very important facts which reveal the connection between the publication of this book, and the purposes of the Ascended Masters. There is a conjunction here.

"Let your joy be in the understanding that there are no coincidences in life, but from the beginning your own divine name, the electronic pattern thereof, is for the release of Light even to the physical octave." --- Beloved Hercules, May 6, 1984.

     Now, the second thing to make note of, is the fact, that in these expositions we have talked a lot about the Cosmic Clock, and the test of God-Obedience on the 4 o'clock line.  We have noted that it is the tests on this line, which divide the genuine souls of Light, from the interlopers.  Soul's of light can pass their tests on the 4 o'clock line.  The Interlopers cannot.  Now, make note of the life span of the author of Treasure Island, in terms of the length thereof.  He lived to be only 44.  This is no coincidence.  How much time was he given?  The question of time itself points to the Cosmic Clock.  And the double 4's tells us that the 4 o'clock line is doubly important.

     The third thing we need to make note of, is the connection between the author of this book, Robert Louis Stevenson, and lighthouses. That's right. Lighthouses. Robert Louis Stevenson was born into the family, people in Scotland call it a dynasty, that engineered and built all of the lighthouses in Scotland. This wonderful story is recounted in the book whose cover is reproduced here, The Lighthouse Stevensons : The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson by Bella Bathurst.

     This is a short review of the book that I found on the Amazon bookstore website by Adam Roberts, of Amazon.co.uk:

"The 14 lighthouses dotting the Scottish coast were all built by the same family that produced Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland's most famous novelist. Surprised? Bella Bathurst throws a powerful, revolving light into the darkness of this historical tradition. Robert Louis was a sickly fellow, and--unlike the rest of his strong-willed, determined family--certainly not up to the astonishing rigors of lighthouse building, which is vividly described here. Constructing these towering structures in the most inhospitable places imaginable (such as the aptly named Cape Wrath), using only 19th-century technology, is an achievement that beggars belief. One thinks of the pyramid building of ancient Egypt. At the Skerryvore lighthouse, the ground rocks were prepared by hand (even though the "gneiss could blunt a pick in three blows") in waves and winds "strong enough to lift a man bodily off the rock" and that "it took 120 hours to dress a single stone for the outside of the tower, and 320 hours to dress one of the central stones. In total 5000 tons of stone were quarried and shipped"--and all by hand. It is mind-boggling stuff: you'll look at lighthouses with a new respect."

     Is this a coincidence, that this author, sponsored by the Brotherhood, who would write a book setting forth a message intended to help save Maitreya's Mystery School (The Summit Lighthouse) from destruction in the next century, would be born into a family of lighthouse builders? This is no coincidence.

"Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors." --Robert Louis Stevenson

     His family intended for the young Stevenson to continue in the lighthouse building tradition, setting him on a course of study at Edinburgh University in the field of engineering, but it was decided, early on, with his father's blessing, that his temperament was more fit for the law. But, even though he passed the bar, and became a lawyer, circumstances directed his feet further along that divinely ordained path that would allow him to complete his life mission as a writer. Little did they know that his chosen path would help save from utter destruction the most important lighthouse that has yet been built in this world of form, yes, the Summit Lighthouse.

     The fourth thing to ponder, is the question of how many authors have been praised by name by the Ascended Masters in their dictations? Before researching this, I could not have mentioned one. Perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson is not the only author praised by the Masters themselves. But he is certainly among the select few whose contribution was so noteworthy, that they deemed it appropriate to immortalize his name. The Beloved Lady Master Kwan Yin referred to Robert Louis Stevenson by name as a "beautiful soul" in a dictation in 1971:

1. The Messenger, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, refers to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome in a discussion on the dweller on the threshold on November 26, 1987. See "The Lost Teachings of Jesus: On the Enemy Within," on two 90-min. audiocassettes, A87097. (Read the Transcript) 2. The Ascended Master, and World Teacher, Jesus Christ, referred to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome in a dictation delivered on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1989, published in Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 32 No. 60, December 10, 1989. (Read the Text) 3. The Ascended Masters, and Archangel, and Archeii, Beloved Chamuel & Charity, referred to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome in a dictation delivered on July 5, 1992, during FREEDOM 1992: "Joy in the Heart", published in Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 35 No. 52 , November 15, 1992. (Read the Text) 4. The Ascended Master, and World Teacher, Jesus Christ, referred to Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde syndrome in a dictation delivered on Easter Sunday, March 30, 1997, published in Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 40 No. 35, August 31, 1997. The Master Jesus, along with the Messenger, give a very detailed explanation of how Stevenson's depiction of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde applies to the all-important challenge which every lightbearer faces, in the identification of, and the casting out, of the dweller on the threshold. (Read the Text)

     I hope everyone will take the time to read the statements the Masters have made on Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde characters, and how they relate to the important issue of identifying and casting out the dweller-on-the-threshold. I encourage the reader to do this, because this provides us with a very important nexus point. At bottom, the issue of rebellion that we are dealing with in the church leadership is the refusal of some souls to identify, and cast out the dweller on the threshold. In some cases the condition of dweller fusion may have already occurred. But, the point here is that as we consider the importance of Stevenson's work in the book Treasure Island, we must see it as only one side of a two-sided coin. On the one side we have rebellious souls who have taken over the church leadership, and that drama is illustrated, allegorically in Stevenson's Treasure Island. But on the other side of the coin we have the refusal of many to do the necessary work of identifying, and casting out the dweller on the threshold, an issue that Stevenson deals with in his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde characters.

     The book itself, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", is a short novel, fast paced, easy to read, and will engage you from beginning to end.

     In every age, the hordes of darkness do exactly the same thing. They are absolutely predictable in this regard. When the Light appears, they send in their agents to steal it and to destroy the victory matrix inherent in it.  And the Masters, looking ahead to when the Mystery School would be established in America during this new age, caused to be set forth in print in 1883, a prophecy of what was to come 120 years later in 2003.

     It is no coincidence that there is a span of 120 years between 1883, and 2003. The number 120 carries the code of the Cosmic Clock, embodying in it, the number 12, to signify the first line of the Cosmic Clock, of God-Power, pointing to the grabbing, and misuse of the power, associated with what the hordes of darkness always do when they have infiltrated the Mystery School. Moreover, the number 120 contains another important key. The number 120 is a product of the multiplication of the number 12, and the number 10. The number 12 has the significance just mentioned. The number ten corresponds to the 10 o'clock line of the Cosmic Clock, which is God-Vision, the perversion of which is idolatry. The pirates get away with their dastardly deeds because too many of God's Children idolize them. That idolatry obscures their vision of the law, and thus, they are drawn into the vortex of rebellion.

     In terms of the story's relationship to the Cosmic Clock, it is also no coincidence that the numbers, i.e. the numerals, which appear in the movie, and in the book text, all relate, with few exceptions, to the lines of the Cosmic Clock that are most directly related to the presence of the forces of rebellion within the church leadership. With very few exceptions, they are all on the Ruby Cross 1/7/4/10. Here is the diagram of the Ruby Cross (repeated from above), followed by a summary of the most important of the references to these clock lines which are found in the text.

1. The story opens with a reference to the year in which these events occurred, thusly 17--. That represents the 1/7 axis of the Cosmic Clock, 1 o'clock line of God-Love, 7 o'clock line of God- Gratitude. 2. Jim Hawkins is ten years old. 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 3. Of the Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones, it is said that "All day he hung round the cove, or upon the cliffs, with a brass telescope." 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 4. The Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones offers Jim Hawkins "a silver fourpenny on the first of every month" for his lookout services. 1 o'clock line of God-Love, 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience, and 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 5. Jim Hawkins was to keep a lookout for a "seafaring man with one leg." 10 o'clock line of God Vision, and 1 o'clock line of God-Love. 6. The seafaring man, Black Dog, with one leg, first appeared in January, the first month of the year. 1 o'clock line of God-Love. 7. The blind beggar, old Pew, who delivered the black spot to the Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones, arrived at 3 pm. 3 o'clock line of God-Control, the first line of the mental quadrant, within which the test of God-Obedience, on the 4 o'clock line, is given (see Fig. 11 above). 8. The blind beggar, old Pew, after a long discussion, finally delivered the black spot to the Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones at 4pm. The time for the summons, written on the back of the black spot, was 10pm. 4/10 Axis of the Cosmic Clock, 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience, 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 9. Immediately after old Pew departed, the Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones, jumped to his feet, and died of a heart attack, right there, at 4pm. 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience. 10. After Jim Hawkins and his mother returned from an unsuccessful attempt to rally help in a nearby town to deal with the pirates who were set to return later that evening, they returned to the Inn. As they searched Billy Bone's body for the key to his sea chest, Jim Hawkins finds the black spot still in his hand, and on the back of it, he reads "ten", and he says, "He had till ten, mother". 10 o'clock line of God Vision. At that point the clock strikes. They looked up, fearing that their time might be up, but they were relieved that it was only 6pm. This gives them 4 hours. 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience. These numbers are mentioned in the context of searching for the KEY (to the sea chest). 11. Taking the key, Jim Hawkins, and his mother go up to open the sea chest of the Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones, now dead. The pirates, not true to their word, even on their own black spot, return much sooner than expected. When Jim and his mother hear the noises the pirates are making out on the road as they approach, "It was not yet seven." 7 o'clock line of God-Gratitude. 12. The number of pirates that returned were "seven or eight of them". 7 o'clock line of God- Gratitude. 13. The number of riders that trampled old Pew on the road, out in front of the Inn, were "four or five riders". 4 o'clock line of God-Obedience. 14. The only written number on the treasure map was "ten feet". 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 15. The central feature on the island depicted on the treasure map, was a hill called "The Spy Glass". 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 16. Long John Silver had one leg. 1 o'clock line of God-Love. 17. Long John Silver ran a tavern called the "Spy-glass", which used a large brass telescope for a sign. 10 o'clock line of God Vision. 18. The size of the treasure, as we find out at the end of the book, is 700,000 pounds. 7 o'clock line of God-Gratitude. This number 700,000 has another important nexus. The former board members of the Moscow Study Group, quantified their past publishing efforts, using that exact number, 700,000. This is no coincidence.

     Treasure Island is a story of pirates and buried treasure. The pirates represent the hordes of darkness. When the story opens, the hordes of darkness have already succeeded in stealing the Light from the Children of God. That is the treasure that Captain Flint buried, years before, on Treasure Island itself. The treasure map would be loosely analogous to the Teachings of the Ascended Masters. The teachings provide the map the soul can follow to find the treasure. The pirates want to keep the treasure map out of the hands of the Children of God of course. And they have been doing that successfully for millennia. But today, we have the treasure map. The treasure map is now in the hands of the Children of God. The first part of the story recounts how the treasure map finds its way into the hands of Jim Hawkins. This provides us with an anchor point in time, wherein we can say for sure, that this story actually applies. We can say that this story was written for this time, because the treasure map is back in the hands of the children of God. We have the teaching now. The Masters have provided the map that the soul must follow to find the buried treasure.

     What is the treasure itself? It is the treasure that represents the Light which the pirates have already stolen, on the high seas, from the soul's of the innocent. And of course, this thievery goes back millennia.

     The character Jim Hawkins, the ten year old boy who becomes the cabin boy on the ship that sails off in search of the treasure, represents the virtuous but very foolish soul who has lost his light, and has returned to earth to find it. He is the one, along with the mother, that finds the treasure map. In this he has found the teaching. And he joins forces with other treasure-minded souls of good will to find the buried treasure. These other treasure-minded souls would be representative of the Community of the Holy Spirit.

     Jim Hawkins delivers the treasure map to Dr. Livesey, a symbol of the healing Christ, and the Squire, a symbol of the authority of Christ, in the Library, a symbol of the Christ Mind, before a roaring fire, which is a symbol for the heart flame.

     Now, they travel overland to Bristol, England, to charter a ship, and find a crew.   The ship is representative of Maitreya's Clipper Ship, which is a symbol of the Mystery School, and the voyage that soul must take to find the treasure.  The pirate Long John Silver, an affable fellow, (yes - the perfect politician), is on the dock, and ingratiates himself with the members of the Community.  He convinces them that he has a talent they can use, in this case he wants to be the cook on the voyage, and because they need a cook, he is hired on, with no questions asked. The cook is the supplier of nutrients, and is synonymous with the priest class.   Working from that place of trust, he offers to find the ship a crew, and in this way, Maitreya's Clipper Ship is manned by mostly pirates from the onset. There are a few real and honest sailors among the crew, but by an large, the majority are pirates in disguise.   But of course, the pirates know how to do the things a sailing ship crew must know, they know how to take orders, and how to carry them out, and they are trusted initially because of their obvious expertise. 

     Now, pirates are thieves at heart, and their desires go to the treasures that belong to others. The Ascended Masters have described the moths that have crowded around the central light of the Messengers, as being so thick at times, that the Light itself, could barely be seen. The moths are just another way to describe those who steal the light. It shines on them, and they feel all good and warm, but the light does not transmit out into the world, because they are not transparent, to say the least.

     Now, there are a couple of scenes in the movie, before the ship sails, which exposes the true nature of Long John Silver, as a pirate, to the Cabin Boy Jim Hawkins.  If Jim Hawkins would have believed his own eyes at that point, and communicated what he saw to other members of the Community, a lot of future grief could have been avoided.  But such was not to be.  Long John Silver convinced Jim Hawkins that he did not see, what he did see, and whether he saw it or not, it was not to be talked about.  What Jim Hawkins saw was a known pirate villain, Black Dog, who was part of the story at the very beginning, having been the first to visit the Old Buccaneer, Billy Bones, at the Admiral Benbow Inn, and he was part of the pirate party that returned with old Pew after the delivery of the black spot there, and here he was again, here in Bristol, in the tavern run by Long John Silver. Yes, there he was, in direct association with Long John Silver, but O no, that does not reflect on Long John Silver.

     And of course, no one makes the connection between the fact that the central hill on the treasure map is called "Spy-glass", and Long John Silver's tavern goes by the name "Spy-glass" as well. Just a coincidence? No. This point of the story simply underscores the propensity of the Children of God to ignore what their own eyes tell them.

     I have a recent example of the Presidents of this church telling everyone exactly who they are, yet there doesn't seem to be anyone on the crew who is ready to believe their own ears, and they simply go on believing what is most convenient for them to believe. See Rebels in Control below.

     Now, one of the things that explains this, is that Jim Hawkins has a very high respect for Long John Silver. And notwithstanding the dastardly things this pirate does throughout the story, Jim Hawkins never absorbs the truth in this regard.   This peculiar relationship represents the deeper truth, that many good souls have joined forces with key leaders of the false hierarchy in the past, and they have a very hard time breaking what appears to be a very deep tie of sympathy.

     And so, Maitreya's Clipper Ship sails off in search of Treasure Island, with its crew of pirates. 

     And what is the plan of these pirates?  From the beginning they are planning to take over the ship, and to grab the treasure for themselves.

     Before making any overt moves to take over the ship, the pirates try to identify those among the crew who might oppose them, and they conspire, without revealing their future intent and motives, to throw these individuals overboard.  Sound familiar?   As good people die under strange circumstances, and good people disappear under strange circumstances, the Community members look the other way, oblivious to what is going on. And they sail on.

     I would mention that this theme is portrayed more subtly in the book, than it is portrayed in the 1934 classic movie. The point is made very vividly in the movie. Here we see the Ascended Masters given the opportunity to polish up their message in its second incarnation as a movie.

     But, fate, or destiny, would have it, as the ship approaches Treasure Island, that before the pirates make their move to actually take over the ship, the cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, who is down at the bottom of a huge apple barrel, overhears Long John Silver explaining the takeover plan to the other pirates. And Jim warns the Community, and they take action to defend themselves.

     Very soon thereafter, the ship arrives in the harbor of Treasure Island, and it turns out that Jim Hawkins and company decide the best thing to do is to abandon the ship, and to make their stand in a stockade on Treasure Island itself. They leave the ship to the pirates for the time being, while they work to defend their lives, this is the top priority, and with that, their ultimate access to the actual treasure.

     The pirates follow them, and attack them, because after all, the Community members still have the treasure map.   And both sides do a lot of damage to each other in the course of the ensuing battle.  But the Community members prevail, for the time being, and the pirates retreat to decide what they should do.   Word comes back that they are going to bring in a big cannon from the ship so that the little stockade on Treasure Island can be blown away.  At this point, the cabin boy, Jim Hawkins, finds courage within his heart, and rows out to the ship in the dead of night, overcomes the pirates on board, and causes the ship to be beached, where the remaining pirates won't be able to find it.

     Actually, that section of the story, which I have just related with one sentence, is perhaps one of the best sections spanning several pages. My apologies. But time flies.

     In the mean time, we find out later that the Members of the Community have found the treasure in Jim Hawkins absence, and that the only business that is left, is to dispose of the remaining pirates.

     Since the pirates are not able to bring the canon ashore, the Community Members have the upper hand, and they lead the remaining pirates into an ambush, and kill them all, except for Long John Silver. In the book three escape, and they are left marooned on the Island. In the movie, they are all killed. The community members take Long John Silver into custody, and they all reconnoiter at Ben Gun's cave, where it turns out, that during his time of exile on the island, that he found the treasure, and carried it all safely up to his little cave where the pirates would never have thought to look for it. 

     Ben Gunn was a member of Captain Flint's crew marooned there for a reason I don't currently remember. His time on the island, in total seclusion, has made him a repentant man, and very sorry for his past, and he dedicates himself to the ways of the Bible anew, and it is no coincidence that he is the one that finds the buried treasure and hauls up to his home on top of the hill. Repentance is the key there.

     The Community Members load the treasure onto the ship, and the sail they ship back to England, where everyone lives happily ever after, with Ben Gunn contributing his voice to his local church choir.

     But before they get even close to the shores of England, the Community Members decide that they will give Long John Silver a trial, find him guilty of the most heinous crimes of course, and hang him by the neck until he is dead.  But history repeats itself. Somehow, he steals some of the treasure, persuades the cabin boy Jim Hawkins to let him go free. Jim Hawkins, because he has such a love for this pirate in his heart, even though he saw Long John Silver commit murder with his own eyes, sets him loose in row boat, whereby our imaginations tell us, that he made it safely to shore, and he is now free to arrange yet another conspiracy to corrupt another Mystery School in the future, and so it goes, down the corridors of time.

     The book and movie diverge somewhat here. In the movie it is Jim Hawkins who lets Long John Silver go free. In the book, it was Ben Gunn who let's Long John Silver go free. Even if you want to take the book version of this portion of the story, the same general lesson is embedded in it. Why did the Community Members trust a former pirate, in Ben Gunn, to guard Long John Silver? Obviously, they placed trust in a pirate, and that was a mistake.

     The smooth talking pirate, Long John Silver, knows how to hoodwink Jim Hawkins (or Ben Gunn), and the law of karma will make sure they meet again, so that Long John Silver's reason for being, as it were, can be brought back to life again.

     And that's where we are today in this church. We are face to face with the same pirates that have hoodwinked us time after time in previous lives. As the ship sails off in search of the treasure of eternal life, here are the pirates, among us again, and true to form, they want to take over the ship, and steal the treasure for themselves. This story was put down on paper in 1883 for one reason. The Children of God must take seriously this great truth, that among the company of treasure hunters, there are always pirates masquerading as crew members of good will.

The Infiltration of the Fallen Angels and Their Manipulation of Published Information to Hide Their Presence.      The Messenger, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, spoke about the infiltration of fallen ones into this very community. These comments were made publically in 1998. When the comments were published in a Pearl of Wisdom, the information about the infiltration of fallen ones into this community was edited out. Someone on staff decided that these comments would not become part of the general common knowledge among Keepers of the Flame worldwide.      The orginal comments were made by the Messenger, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, on Thursday, July 8, 1998, during the six-day conference Family --The Heart of Community held July 4 through July 9, 1998, at San Diego, California.      The following is the text of the Messengers comments as they were published in Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 41 No. 34, August 23, 1998. The points where text was edited out, is marked in red: Vol. 41 No. 34 - Beloved Archangel Raphael and Mother Mary with Kuan Yin, Spokesman for the Buddhas of the Far East - August 23, 1998 [ECP Comments]" ... Florence went through a very burdensome cycle before her passing. I was with her in the hospital and I stayed with her for many hours. And she had one thing and one thing only on her heart, and that was to defeat the fallen angels who had moved against our Community and against our Church worldwide. Florence was absolutely determined that she would not leave this world, nor would she succumb to any illness until she had done her duty to bind these fallen ones. [missing text] And there were times when only Florence and I understood what was going on. [missing text] And I was with her when she breathed her last breath because I would not leave her alone. Before that, I had told her (because she knew and I knew, but we didn't discuss it) that she would not be here for very long. And I said, "Florence, I am saving a dress for you. And I want you to have this dress." It was a dress I had worn at the altar many, many times, so it was charged with great light. She accepted the dress. And later, after her passing and the cremation, I looked up into the sky and I saw Florence fully free, fully happy and fully determined that she was going to slay the antichrists of the world. And I know that she has been doing this ever since. I would like you to know that if it were not for Florence Miller, I don't know if I would have made it. And if I hadn't made it, I don't know if this entire Community would have made it. So I wanted you to know what it really means to be a Bodhisattva. That's why I couldn't say too many things today, because my heart was overflowing with joy for her victory ..."      The original comments are still available via the original audio recording B98092. The comments by the Messenger are made after the dictation, in that section titled, "Service Following Dictation".      This is the transcript I made from the recorded remarks, with the text in bold red that was edited out above: [ECP Comments] "... Florence went through a very burdensome cycle before her passing. I was with her in the hospital, and I stayed with her hour upon hour. And Florence had one thing on her heart, and only one thing on her heart, and that was to defeat the fallen angels who had moved against our community, against our church worldwide. And she made it her absolute determination that she would not leave this world, she would not succumb to any illness until she had done her duty to bind those fallen ones who had come into our church. And many people in our church did not realize just how cunning, and how bad these people were. And there were times when only Florence and I understood what was going on. And she went to bat, she challenged, she gave all of her life. And I was with her when she breathed her last breath ..."      Listen to the Original Recording, and hear for yourself, the fact that indeed, the Messenger made those comments, and they are reported accurately in the transcript above, and that they were in fact edited out of the published pearl. If you do not have a copy of the published pearl, go to Pearls Online, and Enter Your Query as, "Vol 41 No. 34" (without the quote marks) into the keyword box, click the execute button, and the pearl will come up for you to read.      The Master El Morya, as late as 1995 told us that this activity has been at times swarmed by those who are not of the light, and I think it is important to infer from his statement then, that there was a major problem right at that point. This is what he said: Vol. 38 No. 26 - June 18, 1995 - Beloved El Morya, Easter Retreat 1995, 11, Clean House!, I AM the Champion of My Chelas, If You Make Your Bed in the Psychic You Will Have to Lie in It!      "Since I am about to sponsor millions of souls for this activity and this Path, I must be certain that you who are here and who form the foundations of this Community throughout the earth are true to me. You must be true to the souls who are entering in. You must care for them and raise them up. You must be done with your criticism, condemnation, judgment and gossip. And you must laud the power of God that gives to us the opportunity to truly turn the world around in the next seven years.      Thus, beloved, at the same time that I speak about receiving many among you as chelas, for many of you are worthy, I also must speak about those who have not been chelas, who have never been chelas, but who have hung on to this activity like moths flitting around a lamp light. At times they have gathered around the flame in such numbers that the flame could no longer be seen. "      But it is obvious, that there were people on staff back in 1998, who felt very uncomfortable with this fact reported by the Messenger, that fallen ones could be a part of our community, and that this could be so at the very same time that the Messenger who fully aware of it, and that she could not, for some reason, simply kick them out the door. The simplest explanation I suppose would be that these fallen ones were present for the testing of souls, and its looks like Florence Miller was passing her tests in this regard, while everyone else, and this is according to the Messenger's own words, were failing those tests. She said, " ... there were times when only Florence and I understood what was going on."      Now, if fallen ones could be present in the community with the Messenger fully aware of it, what would keep the fallen ones from being in this community today? The fact that the above text was altered, is evidence that there were such individuals in the community in 1998. Those are the people who would feel like suppressing that information. A genuine lightbearer would have honored the Messenger's words, and would have seen in those words an important warning for all future generations. And they would have left that warning intact. Yes, fallen ones can and do infiltrate the Community of the Holy Spirit, and they are able to pull the wool over the eyes of the great majority of the people. If there is no one present who knows and understands who they are, no one present to resist them, they are free to drive Maitreya's Clipper Ship onto the rocks.

     When the time rolled around, I tuned into the movie, and I watched it up to the point where Mel Gibson's little boy was kidnaped. At that point, Mel Gibson's wife goes hysterical, and the rest of the movie looks like it's going to be long stream of fear and anxiety, and I say to myself, gee, I don't need this, and I decided to go do my regular evening decree service instead.

     I stopped in the bathroom for a little business, and I was thinking to myself, hmmm, why in the world did I feel so much like I had to watch that movie, recalling the powerful desire associated with seeing the advertisement the night before, and it turns out to be such a fear and anxiety thing?   As I went back in my memory and relived the appearance of that desire, wondering why I had it in the first place, a pure blue sapphire point of bright shining light appeared to me against the backdrop of the bathroom wall.   I have seen these winks of bright pure blue light before, but not since 1986.

     Now I had something else to consider as I left the bathroom, and as I walked in the direction of the sanctuary.  As I got to the kitchen door and opened it, my right knee started to hurt quite intensely, and I said, gee, what in the world is that for?  The question struck me instantaneously: before what, exactly, am I NOT bending the knee?  And right at that point, another bright pinpoint of pure blue sapphire light appeared to me against the backdrop of the kitchen door.  These piercing pinpoints of bright blue light are just as tangible as if someone flashed a flashlight in my eyes.  Well, actually, it is more like a star in the sky, though a hundred times brighter.  Consider the pinpoint of white light that a star emits, and amplify the intensity of that by a hundred, but keep it defined as a pinpoint of light, perhaps tens times larger in diameter than a point of star light.  And make it the brightest and clearest blue that you can imagine, and that is what I saw.   I mean, that is the purest and most beautiful blue that you could imagine.  It's like the purest and bluest Montana sky distilled into its essence.  I said to myself, Ok, I will go watch the movie.  And my knee stopped hurting right then and there.

     (Reality Check:  The question is immediately posed to the minds of some, whether this person is describing a way in which the hordes of darkness manipulate students of the light into doing foolish things.  But, where would the astral hordes get access to a source of light that clear and blue? They can't.  The sun does not shine on the astral plane.  No environmental sun as it were, and certainly no inner sun.  Now, this crystal blue light can be produced in the physical realm using the pure light from the sun, and a crystal.  You can see that clear blue light flash through the crystal if you have it in the sunlight.  But the sun does not shine on the astral plane.  And therefore, the hordes of darkness do not have this capability in their tool kit as a device to mislead Ascended Master students.  It is a tool which the angels and Masters have at their disposal to try to counter the doubt that demons can and do project into the minds of Ascended Master students.  If the student has been handed an important task, but the hordes of darkness are nearly succeeding in convincing the soul to walk in another direction, the Masters and the angels can take extraordinary measures to help the student recover his or her bearings.  These crystal pin points of pure blue star light, are presented to the mind within the context of the normal physical field of vision.  Yet it is not physical light.  During a Darshan, one student described this to the Messenger.  And the Messenger's response was, something along these lines, speaking to the student, "you are very blessed."  And so,  you can gather from this one point, just how important the Master's believe it is, that everyone in this community get a handle on the subject matter in this exposition.)

     And what was this movie all about?  I don't really need to go into a lot of detail here.  Mel Gibson's son was kidnaped, and the kidnappers were despicable people.  I mean they were really evil.  Much of the movie had to do with the interplay between the kidnappers, and the parents, and the police, and with frequent scenes of how the little boy was being treated, handcuffed to a bed in a little room, with Rock Music blaring loudly (isn't that interesting?) I suppose to keep the kid from hearing the voices of his kidnappers.  I find it very interesting that there is this musical element to this as well. 

     One of the two most important plot twists in this movie, is that Mel Gibson refuses to pay the ransom, because he is sure that the kidnappers are intent on killing the child anyway, and as viewers (i.e. us), who have seen the kidnappers talking about this, we know that indeed, this is their intent. But Mel Gibson's wife doesn't know that they intend to do this, and she has a fit when she finds out about Gibson's decision to refuse to pay the ransom. Mel Gibson's intuition is right, but his wife is full of fear and doubt, and she is going crazy thinking that Mel Gibson is too cheap to save own his son.  And she has a greater fit because Mel Gibson in turn doubles the ransom amount, and makes it into a reward that he will pay for any information on the kidnappers.  He tells them, I am not giving you a dime.  But I will pay 4 million bucks to anyone who tells me where to find you.   

     So, by and by, this actually tempts one of the kidnappers, and the mastermind of this whole plot senses this, and decides that this whole thing is not going to work at all, that they need to drop everything, and leave the kid where he is.

     Now, here is where the second plot twist comes in, and this is the one that applies to the situation in our church directly.  After deciding to call it quits, the kidnapper gang is shown putting all of their stuff into an old white van out in front of the apartment where they have been holding Mel Gibson's son. And the mastermind leaves his cohorts to load the van, and walks across the street into a laundromat, and he takes out his radio, and he is calling in the police! What? He makes sure that there are a lot of people who can hear him.  He's telling the dispatcher that he's in the middle of a kidnaping situation and that he needs backup, and quick.  That's right, we discover at that point, that the mastermind of this kidnaping plot was a police officer! This evil creature who masterminded this kidnaping was a police officer!

     And moreover, it dawns on us that he is so clever, that he has figured out how to turn things around to his advantage, enabling him to collect that $4 million reward that Gibson has offered for information on the kidnappers.

     He walks out of the laundromat, back to the white van, and he draws his gun, and confronts the members of his own kidnapper gang, and he pulls out his badge, and says, Stop or I'll Shoot! Well, we know that he is going to shoot them dead.  He doesn't want to leave anyone alive that can talk.  He's going to make himself, yes, the very guy who masterminded the kidnaping in the first place, look like the hero, the one who caught the gang and saved the kid, and he will get that ransom anyway, except it will be in the form of the reward.  Well, he shoots them all dead. 

     But one of the gang members who wasn't in the van comes up from behind, and she has seen this whole scene of incredible betrayal, and she has a gun, and she gets a shot off in his direction, but only wounds him in the shoulder. This way he can look more the hero, and his story will be the more believable. But this girl, which was his girl friend, hesitates, doesn't finish him off, and he blows her away, leaving him as the only one alive.   Sympathy for the fallen one is always the Achilles heal of the lightbearer. And the police arrive, and there he is, with the kid, and they treat him as a hero, blood soaked and all, and its really weird, that as they wheel him out on a stretcher towards the waiting ambulance, Mel Gibson runs up and gives him a big handshake, and says Thanks for saving my boy.  Right.

     Now, the movie is almost over.  The only thing left is for this bad cop to get his reward.

     The final scenes show how everyone thinks he's the good guy.  He's the man.  He's the hero.  Everyone is patting him on the back.  And it's so strange to experience how superficial people can be.  They have a cold blooded killer in the room with them, and they are looking past that, and they are seeing only the apparent hero.

     Though obviously, he played the good cop for a long time. That's how people knew him. And he was playing on that masquerade to get him through this.

     And finally, one day, he shows up at Mel Gibson's house to pick up the reward.  And Mel Gibson takes him in, pouring gratitude all over the guy as he writes out the check.  And out of the corner of his eye, he sees his son come to the doorway, and the kid is listening to the voice of this killer, and he recognizes it, and the child's face turns to a look of terror, and he pees in his pajamas, Gibson is watching the puddle form on the floor, and the child runs away.  The kidnapper doesn't see the child.  The child is out of visual range.  He only see's Mel Gibson looking over to his left.  And Mel Gibson is going, what was that all about?   And then the killer says one of his trademark lines (which Gibson has heard over the phone on several occasions), and Mel Gibson puts it all together, and the killer knows it, and oh no, the movie is not over yet.

     The main problem at this point is to get this killer out of the house and away from his family. Gibson offers to make his private jet available so that the killer can take the money and run.

     Mel Gibson and the killer go to the bank where the reward money can be wired to an offshore account.  On the way to the bank, he fools the kidnapper and puts in a call to the police, under the guise of calling the airport to have his private plane made ready.  And so the police are on the way. 

     They arrive at the bank, and as they walk towards the front door, they run into a group of police officers who again treat this kidnapper as a hero.  When they finally get into the bank, there is all of this ceremony again, with everybody thinking the kidnapper is still this hero.  Everyone wants to shake his hand, pat him on the back.  And the money is wired to an offshore account.

     But the kidnapper has not got his final reward, not yet.   When they leave the bank, the police have received the call, and the same officers that were patting this guy on the back when he went into the bank, now have to take him into custody. They have their orders. They were confused of course.  Here was this hero, that they had to take into custody, and they hesitated, they let their guard down, and the kidnapper shot them all down dead. 

     And then there was a great chase, it was on foot, and Mel Gibson ran this guy down. Tackled him right through a plate glass window.   And finally, great numbers of police officers arrived on the scene.  And this is where the movie ended, on this very strange note.  The police officers who have just arrived on the scene are calling both Mel Gibson and the kidnapper to come out o