Ascended Master Discourse 18

One can scarcely realize where We stood so few years ago when this Good Brother came into Our home. How little did We dream then of what was to follow. I say to you with all sincerity and earnestness: Right now, you stand in the same position! How little do you know, as We did then, what is just before you in your Achievement. Will you not join with Me in accepting the Limitless Power of your “Presence” to do this same thing for you? We did not know, any more than you do today what is before you. If one had told Us, even the day this Good Brother arrived in Our home, all that would take place, We probably would have said it was incredible and impossible.

Our Example stands before you, Beloved Ones, in Its Infinite Power to strengthen, encourage, and allow you to feel this—the same Great Victory—is yours. Unless you allow your human feelings, through your attention and qualification, to have domination within you longer, then you too will go forth as We did. There is no mistake about it. Everything depends upon the control of your feeling world. You do have the Authority; and now, in the Acknowledgment of the “Presence,” you have the Power to achieve your Victory.

In Our home We thought Our training was a private activity; but you are having almost identically the same Instruction, as It is being given to you today, through the intensified Power and Radiance of the Great Ones. We did not know the Goal any more than you do today. Yet it was accomplished.

Through Our humble Effort, We try to bring you greater Feeling of your Self-control and Mastery of your feelings, and keep it sustained. We endeavor to give you the same Feeling which We have now through Our Achievement. Then you will see how real, how very tangible is Our Assistance, which is now being given you.

The Great Ones have said to Us that in the Enthusiasm and Joy of Our Attainment—and still having a certain connection with the Earth which I may not explain to you just now—We are able to pour a Radiance, a Strength into your feeling world, which sometimes Those far Greater than Ourselves are not permitted to do. There is some of this Explanation which I am not permitted to give you; but I can explain enough to give you the incentive, the feeling and Power to stand firm—very firm in the Acknowledgment of your “Presence.” We can give you the full feeling of your authority and ability right now to achieve any given goal upon which your attention may be fixed.

Some of you have had a certain achievement in your outer activities previous to this Understanding of the “Presence.” I want to say to you, today you have a thousand times greater power to go forth Victorious than you had three years ago. Is not that something to think about? To think that in three years you have gone ahead, as it were, like a rocket! Oh, there may not seem to be so great a change as yet in the outer; but, oh, Beloved Ones, if you saw from the Inner Standpoint how great your achievement has been, your courage would be boundless.

Now notice, as the Messengers have said, in the Acknowledgment of your “Presence” is everything! I mean all activity comes from within, out. In your previous understanding, you thought you had to gather all things from without, in. That activity is just the reverse of what it ought to be. All things come from within, out. Therefore, the greater part of your achievement is accomplished before you become much aware of it in the outer activity.

It was so with My mother, even when she thought she was really passing on. One day she said to Us that she thought she was passing. When We thought she had become unconscious—and she had, to human sense—she went out from her body with Saint Germain’s Assistance, and was receiving Instruction from Him as to what to do. He told her to allow her body to be placed in the tomb because of the requirement of the outer law which still held sway at the time. You see, in previous times during the achievement of these things, the outer world was not permitted to know the Inner Activity which was going on. That outer condition still held sway at the time of My mother’s attainment. We grieved so deeply. Oh, today I think how foolish it was; but We were serious. We thought her passing a real tragedy, and many people do today. Dear Hearts, We assure you, as the Great Messengers have—there is no such thing as death in the world, in the Universe. You simply change your form for a finer one; but still there is no death anywhere.

Oh, the relief, the release! Precious Saint Germain made it possible, in the Cave of Symbols, for Our precious mother to come to Us in Her tangible Body, lowering the rate of Her Ascended Body to make it visible to Us. She held Us again in Her arms. Oh! is there anything in the world so Victorious, so Wonderful as that? We had thought so long through Our previous training that death was real, although My mother knew years before that it was not, and tried very delicately to assure Us that there was no death. Yet We did not comprehend it, even with all that she put forth. Today We know it is not real, for there is no death anywhere in the Universe. If you can believe that We are truthful, then you will accept this and set yourselves free from any such thought ever again.

Oh, the Joy which comes from that definite feeling! Grief seems so real at the time. Yet there is no need of one tear in the whole world. Mankind should understand that to generate grief is but to destroy oneself! Those who understand the “I AM Presence” can call forth Its Great Joy. Your Higher Mental Body already knows all these Great Truths. Then do you not see, Precious Ones, this Law is not something really new to you, for your Higher Mental Body knows of It already? We but call your attention to certain things to awaken a response within you; and Our Feeling, pouring into your feeling world, releases into your outer use that which you already know within. Everyone in his feeling world knows of this Truth; some have called forth fragments of It. No one in the World, even in the time of Jesus, ever brought forth such clear, simple, Majestic, All-powerful Knowledge of the “Mighty I AM Presence” as Saint Germain has brought forth. The Law of the World at that time did not permit it. Jesus knew It, and so did the Disciple John; but others did not know and comprehend. Jesus did not talk as freely with the other Disciples as He did with John the Beloved; for he understood all that Jesus was going to do, but the others did not.

So it is today. As the Light within each one expands sufficiently, then will the individual have definitely the clear Understanding of various points as they come along. In this endeavor to convey some of these practical Truths to you, My Comprehension will act within your feeling world, because My Feeling is yours while I am talking to you.

You never in all your Life heard tell of such Happiness as Pearl, Rex, Bob, and I are having. Everything, every movement, every new achievement comes as wondrous, wondrous, enthusiastic Joy. We never think about getting tired or feeling limited in any sense. We just go on and on and on, in the Wondrous Expansion of the Light, pouring forth through those Great Light Rays which you see about the “Presence.” We have been able to enter into Its Great Radiance and project these Rays to do many wonderful things, which such a short time ago We could not have imagined. This is why I say to you, Beloved Ones, do not let your human intellect or feeling limit you one moment longer. Every time a thought of limitation of any kind comes to your attention, simply say to it: “Now you stop right there! You have no power! You are not going to take my Life anymore to feed any human sense of limitation!” and it has to disappear. Do you see?

Rex said this to you last night—I felt really proud of Him. This is the point you need to remember, Dear Hearts, to understand: Everything you give power to through your attention, to limit or harm you, is your own Life doing it. Is not that an astounding thing? Think! All through these centuries, we have fed our very Life into things to harm and limit us! Well, as our beloved Donald says, “Its day is done!” It is, if you will assert it! Do you not see this? If you will assert your Power of the “Presence,” and mean it, to all those appearances—their day is done so far as their ability to limit you is concerned, because they cannot have your Life any longer by which to do it!

Oh, every day, more and more practical, clear, and simple is this Understanding becoming to you, as you see how every movement and activity of your consciousness during the day in the waking state, you have been using these powers, but without understanding. Now that you do understand what their activity has been doing within and about you, you will not allow your Life to feed any more energy into the things which limit or disturb you. Will you not please hold this firm in your consciousness for constant use? Because, oh, so quickly, even as quickly as We did, you can be free.

Think of it, Beloved Ones, beginning tomorrow with this Great Activity and Release of the Cosmic Light, there is being given the greatest Assistance mankind has ever had to free themselves from all human limitations, and to enter right now, today, into the steady—notice this—the steady, sure Activity of the Ascension.

As I look into your Hearts, while these Words are being flashed before this Beloved Messenger, and I see the ability within you, can you imagine My Feeling and My Determination to quicken, awaken, and bring forth into action that which I know and see to be there within you? Now, We shall not give any more quarter to the human accumulation. It has no power to limit you any longer!

I congratulate our beloved Donald and Marjory in the recent determined stand they have taken for the Victory. If they will just hold steady to that, how quickly they can be free!

In many of you precious ones, and in many of these beloved young people in whose Groups We have been pouring forth Our Love and Radiation, We see within your Hearts the Expansion of your Light—far beyond that of which the outer is aware. Such Achievement is before you! With Purity in thought and feeling maintained, and with refusal of acceptance of any discordant thing to act in your feeling world, you would go forward like a rocket, as We did, into this Great Achievement, the Ascension—your Freedom—the Goal of all human pilgrimage on Earth.

Today, oh, Beloved Ones, you stand within the Gates of Freedom! I urge you to contemplate often the picture of The Open Door. This marvelous picture that Mr. Brooks of New York brought forth is really a very marvelous thing, because it does give you the exact eye picture of your “Presence” called forth into Action, holding back forever the doors of doubt and fear. As you contemplate it with a firm stand for your freedom, saying to all appearances, “You have no power!” do you not see how it makes the completed activity for your own freedom? We all rejoice in the sure, definite intensity with which you are feeling and bringing into use these Great Powers which you have always had, and which flow into your Heart from the “Presence.” Each day, as all of this becomes more practical, more real to you, will find that you can assert yourself. You can issue a Decree and find it very quickly fulfilled.

Bob, Rex, Pearl, and Myself, so often since We arrived in Arabia, have discussed this so many, many times. Hardly do We enter into a discussion until this point is brought forth: Our Great Gratitude to Our Beloved Saint Germain for having taught Us in the beginning that the Great Law does not permit the waste of this great Energy which flows through from the “Presence.” We accepted that. We lived in obedience to the Law. Do not—through anger, sex, or any other condition—waste your energy! Saint Germain’s explanation to Us was Law, and We lived and abided in It. Therefore We entered very quickly into the Great Perfection which the “Presence” is, and which everyone can have.

Let Me remind you again today, Precious Ones, that all mankind has made mistakes; and the great Understanding of calling on the Law of Forgiveness is a most wonderful, wonderful thing. You do not realize the full importance of it, as We see this Activity. We have watched certain individuals who were very intense in calling on the Law of Forgiveness for any mistakes which have ever been made. You do not have to know what they are; but as We see the effect of their calling in their feeling world—well, it is just stupendous! I want you to know the action of these various things which are within your use. It is so easily done! You can have, oh, the great, great Victory quickly!

Think of it! All through the centuries mankind has looked upon Jesus as a Special Being, and thought, “Well, no one else can attain the Ascension because He was a Special Being.” Yet He said in His own Words, “All these things shall ye do and greater things shall ye do.” Yet mankind has clothed Him with a condition which they felt it was never possible to reach. That was the great, great mistake of humanity. He spoke the Truth to the whole living world; and all things that He did, mankind shall do! They have to do the same!

The Great Cosmic Light today comes into the Earth and compels you now, whether you will or not, to understand this. The Cosmic Light compels the Expansion of your own Light and you become more sensitive. Do not begin to feel that you are imposed upon—you have to be! Accept the sensitiveness to It, for you have the Power of the “Presence” in Selfcontrol. Then you will govern any sensitiveness, and it will be a Blessing untold to you.

If you give way, through your power of qualification, and say you are becoming so sensitive you cannot move in the outer world, then you are undoing all the Perfection which can come to you and is there for you. You see all these things are so practical. Yet through human qualification, individuals often undo the things that they might otherwise accomplish. You are master of your attention, your power of qualification, and your vision. You may look upon two automobiles which come together on the road. You can look upon such an activity without accepting it into your world. Take your firm stand on all such things in your cities where you often see those occurrences. Issue the Decree: “ ‘Mighty I AM Presence!’ Stand guard over my feeling world! Enable me to look upon things without accepting their discord into my feeling world.” This is what you can do.

That is what this Good Brother does, and is the reason why all the silly, untruthful reports made about him do not touch him. They cannot affect him; but Heaven help the person who does it, because it has to go back to the individual who sends it out. So it is with you. There cannot a thing enter your world unless you accept it. We want to fix this in your consciousness forever.

You know, so much has been given us by Our Great and Blessed Saint Germain! If you could see how He has poured out this Light like a mighty river, ever since the Messengers started out and came to you, your Heart would rejoice. It has just poured like a river, and I do not wonder that you do not hold clearly before you some of the simpler things which are acting in your world every day. You have come to the point now where you must become cognizant of the simple things which you thought possibly were not of importance, but it is the little things achieved that make the Great Victory.

Notice! When you take your firm stand in the Purity, Beauty, and Perfection of your “Mighty I AM Presence,” the whole Power of the Universe rushes to your assistance. When you contact things in the outer world, watch out that you hold control over your feelings. You can love just as greatly in calm poise as in emotional excess or excitement. You do not have to let your human enter in and take you beyond the point of Self-control in your outer activity. By Selfcontrol is how mankind can enter so quickly into the great Victory today.

It is such a great Joy, Precious Ones, to talk to you, to endeavor to help you feel clearly, firmly, definitely your Victory—for It is as sure as Ours if you will only take your firm stand with this. You are coming rapidly to the point where things that you are not aware of, no longer act in your feeling world. Now notice that! Heretofore, many times feeling acted within your world, of which you were not aware until you saw the outer manifestation of it. Very shortly there will be no excuse for that, because the moment a feeling starts you will be aware of what is acting. Please accept this and see how marvelous it is! Then you will not be caught unawares by a feeling projected at you—immoral or destructive activities of any kind which still remain in the charged atmosphere of Earth will not be able to reach you.

Dear Hearts, you have all had these experiences. I question if there is anyone in the room who has not had this experience: You go into the streetcar and sit down next to someone whose atmosphere is charged with unkind or vicious feeling, and you have to battle that repellent radiation. Most of the time you do not pay attention to it, but it begins to act in your feeling world. Then after it gains a momentum, you cannot get control of yourself because of the outer accumulated pressure which rides in. If the first moment such a condition begins to act in your world, you seize it and stop it, it does not gain a momentum.

The same way with appearances: If you would instantly say to any discordant or limiting appearance, “Oh no, you have no power!” you would stop the whole activity and keep it from entering into your world to affect you. As you gain a momentum, you will find such things will give you one look and go in the other direction. You have no idea, Precious Ones, how these limiting destructive forces, in the control of this energy, know their Master. Just the minute they see you know what is acting, they will cease to bother you. I tell you these old discordant things hold sway only because previously you have not understood how to be alert. These feelings begin to act and revolve in your feeling world before you actually know what is occurring. Then many times people have a battle on. It would not be a battle at all if they really knew, in the Knowledge of the “Presence,” how to charge the mind and body, how to call the Energy to sweep out all discord—then replace it with the Ascended Masters’ Substance and Self-dominion.

Precious Ones, My Joy is boundless in having this opportunity to convey My Feeling and My Words into your world. When I say “My Strength,” I mean the Strength of My “Mighty I AM Presence” to assist you with Its Knowledge and Strength, until you hold your own Scepter of Dominion in your hand so firmly that no longer can anything disturb or bother you.

I leave with you the Great Love, Light, and Blessing of Bob, Pearl, Rex, the Great Host of Ascended Masters, and the Great Master whose Name is not yet given to the outer world—the Teacher, the Instructor in the use of the Great Light Rays in the Retreat in Arabia. He said to Us recently in certain Instruction He was giving: “My Children, when I had looked upon the failure of mankind through so many centuries, I could hardly have believed that so much was possible for the Children of Earth as has been accomplished in two years.”

So Beloved Ones, you can see as these Great Ones do who have gone through so many centuries observing mankind’s inability to attain their Freedom; then when you see humanity’s great Inner Ability coming forth into action, it is very wonderful indeed. The Infinite Light and Blessings of your “Mighty I AM Presence,” the Great Host of Ascended Masters, and the Fullness of Their Active Presence and Power within you, take full Command of your mind, body, world, your Heart, and especially your feeling world! Release such a Mighty Radiance that you clearly and definitely feel your Certain Victory—NOW! Will you not accept It and be free?

Our Love enfolds you forever in Its Transcendent Light and Strength to your Complete Victory. I thank you!