The Open Door

If we are to ascend, we must put on our Christhood daily. It is not a once-and-done proposition. Instead, our emerging Christhood is a gradual process that advances by increments as we make good use of our free will and the opportunities we are given to balance our karma. Then, as our Christhood grows, we achieve greater and greater authority and dominion over every outer condition. Therefore, it is imperative that all sincere seekers and students of the ascended masters be continuously alert for opportunities to serve and to demonstrate mastery in daily affairs. Also, Christhood does not occur in a vacuum. It develops amidst the hustle and bustle of life. So, there will be ‘noise.’ There will be distractions, opposition, tests and trials. This is all part of the path to becoming the Christ. Thankfully we have the example of the ascended masters to guide us. They have demonstrated their mastery of Cosmic Law, and they are uniquely qualified to show us the Way to Christhood.

Behind the physical sun of our human existence is the spiritual Son of our true being: the Christ. And just as the physical sun warms us and provides light and life, so does the Son provide spiritual Light and Life. It is through mastering this Light that we become our true Self in Christ and One with God. But not all at once! Like the shining of the sun, the perfection of God is pure, unadulterated Love. And we simply cannot receive the full Light of God unfiltered. So, Christ is our mediator who gives us as much of that sun as we can absorb without burning up in the intensity of the totality of God. It is the Christ who delivers to us the fullness of God’s grace to the degree we can receive it. By this incremental release, we renew, gain strength, clear our minds, resolve old burdens and balance karma. This is also why we have communion with the saints. These great ascended masters have fully embodied the Christ. And they would teach us to do the same…one step at a time!

Observing ourselves is always a good practice. In fact, self-examination and inner probing are essential activities of the spiritual seeker who is intent on gaining self-mastery. However, mastery is more than merely an academic pursuit. We’re all imperfect. That’s a given. And the ascended masters tell us that healing our psychology is vital to successfully navigating our spiritual path. Yet, sometimes, in our zeal to overcome our human foibles and limitations, our personal examination can become excessive, causing us to lose ourselves in self-concern. Instead, our mastery must be demonstrated. And this demonstration can best be achieved through service. Through our service to others, we may give them the momentum they need to overcome their own human limitations. So, love people free. Bless them with your Light. Celebrate the Christhood you share. The power of this vision will bring us all higher. And, in the doing, we come full circle to manifesting our own self-mastery.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the modern world, few can hear the cries of their souls. Often, in pursuit of comfort, pleasure, fame and fortune, people will actively stifle and suppress the soul’s plaintive yearning. And what does the soul yearn for? To find peace, harmony and oneness. To forsake all else in the pursuit of God. And ultimately to overcome the world, complete its very long journey and ascend. The soul’s journey of overcoming is the path of the Light within rising from the base-of-the-spine chakra eventually reaching the crown chakra. This is the path of self-mastery and personal Christhood which, very likely, has spanned many, many lifetimes. This journey of your soul that has led you surely to this moment. Now, the soul is crying out to the conscious mind to be ready when the final call comes to complete this journey. Recall the story of the wise virgins who kept their lamps trimmed in anticipation of the coming of the Lord to the temple. Readiness is all!

“Ask and ye shall receive. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all (good) things shall be added unto you.” This statement is addressed to the quick who will respond without hesitation when they are called. At some level, all those who seek closer communion with God know that they have been called to this purpose. The exact time and date may not be known, but the call to come up higher is clear. Some who hear the call are ready and they answer without hesitation (remember Jesus calling to the apostles to leave their nets and become fishers of men). Others take a more roundabout path. It’s all a matter of momentum and the depth of each one’s tie to the service of God. And there’s no judgment here. Some are ready to answer the call now. Others are still being made ready. ALL who sense the divine path will one day follow it. And when they answer the call, they will be purified in the cauldron of God’s heart, making their lives a perpetual labor of love.

It was not so long ago that the primary requirement to make our ascension was by balancing 100% of our karma. A tall order, indeed. Sadly, and often at the very threshold of immortality, many great souls of light fell short of 100% and tumbled back down into human density. Seeing this scenario unfold over and over again led the Karmic Board and the Four and Twenty Elders to issue a truly magnificent dispensation: souls seeking their ascension could satisfy the karmic component by successfully balancing 51%! What our sponsoring masters know only too well is that as we climb the ladder of karma transmutation, our expanding light attracts the attention from the wrong side of the spiritual tracks. The fallen ones notice our growing attainment and will stop at nothing to steal our light and our opportunity to ascend. This is why it is so important to establish a momentum of faith, do good works and acquire God qualities…as well as to remember that angels and masters are always with us!

We are on a quest. We may not fully know it yet, but we desire to regain the lost energy, the lost power we once had with God. In the beginning, we were created and endowed with a full measure of God’s energy and power. Since then, this endowment has been slowly eroded, until we have almost completely lost sight of it. But our original estate is not lost, and our souls yearn to return to the perfection we knew in the beginning. Standing in the way: inordinate and imperfect desire. Our desires are like magnets that unerringly attract, by Cosmic Law, whatever we focus on. And we are responsible for whatever results our desires produce. This is the basic explanation for the existence of our karma, both good and bad. So, when we seek to return to God and to the fullness of our original creation, we must be willing to examine our desires and see them for what they are, without judgment or condemnation! Then we may regain our original heritage as true sons and daughters of God.

One of our goals in sharing the teachings of the ascended masters with you is to build a foundation of spiritual Truth upon which everything else is built. One central and essential cornerstone that we would present to you as an expression of this goal is the understanding that God is Life/Life is God. It doesn’t get any more simple and basic than that. Everything that lives is animated by God’s energy. Everything in God’s creation is powered by His very Life force. This makes us, in the most literal sense, co-creators with God, because our every thought, word and deed is enlivened through the presence of God’s energy. This makes life a marvelous divine opportunity. It is full of perfect hope, glorious love and an ultimate destiny which transcends all mortal dreams. This makes it imperative that every disciple of Light transmutes whatever outer condition seeks to corrupt the Life principle. And it must become a permanent idea that life for each of us is a manifestation of God!

As we continue our focus on the Corona Class Lessons by Jesus and Kuthumi for ‘teaching men the Way,’ a word of caution: the Truth spoken in these lessons is threatening to some. It has even been known to engender violent opposition. Yet, great teachers have persevered undaunted in their commitment to speaking the Truth. While we do not intend to generate undue fear, we do believe that caution is always prudent. History is filled with examples of great teachers of truth paying the ultimate price for boldly challenging orthodox belief. They knew their words would seriously agitate the black hearts of false teachers and gurus. These evil ones have a vested interest in keeping men ignorant and compliant, and they will not give up their power easily. So, as you hear the Truth and one day choose yourself to become a herald for the Truth, do your decrees. Put on the invincible armor of God’s Truth and His angels’ protection, and go forth boldly and confidently, certain of victory!

The ascended masters want you to be able to declare your independence from the imposters masquerading as legitimate spiritual teachers. To this end, the masters have formulated a pathway that will lead you unerringly to your own God Consciousness. But you must be willing to embrace this path, and one of the obstacles we all encounter on the way is the darkness sown by fallen angels and all agents of evil, no matter what face they wear. What we must overcome is our attachment to human consciousness, to the limitations of the human mind and to the seeming attraction of the world and all of its diversions. But this path must be chosen, not coerced. The ascended masters will never force their students to do anything. Students must be willing to exert themselves to show they have staying power, to lift the weight of darkness that it might become light. This is the path of discerning the difference between the real Self and the not self. The masters stand ready to show you how to do it.

Imagine sitting at the feet of the ascended masters in rapt attention as they share their wisdom and understanding of Truth, cosmic law and the real reason for Being. For many, this would be the answer to their heart’s deepest longing and, perhaps, the culmination of a journey through untold lifetimes and countless opportunities to re-enter the consciousness of God. Good news! There is no reason to imagine this, for the opportunity to study with the masters is real and available to you right now. In a remarkable series of teachings called the Corona Class Lessons, Jesus and his brother in arms, Kuthumi (who was Saint Francis in a previous embodiment), share priceless wisdom on the path of reunion with God. These lessons are beautiful, joyous, transformative and transcendental. This is the boundless wisdom vouchsafed to the masters by God and freely given to us! So please join us as we sit together at the masters’ feet and absorb quite literally the greatest teachings on the planet.

Within you is the seed and essence of all God’s creation. It is your threefold flame, a divine spark of fire from God’s own heart with which he endowed you in the beginning. This is the permanent reality of each of us! As we endeavor to embrace and walk the path of personal Christhood, it is our divine spark that sustains us through every step, through every test and trial, through every chapter in the unfolding saga of our soul. This divine spark - our threefold flame – is comprised of plumes of power (blue, the Father), wisdom (yellow, the Son) and love (pink, the Holy Spirit). One of the keys to attaining Christhood is balancing and expanding this threefold flame. This Holy Christ Flame is your birthright. This is the point of Light in the secret chamber of your heart that means you are a son and a daughter of God. And because you have the spark, you can one day contain and be the whole flame. So, when the divine spark, the threefold flame, is balanced…the Christ is born.

Walking the path of personal Christhood requires determination, discrimination and discernment. It is a glorious path, but challenging, too. And all of us who choose to embrace it must stay on our spiritual toes at all times if we are to make progress. For staying focused, good tools are always helpful, especially the practice of daily dynamic decrees. There are no better tools than decrees for tuning in with laser-sharp focus on anything that stands in the way of spiritual progress. Decrees help to harness spiritual energies with precision on any area of resistance or opposition. And one of the greatest sources of opposition is the Dweller on the Threshhold. The Dweller is the collective consciousness of all of our misdeeds, for all of our negative karma. The Dweller is tenacious. And confronting and overcoming the Dweller is something we all must do before our convergence with our Christhood is complete. Fortunately, the ascended masters know just how to win this battle!

For every sincere traveler on the spiritual path, choice is a constant companion. At every turn, there is a moment when we must decide which direction to take, which road to follow. For those of us who follow the path laid out so clearly by the ascended masters, we know that every choice we make ultimately merges with one overriding decision: to become the Christ! The Christ is our Real Self. And, as El Morya has told us, ‘The hour of Christhood in you is more important than any other event taking place on this planet.’ This is what Jesus’ mission was all about. He called us to become the Christ. This is a truly high and holy calling. It is the complete fulfillment of the Law. Whatever other goals and aspirations you may have for your life, choose to have this one goal supersede all others. When you find yourself at this most critical crossroads, let go of all else and strive to become the Christ. This is our purpose, our reason for being. It is God’s greatest gift to us.

Our sacred journey began in the heart of God, and that is where it will ultimately end. And as we come full circle, heart is not only the beginning and the ending of our path, it IS the path! The ascended masters tell us that we will gain our victory, our ascension, through the heart. This is a pathway of alchemy, self-mastery and initiation. This is where we confront and transmute our personal karma. Through the heart, we embrace our hurdles, meet our challenges and pass our tests. But it is not automatic. Self-mastery is a process…one that began long before this current embodiment. To be sure, throughout this long and winding road home, we have had our victories. But we have more to accomplish before we’re done, more victories to achieve. Through the uniqueness of our individual life pattern, our heart’s path will unfold and all that’s hidden will be revealed. By the light of the heart, our path is illuminated, and it is through the heart that our final victory will be won.

Do you hear a still voice within nudging you upward? Are you moved by the echoes of a familiar message telling you that there is a higher purpose for your life, something greater than your human experience? Have you caught yourself straining to recall what seems like a dream of Home? Do you have a sense that there is a service you're here to render, a mission only you are meant to fulfill? If any of that rings true, it is because you have been called. But called by whom and for what? You are called to return home to the heart of God by the straightest and truest path possible. That is the path of the ascended masters, the path of initiation and self-mastery, the path of the ascension. But not all who hear this call heed it. That is reserved for the few with the selfless desire to overcome the world. It is reserved for you, because you are not here by chance, but by choice. You are here by God’s Grace. Seize the opportunity. Answer the call. Finish the journey once and for all

One of our goals in sharing the teachings of the ascended masters with you is to build a foundation of spiritual Truth upon which everything else depends. One central and essential cornerstone of this goal is the understanding that God is Life/Life is God. It doesn’t get any more simple or basic than that. Everything that lives is animated by God’s energy. Everything in God’s creation is powered by His very Life force. This makes us, in the most literal sense, co-creators with God, because our every thought, word and deed is enlivened by and through the presence of God’s energy. This makes life a marvelous divine opportunity full of hope, love and an ultimate destiny which transcends all mortal dreams: reunion with the heart of God. This makes it imperative that every disciple of Light transmutes whatever outer condition seeks to corrupt the Life principle. It must become a permanent idea that life for each of us is a manifestation of God. Because that is who we really are!

Two thousand years ago, a small group of men and women gathered in the city of Jerusalem, waiting to receive “power from on high.” And their wait was rewarded, for the fire of the Holy Spirit descended, and their lives were transformed! The power of the Spirit in them healed the sick, raised the dead…and changed the course of history. Today, we are at the dawning of a new age of the Holy Spirit, the time prophesied when that same Spirit will be poured out “upon all flesh.” And it cannot come too soon! The world is reeling from wars, terrorism, famine, disease and cataclysm, and the need of the hour is urgent. So where can we turn for hope? To the Holy Spirit! The descent of the Holy Spirit has been prophesied. But how will it come…and when? We know that receiving the fire of the Holy Spirit is an experience like no other, with the power to change our lives forever. But we cannot do it alone. We must turn to the Christ within to prepare us for this ultimate conversion.

What if we knew we possessed the same potential as Jesus to become the Christ? Would that change our lives? Of course it would! But why are we kept in the dark regarding this incredible reality? Why are we not taught this as children? The Truth that is spoken and taught by the ascended masters is threatening to some, because the Truth espoused by the masters is liberating and empowering. Inherent in the masters’ words is freedom. Freedom from the shackles of ignorance and limiting belief. Freedom to become one with God. And who would have us remain enslaved in darkness and limitation? The very ones who want our light because they have none of their own: the fallen ones! Since the fall of the rebel angels, their singular goal has been to thwart our efforts to reach full union with God and ascend. So they must keep us in the dark and unaware of our true birthright and divine potential. And they will stop at nothing to achieve this end. So be aware. Know the truth. Be free!

In the Holy Spirit we have a constant companion, one who is with us at every step and turning point on life’s journey. The Holy Spirit was there at our birth, breathing the essence of God’s Life into us, animating our being. And as we grow physically and spiritually, the Holy Spirit remains our guide, mentor and friend. This makes learning discernment and recognizing the voice of the Holy Spirit one of our most crucial skills. When we aspire to come up higher, we influence others by our example. This is why we must learn to recognize and attune ourselves to the vibration of the Holy Spirit. It is like mastering a new form of communication. We must learn not to be misled by false love or psychic vibration. They may appear right on the surface, yet are designed for one purpose: to pull us off the true path! By their fruits shall ye know them! It is imperative that we learn to hear and trust the voice of love in our hearts, the Holy Spirit, our true source of unerring guidance.