Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 26 No. 4 – Beloved Gautama Buddha – January 23, 1983

The Illumination of the Journey

Peace from the heart of Shamballa, from the Brotherhood of light in this sacred city, be unto all the earth. I am come this day, filled with the ever-outpouring, transcendent light of Cosmic Christ peace, longing to see expressed in the hearts of men everywhere a greater outpouring of that peace which floods forth from the open door of being.

Beloved ones, the Prince of Peace,[1] the ascended Christ, brought unto the world thousands of years ago a message which has stirred the hearts of men unto the present day. I am come this day to commend you to the universal message which has been given forth and which mankind have received but in part.

And it is therefore to the dedication of the whole that I am come—that men understand that that which they have perceived of the radiance of our octaves is but a part of that shining glory which stands ready to unveil itself before those whose hearts are open, ready and waiting to receive.

As I speak from Shamballa this morning, I am thinking of the many throughout the earth whose hearts are upheld in worship of their own Mighty I AM Presence (although not always known by the selfsame name). I am thinking of the temple bells. I am thinking of the calls of the muezzin to prayer. I am thinking of the calls of mankind everywhere on behalf of one another.

Some among mankind understand that the many calls of man make up a tremendous knock at the gate of heaven and that this wondrous knocking at the gate of heaven brings about a response to the earth and the people of earth.[2]

Blessed ones, it does not matter how much human thought may stand arrayed against the perfection of God. It does not in the eternal realms alter the divine thought one iota. It is only in your octave, blessed ones, that mankind can affect their own world for good or for ill; and therefore it is in your octave that the correction must occur.

Precious ones of the light, I am here today to radiate my peace unto you, the peace that accompanies the flow of Life in its pristine power as it comes forth from the heart of God. Peace, beloved ones, is the natural quality of Deity. It flows as a gentle stream, and were it to dash as a mighty ocean, it still would manifestly express the perfection of peaceful control, the obedience of God manifest in the obedience of his creation.

Beloved ones, mankind today recognize that it is both needful to give and to receive. And therefore they give orders to one another and they receive orders. It has been considered prerequisite that mankind shall be willing to take orders if they expect to be able to give them.

And so, beloved ones, the obedience of God himself is manifest in his own peace as it flows forth. For the Most High has confined himself in part within the creation which he has made, and he has offered his peace unto the world and unto the creation—together with every other good gift.[3] It is so necessary, beloved ones, that each individual shall for himself recognize the fullness of the divine gift.

Precious ones of the light, I call to your attention that throughout the world there are many individuals today who would not know a diamond if they saw one, especially if it were a diamond in the rough. Therefore, beloved ones, it is essential that mankind develop that discrimination and God-control which will enable them to recognize the perfection of their own Presence, which will enable them to recognize the peace of their own Presence as it flows forth.

I would touch for a moment upon the higher vibratory action of our spheres. Some among you are able to sense the tremendous outpouring of our radiance as it flows forth in worded expression. Others among you may not yet have awakened the fullness of the divine sense whereby you are able to sense the vibratory action of our outpouring as it occurs during these periods when we speak to you.

But, beloved ones, I tell you, be patient all—and in your patience possess your souls.[4] For patience must do her perfect work,[5] and the love of God must be held in the stillness until the matrix so divine may create in that which is being molded the perfection of its own immortal image—the image of love expressed in love.

Beloved ones, pause for a moment and consider. You yourselves may not be at this moment a manifest expression of the fullness of love in your own minds, but you are in the Mind of God. And therefore, it is up to you to turn your attention unto that higher Christ Mind within your being and there to dwell and abide in the calm repose of knowing that that Mind is the reality, that that Mind is the genuine you, and that all lesser expressions are only the maya and the delusion of the centuries—accumulated as dust upon stored articles in attics and serving no useful purpose to mankind except to provide a measure of accumulated effluvia which mankind must one day dispose of or transmute in order that they may express the perfection of their own divine being.

Beloved ones, I call your attention now to the manifest plan of the hierarchy. Many among mankind today are dwelling in great fear and their hearts are concerned because of the constantly vacillating situation on the political scene. Many today among the religions of the world are confused concerning the tenets of their own religion. They ask themselves secretly within the quiet recesses of their being, “Which way shall I go?”

For among mankind today there are few who in their heart do not desire to find happiness and express perfection when once they understand the laws of perfection. But there is a great need for two requisites, beloved ones. First of all, for capable teachers to go forth provided with divine understanding and attunement with the higher octaves. And the second requisite is always an open and receptive heart on the part of mankind.

Beloved ones, you must recognize, therefore, that you enter into this equation as an individual. You are an expression of God, but you are a freewill expression of God who must decide for yourself that you will open up the gateways of your being unto the higher radiating power that comes from your own Mighty I AM Presence and desire to have the fullness of that Presence express itself within the folds of your being.

Unless you open that door and respond to that knock, beloved ones, you cannot have the full benefit of that which is radiated forth. I will give you an illustration.

Beloved ones, mankind call for light, and the sun comes up faithfully each day and sheds its beneficent light upon the planetary body. Those who dwell as the moles in the heart of the earth, those who dwell in tunnels and emerge not forth to the light of the sun—they do not receive the benefits of its healing rays. Can they then curse the darkness, beloved ones, because of the fact that they have elected to remain beneath the surface of the earth?

I think not, in fairness or in justice. But, precious ones, honesty of heart will cause mankind to desire to turn to the Light, that the Light may itself endow them with the fullness of those immortal garments of perfection which are the raiment of heaven.

The word, beloved ones, raiment comes from man’s deeper understanding in past ages, for it refers to the power of the ray. The ‘ray-ment’, then, refers to the radiance of God.

When garments of light were spun from eternal light substance and men were not concerned with the vanities of the flesh but with their own calm and marvelous being, they drew forth from the heart of their own Presence the understanding that enabled them to be able to comprehend the voice of God speaking within their own consciousness.

Precious ones of the light, you have heard it said and you are familiar somewhat with my illumination which occurred beneath the Bo tree. Well, beloved ones, the illumination of every man is a form of initiation. At that precise moment, which mankind so dearly enjoy bringing into a time context, an individual becomes illumined and a doorway opens.

This, beloved ones, is only the opening of the door. It is up to the individual, then, to walk through and to journey into a new country, to behold new sights and sounds, to have that illumination—the illumination of the journey—penetrate into his etheric (memory) body, and then return back through that open door into the world of reality which is his previous existence.

I hope that you understand me, beloved ones. I am referring to man as an individual, familiar with name and identity, entering into a state of divine illumination and proceeding to observe the universe in an extraterrestrial sense—outside of the body and the form and the former concepts—then returning into the physical consciousness once again and being able to relate those events which have occurred to the identity of his own being.

Beloved ones, when this occurs and the individual is then vested with this illumination, there is much yet that remains to be done by that individual in order to derive the benefits of the illumination which has been given to him. They must absorb, they must translate, they must transmute, they must transfigure in themselves all that is not yet perfected.

Simply because individuals, through meditation or illumination, are exposed to the higher radiance of the eternal spheres does not mean that they automatically, then and there, find their freedom. They have been initiated, it is true, but there is so much yet remaining to be done before the perfection of their worlds can manifest.

And so, quite contrary to human opinion, while I possessed a magnificently, divinely ordained gift and grace after my illumination beneath the Bo tree, there still remained to be done in my world a tremendous application of that glorious gift that was given to my hand. And therefore, for your illumination, for your love and for your assistance this day, in the name of the Cosmic Christ peace of Life, I come to you to remind you that there is no time, beloved ones, for individuals to simply waste, as it were, along the spiritual pathway.

When individuals are privileged to receive a measure of divine illumination or to hear a dictation from our octave, such as you are hearing today, it remains for them to assimilate, to appreciate, to translate, and to put that information to good use, that the God of their being may be glorified within them and that they may reap in their world not the whirlwind of outer-world maya and delusion, but the tranquility of the inner spheres—the peace that commands the elements of their being to remain in divine order when all around them seems to be turbulent, the God-control that can remain asleep in the face of the storms of life and arise to the occasion to direct and say, “Peace, be still!” And the world, the elements, and outer conditions will obey that one.[6]

Unless man manifests these powers of the Spirit to provide himself with tranquility in the face of outer-world disturbances, how can he expect to be an example that shall enable mankind to take faith, to rise again into the octaves of immortality, to understand the greatness of the God of their being, to come up over all outer conditions, and to be a manifest expression of Cosmic Christ peace?

Beloved ones, as I am now here, I desire to enfold each one of you within the cosmic flame of my illumination. I therefore call unto your Holy Christ Selves, each one, and I say to those of you who will receive me, accept from my heart the wrapping and enveloping in love of your Holy Christ Self by the illumination flame of my being.

Accept the assistance of the brothers at Shamballa for and on behalf of the immortal light, the light of God that does not fail, that is within thee and will raise thee up on high until in the glory of thy own being, thy own Mighty I AM Presence, you shall understand, one and all, that your freedom is in existence now and that you exist in the heart of that freedom and by that freedom will be able to show the way unto mankind to overcome all inequities, all imperfection, all shortcomings in this civilization and build for the future’s children and all that shall one day step upon this planet an age of golden perfection when the flame of illumination which blazes now shall blaze in all and the knowledge of God shall cover the earth, even as the waters cover the sea.[7]

Beloved ones, I call to your attention now the need to accept and to drink in all that I am offering—to absorb, to assimilate, to understand. This is not the service of a moment. It is the service of a lifetime. It is the dedication of dedicated hearts.

In the Orient, where so many pour their devotion to me daily, there are many Buddhic priests, beloved ones, whose lives you would do well to emulate. And yet, I would not tell you, beloved ones, to follow them in the ritual of their faith, insofar as the outer activity of that faith goes. I am speaking now of their devotion, a devotion that is often made unto God without the knowledge which you have.

Beloved ones, seeing that they have offered so much of themselves to the heart of God without the knowledge of the sacred fire that is given to you today in this teaching, I think then you can see the need to dedicate more of your hours unto God—that they be shining hours, illumined hours, hours that shall reward you for all eternity with freedom from outer oppression and discord and shall make of you a starry example in the firmament of this planet which will give faith to those around you that contact your world.

You are lights in the world.[8] Men look to Shamballa for light. Let them look also to you; for you come into direct contact with them, and many are not able to receive my being in existence and my reality and the reality of life. But they are able to see yours, for they see with their senses and with mortal eyes. You see with the eyes of immortality, and in those eyes is the perception of God.

But, precious ones, all must be contacted, all must be given opportunity to have illumination. And it must come by orderly steps and progression, insomuch that some men will forge ahead in an entire embodiment but a half a foot length—and still others will go for hundreds of miles.

You must understand the differences in individuals and their expressions, but you must see that the one who is able to walk but a half a foot length is not hindered from walking that distance.

I thank you and bid you good morning.

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This dictation by Gautama Buddha was delivered through the Messenger Mark L. Prophet March 10, 1963, in Washington, D.C.

[1] Isa. 9:6.

[2] Matt. 7:7, 8; Luke 11:9, 10.

[3] James 1:17.

[4] James 1:4.

[5] Mark 4:36-41.

[6] Mark 4:36-41.

[7] Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14.

[8] Matt. 5:14-16; John 8:12; Phil. 2:15.