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<blockquote>The miracle of the Inner Retreat began two thousand years ago in a conversation I had with [[Jesus]] when I was his disciple Martha, sister of Lazarus and Mary. He was in our home in Bethany, and the circle of disciples that gathered there asked him many questions concerning the Second Coming, the end of times or ages, what would become of us, when would he take us to heaven.</blockquote>

<blockquote>He told us that the teachings would be lost and manipulated and perverted. He told us that there would be a dark age of spirituality concurrent with the rise of materialism and that in the end of the age, those teachings would be restored.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I remember one day when I was kneading bread in the kitchen and he was seated nearby. He spoke the parable that is written in scripture: “The kingdom of heaven is like a leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, and it leavened the whole lump.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>He said to me, “You, Martha, will come at the end of that age. You will bring the leaven of the lost teaching.”... He said that as the disciples would be rekindled by the teaching, they, too, would go forth and this gospel would be preached in every kingdom. And then the end would come—the end of the Piscean age, the end of the balancing of our karma, the end of the necessity for our incarnation.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I wondered how this would come to pass. He told me he would take us to a new world and to a wilderness in that new world where he already had the place prepared, the site dedicated to the coming again of the Divine Mother....</blockquote>

<blockquote>Jesus said, “I will place my marker there, and it will be the sign of the coming again of the Mother and the Mother flame, which has been lost since the days of Lemuria and the sinking of the Motherland.” And he said the sign would be the marker of a giant jet of water coming out of the earth into the sky—water that would look like a flame and a fire infolding itself, water that would symbolize the rising of the [[Kundalini]], the [[ascension]] flame, and the return of the soul to God....</blockquote>

<blockquote>After I came to this activity, I was called by the masters to be a [[messenger]] and spent twelve years with [[Mark Prophet]]. He passed on in 1973, and his last words to me, the night before his transition, were to take the organization and the teachings and go and protect them and preserve them on a piece of property that I was to find in Montana.... He told me that I would be led to the place prepared and that when I found it, we would be ready to purchase it.... And so the search began....</blockquote>

<blockquote>When we were looking for the property, we flew all over Montana and adjacent areas of Wyoming and looked at many, many parcels. And walking by the faith and the inner attunement and the direction that I received, this is the place that was selected.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Two years later, Jesus came to me and he opened the memory that I have described. He pointed out the fact that our Ranch borders Yellowstone Park and that it was the geyser, Old Faithful, that he was referring to when he prophesied to me that this would be the place and I would know it by that sign.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When the land was purchased, I hadn’t recalled that episode, and I asked him why he waited till now to tell me. He said that he wanted to show me that it is the Higher Mind of God and the soul’s communion with that Mind that is the true guidance, and we are not always aware in the outer mind that we are truly following the inner calling.<ref>Elizabeth Clare Prophet, October and November 1985, October 1989, published in ''The Inner Retreat—The Place of Great Encounters'' (2006).</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>Therefore the preparatory school will be located near some large city, preferably near the sea or some large expanse of water, but never within the city; it will be on the confines of the centres of learning within the city and will be readily accessible.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The advanced school will be far from the crowded places of the earth and preferably in a mountainous region, for the mountains have a direct effect on the occultist and impart to him that quality of strength and steadfastness that is their pre¬dominant characteristic and must be that too of the occultist.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Inasmuch, then, as there are serious conditions which, if not checked, could lead to further minor cataclysm and serious conditions, the [[Karmic Board]] recommends that a certain phase of the prophecy of Djwal Kul be implemented—which is the establishment of the inner retreat of the devotees of this activity of light that shall hold the balance for the outer activity.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Thus the figure-eight flow of these twin focuses will mirror the figure-eight flow of the [[two witnesses]] and of the Guru-chela relationship that is enjoyed by every chela of the will of God.</blockquote>

<blockquote>I speak of the prophecy of Djwal Kul of the inner and outer mystery school. [I speak] of the community, such as that which is established here at Camelot, that must be open to the world and open to all who wish to investigate the teachings of the ascended masters. And I speak of the inner community where initiates gather for the most important service to life—that of holding the balance of the white-fire core, not merely of an organization, but of a planetary body.</blockquote>

<blockquote>In the heart of the Grand Teton, in the heart of Maitreya Mountain I AM Gautama Buddha, ever keeping the flame and the vigil at the Inner Retreat of the Western Shamballa.</blockquote>

<blockquote>My hand and my Presence does physically consecrate the Heart of the Inner Retreat as the international shrine and gathering place of the devotees of light and Christed ones of the world.<ref>Gautama Buddha, “For the Alignment of a World,” {{POWref|30|24|, June 14, 1987}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Great Central Sun Magnet is hereby focused beneath the earth of this Heart, and so builded and so reinforced by [[elemental life]] in the course of your giving of these decrees—and yet the focus has been here for longer than I can even tell you. Yet the activation of the focus could not come unless hearts magnetized and magnetically charged, magnetizing the light should appear. Thus it is always man who must respond to God and confirm the mighty secrets that are hid in the earth.  How great is opportunity.</blockquote>

<blockquote>May you visualize a great sun disc beneath this earth centering in the entire Heart, a blazing electrode of light—in and of itself, the electrode that magnetizes the flame of [[Shamballa]] in the etheric octave and of Lord Gautama Buddha. May you realize that your trek to the Heart is both to charge the focus with your causal body and to be magnetically charged by it. Without hurting your feet, I would suggest that before you leave, you remove your shoes and place the precious feet without any covering on the very bare earth and grass, and meditate upon the currents of the great sun disc.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The power of this magnet could only be sustained by the presence of many surrounding mountains, forests, and nature. Therefore, guard the Heart, guard the Inner Retreat, and call for the protection of the national forests and sanctuaries that are nearby. For all of this is God’s country, and secured long before your coming to his purposes and his usefulness.<ref>Saint Germain, “The Measure of Self-Mastery,” {{POWref|25|63}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>First and foremost, the Inner Retreat is an etheric retreat. And thus, there has been some confusion as to just where the Inner Retreat is located at the Royal Teton Ranch. Some have the idea it is here or there or only in the “Heart” or perhaps it is the entire Ranch. Beloved ones, the Royal Teton Ranch is the physical focus of the true Inner Retreat, which is the etheric octave. And that etheric octave is the living school of Light and the Retreat of the Divine Mother.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Therefore, those who would enter the [physical] “Heart” of the Inner Retreat must also understand the “rites of passage” into the etheric octave. Believe me, beloved, it is necessary to follow the legions of Victory that you might pass through physical molecules and understand what being truly is in the Heart of that Inner Retreat—in the very heart of the etheric plane.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Therefore, when the right hand of Maitreya is raised there is the turning back of those who may not come into the etheric octave, for they have not woven the wedding garment. Understand this principle, beloved. There may be some who come, there may be some who attend [[Summit University]] or even enter the work/study program. There may be souls of long standing who have been in this movement for years. But they who have not woven the wedding garment, I tell you, they shall not enter in. And as the Mother has said that the land rejects those who are not fit for the Path, so it is, beloved, that in the etheric plane and the etheric octave the angels thereof do remove those who are no part of the Mystical Body of God.</blockquote>

<blockquote>First and foremost, then, upon recognizing where is and what is the Inner Retreat, let those who embody it and who are becoming it truly understand that you are the guardians of this physical focus of the [[Royal Teton Retreat]] located at the Grand Teton. As you will preserve this place [the Royal Teton Ranch] prepared for the Lightbearers of the earth, so will this activity prosper.<ref>Mighty Victory, “The Hour of the Weighing,” {{POWref|29|70|, December 4, 1986}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>This very land itself must be protected and prepared, for it has a very ancient, ancient spiritual focus, beloved. It is indeed a cradle. But I would tell you that the feet of [[archangel]]s were placed upon that land long, long ago in its formation, making etheric tracks in [[akasha]] and sealing that place as a magnet for the drawing of pilgrims. It is truly the shrine of this international movement. It is truly the point of convergence of suns.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Let it become a more permanent place. Let the facilities be there, for you will see that we will bring members of the nations and the root races.... It is indeed a place prepared for twin flames and the cosmic cross of white fire and solar lights and the aurora borealis and the descent of mighty souls from above, in those twinkling causal bodies, to waiting parents below.<ref>Great Divine Director, “The Call of the Central Sun,” {{POWref|29|20|, May 18, 1986}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>Understand that the Western Shamballa, sealed over the Heart of the Inner Retreat and extending for many miles, radiating out therefrom, is a consecration of a shrine made holy by the footsteps of archangels long ago.  Now you understand that the white-fire/blue-fire sun that has come in the establishment of the retreat of the Divine Mother, with [[Lady Master Venus]] presiding over the Ranch, is also the polarity of that Western Shamballa.</blockquote>  

<blockquote>As you have heard, then, and understood, you can see that for aeons heaven has been banking upon this area as a place preserved, reserved, then, for evolutions who will come apart because they have been taken to the inner retreats of the Great White Brotherhood.<ref>Gautama Buddha, “The Teaching Is for the Many,” {{POWref|29|21|, May 25, 1986}}</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>A Pure Land is a spiritual realm or paradise presided over by a Buddha.... Bodhisattvas, out of compassion for sentient beings, vow that after they attain supreme Buddhahood they will establish a Pure Land where conditions will be ideally suited to the attainment of enlightenment....</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are legends and prophesies that say the Pure Land shall be in the West. And so I like to think of this Western Shamballa, the etheric retreat and the Heart of the Inner Retreat where we are gathered as symbolical and perhaps actual of that Pure Land.<ref>Elizabeth Clare Prophet, July 3, 1993.</ref></blockquote>