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| In 1985 El Morya spoke of his embodiment as Akbar and his dream of a universal religion: | | In 1985 El Morya spoke of his embodiment as Akbar and his dream of a universal religion: |
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| <blockquote>I would speak to you of the long dream of the ages which I have held of the oneness of thought as pertains to the universal religion that must become the possession of all men.</blockquote>
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| <blockquote>Blessed ones, how well I remember coming to the point of the birth of the Saviour.<ref>In the first century <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>., El Morya was embodied as Melchior, one of the [[Three Wise Men]] who paid homage to the Christ Child. He was accompanied by Balthazar (an embodiment of [[Kuthumi]]) and Caspar (an embodiment of [[Djwal Kul]]).</ref> That one incarnate in the Light was for me the foretelling of the universality of the Christ Mind in the Light of the invincible Godhead—the single-purposed will of that flame, the beauty of the countenance of the Child—and one would attend, therefore, the birth of that immaculate conception of the Divine Image in every soul born of God.</blockquote>
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| <blockquote>My mind moved on to visualize just how such a Light would come to rest in the cradle of world movements, revolution, organization. And I must say that even then I knew how difficult it would be for the individual without Light to comprehend that Light....</blockquote>
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| <blockquote>Beloved ones, I went from the crèche carrying in my heart the great burnishment of the soul who was and is and shall be forevermore the One Sent as the Christ Light of the ages. Blessed hearts, so I bore it to the land whence I had come. And so I bore it in subsequent incarnations, some Christian and some not. But in each lifetime, though perceiving him as Moslem or Hindu or Buddhist or as Christian, I would yet have the veil bestowed upon me of those traditions, of the limitations to that Christhood, which would be attempted to be imposed upon me by the sovereigns and the priests and the orders of the day who would say, “This you may believe of him, this you may not believe. This is correct, this is incorrect.”...</blockquote>
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| <blockquote>Beloved sons and daughters, I remember well and I would remind you of my incarnation as Akbar. So Islam, the religion of my birth—Hinduism, the religion of my nation. So, juxtaposed midst all of this, I did perceive that all religions were found wanting. Therefore I assembled the representatives of all faiths and sects within the larger religions, that they might deliberate, that they might also convince me of their way. I had purposed in my heart to lead each group to the point of the realization of the quintessence of the Light of the Child whom I had seen at his birth hundreds of years before.</blockquote> | | <blockquote>Beloved sons and daughters, I remember well and I would remind you of my incarnation as Akbar. So Islam, the religion of my birth—Hinduism, the religion of my nation. So, juxtaposed midst all of this, I did perceive that all religions were found wanting. Therefore I assembled the representatives of all faiths and sects within the larger religions, that they might deliberate, that they might also convince me of their way. I had purposed in my heart to lead each group to the point of the realization of the quintessence of the Light of the Child whom I had seen at his birth hundreds of years before.</blockquote> |
