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== A time of testing == | == A time of testing == | ||
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The ascended masters teach that everyone on earth receives a yearly [[final exam]] at summer and winter solstice. [[Lord Lanto]] warns us to prepare for the winter solstice exam. He says: | The ascended masters teach that everyone on earth receives a yearly [[final exam]] at summer and winter solstice. [[Lord Lanto]] warns us to prepare for the winter solstice exam. He says: | ||
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<blockquote>You have been told that at winter and summer solstice you receive final exams. Each year you must prepare for those exams. The Christmas season is particularly difficult because of records of ancient pagan rites and the world in merrymaking. What with the populace entering more into ... sensuality and the misuse of the sacred fire, surfeiting themselves in all manner of [[drugs]] and [[alcohol]] and sweets, it is a precarious time of the year for the devotee.</blockquote> | <blockquote>You have been told that at winter and summer solstice you receive final exams. Each year you must prepare for those exams. The Christmas season is particularly difficult because of records of ancient pagan rites and the world in merrymaking. What with the populace entering more into ... sensuality and the misuse of the sacred fire, surfeiting themselves in all manner of [[drugs]] and [[alcohol]] and sweets, it is a precarious time of the year for the devotee.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Do not get caught in the vortex! For I, Lanto, am your Mentor and Guru and I tell you that many a chela has regularly failed the December tests in the name of family and family mesmerism. | <blockquote>Do not get caught in the vortex! For I, Lanto, am your Mentor and Guru and I tell you that many a chela has regularly failed the December tests in the name of family and [[family mesmerism]]. Therefore I warn you in advance that these failures go on your record and it does take some doing to scrub that record until you can get out that spot.<ref>Lord Lanto, {{POWref|35|47}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
== The dark night of the Spirit == | == The dark night of the Spirit == | ||