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<blockquote>Therefore, beloved, I come to tell you that the way of discipleship can be seen by you as a thousand stairs upon a thousand-tiered golden spiral, and that step by step there is an orderly path of discipline. These masters who have sponsored your messenger and this activity, who have supported Jesus in establishing through the messengers the true [[Church Universal and Triumphant]] on earth, have seen fit to also establish an ordered ritual, for they are fully aware what it takes to mount one of these steps.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Therefore, beloved, I come to tell you that the way of discipleship can be seen by you as a thousand stairs upon a thousand-tiered golden spiral, and that step by step there is an orderly path of discipline. These masters who have sponsored your messenger and this activity, who have supported Jesus in establishing through the messengers the true [[Church Universal and Triumphant]] on earth, have seen fit to also establish an ordered ritual, for they are fully aware what it takes to mount one of these steps.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>The figure of the nun burdened with the cancer in her body, concealing this from all others and occupying herself with the humble task of scrubbing the stairs of the enclave<ref>[[Saint Bernadette]] (1844–1879), a devout peasant to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times in a grotto near Lourdes, France, when she was 14, endured the painful and debilitating disease of tuberculosis of the bone for more than seven years while she served as a Sister of Notre Dame at the Convent of Saint-Gildard. During the last two years of her life she developed a large tumor on her knee, which she kept a secret as long as she could so she would not be relieved of her duties, as portrayed in the film ''The Song of Bernadette'' (1943) based on Franz Werfel’s novel by the same name.</ref> must be seen as archetypal of the soul who, bearing her karma, recognizes that she must clear the debris in each step of consciousness, scrubbing by the [[violet flame]] until that level of record and ideation is fully and wholly | <blockquote>The figure of the nun burdened with the cancer in her body, concealing this from all others and occupying herself with the humble task of scrubbing the stairs of the enclave<ref>[[Saint Bernadette]] (1844–1879), a devout peasant to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared 18 times in a grotto near [[Lourdes]], France, when she was 14, endured the painful and debilitating disease of tuberculosis of the bone for more than seven years while she served as a Sister of Notre Dame at the Convent of Saint-Gildard. During the last two years of her life she developed a large tumor on her knee, which she kept a secret as long as she could so she would not be relieved of her duties, as portrayed in the film ''The Song of Bernadette'' (1943) based on Franz Werfel’s novel by the same name.</ref> must be seen as archetypal of the soul who, bearing her karma, recognizes that she must clear the debris in each step of consciousness, scrubbing by the [[violet flame]] until that level of record and ideation is fully and wholly transmuted. In the process, she may mount a single step. In past ages it would take a soul perhaps an entire lifetime to mount a single step, for the only purging of [[karma]] and record and self, as well as its outcropping in the body as disease, would be manifest through prayer and works of penance.</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>Thus, beloved, to know “how great, how great thou art, O God, my Father, my Mother, how great is the gift of the violet flame!” you must establish a co-measurement, a sense of realism that such a gift is also an experiment. For it is a dispensation for which ascended beings of the seventh ray, not the least of whom being your beloved [[Saint Germain]], have given this opportunity. And after a certain lapse of cycles, they will give accounting before the [[Lords of Karma]] and the [[four and twenty elders]] who stand round the great white throne, and they shall determine whether a people have taken that flame and used it only to deliver themselves of their discomforts, or whether they have used it seriously for the path of initiation as an adjunct, as a mighty assistance to the soul’s entering in.</blockquote> | <blockquote>Thus, beloved, to know “how great, how great thou art, O God, my Father, my Mother, how great is the gift of the violet flame!” you must establish a co-measurement, a sense of realism that such a gift is also an experiment. For it is a dispensation for which ascended beings of the seventh ray, not the least of whom being your beloved [[Saint Germain]], have given this opportunity. And after a certain lapse of cycles, they will give accounting before the [[Lords of Karma]] and the [[four and twenty elders]] who stand round the great white throne, and they shall determine whether a people have taken that flame and used it only to deliver themselves of their discomforts, or whether they have used it seriously for the path of initiation as an adjunct, as a mighty assistance to the soul’s entering in.</blockquote> | ||