Baptism/is

Skírn Krists, Paolo Veronese (um 1561)

„Skírnin“ er fyrsta sakramentið sem kemur til okkar fyrir tilstilli fyrsta geislans. Skírnin er uppruni hinnar helgu köllunar, hins helga atburðar að vígja sálina vilja Guðs. Það er sú stund þegar sálin er gegnsýrð af þeirri mantra sem Jesús talaði um þegar hann steig niður í mynd sinni í Betlehem. „Sjá, ég er kominn til að gjöra vilja þinn, ó Guð.“

Sumir hafa þá hugmynd að ekki sé hægt að skíra litla barnið í fanginu vegna þess að það geti ekki meðtekið þessa möntru að fullu; en það er mantra sálarinnar. Það er mantran sem er mæld. Það er skuldbinding viljans við endurfæðingu, þegar sálin er send frá Guði til jarðar. Og þegar hún er komin, þá er sú kynning í musterinu, sú framkoma til skírnarinnar, studd af foreldrunum sem standa með sálinni á innri stigum í skuldbindingunni um að „gera vilja þinn, ó Guð.“

Eins og Jesús gaf sig opinberlega undan skírn sinni, þannig ættum við einnig að gefa okkur opinbera skírn fyrir tilstilli vígðs prests kirkjunnar:

Þá kemur Jesús frá Galíleu til Jórdanar til Jóhannesar skírara til að láta skírast af honum. En Jóhannes varnaði honum það og sagði: „Ég þarf að láta skírast af þér, og þú kemur til mín?“

Jesús svaraði honum: „Lát þetta nú verða, því að þannig ber oss að uppfylla allt réttlæti.“ Þá leyfði hann honum það.

Og Jesús, er hann var skírður, steig jafnskjótt upp úr vatninu. Og sjá, himnarnir opnuðust fyrir honum, og hann sá anda Guðs stíga niður eins og dúfu og koma yfir sig. Og rödd kom af himni, sem sagði: „Þessi er minn elskaði sonur, sem ég hef velþóknun á.“

An initiation unto Christhood

In The Opening of the Seventh Seal, Sanat Kumara explains that the water baptism corresponds to one the stages of initiation of Christhood. There are (1) birth, (2) water baptism, (3) fire baptism (transfiguration), and (4) crucifixion, resurrection and ascension.

The initiation of the second stage of Christhood is the Water (Matter) Baptism through the Christ of Maitreya under the office of the Lion on the north gate. This stage was reenacted by the Lord Jesus Christ in his baptism by John in the river Jordan. Its purpose was to illustrate the ritual for you, my beloved; for the living Gurus (God-men) John and Jesus had no need to publicly reenact the ritual except to fulfill the law as an example of its righteous use to their chelas—an example which they should follow both in the spirit and the letter in the hour of their initiation into the second gospel of the four that form the square.

Therefore the Master said, “Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.” This is the moment of the initiation by Maitreya when the Person of the Father enters the temple—magnified by the already balanced and expanded Threefold Flame. The Light of the I AM Presence, as the Light of Alpha and Omega, pours directly through his heart chakra as he is dedicated to his earthly mission by the dove of the Holy Ghost. This is the moment of my approbation, “This is my Son, my beloved, in whom I AM well pleased.”

The meaning of these words is revealed to the initiated: “This is my Son [the Light manifestation of my Presence, i.e., the incarnation of my Word—the extension of my Self through the lineal descent of the Ruby Ray]—this is my beloved soul Jesus [my beloved Self in Matter—in Mother] in whom I AM THAT I AM—[in whom I dwell, for “I and my Son (Light) are one”] well pleased [exceedingly One]”.

The pleasure of the Father in the Son is always by the law of congruency. When the Son is the perfect chalice for the Father, then is the Father joyous, comfortable, and comforting all life through the transparent Presence of the Son. Thus when the Son fulfills his purpose of being the chalice worthy, the chalice is sealed in the Water Baptism and the divine approbation is pronounced before the councils of the hosts of heaven and before all upon earth who have ears to hear.

This baptism is the sign that the Guru is in the chela—bodily. The equilateral triangles of their identity are congruent. This is part one of the threefold empowerment conferred in stages two, three, and four.

All that transpires between the Water (Matter) Baptism and the Transfiguration in the high mountain of the Christ consciousness on the west gate fulfills the second archetype of personal Christhood on the Path of the Ruby Ray. Many of these initiations are illustrated in the public ministry of the Saviour—but not all. Other initiations are borne solely within the retreats of the Brotherhood. His public ministry is evidence to all adepts that he has undergone said initiations according to the preordained path.

Heimildir

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 5. desember 1976.

Meginreglur Sigursælu alheimskirkjunnar.