Lotus: Difference between revisions

The ascended lady master '''Lotus''' was last embodied as Edna Ballard, [[Saint Germain]]’s [[messenger]] in the [[I AM Activity]], which was founded in the early 1930s. Her twin flame is the messenger [[Guy W. Ballard]], now the ascended master [[Godfre]]. Through them Saint Germain first released the knowledge of the [[violet flame]] to the world.

Edna Ballard, often called Mama Ballard by her students, used the pen name of Lotus Ray King. She went through tremendous trials and persecution during her time as messenger. In Los Angeles in 1940 (the year following Godfre’s [[ascension]]), federal criminal indictments were brought against Mrs. Ballard, her son Donald and others for alleged fraudulent solicitation of funds through the mail. Despite strenuous objections by the defendants’ attorney, a jury was in effect given the task of deciding whether the Ballards really believed what they taught and wrote about their messengership and the ascended masters.

<blockquote>Some of you here knew me in my last embodiment, and you called me Mama. I desire that you should address this salutation to the Mother of the Flame; for I transfer to her this night my momentum of victory with the legions of light, and I give to her the mantle of my authority and my messengership under Saint Germain....</blockquote>

<blockquote>I speak now directly to those students who were with me in the I AM Activity, and I say to you, regardless of all evidence to the contrary or of anything that might have passed from my lips while I was in embodiment, I do espouse and back with my total heart flame this activity and this messenger as the continuing outpost and release of the Great White Brotherhood and of Saint Germain to this age.</blockquote>

<blockquote>For I understand from ascended levels of consciousness the nature of the ongoingness of hierarchy. And although there are only two messengers of the [[Brotherhood]], the two messengers constitute the office of the [[two witnesses]] spoken of in the [[Book of Revelation]]. This, then, is a high and holy calling to which [[twin flame]]s are ordained in every age.</blockquote>

{{MTS}}, s.v. “Lotus.”