Glossary

 

Adept. A true adept is an initiate of the Great White Brotherhood of a high degree of attainment, especially in the control of Matter, physical forces, nature spirits, and bodily functions; fully the alchemist undergoing advanced initiations of the sacred fire on the path of the ascension.

Akashic records. All that transpires in an individual’s world is recorded in a substance and dimension known as akasha (Sanskrit, from the root kas ‘to be visible, appear’, ‘to shine brightly’, ‘to see clearly’). Akasha is primary substance, the subtlest, ethereal essence that fills the whole of space; “etheric” energy vibrating at a certain frequency so as to absorb, or record, all of the impressions of life. These records can be read by adepts or those whose soul (psychic) faculties are developed.

Alpha and Omega. The Divine Wholeness of the Father-Mother God affirmed as “the beginning and the ending” by the Lord Christ in Revelation. Ascended twin flames of the Cosmic Christ consciousness who hold the balance of the masculin­e-feminine polarity of the Godhead in the Great Central Sun of cosmos. Thus, through the Universal Christ, the Word incarnate, the Father is the origin and the Mother is the fulfillment of the cycles of God’s consciousness expressed throughout the Spirit-Matter creation. See also Mother. (Rev. 1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13. Compare the Hindu Purusa and Prakrti.)

Angel. Divine spirit, herald, forerunner; messenger sent by God to deliver his Word to his children. Ministering spirits sent forth to tend the heirs of Christ–to comfort, protect, guide, strengthen, teach, counsel, and warn. Cohorts of Light in the service of the Christed ones, the sons and daughters of God, throughout cosmos. An ‘angle’ of God’s consciousnessan aspect
of his Self-awareness; a being fashioned by God out of his own flaming Presence to minister unto his Life in form. “And of the angels he saith, ‘Who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.’” The angelic hosts comprise an evolution set apart from mankind by their flaming selfhood and their purity of devotion to the Godhead and to the Archangels and hierarchs under whose command they serve. Their function is to concentrate, accelerate, and amplify the attributes of God on behalf of his creation. They minister to the needs of mankind by magnetizing Light to their auras, intensifying feelings of hope, faith, and charity, honor, integrity, courage, truth and freedom, mercy and justice, and every aspect of the crystal clarity of the Mind of God. Because of the blessedness of their unseen presence, the author of Hebrews said, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares”and in so saying made a point for the case that angels do take embodiment and move among us as our best friends and helpers, even when total strangers.

Metaphorically speaking, angels are electrons revolving around the Sun Presence that is Godelectrons who have elected, by his will innate within them, to expand his consciousness in every plane of being. Angels are electrons who have been ‘charged’ with the light/ energy/ consciousness of the Great Central Sun to be ‘elec­trodes’, i.e., pillars of God’s fiery presence acting as ‘step-down transformers’ of the ineffable Light, that his children might receive some hope of the glory that is to come midst the dark night of their karmic condition upon earth. Angels can assume human form or that of ‘rods’ and ‘cones’ or spirals and coils of concentrated energy that can be released for personal and planetary healing in answer to the call of the Christed ones as a literal transfusion of the Body and Blood of the Cosmic Christ wherever and whenever there is a need. There are angels of healing, protection, love, comfort and compassion, angels attending the cycles of birth and death, angels of the All-Seeing Eye of God who wield the flaming sword of Truth to cleave asunder the Real from the Unreal. There are types and orders
of angels who perform specific services in the cosmic hierarchy, such as seraphim and cherubim, and angel devas who serve with the nature spirits and elementals of fire, air, water, and earth.

The fallen angels are those who followed Lucifer in the Great Rebellion and whose consciousness therefore “fell” to lower levels of vibration and awareness as they were by law “cast out into the earth” at the hand of Archangel Michaelconstrained, by the karma of their disobedience to God and his Christ and their blasphemy of his children, to take on and evolve through dense physical bodies. Here they walk about, as Peter said, seeking whosesoever souls and minds and bodies they may devour, sowing seeds of unrest and the Luciferian rebellion among the people through the subculture of rock music and drugs, the media, and their Babylonian cult of idolatry. They are known variously as the fallen ones, Luciferians, Watchers, Nephilim, “giants in the earth,” Satanists, Serpents, sons of Belial, etc. (Ps. 104:4; Heb. 1:7;
13:2; Rev. 12:9; Gen. 6:1-7. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil, containing all the Enoch texts, including the Book of Enoch and
the Book of the Secrets of Enoch.)

Angel deva. See Deva.

Angel of the LORD. The presence of the Deity in angelic form. The Seven Archangels and their Archeiai ministering on the seven rays together with the five of the secret rays and the hierarchs of the thirteenth are the Angels of the LORD that “stand in the Presence of God” and are “sent from God” as his messengers to transmit the Light (Christ consciousness) of that I AM THAT I AM to his sons and daughters for the accomplishment of those dispensations that they announce. Unto Moses was revealed the I AM Presence through “the angel of the LORD who appeared unto him in a flame of fire,” which was the actual presence and personification of the I AM THAT I AM by Archangel Michael. This truth confirms the initiation conferred by God upon certain beings advanced in the heavenly hierarchy to actually bear in their personin their chakras and auric fieldthe weight of God’s Presence. Even so have his prophets, messengers and Christed ones borne this “burden” of the LORD, as they were called to be his visible evangels in form, taking embodiment to minister with the angels, Archangels, cherubim, and seraphim on behalf of souls evolving in the earth planes.

(Luke 1:19; Exod. 3:2; Jer. 23:30-40; Zech. 9:1; 12:1; Hab. 1:1; Mal. 1:1.)

Antahkarana. (Skt. for “internal sense organ.”) The web of life. The net of light spanning Spirit
and Matter connecting and sensitizing the whole of creation within itself and to the heart of God.

Antichrist. n. When capitalized, the specific embodiment of Absolute Evil, the Evil One. The planetary dweller-on-the-threshold. ”Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.” The term is also applied to such as Lucifer, Satan, the Watchers, Nephilim, and other fallen angels who “kept not their first estate,” who stand in opposition to Absolute Good. These betrayers of the Word have sworn allegiance to the powers of Death and Hell and vowed to destroy God incarnate in his Church, his saints and his little ones. When lowercased, a person or power antagonistic to the Christ, or Light, in Jesus and his own. adj. Having the characteristics of Antichrist, denying the Christ potential in the children of God, destroying souls by the perversion of the Person and Light of Christ.

(I John 2:18, 22; 4:3; II John 7; Gen. 6:1-7; Jude 6.)

Archangel. Hierarch of angelic hosts; the highest rank in the orders of angels. Each of the seven rays has a presiding Archangel who, with his divine complement, an Archeia, embodies the God consciousness of the ray and directs the bands of angels serving in their command on that ray. The Archangels and Archeiai of the rays and the location of their retreats are as follows: First Ray, blue, Archangel Michaeland Faith, Banff, near Lake Louise, Canada. Second Ray, yellow, Archangel Jophiel and Christine, south of the Great Wall near Lanchow, north central China. Third Ray, petal pink, deep rose and ruby, Archangel Chamuel and Charity, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Fourth Ray, white and mother-of-pearl, Archangel Gabriel and Hope, between Sacramento and Mount Shasta, California, USA. Fifth Ray, green, Archangel Raphael and Mary,Fátima, Portugal. Sixth Ray, purple and gold, ruby, Archangel Uriel and Aurora, Tatra Mountains, south of Cracow, Poland. Seventh Ray, violet and purple, Archangel Zadkieland Holy Amethyst, Cuba.

(See Vials of the Seven Last Plagues: The Judgments of Almighty God Delivered by the Seven Archangels. Archangel Gabriel, Mysteries of the Holy Grail. “The Class of the Archangels,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1981, vol. 24, Book I, nos. 4-15; 8-audiocassette album. “The Healing Power of Angels,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1986, vol. 29, Book I, nos. 25-34; Book II, nos. 51-57; 2 videocassette albums, 2 cassettes each; 2 audiocassette albums, 12 cassettes each. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “Self-Healing Workshop with the Healing Power of Angels,” 3 audio­cassettes; “On the Healing Power of Angels: Christ Wholeness–the Seven Rays of God,” 2 video­cassettes; 3 audiocassettes.)

Archangel Michael. See Michael, Archangel.

Archangel Zadkiel. See Zadkiel, Archangel.

Archeia (pl. Archeiai). Divine complement and twin flame (feminine polarity) of an Archangel.

Arhat. A Buddhist monk who has attained nirvana; one undergoing the initiations of the Buddha.

Ascended being. See Ascended Master.

Ascended Master. One who, through Christ and the putting on of that Mind which was in Christ Jesus, has mastered time and space and in the process gained the mastery of the self in the four lower bodies and the four quadrants of Matter, in the chakras and the balanced threefold flame. An Ascended Master has also transmuted at least 51 percent of his karma, fulfilled his divine plan, and taken the initiations of the Ruby Ray unto the ritual of the ascensionacceleration
by the sacred fire into the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM. An Ascended Master is one who inhabits the planes of Spirit, the kingdom of God (God’s consciousness), and may teach unascended souls in an etheric retreat or in the etheric cities on the etheric plane (the kingdom
of heaven).

(Phil. 2:5.)

Ascension. The ritual whereby the soul reunites with the Spirit of the Living God, the I AM Presence. The ascension is the culmination of the soul’s God-victorious sojourn in time and space. It is the reward of the righteous that is the gift of God after the last judgment before the great white throne in which every man is judged “according to their works.” The ascension was experienced by Enoch, of whom it is written that he “walked with God: and he was not, for God took him”; by Elijah, who went up by a whirlwind into heaven; and by Jesus, although his ascension did not take place on the occasion when scripture records that he was taken up into
a cloud into heaven. The Ascended Master El Morya has revealed that Jesus made his ascension from Shamballa after his passing in Kashmir at the age of 81 in A.D. 77. The reunion with God in the ascension, signifying the end of the rounds of karma and rebirth and the return
to the LORD’s glory, is the goal of life for the sons and daughters of God. Jesus said, “No man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man.” By the salvation, ‘Self­elevation’, the conscious raising up of the Son of God within her temple, the soul puts on her wedding garment to fulfill the office of the Son (Sun, or Light) of manifestation. The soul is made worthy by Jesus’ grace to be the bearer of his cross and his crown. Following the initiatic path of Jesus, she ascends through the Christ Self to her LORD, the I AM Presence, whence she descended.

(Rev. 20:12, 13; Gen. 5:24; II Kings 2:11; Luke 24:50, 51; Acts 1:9-11; John 3:13. See Serapis Bey, Dossier on the Ascension. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, A Retreat on the Ascension
an Experience with God, 8-audiocassette album.)

Aspirant. One who aspires; specifically, one who aspires to reunion with God through the ritual
of the ascension. One who aspires to overcome the conditions and limitations of time and space to fulfill the cycles of karma and one’s reason for being through the sacred labor.

Astral. adj. Having or carrying the characteristics of the astral plane. n. A frequency of time and space beyond the physical yet below the mental, corresponding with the emotional body of man and the collective unconscious of the race. Because the astral plane has been muddied
by impure human thought and feeling, the term “astral” is also used in a negative context to refer to that which is impure or “psychic.” See also Psychic.

Astral body. See Emotional body.

Astral plane. The repository of the collective thought/feeling patterns, conscious and unconscious, of mankind. The pristine purpose of this band, or frequency, is for the amplification of the pure thoughts and feelings of God in man. Instead it has been polluted with the impure records (vibrations) of the race memory multiplied ad infinitum by an evolution caught in the riptides
and repetitive cycles of its own negativity.

Atlantis. The island continent that existed where the Atlantic Ocean now is and that sank
in cataclysm (the Flood of Noah) approximately 11,600 years ago as calculated by James Churchward. Vividly depicted by Plato; ‘seen’ and described by Edgar Cayce in his readings; recalled in scenes from Taylor Caldwell’s Romance of Atlantis; scientifically explored and authenticated by the late German scientist Otto Muck, who fixed the time and date of her destruction (by an asteroid that plunged into the Bermuda Triangle with the force of 30,000 hydrogen bombs) at 8 p.m. June 5, 8498 b.c.! In his dialogues, Plato recounts that on “the island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire” that ruled Africa as far as Egypt, Europe
as far as Italy, and “parts of the continent” (thought to be a reference to America, specifically Central America, Peru, and the Valley of the Mississippi). It has been postulated that Atlantis
and the small islands to its east and west formed a continuous bridge of land from America
to Europe and Africa.

(James Churchward, The Lost Continent of Mu [1931; reprint, New York: Paperback Library Edition, 1968], p. 226. Otto Muck, The Secret of Atlantis [New York: Pocket Books, 1979]. Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World [New York: Dover Publications, 1976],
pp. 11, 23, 173, 473. For lectures on Atlantis delivered by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, based
on the Teachings of the Ascended Masters and A Dweller on Two Planets by Phylos the Tibetan,
send for a Summit University Press catalog.)

Aura. A luminous emanation or ‘electromagnetic’ field surrounding the physical body, often equated with the astral body. A halo or nimbus associated with the saints, originating in the soul and soul blueprint, which mirrors by free will the heavenly or the earthly patterns. The distinctive radiation of sentient life and inorganic objects as captured in Kirlian photography. Breath
or atmosphere surrounding and interpenetrating the four lower bodies of man and his chakras upon which the impressions, thoughts, feelings, words, and actions of the individual are registered, including his karma and the records of past lives. The highly charged circle of sacred fire surrounding Christ, an Ascended Master, angel, Elohim or Cosmic Being, transferable
as ‘grace’ to whomsoever they will it. A spiritual corona, referred to as the L-field or Life-field (astral/etheric sheath) surrounding mankind and organic life that both regulates and reflects the health, vitality, and longevity of the physical body or organism.

(See Kuthumi, Studies of the Human Aura, and Djwal Kul, Intermediate Studies of the Human Aura; both published in The Human Aura. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Control of the Human Aura through the Science of the Spoken Word, 2-audiocassette album.)

Avatar. (Skt. avatara ‘descent’, from avatarati ‘he descends’, from ava- ‘away’ + tarati ‘he crosses over’.) The incarnation of the Word; the descent or crossing-over of the Universal Christ from the plane of Spirit to the plane of Matter. The avatar of an age is the Christ, the incarnation
of the Son of God (Vishnu), the Second Person of the Trinity. The avatar, with his divine complement, Shakti, or twin flame, “outpictures” and “outplays” in consciousness and in the four lower bodies the archetypal pattern of the Father-Mother God for the evolution of souls
in a two-thousand-year cycle. The principal avatars of an age are two in numberthe masculine and feminine prototypes who embody and show by their example the path of initiation designated by the solar hierarchies responsible for the lifewaves moving toward the center of the Cosmic Christ through the Open Door (the Teacher and Teaching) of that two-thousand-year dispensation. According to mankind’s karma, the evolutionary status quo of the children of God (their soul progress or lack of it in previous dispensations), and the requirements of the Logos, the Manus may designate numerous Christed onesthose endued with an extraordinary Lightto go forth as world teachers and wayshowers. The Christed ones demonstrate in a given epoch the Law of the Logos, stepped down through the Manu(s) and the avatar(s) until it is made flesh through their own Word and Workto be ultimately victorious in its fulfillment in all souls
of Light sent forth to conquer time and space in that era.

Ballard, Guy W. Messenger for the Great White Brotherhood from the late 1920s to the year 1939, when he made his ascension on December 31. Now the Ascended Master Godfre, he ensouls the consciousness of God-obedience. He was embodied as Richard the Lion-Hearted and as George Washington. In his final embodiment, with his wife and twin flame, Edna Ballard (who ascended February 12, 1971), he founded the I AM movement under the direction of the Ascended Master Saint Germain. His pen name was Godfré Ray King, hers Lotus Ray King. Their most important works are Unveiled Mysteries, The Magic Presence, and The “I AM” Discourses.

Bodhisattva. A Sanskrit term meaning literally a being of bodhi (or enlightenment), a being destined for enlightenment, or one whose energy and power is directed toward enlightenment.
A Bodhisattva is one who is destined to become a Buddha but has foregone the bliss of nirvana with a vow to save all children of God on earth. In the Mahayana school of Buddhism, becoming
a Bodhisattva is the goal of the Path. The path of the Bodhisattva is generally divided into ten stages, called bhumis. The Bodhisattva strives to progress from one stage to the next until he obtains enlightenment.

(See the following by Elizabeth Clare Prophet: “Lord Maitreya: The Coming Buddha Who Has Come” and “The Path of the Bodhisattva: The Historical Maitreya,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1984, vol. 27, Book I, pp. 1-76; Book II, pp. 1-74. ”The Path of the Bodhisattva: Confession,”
1 videocassette; 2 audio­cassettes. “The Path of the Bodhisattva: The Guru-Chela Relationship–Marpa and Milarepa,” 3 audiocassettes. “The Age of Maitreya,” 1 video­cassette;
2 audiocassettes. “The Buddhic Essence,” two 1-hr. TV shows on video; 4 audiocassettes.)

Bodies of man. The four lower bodies are four sheaths consisting of four distinct frequencies that surround the soulthe physical, emotional, mental, and ethericproviding vehicles for the soul
in her journey through time and space. The etheric sheath, highest in vibration, is the gateway
to the three higher bodies, which are the Christ Self, the I AM Presence, and the Causal Body. See also Chart of Your Divine Self, Etheric body, Mental body, Emotional body, and Physical body.

(See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain, 2d ed., pp.
164-73; The Lost Teachings of Jesus I, softbound, pp. 224-26; or pocketbook, Book Two, pp.
66-69.)

Body elemental. A being of nature (ordinarily invisible and functioning unnoticed in the physical octave) that serves the soul from the moment of its first incarnation in the planes of Mater to tend the physical body. About three feet high and resembling the individual whom he serves, the body elemental, working with the guardian angel under the regenerative Christ Self, is the unseen friend and helper of man. See also Elementals.

(See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain, 2d ed., pp.
455-64.)

Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva. The Hindu Trinity of Creator, Preserver, Destroyer/Deliverer. Brahma (God the Father) is seen as the Creator, Vishnu (God the Son) is seen as the Preserver, and Shiva (God the Holy Spirit) is seen as the Destroyer of Evil, hence the Deliverer of souls.

(See Saint Germain On Alchemy, pp. 316-20.)

Brotherhood. See Great White Brotherhood.

Brothers and Sisters of the Golden Robe. An order of ascended and unascended beings dedicated to the illumination of mankind through the flame of wisdom, headed by the Ascended Master Kuthumi, with retreats on the etheric plane in Shigatse and Kashmir.

(See Kuthumi, “The ‘Second Coming’ of the Saints,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1989, vol. 32, pp.
781-82V_32A, 786V_32B.)

Buddha. (From Skt. budh ‘awake’, ‘know’, ‘perceive’.) Buddha means “the enlightened one.”
It denotes an office in the spiritual hierarchy of worlds that is attained by passing certain initiations of the sacred fire, including those of the seven rays of the Holy Spirit and of the five secret rays, the raising of the Feminine Ray (sacred fire of the Kundalini), and the “mastery of the seven
in the seven multiplied by the power of the ten.”

(See Djwal Kul, Intermediate Studies of the Human Aura, chapter 10; also published in The Human Aura.)

Gautama attained the enlightenment of the Buddha twenty-five centuries ago, a path he had pursued through many previous embodiments culminating in his forty-nine-day meditation under the Bo tree; hence he is called Gautama, the Buddha. He holds the office of Lord of the World, sustaining, by his Causal Body and threefold flame, the divine spark and consciousness in the evolutions of earth approaching the path of personal Christhood. His aura of Love/Wisdom ensouling the planet issues from his incomparable devotion to the Divine Mother. He is the hierarch of Shamballa, the original retreat of Sanat Kumara now on the etheric plane over the Gobi Desert. On April 18, 1981, the beloved Gautama Buddha established his Western Shamballa in America’s wilderness at the northern border of Yellowstone National Park at the Inner Retreat of the Royal Teton Ranch. See also Lord of the World, Shamballa.

(See Gautama Buddha, “Quietly Comes the Buddha,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1975, vol. 18, nos. 17-29; Pearls of Wisdom, 1983, vol. 26. Elizabeth Clare Prophet,”The Message of the Inner Buddha,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1989, vol. 32, nos. 28-30; A Message of Perfect Love from
the Heart of Gautama Buddha, 3-audiocassette album; Peace in the Flame of Buddha,
2-audiocassette album; The Buddha and the Mother, 6-audiocassette album; The Buddhas
in Winter, 16-audiocassette album; “Insatiable Desire: The Enemy Within” and “The Eightfold Path of Self-Mastery,” two 1-hr. TV shows on video; 2 audiocassettes.)

Lord Maitreya, the Cosmic Christ, has also passed the initiations of the Buddha. He is the
long-awaited Coming Buddha who has come to the fore to teach all who have departed from the way of the Great Guru, Sanat Kumara, from whose lineage both he and Gautama descended.
In the history of the planet, there have been numerous Buddhas who have served the evolutions
of mankind through the steps and stages of the path of the Bodhisattva. In the East Jesus is referred to as the Buddha Issa. He is the World Saviour by the Love/Wisdom of the Godhead. See also Lord Maitreya, Bodhisattva.

(See the following by Elizabeth Clare Prophet: The Lost Years of Jesus. “Lord Maitreya: The Coming Buddha Who Has Come” and “The Path of the Bodhisattva: The Historical Maitreya,”
in Pearls of Wisdom, 1984, vol. 27, Book I, pp. 1-76; Book II, pp. 1-74. ”The Path of the Bodhisattva: The Historical Maitreya,” 2 audio­cassettes.)

In the 1960s, nine unascended lifestreams who had passed the initiations of the Buddha volunteered to embody to assist the evolutions of earth during their difficult and dangerous transition into the age of Aquarius. Their world service will be recognized when they have reached the age of the Christic and Buddhic example, age thirty-three to thirty-six. On January 1, 1983, Gautama Buddha announced that nine Buddhas who had been in nirvana for nine hundred years were descending the shaft of light to enter the hearts of nine individuals upon this planet and,
by their Electronic Presence, to enter the forcefield of thousands of dedicated hearts. Gautama also released the dispensation that every prayer, mantra, and chant of devotees of Christ and Buddha from that time on would be multiplied by the power of the heart of Gautama and the nine Buddhas.

Carnal mind. The human ego, the human will, and the human intellect; self-awareness without the Christ; the animal nature of man, called mechanization man and the mechanization concept
by the Master R; called the dweller-on-the-threshold in esoteric tradition. For the apostle Paul, “the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be.”

(Rom. 8:7. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “The Lost Teachings of Jesus: On the Enemy Within,”
2 audio­cassettes. Pearls of Wisdom, 1983, vol. 26, pp. 50, 383-91, 429-54; 1985, vol. 28,
Book I, pp. 84, 85-93, 97; 1986, vol. 29, Book I, pp. 199, 203, 210-12.)

Causal Body. The body of First Cause; seven concentric spheres of light and consciousness surrounding the I AM Presence in the planes of Spirit, whose momentums, added to by the Goodthe LORD’s Word and Works manifested by the soul in all past livesare accessible today, moment by moment as we need them. One’s spiritual resources and creativitytalents, graces, gifts and genius, garnered through exemplary service on the seven raysmay be drawn forth from the Causal Body through invocation made to the I AM Presence in the name of the Christ Self. The Causal Body is the place where we “lay up treasure in heaven”­the storehouse of every good and perfect thing that is a part of our true identity. In addition, the great spheres
of the Causal Body are the dwelling place of the Most High God to which Jesus referred when he said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions . . . I go to prepare a place for you . . . I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I AM [where I, the incarnate Christ, AM in the I AM Presence], there ye may be also.” The Causal Body is the mansion, or habitation, of the Spirit
of the I AM THAT I AM to which the soul returns through Christ Jesus and the individual Christ Self in the ritual of the ascension. The Causal Body as the star of each man’s individual­ization of the God Flame was referred to by Paul when he said, “One star differeth from another star in glory.” See also Chart of Your Divine Self.

(Matt. 6:19-21; John 14:2, 3; I Cor. 15:41.)

Cave of Symbols. Etheric as well as physical retreat of the Master Saint Germain located
at Table Mountain in the Rocky Mountains in the environs of Wyoming. Here initiates of the Seventh Ray are taken in their finer bodies to prepare for the ascension. Those who qualify receive teachings directly from the Master Alchemist in the sacred mysteries of Christhood
as well as the science and technology of the new age. In the chemical and electrical laboratories of this retreat, scientists are perfecting formulas and inventions that they have been permitted
to take from hermetically sealed cities at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, which have been protected since the sinking of Atlantis. Saint Germain is the guardian of the records of advanced scientific and spiritual achievements of ancient civilizations that will be brought forth in the golden age of Aquariusto which Saint Germain and his studies in alchemy open the door. Three focuses at the Cave of Symbols designed to assist souls in the ascension process are the Atomic Accelerator, the Crystal Mirror, and the Sphere of Light.

(See Pearls of Wisdom, 1977, vol. 20, pp. 184, 192.)

Central sun. A vortex of energy, physical or spiritual, central to systems of worlds that it thrusts from, or gathers unto, itself by the central sun magnet. Whether in the microcosm or the Macrocosm, the central sun is the principal energy source, vortex, or nexus of energy interchange in atoms, cells, man (the heart center), amidst plant life and the core of the earth. The Great Central Sun, also called the Great Hub, is the center of cosmos; the point of integration of the Spirit-Matter cosmos; the point of origin of all physical-spiritual creation; the nucleus, or white fire core, of the Cosmic Egg. (The God Star, Sirius, is the focus of the Great Central Sun in our sector of the galaxy.) The Sun behind the sun is the spiritual Cause behind the physical effect we see
as our own physical sun and all other stars and star systems, seen or unseen, including the Great Central Sun. The Sun behind the sun of cosmos is perceived as the Cosmic Christthe Word
by whom the formless was endowed with form and spiritual worlds were draped with physicality. Likewise, the Sun behind the sun is the Son of God individualized in the Christ Self, shining in all his splendor behind the soul and its interpenetrating sheaths of consciousness called the four lower bodies. It is the Son of manthe ‘Sun’ of every mani­festation of God. The Sun behind the sun is referred to as the “Sun of righteousness,” which does heal the mind, illumine the soul and light all her house, and as “the glory of God,” the Light of the City Foursquare.

(Mal. 4:2; Rev. 21:23.)

Chakra. (Skt. for “wheel,” “disc,” “circle.”) Term used to denote the centers of light anchored in the etheric body and governing the flow of energy to the four lower bodies of man. There are seven major chakras corresponding to the seven rays, five minor chakras corresponding to the five secret rays, and a total of 144 light centers in the body of man. The seven major chakras, their rays, Sanskrit names, and colors are as follows: First Ray, throat, Vishuddha, blue; Second Ray, crown, Sahasrara, yellow; Third Ray, heart, Anahata, pink; Fourth Ray, base-of-the-spine, Muladhara, white; Fifth Ray, third eye, Ajna, green; Sixth Ray, solar plexus, Manipura, purple
and gold; Seventh Ray, seat-of-the-soul, Svadhishthana, violet.

(See Djwal Kul, Intermediate Studies of the Human Aura, also published in The Human Aura. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Lost Teachings of Jesus I, softbound, pp.
261-91, color plates following p. 260; or pocketbook, Book Two, pp. 114-55. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mother’s Chakra MeditationsFrom My Heart to Buddha, 8-audiocassette album; Saint Germain’s Heart Meditation I, audio­cassette.)

Chamuel. See Archangel.

Chart of Your Divine Self. There are three figures represented in the Chart, which we will refer
to as the upper figure, the middle figure, and the lower figure. The upper figure is the I AM Presence, the I AM THAT I AM, the in­dividualization of God’s presence for every son and daughter of the Most High. The Divine Monad consists of the I AM Presence surrounded by the spheres (color rings) of light that make up the body of First Cause, or Causal Body. These spheres are the many mansions of the Father’s house where we lay up for ourselves “treasures
in heaven.” Our treasures are our words and works worthy of our Creator, positive thoughts and feelings, our victories for the right, and the virtues we have embodied to the glory of God. When we judiciously exercise our free will, the energies of God that we harmoniously qualify automatically ascend to our Causal Body. These energies are deposited in the spheres of light that correspond to the seven chakras and the seven color rays we use in our creative activities. They accrue to our lifestream as “talents,” which we may increase as we put them to good use lifetime after lifetime.

The middle figure in the Chart is the Mediator between God and man, called the Holy Christ Self, the Real Self, or the Christ consciousness. It has also been referred to as the Higher Mental Body or one’s Higher Consciousness. This Inner Teacher overshadows the lower self, which consists
of the soul evolving through the four planes of Matter using the vehicles of the four lower bodies (the etheric, or memory, body; the mental body; the emotional, or desire, body; and the physical body) to balance karma and fulfill the divine plan.

The three figures of the Chart correspond to the Trinity of Father, who always includes the Mother (the upper figure), Son (the middle figure), and Holy Spirit (the lower figure). The latter is the intended temple of the Holy Spirit, whose sacred fire is indicated in the enfolding violet flame.
The lower figure corresponds to you as a disciple on the Path. Your soul is the nonpermanent aspect of being, which is made permanent through the ritual of the ascension. The ascension
is the process whereby the soul, having balanced her karma and fulfilled her divine plan, merges first with the Christ consciousness and then with the living Presence of the I AM THAT I AM.
Once the ascension has taken place, the soul, the nonpermanent aspect of being, becomes the Incorruptible One, a permanent atom in the Body of God. The Chart of Your Divine Self is therefore a diagram of yourselfpast, present, and future.

The lower figure represents the son of man or child of the Light evolving beneath his own ‘Tree
of Life’. This is how you should visualize yourself standing in the violet flame, which you invoke daily in the name of the I AM Presence and your Holy Christ Self in order to purify your four lower bodies in preparation for the ritual of the alchemical marriageyour soul’s union with the Beloved, your Holy Christ Self. The lower figure is surrounded by a tube of light, which is projected from the heart of the I AM Presence in answer to your call. It is a cylinder of white light that sustains a forcefield of protection twenty-four hours a day, so long as you guard it in harmony. The threefold flame of Life is the divine spark sent from the I AM Presence as the gift of life, consciousness and free will. It is sealed in the secret chamber of the heart that through the Love, Wisdom and Power of the Godhead anchored therein the soul may fulfill her reason for being
in the physical plane. Also called the Christ Flame and the liberty flame, or fleur-de-lis, it is the spark of a man’s Divinity, his potential for Christhood.

The silver (or crystal) cord is the stream of life, or “lifestream,” that descends from the heart of the I AM Presence to the Holy Christ Self to nourish and sustain (through the chakras) the soul and its vehicles of expression in time and space. It is over this ‘umbilical’ cord that the energy of the Presence flows, entering the being of man at the crown and giving impetus for the pulsation of the threefold flame as well as the physical heartbeat. When a round of the soul’s incarnation
in Matter-form is finished, the I AM Presence withdraws the silver cord, whereupon the threefold flame returns to the level of the Christ, and the soul clothed in the etheric garment gravitates to the highest level of her attainment, where she is schooled between embodiments until her final incarnation when the Great Law decrees she shall go out no more.

The dove of the Holy Spirit descending from the heart of the Father is shown just above the head of the Christ. When the son of man puts on and becomes the Christ consciousness as Jesus did, he merges with the Holy Christ Self. The Holy Spirit is upon him and the words of the Father, the beloved I AM Presence, are spoken, “This is my beloved Son in whom I AM well pleased.”

(Matt. 3:17. See the Keepers of the Flame Lessons. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain; The Lost Teachings of Jesus I, softbound, pp. 205-59,
267-68; or pocketbook, Book Two, pp. 43-110, 126-27. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, chap. 37.)

Chela. (Hindi cela from Skt. ceta ‘slave’, i.e., ‘servant’.) In India, a disciple of a religious teacher or guru. A term used generally to refer to a student of the Ascended Masters and their teachings. Specifically, a student of more than ordinary self-discipline and devotion initiated by an Ascended Master and serving the cause of the Great White Brotherhood. See also Discipleship.

(See El Morya, The Chela and the Path: Meeting the Challenge of Life in the Twentieth Century.)

Cherub (pl. cherubim). Member of an order of angelic beings devoted to the expansion and protection of the flame of love, wielding the sword and the judgment of the Ruby Ray and the Holy Spirit. Hence the LORD God “placed at the east [gate] (the gate of the Christ consciousness)
of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way
of the Tree of Life.” Even so the LORD instructed Moses to fashion cherubim of gold as focuses of these true angelic guardians of the mercy seat of the ark of the covenant. Tradi­tionally, God dwelt between the cherubim and spoke to Moses from the mercy seatthe altar of the I AM Presence, whose Law, engraven on tablets of stone, was carried in the ark from place to place
in their wilderness wanderings. David describes the LORD riding upon a cherub, flying upon the wings of the wind. Ezekiel portrays the cherubim as four-winged, four-faced creatures accompanied by whirling wheels. The cherub may be identified with the winged karibu, ”intercessor” in Mesopotamian texts, portrayed as a sphinx, griffin, or winged human creature. Throughout cosmos, the wise and strong cherubim are found in manifold aspects of service
to God and his offspring.

(Gen. 3:24; Exod. 25:17-22; II Sam. 22:11; Ezek. 1, 10.)

Chohan. Lord or master; a chief. Each of the seven rays has a Chohan who focuses the Christ consciousness of the ray, which is indeed the law of the ray governing its righteous use in man. Having ensouled and demonstrated this law of the ray throughout numerous incarnations, and taken initiations both before and after the ascension, the candidate is appointed to the office
of Chohan by the Maha Chohan, “Great Lord,” who is himself the representative of the Holy Spirit on all the rays. The names of the Chohans of the Rays (each one an Ascended Master representing one of the seven rays to earth’s evolutions) and the locations of their physical/etheric focuses are as follows: First Ray, El Morya, Retreat of God’s Will, Darjeeling, India. Second Ray, Lanto, Royal Teton Retreat, Grand Teton, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA. Third Ray, Paul the Venetian, Château de Liberté, southern France, with a focus of the threefold flame at the Washington Monument, Washington, D.C. Fourth Ray, Serapis Bey, the Ascension Temple and Retreat at Luxor, Egypt. Fifth Ray, Hilarion (the apostle Paul), Temple of Truth, Crete. Sixth Ray, Nada, Arabian Retreat, Saudi Arabia. Seventh Ray, Saint Germain, Royal Teton Retreat, Grand Teton, Wyoming; Cave of Symbols, Table Mountain, Wyoming. Saint Germain also works out
of the Great Divine Director’s focusesthe Cave of Light in India and the Rakoczy Mansion
in Transylvania, where Saint Germain presides as hierarch.

(See “Messages from the Seven Chohans of the Rays,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1968, vol. 11, nos. 1-7. The Seven Chohans, the Maha Chohan, and the World Teachers, “The Opening of the Temple Doors,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1973, vol. 16, nos. 10-19. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven Rays; The Lost Teachings of Jesus II, softbound, pp. 149-226; or pocketbook, Book Three, pp. 105-200. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “Lords of the Seven Rays
on Crystals, with Chakra Initiations,” 4 audiocassettes; “Lords of the Seven Rays: Find the Perfect Master and Crystal for You,” two 1-hr. TV shows on video.)

Christ. (From the Gk. Christos ‘anointed’.) Messiah (Heb., Aram. ‘anointed’); ‘Christed one’,
one fully endued and infilledanointedby the Light (the Son) of God. The Word, the Logos, the Second Person of the Trinity, “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth . . . That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.” In the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the term “Christ” corresponds to or is the incarnation of Vishnu, the Preserver; Avatara, God-man, Dispeller of Darkness, Guru.

The Universal Christ is the mediator between the planes of Spirit and the planes of Matter; personified as the Christ Self, he is the mediator between the Spirit of God and the soul of man. The Universal Christ sustains the nexus of (the figure-eight flow of) consciousness through which the energies of the Father (Spirit) pass to his children for the crystallization (Christ-realization)
of the God Flame by their souls’ strivings in the cosmic womb (matrix) of the Mother (Matter).
This process is called material­ization (Mater-realization), ”The Descent.” The process whereby the soul’s coalesced energies of the Mother pass through the nexus of the Christ consciousness to the Father is the acceleration called spiritualization (Spirit-realization), ”The Ascent.” Another name for the process whereby the soul’s energy returns from Matter to Spirit is sublimation (sublime action), or transmu­tation. The consummation of this process is experienced by the soul, now one with the Son, as the ascensionunion with the Spirit of the I AM Presence, the Father. The ascension is the fulfillment in heaven of Jesus’ promise on earth: “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you . . . If a man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”

The fusion of the energies of the positive and negative polarity of the Godhead in the creation takes place through the Universal Christ, the Logos without whom “was not any thing made that was made.” The flow of light from the Macrocosm to the microcosm, from the Spirit (the I AM Presence) to the soul and back again over the figure-eight spiral, is fulfilled through this blessed mediator, who is Christ, the LORD, the true incarnation of the I AM THAT I AM. Because Jesus Christ is that embodied Word he can say, “I AM [the I AM in me is] the Open Door (to heaven and earth) which no man can shut” and “All Power is given unto me [through the I AM in me] in heaven and in earth” and “Behold, I AM [the I AM in me is] alive forevermoreas Above, so belowand have the keys of the kingdom of heaven and the keys of hell and death, and to whomsoever the Father wills I give it, and it is given in his name.” This which is affirmed even today by the Ascended Master Jesus Christ is also affirmed in your behalf by your beloved Christ Self. Thus the Universal Christ of the one Son and the many does indeed mediate the Presence of the I AM to you through your very own beloved Holy Christ Self. This is the true Communion of the Cosmic Christ whose Body (Consciousness) was ‘broken’, shared, individualized, for every child of the Father’s heart. The Sons of God hold the Maxim Light in trust for the babes in Christ.

The term “Christ” or “Christed one” also denotes an office in hierarchy held by those who have attained self-mastery on the seven rays and the seven chakras of the Holy Spirit. Christ-mastery includes the balancing of the threefold flamethe divine attributes of Power, Wisdom, and Lovefor the harmonization of consciousness and the implementation of the mastery of the seven rays in the chakras and in the four lower bodies through the Mother Flame (raised Kundalini). At the hour designated for the ascension, the soul thus anointed raises the spiral
of the threefold flame from beneath the feet through the entire form for the transmutation of every atom and cell of her being, consciousness, and world. (See p. 376.) The saturation and acceleration of the four lower bodies and the soul by this transfiguring light of the Christ Flame takes place in part during the initiation of the transfiguration, increasing through the resurrection and gaining full intensity in the ritual of the ascension.

The individual Christ Self, the personal Christ, is the initiator of every living soul. When the individual passes these several initiations on the path of Christhood, including the “slaying of the dweller-on-the-threshold,” he earns the right to be called a Christed one and gains the title of son or daughter of God. Some who have earned that title in past ages have either compromised that attainment altogether or failed to manifest it in subsequent incarnations. In this age the Logos requires them to bring forth their inner God-mastery and to perfect it on the physical plane while
in physical embodiment. Therefore, to assist the sons and daughters of God in making their manifestation commensurate with their inner Light, the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood have released their teachings through the Ascended Masters and their Messengers in this century. And Saint Germain founded the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity providing graded monthly lessons to the members of this order, dedicated to keep the flame of Life throughout the world. Prior to the successful passing of the initiations of discipleship, the individual is referred
to as a child of God in contrast to the term “Son of God,” which denotes full Christhood wherein the soul in and as the Son of man is become one in the Son of God after the example of Christ Jesus.

Expanding the consciousness of the Christ, the Christed one moves on to attain the realization
of the Christ consciousness at a planetary level and is able to hold the balance of the Christ Flame on behalf of the evolutions of the planet. When this is achieved, he assists members of the heavenly hierarchy who serve under the office of the World Teachers and the planetary Christ. See also Chart of Your Divine Self, Jesus.

(John 1:1-14; 14:20, 23. Compare Rev. 3:8; Matt. 28:18; Rev. 1:18.)

Christ consciousness. The consciousness or awareness of the self in and as the Christ; the attainment of a level of consciousness commensurate with that which was realized by Jesus, the Christ. The Christ consciousness is the realization within the soul of that Mind which was in Christ Jesus. It is the attainment of the balanced action of Power, Wisdom, and Loveof Father, Son, and Holy Spiritand the purity of the Mother through the balanced threefold flame within the heart. It is Faith perfected in the desire to do God’s Will, Hope in the salvation of Christ Jesus
by the path of his righteousness performed in us, and Charity’s excellence in purest Love
of giving and receiving in the LORD. (Phil. 2:5.)

Christ Self. The individualized focus of “the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.”
The Universal Christ individualized as the true identity of the soul; the Real Self of every man, woman, and child to which the soul must rise. The Christ Self is the mediator between a man and his God. He is a man’s own personal Teacher, Master, and Prophet who officiates as High Priest before the altar of the Holy of Holies (I AM Presence) of every man’s temple made without hands. The advent of the universal awareness of the Christ Self in God’s people on earth is foretold
by the prophets as the descent of THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, also called the BRANCH, in the Universal Age at hand. When one achieves the fullness of soul-identification with the Christ Self, he is called a Christed, or anointed, one, and the Son of God is seen shining through the Son of man.

(John 1:14; Isa. 11:1; Jer. 23:5, 6; 33:15, 16; Zech. 3:8; 6:12. See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain, 2d ed., pp. 148-60, 340-41, 368-69; The Lost Teachings of Jesus I, softbound, pp. 240-45; or pocketbook, Book Two, pp. 86-92. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, pp. 53-57, 479-86, 494-98; “Jesus Christ, Avatar of the Ages,” 1 videocassette; 2 audiocassettes.)

City Foursquare. The New Jerusalem; archetype of golden-age, etheric cities of light that exist even now on the etheric plane (in heaven) and are waiting to be lowered into physical manifestation (on earth). Saint John the Revelator saw the descent of the Holy City as the immaculate geometry of that which is to be and now is in the invisible realms of light: “And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.” Thus, in order that this vision and prophecy be fulfilled Jesus taught us to pray with the authority of the spoken Word, “Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven!” Metaphysically speaking, the City Foursquare is the mandala of the four planes and the quadrants of the Matter universe; the four sides of the Great Pyramid of Christ’s consciousness focused in the Matter spheres. The twelve gates are gates
of Christ’s consciousness marking the lines and the degrees of the initiations he has prepared for his disciples. The twelve gates are the open doors to the twelve qualities of the Cosmic Christ sustained by the twelve solar hierarchies (who are emanations of the Universal Christ) on behalf of all who are endued with the Spirit’s all-consuming fiery Love, all who would in grace “enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.”

Unascended souls may invoke the mandala of the City Foursquare for the fulfillment of the Christ consciousness, as Above, so below. The City Foursquare contains the blueprint of the solar (soul) identity of the 144,000 archetypes of the sons and daughters of God necessary to focus the Divine Wholeness of his con­sciousness in a given dispensation. The Light of the city is emitted from the I AM Presence; that of the Lamb, the Cosmic Christ, from the Christ Self. The jewels are the 144 focuses and frequencies of Light anchored in the chakras of the Cosmic Christ.

(Rev. 21:2, 9-27; Ps. 100:4.)

Color rays. See Seven rays.

Cosmic Being. (1) An Ascended Master who has attained cosmic consciousness and ensouls the light/energy/consciousness of many worlds and systems of worlds across the galaxies to the Sun behind the Great Central Sun. (2) A being of God who has never descended below the level of the Christ, never taken physical embodiment, made human karma or engaged in sin but has remained a part of the Cosmic Virgin and holds a cosmic balance for the return of souls from the vale (veil) of sorrows to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Mother.

Cosmic Clock. The science of charting the cycles of the soul’s karma and initiations on the twelve lines of the Clock under the twelve hierarchies of the Great Central Sun. Taught by Mother Mary
to Mark and Elizabeth Prophet for sons and daughters of God returning to the Law of the One and their point of origin beyond the worlds of form and lesser causation.

(See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “The Cosmic Clock: Psychology for the Aquarian Man and Woman,” in The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History, and Religion of America, chapter 15; The ABC’s of Your Psychology on the Cosmic Clock: Charting the Cycles of Karma and Initiation, 8-audiocassette album; “Seminar on the Cosmic Clock: Charting the Cycles
of Your Karma, Psychology and Spiritual Powers on the Cosmic Clock,” 2 audiocassettes and accompanying packet of study materials.)

Cosmic consciousness. (1) God’s awareness of himself in and as the cosmos. (2) Man’s awareness of himself as he lives, moves, and has being within the spheres of God’s cosmic
Self-awareness. The awareness of oneself fulfilling the cycles of the cosmos in and through the Great God Self; the awareness of the self as a part of God in cosmic dimensions; the attainment of initiations through the blessedness of the Cosmic Christ leading to God Self-realization in the Universal One.

Cosmic Egg. The spiritual-material universe, including a seemingly endless chain of galaxies, star systems, worlds known and unknown, whose center, or white fire core, is called the Great Central Sun. The Cosmic Egg has both a spiritual and a material center. Although we may discover and observe the Cosmic Egg from the standpoint of our physical senses and perspective, all of the dimensions of Spirit can also be known and experienced within the Cosmic Egg. For the God who created the Cosmic Egg and holds it in the hollow of his hand is also the God Flame expanding hour by hour within his very own sons and daughters. The Cosmic Egg represents the bounds of man’s habitation in this cosmic cycle. Yet, as God is everywhere throughout and beyond the Cosmic Egg, so by his Spirit within us we daily awaken to new dimensions of Being, soul-satisfied in conformity with his Likeness.

Cosmic hierarchy. The universal chain of individualized God-free beings fulfilling the attributes and aspects of God’s infinite Selfhood. Included in the cosmic hierarchical scheme are Solar Logoi, Elohim, Sons and Daughters of God, ascended and unascended Masters with their circles of chelas, Cosmic Beings, the twelve solar hierarchies, Archangels and angels of the sacred fire, children of the Light and nature spirits, called elementals, and twin flames of the Alpha-Omega polarity sponsoring planetary and galactic systems. This universal order of the Father’s own
Self-expression is the means whereby God in the Great Central Sun steps down the Presence and Power of his Universal Being/Consciousness in order that succeeding evolutions in time and space, from the least unto the greatest, might come to know the wonder of his Love. The level
of one’s spiritual/physical attainmentmeasured by one’s balanced self-awareness “hid with Christ in God” and demonstrating his Law, by his Love, in the Spirit-Matter cosmosis the criterion establishing one’s placement on this ladder of life called hierarchy.

In the third century, Origen of Alexandria set forth his conception of a hierarchy of beings, ranging from angels to human beings to demons and beasts. This renowned scholar and theologian
of the early Church, who set forth the chief cornerstone of Christ’s doctrine and upon whose works subsequent Church fathers, doctors, and theologians built their traditions, taught that souls are assigned to their respective offices and duties based on previous actions and merits, and that each one has the opportunity to ascend or descend in rank. Many beings of the heavenly hierarchy are named in the Book of Revelation. Apart from the false hierarchy of Antichrist, including the reprobate angels, some of the members of the Great White Brotherhood accounted for by Jesus are Alpha and Omega, the Seven Spirits, the angels of the seven churches, the Four and Twenty Elders, the four beasts, the saints robed in white, the Two Witnesses, the God of the Earth, the Woman clothed with the Sun and her Manchild, Archangel Michael and his angels, the Lamb and his wife, the one hundred and forty-four thousand who have the Father’s name written in their foreheads, the angel of the Everlasting Gospel, the seven angels (i.e., the Archangels
of the seven rays) which stood before God, the angel clothed with a cloud and a rainbow upon his head, the seven thunders, the Faithful and True and his armies, and him that sat upon the great white throne. See also Elohim (Rev. 1:4, 8, 11, 20; 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 4, 5, 7, 14; 4:2-10; 5:2, 6, 11; 6:9-11; 7:1, 2, 9, 13, 14; 8:2; 10:1, 3, 7; 11:3, 4; 12:1, 5, 7; 14:1, 3-6, 14-19; 15:1; 16:1-4, 8, 10, 12, 17; 17:1; 18:1, 21; 19:4, 7, 11-17; 20:1; 21:6, 9; 22:13. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History and Religion of America, pp. 83-101. Origen, On First Principles.)

Cosmic law. That law which governs mathematically, yet with the spontaneity of mercy’s flame, all manifestation throughout the cosmos in the planes of Spirit and Matter.

Cosmic Virgin. The Divine Mother, specifically in her immaculate awareness (cosmic consciousness) of our Divine Wholeness maintained on behalf of us allwe who are the children of her Sun Presence swimming in her cosmic womb. The Omega whose sound, “Om,” leads
to the soundless Sound behind all creation.

Cosmos. The universe conceived as an orderly, harmonious system; a complex orderly
self-inclusive system. All that exists in time and space including spectra of light, forces of bodies, cycles of the elementslife, intelligence, memory, record and dimensions beyond physical perceptionmathematically calculated as the evidence of things not seen as yet, but which do appear in the Spirit cosmos that coexists with and interpenetrates the Matter cosmos as a grid
of light. Our Mother’s Matter cosmos consists of the entire physical/astral creation of universes known and unknown. Our Father’s Spirit cosmos all around us veils the inner blueprint and motion of First Cause and causation by which worlds are framed and hung by his Universal Mind and the planes of effect (karma) in which we abide are sustained for a season.

Darjeeling Council. A council of the Great White Brotherhood consisting of Ascended Masters and unascended chelas headed up by El Morya, its chief, headquartered in Darjeeling, India,
at the Master’s etheric retreat. Members include Mother Mary, Kuan Yin, Archangel Michael, the Great Divine Director, Serapis Bey, Kuthumi, Djwal Kul and numerous others whose objective
is to train souls for world service in God-government and the economy, through international relations and the establishment of the inner Christ as the foundation for religion, education, and
a return to golden-age culture in music and the arts.

Decree. n. a foreordaining will, an edict or fiat, an authoritative decision, declaration, a law, ordinance or religious rule; a command or commandment. v. to decide, to declare, to determine or order; to ordain, to command or enjoin; to invoke the presence of God, his light/energy/con­sciousness, his power and protection, purity and perfection.

It is written in the Book of Job, “Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.” The decree is the most powerful of all applications to the Godhead. It is the “Command ye me” of Isaiah 45:11, the original command to Light, which,
as the “Lux fiat,” is the birthright of the sons and daughters of God. It is the authoritative Word
of God spoken in man by the name of the I AM Presence and the living Christ to bring about constructive change on earth through the will of God and his consciousness come, on earth as it is in heavenin manifestation here below as Above. The dynamic decree offered as praise and petition to the LORD God in the science of the spoken Word is the “effectual fervent prayer of the righteous” that availeth much. The dynamic decree is the means whereby the supplicant identifies with the Word of God, even the original fiat of the Creator “Let there be light: and there was light.” Through the dynamic decree spoken with joy and love, faith and hope in God’s covenants fulfilled, the supplicant receives the engrafting of the Word and experiences the transmutation by the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit, the “trial by fire” whereby all sin, disease, and death are consumed, yet the righteous soul is preserved. The decree is the alchemist’s tool and technique for personal and planetary transmutation and self-transcendence. The decree may be short or long and is usually marked by a formal preamble and a closing or acceptance.

(Job 22:28; Gen. 1:3; James 1:21; 5:16; I Cor. 3:13-15; I Pet. 1:7. See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Science of the Spoken Word. Jesus and Kuthumi, Prayer and Meditation. Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness, Sections I and II. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, chaps. 38-40. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Science of the Spoken Word: Why and How to Decree Effectively, 4-audio­cassette album. Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
“I’m Stumping for the Coming Revolution in Higher Con­sciousness!” 3-audiocassette album.
For audiocassettes of decrees, songs, mantras and rosaries, including decrees to Archangel Michael, El Morya and Lord Lanto and violet flame decrees, see pp. 465-66.

Desire body. See Emotional body.

Deva. (Skt. for “radiant being.”) Member of an order of angelic beings who serve with the elemental forces of nature, assisting them to perform their various functions. Angel devas are the guardian spirits of the mountains and the forests. They also ensoul and hold the matrix for the Christ consciousness to be outpictured by the people of a particular localecity, state, nation,
or continentor for a particular race, nationality, or ethnic group.

Diamond Heart. A concentration of the sacred fires of the will of God that coalesce as a diamond matrix in the hearts of devotees of God’s will, his divine plan and his inner (etheric) blueprint for all life. Hence, a term used to describe the heart of the Ascended Masters, angel devas, and chelas who embody the will of God; often associated with El Morya and Mary the Mother of Jesus. The Diamond Heart of God possesses the quality of the diamond, its hardness resisting every sinister strategy of the anti-Self and the anti-Will. At the same time it reflects the brilliance
of Love/Wisdom throughout the creationmagnifying and projecting the prismatic virtues
and charismatic powers of the Holy Spirit embodied by the ascended and unascended sons and daughters of God.

(See Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons, pp. 90-91. Mother Mary, “The Order of the Diamond Heart,” and Jesus, “The Hour of Thy Victory Draweth Nigh,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1987, vol. 30, pp. 629, 633-37, 640-46, 237 n. 9.)

Discipleship. The state of being an adherent of the Christ and of the Teachings of the Great White Brotherhood; the process of attaining self-mastery through self-discipline in the initiations of the Buddha, the World Teachers, and the Ascended Masters.

Steps of initiation in discipleship under the Living Word: (1) Student: Under this phase the individual studies, becomes a student of the writings and the teachings of the Master. He is free to come and go in his community, enjoying fellowship with his followers and the fruits of their dedication but has declared no particular responsibility to the person of the Master. He has taken no vows, made no commitment, but may be studying to “show himself approved” in order to be accepted as a servant, or co-server (otherwise known as “chela”), sharing the joy of the Master’s world mission. (2) Disciple (chela): The individual desires to enter into a bond with the Masterto be taught directly by the Master rather than through his published writings alone. The disciple answers the call of the Master to leave his nets of karmic entanglements and worldly desire and follow him: “Come leave your nets, I will make you fishers of men.” The disciple receives the initiations of the Cosmic Christ in the course of his service to the Master. His heart, mind, and soul have begun to unfold a greater love as appreciation and gratitude for the teachings received in the previous level of student. This love is translated into action as self-sacrifice, selflessness, service, and surrender to the Person of the Christ, the Sun behind the Son of man of the Master; when this step has been accelerated to the level of the “acceptable offering,” and the chela is engaged in balancing his threefold flame and his karma, he may be considered for the next step. (3) Friend: Those counted as friend of the Master enter by invitation“Henceforth I call you
no more servants but friends”into a relationship as companion and co-worker, bearing increased responsibilities for the Master’s path as world saviour. The friend bears the cross
as well as the burden of Light of the Master; he demonstrates the qualities of friendship as in the life of Abraham and other chelas who have risen to a level of understanding the very heart and the experience of the Masterproviding comfort, consolation, advice, and support out of loyalty
to both the purposes and the person of the Master. (4) Brother: The degree of brother is the level where the oneness of the Guru-chela, Alpha-Omega relationship is complete through the horizontal figure-eight exchange heart-to-heart; the Guru has actually made his disciple a part
of his own flesh and blood and offered to him the full momentum of his attainment and portions
of his mantle and authority in preparation for the Master’s ascension and the disciple’s assuming of the part or whole of the Master’s office. This is the love relationship exemplified between Jesus and John, his Mother, Mary, and perhaps his own flesh-and-blood brother (or cousin) James. (5) Christ, or Christed one: the Anointed of the Incarnate Word.

(II Tim. 2:15; Matt. 4:19; Mark 1:17; John 15. See Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons, chaps. 25-30.)

Divine Ego. Awareness of true selfhood in and as the Christ Self, the God Self, or the I AM Presence; the Higher Consciousness; the Source or Origin of man. One’s sense of selfhood
at the point of origination; Divine Monad.

Divine Manchild. The Manchild born to the Woman clothed with the Sun is the incarnation of the Universal Christ for the Aquarian age in the one and the many sons and daughters of God whose destiny it is to focus the Christ consciousness to the evolutions of earth. Lowercased, the term “manchild” refers to the child who has the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb, e.g., John the Baptist and Jesus.

(Rev. 12.)

Divine Monad. See Chart of Your Divine Self.

Divine Mother. See Mother.

Divine plan. The plan of God for the soul’s individualization of the God Flame ordained in the beginning when the blueprint of life was impressed upon the white fire core of the individual I AM Presence. The divine plan determines the limits of the individual expression of free will. As the acorn is destined to be the oak, so each individual soul is destined to realize the fullness of his preordained (but not predestined) potential drawn by free will from the Tree of Lifethe I AM Presence and the Causal Body. What that potential is and how it is to be self-realized in this life is known of God and can be released to the outer consciousness through application to the individual Christ Self, the I AM Presence, and the Great Divine Director.

Dweller-on-the-threshold. A term sometimes used to designate the anti-self, the not-self, the synthetic self, the antithesis of the Real Self, the conglomerate of the self-created ego,
ill-conceived through the inordinate use of the gift of free will, consisting of the carnal mind and
a constellation of misqualified energies, forcefields, focuses, animal magnetism comprising the subconscious mind. Man’s contact with the reptilian anti-magnetic selfthat is the enemy of God and his Christ and the soul’s reunion with that Christis through the desire body, or astral body, and through the solar-plexus chakra. The dweller-on-the-threshold is therefore the nucleus
of a vortex of energy that forms the ‘electronic belt’, shaped like a kettledrum and surrounding the four lower bodies from the waist down. The serpent head of the dweller is sometimes seen emerging from the black pool of the unconscious. This electronic belt does contain the cause, effect, record, and memory of human karma in its negative aspect. Positive karma, as deeds done through the divine consciousness, registers in the Causal Body and is sealed in the electronic fire-rings surrounding each one’s own I AM Presence. When the sleeping serpent
of the dweller is awakened by the presence of Christ, the soul must make the freewill decision
to slay, by the power of the I AM Presence, this self-willed personal anti-Christ and become the defender of the Real Self until the soul is fully reunited with Him who is the righteous LORD,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, the true Self of every lifestream on the path of initiation.

The dweller appears to the soul on the threshold of conscious awareness where it knocks to gain entrance into the ‘legitimate’ realm of self-acknowledged selfhood. The dweller would enter
to become the master of the house. But it is Christ and only Christ whose knock you must answerhim only must you bid enter. The most serious initiation on the path of the disciple
of Christ is the confrontation with the not-self. For if it is not slain by the soul who is one in the Christ Mind, it will emerge to devour that soul in the full-vented rage of its hatred for the Light.
The necessity for the Teacher on the Path and for the Guru Sanat Kumara with us, physically manifest in the Messenger of Maitreya, is to hold the balance both spiritually and in the physical octave for each individual initiate on the Path as he approaches the initiation of the encounterface-to-face with the dweller-on-the-threshold. The planetary dweller-on-the-threshold is personified in the forces of Antichrist.

(See Jesus Christ, “The Awakening of the Dweller-on-the-Threshold,” and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “Christ and the Dweller,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1983, vol. 26, nos. 36, 38. Pearls
of Wisdom, 1985, vol. 28, Book I, pp. 84, 85-93, 97; 1986, vol. 29, Book I, pp. 199, 203, 210-12; 1988, vol. 31, Book II, pp. 422, 456-57. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “The Lost Teachings of Jesus: On the Enemy Within,” 2 audiocassettes.)

Elementals. Beings of earth, air, fire, and water; nature spirits who are the servants of God and man in the planes of Matter for the establishment and maintenance of the physical plane as the platform for the soul’s evolution. Elementals who serve the fire element are called salamanders; those who serve the air element, sylphs; those who serve the water element, undines; those who serve the earth element, gnomes. See also Body elemental.

(See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain, 2d ed., pp.
444-70, 548-55. Saint Germain On Prophecy, Book Three. Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons, pp. 371-76. Violet Flame for Elemental Life–Fire, Air, Water and Earth 1 and 2, audiocassettes of decrees and songs.)

El Morya. The Ascended Master. Lord (Chohan) of the First Ray of God’s Will, Chief of the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood, founder of The Summit Lighthouse, teacher and sponsor of the Messengers Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The Master’s extraordinary devotion to God’s Word and Work is a powerful stream that runs throughout his soul’s incarnations on earth as he has stood staunch in the role of Advocate, Teacher, and Exemplar before our spirits soaring unto Love.

As the Rajput prince El Morya Khan, he worked closely with Kuthumi, Djwal Kul, Serapis Bey, Saint Germain and others to found the Theosophical Society in 1875. He was Abraham, the ancient patriarch who emerged from Ur of the Chaldees to become the prototype and progenitor of the twelve tribes of Israel. Returning as Melchior, one of the three wise men of the East, he followed the star that portended the birth of the best of his seed who would fulfill all the promises of God unto his spiritual descendants.

As Arthur, king of the Britons, he summoned knights of the Round Table and ladies of the court
of Camelot to quest the Holy Grail and to attain through initiation the inner mysteries of Christ. Appearing again on Britain’s soil as Thomas Becket as well as Thomas More, both martyred, he twice played the role of defender of the Faith and challenger of King Henryalso twice born (Henry II and VIII), and twice the oppressor. In the sixteenth century, his soul’s journey took him
to the East in the person of Akbar, greatest of Mogul emperors, and in the nineteenth to Ireland
to be her poet laureate Thomas Moore. In 1898 the renowned “Mahatma of the Himavat,”
El Morya Khan, ascended to the heart of God.

During the 1920s and 1930s the Ascended Master El Morya worked with Nicholas and Helena Roerich, who set forth his writings in numerous published works. In 1958 he called Mark
L. Prophet to disseminate the Teachings of the Ascended Masters as Pearls of Wisdom, published by the newly founded Summit Lighthouse. With Saint Germain and Mother Mary, he also trained Elizabeth Clare Prophet as his Messenger. Through the embodied Messenger he delivers the Teachings of the Universal Christ for the Aquarian age and conducts retreats
on practical spiritual techniques for meeting the personal and planetary challenges posed by the prophecies of Saint John’s Revelation. El Morya’s musical keynote, capturing the frequencies
of his Electronic Presence, was set forth in part by Sir Edward Elgar in his Pomp and Circumstance.

(See the following works by El Morya: The Chela and the Path; The Sacred Adventure; Morya: The Darjeeling Master Speaks to His Chelas on the Quest for the Holy Grail; Ashram Notes; Ashram Rituals, booklet and 2 audiocassettes; El Morya: Chohan of the First Ray,
2-audiocassette album. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven Rays, Book One, chapter 1; Book Two, chapter 1. El Morya, Lord of the First Ray: Dynamic Decrees with Prayers and Ballads for Chelas of the Will of God 1-4, audiocassettes. Hail to the Chief!
A Salute to El Morya, songs on CD and audiocassette.)

Elohim. (Plural of Heb. ‘Eloah,’ God.) One of the Hebrew names of God, or of the gods; used
in the Old Testament about 2,500 times, meaning “Mighty One” or “Strong One.” Elohim is
a uni-plural noun referring to the twin flames of the Godhead that comprise the “Divine Us.” When speaking specifically of either the masculine or feminine half, the plural form is retained because of the understanding that one half of the Divine Whole contains and is the androgynous Self (the Divine Us). The Seven Mighty Elohim and their feminine counterparts are the builders of form; hence, Elohim is the name of God used in the first verse of the Bible, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Serving directly under the Elohim are the four beings of the elements, “the Four Cosmic Forces,” who have dominion over the elementalsgnomes, salamanders, sylphs, and undines.

The Seven Mighty Elohim are the “seven Spirits of God” named in Revelation and the “morning stars” that sang together in the beginning, as the LORD revealed them to his servant Job. There are also five Elohim who surround the white fire core of the Great Central Sun. In the order
of hierarchy, the Elohim and Cosmic Beings carry the greatest concentration, the highest vibration, of Light that we can comprehend in our state of evolution. They represent, with the four beings of nature, their consorts and the elemental builders of form, the power of our Father as the Creator (the blue ray). The Seven Archangels and their divine complements, the great seraphim, cherubim, and all the angelic hosts represent the love of God in the fiery intensity of the Holy Ghost (the pink ray). The Seven Chohans of the Rays and all Ascended Masters, together with unascended sons and daughters of God, represent the wisdom of the Law of the Logos under the office of the Son (the yellow ray). These three kingdoms form a triad of manifestation, working
in balance to step down the energies of the Trinity. The intonation of the sacred sound “Elohim” releases the tremendous power of their God Self-awareness stepped down for our blessed use through the Cosmic Christ.

Following are the names of the Seven Elohim, the rays they serve on, and the locations of their etheric retreats: First Ray, Hercules and Amazonia, Half Dome, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Second Ray, Apollo and Lumina, western lower Saxony, Germany. Third Ray, Heros and Amora, Lake Winnipeg, Canada. Fourth Ray, Purity and Astrea, near Gulf of Archangel, southeast arm of White Sea, Russia. Fifth Ray, Cyclopea and Virginia, Altai Range where China, Siberia, and Mongolia meet, near Tabun Bogdo. Sixth Ray, Peace and Aloha, Hawaiian Islands. Seventh Ray, Arcturus and Victoria, near Luanda, Angola, Africa.

(Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6; Job 38:7. See Spoken by Elohim, Pearls of Wisdom, 1978, vol. 21. The Seven Mighty Elohim, “The Chalice of Elohim,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1989, vol. 32, nos. 9-15;
5 audiocassettes. The Seven Elohim in the Power of the Spoken Word, 4-audiocassette album.)

Emotional body. One of the four lower bodies of man, corresponding to the water element and the third quadrant of Matter; the vehicle of the desires and feelings of God made manifest in the being of man. Also called the astral body, the desire body, and the feeling body.

Etheric. Of or relating to the highest plane of the Matter cosmos, i.e., the heaven world. The etheric frequency and its correspondent plane of consciousness is the repository of the fiery blueprint of the entire physical universe.

Etheric body. One of the four lower bodies of man, corresponding to the fire element and the first quadrant of Matter; called the envelope of the soul, holding the blueprint of the divine plan and the image of Christ-perfection to be outpictured in the world of form. Also called the memory body. Sanat Kumara announced on New Year’s Day 1985 that the earth received a new etheric sheath containing the record and blueprint of the planet’s original divine plan and that the opportunity for the world to renew the golden age had never been greater.

(See Sanat Kumara, “The Turning Point of Life on Earth: A Dispensation of the Solar Logoi,”
in Pearls of Wisdom, 1985, vol. 28, Book I, pp. 60-61.)

Etheric plane. The highest plane in the dimension of Matter; a plane that is as concrete and real (and more so) as the physical plane but that is experienced through the senses of the soul
in a dimension and a consciousness beyond physical awareness. The plane on which the akashic records of mankind’s entire evolution register individually and collectively. It is the world of Ascended Masters and their retreats, etheric cities of light where souls of a higher order
of evolution abide between embodiments. It is the plane of reality, free from the sordid, sin/sick society men and devils have made of the earth planes. Here the golden age is in progress, Love is the fullness of God’s presence everywhere, and angels and elementals together with God’s children serve in harmony to manifest Christ’s kingdom in the Universal Age, worlds without end. As such it is the plane of transition between the earth/heaven realms and the kingdom of God, Spirit, or the Absolute. The lower etheric plane overlaps the astral/mental/physical belts. It is contaminated by these lower worlds occupied by the false hierarchy and the mass consciousness it controls, including its matrices and emotions of the mass consciousness (i.e., e-motions, “energies in motion”).

(See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “On Dealing with Death, Discarnates and Malevolent Spirits, Part III,” 4 audiocassettes.)

Evil. Energy-veil; the veil of misqualified energy that man imposes upon Matter through his misuse of the sacred fire; maya, illusion. The consciousness of relative good and evil, embodied by lifestreams moving against the current of God’s will, is the consequence of the freewill experiment adopted by souls who chose to descend in plane and consciousness below the level and frequency of the Christ Mind. Absolute Evil, embodied by fallen angels, is the state of those who declared war against Almighty God, his Christ and his offspring in the Great Rebellion, who have not ceased their warfare against the seed of the Divine Mother, will not bend the knee before the Light and will be defeated in Armageddon by the LORD’s Judgment through his hoststhe forces of Absolute Good, God-identified in heaven and earth. As a consequence
of the victory of Light over Darkness, souls who have lost the Edenic bliss may be saved from all evil and the Evil One by conscious freewill election in Christ to return to his reign under the Law
of God.

(See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Origins
of Evil; “Keys from Judaism: The Kabbalah and the Temple of Man,” Part 4: “The Origin of Evil,” 1-hr. TV show on video.)

Four lower bodies. See Bodies of man, Physical body, Mental body, Emotional body, and Etheric body.

Free will. The freedom to create; the option to choose the right-or the left-handed path, Life
or Death, the positive or the negative spirals of consciousness. Having the gift of free will, the soul may choose to dwell in the plane of the relative, where good and evil are relative to one’s perspective in time and space; or she may choose the plane of the Absolute, where Good is real and Evil is unreal and the soul beholds God as living Truth “face-to- face.” Free will means that the individual may accept or reject the divine plan, the laws of God, and the opportunity to live in the consciousness of Love.

God’s gift of free will carries with it a certain span of consciousness known as the life span,
a series of embodiments, and the “bounds of man’s habitation.” The soul, therefore, is not only confined to time and space during the period of her experimentation with free will, but she is also limited to a certain number of life cycles. At the end of this opportunity (compartmentalized
in days, years, and dimensions), the use that the soul has made of the gift of free will determines her fate. The soul that has chosen to glorify the Divine Ego (Reality) ascends into the Presence
of the I AM THAT I AM. The soul that has chosen to glorify the human ego (unreality) passes through the second death, her Self-denying consciousness permanently self-canceled; and all
of her energies, simultaneously passed through the sacred fire, are returned to the Great Central Sun for repolarization.

(Rev. 20:6, 11-15; 21:8; Acts 17:26.)

Gabriel. See Archangel.

Gautama Buddha. See Buddha.

Goal-fitting. A term used by El Morya, Chohan of the First Ray, to describe the fitting of the evolving soul consciousness for the goal of reunion with God; a process of discipline and initiation through service and application of the sacred fire that souls preparing for the ascension undergo under the loving direction of the Ascended Masters.

(See The Chela and the Path for the Master’s funda­mentals on goal-fittedness for meeting the challenges of the twentieth century.)

God consciousness. The consciousness, or awareness, of one’s true self as the manifestation
of God; the awareness of the I AM THAT I AM, or the I AM Presence, in and through and beyond oneself in universal manifestation; the ability to maintain this conscious God
Self-awareness–omnipotent, omniscient and omni­presentwherever oneself, as Being, is
and declares in the fullness of the Light, ”Lo, because Thou art, I AM.” The state of God
Self-mastery whereby one maintains this vibration in Divine Wholeness of the Alpha-Omega principle in the planes of Spirit-Matter. The plane of God’s consciousness is the kingdom of God. And all who dwell therein (beyond the earth/heaven realms) are truly extensions of God’s own consciousnessonly his in the highest expression of Love. See also Cosmic consciousness.

(Ps. 82:6; John 10:34.)

Goddess of Justice. See Portia.

Goddess of Liberty. The Ascended Lady Master who holds the God consciousness of liberty for the earth. While embodied on Atlantis, she erected the Temple of the Sun where Manhattan Island now is. With the sinking of Atlantis the physical temple was destroyed, but the etheric counterpart remains on the etheric plane, where she continues to focus the flame of liberty on the central altar, which is surrounded by twelve shrines dedicated to the twelve hierarchies of the Sun. The Goddess of Liberty (so named for her complete and wholehearted identification with God’s flame of liberty, her God consciousness of liberty) is the Spokesman for the Karmic Board and represents the Second Ray on that board. Her statue on Liberty Island (formerly Bedloe’s Island) in New York Harbor portrays the figure of Longfellow’s “Lady with a Lamp,” whom he prophesied “shall stand in the great history of the land, a noble type of good, heroic womanhood.” She is the archetype of the Woman clothed with the Sun and the new-age womaninspiring the nations
to illumined action by the torch of illumination and the Book of the Law. (See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Lost Teachings of Jesus II, softbound, pp. 181, 251-52, 332, 487; or pocketbooks, Book Three, pp. 144-45, 231-33; Book Four, pp. 46, 237-38.)

Goddess of Mercy. See Kuan Yin.

God Flame. The flame of God; the sacred fire; the identity, being, and consciousness of God
in and as the white fire core of being. Moses declared, “For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire.” Wherever the flame of God is or is invoked by his offspring, the sacred fire descends
to consume (transmute by its white fire and Seventh Ray action, the violet flame) all unlike itself. From the sacred fire of Ahura Mazda revealed by Zarathustra, to Jesus’ baptism by the Holy Ghost “with fire,” to the apostle’s perception of the trial by fire, to the eternal flame of the sevenfold lights of the Hebrews, all children of the One who would return to the flame have revered God’s flaming Presence and beheld him in the very midst of the Shekinah glory. And in their hearts they accept the reality of his promise unto the soul, the waiting Bride, “For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.”

(Deut. 4:24; Matt. 3:11, 12; I Cor. 3:13-15; I Pet. 1:7; Exod. 25:31-40; 37:17-24; Zech. 2:5.)

Godfré Ray King. See Ballard, Guy W.

God Presence. See I AM Presence.

God Self. See I AM Presence.

Golden age. A cycle of enlightenment, peace, and harmony wherein the souls of mankind merge in the Christ Flame for the fulfillment of the divine plan “as Above, so below.” Through the convergence of the etheric plane and sheath with the three lower vehicles of the earth body and her evolutions, the heavenly kingdom will come into manifestation on earth as it is even now in the etheric octave. See also Etheric body.

(See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, “The Golden Age of Jesus Christ on Atlantis,” 2 videocassettes;
2 audiocassettes.)

Great Central Sun. See Central sun.

Great Divine Director. The Ascended Master whose attainment of cosmic consciousness qualifies him to ensoul the flame of divine direction on behalf of earth’s evolutions and untold lifewaves beyond. Founder of the House of Rakoczy, Teacher of Saint Germain, sponsor and Manu of the incoming seventh root race, this Cosmic Being maintains a focus in the Cave of Light in India and in his retreat in Transylvania, the focus of freedom for Europe. The Great Divine Director represents the First Ray on the Karmic Board. He is also known as the Master R. (See the Great Divine Director, “The Mechanization Concept,” in Pearls of Wisdom, 1965, vol. 8, nos. 3-26, also published as The Soulless One: Cloning a Counterfeit Creation.)

Great Hub. See Central sun.

Great White Brotherhood. A spiritual order of Western saints and Eastern adepts who have reunited with the Spirit of the living God and who comprise the heavenly hosts. They have transcended the cycles of karma and rebirth and ascended (accelerated) into that higher reality which is the eternal abode of the soul. The Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood, united for the highest purposes of the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God, have risen in every age from every culture and religion to inspire creative achievement in education, the arts and sciences, God-government and the abundant Life through the economies of the nations. The word “white” refers not to race but to the aura (halo) of white light surrounding their forms. The Brotherhood also includes in its ranks certain unascended chelas of the Ascended Masters. Jesus Christ revealed this heavenly order of saints “robed in white” to his servant John in Revelation. See also Cosmic hierarchy.

(Rev. 3:4, 5; 6:9-11; 7:9, 13, 14; 19:14. See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History and Religion of America.)

Hierarchy. See Cosmic hierarchy.

Higher Self. The I AM Presence; the Christ Self; the exalted aspect of selfhood. Used in contrast to the term “lower self,” or “little self,” which indicates the soul that went forth from and may elect by free will to return to the Divine Whole through the realization of the oneness of the self in God. Higher consciousness.

Holy Amethyst. See Zadkiel, Archangel.

Holy Christ Self. See Christ Self.

Holy Spirit. Third Person of the Trinity; the omnipresence of God; the cloven tongues of fire that focus the Father-Mother God, also called the sacred fire; the energies of Life that infuse
a cosmos. In the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the Holy Spirit corresponds
to Shiva, known as the Destroyer/Deliverer because his all-consuming Love, when invoked in the planes of Matter, binds the forces of evil and transmutes the cause and effect of man’s miscreations, thus delivering him from the prison house of karma and its dark denizens. Prana
is the essence of the Holy Spirit that we take in by the sacred fire breath through the chakras
to nourish the four lower bodies. The Holy Spirit focuses the balance of the Father-Mother God
in the white fire core of being. The exorcism of foul spirits and unclean entities is accomplished by the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit in the name of Christ and the I AM THAT I AM. The nine gifts of the Spirit are powers conveyed to the Lord’s servants to bind death and hell and work his works on earth.

The Person and the Flame of the Holy Spirit is the Comforter whom Jesus promised would come when our Lord took his leaveto enlighten us, to teach us, and to bring all things to our remembrance that beloved Jesus has taught us, both in heaven and on earth. Each time a son
or daughter of God ascends into the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM, the Holy Spirit descends
to fill the void and to magnify the Lord’s Presence on earth. This is the ritual of the descent of the Holy Ghost promised by Jesus to his disciples when the Master said, “Tarry ye in the city
of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high,” which took place on Pentecost.

The representative of the flame of the Holy Spirit to earth’s evolutions is the Ascended Master who occupies the office of Maha Chohan. The Holy Spirit is the Personal Impersonality (see pp. 74-75) of the Godhead and is positioned on the west side of the City Foursquare. See also Chart of Your Divine Self.

(I Cor. 12:4-11; John 14:16, 26; 16:7; Luke 24:49, 51; Mark 16:19; Acts 2:1-4. See Mark
L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain, 2d ed., pp. 386-88, 408-44, 555-62; The Lost Teachings of Jesus II, softbound, pp. 158-63; or pocketbook, Book Three, pp. 116-22; Lords of the Seven Rays, Book One, pp. 15-20; Book Two, pp. 277-97.)

Human consciousness. That consciousness which is aware of the self as humanlimited, mortal, fallen, sinful, subject to error and the passions of the sensesand therefore declares with the Son of man: “I of mine own (human) self can do nothing. It is the Father (the I AM Presence) in me that doeth the Work of the LORD.”

(John 5:30; 14:10.)

Human ego. That point of the personality which embraces the human consciousness and all that
it stands for as true selfhood; the anti-self, the synthetic image. Nevertheless, the positive ego, successful and having a healthy self-image, is the very vital ingredient that enables the human
to fearlessly reach for the Divine Ego, step by step letting go of itself, forsaking the past until that human mask is no longer a vice or device. And pure joy as radiant being becomes one’s new definition of selfhood and perspective on Reality. It is proverbial that a healthy ego is essential
to a healthy surrender unto Godthe true and only Ego of us all.

Human monad. The entire forcefield of self, the interconnecting spheres of influenceshereditary, environmental, karmicwhich make up that self-awareness which identifies itself as human. The reference point of lesser-or non-awareness out of which all mankind must evolve to the realization of the Real Self as the Christ Self.

I AM Presence. The I AM THAT I AM; the individualized Presence of God focused for each individual soul. The God-identity of the individ