October
20 to Christmas
October
20, the date associated with the Ascension of Terrah,
is the beginning date of our Chronological Initiatory Year. New
prophecies are given, old prophecies explained, and new Power
released according to how well we passed Initiations since August
10. October 20 opens a cycle in preparation for Power to come
through beginning November 20.
November
1 opens the Joy Month.
Commentary
and Joy Questionnaires
October
25, 1938
Cleveland, Ohio
Steadfastness
is the required virtue for all Christmas Initiations. Also, greater
Surrender in Selfless Sacrificial Service.
The
key Words for your full expression for these weeks shall be: Harmony,
Glory of Soul, Peace of Heart, Tranquility of Mind and Divine Energy,
quickening and vitalizing everything you do. These five shall give
you freedom from self and an open door unto full Soul Expression.
These
shall be Feast Days and Initiation Days and Days of Atonement,
or reaching your own Cosmic “tone” or “chord” of
Harmony.
The
Father has placed limitless Power, Substance,
Life and Light at my command and use. According to my Faithfulness
it will go forth and return to me as my own.
1.
How then shall Substance, Life and Light return to me?
2. What have I sent forth?
3. How have I impressed this Substance?
4. How have I established it?
5. What form have I decreed for it?
6. What is my pleasure in these gifts?
7. What is my Joy for this year?
8. How wise in use am I, and how much Glory shall I achieve?
January
9, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
The
Initiations are held all week before Christmas Eve. Each night
for three weeks previous, you serve two and three hours a night
Initiating, and your work is part of your Initiations. How well
you do it counts. Some grow overbearing and crack down when put
in as Initiator, and some grow weak and soft when the three words
to remember are: Sweetly, Firmly, Finally.
October
20, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Where do I stand? Of the Light? In the Light? As the Light?
2. Is my heart lukewarm or in a golden glow of Power?
3. Is my mind stayed upon fulfillment of those miracle vibrations
opened and started now?
4. Do I still ask “why?” (Every time I do, I delay my return
to full Light.)
5. When will I be ready to learn all old lessons and move forward on my Path
of Destiny, foreordained by my past service of rendered Vows made unto God?
6. When shall my Father record my Vows Eternally?
7. How long have I held myself back by weak Vows, so filled with self that
my Father cannot record them fully?
October
26, 1939
Buffalo, New York
1.
When shall you be ready to learn all old lessons and move forward
on the Path of Destiny, foreordained by your past service of
rendered Vows made unto God?
2. When shall the Father record your Vows Eternally?
3. How long will you hold yourself back by Vows so weakly made because yet
so filled with self that your Father cannot record them fully?
4. Are you ready to use Holy Breath only as Holy Breath?
5. Are you ready to color all the earth in the fullness of Holy Breath’s
Glory?
6. Are you ready to give up the self? To see the puny, weak self crucified
upon the crossbar of each hour’s making?
7. You use your soul substance to fashion self, crossbar, nails and also
nail yourself upon it. Why?
8. Is it rather not better to use all of your soul substance as Glory, to
Glorify your Father which is in Heaven? To make your Kingdom one of Light
and Glory? To make yourself after your Father’s Divine Pattern, given
in His high Mount?
November
14, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
Go
into a State of Grace from tonight on, getting ready for the 21st
of November. This opens the Joy Vibration of the Month of Messiahs.
The Joy must mount until the Holy Birthday. It is a month of retreat
in the Realms, and then the burst of Joy.
The greater your Novitiate’s sacrifice of self and surrender to be used
by all Power, the greater an instrument you can become. This is yours to determine.
Now is the time for true penitence, sacrifice and remission of darkness through
true repentance. Go to your Penthouse Sanctuary and assume your Mission as
Sons and Daughters of God. Consecrate yourself anew to the full Service of
the Father during the coming pre-Joy month days.
Read the Master’s Parable of the Ten Virgins. Watch in the Joy of the
Joy-month. Pray and Praise in this Joy.
Give the Father’s Joy in service, give it in understanding. Carry it
to all His Children. See what it will do for you. It will do much. It will
lighten your heart. You will become happy. With light hearts, you will look
forward and never back — always forward toward the goal you are attaining — perfection.
To become perfect, it takes a long time. Many of the Master’s Children
are still attaining after perfection.
Watch at all hours for enemies of self. Watch and pray in the fullness of Joy.
Prayers of Joy rise higher, are stronger to release Power of Life, of Light,
of Substance than are those made in hurt of grief and tears of loneliness.
December
11, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
Has
my desire cooled? Or am I ready to follow in surrender to all Power?
My path is to “agree with thine adversary” instantly! Even
to holding myself and no other for blame or guilt, then moving in every direction
to make it right. There is no turning back, no blaming even when and where
blame is due.
This is the secret of success in fulfilling all Initiations: Never speak of
blame. Never permit blame spoken. Take all and lift all.
I may stop at any time and hold all credits or I may climb to the Source, my
choice.
Orders
for Attaining a State of Grace
1.
Go over all past Vows of self, in Retreat, alone.
2. Remake Vows according to present capacities.
3. Make a full new surrender.
4. Decide what is worthwhile in this life and what is not.
5. Eliminate that which is an anchor, a burden, bondage.
6. Make clear the way and open a place for new strength, new ideas, a new
design of life for the New Age opening at the close of the Cycle of the Joy
month, December 21, midnight.
7. Start a Temple cleansing. A change of mind, Heart and purpose. A body
cleansing for making a fitting habitation for the Indwelling God.
November
8, 1940
Buffalo, New York
Use
these same key words for the Raising of your Vibration through
the Season of Joy, through the weeks of Rebirth: Resurrect, Vitalize
and Quicken. Take advantage of this Season’s Release of
Power. Resurrect all old darkness during the next two weeks,
then prepare to Vitalize and Quicken all your affairs with Joy.
1. Walk softly before God.
2. Speak gently before men.
3. Keep your Golden Silence of high things.
4. Make wise speech under need to defend Truth, not self.
5. Hearken unto God’s Orders, impressions or Voice.
6. Heed all Commands, Laws.
7. Follow the Master under all circumstances.
8. Obey all Wisdom-Love-Selflessness.
9. Give Sacrificial Service.
10. Be sweet in all Light.
11. Be firm in all Principle.
12. Be final in Lifting all darkness.
These
will fulfill the Law of Love in your life.
September 2, 1941
Buffalo, New York
For
Initiation work during All Souls Initiations and Joy Rebirth Initiations,
until Christmas Morning. Read and ponder at least twice each day.
1.
Am I now in continuous Joy?
2. Has Joy been my constant and ever-ready companion at all times?
3. Have I used only Joy since Easter?
4. How am I using the fullness of the Joy Vibration of the only Son of God?
5. Have I committed any darkness with the Joy Vibration
during the summer play?
6. Have I allowed Joy to possess me fully, mind, heart, body and Soul?
7. Am I surrendered only unto Joy?
8. Does Joy only possess me to the closing out of all else?
9. Does Joy express as me under all conditions,
every hour, every day?
10. Have I covered all my transgressions and all others’ with
the Joy released through me as Love unquenchable?
11. a. Has Joy become my only consideration?
b. Does it ascend to the Father at all times?
c. Does it turn all tears into Praise?
d. Does it cause me greater Faith of God?
e. Is Joy my only gift to God and man?
December
30, 1946
Cleveland, Ohio
Joy
is that quality that sings in your heart and throbs through you.
1.
Would I rather have the world's sympathy than always live in
joy or always be the joy-full one?
2. Have I surrendered completely to be possessed by Joy? Am I eager to be
possessed by Joy?
3. Am I lukewarm to Joy? Am I mostly indifferent to Joy?
4. Have I reached my own ideal of Joy? Am I satisfied with the present amount
of Joy using me?
5. Have I waited for Joy to come to me as my own from the outside world of
people and conditions?
6. Have I used enough Joy for the past hour, day, week, month?
7. Do I know what the spirit of Joy truly is and how to contact it?
8. Do I consider it my duty to live by Joy alone?
9. Is Joy and its fullness my ultimate goal?
10. Have I given enough Joy to the Father as my only gift I have worth giving
Him?
11. Is Joy my own precious Pearl of Great Price?
12. What have I within the self that I may dig out and give up to make room
for the full outpouring of Joy?
13. Is anything of earth worth aught in comparison to the Master's bestowal
of the Gift of Joy?
December
1, 1955
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Where do I find God?
2. How much do I love God the Supreme?
3. How much do I love and how great is my devotion to the Son of God?
4. What is my desire in service?
5. From what heights shall I do my lifting back into the Light of both individuals
and conditions?
6. Do I know that the Light lifts with one easy, less-than-instant recognition?
OR
7. Do I think that I must by recognizing it repeatedly, recreate it for further
lifting to give me credits in lifting?
8. Who gets the credit?
9. Who wants the credits for surrendering and being used by the Light?
10. After one recognition and invoking of the Power and Light, how often
should the lifting to a cloud and declaring perfection be repeated?
11. How often should I declare it good and very good?
12. Do you know when the good work of the Power starts? (Instantly.)
13. What determines the length of time needed for the miracle? (Not only
in the height of surrender of the Queen but in the completeness of the marriage
of the subsoul to egoic soul. If it is but a trial marriage, it may take
years.)
Christmas
to Twelfth Night
The
Heavenly Councils “hold” the level of Power to see
what we do with it, and how we operate on full Power. If the Power
is too great for us to stand strong, they cut it back as needed.
On December 18th and 19th there are Initiations in preparation for Winter Solstice.
Ask yourself questions. Make out your own Questionnaire of past limitations
and ask yourself if any “taint” of self is remaining. You shall
free earth of all taints of self. Go to your early beginnings and put all blame,
criticism and irritation at anyone in the Shaft of Fire. Leave no taint of
yourself on the surface of anyone’s aura.
Christmas
to Twelfth Night Commentary and Questionnaires
November
3, 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
Until
Twelfth Night, we are going through a cycle called Master’s
personal Joy Initiations. Twelfth Night is a great Feast Day and
both the ending and beginning of our year.
We are in preparatory work. What we do during the next two months determines
our status next year. Each month we go through 144 steps of twelve virtues.
The virtues we live are our own. Those we are reliving now are the ones we
have gone through in the past. It is our privilege to make up credits. It is
not punishment, but a privilege to make up our credits.
On Twelfth Night we begin forty days of soul inventory. The more rejoicing
you do now, the better. Soul inventory means a just appraisal of your goal.
1.
How active do you want to be?
2. How many prayers and statements do you want to assume as your responsibility?
Not from the teeth out, but a personal thing.
3. What do you want to accomplish physically, mentally, emotionally, and
spiritually?
4. How obedient to Law can you be?
5. Have you reached a point where everything going on in the world is Light?
The
closer you get to Light, the lighter things become on the outer.
Our sensitivity is now greater. In our just appraisal of past during
soul inventory, you also plan the future. You oversee the mental
and emotional and that determines the physical. On Ash Wednesday
you are supposed to know what you want to sacrifice. “I know,
I stand, I hold in Light” are your magic words.
November
13, 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
What do I bring first to everything I am called
upon to do? (Light.)
2. What am I doing this for?
3. Am I interested in it?
4. What is my good judgment on this?
5. What do others need to know?
6. Do I realize the ability of Love to expand all life?
7. Do I want to help God?
8. How high do I want to ascend into the Light?
9. How open do I want my eyes?
10. What degree of Light do I occupy? Do I know?
11. With what degree of Light am I satisfied?
November
22, 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
How high is my temperature of love today?
2. Have I held a special need higher?
3. Have I put into my devotion all I can?
4. Has my love of God and my devotion lifted me higher because I have called
upon more Light this week than ever before? (God accepts what we give. But
if you are satisfied, you are missing something.)
5. How dedicated a day can I spend?
December
10, 1970
1.
Can I increase the glory of my giving, of my releasing of Power
a thousandfold?
2. What orbit am I prepared to move into?
3. Am I drawing upon the Source for Light’s fullness?
December
14, 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Don’t you think time has come for true soul repentance?
2. Why make the blunders and pray for the record to be erased at night?
3. Do you feel any closer to your Source than you have in other years?
From
Twelfth Night to Ash Wednesday are forty days of Soul Inventory.
Our plans for next year should already be written in the soul records
over our head. We can go to the Hall of Records to see what we
have achieved in credits during the past month, but we always have
grades to make up. So what are you going to do about it? Begin
now. Watch your words. Have your code ready: “I repent. I
accept. I ascend.
Twelfth
Night
January
12 is our spiritual New Year. The Heavenly Councils announce new
appointments, changes and promotions, present Scrolls of Destiny
to all Ascending Souls in Heavenly Temples, and set the keynote
for our year’s service and expansion. They reset and “tune” our
Life-Chords (harmony vibrations; they tune our nerves exactly as
we tune musical instruments). We must be in a State of Grace, which
is an attitude of acceptance and surrender, Oversoul kneeling before
high, Holy Thrones in reverence and awe, devotion and praise, while
expressing Joy and Compassion to the world.
Twelfth Night to Ash Wednesday is forty days of
Soul Inventory. If we have not fully lived the Power, we repeat
the October 20 to Christmas Cycle. Councils credit all gains and
repetition is solely for overcoming weaknesses uncovered at this
time. During three days of Twelfth Night Initiations (January 11-13),
they may give new prophecies and we may receive higher Illumination.
They step up Power again. Each day is a Day of Judgment in just
appraisal of gains, in preparation for sacrifice of self during
Lent.
Twelfth
Night to Ash Wednesday Commentary and Questionnaires
January
30, 1939
The
rod to measure by are all the Laws received for the following of
the Via Christi Way — the Way of the Light of the Godhead.
Use your measuring rod.
1.
Do I then measure to the full height of my Rod of Power?
2. Do I follow fully the Path of the Rod of Power?
3. Do I express the full Stature of the ones who do follow fully the Pathway
of the Christs, who follow as they surrender to become the full Stature of
a God?
4. In all ways, do I act the full Stature of the Christ?
5. Do I express the full Stature in my words, my tone of voice?
December
11, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
How do I return to God the great Light, which He has given me?
2. How do I return the Power of all Substance I have used as Light?
3. How do I return the Time He has given me for use and filling? As Light?
4. Have I done my duty toward clearing of darkness Time I have filled, squandered,
or neglected to fill?
5. Have I used every moment of every hour in full Surrender of Self?
January
22, 1941
Buffalo, New York
1.
We are Creators. What are we creating?
2. We are Conquerors. Are we conquering our own weaknesses?
3. We are strong in the Power of God. Do we know this in all moments of doubt?
Instantly?
4. We are gods. Are we expressing our God-like qualities?
5. Are we an “ensample” of God’s Majesty to the world?
6. Do we “stand under” when our brother falters?
(Understand.)
7. Do we magnify the Christ in our brother? Do we exalt the Christ in our
brother? Or do we magnify and exalt the things about our brother which we
do not like, thus giving them life and making it harder for our brother?
8. Do we gather ‘round our brother when he is at fault,
to lift him and strengthen him, or do we gather our skirts
aside lest we become contaminated by the weakness we use our God-eyes to
see, our God-ears to hear, our God-tongue and lips to speak about?
These
are daily, yes, hourly questions for the Initiate of the Christ
life to ponder. These are the weaknesses which hold us back in
our climb upward as Creators.
January
20, 1942
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Do I know how good God really is to me here and now?
2. Do I realize that He has opened His Kingdom to me completely and my only ‘admission
fee’ is effort?
3. Is this too great a price to pay for the privilege of using His Joy, His
Love, His Faith, His Wisdom, His Understanding?
4. Do I express my Faith of God as confidence in His ability to perform Miracle
upon Miracle?
5. Do I express Joy over having all His Life to use every
hour of every day?
6. Do I truly live my best every hour?
7. How often do I “forget” that God is “closer than breathing,
nearer than hands and feet?”
January
26, 1942
Buffalo, New York
1.
Am I sure that I have kept faithfully all my Vows for the past
year?
2. Am I certain I have never cooled off? By listening to the crabbing, whining,
selfish complaints of another? By allowing anyone on earth to cause me doubts
of confusion?
3. Have I entertained thoughts of withdrawing from God’s Elect? Have
I entertained these thoughts? Have I allowed any other’s words, ideas,
actions or counsels to cause me to stand still in release of Power?
4. Am I fully determined now in my own mind to make my stand alone, if need
be, on the Truth of the Elect? Do I accept, even without understanding, if
need be, the Mysteries of the Elect?
5. Am I ready to search my own Soul for weaknesses now hidden from me in
the Subsoul?
6. Am I now ready to assume the fullness of the Sacrifice of all self to
be ascended truly unto my Father?
7. Am I now ready to accept my own responsibility to stand and uphold the
First Pillar, releasing Love and declaring everyone perfect, even though
I have to stand alone?
8. Am I ready to assume my own share of responsibility for world Karma?
9. Am I my brother’s keeper? (His lifter at all times to pay his debts
to Law?)
10. What are my Vows? Do I know?
11. Can I truly say: “I belong in every way to the Light.” Or
do I withhold parts of my self?
12. Am I always in joy?
13. Am I always in the Light?
14. Am I always in love with God?
15. Am I always ‘looking up?’
16. Am I always lifting up?
17. Is my tongue always tipped with Love?
18. Do I recognize any darkness only to instantly lift? Or do I consider
it and speak of it?
19. Do I Praise at White Heat at all times? Have I done this the whole year?
20. Do I Desire more perfection for my coming year? Honestly?
21. Am I ready, truly ready to Ascend?
22. Am I ready to answer all questions, search my subsoul for hidden things
of weakness, search my Soul for pride of intellect, place or things, re-make
all my Vows and do all this with all the strength of ability that in me now
resides? And am I ready to do my best, seeking a greater best each day, to
fulfill all my Vows?
January
12, 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
These
questions must be answered from every portion of life:
1.
You are to be enfolded into the Whole. What are you taking into
the Whole? “What am I taking home to the Father?” You
take yourself.
2. Do you think you should be returned to a High Place on what you think?
3. What kind of a person are you taking? One who believes as the Father believes,
as He views Creation and is making it good?
4. Are you contributing to the good? “Is this good?” How
can it be made into the good of God unless under the spoken Word of God?
So, every act has a payment. Do you know this? Someone has to pay all the
debts before the enfoldment can come.
5. Do you expect more miracles? Add your share of “This
is good!” You are not asked to see what the “good” is in
it. The Power should be released. Just declare it good, and “Let there
be Light,” and the Power goes forth to all places to pay debts to free
people to ascend.
Lent:
Ash Wednesday to Easter
Ash
Wednesday opens Lent, the Season of the Sacrifice of Self in Joy.
In Joy we make sacrifices of all negative spiritual, mental and
emotional expressions to conquer the little self
Lenten
Commentary and Questionnaires
March 16, 1936
Buffalo, New York
1.
Have you kept your Silence?
2. Have you kept your Vows?
3. Have you treated your body as a Temple of the living God?
4. Have you instantly held every thought, emotional desire, imagination up
in the Light?
5. Have you instantly turned on the Light for all darkness?
6. Have you given your days to God at night as they were given you in the
morning?
February
7, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
Use
these Statements through Lent to build a Vibration of Lifting for
the World:
1.
My Yoke hath become the Yoke of Light and Love and it leadeth
me into rest and comfort of Soul.
2. My Peace hath become that Peace which is from my Source, and it keepeth
me in Safety now from all disturbance and confusion of earth. I am become
Peace and very Peace.
3. Behold, I am now become aware of my Source–Light. It shines through
me upon my World. It overcomes all darkness found within and without. It
is my ever-present help and my Servant.
4. I am now a perfect Servant of my Lord and Master. His Power moves through
me and my Service Glorifies His Name.
5. I am standing before my Father in freedom of Soul from all darkness. Let
Light shine in me forevermore unto the further glorifying of my Father.
6. My creations are all good and very good. I am now determined to make this
all Truth in my expression of Life.
7. Standing before the Throne of All Light, hear my Vows, oh Father, and
send Thy Life forth as me. Praise and Love unto Thee forevermore.
February
29, 1940
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Who makes a good steward in God’s house? One who is alert
and ever watchful over the Father’s business.
2. Who makes a good member of the Temple? One who fulfills all obligations
under the command of service.
3. Who makes a good pupil in any class? One who is attentive to teachings
and in harmony with the Master.
4. Who makes the greatest gains through Temple teachings? One who offers
the greatest, selfless, sacrificial service.
5. What are your beliefs?
6. What do you get from our work?
7. Is it worth your effort? Time spent?
8. Are you bored? Discouraged by delay?
9. Do you think some unworthy, even within your own group?
10. Are you the only chosen one?
11. Do you hold yourself above all others?
12. Are you humble in your own heart?
13. Are you ready and willing to give outer place to all others?
14. Do you think only upon the things of good repute?
15. Do you dwell upon the sins of others?
16. What have you sacrificed this Lent?
17. What have you given up of the world?
18. Have you found the Master’s Pathway too hard to follow?
19. Would you lose all last year’s gains?
20. Would you have demotions into life rather than promotions into Higher
Life?
Choose. Now.
February
13, 1941
Buffalo, New York
1.
Have I played keeper for my brother’s sin? (If I constantly
see another in sin, I am keeping his sin and paying his debt
as well as my own.)
2. Have I given up looking at darkness, considering it, loving it and contemplating
it in myself and others? (If I condemn myself and others, I am doing these
things.)
3. Have I found the true Way of the Christ? Do I doubt or hold fast to the
new Light on my Path of Love?
4. Do others annoy me? Where are my eyes and ears? Why am I following their
weaknesses instead of God’s strength? Why am I contemplating my “little
self” and worshiping it? Why am I pandering to it by wanting everyone
else to be perfect? (I operate on myself now until I can no longer be bothered
by anything but the Light.)
5. Do I desire freedom? What kind? For what use? To lord it over another?
To crack down on another? Or to see only the Light, leaving all others alone
to follow their own Light?
6. What are my plans in the coming year of service? Are they onward and upward
or am I trying to drag some dead issue of self along with me? Are my plans
large enough?
7. Have I been satisfied with my allotted time for prayer, praise, treatments
and my very Golden Silence during the past year?
8. Is my earth now completely lifted into Heaven?
9. Am I impersonal when I discuss things with another, either soul things
or world things? Or do I grow indignant, impatient or take remarks personally?
10. What is my idea of true Poise and where do I find it? (Peace and Patience
are the offspring of Poise and Power.)
11. What is my idea of self-mastery? Is it controlling self or conquering
self by sacrifice and lifting?
12. Do I live by the Virtues or by any old thing that panders to my petty
emotions? Do I live by joy, faith, love, compassion, praise, understanding,
prayer, the Golden Silence and all other Virtues?
13. Do I feel perfectly satisfied over my past year’s following of
the Via Christa? Or do I have room for improvement?
14. Have I truly let go of my past? Am I forever separated from it? Or do
I hold it by the tail and bring it back again and again? What is choice and
what is separation?
15. Have I sunk down from letting the Light do the work and using me into
forcing my will at any time? (Impatience is a form of forcing.)
16. What are my soul desires now? Do I have more and greater soul desires
than last year?
17. Have I made my new plans? Am I ready to move in and do?
18. Have I released enough Love substance through my creations?
19. Have I been complete Joy?
20. Have I agreed with the Light first? (I do this by declaring, “This
is Good. Let there be Light.”)
21. Am I now fully delighted only in the Law? (I never judge another, knowing
that the Law takes care of everything.)
22. Am I completely, to the full forgetting and the exclusion of everything
else, only in love with God?
January
26, 1942
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Am I sure that I have kept faithfully all my Vows for the past
year?
2. Am I certain I have never cooled off? By listening to the crabbing, whining,
selfish complaints of another? By allowing anyone on earth to cause me doubts
of confusion?
3. Have I entertained thoughts of withdrawing from God’s Elect? Have
I entertained these thoughts? Have I allowed any other’s words, ideas,
actions or counsels to cause me to stand still in release of Power?
4. Am I fully determined now in my own mind to make my stand alone, if need
be, on the Truth of the Elect? Do I accept, even without understanding, if
need be, the Mysteries of the Elect?
5. Am I ready to search my own Soul for weaknesses now hidden from me in
the Subsoul?
6. Am I now ready to assume the fullness of the Sacrifice of all self to
be ascended truly unto my Father?
7. Am I now ready to accept my own responsibility to stand and uphold the
First Pillar, releasing Love and declaring everyone perfect, even though
I have to stand alone?
8. Am I ready to assume my own share of responsibility for world Karma?
9. Am I my brother’s keeper? (His lifter at all times to pay his debts
to Law?)
10. What are my Vows? Do I know?
11. Can I truly say: “I belong in every way to the Light.” Or
Do I Withhold Parts of My Self?
12. Am I always in joy?
13. Am I always in the Light?
14. Am I always in love with God?
15. Am I always ‘looking up?’
16. Am I always lifting up?
17. Is my tongue always tipped with Love?
18. Do I recognize any darkness only to instantly lift? Or do I consider
it and speak of it?
19. Do I Praise at White Heat at all times? Have I done this the whole year?
20. Do I Desire more perfection for my coming year? Honestly?
21. Am I ready, truly ready to Ascend?
22. Am I ready to answer all questions, search my subsoul for hidden things
of weakness, search my Soul for pride of intellect, place or things, re-make
all my Vows and do all this with all the strength of ability that in me now
resides? And am I ready to do my best, seeking a greater best each day, to
fulfill all my Vows?
These
Questions shall be part of each day’s work. Earnestly seek
to better yourself, your disposition, your ability to Love, to
declare everyone perfect, yet lift any unlikeness to God the instant
it appears.
March
3, 1943
Buffalo, New York
Another
Lent is here. What have you planned as your sacrifice of self for
soul’s attainment? What have you determined to give up as
a gift to the Father? This is the time of soul-cleansing. Think
not to attain with lip-service. Rather seek what you may give up
to God. All that self which interferes with your Soul’s Desires
may be laid upon the Altar now. Why hold fast to that self which
limits your release of Power?
Free yourself, now and forever. You can. Give up, then, all that limits you,
even now surrender all self.
February
22, 1944
Buffalo, New York
To Be Used Twice Each Day
1.
How much Love have I exercised since one season of a year has
passed?
2. Have I dawdled or been in any disobedience to Law?
3. Has my time all been of redeemed time? Or has it been fulfilled time?
(All time unfilled with praise of Light goes forth as unfulfilled time.)
4. How about my “waiting in the High Place upon the Lord?”
(Only Love can be counted as “waiting upon the Lord.”)
5. How about that completed Unity within myself, of Love, Wisdom and Selflessness?
(This is the only Unity there is or can be. When these three are United, then you
are fully, forever, entirely God-conscious
forever, and never can depart from it.)
6. Have I fully nourished and sustained my own Creations all the past year?
Or have I allowed them to become pale and anaemic and die for lack of nourishment
of Praise?
7. Have I kept all my Priestly Vows intact? To protect all others, forgetting
self in such service? To cover all the transgressions of all others while
loving them as egoic souls born of God, and not seeing them as Sons of men? Forgetting my
own past hates, delays, lukewarmness? Forgiving all my own
transgressions while pressing on to that State of Grace in Perfection?
8. Am I “using Power” in all manner of “missing the mark,” or
am I “being used by” the Power in Grace, Love, Faith and Glory?
9. Am I polishing all three stages of my life? The Physical— in keeping
Lenten Vows and my pure Neophyte Vows. The Emotional, by the keeping of all
Lenten Vows? The Mental, by the keeping of all Spiritual-Lenten Vows?
Use
each day, morning and night
February
28, 1946
Cleveland, Ohio
Enter
this Lenten Season on bare feet. Search your Soul for any last,
lingering doubts or fears, laziness or dawdling. Search your heart
for any self-pity that still abounds, all too much of it.Read the
Lenten Vows and then pray for the world in full love.
1.
Do you feel that your year’s heat has been great enough?
2. Do you feel that thou hast done all possible to bring form visible for
God, each other and the world?
3. Have you used enough Substance, Power, Light as Praise, Joy, Love, Faith?
4. Can you redouble all efforts along all lines?
5. Are you ready now for complete fulfillment of each promise?
6. Do you know Love as the Master knows Love?
7. Do you know Love as God knows Love?
February
11, 1952
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Can I bear greater Power, which does bring with it an ever greater
responsibility upon earth?
2. Do I desire to be used by an ever-increasing Power? If so, then you shall
be used, greater Power shall move through; you shall be found in love with
God, for only through love can Law be fulfilled. (Only those of upright faith
can ever be found worthy to release greater Power. This worthiness must be
embedded well in the heart to be steadfast enough to hold true.
3. Am I in love with God?
4. Am I ready for greater love?
5. Am I ready to be used by greater Power?
6. Am I ready to love more greatly that I may be used for greater Power?
March
6, 1958
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Am I tired of serving God?
2. Do I want to go to the Councils and ask for an easy place?
3. Am I tired of living with my family?
4. Am I bored with my teacher because I do not live up to the lesson? “I
am feeling a little sorry for myself. I am misunderstood. I am tired of taking
all the blame.”
5. Do I want to give up my present place and position for ease or to just
follow worldly ways?
6. Do I expect God to set aside these rigid Laws to please me?
7. Have I decided to live the rest of my life on both sides of the fence?
8. Do I reserve the right to declare some things dark and some things Light?
9. Do I expect others to conform to my way?
10. Do I reserve the right to expect and demand of others?
11. Do I think I should be the exception and have Law modified in my favor?
12. Would I prefer standing where I am as well as I can with what I know
now and comprehend as well as I can or live again another lifetime to work
it out?
13. Is this right, my desire?
14. Just what do I mean when I say I would like to be perfect?
15. What is the meaning of all?
16. Why do I evade my full responsibility?
17. What makes me say, “I am not all to blame. It is hard to live with
the other fellow. The other fellow is partly to blame, too. Why should I
do all the giving up?”
February
9, 1964
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
How much is my All?
2. How great is my sacrifice of self?
3. Can I expect all my desires to be fulfilled where I hold out bits of self
to the self?
4. How great is my desire for a purified selfless service?
5. How good is good? And what does the term mean?
6. There are two “goods”: Good for me and good for God. By which
am I running my present course, and on which am I basing my life?
Holy
Week
Palm
Sunday opens Holy Week and a Power release that reaches
a climax on Easter morning.
Easter is
an evaluation date. Councils double released Power if sacrifices
are over-sufficient, and soul conquering is done in Joy and rejoicing.
Easter
Questionnaire
March 28, 1947
Buffalo, New York
1.
Am I in blame of another? Of self? (I place myself high above
earth for purification.)
2. Am I willing to pay the debts of each member of my family? Of friends?
Of all others?
3. Am I ready to be ever responsible for all about me?
4. Am I asking credits? For Service? For doing what is a duty?
5. Am I truly free of self? Do I live by Soul?
Easter
Questionnaire
April 4, 1947
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Am I ready to assume full responsibility for all family, Group
and friends, to lift them constantly and let Light move forth
through me to pay their debts?
2. Am I ready to assume all blame for all disobedience about me, to ever
silently lift the one disobeying?
3. Am I seeking praise? Am I desiring credit for service, inner or outer?
4. Am I ready to serve in silence?
5. Am I always obedient to all Laws? Is my faith unconquerable, my courage
unshakable and unalterable?
Holy
Week Preparation
March 18, 1949
Buffalo, New York
Pray
and ponder every question.
1.
Am I free of gossip?
2. Am I free of criticism (of any of God’s children, high or low, government
or personal)?
3. Am I free of all hate (general or specific, strong or modified)?
4. Am I free of unforgiveness? (Do I remember anything against
another? If I do, then I am unforgiving. To forgive is to forget.)
5. Am I in bondage to self?
6. Do I use only the Love of God every second, minute, hour, day, week, month?
7. Do I holy only the Faith of God? (Do I adulterate Love and Faith with
a negative?)
8. Do I express only Beauty of mind, of heart of body?
9. Do I surrender to be possessed only by Light at all times?
10. Do I ascend into the Fire until I never come out but am fully God-conscious
forever and a day? Now?
Holy
Week Preparation
March 8, 1950
1.
Have I yet a doubt of any kind within my Heart or my Mind?
2. Have I any fear of anything above or below in my Heart or my Mind?
3. Am I in use of hasty words?
4. Am I first in any darkness, negative, before standing in the Light?
5. Do I have to remind myself to be in Faith? In Joy? In Praise?
6. Of twenty-four hours a day, how many am I
A — Light-conscious?
B — Joy-conscious?
C — Praise-conscious?
D — Miracle-conscious?
(If
I need to remind myself to look up, to Praise, to be joyous, then
I am in fear and doubt. Or worse, in hate, resentment, rebellion,
pride or self-pity.)
Holy
Week Orders
March 24, 1958
Buffalo, New York
Read:
Matthew 26:20-46.
Ponder the Seven Last Words: Luke 23:34, John 19:26-27, Luke 23:43, Mark 15:34
, John 19:28, John 19:30, and Luke 23:46.
Easter
to Ascension Day
Power
is redoubled in preparation for Pentecost. Pondering what Ascension
means now pays the greatest dividends of the whole year in Illumination.
Only Illumination from a high Source can dissolve the “mists
of matter” that lie between earth and the different Realms
of Heaven, which veil the Mysteries of the Universe, lest too much
Power destroys us. The Lights are on us after Easter to see wherein
we need lifting.
Questionnaires
and Commentary for 40 Days of Ascension
April 7, 1947
Buffalo, New York
1.
What gain has Lent brought me?
2. What outstanding lesson have I learned?
3. What is my full desire for Ascension?
4. What do I most need to let go of during the 40 Days of Ascension?
5. What do I most need to remember to use during the 40 Days of Ascension?
6. Am I ready for greater responsibility?
7. Am I ready to use greater silence to gain more of heavenly matters?
Your
keynote for the first ten days is “I surrender.” God
calls His best beloved to stand in trying places because there
are trying places where someone must stand, and
the careless and indifferent are not great enough for such service.
Every Initiation opens a new basement and the Power seems to decline. Climb
to the Heart of Light so that you may dress your creations in garments of Light.
The more garments of Light you can add to your creations, the faster they enter
manifestation. This is the keynote to the 40 Days of Ascension.
March
21, 1948
Buffalo, New York
The
way is opened for you. You have made your own present hardships
for yourself in past lives. You are foolish enough to make more
now by many and diverse ways of thinking, feeling and imagining.
Yet, you cant win easily by becoming all Diligence, all Honor of
God, by continued complete Surrender of self.
You make a complete surrender each day, yet each further day that completeness
is higher, greater, nobler. Therefore, continue to make each day’s complete
Surrender ever greater. So shall you Ascend. During ‘Ascension Days,’ read
this often and Pray.
This, then, is your choice: How long shall I take for the complete Releasing
of Power — my share for Earth lifting — into the world? Shall I
take the whole year, playing, resting and pampering the ‘little self,’ or
shall I accomplish this by Ascension Thursday?
New
Ascension Vow
March 21, 1948
Cleveland, Ohio
By
the noble effort of the Love I bear my God, by the perfection of
mine own release of the Power of Love, by the Faithfulness of my
heart and my mind to the love of God, by the Compassion of the
Mother Love through me upon my duties, my service and my lifting,
by my fervor and my Joy, so shall I be aid in the fulfillment of
all our so-great desires. I am now Vowed and rededicate and reconsecrate
my life anew to be used by my Father. So shall I look UP for the
strength to fulfill my Vows. Amen.
April
15, 1971
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Am I in love with God?
2. Am I offering praise 1,000 times an hour to God, who holds earth?
3. Am I ready to make a stand for the Glory of God?
4. Where does the line of responsibility end? (There is no end, but it cannot
be taken in and spewed out.)
5. Do you love God more today than you did yesterday?
6. Do you think God is closer now than He was last month?
Ascension
Day to August 10
Masters
and Guards are under heavy vows not to interfere with or give suggestions
to their charges on earth during this period. The Councils sustain
the level of Power released. At Ascension Day, Councils decide
whether we get diplomas or must retake the same Initiations. At
Pentecost, we are placed under full Light to see if we hold our
gains.
Ascension
Commentary and Questionnaires
August
1, 1938
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
What does it profit me to gain a point of earth in desire for
self exaltation and lose place, even a degree, in Heaven?
2. What does it profit me to be found exalted in reputation on earth and
in such way lose character of Soul in Heaven?
3. What does it profit me to be found in Truth on earth when it shall cause
offense in tears in another?
4. What does it profit me to stand in the ways of the mighty of earth in
Service, if in the heart of that one there remains one thing to wound one
of the least of God’s children?
June
14, 1939
Buffalo, New York
1.
Am I in better control of my wandering thoughts?
(Stand as a strong Creator god.)
2. Am I able to control my speech?
(Agreeing and Adjusting)
3. Am I better able to hold my imagination upon perfection?
(What am I seeing about everyone else? I can’t see the other fellow,
who is mean, as perfection; I have to put him on a cloud before I can see
him as perfection.)
4. Am I greater in my confidence in the faithfulness of the Father to fill
all promises?
5. Or do I trust only in the promises of men?
6. Am I fully nourishing all my own creations?
7. Is my tongue silver-tipped and my voice of the tones of the Golden Silence?
8. Do I hold my full contact continually with the Light?
9. Do I trust myself fully at all times in my use of God’s Light?
10. Do I love my neighbor as myself; how do I love myself?
(Do I love myself as an expression of perfection and my own soul and my Oversoul
high enough to want absolute perfection? The Oversoul grieves all the time
until it is withdrawn if we keep getting ourselves into a mess.)
During
the summer, we are credited with the holding of our position. Our
soul-flights will be in comparison with our ability to hold fast
and make a little progress every day. If we release Power to cover
something we have done (overcome), it gives us higher soul-flights.
We are earning new robes and crowns for our November Initiations.
July
12, 1939
Cleveland, Ohio
Remember
to follow the four Words given for the summer: Harken, Heed, Obey,
Follow. Apply them according to your present understanding of Law.
Lights will be turned on at each test, trial or temptation to judge
the next step in advance.
1.
Am I using or releasing the Power?
2. Is my Light pure Light or is the Light that is in me part darkness?
3. Is my desire to enter fully into the High Gates a complete and perfect desire?
Is it but a half-desire?
4. Am I doing my full share of making the world Light?
5. Can I release more Power? More Light?
6. Can I use more Love? More Praise?
7. Does my understanding cover all the shortcomings of others?
8. Is my Creed fully love? Or only partly Love?
May
3, 1940
Buffalo, New York
1.
How is it with my soul’s welfare?
2. Have I seen and believed?
3. Have I heard and harkened unto that which I have heard?
4. Have I turned unto God wholly?
5. Have I heard only to discard?
6. Have I praised for release, for healing?
June
21, 1970
Cleveland, Ohio
1.
Have you a personal measuring rod for your love?
2. Have your compassion and love increased during this past month?
3. Have you surrendered more to be used by the Power?
4. Have you surrendered enough for the Power to use you?
God keeps a record, but it does no good unless you copy it.
5. Is your devotion great enough to hold?
August
10 to October 20
August
10 is the date set for lifting accumulated darkness,
as force and misused soul substance, from earth and the minds
and hearts of men. August 10 sets the keynote of Power for Initiations
until Easter, when full Glory is released. During three days
(August 9-11) of Initiations, Councils award credits, and we
reevaluate our Vows of Conquering. We remake the vows we have
not paid, in preparation for the Period of Temptation. The period
between August 10 and October 20 is for the recapitulation of
Law.
August 10 to October 20 is called the Period
of Temptation. Councils step up Power, daily, as much as we can
stand. The amount of Power released through us is “set” by
midnight, September 19, and not increased until after November
1. This is the year’s great Initiation Period, and our Guards
return, actively guiding us according to our needs. They send
initiators to us, using outer conditions as the temptation to
uncover weaknesses. The year’s credits are totaled and added
to our Chronological Heavenly Chart. We will find the year’s
prayed for miracles visible. Prayers should increase in fervor,
for often only a little more prayer substance will make visible
the desires of the heart.
October
20 Preparation Commentary and Questionnaires
August 25, 1938
Washington, D.C.
1.
Am I pleased with all my actions and speech?
2. Have I been fully tolerant of all? Or have I been found in lack of tolerance?
3. How do I stand in Service this day?
4. How much of the little self have I made into sacrifice?
5. Is there blame in my heart for anyone on the outside, and if so, why should
it so be?
August
14, 1939
Washington, D.C.
1.
Am I honestly glad to see my neighbor happy?
2. Am I glad my neighbor prospers?
3. Do I say where they get these things?
4. Do I make the open avenue of suspicion for another?
5. Do I try to dress better than my neighbor?
6. Do I go to church just to show my neighbor, then go home and criticize
other who go to church?
7. Do I encourage the attitudes of my neighbor’s family to hold him
(or her) as an ensample for their family, or to cause discontent and disharmony
in the lives of others? Causing disharmony is something you have no coin
of the realm for which to pay. To be the cause of disharmony in another’s
home is a curse on the creator of the disharmony.
September
8, 1939
New York, New York
1.
How is it with my soul?
2. How is it with my faith?
3. Is my Faith of God, the very greatest thing in my life?
4. Is my vision upwards at all hours?
5. Is my vision forever one with the vision of God?
6. What do I see as my full portion?
7. Is there any lack in my vision?
8. Am I open to all the Life my Father has given me now?
9. Where am I when the Father calls me into Joy, or Faith or Love or Life
or Light?
