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On the Heart

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Contents
Heavenly Pearls for the Soul....................................4

Introduction
Increasing our Capacity to Love..............................6

The Transformation of the Heart............................8

Questions and Answers

With Elizabeth Clare Prophet.................................10

The Arrow and the Song

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow................................13

The Heart Center.......................................................14

Meditations in the Lotus of the Heart..................16

Mantra of the Month................................................18

Meet the Masters
Rose of Light...............................................................20
Lanello..........................................................................22

About Elizabeth Clare Prophet..............................24

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 Send out love,
And love multiplies,
Gathering more of its kind.
It returns as a bouquet of roses
on our doorstep. We’re reaping
what we’ve sown.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet

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 Heavenly Pearls for the Soul

I n such a fast-paced world, it becomes necessary to take time to step outside hu-
man drama and obligations to inspire and renew ourselves. Our quest for spir-
ituality, and a deeper meaning for living, begins to fall behind our human worries,
until we learn that we can incorporate profound spirituality into the practicalities of
our world. Spirituality matters most and reveals its best face in our daily lives. Mark
and Elizabeth Prophet’s lifelong goal was to help everyone to realize more of that
loving essence hidden in the human heart.

Spiritual masters, East and West, understand that most people are searching
for a deeper meaning for their existence. Beyond the orthodoxy and separation of
religious teachings, a deep unity underlies all religion and spirituality. The Hindu
yogi, the Taoist sage, the Buddhist monk, and the Christian or Jewish mystic—all
have valuable lessons to teach us. And we can and should learn from them, one
and all. We should feel as comfortable reading the Hindu Bhagavad Gita as we are
reading the Holy Bible or the Buddhist scriptures. We should feel as comfortable
meeting the Dalai Lama as we would meeting the Pope!

The Heavenly Pearls for the Soul are commonsense guides to spiritual growth.
They were created with excerpts from publications and lectures by Elizabeth and
Mark Prophet as well as from the teachings of the greatest of spiritual masters of
the ages. These Pearls teach us to weave the messages of our Highest Self into our
everyday thoughts, feelings, and actions. The stories, lectures, anecdotes, and tech-
niques for self-mastery can help us see ourselves and the world around us through
new eyes.

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 And perhaps most importantly, they will show us how refreshing it is to laugh
at our own humanity. As Mark used to say, “It’s okay to be human as long you
remember you’re divine.”

It is the vision of the masters that we discover the golden thread which creates
unity out of religious diversity—the realization that each of us can experience our
own intimate relationship with our Higher Self.

Inside each of us resides a beautiful divine spark. We just need to look for it.

The spiritual quest, though

challenging, should be fun
and practical.

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 Increasing Our Capacity to Love

O ne day, very early in the morning, midst streets full of the sleeping, home-
less poor of India, Malcolm Muggeridge accompanied Mother Teresa to the
Calcutta railway station to see her off.

“When the train began to move,” he said, “and I walked away, I felt as though I
were leaving behind me all the beauty and all the joy in the universe. Something of
God’s universal love has rubbed off on Mother Teresa.”

Something of God’s universal love had rubbed off on Muggeridge as well. For
those who embody the living flame of love are transformers—they transform what-
ever they touch. In Muggeridge’s case, the crusty and agnostic English journalist was
utterly changed by his encounters with Mother Teresa, whom he
first interviewed in the 1960s. “To me,” he
wrote, “Mother Teresa represents, essen-
tially, love in action....In a dark time she is a
burning and a shining light.”

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 No matter who you are, no matter what your calling, you too can be a trans-
former of love. You can touch another heart and many other hearts who are waiting
just for you—souls who will respond only to the unique expression of your heart.

When you get right down to it, there is nothing more important than increas-
ing our capacity to love. A disciple once asked Gautama Buddha, “Would it be true to
say that a part of our training is for the development of love and compassion?” The
Buddha replied, “No, it would not be true to say this. It would be true to say that the
whole of our training is for the development of love and compassion.”

The apostle John said essentially the same thing in his beautiful exposition on
love: “This is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one
another....He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” If God is love and we
were made in the image and likeness of God, as both Genesis and the scriptures of
the East tell us, then at our very core we too are love. God created the universe so
that we—and he—could experience more of the wonders of that love.

That is why most, if not all, of the critical issues in our life revolve around the
innate need to give love and to receive love. All transformation begins with heart
perspective.

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 The Transformation of the Heart

A lchemists of old are best known for their experiments to transform base
metals into gold. But many alchemists were also explorers of the spirit whose
experiments were aimed at finding keys to spiritual transformation and eternal life.
They were attempting to transform the base metals of their lower self into the gold
of their highest potential.

Alchemy is self-transformation, the kind of change that is essential to spiritual

growth. As Jelaluddin Rumi, Persia’s greatest mystical poet, writes, “The alchemy of a
changing life is the only truth.”

The master alchemist and adept Saint Germain teaches that the point of reali-
ty is the heart and that the key to understanding the reality of any situation is heart
perspective. “Centered in your heart,” he says, “you can see all things as they are.”

Heart perspective is consciously thinking, feeling, acting and breathing through

the heart. Whatever you do, even if it’s serving someone a cup of tea, it can be an
extension of your heart. Heart perspective will change the way you treat others, the
way they treat you, and the way you treat yourself. Heart perspective invites hones-
ty and breeds compassion.

A wise monk was once asked by his companions what they should do if they
saw a fellow monk snoozing during prayer time. “Should we pinch him so he will
stay awake?” they asked. The monk replied, “Actually, if I saw a brother sleeping, I
would put his head on my knees and let him rest.” That’s heart perspective.

When we have heart perspective, we are committed to keeping a warm, open

place in our heart where someone who is in pain feels safe to enter. Heart perspec-

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tive is that creative genius that looks for ways to inject love into every challenge. It
inevitably finds a unique and higher solution to a knotty problem.

In his book Legacy of the Heart, Wayne Muller relates a Vietnamese folktale that
shows how a change in perspective can turn a seemingly impossible situation into
an opportunity to give and receive more love. “In hell, everyone is given an abun-
dance of food, and then given chopsticks that are a yard long,” writes Muller. “Each
person has all the food they need, but because the chopsticks are too long, the food
never reaches their mouths.

“In heaven, the image is exactly the same: Everyone is given an abundance of
food, and their chopsticks are also a yard long. But in heaven, the people use their
chopsticks to feed one another. A single act of compassion can instantly transform
hell into heaven.”

We have plenty of opportunities to practice heart perspective. In a competitive

world where so many people feel compelled to go straight for the jugular vein, we
have the opportunity to go straight for the heart. You may be thinking, you may be
speaking, you may be feeling, but see yourself doing all of this through your heart
until you feel as though it is your heart (and not your head or your ego or your de-
fense mechanisms) that is thinking, speaking and feeling. This takes practice, but it
can be done.

Through heart perspective we consciously make an effort to relate to the

beauty of the soul and not to the idiosyncrasies of the outer personality. We try not
to judge another, for we never know what burden she is carrying—or whether we
are correctly interpreting her actions. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote,
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we
call a man cold when he is only sad.”

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 Questions & Answers

With Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Q: What is true compassion?
A: In order to answer that question, we have to make a distinction between
compassion and sympathy. We tend to use those words interchangeably, but in or-
der to understand the subtleties involved in developing the heart chakra, it helps to
make this distinction: Compassion comes from the level of our Higher Self and gives
to another what he or she really needs in that moment. Sympathy comes from the
level of the lower self and stands in the way of what the soul really needs.

Sympathy allows us to feel sorry for ourselves, to indulge our weaknesses, to

slide into a “woe is me” slump. Sympathy validates that sense of victimization rather
than helping us see our challenges as opportunities. In the aura, sympathy shows
up as a syrupy dripping of energy from the heart and as spirals of energy moving
downward, which eventually drag down the emotions and soul awareness as well.

Compassion, on the other hand, dips into the pure fires of the heart to uplift
others so they can realize their full potential. Compassion supports the process of
soul refinement. Compassion doesn’t leave someone who is hurting where it finds
him.

It’s okay to support a child, a friend or a loved one, but when our caring cush-
ions them from learning their lessons and growing from them, we aren’t doing them
any favors. Sometimes those we love the most need a dose of reality, a wake-up call.

There is another difference between compassion and sympathy. Sympathy

can be overbearing or smothering rather than supportive. We can’t force a flower

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to blossom by pulling apart its leaves or by overwatering it. But we can make sure
it has enough (and not too much) air, water, sunlight, food—the right environment
and the right nutrients. Having done that, we can only let go and allow the flower
to unfold according to its own inner timetable and inner strength. The same thing
applies to the souls in our care.

Letting go is sometimes so hard. When our children are first beginning to walk,
we want to guard them from getting hurt and give them the support they need. Yet
it’s so essential to let them try and try again until that first step is entirely their own.
The same is true for all the steps we take in life. No one can do it for us, and we can’t
do it for anyone else.

Questions for you!

Do I tend to offer compassion in the form of support
and realism, or do I give sympathy by indulging or
smothering?
Am I able to let go when I need to and let others take
their own steps forward?
How can I turn sympathy into compassion more
often in my life?

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 Love opens the
hearts of flowers

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The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 The Heart Center
T he heart center is the most important energy center in the body. It is the hub
of life, physically and spiritually. Just as oxygenated blood from our lungs is
pumped by the heart to the rest of the body, so the energy we receive from God
passes through our heart chakra before it moves on to nourish the other chakras
and systems of our body.

As energy passes through your heart chakra, it takes on its imprint—the unique
vibration and quality of your heart. “As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he,” says
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Proverbs. If the motive of our heart is pure and we are intent upon giving love, kind-
ness and compassion to others, then the energy flowing through our heart chakra
will go forth to bless and energize.

If, on the other hand, the energy that emits from our heart chakra is impure—
if it is tainted with selfishness, hatred or dislike—all of our chakras can suffer. That’s
why it’s so important to begin our meditations and spiritual practices by clearing
and balancing the heart.

A lot of people today talk about centering in the heart, speaking from the heart,
acting from the heart. But there are some misconceptions about what that looks
like.

Real love is not sentimental or passive. It is strong and it is soft. And, as the
mystics tell us, it is eminently practical.

The Sufi poet Rumi, for instance, wrote, “Someone asks, How does love have
hands and feet? Love is the sprouting bed for hands and feet!” Mother Teresa would
have agreed with this wholeheartedly, for out of her love was born an all- consum-
ing service to others. Love, for her, was an essential part of the drama of everyday
life. “We do no great things,” she explained. “We do only small things with great
love.”

The mystic Saint John of the Cross said the goal of life, our ultimate union with
God, can only be achieved through this “living flame of love.” Because the heart cen-
ter and its love fires are so essential to our physical, emotional and spiritual vitality,
the initiations and lessons that involve the heart are some of the most profound we
will ever encounter.

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 Meditations in the Lotus of the Heart

T he ancient yogis believed that there was an actual center of spiritual con-
sciousness, called ‘the lotus of the heart,’ situated between the abdomen and
the thorax, which could be revealed in deep meditation. They claimed that it had
the form of a lotus and that it shone with an inner light. It was said to be ‘beyond
sorrow,’ since those who saw it were filled with an extraordinary sense of peace and
joy...

If the body is thought of as a busy and noisy city, then we can imagine that, in the
middle of this city, there is a little shrine, and that, within this shrine, the Atman, our
real nature, is present. No matter what is going on in the streets outside, we can always
enter that shrine and worship. It is always open.
—Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood

The supreme heaven shines in the lotus of the heart. Those who struggle and
aspire may enter there. Retire into solitude. Seat yourself on a clean spot in an erect
posture, with the head and neck in a straight line. Control all sense-organs. Bow down
in devotion to your teacher. Then enter the lotus of the heart and meditate there on the
presence of Brahman*—the pure, the infinite, the blissful.”
—Kaivalya Upanishad

The lotus of the heart, where Brahman resides in all his glory—that, and not the
body, is the true city of Brahman. Brahman, dwelling therein, is untouched by any deed,
ageless, deathless, free from grief, free from hunger and from thirst. His desires are
right desires, and his desires are fulfilled.”
—Chandogya Upanishad

16 * Brahman is the Ultimate Reality, the Absolute

 Mark and Elizabeth Prophet teach that the lotus of the heart is the heart
chakra. The spark of life is anchored in the secret chamber of the heart of the sons
and daughters of God and the children of God. The spark of life is known as the
threefold flame. It is the sacred trinity of power, wisdom, and love that is the mani-
festation of the sacred fire.

Lead Us from the Unreal to the Real

There is a light that shines Beyond all things on earth,
beyond us all, Beyond the heavens, beyond the highest,
the very highest heavens. This is the light that
shines in our heart!

O Thou that art manifest,

be Thou manifest to us:
From the unreal,
lead us to the Real;
From darkness lead
us to Light;
From death lead us to
immortality.
—the Upanishads
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 Mantra of the Month

A mantra is a brief prayer that is given over and over again to develop the
momentum of a particular virtue within the soul. The word mantra is taken
from the Sanskrit, meaning “sacred counsel” or “formula.”

Today in the West, many people have a difficult time meditating because their
minds are so busy. To compensate for this, we give mantras during our meditation.
The mantras help us focus on words and on word pictures and visualizations. As we
meditate and give these mantras, we are becoming one with the object of our con-
centration. The mantra can keep the mind in line.

Increase your heart’s capacity to love!

Give the following mantra for five minutes daily, and feel your spirit become
filled with love, wisdom, and power!

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Om Mani Padme Hum
(Pronounced Om Mah-nee Pud-may Hoom)
Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus!

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 Rose of Light
The ascended lady master Rose of Light represents the spirit of Woman and the spirit
of Mother in the New Age. By her attainment, she governs the unfoldment of the heart
chakra and the expansion of the light through the threefold flame.
Rose of Light’s assistance to spiritual students is to develop the action of the heart
and to make the love of the heart an “open door which no man (no manifestation of the
human) can shut.”
She says: “Thus, I come again, and my mission is to come and to stay with you, for
Saint Germain has called me to be your special mentor of the heart. Therefore, I bring my
angels of the rose of light, and we place upon your heart chakra the thoughtform and the
manifestation of the rose of light unfolding petals that are multiplying the twelve of the
heart chakra. You may have a thousand-petaled rose of the heart chakra, beloved, for the
petals increase by mercy’s flame and compassion and wisdom....
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* Enlightened spiritual beings who once lived on earth, fulfilled their reason for being, and have reunited with their Highest Self
 “The Opening of the Rose of the Light”
Excerpts from a message by Rose of Light
Excerpts from a Message by Rose of Light

By Love is there wisdom; indeed, there is! And in the perfect balance of Love and
Wisdom there must be a magnet for God’s will and for the return of God’s power unto all.
Thus, I begin by counseling you to breathe out the fragrances of Love and Wisdom
through the heart; and sense when you breathe out, beloved, that you are sending this
Light around the world to circle it and to return to you multiplied in kind. [deep inhalation]
Now exhale but visualize the sacred breath passing out through the heart and see
it as a mist that is truly a sacred fire tinged with golden pink, sending a missile of hope
throughout the planet...
Therefore you have heard the admonishment “Guard the heart. Guard the secret
place of the heart. Guard the beating of the heart. Guard the bird of the heart.”
The heart must be protected, beloved. Let not the heart be jolted or jostled or over-
come by anything beneath or above. Practice, therefore, stillness in the heart, peace in the
heart, strength in the heart and God-centeredness in the heart.
Think about how you think of yourselves in your bodies. Where are you in your body,
beloved? You may have feeling in the extremities. You may concentrate greatly in the mind
or the third eye. But I say, find the center of equipoise in the heart and feel yourself re-
sponding from that point and that center. Feel yourself in perfect balance in that center.
But, above all, our most important exercise will be loving–loving by illumined action
and by a conveyance of the heart and by the rejoicing in the eternal sweetness of the
Sweet One positioned above, as this cosmic being of light does overshadow the sangha of
the Buddha neath the Western Shamballa.
May the radiant smile of the Divine Mother be upon your face, be the twinkling of
your eyes and be the smiling of many an angel through you who shall greet those in need...
I await your tug on my sleeve or apron or skirt. Let me help you become the fullness
of the flowering of the rose of light.

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 Lanello
The ascended master Lanello was recently embodied on earth as the twenti-
eth-century mystic and messenger for the ascended masters, Mark L. Prophet. The
history of Lanello’s mission is the story of a soul seized with a passion that is the love
of God.

“Ours must be a message of infinite love and we must

demonstrate that love to the world.”

“I say, the saga of your lives—of many of you—is beautiful to behold, for you have
indeed won in small ways and in great ways...So keep on striving for the light, striving
for the right, and know that I, Lanello, walk with you each step of the way.

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 “Open Your Heart”
Excerpts from a Message by Lanello

Now, beloved, I would commune with your hearts. Open your hearts to me and I will
give you the elixir of my heart. Do not be afraid. I shall give you of my heart even as I gave
you of my heart when I was with you in embodiment. I never closed my heart to you. Do
not close your heart to yourself or to those nearest you.

Open your heart this day with courage. Open your heart. Let the heart be wound-
ed... Let the heart be wounded. Let it know pain. And continue to go deeper and deeper
and deeper in the well of your own being.

Do not be afraid, beloved, for the love that you give will be multiplied as you bless
the world. I opened my heart, beloved, and I kept it open. Though it may pain you, I say,
open your heart and give of yourself to others who need you, who need all that you can
give to them. For they are impoverished, they are burdened...

Understand this. Let God make you in his image and likeness, which you were in the
Beginning. Let him remold you and remake you in the Ending.

Have you truly found the way to re-create yourself? Not really, beloved, not really in
the profoundest sense. Yet the way is plain. Give and give again and again, and let millions
of souls be healed by your own immaculate heart.

I AM Lanello. I have been with you through the ages. You have been my fathers, my
mothers, my children. We have been as one. Now go forth to a world that is very, very dark.

Smile with me, beloved, for the whole world is maya. I shall smile a greater smile
when you exit the world of maya and enter true being.

I am with you always, your beloved Lanello.

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 About Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Just who is Elizabeth Clare Prophet and what does she have to say to America and
the world?
It’s really great to be able to talk to
you and to a lot of wonderful people who
are seeking the meaning of the inner life.
I remember when Gautama Buddha first
came on the scene. He was such an extraor-
dinary individual that they didn’t ask him,
“Who are you?” but they asked him: “What
are you? Are you a God? Are you a man?
Are you human or divine?” And he gave the
simple answer, “I am Awake!”

So, rather than talking about who I am

or where I came from, I would simply say
that I am a devotee of God. And in the devo-
tion that I have found for God, I have discov-
ered that he has a great truth for his people
on earth in this hour.

The truth comes from within all of us. It is the truth of the Inner Self and the law of
being. I come as a devotee of God, to share my devotions, for I believe God has given to
us a new science and a new religion whereby we can master ourselves and our age.

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Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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