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SAINT GERMAIN SERIES
VOLUME 12

THE “I AM”
DISCOURSES

BY THE
ASCENDED MASTER YOUTH
BELOVED BOB

THROUGH
GODFRÉ RAY KING

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Beloved Bob (Spirit)
The “I AM” discourses.
(Saint Germain series ; v. 12)
“These dictations were given through . . . Guy W. Ballard, Pen name Godfré Ray
King”—P. vii.
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 DEDICATION

THIS Book of The “I AM” Discourses by the

Ascended Master Youth, Beloved Bob, is dedicated
in Eternal Gratitude to the Beloved Seven Mighty
Elohim of Creation, who have guarded and assisted
the “I AM” Ascended Master Youth to the Victorious
Fulfillment of Their Elohim Divine Plan for our
Blessed America and the World.
These Dictations were given through our Beloved
Accredited Messenger, Mr. Guy W. Ballard, pen
name Godfré Ray King; and it is with our great love,
gratitude, and blessings that we present this series of
Dictations to the Beloved Four Children—the Ascended
Masters Bob, Rex, Nada, and Pearl—who have been the
Example to all the young people of the World. May
Their Obedience given to the Great Cosmic Law be an
Inspiration to every young person on the planet, and
through this same obedience, may they too accomplish
the same Goal—the Victory of the Ascension in the
Light.
May the reader be raised a Spiral Higher when
studying these Mighty Words of Instruction, and
be made so strong and obedient that at any time

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the Great Ones may use them and give whatever

Assistance is required for the God Protection of our
Blessed Nation.
The “I AM” Ascended Master Youth are the
Builders of the Incoming Golden Age; and in the
Name of the “Beloved Mighty I AM Presence” of
every young person on the planet, we call to the
Seven Mighty Elohim, the Builders of all Creation, to
enfold each one in Their Immortal Flame of Cosmic
Love, which compels the Fulfillment of their every
God Desire.
The Great Elohim of Purity says: “Beloved Ones,
you have no idea the Blessings that can fill you and
your world, that you can call forth to free others;
and My Dear Ones, sometimes when a Life Stream
is struggling in the dark, trying to seek its way to
Freedom, and knows not where to find the Light,
maybe just one Call from you will be a Flash of
Light into the darkness of that Life Stream’s human
creation that holds the outer self to the constructive
way of Life, turns it away from the hordes of the
shadows, and allows the Higher Mental Body to have
Its Dominion through the outer self.”
The Youth must carry the responsibility of the
future in government, education, business, and all
other phases of our country’s daily activities. They
need more than human help and protection—they
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need God’s Help and God’s Protection to save

them from the encroaching threats of desecration
which seek to destroy the ideals, minds, and bodies
of the Blessed Youth, the younger generation, and the
incoming children.
A conscious Knowledge of each one’s own
Individualized God-Presence—the “Beloved Mighty
I AM Presence”—as given in this Great “I AM”
Ascended Master Instruction from Beloved Saint
Germain and the Great Ones, would enable every
young person to call forth his or her own Protection
and Illumination, thereby assisting America and their
own nations to fulfill God’s Great Destiny.
Until each youth comes to this c o n s c i o u s
Knowledge of the “I AM,” which is the Great Law of
Life, we call to their own Individualized “Presence”
to enfold them in Cosmic Christ Blessings; and may
this Book, and all Books of the Saint Germain Series,
reach every Youth in the World and enfold them in
Beloved Bob’s Ascended Master Radiation, Love,
Wisdom, and Power, to assist each one to achieve
the greatest Heights of Attainment in their service to
Life and humanity.
It is a great privilege for the “I AM” Ascended Master
Youth to meet annually at their two-week Conclave
held at Shasta Springs, which is located near beautiful
Mount Shasta in northern California. These Conclaves
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are offered in adoration to the Beloved Ascended

Masters and Cosmic Beings—especially Beloved David
Lloyd and the Brotherhood of Mount Shasta—and are
dedicated to Beloved Jesus in recognition of His Great
Divine Ministry.
At the culmination of the Conclave, a Pageant is
presented by the Youth and Students on the Life of
Christ, entitled “I AM” COME! This Pageant is open
to the public.
The “I AM” Ascended Master Youth and the
Saint Germain Foundation invite the Youth of the
World to join in the presentation of the Pageant,
either as an “I AM” Ascended Master Youth in the
cast or through audience participation.
This is a tremendous Outpouring given to our
Beloved Jesus in remembrance and gratitude for His
Great Service, and in recognition of the Example which
He left for all mankind. He reminds us through His
Words, “The Things that I do shall ye do also, and even
greater things than these shall ye do.”
Therefore we ask God, the “Beloved Mighty I AM
Presence”; Beloved Jesus the Christ; the Great Host
of Ascended Masters; the Great Angelic Host; and
especially the Beloved Four Children—Ascended Master
Bob, Rex, Nada, and Pearl—to assist every person who
reads this “I AM” Ascended Master Instruction to attain
whatever is required for their individual Divine Plan,
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to make their life happy and victorious, and bring to

them every good and perfect thing from God’s Great
Heart of Love. May they, in turn, offer back to God
their energy to assist our Beloved America and the
World to Eternal Purity, Freedom, and Victory; and
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to man reigns Supreme
for Eternity.

Thank you, and

God bless you!
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DISCOURSE PAGE
I Boston, MA • September 14, 1937 . . . . . . 1
II New York City, NY • October 17, 1937 . . . . 24
III Detroit, MI • April 22, 1938 . . . . . . . . . 41
IV New York City, NY • May 17, 1938 . . . . . 67
V New York City, NY • May 28, 1938 . . . . . 95
VI Oakland, CA • September 2, 1938 . . . . . . 110
VII Seattle, WA • September 24, 1938 . . . . . 121
VIII Chicago, IL • October 8, 1938 . . . . . . . . 146
IX Tenafly, NJ • November 19, 1938 . . . . . . . 165
X Los Angeles, CA • January 2, 1939 . . . . . . 189
XI Denver, CO • March 16, 1939 . . . . . . . 200
XII New York City, NY • April 29, 1939 . . . . 217

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 THE “I AM” DISCOURSES
BY BELOVED BOB

* * * * *
DISCOURSE I

September 14, 1937

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
100% GROUP
Beloved Students and Friends of Boston, often
Pearl, Nada, Rex, and Myself have moved about in
your midst watching, endeavoring to pour forth a
Radiance that would give you the assistance that you
were calling forth from your “Presence”; and what a
joy it has been.
Can you for just a few moments come with Me in
My Feeling that I am endeavoring to convey to you—My
Feeling of what it really is, what it means to be wholly
Free from any limitations. Think of it, Beloved Students
and Friends! It is only a short time since I was in the
limitation that most of mankind are now in. Just think
of it!—in so short a time I was given My Freedom by
the association with Beloved Saint Germain; and the
Great Divine Director took us under His Wing and
brought us to India where the Final Victory in the Cave
of Light was accomplished.

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Dear Ones, do you realize that I was just a young

man out of mining school in Colorado, knowing not
the slightest thing about metaphysics, except that I did
have a great, great deep love for Beloved Jesus. But
further than that, I rarely attended church or any of
those activities; yet within my Heart was always that
great deep love—and, as I now realize, was reaching
out for that which I did not yet know.
Then that day when this Good Messenger before
you came to Mr. Rayborn’s mine, I saw him and liked
him; and when we were going through that mine and
I had gone on ahead, after a few minutes Mr. Rayborn
called me back and directed me to start work at a place
where, I say frankly to you, I thought would be rankest
foolishness. If I had not had such confidence in Mr.
Rayborn, I would have thought he was suddenly bereft;
but I didn’t dare say a word. Then when I saw that
which I afterwards came to know was Beloved Saint
Germain’s Great Wisdom directing—well, I frankly say
to you, it was a tremendous shock. For if you have not
thought along those deeper lines, then for something
to be suddenly thrust upon you, absolutely compelling
your recognition—well, I tell you it is something really
worthwhile!
Then after that was fulfilled, Saint Germain released
me from the body and brought me to the Cave of
Symbols, and so regulated—notice this—so regulated
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the vibratory action of my etheric body, that I was as

tangible in the Cave of Symbols as you are here in the
physical bodies. Now that was not a physical body, but
it was tangible and visible to this Good Messenger and
the others who were present there, which were seven
or eight people; and I was as vividly conscious of all
that were present and all that was going on, as you are
here. The proof of it was—I mean to myself—that when
I returned after the experience to my sleeping body,
and when I awakened in the morning, vividly in my
consciousness was every detail of that experience at
the Cave of Symbols. It being my first experience, I
actually thought that I had had a very vivid dream, but
when Mr. Rayborn and the Messenger came again to
the mine, then I knew before they had said a word,
that it was not a dream.
Then afterwards when it was explained to me
what had actually been done, what had actually taken
place, the amazing thing was that it seemed perfectly
natural. I do not recall a single feeling in my being
that I was being deceived, or anything except that a
perfectly natural process was going on. And that is
what everyone should feel, Dear Ones, in regard to
these Great Laws of Life which are manifesting Life
in your body. Now those were the same Laws acting
that were revealing to me the Truth of my own Life.
Tonight I want to make so vivid to you, Dear Ones,
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that mankind is wholly responsible for the limitations,

for the privations, for whatever may be acting that is
less than the Perfection of your Life, which gives you
Life. The reason for that is—notice this, follow Me
closely please; it will help so tremendously—no outer
appearance in the outer world or any activity there,
can limit you or disturb you, except when you feed
your Life into it, through your attention upon it.
That is how you are your own limitation. Nothing can
limit you but yourselves, Beloved Ones.
Now remember, I went through all that you are
going through, and I stand today in Freedom from
all human limitations; and that is what comes of
knowing the Law of Life and having transcended all
human limitations. Then you are able to look upon
the activity that ordinarily is termed “limitation,” and
see that within your feeling world alone is the cause
of whatever seems—now notice—whatever seems to be
limiting or depriving you of that Perfection which you
know is for you, and actually is in your “Presence.”
Does it seem unreal, unusual to you, that this
“Presence” here [pointing to the Chart], holds
everything that you can possibly desire in the outer
world of manifestation? Just look for a few moments,
won’t you, upon this “Presence” here. Dear Ones, this
“Presence” holds everything within Its own grasp, within
Its own Hands, within Its own World—not in form,
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but the Intelligence, the Substance is there, within

this “Presence,” of everything that must come into
manifested form for your use out here. Contemplate
that, Dear Ones! Everything in this Stream of Life,
Light, Intelligence, and Substance that flows in at the
top of your head into your body and anchors within
your Heart, is the Life, the Light, the Substance, the
Intelligence, the Energy, and the Activity of all that is.
Now think of it! All of that is in the outer world
of human manifestation. Do you not see, then, when
you call to this Presence of the Higher Mental Body—
which stands between your physical body and the
“Presence” and which is the Discriminating, Selective
Intelligence that answers your Call to the “Presence”—
do you not see in your Call to the “Presence,” if it be
money, if it be intelligence, whatever the requirement
out here may be, then the “Presence” holds that ready
to release through the Higher Mental Body into
your physical use? Then if channels—I mean by that,
human beings—be used in your requirement, then the
Wisdom of the “Presence” will prepare the way and
select those individuals who are to assist you in your
achievement or in whatever is required in your world.
Do you not see then, Precious Ones, how in
your Call to the “Presence” nothing could fail in the
world? Do you not see that? That is what I found to
be actually, literally, practically true. And as We see
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from the Inner standpoint, the unlimited standpoint,

these Laws of your Life are as definite and as certain—
if you will make the Call for them.
Now notice, suppose you have not the intelligence
manifested, the understanding manifested, to cope with
a condition that you do not understand. Suppose it was
something legal that you were not familiar with; suppose
it was in a business you were not familiar with: do you
suppose for a moment that the “Presence,” through the
Higher Mental Body, does not know everything that
is required there? If you think It does not, then you
are making a mistake. Your Higher Mental Body has
the Wisdom of the “Presence” with which It is acting.
Therefore, It is cognizant of everything that is required
in your world down here.
Remember, in the present state of the unascended
being, the “Presence” knows nothing about your
limitations down here; It is acting at Cosmic Levels.
But the Higher Mental Body, which the “Presence”
has provided and regulated, knows every detail of
your requirement out here in this physical body.
Therefore, when you call to the “Presence,” the
Wisdom acting through your Higher Mental Body—
which is the Discriminating, Selective Intelligence—
knows exactly how, when, and where to produce the
assistance, the conditions, the requirements that you
need for use out here in your world of activity.
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Don’t you see how It could not fail? It would be

impossible for It to fail in any manner whatsoever.
Therefore, if you will realize this in calling your
“Presence” into action, you will find that in a
comparatively short time your “Presence” will be acting
with a definite accuracy, and you will soon come into
the Instantaneous Activity in which you will not need
to ask the Messenger or anybody else for the Power of
your “Presence” to govern your world.
Oh, Dear Hearts, We want you so much to enter
into this Freedom which your “Presence” holds for
you. Think of it! This “Presence” which gives you
Life—the Wisest, most Powerful Intelligence and Being
in the Universe! I am quite with you—once I was like
you, accepting these limitations, these appearances in
the appearance world as having power. Dear Hearts,
don’t you see that the appearance cannot have power
except if you feed your Life energy into it to come
back to limit you? It cannot do it, Dear Hearts, unless
you do that very thing.
Now then, won’t you be on guard in the future and
not allow one ounce of your Life energy to go forth
into a limiting appearance to limit or deprive you
longer? Every time an appearance that is limiting you
comes up out here in your world, say: “Oh, no you
don’t! You are not going to limit me anymore. Get out
of my world! God, my ‘Mighty I AM Presence,’ take
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command here! See that my attention does not rest

upon that appearance which is limiting, because it
has no power! Sweep it out of my world and You take
command! Produce Your Perfection and hold Your
Dominion here! Release to me the money I require!
Release to me the Intelligent Direction! Release the
Power of Achievement which is my birthright through
this Stream of Life and Energy that beats my Heart!”
Then, Dear Ones, you will find the Power of your
“Presence” moving into action through your mind
and body, and out into your world with a precision, a
definiteness that gives your Hearts the Joy of Eternal
Delight.
Dear Ones, there is no use longer giving way to
these appearances that have frightened you and held
you bound so long. Remember, Dear Hearts—that
one phrase bears repeating a million times: “No
appearance in the world can limit you or affect
you, except if you feed your Life into it by your
attention.” Therefore, do you not see why Beloved
Saint Germain has pled with the people everywhere
to take their attention off their problems and put it
upon the “Presence,” where the only solution exists,
and let Its Power flow in, sweeping in and through
their bodies and out into their worlds and perform
Its Perfect Service. That is how, Dear Hearts, your
“Presence” can become the Governing Intelligence
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of your world and release the Power of Its Energy

and Activity, and from Its Treasure-house release
everything your Precious Hearts require to flood your
world with money or with whatever else you require.
Think of it, Dear Hearts, what a tremendous test,
if you call it that, Beloved Saint Germain placed
upon the Messengers when He said to go forth and
give out this Work with not a dollar in Their pockets
with which to do it. Remember, when They came
to Philadelphia the first time, They used Their rent
money that was due, to get there. Do you realize,
Beloved Ones, that the Messengers have had to prove
every step of this Law every moment since the time
that They started for the train in Chicago?
I shall never cease to enjoy it when the Messenger
brings up this point—how He and Mrs. Ballard were
discussing it on Their way to Philadelphia. They said:
“Now ‘Mighty I AM Presence,’ this is Your Work.
You have the Power to supply the money to do this
and carry It on. If you do not do it, well, We will go
home”—and They meant it.
But Dear Ones, do you not see that it does not
matter how many thousands of people have proven
this Law; every one of you has to prove the Law to
yourself in order to be free, and it is so easy! I tell you
it is easy because I see from the unlimited standpoint.
Now, if you will grasp these various points, which
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the various ones have brought forth in Their Dictations,

you see Their Wisdom is so great that, as the people are
ready—you must not blame the Messengers for holding
the Students upon fundamentals, because they have got
to have the fundamentals anchored within themselves
in order to become the Victor over human creation.
That is why today, Dear Ones, you stand in the open
door of your Eternal Freedom.
You Blessed Ones of Boston, you may not quite
know it, but how do you suppose that you were
strong enough to stand dauntless in the face of
everything and stand your ground with the Light
of the “Presence”? How do you suppose you did it?
Now you see I am asking you questions. By the Light
in you—which was your “Presence”—that was strong
enough to do it! And that is the only way you did do
it. That is proof that now you can and will go on into
your Freedom, Dear Hearts! When this Class is over
here, you will have entered a new world. And mark
what I tell you, Dear Ones: We mean business!
When We have been given, I say to you, the Honor,
the Privilege of being Free, do you think that We will
rest for one hour until you—every one of you—are Free
too? And think, these Beloved Messengers have gone
through—you will never know—the condemnation,
the hatred of mankind that, if you saw from the Inner
standpoint, would positively make your hair stand up;
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but because Their Application was dynamic enough,

Their attention held steadfast enough to the “Presence,”
They were untouched by all that had been sent forth to
try to destroy Them. Would you believe, Dear People,
that there could be human beings in embodiment
vicious enough to want to destroy those who spread
the Light of Freedom, which this is? Well, there are
plenty of them today; but now that the Messengers
have gained that Power and Momentum, They are
untouched by any of that. Thank the “Mighty I AM
Presence” and the Ascended Masters for this, and Their
own powerful Application!
But that is not the point. The point is that it is the
fulfilling of the Words which Beloved Saint Germain
said to the Messengers in the beginning before They
started out, during the dictation of The “I AM”
Discourses. He said, “My Children, remember the
human ungoverned is more vicious than the animal
in the jungle”; and that has proven to be true, because
the human being has intelligence with which to direct
viciousness, while the animal has not. But look!—those
individuals cannot reach the Messengers!
The point I want to make is what they are doing in
their own world. Every person, Dear Hearts, that sends
out viciousness to another—criticism, condemnation,
hatred, jealousy, anger, or any of those things—they
are charging their feeling worlds around them with
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destruction which they must live in and through. That

is why, Dear Hearts—you Blessed Ones, tonight I
want to make this clear if possible forever within your
consciousness: the reason for Beloved Saint Germain
asking that all refrain from feelings of discord of any
kind whatever within their feeling worlds is that as
soon as they stop that a sufficient length of time, the
use of the Violet Consuming Flame and the calling of
the “Presence” into action after the Violet Consuming
Flame has been used, will dissolve the discordant
qualities that have been registered there—I mean all
that attempts to come forth into expression.
Then, when they call the Power of the “Presence”
forth, they are no longer clothing this wondrous
Energy of the “Presence” here as It flows forth,
because this Energy until It touches the top of the
head is wholly Pure and Perfect, you see; and the
only reason why mankind does not have Perfection
is because the moment that touches the top of your
head, It is clothed with the feeling that is in your
feeling world. If that feeling is discordant, then
it charges that quality of feeling in your world to
produce failure and limitations for you.
Dear Hearts, there is not any use mincing words
about these things anymore. Law is law, and the
Law of Life is the most powerful thing in the entire
Universe! If you are determined to ignore the Law
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of Life, then you will be in limitations. Now it does

not make any difference what the provocation is, and
I am saying this to you tonight so that you become
prepared and fixed from the beginning of the Class,
so you gain your absolute Freedom during it. You
can have It, there is no question about it. But unless
you understand these things that are acting in your
feeling world, Dear Hearts, why, you cannot be Free!
Do you not see as long as you continue to allow
these feelings to act in your feeling world, which
are producing discord and destruction for you, how
can you be Free?—because it is only the Purity and
the Perfection of the Energy and the Light of the
“Presence” flowing into your world that produces
Perfection and dissolves the conditions of disturbance
in your world of activity. That allows the Powers of
the “Presence” to come forth and perform any given
Service, and become the mighty Magnet that draws
to you every good thing.
Do you know, Precious Ones, Divine Love poured
forth by calling your “Presence” into action becomes
the mightiest magnet in the Universe to draw to you
every good thing? And that is why, as you keep
charging that forth—pouring out Divine Love and
Blessing to mankind and every living thing—It gains
such a momentum going forth that It just dissolves
everything unlike Itself as It goes forth, and leaves
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your world filled with the Glory of the Power of

Divine Love, which is the mighty attraction of every
good thing for you, and which fills your world with
every good thing that your Heart desires and craves.
That is why today, if you understood the need of
keeping your feelings harmonious so that the Power of
the “Presence” at your Call could pour forth that mighty
Self-luminous, Intelligent Substance and perform that
Service, then don’t you see, nothing could resist It?
Not a thing in the world could resist It and prevent It
accomplishing that whereunto It was sent.
Suppose you say, “ ‘Mighty I AM Presence,’ You
release Your Energy here”—for a given purpose, any
kind. Then with a great joy you begin to pour Love
and Blessings upon that achievement, whatever it is
to be done. You see how that keeps the Power of the
“Presence” going forth to that objective to accomplish
the results, and there could not be a single failure in
existence if you but do that?
That is why I say to you again, Dear Ones, there
is no provocation in the world that warrants you
allowing one single feeling of discord to go out from
you, because when you do that, you are just depriving
yourselves. Oh my, isn’t it remarkable that you have
thought—you do not anymore—that you could injure
someone else by sending out discord to them. You
are the first one that gets injured. And why should it
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be so? If you are the creators of discord, and you are,

then why should you not get the first results? You see?
But look, Dear Hearts, I do not wonder, oh, as We go
among mankind and see the enormous, the tremendous
momentum that mankind have gained through thinking
they could just release any kind of discord without limit
and then not pay the penalty—think of it! You see, in
the old teachings mankind was not taught anything
about it. They thought they could put forth any kind of
feeling in the world and they would go scot-free. They
cannot do it. It is not the Law. That is why Our Joy is
so boundless when We have the opportunity, as We
have with the Messenger, to flash Our Words before
Him to you, with no human ideas in them; and that is
why this Work—one day mankind will come to know
how powerful It is, how magnificent It is, not because
of the Messengers, but because They have made it
possible for this to be done.
Dear Ones, every now and then an individual pops
up and says they are receiving the same as this Good
Messenger is from Saint Germain and the others.
Well, they are not. When another is prepared in the
outer world to receive as this Good Messenger does
from Saint Germain and the other Ascended Masters,
He will be the first one to know it. And whenever
the purported information from the Ascended Master
does not agree with this Stream of Light, you will
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know it is not from an Ascended Master, because all

Ascended Masters agree.
Dear Hearts, don’t ever let any feeling come within
any of you that this Beloved Messenger ever has any
feeling but humbleness and gratitude because it is
possible for Him to receive the blessings which can
come only in this manner for mankind. It is a wholly
different thing from even the highest inspiration,
Dear Hearts. There is no inspiration, no matter how
high it is, in which the human does not intrude. The
Messenger can take any inspirational writing, no
matter how high it is, and show you every line where
the human intruded. It is not that it is not beautiful
and good; but today the need of mankind is for an
Understanding that is untouched by human concepts,
so it will produce the results that are required for
them, because human concepts will not do it.
That is why, Dear Hearts, today Our Gratitude
is so boundless that you have this opportunity and
this use, this Understanding of the “Mighty Presence”
that beats each human Heart, which I say is your
Freedom! Don’t accept anything else in the world,
but go on and on with your mighty Application to the
“Presence.” Hold your feeling world so harmonious
that in a comparatively short time that Power of the
“Presence” will flow through; and that great Energy,
untouched any longer by your discordant feeling, will
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steadily and surely cleanse and purify the mind, body,

and feeling world. Then when you call the “Presence”
into action, Its Mighty Power will surge forth for a
given purpose—like a rocket—and your Application
will produce instantaneous results—and that is how
it comes about.
I trust you will pardon Me, Lady Betty, if I go too
fast. And Dear Ones, do you realize how grateful We
are Saint Germain has provided this Service so that
the things We say to you can be taken down and had
for your constant use.
You must feel what I feel tonight, the great Love
that pours out from My Being to you, and the longing
in My Heart to bring you, every one, to the point
where We are. Oh, Dear Ones, I almost have to pinch
Myself sometimes yet, to think how in so short a time
without any apparent previous preparation, I could
be in the Freedom I am in today. Dear People, let it
be the greatest strength and encouragement in the
world to you. Only a few short years ago I was a lad
in the physical body as you are today, subject to all
its limitations—and today I am Free! Let it be such a
strength and encouragement to you that never for one
moment in anything that confronts you in the future,
do you give it one moment’s power to limit you or
deprive you of anything. It cannot do it.
When I see among mankind the conditions that
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sometimes such blessed ones seem compelled to meet—

and to think how if they would realize the need of stilling
themselves and feeling no discord or inharmony of
any kind within them, then in that great stillness say:
“ ‘Mighty I AM Presence!’ My world is Your World!
Sweep forth into my world. Take command! Produce
Your Perfection and hold Your Dominion there, and
see that only Your Perfection acts there!”—Dear Ones,
then every problem would be solved immediately.
Dear Ones, tonight I am determined to convey into
your feeling world—and I charge forth Streams of Light
from My Heart into yours while I say this, and that is
concerning your financial requirement. Dear People,
your “Presence” is your Treasure-house, and you are
not limited in any manner whatever in the money that
you require for use or the Service of the Light. Try to
fix that tonight firmly in your consciousness and feeling
world, principally in your feeling world. You are not
limited, because your “Presence” is your Treasure-house;
and in calling your “Presence” into action to release the
supply of money you require for use, if the Wisdom of
the “Presence” chooses human channels to give you
assistance, then Its Wisdom will select the right channels
that can bring only Love, Harmony, and Blessings to
you through Its release.
Everything that is in the world of activity of
mankind belongs to this “Mighty Presence.” Oh Dear
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Ones, how can—I know, I did it too—but how can

mankind longer believe that they are the authority,
that they are the owners of these things of the
appearance world, when they would have to but for
one moment think that a body from which the Life
has withdrawn—the brain, the Heart, the organs, the
form are still there. All is as it was a moment before;
but when the Life withdraws, the body is helpless,
proving that the Power—now notice—proving the
Power, the Intelligence, the Substance, the Life, and
the Energy is within this Stream of Life that beats
your Heart. Do you not see that, Precious Ones?
Otherwise the body at so-called death would still
have its power of action; but since it does not, then all
power of intelligence, of activity, is within this Stream
of Life that beats your precious Hearts.
Oh, try to get that tonight, Dear Hearts, so firmly
in your consciousness that it never leaves you a single
instant. Then you will understand whatever you call
for—all power, all intelligence, all energy, all activity—
is within that Stream of Life that beats your Heart and
gives Life to your body and action. Everything you
require is in that Stream of Life that will flow forth
into your world of activity and produce the results
you require, for It knows no resistance or interference
of any kind. Do you not see that, Precious Ones? It is
so magnificent. It is so absolutely infallible. It cannot
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fail in a single instance, Dear Ones. Then you, in the

Acknowledgment of the “Mighty I AM Presence” and
your calling It into action, become the master of your
world. It cannot be otherwise.
Tonight with all My Love and those Qualities that
have been anchored in your feeling world to bless
you, to give you My Courage and My Strength to
assist you on and on to your Victory, if you will
accept It and allow Me to be the assistance possible
to you—for remember, that We in the Ascended State
are all One. Each One has His or Her own special
activity; but so far as the Call is concerned, We are all
One in that releasing of the Perfection into the world
and the Life Stream of each one.
Notice, Dear Hearts. How do We become of so
great an assistance to the blessed ones yet in some
limitations? Because here at this point [pointing to the
Chart], your Higher Mental Body rests between your
physical body and your “Presence”; and at this point
here, above your head, We in Our projected Currents
of Energy intensify the activity of your Call to your
“Presence” until you have gained the strength and
the energy and the victory of your own achievement.
Tonight, as the Great Divine Director has done
with the Students everywhere during the Classes,
He projects directly from His Heart into your Heart
these Currents of Energy and of Light that have
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produced such tremendous results with the Students

everywhere. Before the Class I want to remind you
tonight of His tremendous Activity that He so recently
established in setting the Disc of Light in Its Activity
into the feeling world, to give the Assistance to the
Call of the Students to dissolve and consume their
own human creation. Remember, these are mighty
Activities which They set into action for the Blessings
of the Students everywhere.
Many of these things, Beloved Ones, have never
been known in the history of the Earth before for
the assistance of mankind, and now only because the
Cosmic Light demands it.
Another thing I wish to remind you of is the
thousands and thousands and thousands of discarnate
entities that have been taken out of the Earth’s
atmosphere, that could not leave it of their own
volition. Do you not see that it had to be a Cosmic
Activity, a Cosmic Law, which made that possible for
mankind? Otherwise, those individuals would have
had to stay in the Earth’s atmosphere until they, of
their own volition, called to some Being of Light to
release them. But because of the need of the release
of mankind today, the Cosmic Law has said this
shall be done; and the Great Divine Director, who is
authority for it, caused Saint Germain to release that
Mighty Decree for seizing and binding the entities,
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removing them from the Earth, and holding them

in the Octave of Light until they serve the Light—the
greatest Service that could be rendered on the face
of the Earth. Those unfortunate individuals could
not leave the Earth themselves, but this Blessing has
been rendered for mankind: they have been taken
from the Earth and held in the Octave of Light until
they serve the Light. Do you not see that never in
the history of the Earth has such marvelous means
been provided for the Blessing of mankind as today?
That is why today those blessed ones who are earnest,
sincere Students of the “Mighty I AM Presence” under
Saint Germain are privileged beyond anything that is
possible to conceive, because if they will apply this Law
earnestly and continue with firm determination, their
Freedom is sure—as sure as they do it. And there is not
any human being on all the Earth that can prevent it.
That is how these blessed Messengers have gone
forth untouched by the destructive things directed
at Them. And remember, Dear Hearts, don’t longer
accept that there is anything in the world that can
deprive you of the money you require for your Service
of the Light. Don’t accept that one single moment
longer! It cannot do it. Remember the wonderful,
wonderful Truth that was uttered: “When you have
served the Light enough, this great Light will turn
and serve you.” Then your so-called struggles will be
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over. But Dear Ones, try to feel that no longer is there

struggle or battle in your Acknowledgment of the
“Presence” and your Application. The “Presence” has
said, “I will fight your battles, for I have weapons that
ye know not of”; and that weapon is the projection of
Light Rays, the Presence and Power of Divine Love
that dissolves everything unlike Itself. That is how
there is no battle in the achievement of the Light. It
just moves into action and all unlike Itself dissolves
before It, is powerless before It; and that is how the
Messengers have called the “Presence” into action
with such wonderful Achievement—because that Light
moves into action and just dissolves everything unlike
Itself.
Won’t you try to feel that in every particle of your
Application? Just remind yourself before you start to
make Application: “Now this is the Activity of my
‘Mighty I AM Presence.’ It is Light which is Self-
luminous, Intelligent Substance, and at my Call It just
moves into action in and through my body and out
into my world. Everything unlike It dissolves before
It, and It moves right on into the objective to which
I have sent It and produces the results required.”
Then how could anything fail? It cannot! I thank you,
Beloved Ones.
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October 17, 1937

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
YOUNG PEOPLE’S GROUP

SAINT GERMAIN:
I wish you to know, Beloved Ones, what it means
to Me in Blessing to America, where I have worked
so long to bring about a condition to save mankind—I
want to say today, Beloved People of New York,
it is here where the great need has been for more
than one hundred years in the ever-accumulating,
ungoverned destructive activities to mankind. For it
is here that the brain of the sinister activity of the
World is focused, because from all over the World
came the claws of the sinister force because of the
financial center here—because they require money
by which to carry out the acts of the sinister force.
Therefore it is here.
We at first made such a tremendous stride in the
first two Classes here; and then because mankind
listened to—let us call it—unhappy gossip, the sinister
force drove in and came near to destroying all the
possibilities for the protection of your city.
Now do not misunderstand Me. As all who have

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taken notice have observed, your blessed city of

New York sits in the most dangerous condition—
because of the earth formation under it—of any city
outside of San Francisco. Therefore, Dear People, do
you wonder that We have called the Forces of the
Universe into assistance to govern the human discord
in America and at this point, so that this protection
could be given?
If you wish to split a log, you take your wedge and
at the fine point drive it in, do you not? Therefore, in
the sinister activity, if they could have accomplished
what they intended in the destruction of your city,
it would have been the wedge driven in, and would
have made it very difficult to give the protection to
the rest of America for the incoming Light. It has
only been possible by the Release of the Great
Cosmic Light, which of course you must understand
is consciously directed by the Great Beings from the
Great Central Sun—that has made it possible for the
protection, up to this time, to be given your city. I say
to you frankly, this could be the most wonderful city
in the World and, with the protection, would become
the most wonderful city in the World!
Now then, We say this—and I take this opportunity
this morning to say to those who are here because
you can spread it to others—the need today for all
people, all Students of New York and the surrounding
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territory is to harmonize in spite of all human

conditions. I tell you, Dear People, it is imperative!
It must be done! You love your America, so do not let
your human frailties interfere with your staunchness
and stand to the Light. Do not criticize each other! Do
not allow anything to come in that would start discord
of any kind. If you will do this, We can do things
that will give you the greatest joy and the greatest
assurance mankind has ever thus far experienced on
Earth.
You will have all the proof that you want of the
reality of these Great Laws if you will be patient. You
do not understand that if We produced some great
phenomena, which could easily be done, it would
prevent many of the more wonderful things that
We are trying to bring forth. So I ask the Students
everywhere to be patient.
This unfortunate individual in the West, who has
put forth this silly nonsense everywhere and now is
spreading that silly stuff: “Why don’t the Messengers
show the proof of these things?”—why the proof
immeasurable is being given every day. Therefore, I
say this today to the city of New York, that you may
stand on guard against these sinister things. All that
mankind wants, needs, or expects, will be given by
way of assurance and proof, as they hold themselves
harmonized enough. That is why this morning I take
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this opportunity to assure you and prompt you again,

because shortly We will not be permitted to give the
promptings We have in the past.
Therefore, if you will all feel your own responsibility—
and if someone comes to you with discord, just calmly
and quietly say: “Now you have heard Saint Germain’s
wishes. He knows what is required for your city. Do
you want to destroy your city by discord, or do you
want to add to the World’s burden by any more of
your discord when you have said you wished to serve
the Light?” These are vital things, and it is within the
individual that these things need to be governed. Then
the environment will come into the Harmony and
Perfection that is required for the Infinite Protection
of your city and America.
Why do you suppose this great Symbol, the Goddess
of Liberty, was placed in your harbor? Because that
Great Power of Wisdom brought that Symbol here
to represent the Power and Protection of the Light,
because this was the greatest focus of the sinister force
due to the financial power that was given them by the
secret release of money into the hands of those people
who thought and felt and breathed only destruction.
We are debating whether We shall reveal certain
things that have been done in your city since the
Messengers have arrived this time. Already the two
days of Class have accomplished tremendous things
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for you and your city. Try to feel that, and give all the
enthusiasm and joy in the Call to your “Presence” in
the release of gratitude for that service rendered.
Dear People, please take these things: Pour forth
Eternal Gratitude to Life; then to the Great Cosmic
Beings, the Legion of Light, the Great Ascended
Masters, for that service and amplification of every
effort to bring about this Protection which is needed.
I say to everyone who has seemed to have financial
struggle or has seemed to have difficulties: Dear People,
do you realize that you stand on the eve of the greatest
prosperity the World has ever known—and which will be
permanent as humanity becomes harmonized enough?
The Law of your Life, of all beings in manifested form,
is the greatest Release of the Powers of the “Presence,”
which is the supply of everything required through the
Power of Divine Love and Harmony. Then mankind is
not trying to take away from somebody else, because
they know then that they will always have plenty;
and the desire and fear lest their human form may
want for something, is dissolved. Try to feel that your
“Presence” that projected these human forms, when
given sufficient attention, is the Power that will care for
that body and keep it healthy, harmonious, and supplied
if the feelings are kept steady, calm, and harmonious
enough to naturally let the Powers flow through. Try
to feel that! I thank you.
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OUR PRECIOUS BOB:

Beloved Young People of New York and vicinity,
it is My great Joy to come today. Also Rex, Pearl, and
Nada, who are here in your midst, are pouring forth
Their Wondrous Radiation to you.
I shall say something today that I trust will carry
to you the Joy that is in Our Hearts. Through Our
Call to the Great Beings and the Great Cosmic Light,
and the Calls of the many Students as well as the
Messengers for the protection of the young people
of America and the World, We have brought into
action the Activity of those Great Beings from the
Great Central Sun, for the protection of our young
people of America.
Will you young people, wherever you are, call the
attention of the young people who come into this Work
to that one particular point: that by sufficient Calls this
has been made possible. Therefore, the Cosmic Light
called into action is an Invincible thing. Therefore keep
up your Call for the Protection of the young people
of America, their Purification; and call for them to be
surrounded by the Circle of Blue Flame through which
no emotional thing can penetrate.
Then the blessed young people of America who
have come forth with bodies that are strong and
prepared for that which they are destined to do—as
they hold that Dominion and Control of their energy,
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the full power of its infinite action will ever bless

them in its ever-increasing strength, Light, and power
within each one, which makes the glorious Circle of
Light that you may have, more vivid in your memory
and attention.
You will remember the description in Chananda’s
Home in India when we were there. As we sat at
the table, the Circle of Light enveloped our Hearts.
Just so has the Activity of the Cosmic Light been
established to reach around America and give this
Assistance to Her young people.
Now then, as you call to the “Mighty I AM
Presence” to project into the mental and feeling world
of mankind, do you not see how the Great Light has
provided Its Currents of Energy, charged perhaps
a hundredfold greater than would ordinarily act in
carrying these Decrees, this Feeling, and the Call for
Their Purity and Perfection through the feeling world
of individuals in a mighty unbroken Circle of Light.
Again something which has never been done in the
World before!
Why do you think the Wisdom of Saint
Germain took the Messengers to certain places in
the beginning? To break down the human walls of
doubts and fears, and to establish this Light which has
recently been established. That is why in the Boston
Class tremendous things were done, and even far
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greater things will be done in this Class, as you have

all observed in its beginning.
Do you not see, Beloved Ones, how you precious
Students in your earnest, sincere Work and Decrees
have made it possible for the Messengers to be free
from having to beat down the human walls. That
gives the Freedom and Power for this greater Release
from the “Presence” and the Ascended Masters to
come forth into action, as you must have observed
in the opening of this Class.
So you will understand and you will see what
mighty strides are being made in the greater
Expansion of Perfection, in the greater Protection and
the greater Blessing that is pouring forth to mankind.
Therefore, Beloved People, rejoice with all your
Hearts. Pour forth gratitude without limit to your
“Presence,” and call on the Law of Forgiveness for
all mankind. Do not miss one day, every night before
you retire, to call on the Law of Forgiveness for the
mistakes of all mankind; and then in the morning
give praise and thanks for the Perfection of God, the
“Mighty I AM Presence,” glorifying you that day.
You will find, Dear People, that you can release from
your “Presence” whatever is required in your world of
activity for the service you wish to render. Oh, I plead
with you, turn to your “Presence” wholly, and stand
with It in the Invincible Power. And quickly you will
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find you can release Its Mighty Power by your steady

focused attention to the “Presence” and the feeling of Its
Light Rays which know no resistance nor interference,
pouring forth through you and out into your world.
Blessed Ones, can you imagine My Gratitude,
Pearl, Rex, and Nada’s Gratitude, when so recently
we stood in bodies of limitation like yours—and how
we were picked up, as it were, by Blessed Saint
Germain and lifted into that condition where We
are forever Free? We were no exception to the rule.
There are hundreds of blessed ones in America today
who could receive the identical Activity if they would
just hold sufficient self-control and allow the Powers
of the “Presence” to act uninterrupted by discord
within the feelings. That is the imperative need today.
You cannot wonder that the Messengers plead
and plead and plead constantly with the people to
hold harmony. Dear People, I do not see how you
can help but understand the need of harmony within
your own feelings, and of not giving attention to
what someone else does. You are not responsible for
what someone else does, but you are responsible for
what acts in your feeling world! So don’t allow the
appearance world to cause you to longer criticize,
judge, condemn, or have any opinion whatever! If
you will only do this!
Dear People, you are at the point now where—let
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us say for the moment—to those who seem to need

greater proof, that proof would be given without limit
if sufficient harmony were in your feelings. It cannot
be given without that. Therefore, take your stand; and
throughout the East, you blessed people, do not let a
single human opinion go forth. Whenever there is an
appearance of something that needs correction, say,
“ ‘Beloved Mighty I AM Presence,’ sweep into that
and correct it!” And take the human mind off of it.
You will find such Blessings and Power released into
your individual lives, into your city and conditions,
because certain things have been done here to take
Dominion in the activity of your city, which I may
not mention this morning. They will bring blessings
untold to this city.
That is why, Beloved Ones, We four Children
have been given the Authority to wield Powers in the
projection of the Light Rays that, ten years ago, we
could not have imagined in our wildest imaginings.
Then I say to you, you can do this! How do you know,
Beloved Ones, what hour will release the Power of
the “Presence” into your full outer consciousness that
will give you the conviction, the certainty in your
feeling world and outer experience of the Powers of
the “Presence” to do wonderful, so-called miracles
through yourselves.
The things that occurred through the body of
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this Messenger here are real, they are true—a living

example to all mankind of what can be done through
the individual at the most unexpected moment. He
did not know what could be done, never dreamed
it; but the Powers of the “Presence,” when It has
sufficient Purity and activity through which to act, can
at a given moment or in a crisis, release Its Powers
within that moment. That is the need of mankind
today.
Beloved Young People, realize that you are
the Focus of the Light for the immediate future of
mankind. Make yourselves such a mighty example,
such Ambassadors of Light, that the whole World will
turn and look at you and bow in humbleness before
that Radiance which they feel. It is the Law of Life!
I tell you that you can take the worst criminal in
your city, and when one who is able in great calm
serenity to release the Light of their “Presence,” goes
into the atmosphere of that individual, that individual
will bow before that Radiance which they feel is the
Governing Power of the Universe. Remember, Dear
Ones, that Light knows no resistance nor interference,
and there is no destructive quality in individuals or
collectively that has any, or tries to give any resistance
to the Power of the Release of the Light. When that
Radiance is sufficient, it knows instantly when it
touches It that it is powerless to longer act.
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So will you not feel that in your individual

Application for yourselves, and in the Service you
wish to render. Then you will gain the confidence and
power within yourselves that is the Release of that
Limitless Energy which the “Presence” holds ready
at all times. Remember your Higher Mental Body is
the Discriminating, Selective Intelligence that knows
what is required and releases it.
It is omnipresent, Dear People. It is not a thing
in which there could be the slightest uncertainty,
but your Higher Mental Body, being the Wisdom
of the “Presence” acting, then will release whatever
is required for your freedom and your blessing.
Therefore, as you feel that confidence in your
Application, you will absolutely have no difficulty in
gaining your Freedom and your Victory in the Light.
I could not help but smile to Myself this morning
in your young people’s gathering here. You are all
young people. Really the Light within you blessed
ones knows no age! Why accept the appearance? Do
you know, Blessed Ones, that it is the mass pressure,
the mass creation, mass sense of age that causes
individuals’ hair to turn grey and the appearance of
age to begin to find its expression through the human
form? Sometimes, true, shock causes hair to turn grey;
but outside of that, the general activity of mankind
when they come to certain years is to open their arms
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and welcome in the sense of age, when if they would

say to that appearance: “You have no power! Get out
of my world!”—it would settle it.
I ask you to watch, Beloved Ones, in the coming
years and see how many people will change their hair
back to its original color, and all lines will disappear
from the face. You have already seen thousands and
thousands of people where the lines have disappeared
from their faces completely. That is because harmony
has been established in the feeling world. Nothing in
the world makes the face become drawn and haggard
like continued anxiety.
Remember, Beloved Ones, you are no longer at the
mercy of the discordant forces of mankind, even though
you have helped to create them. You are positively not
subject any longer to their action upon you. Do not
accept it, oh, I plead with you! In the Knowledge of your
“Presence,” feel you can have the feeling of Security
and Protection that will sustain and bless you forever.
You see, we Children did not have to go through
what many of you are going through; and as we were
able, with Beloved Saint Germain’s Assistance, to
look down our Life Streams, it just so happened that—
it does not sound quite correct, but for the sake of
explanation I must use it—it just seemed to so happen
we had rendered Service in past lives that made it
possible at this time to have this Assistance. Now you
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do not know, Dear Ones, any one of you, what the

Service of the past may be which you have rendered
that might make that same thing possible for you.
That is why the Messengers have urged the people
always not to limit themselves even by the appearance
world today, because you cannot tell, you cannot know
how quickly you might enter into the Fullness of that
Freedom and Perfection. But if it requires more time
than you expect, please do not be discouraged or
disturbed when you know the Glory of your Victory
is absolutely certain. Then what does it matter if it
takes a few days, a few weeks, or a few years? Why, it
is of no consideration, Dear People. However, when
you definitely know the Goal is in sight, the Powers
of Infinite Light carry you forward to that Goal with
no uncertainty. The only thing required is your love,
gratitude, and harmony within your feeling world; and
the very Light of Life will carry you forward. Then if
you put intensity in your feeling with the Call, think
how much more quickly you will go forward to the
Goal, the end of all pilgrimages on Earth. Dear Ones,
mankind has surely struggled long enough.
I want you to realize, Beloved Ones, the love and
gratitude that the whole World owes to Blessed Saint
Germain. Mankind, even in their greatest love and
gratitude, cannot yet even imagine the magnitude of
that one Great Being’s Work. It is so magnificent!
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When I have seen—notice this, Beloved People—when

I have seen those Great Beings bow before Saint
Germain in honor to the Services He has rendered
the Earth, then you will understand how great is
that Service. If you knew the conditions that Blessed
One went through in His final initiation into that
Freedom and Victory, you would think your efforts
are nothing in comparison, and truly they are not.
Your experiences are angelic compared to what He
went through to attain His Victory.
So rejoice, People of Earth, that you are the most
fortunate of beings on this Earth today in having been
so privileged to live in physical bodies at this time—
to understand and know and, by the Powers of that
Presence of Light, gain your Victory now with the
least resistance the World has ever known. While the
greatest chaos reigns, yet in the Freedom and Activity
of the “Presence” are you having the greatest Privilege
mankind has ever had, because mankind has never
had such Assistance.
Therefore today, may this Radiation and these
Great Ones who have moved through the room
touching, pouring out the Radiation that is required
by each one—while you have been sitting here in the
room, They have been passing through the room
doing for you all possible for your Freedom and
Assistance. Try to feel and accept the Fullness of Its
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Sustaining Power acting in you, Beloved Ones.

In the Fullness of the Love of Our Hearts, We enfold
you with Our Strength and Courage—that which is
required of Us; and We are so happy to render every
Service within the Power of Our Beings for blessed
mankind and the blessed young people of America.
We never stop moving among them giving Courage
and Strength, and pouring through the Radiation here,
there, and everywhere. We never stop night or day,
because We know what it means now!
This Victory once won, is the Victory of Eternity
for mankind. I ask you beloved ones who have this
Understanding of your “Presence,” for every political
appearance that seems discordant or undesirable, in
the great Power of your Being, call to your “Presence”;
and in the Name of your “Mighty I AM Presence,”
say to that appearance: “You have no power! Be thou
dissolved now!” Then, Beloved People, you keep
released the Powers to govern those activities.
I wish to repeat one more thing. Whenever
anything irritating causes you to want to say
something unkind, remember it is the claw of the
sinister force’s hold on you, through your own human
creation, that wants to deprive you of your Light and
Freedom. Just remember that, and you will have no
difficulty in governing it. When you see it is that thing
that wants to deprive you of your Freedom, then you
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always have the Power and Strength to say to that

thing, “Be silent! and get out of my way forever!”
We have watched the many Students of America
who in firm determination say to those things: “You
have no power! Get out!” And you see how they
recede. But don’t forget to say, “Be thou dissolved”—
because human creations need to be dissolved and
consumed—and you will begin to feel the release.
I say to you, Beloved Ones, I ask you to watch it
when this Class is finished. You will have a Courage
and Power acting within your feeling world that will
amaze you. Accept It and let Its full Power act and
give you the Victory of your Freedom, by the Power
of that Radiation glorified—assisting and blessing
those among whom you move with that Courage and
Power, through the Power of Radiation. Oh, Dear
People, you have no idea how when you are filled
with the Courage, Power, Glory, and Joy of your
“Presence,” you pour forth that Radiation. You have
no idea how It will touch others and give them the
Courage and Strength to go on and win the Victory,
even though they have not heard of this Work or
understood It. Still, in the feeling world It is acting.
Therefore, rejoice in your mastery, in the sending
forth of that Power of Radiation, in the acceptance of
your “Presence” that fills the World with Happiness
and Freedom. I thank you.
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April 22, 1938

DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Beloved Friends and Students of Detroit, how great
is Our Rejoicing today in having an opportunity to
come among you. And will you allow Me tonight to
call your attention to certain conditions which you
can govern to bring you where We are today?
Remember, just a few years ago Rex, Nada, Pearl,
and myself were in human forms of limitation quite
similar to your own! Today We are wholly Free Beings.
Now please hold this point, as I continue to talk to
you, definitely in your consciousness. I had no more
idea of the Freedom that stood before me at the time
I first heard of It and this Good Messenger came to
Mr. Rayborn’s home, than you have tonight of your
Freedom. Yet We stand wholly Free Beings in the Octave
of Light, so transcendent that I tell you frankly, words
fail utterly to convey to mankind what their privilege
and right is. Yet We are there and all the human denials
in the world cannot change it, but the person who can
believe that—oh, I do not mean in your intellect, but in
your feelings—will have touched the mainspring of Life
that will breathe into your world the Freedom of Life.

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You know how the mainspring in a watch breathes; so

does your vibratory action of Life breathe into your
world its Freedom.
Do you know, Dear Ones, that in your attention
to your Great Presence of Life there is a rhythmic
breath—not in the physical form, but in your feeling
world—there is a rhythmic breath just like that [motion
of hand], moving all the time, a magnificent thing.
This is the first time this has ever been touched upon
before the Students, but I want you tonight—because
We are going to enter into a powerful activity here,
and you precious people and those who choose to
come under the Radiation of this Class for twelve
days, will find your Freedom.
Now this is not just a promise, but you are destined
to be Free if you will give your attention and hold
it upon your own “God Presence,” and know It is
the Power of Light that goes forth which knows no
opposite. Dear Ones, how We long to see the Students
get this; and yet so few have this firmly in their feeling:
that when they make the Call to the “Presence,” it is
the Power of Light that knows no opposite which goes
forth. When I think of these beautiful young people
no older than Myself, some of them younger, I say to
them especially, at this moment look at Me. I do not
mean the Messenger—you probably do not see Me,
but I am here just the same—but look at Me with your
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feeling eye. You can do that, and your physical sight

will say, “Well, where is He?” Right here!
Now look at Me with your feeling eye, Beloved
Ones; and let Me, through that Stream of Light by
which you are looking at Me through your feeling,
pour back to you that Power of Freedom which My
Life that has gained It, is. What can I pour to you
more than My Life? And it is My Life which I shall
pour into your feeling world tonight with the Power
of Freedom, of Victory; for Victory and the Goddess
of Liberty are pouring forth Their Rays which I shall
utilize to render this Service to everyone here and
every one of the sincere Students in Detroit this hour,
for We are not limited to just those present.
Oh try to feel, Beloved Ones, tonight as I am
looking at you, a Ray of Light from My Being goes
forth into the feeling world of everyone. It is all quite
natural, and therefore, to every sincere Student in
Detroit that same Ray of Light goes forth, because I
am not limited in that Power of Light and can project
a thousand, ten thousand Rays. And each one is just
as powerful and efficient as the others. Therefore,
when I say I am pouring forth to each one of you as
the requirement of your being demands, then I am
also pouring to all those absent, the same thing.
Now then, remember, Beloved Ones, this which
goes forth is a tangible Substance of Light. It is not
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just a rate of vibration, it is a Substance that goes forth

into your world; and if you can accept that in your
feeling and let it go forth into action, then a Power,
a Joy, a Courage, a Strength that you have not yet
experienced, no doubt, will take place in your world
of action.
Therefore tonight after this Meeting is closed,
before you retire, raise your hands to the “Presence”
in the privacy of your own room and say: “ ‘Beloved
Mighty I AM Presence!’ I accept all Your Power. Give
me the full Feeling that I need to gain my Freedom
through my Call to You! You take command of my
mind, body, and my feeling world; and charge it with
Your Limitless Energy, with Your Mighty Directing
Intelligence, with Your enfolding Invincible Power
of Protection!” As you do that, you will feel the
change. I guarantee you that there is not one of you
who will not. Then call your “Presence” to charge
that to be eternally sustained; and use your power
of qualification to anchor firmly in your world for
action, everything that you require.
Then as you feel that Serenity—oh, won’t you
watch your feelings as you do these things and see
how magnificently they act? Then as you do that, you
will find a confidence present in your feeling world
that you have not had there before. This is a definite,
powerful action.
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Dear Ones, won’t you please, every night before

you retire, keep charging your bodies and your feeling
world with Limitless Energy of the “Presence” so you
won’t be tired, irritable, or exhausted? When you
get tired you get irritable; but if you keep charging
yourself with the limitless energy of the “Presence”
there would not be that impulse or a sense of loss
of energy, and you would not find that old habit or
impulse of irritation trying to drive in.
Now We have seen this as We watch the activity
among the Students—and, oh, once you realize how
We love you, how We watch every moment for an
opportunity to render a Service to one, many, or all,
to give them that Strength and that Courage which We
know belongs to them, and which We have acquired
now and in which We are not limited in any way.
Therefore, you see the Unlimited Assistance
that is being offered you today—never before in the
history of the World, but it is real! We are Tangible
and have Limitless Power with which to assist you,
but We cannot do it until you make your determined
effort yourself. That effort is not like going out and
performing a daily, distracting, exhausting physical
labor. Your effort is a great calm, firm Call to your
“Presence” of all Life that beats your Heart.
Dear Ones, you of the Students, how many of
you beloved ones really fully understand that your
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“Presence” through that Ray of Light, beats your

Heart? Don’t you see, Beloved Ones, that you have
got to feel that, and know it definitely with Its Infinite
Power of Action? Oh, I know you know it with the
intellect, the head—but that is not enough. You have
got to know it with the feeling, and then hold that
steadfastly ever increasing in its joyous receptivity—
until you begin to feel that great Expansion of the
Light. Then you will feel that Light go forth before
you in any emergency with whatever is required,
taking Its Dominion and harmonizing everything
before you where you move.
We have watched It, and with the Students who
are earnest, sincere, and determined, that Light, that
Substance, that Energy goes out before them just as
tangible to Us as the physical body through which It
is pouring. Now I am saying this tonight to try to get
you into a deep, strong, more powerful feeling of this
powerful Substance of Light that goes forth before
you at your Call for any given objective or service.
You must feel It, Dear People. You must feel that the
Power which goes forth is the Substance of Light and,
knowing no opposite, It cannot help but perform that
Service which you require.
We rejoice in Our beloved ones who are so earnest.
And We rejoice, Precious, Beloved Young People of
Detroit, that you have the courage to stand forth in
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your Acknowledgment of the Light. Let Me say a

word to you tonight. Beloved Young People, there
will be many in the human octave that will ridicule
you just yet; but on the other hand you have the
Great Host of Ascended Masters, the Legion of Light,
and the Cosmic Beings who are your Friends! Which
do you want? The Beings of Light and Freedom and
Purity, or the human friendships, many of which will
drag you down to the depths? You have Free Will and
choice, Beloved Ones, to decide; and remember, the
human gratification of the senses is only a fragment
in a lifetime in comparison to one hour full of
consciousness and feeling of your “Presence.” That
is the vast difference between the Light of Perfection
and the human sense gratification.
Now then, what makes the change between the
human senses—which are but extensions of the finer
senses from which they come—and the finer senses?
Now you know, or perhaps you do by this time,
that in the Godhead there is always the Trinity of
Action. Therefore, what is the difference? Your power
of qualification which is a feeling within you! It is
invincible, and it is all-powerful in its action, so far as
your individual world is concerned.
Therefore, as the young people today understand
that the “Presence” of all Life which beats their human
Heart, makes them a Part of that great Perfection,
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then with purity in their thought and feeling, and

obedience to that great Life, Its ever-increasing,
intensifying Protection and Purity will flow forth into
their worlds. Then all that touches their worlds will
love to bless them and help them.
In making the Call for the Ascended Master
Friends to be raised up everywhere—which is one of
the most powerful things that every earnest, sincere
Student should do—how does that come about?
Now notice, these are practical Laws, every one of
them. How does that come about? By your power
of qualification as you call this ever-increasing,
intensifying Energy forth to act in your world.
You know, that “Presence” as you observe the Chart
here—that “Presence” is all-wise and all-powerful, and
is the Fullness of the Godhead individualized in action
in your world. Then think what it has been to have
forgotten that the “Presence” was there! Tonight I
am trying to offset everything in your feeling world
that has endeavored to hold your attention upon the
conditions that seem to be real in your outer world. Let
Me remind you that everything that outpictures through
those physical bodies has but one cause in the Universe,
and that cause is within your own feeling world. There
cannot be an outpicturing in the physical body that
was not generated in your feeling world!
Therefore, tonight, as I am pouring this Mighty
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Current of Energy and Substance into your feeling

world, so charge and qualify It now while I am
talking to you with Its eternally sustained Purity
and Perfection that will act within your world, ever
producing more of Its kind to give you the Courage
and Strength to stand against the whole world, if need
be, with your “Presence”—just as the Messengers have
had to do.
Think of it, two individuals going forth in the
world of mankind, upsetting—so to speak—every
human concept; and yet They were able to stand
against the world, and today five hundred thousand
people have the blessing and benefit of Their courage
and strength. Now you in your individual world can
be the same thing, because the same Power that gave
Them Strength and Courage to stand alone against
the world, gives you the same Power, Courage, and
Strength to stand against your world, or that which
you come in contact with. And remember, your
attention here [pointing to the “Presence”], leads you
into Eternal Freedom. Your attention on the world of
human beings, if it should get upon the wrong human
being, will drag you to the depths.
We know quite well, Beloved Ones, how many of
the Student Body are hoping and calling for some
outstanding Manifestation of Our Presence, and yet in
your midst constantly are Miracles after Miracles—so-
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called—performed: in the mighty healings, the mighty

freeing activity, the change in your feeling world, and
that courage and strength that is tremendous. And yet
because those are activities within your own human
body, the feeling world, you are so prone to accept
them as, well—quite ordinary. Far from that, Dear
Ones! They are most extraordinary because they are
changing and transforming your world into one of
Dominion and Perfection.
Therefore, as the Messengers did, say to all this
human creation—anything that appears before you that is
less than that Perfection: “Get thee hence thou powerless
human creation. You have no power to touch or act
within my world! ‘Beloved Mighty I AM Presence,’
take command here and hold Your Dominion! Produce
Your Perfection in my world and action!” Then hold
steadfast to that.
For your encouragement let Me say this. Among the
group that are here tonight there are some who have
more immediate answers to their Calls than others,
perhaps—well, should the person who does not have
such quick response be discouraged? Why, not at all! On
the other hand he should be greatly encouraged, because
it means that it is giving him an opportunity to release
greater Power, Energy, and Light from his “Presence”
to first charge his body, then out into his world, and
perform Its Service and hold Its Dominion there.
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Please do not look upon your world of action in the

human octave again—not once—as labor, as difficult,
or as problems. Look upon it as an opportunity
to compel you to call forth and release from your
“Presence” Its greater Power, Intelligence, Energy,
and Activity to take Dominion over the condition
that confronts you. Then you will find it disappear.
And after a while something else will come along
and then, just as the Messenger waves His hand,
will you be able to wave out of your world by this
increased intensification of the Vibratory Action
called forth from the “Presence,” everything less
than Perfection. It is quite as easy as it sounds. It only
means your unyielding attention in refusing to accept
the appearance as real or having any power, and then
holding it where the Power flows and remedies all
conditions and takes Dominion in your world.
It is important that you notice every little Victory
that you gain! Oh, not for any human exploitation,
but it will give you such courage, such strength of
action within your human form and your feeling
world as you never can conceive.
I remember in the mining school when I was there,
many problems came up, and I knew not a thing about
them or how to solve them. It is curious to Me now, and
you will be interested in knowing—especially the young
people—the one thought and feeling I had. Not knowing
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how this Inner Light was acting from within me, I did
not know I was being prompted. In my schoolwork
and examinations when something came up, I said
in my feelings, “Now there is an intelligence within
me that knows how to solve this!” That was my one
dominant thought during all my school years; and the
marvel of it was, as soon as I took that thought and
feeling, sometimes within a minute or within a few
minutes, the solution came just as clear as crystal—and
my associates, the boys in school, used to say to me,
“Bob, how in thunder do you get these things done
so quickly?” I never revealed it to them. My answer
was to them always, “Well, I know where there is a
problem, there must be a solution.” That is as much as
my feeling would allow me to say to them. But do you
know, Beloved Ones, I was voicing a good part of a
very great Truth, because in every problem, so-called,
is the solution—but you do not see it!
That is why Life is the most magnificent thing in
all the Universe, Dear People. Life is ready to release
Its Infinite Powers into action in and through you,
at any given moment. And look at the magnificent
things that were done through the Messenger. He,
like myself, knew not a moment before, that such a
thing was possible. These things in His experience
are real, Dear People, and should be the greatest
encouragement in the world to mankind for their
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strength and power of achievement.

Now let Me return again to that point where
Beloved Saint Germain released me from the body at
the mine and took me to the Cave of Symbols to meet
my mother—think of it, my mother whom I thought
had passed on through so-called death. Beloved
Saint Germain, without a moment’s preparation or
warning, sent word to me to retire early, which I
did. I went to sleep, and then was released from my
body and taken to the Cave of Symbols with that
Marvelous Being as escort; for while He sent the two
individuals to be my escort, yet was He my real escort,
as I have come to know since. Then when I arrived
there fully conscious, I met Nada, then my mother
as the glorified Being which She had become. To me
she was always very wonderful, but how much more
wonderful in that glorified, Perfect, Eternal Light Body
which She was wearing then and will forever. And
strange as it may seem, after the first few moments
of astonishment, just like a breath through my being,
came the feeling of the naturalness of it all. How did
that come, Beloved Ones, to me? Through the Power
of Vibratory Action which the Beloved Saint Germain
was releasing for my benefit and blessing.
In that hour that I was there to visit my mother,
such a transformation took place in my body at the
mine that when I awakened the following morning, I
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could scarcely realize that I was the same being that

went to sleep in that body. That is the Transforming
Power of Light, of Vibratory Action sent forth by
an Ascended Being. Now tonight, Beloved Ones, I
am rendering you in your waking conscious state a
slight Service of a similar kind, and according to your
acceptance will It be very great or small. If you can
accept It with the Love with which I give It, and the
Confidence and Assurance, then It will be a great
Transforming Presence, Power, and Activity in your
life, world, and your body.
The great Ascended Master whom you have come
to know as Cha Ara, before His Ascension, had called
forth first through outer substance drawn together,
then through precipitation, what the world has come
to think of—they do not comprehend it, but they have
come to think of it as the Elixir of Life. That has
been real throughout the centuries. He often gave
that to people, and in a few days the whole body was
transformed from racking pain into buoyancy, health,
and happiness. That Essence, that Substance, entered
instantly into the blood stream; and just as you have
heard the Messenger speak of the Violet Consuming
Flame going forth and seizing every impurity in the
blood stream—when It passed through, the work was
finished.
Now you today, every precious one of you, could
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start using the Violet Consuming Flame, for instance,

as if you swallowed It and then visualize that—mentally
making the picture of that Violet Consuming Flame
going through your throat into the stomach, cleansing
and purifying, then on in and through the intestines,
seizing every impurity that was there, cleansing and
purifying and holding that dominion there. Why,
Beloved Ones, you could free yourselves from any
condition that has ever beset the physical body quickly.
We want you to come to feel that full courage,
acceptance, strength, and confidence in your own
Application, so that the moment some disturbance
starts within your body, you call your “Presence”
first into action to take out of your feeling world the
cause of that; then charge forth, from the feet up, your
Violet Consuming Flame. Or if necessary, swallow It!
Does that sound peculiar? Oh, don’t think that! Dear
Ones, the Violet Consuming Flame can enter into
your throat and through your interior just as tangibly,
and remove every impurity and imperfection there.
It means that you must be firm and determined! Oh,
you cannot do it with just a haphazard manner and
get the result.
Don’t talk about these things you hear today to
other people until the whole accomplishment is there,
finished and complete. Wait until you know you have
the Victory over it, because human suggestions, Dear
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Hearts, turn so many people aside; and if they are

false and you believe them, then they act in your own
world through your belief.
Now Beloved Ones, let Me urge you about three
different things in your Application. First, while it is
absolutely imperative to use the entity Decree to keep
your world free from discarnates gathering about you
or intruding or affecting your world, yet for goodness’
sake, don’t become entity conscious or give yourself
the suggestion that every little thing that affects you
is an entity. Watch out for that, because you can so
hypnotize yourself by that thing that you create a
condition through your own feeling which has the
same effect.
Now then, in your Application, know that it is the
Power of Light that acts through your feeling to stir
the feeling into action. That is the acting Presence and
Power which, by the Purity, Power, and Perfection of
the “Presence,” you call forth. Then what is it in you
that gives you the full power of acceptance? Is there
anything in your body to act but the Power of Life
that beats your Heart? Then whatever ability you have
of acceptance is the Light of your “Presence” acting,
is it not? What gives you the energy to move your
body? The Light of your “Presence”! What gives you
the Intelligence with which to think? The Light of your
“Presence” anchored within your physical Heart.
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Remember, that between you and that Great

Individualized “God Presence” from out the Great
Central Sun, the Heart of God, is your Higher
Mental Body, magnificent in Its Splendor—your
Discriminating, Selective Intelligence that waits
and has waited throughout the centuries for you to
know It is there, and then through the Call to your
“Presence,” to give It the opportunity to charge forth
into your world everything.
Look, Beloved Ones, you are not dealing with
just your own Call. Your Higher Mental Body,
who has been waiting throughout the centuries,
will become the Authority in your world once you
give It the chance. Do you not think It will use
every opportunity—the slightest—to exert Its Energy,
release Its Powers of Action, Energy, and Intelligence
into your brain and through your physical body?
Therefore It is as anxious as you are, perhaps more
so, to produce Its Perfection in your world—Its Health,
Its Happiness, Its Harmony, Its Strength.
Therefore, Beloved Ones, please feel from this
hour henceforth, with great firm Determination and
All-powerful Acceptance, that everything which acts
through your body to produce action, intelligence,
achievement, happiness, courage, and strength is the
Light of your “Presence” beating your Heart. Then
do not let your power of qualification clothe that any
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longer with any discord in your feeling, or with any

consideration except Its All-powerful Action.
You all heard that, didn’t you [singing sound like an
electrical battery]? Everyone in the room heard that.
Some of you first thought it was the mike. That was the
Current of Energy from Chananda’s Home in India
where We spent so many happy days and weeks and
months. Don’t make any mistake, Dear Hearts, there
is always a physical action here with that; but the thing
that started it, is that Current of Energy.
Dear Ones, as the Great Presence of Life enables
you at your Call, to more and more harmonize
yourselves, there will be hundreds of the Groups in
America that will have those direct projections into
the room, through which they will have the evidence
of the Presence of Life under powerful enough
direction to satisfy anyone. In the Gobi Desert are
natural currents through which any individuals,
regardless of the expansion of their Light, may speak
to each other more than three hundred miles apart.
Those are natural currents. This Current tonight was
a consciously projected Current of Light and Energy.
I wish you could know just how wonderful It is. Oh
be of good cheer, Beloved Ones. All that your Heart
craves or desires will become, through your Call to
the “Presence,” a constant proof—Invincible—of the
Power of Light and Its Dominion in your world.
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The Messengers so often hear the signal from

that wondrous point of Light in the Pacific Ocean
northeast of the Island of Suva; and tonight you are
the first audience in America to have heard this, in
just this manner. It should be of great encouragement
to you in Detroit.
To our beloved, precious young people, how
precious they are. Oh, what it means to Us to see
brave, strong young people ready to turn to the Light
and let Its Great Blazing Presence cleanse and purify
and perfect their worlds. Oh, it is Wonderful! It is
Wonderful! You know—perhaps I am impulsive, but
I would like to hold each one of them in My Arms in
that Purity and Power of Light, enfolding them with
Its Mighty Courage and Strength, and carry them on
and on into that great Eternal Victory of the Light!
You are Children of the Light, O Beloved Ones;
for all that beats your Heart is Light. You might think
it is your blood stream, but it is Light. All that gives
you energy and power is Light, the Light of your
“Presence.” Therefore, in all the glory, enter into that
Light. Let that Light expand Itself within you, hold
Its Dominion there, and send you forth the Victory
of Life everywhere.
Again, remember Beloved Ones, I love you more
than you can love each other. My Love is pouring
forth to give you the Strength and Victory of that
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Light which you really are. Nada, Pearl, and Rex are
here assisting Me in that great Service. And think of
it, Beloved Ones—I want you to think of it, and not
let a day pass from now until the close of this Class
and as long afterwards as you like—remember that
We Children only a short time ago stood in limited
bodies like your own. Yet today We are Free forever!
Think of it, Rex who is the possessor of tremendous
wealth does not any longer require it; and yet He goes
to the mine and to the ranch, and they do not even
imagine that He is a free Being. They see the greatly
perfected body and sometimes when He has been
there, have said to Him, “Rex, what in the world is
this change we see in you?” “Oh,” says Rex, “I am
just trying to behave Myself!” That is His answer and
they accept it; yet He goes and directs the affairs still
in the physical world. I say this to you that you may
feel how real Ascended Beings are! They are not
something far off or transparent, so that you cannot
touch Them; but They are right here with you to
render that Service which you must have.
Beloved People, there is not a human being in
America today that could gain the Victory without
Their Assistance—not one, so be grateful that you
have come to know of those Great Ascended Beings
of Light. Look at the Magnificent Service that was
performed by the “Presence” of this Good Brother
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before you. Those things are real, and David Lloyd

is the eternal proof of it! Good heavens, Dear People,
if He were to stand forth in the tangible body for
only five minutes and release to you His Gratitude
for that Service rendered through this human form,
then would you almost Ascend at once!
Dear People, the great Power of Light has got to
give you that Assistance and the Power of Conviction
within you that releases you from human doubts and
questions, and sets you free in the full Power of the
Light that beats your Heart. That is the only real thing
in the Universe!
How forms are changing in the human octave
constantly! All things of form change. You build your
buildings and they disintegrate, they disappear; and
you replace them. For instance Delhi in India is the
seventh city built on the same spot. Mexico City is the
seventh city built on the same spot, and when that first
city was built, Mexico City was at sea level. Today, the
present city is five thousand feet above sea level.
Dear Ones, behold the Activity of Life everywhere
in Its Magnificent Splendor and Dominion; and
yet human beings, with the greatest Power in the
Universe, go on accepting limitations of human
creation when they could be free at once. Beloved
Ones, do not accept any more human limitations
because you have made mistakes. Don’t feel you
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must live in them any longer. Call on the Law of

Forgiveness for any mistake. Then call the Power of
your “Presence” into action to take Dominion and
hold It there forever. Then stand by It, unyielding,
until the outpicturing of that great Perfection is there
forever. It is within your ability, within every one of
you, to do it!
Think of it, individuals today in accepting the
race consciousness and feeling of age take on that
appearance; and yet there are those among mankind
who are seventy years old that scarcely look more
than thirty, right today—showing that the Light was
strong enough in them to not accept feelings in their
feeling world of the acceptance of race consciousness,
which gives you the sense of age. Of course the race
consciousness is that you are an old man or old lady
when you have reached sixty or seventy years, yet
that Life which beats your Heart is just as young as
It was at sixteen. Then your power of qualification is
what has made that appearance, is it not?
Oh, Beloved Ones, I know you are grasping
this tonight in your feeling world, and I charge it to
hold sustained its almighty action within you so that
tomorrow morning when you awaken you may feel
the full Glory of your Eternal Youth sustained! And
you precious young people with your beautiful faces
and forms, charge now your Great “Presence” to hold
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that Youth, Beauty, and Perfection in those physical

forms forever, until you have made your Ascension!
Then you will annul the race consciousness that, by the
appearance of the World before you, would produce
the appearance of age in your physical bodies.
You who have the appearance of age, how quickly
you could change and transform it, too, if you would.
Oh, it has no power to hold you longer, Beloved
Ones. That energy which gives you action, that Light
which beats your Heart is but One Presence and
Power—Eternal Youth! Try to feel It as the Dominion
in your consciousness, your feeling world, and your
body; and let It outpicture Its Beauty and Perfection,
which It is. You probably would not believe the years
that are over this body of the Messenger, and yet He
has limitless energy. He used to get tired the same as
you do; but when that mighty Current of Energy is
intensified, there is no lack of energy or strength or
power of action.
Just as We are here now—We could go on until sunrise
tomorrow morning and not one of you would feel tired,
or not one of you would feel the sense of your weight
upon those chairs, if We chose to do it. That is the Power
of Light under conscious direction, which every one of
you can experience if you only will.
Beloved Ones, tonight in this Service that has
been rendered you, cherish it within your Heart as a
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Sacred Moment. Don’t discuss it tomorrow. Don’t talk

of it to anyone, but just let its great Power flow forth.
Then each morning as you awaken and start forth,
say: “ ‘Beloved Mighty I AM Presence,’ project Your
Mighty Radiance of Light before me; harmonize
everything I touch this day!” Then see how quickly
you will find that Light taking Its Dominion in your
world of action; and things that might have been
unpleasant, you will find smiling back at you.
As you give forth, so shall you receive. If you pour
out love, kindness, and blessing, then shall that love,
kindness, and blessing flow back to you—and, notice,
from those who once sent you the opposite. Now that
does not mean that you must not be firm against the
human conditions of the outer world that would govern
and control you, but it means that in that outpouring
of Divine Love, kindness, and blessing is that firmness
which is the Commanding Presence over human
qualities. That is the thing to be sure of in this Activity
of this Light. Don’t think for one moment you must
make yourself a doormat for any human being—not at
all. But that does not prevent your pouring forth that
great majestic outpouring of love and kindness to every
person, place, and condition; for in that is the Great
Stream of Light which brings back to you Its Gifts of
Beauty, Supply, and Perfection.
I tell you it is magnificent, Beloved Ones, today, how
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many thousands and thousands of people in America

are coming to find truly, through their experience, that
their own “Mighty I AM Presence” is their Treasure-
house, and that in their attention to that “Presence” is
the Limitless Supply from Its Treasure-house which
flows into their world and brings Its Dominion there.
Try to stand firmly by It and experience the Joy and
Happiness which It brings.
I give to you the Love, Blessing, and Protection of
the Ascended Masters, the Legion of Light, and the
Great Cosmic Beings—that according to the sincerity
of your Call and the acceptance of Their Reality in
your feeling world, will your Freedom come quickly
or require time, as the human sense consciousness
knows it. But to the degree that you can put aside
all human concepts, turn with your face to the Light
and the Presence of Life, the “Mighty I AM,” and
then accept the Assistance that the Great Beings of
Light offer, will you quickly find you have entered
into a world of Dominion and Light, filled with the
Perfection of all that you require for physical use, and
through the Action and Power of Light.
I extend to you the Love and Blessings from
the Great Host of Light; and in your city where
so much is needed in harmonizing, cleansing, and
purifying, may you as outposts of that Eternal Light
of the “Presence” let Its Great Radiance flow forth
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to flood your city and perform as great a Service as

was recently performed in Washington, D.C. May
the Glory of that Light flood your beings and your
city, and glorify everyone with the Understanding of
the Source of Life, their “Mighty I AM.” Then call It
into action and let It take Its Dominion to bless your
world with Happiness and Perfection. I thank you.
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May 17, 1938

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
Beloved Ones, try to feel tonight My Great
Happiness and Enthusiasm. Saint Germain has
asked Me tonight to do My best to release through
that Mighty Power of Radiation, the Happiness that
every one of you needs.
I seem to have reached that point of limitlessness
in My Expression of Happiness. Every day that
Happiness, it seems to Me, grows greater; and when
We see in some small way that We can convey that
Happiness to Our blessed brothers and sisters of the
Light, for such you are—oh, feel it! Feel that you are
Beings of Light, Dear Hearts; although you have
experienced unhappiness in the past for various
reasons, oh, please dismiss it. No longer has it power
to hold or bind you in your Great Presence of Life.
It cannot do it if you just won’t let it.
Try to understand this one particular point; and if
it is necessary on your return home tonight, make a
note of it to keep you reminded: anytime something
confronts you that would create a disturbance of
some kind, instantly remember your “Presence” is

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the Power instantly on guard that will prevent it, that

will dissolve cause, effect, and record of that. If it has
come from some past condition in your experience,
then that Activity will instantly dissolve and consume
it; and if it be from some outside condition, then the
Power of the “Presence” will repel it.
I want you to realize, if you will tonight, that here is a
point of discord—over here is a point of harmony. When
your attention is there [pointing to point of discord],
you are accepting the discord that is there. All you need
to do is change your attention over here to the point
where the power of happiness and perfection is, and
instantly you are absorbing, accepting into your world
the outpouring of that happiness. And why? Because
here at the point of discord is but human creation,
and it has no power except the Life that individuals
feed into it by their attention. Over here is the Power
of Happiness which is Eternal—“the Light of God that
never fails.” Its Power is an ever-increasing Activity
and is the Authority of Light.
That is the difference, Beloved Ones, between
putting your attention on something limiting
and discordant, or over here on the Power of the
“Presence” which holds all Perfection and all Power
of Activity within your human form to accept a
condition or reject one you do not want.
You are the choosers in your world, Beloved Ones,
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of how this energy shall act! Oh, if you continue to

allow your attention to go from one point to another,
how are you going to direct that energy in constructive
power of action? Now remember, Precious Ones, it
is not difficult. You can look at that wall or you can
look at this wall. There is not anything in the world
that can prevent it. Then if your attention has in an
unguarded moment become fixed upon limiting
discordant things, turn it to the “Presence” and say
[to the discord], “You have no power there.”
In your Decrees when a body of individuals like
this tonight—I was watching definitely for the action
when you said to human creation and repeated it
three times, “You have no power.” My Dear Ones,
could you have seen that Activity tonight you would
know definitely that when you declare that with
intense feeling—shall I tell you what has been released
into action for the Students the first time tonight? I
may not give you the full Explanation. It will no
doubt be given during the Class.
There are a great many people who do not get
sufficient feeling into their Call for the use of the
Violet Consuming Flame. Now then, you are going to
have assistance whether you want it or not. Whatever
the Cosmic Light has chosen to do, I cannot at this
time give you the Explanation of; but I tell you,
Dear Ones, you remember that Rex said to you last
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night: as this Radiance grows greater, people with

destructive motives won’t stay long.
Now I tell you, Dear Hearts, this is no idle thing.
This Power of the Violet Consuming Flame is going
into action with tremendous Power, in addition to
your Call. And as I have called your attention to It
tonight, please, every time you call the “Presence”
into action to use It, remember—and you do not need
to know why it is so, but just accept that you are
having the intensified assistance of that.
How do you suppose the Great Divine Director
dissolves the remainder of your human creation? By
the use of the Violet Consuming Flame, of course.
When They have seen the great earnestness among
the Students, and yet so many not understanding—and
I mean by that, they have not stood guard sufficiently
over their own feelings to detect what is acting, so that
they accept things in their feelings, and things that
disturb them and make them feel their Application
is not energized enough or strong enough to produce
the results. That is not the case. There is not one
of you in this room that could not produce gigantic
results at your Call, but you would have to keep out
of your feeling all questioning of it.
You see, Dear Ones, if you have made Application
and then a half hour later you question its fulfillment,
do you see you have annulled largely the power of
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its action because you are the qualifier of this energy.

If you left it alone, it would do wonders for you;
but you won’t do it. You still insist in imposing your
qualification upon it. Oh, Precious Ones, if you would
only watch this more closely—what is acting in your
feelings—how much more quickly would you erase
the whole thing.
There are just thousands and thousands of the
Students today who are coming to the point where,
just like that, they could sweep their hand forth and
everything would be dissolved that has ever limited
or bound them; and I want you to watch it. There will
be thousands of the Students in the next few months
who will just suddenly feel arise within them that
great Power of the “Presence,” and with one mighty
sweep they will be Free!
I tell you, you cannot give attention to the
“Presence,” you cannot issue these Mighty Decrees
as you are doing and have mankind stay bound.
You cannot do it, it is impossible! Now, We see the
results. You do not, because the Purification, the great
glorious activity is going on from within out; and that
is the only way you can produce permanent results.
Heretofore, you have been gathering from without
in; and now you are reversing the whole situation,
and you are pouring out. All cleansing, purifying
activity is taking place within your feeling and mental
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world; and then as that is completed, the flesh has to

outpicture the Beauty, Purity, and Perfection which is
there, because that is the Power of Light in your body.
Oh, Dear Ones, it is so magnificent and is so
simplified once you get the clear idea of it; and I plead
with you, do not let it feel complicated to you. Again
I say to you: Why do you suppose these Great Ones
compelled this to come forth in a simple language
that even a child can understand? How the unkind
critics have often criticized that language! There is no
puny human being who is the authority over what
an Ascended Master shall say and do. I marvel at
it—I should think they would be so ashamed in their
limited imperfection to sit in judgment upon a Being
that is wholly perfect, because They want to use your
own slang. When mankind get out of themselves the
silly pride and egotism of what they think is authority
in the World, then they will be ready to turn to the
Ascended Masters and, with bowed head and bended
knee, acknowledge the Supreme Presence of Life
and let It cleanse and purify them—and they too will
become those Great Beings of Light and Perfection.
Oh Dear Ones, you precious Students which you
are, don’t for anything in the world let a moment’s
pride, egotism, or any condition of that kind have
action in your world. It just deprives you again and
again. Did you ever know that there is a very great
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humble dignity? Do you know that? When you

behold an Ascended Master in the Tangible Body for
the first time, you will know what My Words mean
to you tonight. There is humble dignity, the greatest
in the Universe; and if any one of those Great Ones
was suddenly to stand forth visible before you, one
would be as humble as a little child—unless some
destructive forces attempted to act, and then as that
Form straightened and the Light blazed forth from
those Eyes, would you know the Dignity of Life.
Life in itself, Beloved Ones, in your very veins and
beating your Heart, is that dignity, is that happiness
which every Heart is craving; but because mankind
has not understood, it continually keeps accepting
the appearance world of limitation and conditions of
disturbance until that energy cannot produce what it
naturally is.
Do you not see, Beloved Ones, that this Life which
flows into your body and beats your Heart, of itself is
that dignity, happiness, and power of Life which knows
no opposite? And then to think that mankind has so
forgotten that, that in their allowing most undesirable
qualities to clothe that energy as it goes forth, it then
returns bringing more of its kind to them.
These are the things that mankind must
understand, and you must not mind if We keep this
before your attention. It is the most vital thing in the
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world! The Messengers have preached harmony in

your feelings for four years, and will keep it up for
fourteen if you can’t get it because, Dear Ones, you
cannot be free unless you see those things, those
qualities within yourself, and eradicate them by the
Power of the Light that beats your Heart.
How much do you think your Higher Mental Body
loves you? You think you love each other sometimes,
but think! Think of the Ascended Masters and your
Higher Mental Body. Think of the Activity for
your Presence: It never for one minute has a single
thought or feeling except just pouring forth Its Love
and Blessings to you and through you. And when It
cannot get through unqualified sometimes if there is
too much disturbance, It just withholds the energy.
Then you feel all wrung out.
Oh, I know all about these things. Just think of it,
Beloved Ones, only just a few years ago we Children
were in limited bodies the same as the rest of mankind,
and when this great so-called Miracle took place, We
found Ourselves so free and able to render such a
wonderful Service. Oh, Dear Ones, buckle on your
armor! Do whatever is necessary to maintain harmony
in your feelings so that your “Presence” can pour forth
Its mighty cleansing, purifying Power, Its harmonizing
Presence so that you can go forth Free, wholly Free!
Many of you are standing at the doorway of that
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perfect happiness, and of course it brings the limitless

supply of everything you require. Oh, don’t you see
it; don’t you feel it, Dear Ones? I am sure you do.
This is quite a serious thing with individuals, but it
is certainly comical to Us. We see individual actions.
Oh, they are so enthusiastic and so dynamic, and
all of a sudden something pops up in front of them
and instead of saying to that appearance, “You have
no power!”—they say, “Oh dear, what am I going to
do?” It is true, very true, Dear Ones. But that is the
moment you are off guard. Many later straighten up
then and face the thing and throw it out. You know
there is not one thing in this world, Precious Hearts,
that can terrify you. Then what do you suppose it is?
It is just yourself. It is not the thing or the condition
that deprives you, but just yourself.
It is very wonderful, Beloved Ones, for in this
repetition, hundreds and hundreds are gaining that
perfect confidence in themselves and their Application;
and they are seeing more and more clearly these
little things. So many little things that they have
paid no attention to whatsoever, have built into that
structure which brings terrific fear. Just here, there, and
everywhere they have gathered those little things. They
have taken them into their feeling world and they were
not aware of it, and all of a sudden it comes forth.
Do you know there is no cause for fear in the
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world? Saint Germain gave me one of the most

amazing lessons at the time referred to in the Books,
when He asked us, the quartette, to sing. I had never
sung in public, and for a moment I just was terrified
at the very thought! And when He said to me, “Bob,
don’t you trust Me?”—well, that was a little too much.
With His spoken Word, I afterwards knew that whole
thing—cause, effect, and record—was dissolved within
me, for I never had it again. Now that is just the way
with your “Presence.” It can release Its Power of
dissolving Energy into your body and your feeling
world which will dissolve cause, effect, and record.
Now may I ask you just a frank question? Have
you ever been tired of issuing those Decrees or
making the Call to your “Presence”? Do you know
what that does? In those Words you are gathering a
Power and Momentum of which you have not the
slightest concept today, but We see that acting within
your mental and feeling world. We see that Power
gathering, and We have seen a number of times where
the individuals had gathered it to a point where, in
just one more surge, that great Power would have
released and they would have gone forth Free! But
they listened to some unkind gossip, some destructive
expression concerning the Light; and that swept into
their feeling world and down they went.
Dear Ones, I trust you can feel with Me tonight
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the vital importance of this. If you knew what five

minutes listening to some discordant gossip does—it
does not make any difference what it is about, but some
destructive, discordant conversation which you naturally
term gossip—if you could see what that does in your
feeling world, Dear Hearts, you would no more tolerate
or listen to it than you would pick up a rattlesnake that
would strike its poison into your veins. I tell you, in that
you would only lose your body, but you make records
that mankind have built and built for centuries! And
then think, today in so short a time, so many thousands
of people are being set Free!
Do you know—now don’t be discouraged when
I say this—do you think that is wholly by your own
Application? Oh no, no, no, Dear Hearts—but your
earnest Application has opened the door to that
Assistance which the Great Powers of Light are giving
you. And oh, could you but see daily the great surge
of Energy, the great Light Rays that go forth when you
are feeling just a little bit down! Haven’t many of you
in that down feeling, all of a sudden just come up like
that? I know there are those that have experienced it,
because I have seen it done with many.
What a Service it is to render! We who are Free,
as We watch among the Students and see those who
are needing encouragement and strength, then by the
projection of a Light Ray We enfold them like that—and
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they feel that great Strength, Courage, and Happiness

again. Dear Ones, no one ever won any victory in
anything by crumpling up before the appearance of
any kind of disaster. They never did. And I say to you,
Beloved Students, suppose you failed a thousand times
in the beginning of your Application, why would that
be any reason you should discontinue It when you have
gone through thousands of centuries building this thing
that has put you in such limitations?
Think of it! Today you have the Powers of Light
at your command! Then why feel one moment’s
discouragement because your Application has not
fulfilled all your desires! Because if you were to
analyze yourself you would see how many times
irritation and disturbance drove in, qualifying and
clothing that Energy as It went forth to do your
bidding—and therefore, It could not do it.
Oh, Dear Ones, I know well enough it is not easy
when you are surrounded by discordant limiting
conditions or individuals who are constantly pounding
at you doubt and distress and falsehoods concerning
this Work, this Light that is the Freedom of the World
and mankind. I know it is not easy; but if you will learn
to be silent in the presence of those individuals, and
then with great firm Inner Determination call forth that
Light and say silently: “Mighty Light, go forth! Dissolve
this human quality! Silence this thing that is driving at
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me the falsehood of human creation! Go forth, Mighty

Power of Light! Fill my home, fill my conditions, and
silence this human thing that is here.” You are not
harmonizing individuals, but you are silencing and
dissolving those qualities that disturb you.
Once beloved mankind awaken to give freedom to
each other, then will mankind know such happiness,
and then will the home life of mankind be restored
to the great purity and perfection which it once was.
Today, in the great chaos—and I say this to you ladies
and gentlemen—the great chaos that has driven into
the consciousness of mankind and its feeling world,
why has it tried to destroy all the blessings and
sweetness of home life? I did not know that such
things existed in the world until Our Freedom. Our
home life was so beautiful, so harmonious. We never
knew what it was to have any kind of discord; and yet
when I see today—and shall I say to you that ninety
percent of the conditions of unhappiness and discord
in the homes is consciously projected!
Now here is a point I wish you, every Student,
tonight—if you will please hold close to it and remember
it: a great deal has been said about discarnate entities,
about mankind consciously projecting discord to each
other; but do you know that one of the most subtle
things in the world is individuals going about among
their fellowmen with a seething vortex of resentment,
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hatred, anger, or some condition revolving like a

triphammer in their feeling world—and then they come
among mankind. Do you see what that does? Do you
see how you make yourself responsible for every particle
of that which is absorbed or accepted by someone else?
Dear Ones, these are Mighty Laws; and unless
mankind has the explanation of Them and tries to
understand Them, how are they going to correct it?
You cannot correct a thing in the world unless you
understand why it is so. When a condition exists, if
you do not know what is going on, you don’t see the
need for its correction; you do not see and know how
it is creating havoc in your life. That is why We try
with such Infinite Patience and in such detail to cover
these points in the quiet stillness in these Groups,
so that all comprehend more fully the qualities, the
conditions, the activities with which everyone is in
contact every hour of the twenty-four.
Let us begin from the greater and come down to
your individual—your physical body for instance.
Around the Golden City in the Etheric Belt is a Belt
or Force that not one single thing in the Universe
lower than Its own vibratory action can penetrate
under any circumstance. Around each Planet is its
own Belt, its own Radiance of substance finer than
itself, through which nothing can penetrate—coming
in or going out—except what is projected by the
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group of Ascended Masters who are the Governing

Power of that Planet. Likewise the Great Ones, the
Governing Power of the Golden City, have created
that Belt around there, which no discordant thing or
anything else lower than Its own vibratory action can
penetrate.
Yet today, in the marvelous information that
has been given you, showing how you can call the
“Presence” to produce this Tube of Light—you could
absolutely move in a charmed world within that Tube
of Light if you would insist with firm determination
that your Call to the “Presence” has produced It, and
would keep that up. But then you cannot afford to let
discordant feeling come within your feeling world.
If you would understand—and in doing that, the
Tube of Light would become so Invincible that you
would not feel a discordant thing from the outer
world. Now believe Me, Dear Hearts, when I say
this. This is no idle talk: that Power going forth, that
Focus—when you call your “Presence” to produce
the Tube of Light—that “Presence” is Infinite Love,
Wisdom, and Power; and that which goes forth is Self-
luminous, Intelligent Substance, which is Light and
knows no opposite. Then how can It fail to act about
you? And as you hold your feeling harmonious, that
will get stronger and stronger and stronger; and you
will have less desire to be disturbed, because the
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outside source of it will have been cut off.

That is why, Beloved Ones, with so great a Love—
oh, you cannot imagine how We want you to have
this Freedom. The Ascended Masters who have so
long been in that great Freedom, They see and They
have Great Infinite Patience; but We who have so
recently been set Free—oh, with such tremendous
Happiness and Enthusiasm We charge and pour
forth because We are not limited, We are not lacking
in Energy or Powers. Sometimes when Rex, Nada,
Pearl, and I have walked through the Classrooms—
why, I tell you, sometimes I have thought We were
releasing Energy enough to lift the roof off! And I tell
you, Detroit showed the proof of it; and it is going to
show it more and more if I have to call the Powers of
the Universe into action.
These Children of Earth are going to be Free, whether
they want it or not. When We have this Freedom with
scarcely any effort, and when you are making the effort
you are and are sincere—no matter whether you are
understanding fully or not—I insist that you have that
Freedom. And believe it or not, Dear Ones, as long
as you will stand steadfastly by your Presence of Light
and make your Application, be it humble or great,
then I tell you, that Power shall release to give you
every Assistance and all the Courage and Strength that
is possible for your achievement. Please do not ever
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doubt it again, if you have before.

I tell you this thing is going to cease. When there
are thousands of Students in America today with such
earnest enthusiasm and joy in their Application—I do not
care what the rest of them are creating, it has no power
to touch these Beloved Students; and I will blast every
destructive thing and creation before it shall continue
to harm and affect these Students. Now believe it! We
mean business, and I hope you do as much!
Beloved Ones, I know this is a very delicate point
to touch upon, but I am going to say it whether it is or
not. When individuals—it doesn’t make any difference
to Me whether it is husband, wife, friend, brother,
sister, or whoever it is—when there is one human
being who thinks he or she can dominate another
and make a mop rag out of that one, I tell you it is too
much; but that condition exists in many parts of the
World, and in thousands of homes. I want to tell you
if that individual—whether feminine or masculine—
would stand up and say to that force: “You have had
your day. Now shut up!” and mean it and feel the
Power of the “Presence,” that destructive thing that
has browbeaten and beaten down blessed, timid,
humble individuals, would do it no more.
This Power of Light that beats your Heart is
Supreme! You don’t have to be unkind and perform
a tragedy, but you can assert the Power of your
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“Presence” and make that human destructive thing

be silent and shut up. It is a pitiful thing existing in the
World today. Dear Hearts, there is no human being in
existence that should try to dominate another.
You notice how the Messengers leave every human
being absolutely free. Of course there have been a
few half-sane individuals that said the Messengers
were trying to become dictators. Well, the Messengers
are keeping the Work of Saint Germain clean and
pure; and mark what I tell you, that Beloved Saint
Germain’s Work of the centuries will be kept clean
and pure and there is nothing of mankind’s creation
that is going to get mixed up in It! That Work is the
Freedom of every human being on Earth who will
apply It and forget everything else, but the people
who try to mix It up with Tom, Dick, and Harry and
everything else, won’t have Freedom.
Dear Hearts, you might just as well face yourself
and your world. The Great Divine Director and Great
Ones—and They know—have said to the Students if
they would forget everything else they had studied,
they would have their Freedom very quickly. If they
do not want to do that, it is their own business; but
when those Great Ones have said that, it should be
Authority enough to try it out for a while.
This sounds like a dictator—but Dear Ones, Our
Love is so great that when We see and know what
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will produce your Happiness, Freedom, Supply, and

Perfection, do you blame Us if We put it to you in
plain truth? We have got to do it if you are going to
be Free. It is not that We are trying to deprive you of
anything, but give you everything. This Application
of Saint Germain’s will produce it if you do not allow
other things to come in and intrude.
Look at the Messengers—They were willing to forget
everything else on the spot. When this Messenger
returned from those experiences, They wiped out
everything in Their lives that They had ever studied
or thought of; and Their Freedom is at hand. They
have accomplished what no other two individuals in
America or the World have ever accomplished.
That is why, Dear Hearts, tonight when I find the
opportunity, I try so earnestly to make it clear and have
you understand what the seeming necessity is, in order
for you to have your Freedom more quickly. We want
to give you every Assistance. Tonight I think I shall tell
you—will you count the number of evenings in your
Groups and then count the days in the Classes, and then
understand the Mighty Elements that are being charged
into your feeling world to give you that Assistance which
everyone needs and will have, with their acceptance,
to give them their Freedom quickly.
Dear Ones, never in the history of the Earth has so
much been done for mankind. In all your earnestness
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I want you to feel deeply that your Application brings

forth the Power of Light which knows no opposite and
only asks the harmony of your feeling world to let It
come forth and build and build with great rapidity,
until all of a sudden that Great Power becomes so
Great that It just flows forth and your whole world
becomes one of Happiness and Harmony.
My Happiness is so great tonight in being able to
convey this with sufficient positive force to dissolve and
consume so much that has been disturbing you. You
may not see it just now, but before the end of the week
you will see it. Take advantage, Dear Hearts, and in the
remainder of the Group Meetings charge yourself night
and morning, that your “Presence”—or through your
Higher Mental Body, It enables you to comprehend,
accept, and hold firmly in action every Quality that the
Ascended Masters have given forth into your feeling
world for action. You will get so much more powerful
action out of it, so much quicker results.
If at any time doubts or fears beset you, just straighten
yourself and say to them: “Now I can look you straight
in the eye and tell you that you have no power. And
I mean it with the full Power of my ‘Presence’! Now,
can you do anything against my ‘Presence’?” It knows
it cannot, and you will have no back talk. Dear Ones, I
just tell you, you have got to be firm and strong in the
refusal of acceptance of these appearances anymore.
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If something suddenly looms up in front of you

that seems terrifying, say, “Hold on just a minute,
you are outside of my world,” and then call instantly
to your “Mighty I AM Presence” and the Ascended
Masters to dissolve and consume that thing, cause,
effect, and record, no matter where it comes from.
You will see how quickly you will be absolutely free
from any touch of it; and in this firmness you are
gaining, you will find just the same as the Messenger
does, your one Call will do the work.
In the action that is required today, feel the full Power
of your “Mighty Presence” in action every moment.
And if you ask your Higher Mental Body to stand
guard over you, prompt you, and make you alert to
every condition, and cause you to understand what is
necessary on the spur of the moment—why, you will
soon be acting in perfect accord with all your “Presence”
requires to dissolve and consume conditions, and set
yourself free from them. I tell you, I do not care if those
conditions have existed for centuries, they have no
power as soon as you turn to your “Presence,” call on
the Law of Forgiveness, and ask that they be dissolved.
That moment they have no power to affect you and
your world. Oh, please feel it.
I assert to you tonight again, did you see with
the All-seeing Eye within you, the Service the Great
Divine Director has rendered to your city of New
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York—never was a greater Miracle performed on the

face of this Earth than that, up to this date. Because
the need was so great, and because He wished to
establish a Mighty Focus of Light as was described to
you on Sunday, it had to be done—or your city could
not survive.
And great praise, thanks, and gratitude to you
blessed earnest, sincere Students in your city and
environment, for the wonderful Service rendered! It
has seemed to you possibly not so much, but oh, it is
so much greater than you can possibly comprehend
as yet. So please accept Our Word for it, until you see
the fullness of it yourselves. It is great! And could you
see the great Intensity of the Work of the Students
in the Groups and individually since the last Shrine
Class in Los Angeles, you would be amazed. It is
increasing so tremendously, and there are scarcely
any of the Students that have not increased the
intensity of their own releasing power.
You will remember that there were a great many
whose human creation has been wholly and completely
dissolved and consumed by the Great Divine Director;
and those individuals—oh, they might not feel any great
change outwardly, yet the Power released at their Calls
is a hundredfold greater than before that was done.
You see mankind is so impatient to see some great
marvelous Manifestation that they sometimes forget
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that they are looking for the Manifestation instead

of the Light. Don’t do that. Don’t worry about the
Manifestation, Beloved Ones; it will come fast enough
and be great enough when you have given sufficient
attention to your “Presence” and the Light.
Oh, don’t worry about what is going to happen,
but just go on in great Adoration and the Call to your
“Presence,” and let your “Presence” govern all that.
Then one day when you least expect it, some great
tremendous thing will rush forward into action. Then
you will be satisfied forever.
Do you know—of course you don’t—the Messenger
had a letter today. You see I am reading His letters—
and this individual said: “Why do I doubt this
and that, ... when I have had Manifestations of the
‘Presence’ enough to satisfy the most skeptical?” Can
you imagine—an individual who has had all that proof
of the Law of the “Presence”? I am using this as an
illustration.
Now this is the point! What is acting in that Blessed
One? I went on purpose to investigate, because it was
so unusual, and I found that one was scarcely using
the Violet Consuming Flame at all. Now Dear Ones,
mark what I tell you: when something is continuing
to try to intrude, it is through subtle suggestions of
feeling, either within yourself or elsewhere. And if you
will use the Violet Consuming Flame with sufficient
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intensity—I mean by that, call the “Presence” to do it,

and then you in your intensity of acceptance, feel that
charge through your body—you will find those things
will cease to be.
That is imperative. Mankind has got to do it
if they are going to be free from what are many
times just little things which suddenly intrude
and are disturbing. Be firm and unyielding, and
don’t forget those two things: Refuse acceptance of
every discordant limiting thing; and say to those
things: “You have no power!” It does not make any
difference if you have said it a million times; if you
keep it up, one day it will smash down all resistance
of destructive forces whether it is your own creation
or someone else’s. There is nothing that can stand
before that Great Command!
Do you know what that is? I wonder, do you?
When you say to the appearance of limitations or
disturbance, “You have no power,” do you not see
it is the Power of Light—your “Presence”—voicing Its
Great Command there for you, to keep you free from
the effect of those conditions. It matters not whether
it is your own creation or somebody else’s; that has
nothing to do with it. It is a Great Command going
forth to silence that thing; and once you understand
that, you will only require one Command like that to
set yourself Free!
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Do you not see, you could not have the Intelligence,

you could not have the Power, you could not have
the Understanding to issue a Mighty Decree like that,
except through the Power of your “Presence.” Don’t
you see the human could not do it? Furthermore, when
you do say that, it is the Power of your “Presence,” the
Power of Light that has issued that Mighty Decree for
your Freedom. Try to feel it, Beloved Ones!
I know you feel it. Rex, Pearl, and Nada are here
tonight with Me, and I convey to you Their Love and
Blessings. Let Us help you into that Victory; We want
to so much. And if someday you get just a little bit in
the dumps, just send Me your thought and feeling—
and if you do not come out of that in a hurry I will
be surprised!
Saint Germain very often smiles at Our great
Enthusiasm. You know, it is said that youth does not
always have discrimination; but thanks to Him We do
have It now, and that Enthusiasm shall never cease.
And when We can project a Light Ray to any one
of you precious ones and give you Our Happiness,
Enthusiasm, Joy, Strength, and Courage, oh, can you
know the Happiness that it gives Us? No words can
describe those Mighty Activities.
I have been quite tempted sometimes when
individuals feel a little down, to give them a good sound
slap on the back; but I know that it might frighten
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them, rather than give the assistance I am endeavoring

to give. One time many, many years ago, when this
Good Messenger was still eating meat and He had gone
to a restaurant and had a nice juicy steak, when He
cut off the first bite the clarion Voice—and He thought
everybody in the block heard it—said, “This is your last
meal of meat!” He thought, well if that is the case, I will
go on and finish this. He took a bite; and the longer He
chewed it, the larger it got. Finally it got too large to
swallow, so that was the end of the steak. Dear Ones,
many, many people have wonderful promptings, but
they so soon forget them. So watch!
I do not mean that you should jump to every kind
of conclusion—not at all; but watch with great calm
serenity for these Inner promptings, as they are very
apt to come through your feelings gently, but sometimes
forcefully. Watch for those promptings and call to your
“Presence” to prompt you. Your Higher Mental Body
will do it for It knows the need of your Call.
If you don’t call, you won’t get them, except as the
general expansion of your Light finally brings them
forth into action. However the result is worth every
effort of many lifetimes, Dear Ones, to come into
that Freedom.
If you could know how the Messenger feels towards
you, Blessed Ones, when He has that great Serenity
and Freedom and wants you to have it so much—yet He
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knows that it must come through your Application and

your acceptance, and He must be patient until you see
and feel clearly and stand guard, calling forth the Inner
promptings to make you alert and aware of all that is
required, so that you give that sufficient Obedience to
the Light to let this quickly be done.
I rejoice so greatly at the Achievement of this night,
and may every one of you join Me in that great rejoicing,
gratitude, praise, and thanks to the Great Presence and
Power of Light that does everything so perfectly, so
beautifully and eternally; for all Accomplishment of
the Light is a permanently sustained Activity and never
has to be redone. Therefore, every step you gain in the
release of the Powers of Light stands there firm and
unyielding until more steps are gained and finally you
stand upon the pinnacle of Life, looking back upon
all that has been; and then turning your face to the
“Presence,” looking back again say to that creation,
“How could it be possible that once thou didst bind
me in thy limitations?”
Remember! you are Ambassadors of Light—
the Powers of the Presence of all Life in action at
your point in the Universe. As you call Its great
Commanding Powers forth into action, is there
anything that could refuse It, could resist It, or
prevent Its Perfection coming forth into action and
expression? Remember, there is nothing that could
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do it! Therefore, in the confidence of your own Call,

feel It deeply. No matter what has been, know from
this hour forth you are the Victor of your Call. It is
the Light of your “Presence” that answers, and you
cannot fail in a single thing.
My Love and the Love of those Great Ones
present goes with you, breaking down every barrier
that has ever confronted you; and if you will join your
love to Ours with a dynamic Power of the Action of
Life, then everything discordant shall disappear from
your pathway, and you shall walk as in the evening
of Happiness, in the morning of Victory, and in the
Powers of the Freedom of Light. I thank you.
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May 28, 1938

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
Beloved Friends of the Light, what a Joy it is to
find you together in the Glory and Happiness of all
that your “Mighty I AM Presence” and the Ascended
Masters are bringing to you.
I congratulate our Beloved Brother of Light,
Donald; for what He has said today will be an eternal
record, and may He feel that hold him so close in
the Glory of the “Mighty I AM Presence”—that Great
Light of God—so that He may soon join Us in the
Glory of that Great Eternal Freedom; that We may
walk side by side in the Great Power of Light, pouring
forth to Earth what she must have at this time.
Our Joy, Beloved Students, is an ever-increasing
activity in Our Lives. As We come in contact with you
and the conditions in which you move, We cannot
help but be reminded how recently we were in those
limited bodies; and Beloved Ones, remember you do
not know what your Great Presence of Life might do
for you at any moment in your intense devotion and
adoration to that Presence of Life. I urge you again
this morning to give full power to your own “Mighty

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I AM Presence,” and then let Its Wisdom do for you

what possibly you could not even imagine today. I
tell you, the time is at hand when the Light of your
own being may do any so-called miraculous thing.
There is no limit now to the Beloved Students
everywhere. Remember, you have besides your own
sincere effort more than five hundred thousand people
who are making these Calls. And do you not remember
that everyone who makes that Call is adding to your
own effort? You are one as a Body of Students, Beloved
Ones. Your thought, your feeling is calling to the same
Great Presence of Life, and that is how it has been
possible for the Ascended Masters to do what has been
done up to the present time. I assure you, if you were to
see with the All-Seeing Eye within you and understand
in detail all that has been done, you would think it the
most incredible thing that has ever been accomplished
on Earth—and so it is!
We cannot take the time because of the
requirements of the Messengers; but if We were to
talk to you for eight hours a day for twenty days,
We could not convey to you the Achievement of
the Ascended Masters, the Legions of Light, and the
Cosmic Beings in the past six months. It is so far-
reaching, but We can only utilize the time at hand.
This Victory in the opening of this Class, We trust,
will mark the last attempt to directly interfere with
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the Work. We smile, really, at human attempts to

interfere with the great Power of Light. It only shows
how very ignorant mankind is and what the Power
of Light and the Cosmic Light mean, which the
Great Ones are telling you about. It is no imaginary
thing, but a Mighty Substance and Intelligence that
is being released into the surface of the Earth, in
which everyone is being enfolded. And remember,
everyone absorbs some of It; but you who are calling
so earnestly to your own “Mighty I AM Presence”
and to Us, think how much more tremendous you
become as a mighty attracting focus to draw this great
Outpouring of the Cosmic Light around you, into
your body, to help in the dissolving of the discord
that has been generated through the centuries.
The Great Divine Director has rendered you a
never-to-be-forgotten Service in this Class. I may not
say more than that, and shall leave it to Him to say
more if He wishes; but every opportunity is watched
by Them most carefully, not only collectively but
individually, that every possible Assistance be
given, so that They may release more Light from
within Themselves, within yourselves. For in that is
substance from the human octave, which They are
able to amplify and give a greater release to those
who have not yet come to know of this Great Light.
We thank and bless our blessed friend who has
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made this Radio Broadcast from the Classes possible,

and the blessed, blessed Students here who have
completed their part of that. Oh, Dear Ones, if once
you understand, or shall we discard that and say
when you understand the Power of your own Light
to draw to you everything you desire—for it is not out
here, Beloved Ones. The appearance of it is here, but
the Power is here [pointing to “Presence”] that draws
to you these things. Won’t you remember that?
It is so powerful that if you gain the full feeling of
that now, it would be only a matter of hours, days,
possibly weeks at most until your intensity of feeling
would draw from your “Presence” such Intelligence,
Power, and Energy that all conditions in the outer
world would conform in harmony and the releasing
of money, happiness, health, and supply of all you
require. It is not a matter of questioning, but a
power of applying the Law which you have come to
know. Therefore, Beloved Ones, stand unyielding,
unwavering in your mighty Application.
Now let us this morning just get this point so firmly
within you. What is it that is making this Call? How
and what is it that is issuing these Decrees? Do you
think, Beloved Ones, that it is just the human form? If
you do, then that is where you are still being limited.
If you realize that the Intelligence, the Energy that
you release is the Power of your “Presence” which
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knows no opposition to the Light, then you will

see how your Application is All-powerful—how it is
compelled to produce the results you require.
May I be able to pour forth such a conviction
of this into your feeling world that you will never
lose it for a single moment! If you don’t watch your
feeling—many of you as yet—you will find the feeling
is inclined to accept that the outer is still responsible.
It is not. It has made mistakes, true enough—but the
“Presence” doesn’t mind that; but when you allow
the feeling of the outer to accept that it is doing
something, then you are obstructing the way.
Just realize in every minutest part of your
Application: “Now when I begin to make this Call,
it is my ‘Mighty I AM Presence’ whose Intelligence,
Energy, Light, and Power is acting; and that is the
Energy, Intelligence, and Power by which I am able
to make the Call. Therefore, it is my ‘Presence’—Its
Mighty Intelligence and Energy—that is making this
Call. Therefore, there is no opposition to It!”
Do you not see how practical, very practical, it is
once you gain the full conviction that in every Call you
utter to your “Presence,” it is the “Presence” acting; it
is not the outer. Through the outer the Intelligence,
Energy, and Power of the “Presence” is making the Call.
The “Presence,” then, is making the Call and is also
answering it. Do you not see how, then, all appearances
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of requirement contain the answer, because it is the

Power of the “Presence” making the Call, and the Power
of your “Presence” answering it.
I want you, so much, to gain the Full Acceptance,
Consciousness, and Feeling of this; and you will not
have difficulty then in having the answer to your
Call. There is only One Power, One Intelligence,
One Energy to act, and that is from the Presence of
all Life, the “Mighty I AM.” And while all of you
have an individualized Presence of God within you,
yet the Great “I AM” of each one is one in Quality
and Perfection. Therefore, We can justly say that the
“I AM” of all of you is One, while still individualized.
You are one, all of you, insofar as your Energy, your
Life, your Intelligence, and the Substance which you
use is concerned. It is but the One individualized and
acting for you according to your qualification of It.
Therefore today let us feel that.
Do you wonder why We are urging and urging and
urging you on? Because you are so near the Goal. You
are so near the complete Victory wherein you will
have the full feeling of your Commanding Presence
of Light to govern everything in your world, and
hold your own feeling so harmonious that no person,
place, or condition in the World can have the slightest
effect in irritating or disturbing you.
Of course I am known for My Enthusiasm
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(applause), but this is not over-enthusiasm—it is the

real thing! And that is why I am calling your attention
to It at every opportunity, because Dear Ones, you are
the Victory of Light. When We see that which is just
ahead of you collectively and individually, it is not an
easy thing to hold back. It is like the onrushing of a
mighty avalanche, only this is wholly constructive. But
Beloved Ones, it’s only a little further until that great
avalanche will release into the world of mankind; and
I trust that by the time the Messengers return to you,
that great avalanche will have completely released.
The Messengers’ tremendous Call to the Great
Divine Director and the Mighty Astrea has set a Power
indescribable into action in your city. (applause) And
We have joined in the qualification of that to release
and set free the young people of your city. (applause—
audience rising) You have no idea, Beloved Ones, just
now, quite what that means; for the future of America
and that almost immediately ahead, require a certain
release of the Youth of America. And as We have
observed these blessed, blessed young people thus
far who have become so intensely interested, loyal,
and firm, I want to say for their encouragement, the
Great Divine Director has Power you know not of,
which He has chosen to use with you in that Victory—
the Ascended Master Youth of America. What a
magnificent thing! What a magnificent expression!
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What a magnificent Radiation and Power those

qualities release. No words can describe it.
Therefore today in all that is coming forth—and
perhaps the Messenger won’t just appreciate what I
am going to say; but I urge you, Beloved Students
of America and the World, as soon as these Songs
of His are available, use them as often as you can
in your individual life and your world. You will find
they carry a Power of releasing Freedom that is not
reached so far by anything. (applause) You will
never know how the Power of the Goddess of Liberty
goes forth through that Harmony, and the Power of
Victory through the song “Victory.”
And as soon as these are available, Beloved Ones,
let them do their perfect work for you. Once you
understand fully what the Power of Vibration means,
and how tremendous the harmony of Music is to
dissolve and lift you out of limitations when the right
vibratory action through Music is given forth—and it
is not so long until mankind will come to understand
that, and especially the Students everywhere. They
will see and feel the change in the vibratory action
within their own bodies; and that day you come to
know who the Great Tenor is, will you know what
that means to the World. (applause)
Shortly or by the time the Shrine Class comes
into action, you will find two of the most glorious
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surprises for you. Wonderful!—so may I just whet your

appetite a little? Why do I do it? Not to tease you, but
so that in that great expectation you may generate a
Power when That is before you, that will suddenly
be released to bless you beyond your fondest
imagination. That is why sometimes We call your
attention to things, because remember your Blessed,
Blessed Friend David Lloyd—you will never know
what a Friend He is until you are Ascended—He never
stops one instant in the twenty-four hours, in what He
is doing for the people of America. (applause)
Words do not quite convey to you yet what it means
for One so recently having attained the Ascension, and
there are no words to explain to you just the Inner
Action of the Law. That is why We Children are able
to do certain things and be of Assistance to the Great
Beings of Light, which just are not describable to you,
but yet they are the combination and the release of
Force, Power, and Energy into the human octave that
is so imperative at this time; and that is why We were
released from the human limitations.
Remember you do not yet, Precious People, have the
full meaning of the last chapter of The Magic Presence.
The Messenger has reminded you many times to read
it, but still you have not the fullness of what is there. I
give you just this much—these same Words are there:
When the Great Divine Director said to Us, “We give
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you bodies such as the outer world has never known,”

that was to hold the connection in the human octave
for the Service that was to be rendered. You will get
it, don’t be discouraged; but that last chapter holds a
Secret, Beloved Ones, that once you feel—don’t jump
at conclusions, but just feel It, within you individually.
It is quite possible that at a certain point of attainment
and Expansion of your Light, He may suddenly reveal
It to you in so many words, as far as those Words can
explain. In the meantime, rejoice in It.
We think We see a means of accomplishing certain
things for the young people of America. And when We
find out definitely to just how great an extent We can
accomplish this, We shall let you know. But never in
the history of the World has so much been done—and
necessarily, some experimenting to see how certain
forces can be established to act within the feeling world
of mankind which will produce certain definite results.
This must be done unknown to the outer activity of
the consciousness of the individual so that there is no
resistance of any kind. I do not mean that it would
not be done willingly; but the majority would begin to
revolve upon it, and that is not always well.
So remember, Dear Ones, with all the joy of your
being that you are never alone again. The Great
Power of Light is watching over you like a mother
her infant, because it means so much not only to
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you, but to the achievement for America and the

World. This Cup of America must be maintained;
and knowing that the Light is All-powerful and We
have your willing cooperation, I rejoice in the cities
where so much discord among the Students—it’s just
foolishness, because one opinion doesn’t agree with
the other—is going down so rapidly. Oh, I am so
grateful. We are all so grateful!
Oh, Beloved Ones, don’t let the human feeling or
opinion cause disturbance of any kind. If two people
who do not agree would just be silent and wait,
the first thing they know, everything that has been
discordant would be at the one point of Perfection.
But as long as you try through discord in the outer
to correct a thing, to bring two points to one point
of harmony, you cannot do it. It only builds the
opposition. So don’t try it.
Just be so happy in the Adoration of your “Presence,”
and if someone else doesn’t agree, say, “God bless you,”
and run along. Don’t you see then how nothing in
the world can disturb your feelings? That is the most
important thing in your world today! Then the Great
Power can come forth and release to you so-called
Miracles inconceivable, but it must be maintained long
enough for that momentum to get flowing.
Just look at our Blessed David Lloyd who through
those long years gained that momentum of expectation;
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and when He was suddenly confronted by It, the whole

Power of His being was released and the Achievement
was within the hour. Oh, who of you shall say that the
same thing shall not be for you—if not in your Ascension,
then in the Perfection of all things in the outer world.
That is the Joy, and do you not see that there is not
one thing that should ever irritate or disturb you when
you see this Goal before you and know that harmony
maintained in your feeling world is the wide-open door
to It quickly—not a long period of time, but immediately
you may have the full Glory of It.
Let Me say to you, oh Dear Ones, whatever
the human habits may be within you, don’t fight
them; but just call the “Presence” to take out every
undesirable desire, and be so firm in it. And all of a
sudden you will find they have disappeared.
I think within the year, possibly within the coming
six months, a great change will take place in the
understanding of the medical world and the doctors
so that they will no longer encourage excesses. The
sinister forces have kept upon mankind the abnormal
sex desire. It is the last claw upon humanity. One
moment’s Adoration to the Great Presence of Light
can give you more joy than all sex gratification in
a lifetime. That is what mankind is going to come
to understand, because that is where most of the
rebellion comes in the feeling of mankind. They feel
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they are being deprived of something. Instead, they

are receiving the Joy, the Perfection of Life which
nothing in the World can give them but the release
from those excesses.
Therefore, Beloved Ones, if it be smoking, drinking,
or whatever the condition is, just with a great calm
firmness call the “Presence” to take out of you that
desire and replace it by Its Satisfaction and Perfection.
It is easy. It is not difficult; but as soon as you begin to
battle a thing through the outer feeling, you will more
often bind it to you than get the release.
Therefore, just settle your feeling and say with
very great firmness in your feeling: “ ‘Mighty I AM
Presence,’ take this desire out of me, and replace it
with Your Satisfaction and Perfection,” and you will
never have difficulty in getting rid of the undesirable
desires and habits. You have recently been told that the
place habit forms is in the clothing of density around
the Points of Light within your physical structure, your
flesh body. And remember as your Light expands in
the cells of your body, then that desire must inevitably
loosen, because when it is dissolved it is no more. And
your Application that you are using now with great
intenseness—“cause, effect, and record”—oh, what it
means to you, Beloved Humanity! To remove a thing
without its record is only partially complete, but when
you add that phrase by your power of qualification, it
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is magnificent. It is the thing completed, and that is

what everyone is coming to know and understand in
their Application. It is the completed thing that closes
that chapter in the human life.
Oh, it is so wonderful; it is all so glorious. And as
We see you going on and approaching closer and
closer that great Goal of Life, oh what a magnificent
thing it is! Remember, so recently we were right in
bodies like yours. If it can be done for Us—which it
was—then why cannot it be done for you? Oh, don’t
ever feel rebellious because it has not been done,
because if you do, you shut the door. Like one man
in Washington, D.C., two years ago came to the
Messenger and said, “Why if You can do this, why
can’t I?” Finally after long urging the Messenger told
him why, and He has not seen him since.
Therefore, Beloved Ones, remember that there is no
longer a battle of Life. There is no longer battle between
the intellect and the Heart in your Acknowledgment of
the “Presence.” The Heart has Its dominion because
there is where the Light of all the World is anchored
in the human form. Just feel it. Rejoice with all your
Heart, and just let It do Its perfect work. Oh, don’t
ever feel rebellious to Life because you have not yet
been liberated from limitations—that would just close
the chapter for you; but with all rejoicing in the Heart
just say to those appearances, even though you haven’t
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a dime in your pocket: “Oh you human creation, you

have scared me for the last time. Run along. You have
no power! ‘Mighty I AM Presence,’ take command of
this body. Do Your perfect work through it. Take out
all feeling of limitations. Send it forth directed by Your
Mighty Directing Intelligence, by Your Activity; and
give it the Power of Life.” You would dissolve anything,
and you would have the courage and strength to go
forward in the name of Life, the Power and Intelligence
of your “Mighty I AM Presence.” And there would
not be a human thing that could deprive you longer
or stand between you and the release of the Treasure-
house of your “Presence” of everything you require.
We love you, We bless you, We thank you for your
sincerity and devotion to the Light. Go on and on
and on into that full Power of Its Glory, until that day
when you stand with Us and We shake your hand.
And Donald, may I shake your hand by My Energy
through this human form, until the day when We
clasp hands face to face and know the Feeling, the
Glory of Eternal Freedom.
I want the Youth of America to know that Rex,
Pearl, Nada, and Myself clasp your hands even
though you don’t see it—with Our Mighty Strength,
Courage, and Energy to help you on to the Eternal
Victory of Life. I thank you.
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September 2, 1938
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
How I love to say, “Ascended Master Youth of
America”! Can you feel with Me for a few moments
all that that means? Now remember in my capacity
and action before My Freedom I lived and acted
within the outer world, never dreaming of the
Majesty, the Beauty, and the Great Wisdom that was
so soon to become mine; and only yesterday in some
matters of discussion, I was reminded of my activity
in the Mining School, just out of Denver—to think
that in becoming a mining engineer, the thing that
would sometimes seem to be the opposite of all that
means spiritual attainment; but yet I found wonderful
associates really.
Of course I did not know it then, but I know
today it was the Light within my own Heart that was
drawing me and attracting me to the conditions that
meant My Freedom.
I want to give you today just a little touch of
my own experience in coming in contact with Mr.
Rayborn. When I sent forth my application, little
dreaming of all that was going to mean to me and in
my service, and when I finally met him, I am frank

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to say, although I did not know what it was—when

I shook hands with him and felt that tremendous
power of kindly radiation going forth from him, then
intuitively I began to just feel a little and understand
his success and all that he had drawn about him.
I am speaking of this to you today for a very definite
reason, because according to the feeling sustained within
you of kindness and the Power of Divine Love and
Harmony do you become Ascended Master Youth of
America, a mighty Magnet drawing to you not only
the Perfection of your own Life within your own Life
Stream, but all from without that you contact. Do you
realize what that means in your association with the
outer world—to call forth the Perfection of Life instead
of human qualities, through that Stream of Energy that
is within each individual’s Heart? Do you realize your
responsibility and your joy and the Service, not only
to yourself but to your fellowman, in calling forth that
great Perfection, instead of human qualities?
And I suggest to you, Beloved Ascended Master
Youth, do not place yourselves in positions where
temptation offers its clutches. It is much easier to
avoid those things than to rush into them and then
conquer them after they have started to go into action
in your world.
A very peculiar thing—and this, so far as I have
been able to observe, is the most rare thing. Even in
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my contact with my fellow students in college and in

my contact with the business world afterward—and
of course among mining men you would scarcely
expect to find a great deal of Perfection so far as the
high Ideals were concerned; and yet, as I know and
see today how Rex and Nada, Pearl and myself were
sheltered—you will never know how much. Of course
the blessed Mother of Rex and Nada was watching
over us and, in that All-Seeing Eye saw what was
coming, long before we in the outer were conscious of
it. Seeing that I would be drawn into Her family, into
this Mighty Power and Radiation of Saint Germain,
naturally She poured forth Her Radiation.
Of course you who have read the Books know
that long, long before I ever dreamed of such a thing,
my sister, Pearl, was being taught by Beloved Saint
Germain. I used to wonder how in the world that
child was so contented, because our aunt, with whom
she lived, was not such a happy individual. And then
when I found that Beloved Saint Germain had been
teaching her in the Tangible Body for years, it was a
memory I shall never forget. My Gratitude to Saint
Germain, yet today when My thought returns to it,
is unparalleled.
Therefore to you—Rex, Nada, Pearl, and Myself are
the proof to the World! And if you don’t believe We
are real, that We so recently lived in physical bodies
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like you, then dismiss it from your minds—because

We did! And I want you to realize that perhaps I may
be overstepping My bounds, but I am going to say it
anyhow. Among the Ascended Master Youth whose
attention has been called to this Great Presence of
Life thus far, had you ever contemplated how many
of them might be almost as ready for their Freedom
as we were? I say to you Ascended Master Youth,
don’t pass that by. You don’t know in the outer what
the Light within you knows, and what It is able to do
through you and for you.
Thus if you will understand and by your attention
—oh, what a magnificent thing. If Saint Germain had
brought forth nothing else in the World but just what
your attention, your physical sight, your vision, and
your qualification do, He would have rendered a
Service to the Earth unparalleled through the ages.
Mankind is living this constantly, but heretofore
by the qualification was absolutely undoing all the
Perfection that Life would naturally have brought to
them through this natural flow through the body.
I say to you now, Ascended Master Youth—and
make no mistake about this—you can have, you can
maintain perfect health in your body by calling to
the “Presence” and by the conserving of your energy.
And you will not ever know pain or distress in your
body if you will do that. It is imperative.
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Therefore, I say to you, We who have so recently

moved in physical bodies like yours and are now in
the position to see and know definitely and exactly
as in mathematics, what results certain feelings and
activities produce—then you will understand how you
are dealing with an absolute, definite Law, a Law of
Life that cannot be changed. Whatever feeling you
put forth from your feeling world is what is going to
act in your world and through your physical body.
If it is inharmony, then you will outpicture discord
in your body and failure in your business, no matter
what your attention is upon. Whether you are an artist
or in the business world, as long as those qualities—
criticism, condemnation, and discord of any kind act
in your feeling world, they have got to outpicture
through your action and in your body.
Many of you are beautiful Ascended Master Youth
with a beauty that in the conditions of the outer world
today is rare and is proof to mankind absolutely of
the Light that is within your precious Hearts. It is
worth everything in the World. Hold that beauty,
Beloved Ones, and let it grow greater, instead of
diminishing it by the waste of your life energy through
every conceivable means; for anger, criticism, and
discord of every kind, as well as the waste of your
sex energy, will take away your beauty and buoyancy
and Perfection. Stand firm in the Power of your Light.
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Today, with the Assistance they have, mankind is

in a position to again become Gods and Goddesses
by the Power of their “Presence” pouring Its Mighty
Radiance through them. And I rejoiced, rejoiced very
greatly at the remarks of Donald, for I tell you it is so
true: the only real Happiness comes in your adoration
to the Presence of all Life, the “Mighty I AM,” and the
Perfection It releases into you and your world. Outer
things of amusement produce momentary happiness—at
least you think it is happiness, but only when you have
experienced the happiness of feeling the outpicturing,
the pouring forth and releasing of Love to mankind
from the Great “Presence” and the Ascended Masters,
will you know what true happiness is.
The Messengers who are before you, and Donald,
are beginning to realize that They had never known
real happiness in the World until They began this Work.
There are many things in the outer world that give you,
as the expression has become so prevalent, a “thrill”;
but oh Dear Ones, forget that thrill, won’t you please.
There is that suggestion of mankind among the youth
of America to want a thrill. It is a most dangerous thing.
Do you know what that means as understood among
mankind today? It means action of human qualities,
and I am sure you do not want it.
What you want is Ascended Master Qualities. And
the name you have accepted for your youth of America
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is the most magnificent thing in its vibratory action

that was ever given to mankind or to the youth of
any nation—the Ascended Master Youth of America.
It should and it does—please notice it every time you
voice that into the atmosphere—it brings a power of
Radiation that the Ascended Masters have long, long
hoped to give to the young people of the World.
Remember, you are the example to the rest of the
World of the Beauty, the Perfection, the Outpicturing
of those Qualities which the Ascended Master Youth
are to represent; and if you do something as an
Ascended Master Youth that is disgraceful, unkind,
or the outpicturing of very discordant human
qualities, then again mankind looks upon you as a
representative of the Ascended Masters.
I want you to feel that, oh, with no strain of
responsibility—not that, for We would not have you
feel that for anything in the world—but just with joy. And
whatever you may choose to fix your attention upon,
dismiss from your vocabulary and from your feeling
world the old terminology of work. Now please do that
if you want to be happy. You can serve to the limit of
your strength, physically speaking, and be absolutely
happy and free from exhaustion. You do not have to feel
the conditions; and it is only by the qualification that
mankind has put upon these outer experiences, that it
acts with the mass accumulation in your feeling world.
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Therefore, I say to you beloved Youth, feel in all

that you do, that you are rendering a Service to the
Light. That is true, but look what it does for you.
The minute you feel that you are serving the Light,
remember your feeling is your powerhouse; and the
minute your thought goes forth, “Why, I am serving
the Light!” the Light returns in Its Limitless Energy
to sustain you in that Service. You cannot know
exhaustion as you take that attitude of action to Life,
that you are serving Life.
And remember, Obedience is the greatest thing
in the Universe! Don’t feel that you can take the
reins and do anything in the world that you choose
in the outer, and if it be something discordant and
impure, that you will not pay the penalty. You will
pay it, and a thousand times more quickly today than
you would have fifty years ago, because the Cosmic
Light is taking Its Dominion on Earth. And while it is
absolutely imperative for some time yet, for mankind
to make the dynamic Call to dissolve and consume
every discordant thing among mankind, yet try to feel
in the face of any appearance in the outer world, that
the Victory of the Light is sure.
Be just as firm and determined and sure in your
feeling that human creation has no power. Then in
your own Life Stream will come that Courage and
Confidence which repels from you anything that
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would retard or limit your progress in any way.

Now let Me suggest this. You know the condition
that has existed in America and the World today in
the lack of employment, so-called. Now Beloved
Ascended Master Youth, don’t you accept that into
your world for one moment. It does not make any
difference what the rest of the world is doing; you
have the Authority and Power in your Life Stream
to bring yourself into the desirable employment
you wish to have, and there is nothing in all human
creation to prevent you from doing it. Mankind who
do not understand this Great Law will experience the
other, but that is not your fault; and that is no reason
you should be out of employment in your Service,
just because the mass of mankind has accepted that
there is not room, there is not employment.
That is why you have to be staunch and firm
against the mass suggestion. Don’t accept it. You
don’t have to be out of employment just because the
mass of mankind believes in lack. Therefore, if you
take your stand with the Powers of Light to produce
Perfection in whatever your attention is fixed upon,
you will have that in spite of anything if you will
stand by it. And you may be sure that We will do
everything in Our Power to give you that Assistance.
Do you want to know—you will have to get this
in your feeling world because words don’t convey
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it—just how Rex, Nada, Pearl, and I felt after we came

in contact with Saint Germain? I mean in the Cave
of Symbols. We thought we were having Supreme
Happiness, but do you know that it was only a
fragment of what We are actually experiencing today?
Think of it, to be able to go anywhere in the Universe
and gain your knowledge firsthand. Will you try to
feel that for a few moments with Me, because We
are constantly going everywhere, seeing, knowing,
feeling, and being all that We wish to acquire.
Here in the human octave you have to gather from
the intellect, and you don’t always experience it in the
feeling; but when you have the combined action of
the Feeling and Power of Life acting in the Trinity of
Action, then you know all that it means to you. We
are experiencing that today, and the fullness of that
Joy and Happiness is complete. Therefore, I say to
you beloved ones, in all the joy and happiness that
you wish to express, remember they remain alone
in your own Life Stream to be called forth by your
attention to the “Mighty I AM” and the Glory of all
that holds for you.
Now it has grown so late I must discontinue.
Remember that the Joy and Blessings and Freedom
of all Life holds for you, is in your attention sustained
to your “Mighty I AM Presence” and in your mighty
Application of the simple Laws which It has brought
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to your attention. As you do that and stand by It, you

will have the Glory and Perfection of all Life holds
for you.
We hold your hand, Beloved Ascended Master
Youth of America, in the fullness of all Life permits
Us to release; and bless you, to hold you steady, give
you Protection and Mighty Directing Intelligence to
bless your lives forever, and I thank you.
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September 24, 1938

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Beloved Ascended Master Youth of America and
Beloved Students, it is always Our Great Joy to pour
forth an assisting Radiation, and to—I trust during My
short talk with you—give you just a little idea of how
important you are to Seattle—you who have stood so
earnestly in the Light. But before I continue will this
boy over here [Earl Williams], come and sit down by
Me? (applause)
I congratulate this blessed Ascended Master Youth
of America that his Light chose to have him represent
Me (applause—audience rising); and by My Currents
of Energy through the hand of the Messenger, I shake
his hand and call that the memory of that which he
so earnestly endeavored to represent will find its full
expression through him.
And we have another blessed youth whose Light
can reach very great heights, our blessed one here
[Bob Donaldson]. (applause—audience rising) May
the fullness of his Light find Its full expression and
bless all he contacts. Nada and Pearl wish Me to be
sure I do not neglect the young ladies (applause),

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but there are so many of them that are so lovely that

I cannot very well take each one individually, so I
congratulate all of them in their blessed Light.
Now Beloved Ones, seeing that so many really
do not comprehend what the Expansion of the Light
really means—intellectually you try to understand it,
but in the feeling there is not the full response or
comprehension. Here at your Heart Center where
your “Mighty I AM Presence” is focused, is the
first point of Light always. You might think, even
in looking at the Chart, why not the brain? Why
is not that the point to be illumined as well as the
Heart? Because the anchorage of the Light from
your “Presence” is in your Heart and not the head.
It passes through the head, and that is the reason the
intellect runs away with itself; it gets all puffed up over
nothing. And I want to tell you, Beloved Students, as
sure as you let your intellect govern you from what it
gathers from without, you will find yourself up against
a blank wall sooner or later. You cannot afford to do it
in this understanding of the “Mighty I AM Presence.”
It is your Heart that is the Power that acts, and
your intellect must give obedience to It. If there is
arrogance in your intellect or deceit, then your Heart
will not release Its Light. Now the reason for this has
been the accumulated habit of mankind believing that
they had to operate through the intellect, because they
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were gathering information from the outside world.

But My Dear Ones, that is human opinion; and don’t
you see it has shut off from mankind the greater flow
of the Intelligence from their “Presence” that knows
the Perfection of Life, because in that flow or river of
Light from your “Presence” into your physical body
is the Intelligence of the “Mighty I AM” who knows,
and the intellect that gathers the information from
without cannot know! It is impossible.
You know the information you have gathered,
but you do not know the truth or what part of the
truth is in that intellect and the information which it
has gathered without. That is why I say to you in all
kindness—I refer to a gentleman in Los Angeles who
has studied all over this World who believes he has a
fund of information intellectually that is astonishing,
but he is not able to apply the Law even to supply
his finances.
Now the intellectual power he has gathered from
without amounts to nothing, because it shuts off the
power of his Light that flows forth into his world of
action to be the magnet to draw the things which he
wants and should have for use; but instead he is today
being a leech upon the Students when he should
be man enough, by the power of his Application,
to call forth from his own Treasure-house, his own
“Presence,” the things he requires.
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I tell you it is vital, it is important that the Students

understand this because, Dear Ones, you are soon
coming to the point—you don’t know this, but I do—
where that is going to confront you. The Cosmic
Light in Its ever-increasing impulses or pulsations to
the Earth, is going to compel mankind to see wherein
their mistake has been.
There have been so many—really not Students,
but who claim to be—that have secretly spread the
idea among the Students wherever they have had the
opportunity: “Well, I know more than the Messenger!
Why, I have been an old occult student and I know
more than that.” Well, that is a great mistake on their
part. The Messenger will probably not like this, but
I have got to say it anyhow. My Dear People, this
Messenger standing before you has an understanding
so far beyond any person in America today, that
if He were to release it, I tell you it would sweep
the egotism of mankind from the face of this Earth.
(applause—audience rising)
Now I want you to understand this because We
see the opportunity and We want to do so much in
this city and for you; but because of the demand
for the protection of America and also Europe and
the need to prevent these conditions coming from
Europe into America, there has been no time to
give forth other information that would be of great
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value to individuals personally in their own private

Application—it cannot be done. This Work is more
important! This protection has got to be given first.
And you beloved Students and Group Leaders,
as you value the expansion of your Light, do not
ever go forth and say that you know more than this
Information which Saint Germain has given forth. If
you do, you will regret it as long as you live, and that
means far beyond this embodiment. The Messengers
do not care anything about what you say, but your
own Light cares; and don’t think for one second
that you get away with anything that is within your
feelings. That is there and makes a record that any
Ascended Being sees and knows. We don’t care one
thing about what the lips say; but We care about—and
you should care about—what is making the record in
your feeling world. That is the thing you are going to
have to answer for. You can say a lot of things with
the lips that do not amount to anything, but when you
with deep feeling release that feeling, that makes the
record; then that is the thing you are going to pay for.
That is why I say today, be humble before this
Great Presence of Life, first your own “Mighty I AM”
and then the Ascended Beings; but be absolutely
positive toward human discordant forces. And if
someone comes along and says they know twice as
much as you do, be sure they do before you accept it.
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Why, above every one of you is the greatest

“Presence” in this Universe, the greatest Intelligence;
and all it requires is your humbleness to It, your
firmness to outside human conditions and individuals
to hold your feeling so harmonious that the full power
will quickly flow forth to instruct you, and cause you
to comprehend these majestic instructions which
Saint Germain has brought forth. Just because they
are simple, don’t think they are not important.
This fundamental or foundation that Saint
Germain has brought you is the thing that will carry
you to eternal heights and hold and sustain you there.
(applause) But I want you to realize today—because
it is so important here in your midst to realize those
conditions—to realize that no person’s motive is
hidden from their Higher Mental Body or the Great
Ones. Try to understand Me when I say that even
as you sit here, written in the radiance around you
is your inmost motive and thought. It is not easy for
people to realize that, but to Us it is an Eternal Truth.
You can no more prevent the record of what your
intense feeling is than anything in the world, because
it is there; no change of intellect will prevent it. Now
take these two illustrations: suppose you release an
intense feeling, then you make the Call through the
intellect without being backed up by the feeling,
to erase that. That feeling, because of its greater
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intensity—and being your powerhouse—would remain

there in spite of your Call because the intellect will
not erase it; it must record the feeling released and
the Power of the “Presence.” That brings forth that
Power of the “Presence” that does erase it.
Now that is very important; and you precious
young people, if you understand that—and I ask
you to please try to understand it since you will be
confronted from time to time with similar conditions.
If you understand when a mistake has been made
either intentionally or otherwise, that you do not have
to continue in that; but with a great intense release of
your feeling, you call your “Presence” to erase that,
cause, effect, and record—then the substance released
from your human form will enable the “Presence”
to erase this because you, being the decreer of your
world, have asked that it be done.
Now I say to you, Beloved Ones, in asking the
“Presence” to use the Violet Consuming Flame to
dissolve and consume all your mistakes of the past
centuries, unless you will release intense feeling—in
other words, intense desire—for that to be done, you
will find getting it done is a long process; while with
a great release of intense feeling and a great desire to
have that done, you give forth the substance which
the “Presence,” through your Higher Mental Body,
brings into action to produce that exact result. That is
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how you can accomplish things so quickly and with

such great power if you understand and utilize clearly
these simple things. But don’t forget your feeling is
your powerhouse—and no matter what your intellect
does, unless it is backed up by the feeling, it will
produce but fragmentary results or none at all.
I want to say to these precious young people: We
have often been present with you in your Group work,
and the magnificent manner in which you conduct
your Group Activity is beautiful beyond words. Your
silent attitude, your refusal to discuss anything before,
during, or after your Group Meetings is a magnificent
attitude toward Life. It means you are carrying back
to Life your full earnest intensity and command for
Freedom; and I tell you, if the older people would only
understand—and oh, how I plead with you, STOP your
silly, nonsensical discussion of discordant things. You
will never have your Freedom in the world as long
as you continue to do it. And when you come into
your Groups, Precious People, come there to render
that Service to the Light. Do not discuss anything of
the outside world if you want to have and produce
magnificent results from your Group work.
Dear Ones, that is one reason I congratulate Mrs.
Fowler. The magnificent work she has been doing is
because of the silence and absolute refusal to discuss
discordant things during Meetings or afterwards. People
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come and go in silence. I tell you it is a magnificent

thing because, Dear People, you have no idea, you do
not perhaps think there is any harm in it; but if you—
two or three people within the Group—start to discuss
something unpleasant before your Group Meeting
or after it, you have allowed to intrude the quality of
that element of your discussion into the magnificent
Radiation drawn forth there to bless you. Don’t you
see how absolutely mistaken it is to do it?
We want you, if you will, to be so absolutely
concerned with your own Purification and Perfection
that you won’t have an opinion about another
person. (applause) And remember the pretense of
the intellect does not amount to anything unless your
feeling is true and sincere, Dear People. Don’t go on
trying to think you can smile with your face, while
the feeling is not to do it. You are only deceiving
yourselves, Precious People. We love you enough to
tell you the Truth. And as sure as you live, one day
you will see your great, great mistake.
Dear People, why should you be concerned about
another person when your whole activity is the
Service to Life for your own Freedom? And as long
as you try to tear another person to pieces, you can be
sure one day you yourself will be torn. “Let him who
wishes to draw the lightning to his brother remember
through his own soul and body will pass the bolt.”
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That is a quotation from The Lost Prince, but it is

a mighty thing. Remember that, Precious Students.
You can become so wonderful because your Light
is great; but don’t have any secret motives, don’t
criticize or have an opinion about each other. Go on
and on, and remember your own requirement is to
cleanse, purify, and perfect yourself and your world
so that you may pour forth that great Radiation and
Blessing to all you contact. This is the only way. You
cannot get anywhere until you do.
Beloved Ones, once when the Messenger yesterday
touched upon the point about the time and the energy
that mankind had wasted even in this embodiment,
I was present; and Beloved Ones, one tenth of the
energy wasted during this embodiment, with the
Understanding that is before you today, would have
brought you into your complete Freedom. Think of
it! One tenth the energy that you have used would
have brought you into your Perfection. Now then, is it
not time for us to determine to silence the human that
wants to say and do unkind things, so that we may
keep the feeling harmonious to let the Powers of the
“Presence” do Its Perfecting Work in ourselves and
our World? That is why, Beloved Ones, the Ascended
Master Youth of America today are grasping it.
The Messenger has had two or three letters
recently wondering why sometimes the Ascended
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Master Youth come into this Understanding and then

turn aside. Are you strong enough to hear the Truth?
Many times it is because they see the inharmonious
example among the older people and they think, “If
that is what the ‘I AM’ is doing for them, how can I
hope to succeed?” Beloved Ones, your responsibility
to Life, to your associates, is more than you know.
I love you so tremendously that I am utilizing this
opportunity, Beloved Ones, to put the Truth plain
and unadulterated to you, because I tell you—now
look before I go on at the magnificent release that
has come to your city since the Messengers were
here the first time, the removing of the communistic
control, and all that thing which would have been the
destruction of the city as sure as the World!
And people who lean toward communism a little
criticize the Messengers for referring to communism.
Well, it means all the “isms” there are, because nazism
and fascism and all those kinds of things have come
out of communism which originated in Russia. Now it
is not a matter of individuals, but it is a matter of the
conditions set into action by the black magicians who
want to destroy America; and they found an opening
in Russia. It might have been somewhere else, but it
happened it was there. They spread it all over South
America and over every country in the World for
twelve or fifteen years before the outer manifestation
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began to find its expression.

Now, Beloved Ones, the whole inner motive is
being exposed to the whole World. It is not a matter
of individuals, but a matter of the quality that was
acting through those individuals; and I can tell you
that seventy-five percent of blessed, blessed mankind
who have been drawn into that with the promise and
belief that they would come to have relief and release
financially—that was the thing which drew them into
the clutches of that nefarious activity, depriving them
and their families of food and shelter and the money
that they required; and that is responsible for the
unemployment today in America.
Therefore, you as Students—oh, you do not see,
Beloved Ones, that you cannot see! How could you
see the inner motives of things and the conditions
that are producing these outer results? You could not
do it unless you saw with the All-Seeing Eye. Then,
you could not know, but the Great Ones know. And
Precious People, won’t you let Them assist you when
They do know these great Inner Activities? If you will
only believe Them, They will help you to see and
know; and from your Call to your “Presence” will
come the full Understanding inside yourself of these
Truths which the Messengers have given, and which
Saint Germain has brought forth. Unless you do that,
it is impossible to help you.
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Now, in the nucleus you have here, with the

determination you have had and with that assistance
that will be with you now after the close of this Class
tomorrow—why, My Dear Ones, there is not anything
you could not accomplish! If you will realize—as the
Messenger has poured forth so earnestly—in your
Call comes forth the Power of Light that knows no
opposition, not any human, discordant thing. The
human discord cannot fight the Light, don’t you see
that? There is no battle in the Call to the Powers of
the “Presence” to come forth, dissolve and consume
the human qualities and conditions; there is no battle,
but just the Power of Light.
This is just the same as when you turn the light on
in this room when there is darkness and the darkness
disappears. It is exactly similar when you call forth
the “Presence.” Its Currents of Light and Energy pour
forth into the human octave, and the same identical
thing follows: the Light dissolves those conditions
and qualities. The Perfection of Life will be there if
individuals will make the Call and stand by it.
If these two precious boys (the two previously
mentioned) will allow Me, I shall pour forth My
Currents of Energy through them and lift them to the
Heights. (applause) And why do I say that? Because
there is nothing egotistical or dominating within their
feeling world. Their humbleness to the “Presence” is
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the requirement, and if they will make the earnest,

sincere Call in the silence of their own chambers,
then will they rise in the Power of the Light of their
own “Presence.”
I am just using that as an example this morning to
show you what every individual can have. If every
individual, every “I AM” Student in America today
would be determined, earnest, and sincere about the
Powers of Light, Someone would be sent to hold that
Mighty Current steady, flowing in and through them
until the Purification and Perfect Activity took place
and the Light expanded and took Its Dominion in the
feeling world of those individuals. And they would be
a power of Divine Love and Divine Order and Divine
Justice on this Earth, because there is only one place in
the Universe you can call this forth from, Dear People,
and that is your own “Mighty I AM Presence.”
Think how the attempt has been made to distort
the magnificent laws of your land, which were
originally meant to hold the blessing of Divine Order
and Divine Justice for mankind. Your Constitution—
there has never been such a record made as that! And
Dear Ones, when We saw those individuals going out
the other night, criticizing and condemning because
they were asked to salute that Flag, Dear People,
it is individuals like that who spread treachery and
discord among mankind. A human being in America
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who refuses to honor that Flag should be removed at

once. (applause) Why do I say that? Not to govern
individuals, but because that Flag represents more to
the World than you will ever know. How often We
have wished that all the people of America might
suddenly see the Inner motive and what produced
that American Flag!
Therefore, I want you to see and know how
grateful We are, for your sake. We are Free, Beloved
Ones, but when I see the Great Power of Divine
Love, which the Messengers call forth direct, pouring
forth through Them to you, it is an unparalleled thing
on the face of the Earth, because only as you know
from the Inner standpoint the great need of America
and Her people today—and the time is comparatively
short when this work must be finished, depending
wholly upon the conditions that are released from
mankind. I cannot tell you it will be so many days,
so many weeks, so many months; but according to
the Light released from individuals making the Call
to the “Presence” is that and will that be governed.
I tell you there are certain things concerning this
recent hurricane on the eastern coast—the Law does
not permit the explanation of it, but Dear Ones,
remember mankind in a locality is responsible either
for making the Call for Protection or, by discord in
their feeling, for releasing destruction into their midst.
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Now the discord and vicious falsehood spread in

Boston condemning the Messengers and Their Work
and the attempt to interfere with it, is what let that
come to the eastern coast.
In San Francisco the gravest danger was threatening;
and if the Messengers had not come to the western coast
when They did, San Francisco would not be what she
is today. Now the people who withdrew from this Light
and became so vicious were responsible, because they
made this focus for destructive forces. Dear People,
when you feel discordant, for Heaven’s sake don’t do
something that is going to affect a whole city. If you
make yourself a focus for destructive forces, then you
are responsible for what happens to that city where you
are. That is why these blessed people—what a pity they
cannot understand that because they feel discordant
toward an individual and become a focus for such fierce,
vicious feeling, they make the opening for destructive
forces to act within that city.
The Messengers have tried to make clear to the
individuals how important that was and how, when
people become irritated and feel unkindly, they pay no
attention to it. It is one thing without this Understanding
to respond to destructive forces, but a vastly different
thing when the opportunity is before mankind in this
Knowledge and then one willingly goes forth and creates
or makes himself or herself a focus for destructive forces.
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That is a far different thing, because when once mankind

has had the opportunity to understand the Work which
Saint Germain has brought forth—so simple a child
can understand—then when they willingly go on and
do those things, then the responsibility is a thousand
times greater.
Now I am explaining this so that you may all
take your attention—Students, Group Leaders, and
everybody else—off of every other person in your
city. Call to the Presence of Light for your own
Purification and Perfection, in order to make each
one of you a Focus of Light in your city here; and
direct that Power of Light to hold It sustained for the
continued perfecting of the city, because it can be
made one of the most beautiful in America because it
has the surroundings. And really, Beloved Inhabitants
of Seattle, you do not quite realize how fortunate you
are; there are no direct gas belts under you (applause)
that might give you undesirable aerial navigation. In
that respect you are very fortunate.
Will every earnest, sincere Student here in Seattle,
take a little slip of paper and put it up in your room
with the Mighty Astrea and the God of the Air’s
Names written on it, that whenever you walk into
your room, you can see that and keep yourselves
reminded that before you retire each night, call to
those two Great Beings for Their Cleansing, Purifying,
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Perfecting Activity in your city, for the Protection of

all aerial navigation and activity.
I am going to take the full responsibility for this
which I am going to say to you. You have seen the
great perfecting activity in your transportation so
far, your streamlined trains, and the comfort and
convenience aside from your aerial navigation. From
Our standpoint, it will be a comparatively short time
until you will find almost the whole of America as
one spot because of your aerial navigation. And you
will find your fresh vegetables taken from one part
of America to the other in a few hours. Let Me say
that with the incoming Cosmic Light, when your
middleman is removed between your producer and
consumer and the Divine Law is set for their service,
then you will have removed the controller of your
prices—and Divine Order and Divine Justice will reign
among your producers and your consumers. Peace on
Earth will reign forever among them. (applause)
The opportunity for distortion in your commission
activity today is the thing that binds the producer,
and causes sometimes thousands of tons of fruit and
vegetables to go to waste when mankind should have
the blessing of their use. When that is removed from
your midst—and it will be, I assure you—then will
mankind have the great blessing. (applause)
And I say to you, Blessed Ascended Master Youth
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of America, you can do wonders—for instance, take

your Group right here in Seattle, the Ascended Master
Youth who are giving such magnificent obedience to
Life: when you issue your Decrees, will you take that
up in your own special activity and call for Divine
Order and Divine Justice between these activities—
the producer and consumer. Call for Divine Justice
and Divine Order to descend and take Its Command,
remove all obstruction there forever, let the people
who produce have what belongs to them, and let the
consumer have the blessing; then all will have the right
compensation for their efforts in every way. That shall
be done, and I shall never rest until that condition exists
in your America. (applause) And remember, I do not
have to stop to eat or sleep. (applause)
Is it not wonderful to be able to gather the Essence
of Life as you go along? (applause) I am speaking
now about outside of your own Source of Life. My
Dear People, do you realize that the atmosphere
which you are breathing in every moment has such
great Perfection in it, that if you were to call the full
power of your Selective Intelligence into action, you
would breathe in the Fire Breath of God, the “Mighty
I AM”—and Perfection would be in your bodies.
Now do not go off on to some breathing tangent,
but remember the natural breath. That reminds Me,
Dear People—and you have a lot of it here—call for the
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dissolving of all numerology and astrology in your

land. Dear People, it is a most misleading thing. Don’t
do it. As if a number had any power in the Presence
of your Great God Presence, the “Mighty I AM”!
As if a Planet had anything to do with you, the God
Being that governs the Universe! Don’t yield to those
things, Beloved Students.
And remember what Saint Germain said: astrology
is responsible for more indirect murders than any one
thing in America today. Now remember, Dear People,
why do people cling to those things? Because they think
it brings food and shelter to them—when if they were to
stand and call to their own God Presence, the “Mighty
I AM,” which is the Treasure-house of their world, they
would have such abundance of money and everything
else in their use that they would not have to try to use
those things which bring tragedy to mankind.
Now Dear People, you in Seattle here need to be
on guard over this more than any place, perhaps, in
America. Astrology puts the suggestion into mankind
of limitations—that there is something outside of you
that is more powerful than the Life within you. This
is the greatest falsehood ever uttered, and the person
who claims that a number can affect you is uttering
another great falsehood.
Beloved Students, in the Name of your “I AM
Presence” do not yield to those things if you want to
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be free. The Messengers have said very little about

these things in the recent months because so much else
is required, but you here in Seattle must be protected
against these things.
I ask you, Beloved Students, just one thing. Take your
Chart and look at It; and then decide if there is any
Planet in the Universe, any number that is mankind’s
own creation, that can affect that Power of Infinite
Light. You know it cannot. So don’t succumb to human
suggestions that say there is something outside. That is
why the Messengers have said to you that spiritualism,
astrology, numerology, or anything that draws your
attention to the outside thing as having power to limit
your world is a tragedy for mankind. Therefore if you
yield to it, the responsibility is yours.
I do not say what you should do, but I am telling
you the Truth of Life. If you believe for one instant
that your “Mighty I AM Presence” is there above
you as the Messengers and the Chart have described
to you, then you know astrology, numerology, and
spiritualism are not true; that they are human creation
brought about by the black magicians to limit and
hold mankind in bondage.
Now if you want to go on doing that, you are Beings
of Free Will; but I have fulfilled My part of Life to you in
telling you the Truth, which I know absolutely to be. Did
you ever in your life know of an activity—ever on Earth
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in your experience—when the teacher, the messenger, or

whoever it might be, asked people not to come if they
could not be harmonious to the Truth of Life? People
reach out and try to claw students to them. It is reversing
the activity. Human beings must be given freedom even
though they intentionally go on and make mistakes;
sometimes the fiercer the mistakes, the sooner they will
turn and come back to the Presence of Life.
Now I ask you, Beloved Students—and why do you
suppose the Messenger has asked every earnest Student
to never sleep at night until they have contemplated that
Chart? For the very reason that It keeps the information,
the truth, the vision before them that there is no power
in the Earth that can govern them but their Presence of
Life. Therefore all outer things that mankind has given
power to, will have no power in the acknowledgment
of their “Presence”—except the Perfection which It is.
And that is what mankind needs today, because the
habit of human creation has made mankind believe
everything else but the Power of the “Presence,” the
Power and Presence of Life. Therefore, they are in the
conditions today because of that; and if you want to
be free, you have to change it—you have to reverse it.
Therefore, I say to you, Beloved Ones, in all Our
Great Love for you, if you care to listen to Us and give
response, then you will be free; but you cannot do it
if you go on asserting your own opinions and desires,
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believing We do not know.

Do you remember, Beloved Ones—you whose Hearts
are great—in your childhood how often your parents
pled with you not to do certain things, and you went
on and did them and paid the penalty of discord and
unhappiness through the lack of obedience? The Great
Goddess of Liberty, who is your Cosmic Mother of
America, is offering you that same thing today. She says:
“My Children, My Great Mother Love enfolds you in
your loyalty to America, in your obedience to Life. Won’t
you give that obedience and have the Blessing and the
Perfection of Life which Life so much wants to give you?”
But you must be left free, quite free to choose.
I want you to feel, for I must soon stop—just let us be
still for a few moments and allow the Great Goddess
of Liberty to pour into your feeling world Her Blessing
as the Cosmic Mother. And will you—no matter the
number of years over your head—feel as a humble,
obedient child before Her Great Presence, and let Her
fold Her Arms of Light about you and hold you forever
in Her Mighty Radiance. (silence) Thank you so much.
My Dear Ones, My Heart bursts with joy; for
Gentlemen, I congratulate you in your ability to accept
that as you did just now. You were actually humble
as a child, and may that feeling forever expand and
bless you with its mighty activity in the Presence of the
Cosmic Mother, the Goddess of Liberty.
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I want our Ascended Master Youth of America to

know how great Our Love and Blessing is; and as you
continue your work here, your marvelous Group work,
We will try to find means to bless you more and more in
your Call to Light and Life, to the “Mighty I AM.” And
in your earnest sincerity the Heavens of Life’s Perfection
must open to you and flood you and your world with
Their Perfection. I urge you, Beloved Ascended Master
Youth, do not let human opinions or anything intrude
to mar the harmony, the great Perfection, and the quiet
which you have at this time and have had in your
activity. Just in that great humbleness to the “Presence”
and that great obedience of each of you to Life, let
the Great Wisdom of the “Presence” hold that mighty
Harmony so that you may be the Mighty Focus of
Light for Seattle and its future.
Group Leaders of Seattle, try to feel your
responsibility. Don’t have an unkind feeling to another
individual, but just go on knowing that Life is watching
you, your every move. And to the degree that you pour
forth Divine Love and Blessings to all, will you find in
return Its Mighty Enfolding Presence will bless you.
Remember, the individual whose motive is wrong—
whether that one is a Student or Group Leader—will
one day find himself or herself outside the Glory of the
Light of the “Mighty I AM.” Do not deceive yourself;
the great Law of Life makes no mistakes, is no respecter
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of persons, places, or conditions—but the Law of Life

acts according to what is acting in your feeling world.
There is no escape. All the calling, all the decreeing
won’t change it unless you change the motive in your
feeling. Therefore, the motive with intense feeling that
is held within your feeling world is the decreer of
what is going to act there. So I say to you in all Love
and Kindness, turn to your Presence of Life and ask
It to so cleanse and purify you, so govern and hold
self-control in your feeling world that only love and
kindness pour forth to bless everywhere you move.
And then how quickly you will find that the whole
force of Life and Its Light will find action through you
and in your world; and you will know then what it
means to pour forth Divine Love and Blessings to all
wherever you move.
Ascended Master Youth of America, We pour forth
Our Love and Blessings to you without limit, and in
your great loving response may the Power of Light
hold Its Mighty Focus until your lives become filled
with the Perfection of Life and the Limitless Power of
Its Radiation and Blessing to all mankind wherever
you move without limit.
I thank you and bless you forever.
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October 8, 1938
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Beloved Students of Chicago and Beloved
Ascended Master Youth of Chicago and elsewhere,
will you believe it when I say to you that I am just as
happy as you are? (applause)
You don’t quite yet understand, Beloved Ones and
Ascended Master Youth, what this homecoming of the
Messengers means to the entire World. From the time
the Messenger left Us in India in Chananda’s Home
where Our Great Freedom came—from that day to
this, seeing from the Octave of Light all that had been
going on in the minds and feeling world of mankind,
I was perhaps one of the most determined, outside of
Beloved Saint Germain, to see the victorious return
of the Messengers to Chicago (applause); and it has
arrived. Furthermore, it is established and, if My
observation be correct, for a long time! (applause)
Since we are one family in private Dictations, you
may not know it, Beloved Ones, but this is the last
barrier (applause—audience rising) that has gone
down before the Powers of Light. It is a magnificent
Achievement—oh, not just for you, not just for Chicago,

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but for all that that means to America.

In all that you meet in the outer world, Beloved
Ones, please remember you are really not dealing
with individuals or personalities, you are dealing
with a force; and whatever is less than Perfection
is a force acting, Beloved Ones. It is not always
intelligent, but it is a force qualified that is acting
through the accumulation of human discord. But you
must remember, Beloved Students of the Light, that
in everything which confronts you, the first thought
and feeling that should arise from within you should
be, “That appearance has no power!” (applause)
Why do I urge you so intensely about this? Because
if you saw the activity of the energy which you release
that stops that thing instantly where it is—and then
as you call the Power of Light forth to dissolve and
consume it, you have stopped its action and made it
helpless—so to speak—while the Power of Light seizes
it, and it is no more.
That is why I say to you, Beloved Ones, as you
come to understand this Great Law more and more,
you will see how there are just a few definite activities
that, asserted with dynamic power in the acceptance of
your “Presence,” stop everything in the human octave
of discord, and make it helpless until the Powers of
Light take it away. This is as definite as when you hold
a substance before you and turn upon it the flame of a
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blowtorch and it is consumed. It is just as tangible and

more powerful than your blowtorch which consumes
almost instantly, because you must understand more
firmly than ever that all discordant forces have no power
except that with which they were charged by human
qualities.
Therefore, the Power of Light is a thousand times
more powerful than human accumulation of any
kind. That is what I want you to understand if you
will, Beloved Ones; and you will have no difficulty
in handling the conditions that confront you. Those
conditions that you have had in the past have really
no power except when you feed your attention, when
you feed your own Life into the appearance to come
back and so-called harm you.
My Dear Ones, I tell you that this one point, if you
really comprehend it, will set you free positively. An
appearance in the outer world cannot touch you, cannot
reach you except when by your attention you feed your
own life current of energy into it. Do you not see that?
There is not a thing in the outer world of discord that
could reach you except if it got your attention and held
it long enough for your current of life energy to flow
into it. It comes right back because the power of your
attention is the authority of your world.
Therefore, when the Messengers plead with the
Students throughout America to keep your attention
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off discordant things, it does not mean you do not

know about them; you must see what is to be done in
order to correct it, but that does not mean you allow
your attention to feed into a thing until it begins to
feed back to you again. That is so important to you.
And Beloved Ascended [Master] Youth of America,
you who are the Torchbearers of the future, if you
understand the simplicity of these few fundamentals,
you will make yourselves a Power of Light, and no
discordant force will be able to touch you ever.
Remember, Beloved Ones, first the communistic
element from Russia that spread its poisonous breath
everywhere throughout our colleges and institutions
of learning, and at one time was almost gaining its
victory, today has no power! (applause) It has no
power among our Ascended Master Youth and the
rest of the youth of America. Rex, Nada, Pearl, and
Myself, and the Great Host who have joined Us in the
Assistance of the Ascended Master Youth of America,
will wipe it out! (applause—audience rising)
Beloved Students, remember your great privilege in
wielding the Scepter, the Sword of Blue Flame, which
you have in your Mighty Decrees in the calling forth
of Perfection. That is as definite as if you took in your
physical hand a Sword of Blue Flame and directed It
to dissolve all discordant conditions. These Decrees are
the mightiest thing in the world that mankind can use—
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and all mankind can use It; there are none that cannot
where they are calling to the “Presence” to release the
Infinite Power of Light. Even a little child can do this,
and does do it with Infinite Power of Action. Therefore,
as you dissolve the discord that has been accumulated
around you, and you stand forth in the Full Feeling of
the Victory of your Life and your Call to It to release Its
Power, then you will have found your Freedom forever.
I say to you, Beloved Ascended Master Youth of
America and Friends, it is not as if this were but an
activity of this lifetime, but It will do for you in this
lifetime what nothing else could in the World, and It is
Eternal in Its action—please understand that. Whatever
inch or foot you gain in the acknowledgment of your
“Presence” in setting yourself free, holds forever
sustained in Its Mighty Activity until you gain further.
(applause) Therefore, you cannot slip back in anything
you have called forth into action by acknowledgment
of your “Presence.” It stands there, the Victory thus far
until you gain another step.
Therefore, Beloved Ones, I say to you one of
the mightiest things in the entire Work to Me is that
those who care to decree for their Ascension in this
embodiment—if for any reason they did not free
themselves and accomplish It in this embodiment—
would find that mighty impelling, compelling Force
of that mighty desire and Decree would compel It
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to take place in the next embodiment early in life.

You are dealing with the Infinite Power of Light, Its
Eternal Activity setting you steadily and surely Free as
nothing in the World can but your acknowledgment
of the Presence of Life, the “Mighty I AM.”
Therefore, I say to you beloved people, there is
nothing in the World that should ever discourage you.
Suppose your Application has not produced all you
would desire. Good Heavens, you were centuries and
centuries accumulating it; and when you are being
set free in a few months or a few years at most, is
there anyone who would not have the courage to
go on until the Final Victory arrives? Think of it!—
your Messengers, standing before you, in four years
have set Themselves Free from every accumulation,
and stand forth ready for the Ascension at any time.
(applause)
Now pardon Me if I digress just a moment and
refer back to the beginning when I started to tell you
why the last barrier has gone down in the so-called
seeming opposition to this Work. The Examiner
reporters who came to the Messengers last night and
were permitted to take Their pictures, and the article
in the paper this morning which many of you have
seen—while it is not the correct understanding quite,
yet it is kindly; and it is only the forerunner of what
the newspapers will do for the “I AM” in the future.
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I ask you to watch it! (applause) And let Me tell you,

Beloved Students, for you ought to know it: in all
the criticism and condemnation of Hearst, he is one
of the most loyal, staunch defenders of the loyalty
to America (applause); and one day his papers will
stand back of the Messengers with all the truth that
there is. (applause) He sees and knows about the
loyalty of the Messengers to America and Their
mighty defense of America! (applause)
You observe how absolutely fearlessly They
have gone forth in the face of everything. When in
Seattle, Beloved Ones, They put forth to the public
the mighty Truth about the fiendish dope that has
been spread over America; and those people, if they
had dared, would have annihilated Them there.
But They are fearless and those people know they
are dealing with a Power of Light, although they do
not understand it. So do all destructive forces in this
Universe know they are dealing with the Power of
Light—the Ascended Masters, with whom they cannot
cope! (applause)
Let Me tell you, Beloved Students of Chicago and
elsewhere, some of the moving pictures that have come
forth are a magnificent example of what awakened
mankind will do in putting down all destructive
activities. That moving picture “I Am the Law” is the
most perfect, magnificent thing showing how mankind,
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arising in their fearlessness, put down the racketeers

and destroyed them. And there are others. Remind
yourselves, Dear Ones, quite often, that the Power of
Light taking Its Dominion on Earth will one day change
everything and bring the moving pictures into that for
which they were intended. (applause)
Remember that the desire of humanity is the
thing that rules the World; and when enough of the
American people begin to make the Call for the
perfect pictures to come forth as mighty instruction to
mankind, then the demand of the people will compel
the producers to produce those magnificent things
like Unveiled Mysteries and The Magic Presence,
that will reveal to the World the Octaves of Light and
hold that Dominion forever. (applause)
Therefore, I say to you, Beloved Students, be fearless
before mankind. You have nothing to be ashamed of
in your Understanding of the Mighty Laws of Life, the
“Mighty I AM.” Do not be afraid that your Power of
Light cannot silence all destructive forces about you—It
can! So call It forth with determination, and let It do
it that you may stand Free.
Beloved Ones, I cannot help it when I come into
your midst like this, I am so vividly reminded that it
is only just a few years since Nada and I and Pearl
and Rex stood in limited bodies like yours. Good
Heavens, Dear People, we did not know anymore
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than you this morning that such a possibility as our

Freedom in the Ascension was possible. Even when
we went to India, still in the outer activity of the mind
and feeling we could not conceive how such a thing
was possible. So why not give the Powers of your Life,
your “Presence” that is Limitless, the Full Power of Its
Activity in and through your physical body, and see
what It will do for you? Who of you can say to Me
today what your Presence of Life could do through
you at any given moment?
Don’t you see it is impossible for your outer physical
body to know what the Powers of Light acting in and
through you could do at any given time? It is impossible.
You cannot possibly know. Only the Ascended Masters
who have gained that Freedom can possibly know
what the “Presence” can do! Therefore I say to you,
be of good courage and strength in your Call to Life,
for you are steadily and surely forging ahead; and
after dissolving and consuming every particle of your
accumulation, then one day when you stand forth in
a little greater Victory than at the present, you will
feel the Glory and Power of the “Presence” flow into
action. Then as you see everything harmonize as you
move forward, you will see the Power of Light acting
through your glorious Presence, the “Mighty I AM.”
I ask you, Beloved Ones, observe! Oh Dear People,
for God’s sake don’t let anything in the outer world
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cause you to think that We are not real. We lived in

Wyoming and I was a mining engineer, a lad out of
college. We went in our physical bodies to Europe and
India and in so short a time were Free, and yet not
one of the Students yet can say what the last chapter
of The Magic Presence means. Don’t be discouraged;
you will, all of a sudden. I insist on it. Let Me give you
just a tip. Those words there that state We were given
bodies such as have never been known in the outer
world—read that line and get its Inner meaning.
That is why I say to you, not one of you has
the slightest concept of what your Power of Life,
the “Mighty I AM” could do for you at any given
moment. And behold, when this Good Messenger
met David Lloyd on the side of Mount Shasta—and
do not get any idea it is not real—He had no more
idea of the Service about to be rendered there than
you—such a thing was beyond imagination. But look!
When the humbleness is there, when the willingness
is there to allow the Powers of Light to act, then will
the Presence of Life do for you what the imagination
could not even conceive of one moment before.
These experiences recorded in Unveiled Mysteries
and The Magic Presence are real, Dear People! They
are no figment of imagination! Everything there is real,
the Mighty Truth of Life. And when you understand
that and gain the full meaning of that, then will you
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understand and have a Power acting within you, you

never dreamt was there.
Therefore, I say to you beloved Students of
Chicago, My rejoicing is equal to yours in the great
Call to the Ascended Master Friends that have been
raised up here in your city to clear away every
seeming outer obstruction—while there really never
was any, yet the appearance world had to be met and
had to see that it had no power. (applause) (Betty, be
sure you get those words exact.)
Therefore, Beloved Ones, you stand in the open
doorway to the Victory of Life. Enter in as We did, into
that Cave of Light whose Blazing Presence dissolves
forever every human element about you. And think,
today and for some months the Mighty Divine Director
in releasing the Golden Liquid Light into your feeling
world has been performing for you a Service. While
it has been a little less than that which acted within Us
when We entered the Cave of Light in India, yet in the
outer world He is bringing It to you in the happiness and
comfort of your own home and the Mighty Radiance
of these Classes. Oh, please understand and feel what
that means to you. It is real Substance, Dear Ones;
it is not a thing of imagination. Don’t think that your
imagination is working overtime in accepting this
Mighty Truth of Life. It is real, the realest thing in the
Universe! And therefore I say to you Ascended Master
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Youth: Straighten your spines and let Us help you to

hold the Victory of Life sustained, until by your own
Application you feel Its Full Victory and Dominion
acting within you.
So many people have wondered about Us, have
wondered about Mr. Rayborn. How is it that he
could make the Ascension when he had a ranch of
thousands of cattle, and a mine employing hundreds
of people—again the human trying to be the judge. If
you will put down human judgment and let the Power
of your Light through you explain the Truth of Life,
you won’t stop to wonder why things are thus and so.
But I say to you, Beloved People, live as the
Messengers have told you. We never condemn nor
criticize you. When you are ready to face about and
say to your Life: “ ‘Mighty I AM Presence,’ I call
on the Law of Forgiveness for all my mistakes. I
want to correct them. You take command now and
stop all this silly nonsense, and carry me forward in
the Victory of Your Light”—what do you think the
Presence of Life would do when It has waited for you
throughout the centuries to issue that mighty Edict of
your own Life for your own Freedom?
That is why I say, do not try to let your outer human
concepts judge what could be done for you. Please do
not do it, but go on in your Mighty Adoration or Call
to your “Presence” to pour Its Mighty Perfection and
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Dominion in and through you, and then be patient.

There is not any two of you just alike in your feeling
world in this room today. The old statement that
no two people are alike is quite true, and even your
accumulation is not the same. No two people are alike.
No two people have the same requirements. Therefore,
do not think you have to do what someone else does, but
forget everything else except the Glory of your Mighty
“Presence” and Its Mighty Perfect Action through you.
Then Its Radiance will pour forth to give such a Blessing
to those you contact, you could not imagine it. Then
you are allowing the Powers of Life—Perfection—to act
untouched by your qualification, your judgment, or
your human concepts of what It should do.
Oh, who of you can advise Life? Don’t you
see, Beloved Ones? How could you hope in your
intellect to advise Life as to what It should do? Call
Its Perfection into action and let It do for you what
It will, and what It can do—and beyond your fondest
concepts.
Therefore I say to you, Beloved Ones, in the fullness
of all you wish to have, all Life wants to give you, can
you ever conceive of anything more gracious, more
glorious in the World than the Source of Life that never
condemns a human being—never says, “I told you so”?
The Ascended Masters never condemn, never criticize,
seeing all the mistakes of mankind which They are
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compelled to look upon; yet never once have They

said or felt one critical thought or feeling toward any
of mankind—that belongs to the human octave.
I say to you beloved Ones of Chicago—to all the
Students of Chicago as well as the Ascended Master
Youth—until you refuse to have a thought or feeling
about your fellow Students of anything but love and
kindness, you are obstructed by your own feeling.
You cannot afford to have any unkind feeling about a
person, place, or condition if you want to go forward
quickly into the Light.
Above all, I stand amazed when some of the
blessed, loyal Students sometimes feel critical toward
the Messengers because the Messengers are so firm
in holding to what They know to be right and the
greatest Blessing to the people. How can they feel
critical toward these Beloved Messengers who are
giving all, and remaining on the Earth and giving the
Blessing and the Freedom to mankind? They know
what is required and They are firm and unyielding—
it doesn’t make any difference who it is. Therefore,
Beloved Ones, love Them! Bless Them as you never
did in your Life, for all mankind. (applause)
Do you not see, Beloved Ones? In this glorious
atmosphere let Me try to convey to you how it is not
ever in the World a person, place, or condition; it is
a quality of energy acting with which every one of
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mankind has to deal. And as long as you blame some

person for something, you are qualifying your own
energy with that discord or imperfection which you
see in the other individual, which must outpicture
through your own flesh. In the Name of God, your
“Mighty I AM Presence,” I charge every one of you
to see that point and the necessity of standing guard
over your feelings!
You have heard so often—I mean those who have
been more often with the Messengers have heard—the
Messengers pleading with the Students everywhere to
govern their feelings and forget other individuals. It is
so important, Beloved Ones. And if you would only
realize that you are dealing with qualified energy,
you would not have the slightest feeling toward any
human being, because you would know what they do
is their own affair and what you feel is yours. Unless
you correct your feeling, you will never in the world
have your Freedom!
Dear Ones, you are very kind to stand all this
time, but during that time you have been receiving a
Mighty Blessing which I am not permitted to explain
at this time. Won’t you be seated.
Beloved Ones, I want you to realize, if you will, what
it means—I know, I went through the experience too—
when you are working, so-called; and not understanding
the Law especially, you get tired and exhausted and
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your physical body slumps. Do you know what that

does? Instead of resting you, it makes you more tired
than ever, because it causes a pressure and shuts off the
flow in your circulation and the nerve fluid through
your body. One day every “I AM” Student in the
World will no more allow their spine to slump than
anything in the world. The minute you do that, you
tighten every vertebra and shut off the full flow of the
nerve fluid through your body and through the ganglia
or centers of distribution within your physical body.
Dear Ones, one day you will learn to stand straight
and feel the full flow. It does not make any difference
how tired you are; when you have done that enough,
you will find you have forgotten to be tired. And in
the Call to the “Presence” with the spine straight, this
energy will flow through undisturbed. Then you will
think of your activity as a Service to the Light—as
a Service and not work. Mankind has charged the
word “work” with all kinds of exhaustion. It is not
true. That which you have called work is a Service to
Life; and once you dismiss from your mind the idea
of work, the feeling of work, then the Powers of Life
will flow forth and renew you constantly, and you will
never feel that exhaustion.
Just think, the Messengers for four years have not
known what it is to stop. They do not know what it
is to be exhausted. Your Precious Lotus more than
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two thirds of the time does not sleep more than two
hours a night—because She loves you, because She
loves the Students. She loves humanity and puts
forth the utmost of Her ability to give to you that
which will bless you the most. (applause—audience
rising) Great as is your love for Her and the love of
all the Students of America and the World, you do
not yet comprehend, Precious, Precious Ones, all that
your Precious Lotus means to you. Her dauntless,
Invincible Application is the most magnificent thing
We have ever witnessed in the World. And it is
ceaseless. It never stops! (applause)
Dear Ones, wherever you go and whatever you
meet, put down as a poisonous serpent before you
any vicious, unkind gossip toward these Messengers
and the Light. (applause) Say to any individual that
starts to pour that into your ears, “Silence that gossip
right now!” (applause) That is the only way you will
ever stop that vicious human thing. When individuals
are depraved enough that they don’t want to give the
obedience to Life, then they try to drag you away
from your Ideals by trying to discourage you in the
Light. You would not let a serpent creep up and
strike you with its poisonous venom if you knew it,
would you? Yet when individuals come up to you
and spread vicious gossip about individuals—whether
it is about the Messengers or someone else—in your
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thoughts, that is worse than the poison of a serpent.

That only goes into your body; but this goes into your
feeling world, and you do not know it. That is why
you should keep out of your world all vicious gossip
of every kind and annihilate it, and then be Free!
There has never been anything on this Earth that
has come forth one-hundredth part so magnificently
as this Light, which is the Freedom of all mankind
who will accept Its Freedom, study and apply It.
Therefore, Beloved Ones, I say this at this time—I
presume it will be taken up in the Class, but the
Mighty Astrea, the Archangel Michael, and the
Mighty Divine Director are rendering a Service and
will render one during the remainder of this Class in
Chicago, even beyond that which was done in Seattle.
(applause) Chicago will now become the real Heart
Atom of Light where it began. (applause) And you
of Chicago, go forth blazing the Mighty Light of your
“Presence”—not so much in what you say, but in the
mighty determination that the Powers of your Light
shall flow forth in the Radiance of your bodies and
take command of the feeling world and activity about
you; and hold yourselves harmonious and obedient
to the Powers of Life.
Beloved Ones, My Love and Gratitude is very
great for this opportunity to talk to you today, and
for the Service that has been rendered. I am very
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grateful for it. And may you, ere many days, realize
and feel the full import of what has been done for you
in this room today.
Therefore, on behalf of the other Children, Myself,
the Great Ascended Masters, the Legion of Light, the
Great Cosmic Beings, and the Great Cosmic Light
so recently releasing Its Mighty Blessings—Their
Mighty Blessings enfold you in an Intensification
and Powerful Activity, intensifying your Calls for
Freedom, your Calls for Perfection, to take greater
command in your life and feeling world now, and
pour out Its Mighty Activity into your world of action
to hold you within the Glory of Its Radiance and
Harmony, and bring Its Mighty Blessings into full
action in your life, world, and activity wherever you
move.
I thank and bless you forever. (applause)
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November 19, 1938

TENAFLY, NEW JERSEY
Beloved Ones, what a joy it is to be present with
you, giving forth the Radiation which We always do
at these times, and to enfold these Beloved Children
in that Radiance. The Divine Director will by His
Projection of the Light Rays project that Liquid,
Golden Substance into their feeling world which
should within three years bring such Perfection into
their Life and activity, such courage and strength that
will make each one the Dominion of the Light through
the outpouring of Divine Love and Kindliness.
While it is absolutely necessary to be tremendously
positive to human qualities, yet always remain humble
before your Presence of Life and before the Ascended
Masters. They are the only Ones who know what
Perfection is, because until you have experienced It,
you cannot possibly know. One may discuss It, one
may think of It, one may even vision certain activities
of Perfection; but until you are there, have tasted the
glory of It, you cannot possibly know in the human
octave just all the Perfection of Life means.
But since you are ready to accept the Ascended

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Masters’ Radiance, the Ascended Masters’ Substance,

the Ascended Masters’ Direction for your assistance,
then you have placed your attention upon the right
Activity, upon the right Source that will one day
bring Its ever-increasing Perfection into your world
of action, all that your Heart has desired.
Have a motto, maybe several in your
schoolrooms to keep the children reminded that the
motive acting in the feeling, or in other words the
attitude of the feeling acting within the individual,
is the decreer of how the energy of Life is going to
act for that one. If the motive and attitude be right,
Life will charge the quality of Perfection into the
energy going forth from that individual, which is
an ever-increasing activity.
Beloved Children, remember that as you hold
the right motive in your feeling world, Life, being
by far more powerful than any human quality, will
take command. It will keep charging and building
into your feeling world this Dominion of the “Mighty
I AM Presence” and the Light which every human
being in his Heart really wants. The human desire is
an activity of the human intellect—and when I say the
“human intellect,” I mean the brain activity.
I presume you have not had explained just what
is taking place when reference is made to the human
intellect. I want you to get a clear idea of it. There
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is a force field in the structure of the brain, just the

same as in the cells of the body. While it is somewhat
different in the brain than it is in the cells of the body,
yet a similar condition is acting. There is a force field
in the brain which is charged with human qualities—
the same as that surrounding the Points of Light
within the cells of the body. The force field comprises
what you term the human intellect. It is a gathered
force which is qualified energy acting through the
brain structure of the individual. It has been qualified
by the reports of the appearance world which has
not taken into consideration the Source of itself. It
has accepted from the outside world the qualities
of human conditions—all of which are more or less
distressing, and all are limiting.
When you give your attention to the Presence of
Life, your “Mighty I AM ,” you are causing to be
held in abeyance these human qualities of the force
field within the body and within the brain structure.
As you do that, call forth Perfection through your
attention to the “Presence,” and then directly to the
expansion of the Points of Light within the cells of
your body. You will find a trinity of action taking
place which brings the results so much more quickly
within the entire human form, the intellect, and the
feeling world of the individual.
Try not to feel that this is abstruse. These are things
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which need to be understood in the School. You are

dealing with a direct Current of Light. As you give
attention to your “Mighty I AM Presence” above
you which beats your Heart, you will have more and
more of Its Perfection. To the degree that you silence
and hold in abeyance the human desires will your
Perfection come forth more quickly.
Let us enumerate a few human desires so you get
the idea clearly. For instance, any kind of discord,
criticism, condemnation, or having an opinion about
others is the thing that starts a feeling revolving within
you, which after a while builds into a habit or becomes
temporarily a dominant action in your Life. If you will
give your attention to the “Mighty I AM Presence,”
giving obedience to Life—which is harmony within
your feelings—the Points of Light within the brain
expand. Then, as the “Presence” pours forth this
greater Intensity of Light, there naturally comes the
expansion of the Light within your brain and body.
In this way, the force field which has been charged
with human discord is dissolved.
Since the atomic pressure of the human discord
of Earth is so tremendous, one has to be very firm
in holding the human desires inactive until the time
when the substance within the atmosphere of Earth is
dissolved and consumed by the Great Beings of Light.
This time is coming very near. After the substance
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within the atmosphere of Earth is consumed,

dissolved—cause, effect, and record—then you will
find it is just like a great shadowy garment has been
dissolved and you are released from it. It will be
almost like you stepped out from a shadowy world
into one of brilliant sunshine.
Humanity is struggling under this garment, the
shadowy garment of its own creation; and you who
are Students today are the most fortunate of beings
since you have begun to learn how to call the “Mighty
I AM Presence” into action to dissolve and consume
the accumulation of your own, and hold in abeyance
that of others whom you might contact. Then you
will find a happiness impossible in any other way,
a courage and confidence in your endeavor, which
holds you so steady.
As Mr. Rayborn so ably stated, each individual
then becomes, through the Power of his “Presence,”
like an instrument of great hydraulic pressure. If you
children do not understand that, let Me explain in a
few words that hydraulic pressure is a tremendous
force of water going through a great hose which forces
water upon a given point. That pressure is sufficient in
western mining to break down the side of a mountain,
even to release great boulders weighing tons.
This is the pressure of the Light in the “Presence”
through Its Currents of Energy which go forth at your
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Call and become a great hydraulic pressure from

your Heart into your world of action, dissolving and
consuming all discord or similar obstructions and
releasing the pure gold of Life into your world. You
see We love to use those terms since I was a mining
engineer, and since we in those days before our
Freedom were living in the world of mining activity.
How marvelous and apropos it is to compare many of
the activities that we use in the physical world to the
higher Activity of Life which is a consciously directed
Power of the Light Rays—as powerful as the hydraulic
pressure of water against the side of a mountain. And
when you understand that you can release from your
“Presence” this Ray of Light focused with Its mighty
Power as definitely as a hydraulic pressure to enter your
world, go before you, and clear from your pathway
every human quality, every seeming obstruction from
any source whatsoever—then you are dealing with a
Power of Life that knows no obstruction in any way.
To the degree you are conscious of this and
consciously call It into action definitely with firm
determination will you find that Activity going forth
into your world before you, making easy your studies,
clearing your world, and gaining a momentum so that
when you go into the world of action as an individual
governing your own life and world, then will you feel a
confidence, a power, and an authority of the Presence
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of Life which will give you the Mastery over, above,

and upon all that you choose to fix your attention on
as a Service to Life.
Therefore, your opportunity, Beloved Children and
Beloved Friends, is the greatest in all the embodiments
in which you have lived. You must all know that there
have been many, and in so many lives there has been
so much that needs to be dissolved and consumed.
Now at this point let Me remind you, Beloved
Children, that all that is accomplished through your
Call to the “Presence” becomes an eternally, forever
sustained achievement—accomplishment—and never
has to be redone. Therefore, you are engaged in the
activity of the dissolving and consuming cause, effect,
and record of whatever the accumulation of the past
has been.
No one place in the activity of Life throughout the
Earth has this conscious activity of the action of Life
ever been brought to mankind. It has been possible
for certain feeling to dissolve certain qualities, but they
would not remain so because other causes were set
into action. Today when the cause, effect, and record
of the thing that has been disturbing is removed, it
means that is removed from your Life forever. It will
not again act in your Life because you have removed
the cause. Then the feeling world cannot grasp upon
anything to again set the same cause into motion.
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I say to you as grown beings, do you realize today

what a tremendous thing that means in your lives?
And I think you are going to feel while I am talking to
you this morning, the absolute necessity and perhaps
a little clearer reason why the Violet Consuming
Flame is absolutely imperative in your life—because
It does dissolve at your Command, cause, effect, and
record of everything that has been your own creation,
everything that has been projected in your world.
Now do you not see if you will call the “Presence” to
use the Violet Consuming Flame with great intensity,
It cannot harm you in any way. It will dissolve the
discordant records.
Therefore, within two years it has been made
possible to have all this—cause, effect, and record—
dissolved. Then you are clearing forever from your
pathway every particle of obstruction that you have
accumulated through the centuries—cause, effect,
and record. I cannot impress that too strongly upon
your mind! You must be conscious that all cause,
effect, and record is dissolved and consumed; then
you are forever free of all that quality. And again let
Me repeat that since you have been freed from the
record, the feeling cannot reach out and take hold
and reestablish anything of that same quality. It is a
powerful, definite action, Beloved Ones.
In establishing your school activity here, if you in
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charge, the teachers, and all the children will issue

that Decree twice or three times a day—it only takes a
moment—to have the Power of the Violet Consuming
Flame—and remember it is the “Presence” you are
calling into action to do it—dissolve cause, effect, and
record of every discordant thing that you have ever
drawn about you in all the past, then you have set the
Power of Light into action to perform that service.
Call It to be sustained with all Its great intensity until
every particle of It is achieved. Then as you from
day to day issue your other Decrees for whatever
you might desire to have act, then you will find that
calls into action the necessary intensity for not only
the outer activity, but for keeping this record aflame
with Its mighty Activity, Presence, and Power.
We see so clearly the greater necessity; and for the
next few months or possibly a year and a half, the
Group Leaders, the Students, and the Schools must
be firm as the Rock of Gibraltar to the Light and
refuse to accept any appearances. And I say to you,
Beloved Ada, have no fear of this condition which has
been threatening. It is all a bluff, it has no power; and
as you issue that Mighty Decree with its Invincible
Power, that human thing must be silenced forever. But
you must be firm, Blessed Students, against human
viciousness. It does not make any difference what
the source is, what the reason for it is, be so firm in
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knowing it has no power! Just like you threw a bomb

of Light into that thing, it dissolves—and if necessary,
dissolves all human viciousness. It is much better that
they be released from the body than to continue to
build such viciousness.
Beloved Ones, I say to you of the School here,
hold that Mighty Power by your Call and by your
visualization, that Circle of Blue Flame around your
grounds and around your school to keep dissolved any
wrong sex desire that might attempt to be projected
into your midst. The last throes of the black magicians
are forcing that feeling throughout America, and the
number of people that are being beset by that wrong,
abnormal desire is astonishing; so I warn you today,
you must be strong and on guard against it until this
substance is dissolved and consumed from the Earth.
Then mankind will have relief naturally and easily
from this abnormal desire, but until that time it is
imperative to be dynamic against it.
I want to make clear to you here today that
marriage in its proper order is a Divine Activity of
Life under the present conditions that exist; but if it
is not entered into with pure desires, it becomes an
activity of the destructive forces which ofttimes try
to shut off the Light of individuals. During the recent
Class in Chicago, a boy and girl were married, and no
sooner were they married than he went off to Canada
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feeling no responsibility to his wife or anything like

that. Now that kind of condition is a sinister thing
projected at those blessed individuals; and unless
dynamic action is taken to prevent that kind of thing
among our young people of the “I AM” throughout
America, one tragedy after another will occur.
Now I tell you, the grown-ups must use the greatest
discretion. Do not under any circumstances urge
young people to get married unless they will call with
all the earnestness of their being to their “Presence”
to see that the right individuals are brought together
that can harmonize. Each one should feel his or
her own responsibility to Life in that act. Marriage
should be the most beautiful thing in the world, but
if it is entered into by the human desires alone, then
it becomes a tragedy in the life of the individuals.
So I say to you grown-ups, be cautious, be careful
what you do, and wherever there is an indication
of this, call the “Presence” into action with great
earnestness and sincerity, and ask the Ascended
Masters to stand guard over our young people and
see that only the right action in this capacity comes
about, so that they may be protected from this tragic
condition which the black magicians have tried to
drive at our young people everywhere. Unless the
young people stand guard, I am ashamed to say it but
the orthodox world is hoping to see—not all of them,
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but many of the vicious individuals are hoping to

see—conditions take place that would bring disgrace
upon the “I AM” Students and the Schools; so you
have all these things to stand against. They have no
power, except that you must be aware of what you
have to contend with. Then you, by the Power of
Light, can hold yourself Invincible against them!
Please do not let this go out in a general way; but
the Goddess of Light, in council with the Activity of
the Great Central Sun, is calling for a certain Activity
to the Earth that never has been. Seeing the necessity,
and the protection required for the people of Earth,
She has made this request in order to allow this to
come forward more quickly. If it is granted, or shall
I say—of course in Our World there is no such thing
as “if”—but when this is granted . . .
Mrs. G. W. Ballard: “I add my Call to Hers to
bring It to pass quickly!”
Bob: Thank you. Will you and those in charge of
the School voice your Call from the physical octave?
Decree by those present: From the physical octave
of Earth we add our Call to the Beloved Goddess of
Light’s; and in the Name of Mercy to the humanity
of Earth, we ask the release of the Power for which
She calls. May It come with the speed of lightning,
be eternally sustained, and ever expanding. And we
accept its answer now!
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Bob: Thank you very much. I cannot impress

upon you too strongly how necessary it is to know
what you require and make the dynamic Call for It.
You see, mankind—and even the Student Body—does
not yet realize that unless you know what is to be
done, how in the world are you going to call for it to
be done? Now your general Application, of course,
sooner or later would govern these points; but if you
are informed of the imperative requirements of the
moment and then you make your dynamic Call for
that result, do you not see how then and there it is
done, whereas otherwise it may be months or years
before the general Application would release you
from the condition that is existing.
I know it has not been possible for Saint Germain
to reveal many of these things. But as the conditions
are dissolved more and more and He has more time
to go into the details of things, then your attention
will be called to one thing after another; and you
will find in the momentum you have gained, as He
calls your attention to these certain activities, with
one swat—excuse Me if I use that expression—you
will have the thing done, through the momentum
you have gained.
So do not be discouraged because you have not yet
been given information that will come forth—I mean little
details so far as your individual lives, Application, and
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requirements are concerned—because it has not been

possible. But as these other things are accomplished
in the national activity, then these things will be given.
Then you won’t have to keep thinking, revolving, or
repeating them; but as you give one mighty Decree
for a certain thing, you will know it is finished. And as
you go on to another, it is finished.
Then it is like you go out into your gardens, and
you go into a row of plants and unearth one thing
after another. You pull the roots out. That is all there
is to it. There is no further growth; there is no further
accumulation. Just so will you pluck out by the roots
these habits and qualities or whatever you are calling
to have released. You don’t have to give it any further
thought or consideration. Therefore, it keeps your
mind from having to revolve upon these things.
Sometimes an uncontrolled feeling upon your part
can revolve, and you do not know it. You can revolve
a thing in the feeling without the intellect knowing it,
or a thing that has been unpleasant.
You will find when this substance has been dissolved
from the atmosphere that there will be scarcely any
inclination to revolve discordant things. And I say to
you, Beloved Ones, do not discuss an unpleasant thing
any longer than it is necessary to gain an understanding
of it and what is required. Cut it off just like that, the
minute you have come to the understanding of what is
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to be done. Do not discuss it anymore—any unpleasant

thing—because if you do, you gain a revolving
momentum of that. This is so important.
Today a very beautiful and very wonderful Activity
has been released into your home here. Remember
this is God’s Home, the Home of the “Mighty I AM,”
the Home of Light. Lotus, will you take Mr. Hall’s
hand; and Mrs. Hall, will you take Mine.
Great Presence of Light—O “Mighty I AM,” Great
Host of Ascended Masters, charge into these two
individuals Thy great Peace, Thy great and mighty
Directing Intelligence, Thy great Kindliness that
allows no disturbance of any kind to arouse any
kind of feeling; but through the Outpouring of Light
into the School and to the students, hold that loving
Kindness that is the dissolving Presence of Light, the
“Mighty I AM” at all times—that holds everything in
such happy, joyous obedience to Life that the Fullness
of Its mighty Action takes Full Command and holds
It sustained forever. We thank Thee it is done.
Oh, there is so much I should like to talk to all of
you about today, so many wonderful things. You do
not see them yet, but be patient until the day when
you see the outpicturing in the human octave of all
this mighty achievement. With Those who have
spoken these words before, I say to you—adding My
bit to Theirs—the achievement since the Messengers
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arrived in Chicago has been the most stupendous

thing ever on this Earth! Do not think this sounds
sacrilegious; but it is so much greater, as the Beloved
Ascended Master Jesus has said, than at any one point
of His Activity, that He stands many times in absolute
quiet pouring forth His Radiance to the Earth and to
Saint Germain for this gigantic Achievement.
What a glorious thing to look forward to when the
Goddess of Peace will once again be in charge upon
Earth in the Hearts and minds of the people, the
Goddess of Purity once again restored to Her Throne
upon Earth pouring forth that Purity of thought and
feeling to mankind, and the Goddess of Liberty with
Her Scepter of Dominion! What a great and mighty
thing—the Goddess of Light holding the Dominion of
the Powers of Light through each one embodied. Try
to feel all this means to mankind.
I am sure even the Students do not realize what
groups of individuals like this mean, dotted all over
America. As they are daily making their Calls in
their Mighty Decrees going forth, that is established
in every Group to hold an Activity of the Light there.
I say to you, be on guard, Beloved Ones, because
there will be individuals trying to intrude into your
Groups—seeing the kindliness and sympathy, as they
think, of the Students and the Group Leaders. They
come in with only one desire, and that is an immoral
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desire. Stand guard! Make your Calls constantly for

every such person to be shut out, because that is the
condition.
Now remember, Beloved Students and Group
Leaders—and Saint Germain wants the Messengers to
take this up in the Class here—every individual who has
an intense immoral activity within his or her being and
a determined desire to gratify it, must be kept out of
association with the Students until that one applies the
Law and dissolves that desire to the point where he or
she can govern it. To admit such a thing into your midst
is inviting the powers of destruction—just like many
times blessed, beautiful souls have married individuals,
thinking to redeem them. Usually it doesn’t occur.
Therefore, remember every human being has their
“I AM Presence,” and if they are willing to give It
attention, It will restore them to Its pristine Purity
and Perfection. Until they are ready to make the Call
with determination, all your Calls in creation cannot
impose it upon them. Therefore, to allow an immoral
individual to come into your midst means disaster
if you allow it to continue, because that individual,
under the present condition, will throw the miasmic
influence and desire over you which will cause each
one to begin to feel that. And unless you understand
it, you are very apt to yield to it. Then that which has
been a beautiful, marvelous activity is drenched with
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a substance of destruction.
Beloved Ones, only as mankind realizes that the
energy of Life should come down only to the dividing
point between the Divine and the human—from
your Heart area down, you are human; from your
Heart area up, you are Divine. If you yield to human
desires, you drive the energy down, which means
dragging yourself into more human limitations. If
you return that energy as it comes forth, back to the
Presence of Life, the energy itself will lift you one
day into your Ascension, your Freedom forever from
human qualities and limitations.
It is not a matter of any other reason in the World
except the action of Light, of Life, of energy. If the
energy goes into the Earth, it takes the body there.
If the energy goes back to the “Presence,” there It
draws you into the Ascension. It is the Law of Life
that is acting. It is not a matter of moral or immoral
activity, but it is the action of energy, of Life. If it
goes down, it is humanly qualified, for it does not go
back to the “Presence.” If it is Divinely qualified, it
produces Divine Order, Divine Justice in the life of
the individual.
Therefore, anyone—in fact everyone—must choose
how the energy is going to act for them. Therefore,
Beloved Ones, I just cannot refrain from referring you
again to that activity—and all of you know without
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My explaining, that woodsmen or those who are in

lumber camps and those who are in mining have
always been considered as being in the most depraved
activity of mankind because of the associations,
and because of the intoxicants which most of them
have chosen to associate themselves with. But in
Mr. Rayborn’s activities—showing the influence of
one man over several hundred—his influence was
strong enough to hold in abeyance those desires. His
slightest request was law to them, showing how you
as a person in the environment, with the Outpouring
of your Light, spread that Radiance of Purity and
Perfection to all with whom you associate. And just
naturally you will dissolve from their feeling world
the undesirable desires.
Precious Children, remember as you call to your
“Presence” for the Purity and Perfection of Life, then
the Presence of Light pouring forth through your
bodies from your Heart, your head, and your hands,
is the Radiance going forth to bless all you come in
contact with, either the grown-ups or those your age;
and you become a moving Pillar of Light pouring
Its Radiance forth wherever you move and to those
among whom you move.
So if you will feel that and remind yourselves of it
twice a day—when you awaken in the morning and
when you go to sleep at night—then you will allow
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the full Presence of Light to sweep into action in your

life and world; and you will become that Action of
Life, until one day Its Radiance becomes tangibly
visible about you. As soon as this substance from the
Earth is consumed, I shall expect to see hundreds of
the Students who are so determined and so sincere,
begin to pour forth such a Radiance that it will be
physically visible to anybody. I want to tell you,
Beloved Students, work for that; call for It! When
once that begins to appear among mankind, the
doubts of mankind will go down like they were hit
with a sledgehammer blow.
Be assured that Life, the Great Cosmic Light, the
Great Beings of Light—all are quite as anxious as you
are, to allow whatever Manifestation in Their Wisdom
They think wisest to come forth—as the Great Law of
Life permits—to give mankind the evidence of these
things. And while there have been innumerable things
occur, yet only a few of the Students accept them as
unusual Manifestations; but they are occurring and
will continue to increase and intensify. That is why I
say to you, Beloved Ones, accept even the slightest
thing as an Activity of the Cosmic Light of the Great
“Presence” so that you gain the feeling of acceptance.
Even suppose you made a mistake sometimes. Well,
what of it? Haven’t you made a lot of them? But a
mistake in accepting the Manifestation is not nearly
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such a mistake as accepting purely human mistakes.

So you would do better to make many mistakes in
accepting Manifestations and then find they had
physical causes, rather than to miss one that was really
a Divine Action. And if you find yourself sometimes
mistaken, say, “All right, next time it will be real!”
But do go on accepting those Manifestations. That is
what will help to bring them forth.
A tremendous Power of the Light is being brought
forth in New York City that will cause the dissolving
of the Stock Exchange. I feel that that must be done
to release mankind from the tragedy which has come
through it. The black magician, you will remember,
who established that has been removed from the
Earth. Therefore the feeder of that is gone; only the
momentum remains.
Question: “Was that not directly at the Command
of the Archangel Michael?”
Answer: Oh yes. Don’t think that We are deceivers,
but We use many means to draw forth the black
magicians; and the last five that were seized were so
amazed. They were led to believe that they were having
a clear pathway. Then all of a sudden they found it
obstructed, and they could not go either forward or
backward. So it is just the Action of Wisdom; and as
you find the Power of Wisdom acting more and more
in your Life, will you find a Happiness that is complete.
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Always remember, Beloved Ones, how imperative

obedience to Life is. That means sustained Harmony
in your feeling, so that no longer your Power of
Qualification acts except to produce Perfection; or in
other words, you allow Life which is Perfection to go
forth untouched, unqualified by any discordant feeling
within you. Then Life of Its own volition will produce
Perfection for you. Oh, it is so easy as We see it, so
marvelous, and only requires so little effort on the part
of the individual if the understanding is correct.
But remember, kindliness, oh, is so needed today
in all things. It does not mean that that makes you
less firm and determined for the right—thank you
very much. I was just thanking the Goddess of Light.
I have asked Her many times if I could say certain
things. Just now She has given Me permission to
say a few things.
My Dear Ones, if you could see that purest of
Beings go into the psychic or astral world and release
individuals there, and sometimes even carry them forth
out of that night of blackness into the Light; then in
spreading Her Radiance over them, sustain them until
they become adjusted to It—individuals who were caught
and bound there by the black magicians, not by their
own volition. You have no idea—just as today many
innocent people are imprisoned in your walls of the
human octave, so have black magicians imposed upon
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individuals and caused them to be taken from the

Earth and held bound within their chains there. And
now they are being released by great numbers. Those
individuals are ready for the Octave of Light and have
been, but could not have been released unless the
black magicians were removed who were holding them
bound. Oh, I know you feel with Me what a Service!—I
think the most Transcendent, possibly, to render to
the Earth. I dare not intimate even the conditions
under which many of those have been thrown out
of the body and bound in those conditions. It is not
time yet to discuss this publicly, but hold this within
your own sacred power.
This is a phase of the Activity which We have
never mentioned before; but I want you as the Staff,
the teachers of the School, and those in charge to
realize and understand this, and why the Goddess
of Light is the Authority for this great Tremendous
Activity. As you know, She was the one who had that
condition imposed upon Her and, through that, has
been made Authority to release mankind.
Of course you will understand that when She touches
a condition of that kind, any place Her Radiance
touches, it turns instantly into pure White. It is not that
She has anything imposed upon Her; but Her Radiance,
wherever She touches, spreads Its Radiance over the
entire form. So in all that you might be required to do
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in your Service of the Light, remember the Greatest

Purity in the Universe even, sometimes touches the
darkness to dissolve it. You humanly should never
attempt to do that, only those Great Ones who go to
such extremes now to release the people bound in the
atmosphere of Earth. Never in the history of the Earth
have such things been done or has such release come
to the people of Earth.
So today Our Joy is so great in pouring forth
Our Radiance to you and establishing It here in the
School, and may the Power of Eternal Light bless you
with Its Perfection forever and hold you within Its
Purity and Perfection, remove every desire of human
qualities, and hold all within that Light that knows no
opposite and is the Dominion over all human things.
I thank you.
 DISCOURSE X
January 2, 1939
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
How We love you, Beloved Ascended Master
Youth of America, and We see in your Hearts a
mighty enthusiasm and great determination. Let
Me remind you Beloved Ascended Master Youth,
in that for which you have been calling, remember
your mighty Call was answered in the Goddess of
Purity coming for the first time to your city. For the
first time in many centuries She came to the Earth in
direct contact with your city. Will you realize all that
She means to you?
If the Light within you had not wished you to
become the Purity of Life which the Goddess of
Purity represents, you could not have made the Call
for Her Presence. She responded. Therefore, will you
feel the full obligation to give the honor and respect
to Her for whom you called?
Allow Me to convey to you today, Beloved Ones,
how important it is to withdraw every human opinion,
every human desire, from the conditions which have
held mankind in bondage and limitation. I say to you,
We who have been set Free, see and know the Laws
that are acting upon you; and if you do not determine

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to give full response to that which Life requires of you

to release Its Perfection, then you cannot possibly
have it, and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Therefore, I prompt you with all the Love and
Power at My Command. Watch out for human
suggestions! There are people you will meet and you
will find they will intrude into your midst every once
in a while—of your age and older—who will try to drag
down your Ideals. Do not let them do it. When you
find any such person in your midst, whether that one
be of your own age or an older person who is giving
you suggestions of immoral practice, throw him out
on his ear if necessary. (applause)
I tell you, Beloved Ascended Master Youth, you
are making yourselves the representative Ideal for the
entire World. Blessed Ones, do you quite fully realize
it?—the whole World is looking to you in this Focus
here for the Ideals of the Ascended Master Youth. We
know that. While I would not wish you to feel an over-
responsibility, it is a great responsibility. I want you to
feel this morning all that this means to you, because if
a few of you fail to live up to those Ascended Master
Ideals and leave an example of disgrace of any kind to
the World, do you not see, all the youth of the World
will say, “Well, if that is the Ideal brought forth and
they cannot stand up to It, why should we?”—never
thinking for an instant that someone else’s responsibility
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has nothing to do with their own responsibility to Life.

Beloved Ascended Master Youth, the need of the
example to mankind of the Highest Ideals never was
so important in this World as at the present time. You
are at the dividing line of the Light and shadows;
the shadows are rapidly disappearing, but they are
going to drag a good many down if individuals are
not absolutely firm.
When anyone comes around you giving immoral
suggestions, throw them out and wipe that thing out
of your midst as you would a poisonous serpent. If
one chooses in the purity of thought and feeling to
marry and fulfill that sacred obligation, it is quite all
right, and it is quite their own business; but for all of
the Ascended Master Youth to think that they must
follow such an example, regardless of discrimination,
is a great mistake. This thing has swept over the
Ascended Master Youth of our entire America, trying
to drive into them the desire that, because someone
else is married, they should also marry—regardless of
consequences. Such is not the case. Wait, I urge you,
Beloved Ones! Wait for the sure, definite prompting
of your own “Mighty I AM Presence,” and do not
take the first impulse for granted. That is your
great danger today, I tell you frankly; and unless
you respond to the Ascended Masters’ Directing
Intelligence and use the Discrimination of your
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“Mighty I AM Presence,” you will find yourself in

grave danger.
We want to protect you. We see the forces which
are playing upon you, that you do not; and you cannot
imagine Our great Love for you. Since Life was kind
enough to Us to set Us free from the temptations
which the earthly activity holds for mankind, then
do you not think that We want to do everything to
give you all the Assistance and Prompting within Our
Power to help you hold the balance for the Perfection
of Life, so that you may manifest It and bring the
Happiness, the Beauty and Perfection which belong
to you into outer action?
Ascended Master Youth, you can have oh, such
perfectly beautiful bodies and faces at your age now,
by calling forth the constant charge of the Currents of
Life to keep Its Almighty Perfection flowing into your
bodies. Not only that, but It will make you strong
in your outer determination, which is the activity of
the Inner Law of the “Presence.” It gives you the
authority and the Power to stand your ground in any
condition, and to hold your Dominion through the
Ideals which you know are right.
There is no one from a ten-year-old child on up
who does not know and have the definite prompting
if he is about to make a mistake; but because of the
outer desires being strong, he often overrules the Inner
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prompting and will not give obedience to it. People

do that constantly. It is only by practice, guarding,
watching, and calling your powerful Discrimination
into action, which is your Higher Mental Body, that
It can stand guard over you and do the things for you
which are necessary.
I want you to know and remember that We four
Children are just about your age. Do you not see,
Beloved Ones, how kind Life has been again in
setting Us Free so that We might, from the greater
expansion of Understanding, give you the prompting
if you care to have it. Why, We would not intrude
anything upon you, Beloved Ones, for anything in
the world; but We have seen, We have felt your Call,
and it has been mighty intense to the Goddess of
Purity! That is proof positively that you want to be
that Perfection. Therefore, with your cooperation and
with your obedience We will move Heaven and Earth
to give you Ascended Master Protection, Blessing,
and Strength to hold to your Ideals. Someone in the
world of the Ascended Master Youth must be strong
enough to do this, but you cannot be if you listen to
human suggestions!
Now Ascended Master Youth, I would not wish
you for one second to let down your guard because
the black magicians have been removed and so many
discarnate entities. There are still a lot of entities. Just
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because the black magicians have been removed, don’t

think that the energy which they have charged has
been all dissolved yet about the individual. So keep
up your determination, keep up your Ideals, and hold
them steadfast until the Mastery within yourself by the
Power of your own Light has come forth into action.
So far as your outer activity in the world of
service is concerned, if you will start now and call
definitely for the “Mighty I AM Presence” to put
you in your own right avenue of service and see
you are abundantly supplied with the money you
require—start in now. Even if you had a million, it
does not make any difference; call forth that mighty
momentum into action for you and every Ascended
Master Youth in America because, remember, you
have been given tremendous privilege here.
I sympathize a little with the other cities that have
not had the privilege that you have had here—your
climatic condition, your sunshine, all that is naturally
helpful to the creation of happiness—and yet I want
you to realize that you do have an opportunity
here the other cities do not have in the East. And
remember, you are not piled on top of each other
here. Think of thirty-five or forty stories piled on
top of each other in New York! Do you wonder the
people do not know what they want!
Why, I tell you—before the Messengers went there
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next to the last time in New York, if you had seen the
confusion and chaos in the atmosphere of that city, you
would have been terrified. That does not exist here; and
I want to tell you that your condition of human creation
here hovers largely close to the surface of the Earth. It
does not extend in the atmosphere like it does in the
eastern cities. Therefore, as you are upon the surface,
call this Mighty Perfection into action and release the
Power of Light and the Power of Radiation through
yourself, and you will find that will be compelled to
dissolve and disappear. I mean by your direct Call.
I call your attention to it today. Call that Light and
Energy down on the Surface of the Earth to sweep in
and through your cities, and not just in the atmosphere,
but on the surface of the Earth because that is where
you need it—here!
As you continue to call to the Ascended Master
Youth of America all over the United States, that will
enter into the mental and feeling world of mankind,
and you will give them the assistance and courage
that will begin to draw them more and more into the
Work, in the East. You will remember they were told
in New York that they need Los Angeles very much,
and that was no figment of anybody’s imagination.
They do, and remember you must have something
to do with New York. You might say that was not any
of your business; but since the Great Cosmic Light
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has connected you with New York, there must be a

reason for it. Remember, the Rainbow connects you.
And that is the Cosmic Rainbow, Mighty Currents
of Energy. I say to you—I cannot take more time,
but I want you to feel that in every effort you make
for Purity and Perfection, We are pouring forth that
Sustaining Power and Courage and Strength.
I want to speak to the boys this morning. Upon you
devolves a great responsibility. I urge you to be very
careful in caressing others. These blessed young girls
are your responsibility. Maybe you do not quite feel that
but you are the masculine element, the positive element;
and if you put forth a wrong suggestion through your
feeling, which finds action in one of those pure girls,
then you are responsible for the consequences. Call
with all the power of your being for Purity of your
thought and feeling and full command of yourselves.
It would be a wonderful thing if mankind were
in command of themselves to put their arms around
each other and over each other’s shoulders and give
encouragement and strength; but I tell you today it is a
dangerous thing to do. Ascended Master Youth, Girls and
Boys, guard yourselves against that. You are endangering
everything, because it is so easy for it to go too far. Have
the dignity of Life in your love for each other. And do
not let the human creation, in order to gain its control
over you, draw you into a thing that seems justifiable.
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The Radiation of the Ascended Master Youth is

not yet to the point where you are sure of yourself
when you do these things; and if you will be careful
about it and have a great dignity in your actions
toward each other, you will find so much greater
happiness, so much greater freedom, and so much
greater sureness of your own self-control. Therefore,
Beloved Ones, let Us help you and let Us stand guard
with you to allow all that great Purity and Perfection
of Life to flow forth so that you may be that amazing
example before mankind.
And remember, the Messengers cannot tell you
what you should do. We cannot tell you what you
should do, except to point out the Law to you as
They do; then you must call your “Presence” to stand
guard and direct you. But Blessed Ones, please don’t
accept your first impulse as being correct, when you
call to the “Presence” for direction. Wait a little and
see whether you are having that direction from your
“Presence” or not. Just because you call for it, does
not mean you always get it instantly.
After a time as you continue to call and cleanse
your atmosphere, then you will almost without
exception receive the direction; but as yet when there
is so much charged into the atmosphere, something
else might intrude—some other suggestion—even as
you call to your “Presence,” and you might think it
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was your “Presence” answering. Wait and be sure of

it before you act. Won’t you do that? You will have
tremendous guard. You see, just because you have
become aware of your “Presence” and call to It, does
not mean the atmosphere is yet clear enough so you
get Its clear, direct Action. Not that you could not,
because many do; but be sure of it before you act.
Then I am sure you will have great happiness.
I wish I had two hours to talk to you this morning
(applause), but remember your Power, your Authority
in your Call to Life, to your “Presence” to hold you
within Its Invincible Protection, Its Mighty Directing
Intelligence. As you do that, you will find It will
eventually come forth so there is no question as to
Its Mighty Direction; then as you go forth, what a
wonderful privilege it is to serve that Presence of Light.
Remember, do you quite realize—I think not—do
you realize in your Call to the Goddess of Purity you
have placed yourselves under Her Charge! I want
you to realize that fully and completely. You have
made a mighty earnest Call and She has answered.
Therefore, you have placed yourselves under Her
Direction, under Her Guard. Do not ever do anything
that would mar Her great Light Projections to you.
I thank you and bless you with all My Heart. Rex,
Nada, and Pearl join Me in Their Great Outpouring
of Divine Love to you. Call to the Powers of Light
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that that may be an ever-sustaining Power to guard,

to bless and hold you within that Mighty Radiance
until your full Perfection is there.
I must just say another word or two. Do you know
that your Call to the Goddess of Purity brought
you to the Royal Teton and you were there? Only
in months to come will you begin to, through your
feeling, understand what that visit has meant to you.
May you give attention to it and gratitude for it, and
may you stand forever the Victory of that Mighty
Light within you. I thank you. (applause)
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March 16, 1939

DENVER, COLORADO
SAINT GERMAIN:
My Beloved Ones, I just want to greet and
congratulate you, and let you know how full My
Heart is to see your ever-increasing harmony and
love toward each other. And may I ask that you in
Denver—Students, Group Leaders, and all—pour such
love, kindness, and blessing to each other that all We
wish to do may quickly be accomplished in your city
and environment; for only in that, Beloved Ones, can
the fullness of Life find its perfect expression for each
one of you in your city.
Your city, since you are living here, is your home.
You, as the center of your world, can hold such a
power and Focus of Light that your city must become
ablaze with It; and only as you have loving kindness
in your feelings toward each other, can you hope to
individually succeed or bring the Blessing and Power
of the Light that is intended here.
I thank you and bless you, and feel so sure that not
one of you will fail to remember My Words and, in
great loving kindness to each other, praise and bless
each other. No matter if there seem to be mistakes,

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know that that is only a temporary thing and that

your love and Call to the Presence of Life will make
everything perfect at all times. I thank you for it, and
I know within you all is the strength to do it.
To see the Radiance that has gone forth thus far
from this Class—the substance and energy that has
been given Us to use has been very wonderful. Oh
try to be patient, Beloved Ones. Someday—I cannot
tell you just how soon—you will know the reality of
a precipitated banquet—not only will your food be
precipitated, but the service will remain forever as
evidence of the Power of Light to precipitate Itself
into form to carry Its Blessing everywhere.
Beloved Ones, I know it is quite difficult for many
who have not seen such a thing to realize that here in
the Octave above you, what you wish to bring forth
is always there at Our Command, ready to lower its
vibratory action into a denser form to make itself visible
to you, just as naturally as breathing. All that has seemed
transcendent is just natural. Try to feel that. Then you
will place yourself in a position where who shall say
when your Presence of Life will see fit to gratify you
with Its Power of Beauty and Expression, and bring into
your hands and use direct from Itself, the Glory of Life.
Seeing the vast change in the color effect of the
World since the Messengers went forth to carry this
Light, is a joy indescribable. If you could see the
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change through that color effect—that is one thing

We need in the atmosphere of America. And what
do you think I use this opportunity this morning to
show you?—how the Cosmic Light and Cosmic Beings
respond so readily and quickly to your slightest effort
in this change of color that has taken place throughout
America, the prismatic colors of the Cosmic Light!
They are taking advantage of it and are intensifying it
with tremendous power to hasten the greater change
of the color effect to the Earth.
You will find within your home decorations, within
your outer light effects, and in all conditions in which
the light color is most effective, it will naturally take
its action in the feeling world of mankind; and the
demand through the feeling will bring about the glory
of the further beautification by the Power of Light. It
will render your cities beautiful and your homes, and
make them a fairyland of color and beauty that will
change much, Beloved Ones, in the feeling world and
attitude of mankind.
So today I rejoice with you; and of course you
know it is almost six hundred years since I began My
determined Effort to assist mankind to change all,
including the government, into the Ascended Master
Perfection. My Courage is boundless today that We
are proceeding with great Speed and Power in that
achievement.
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And may your joy and the intensity in your devotion

to the Light, and your Call to Light for Its Perfection to
take command—may this hold steady and unyielding
as the weeks and months pass, until you will finally see
that Almighty Momentum of the Cosmic Light sweep
into action to produce Its Beauty and Perfection, Its
Harmony, Its Power of Divine Love.
Oh, what a joy to see everywhere the Students
standing firm against human gossip, refusing to accept it
or listen to it; and to see the great, great added harmony
among the Student Body everywhere! Oh, once they
realize that that is the open door to the immediate
Perfection of everything that every Heart desires, then
someday—I hope not far distant—the Light will permit
Me to stand in My Tangible, Visible Form and talk to
you; then forever will disappear the doubts and fears
of mankind. We long for that more than you perhaps,
but We must abide in obedience to the Great Law of
Life. You are fast coming to that realization, even many
without knowing it outwardly, in giving obedience to
that Great Light. May It bless you forever.
Now I shall ask Bob to continue Our morning’s
visit. (applause)

BELOVED BOB:
I greet you in the Name and Power of Light,
Beloved Ones. I just cannot refrain from conveying
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My Love and Gratitude and Praise to Our beloved

ones for the rendering of that wonderful composition.
As We were present, listening and watching the
Radiance of Light and the color effect that went forth,
how happy it made Us! And, oh, as you play and sing
that, may it lift you into the Eternal Mastery of the
Ascended Master Youth of America.
Oh, Ascended Master Youth of America, let us
consider you all this morning. May you realize the
privilege that is yours in your attention to the Great
Perfection of Life. Remember, Beloved Ones, your
“Presence” above you; the focal Powers of the entire
Universe are in your “Mighty I AM.” As you come
to realize this more and more in your attention to
It—it is all quite natural—then will you feel that ever-
increasing intensity that will bring Its Perfection at
your Call with greater and greater speed. And, oh, I
urge every one, be not dismayed if your Application
has not produced all you require or wish. It must
come; only stand steady until the full outpicturing of
it has the opportunity to come forth.
You cannot judge, you cannot see what there has
been in the accumulation of your world which must
be cleared away; and if it requires one just a little
longer time than the other, then still rejoice that the
fullness of Its great Power does find Its expression.
Mr. and Mrs. Rayborn are here with Us. Shall I say
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what I have styled them to be? Father and Mother of

the Student Body. (applause) And why did I do that?
Because of the tremendous natural harmony that was
there in their pilgrimage in this embodiment before
their Freedom. Of course now, its power of intensity
as They move among the Student Body is not easily
described in words; only may I say that it is very great.
I have noticed at certain points in every Class suddenly
the whole atmosphere changes; and from that time on,
comes a great love, quiet, peace, and harmony. They
always have something to do with it.
And Beloved Ones, please, in the conditions that
you meet in the outer world, of individuals that might
be out of harmony with the Perfection of Life, please
do not condemn. Please do not feel unkind toward
them—not that you should not be very positive toward
any discordant or destructive force in the human
octave, yet you need not be unkind. I mean by that
when you allow disturbance in your feeling world,
you are not helping them, you are not changing the
condition; but you are adding to the discord of the
individual upon whom your attention is fixed.
Therefore, I say to you the remedy for everything
in your individual life or your nation comes by
looking upon a thing and, if it needs correction, by
saying, “Oh, ‘Mighty I AM,’ this is a condition of
long accumulation! Send Your Mighty Light Rays
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into it and correct it.” Then you will have no feeling

of discord or resentment of the condition.
Now, the Student Body has not understood as
clearly as I am sure they are going to, that whatever
the condition, person, or place—whether it be in your
individual selves, your city, the nation, or your officials
anywhere—if you pour resentment and condemnation
upon it you are intensifying the condition. I would
like so much to have you who are here, to fix this
so firmly in your consciousness that you will never
permit your feeling to control you in the future at any
time when this takes place. It is detrimental to you; it
is intensifying whatever you want to correct, whether
it is among your Student Body or whether it is in the
city or the requirements of a nation.
Just now I cannot tell you—I am not permitted
to tell—just what it is, but there are certain things
under adjustment in your government at this time
which Saint Germain is using great Power to correct.
So you as the Student Body, please don’t let one
discordant thought or feeling go out to the conditions
in the government that need correcting; but call the
Power of Light every time your attention goes to the
requirement and have no other consideration, so
that the Power of Light may take command. Pour
forth your Power of Divine Love which carries the
substance that He requires to complete this action
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which We trust will be very quickly accomplished.

And when this is done, We may say many things to
you that will give you great happiness.
In spite of all appearances in the outer world a
mighty activity is going forth in its great perfecting
power. Your Beloved Saint Germain—one day the
World is going to know what His Presence in a nation
means, and remember these words! (applause) Let
Me urge you to call the “Presence” with even greater
intensity to surge—notice the words “to surge”—and
charge the activity of the Violet Consuming Flame
about you and sweep out through your city.
You, the Students of Denver who are here, if
you would all—not necessarily together—but if you
would individually every night and morning, call
the “Presence” and the Cosmic Beings to sweep
the Violet Consuming Flame through your city and
wipe out all discord, impurity, and imperfection,
you would render a Service indescribable. You see,
if you would do this regularly night and morning, it
means one wave after another keeps going; and each
time, it gains momentum and power in rendering this
cleansing, purifying Service that is required. In your
altitude it makes it much more effective and more
easily done, more easily accomplished.
Therefore—(silence)Yes, Saint Germain says I may
voice these words. We have not really dared to do
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this before, but according to the Call and the activity

of the Student Body will it to some degree determine
the location of the City of Light to the westward.
Possibly those words do not mean to you all they
intend; however, just contemplate them.
And I want to say to you, Beloved Students of
Denver, I have never known the Great God Tabor to
rejoice in the accomplishment of the Children of Earth
as He has done recently. You have no idea how the great
God Tabor enjoys having you call to Him to govern
conditions. (applause) He has said: “Now remember,
We are just beginning in the gaining of the momentum
of the future over conditions which will make you the
regulators of moisture, of climatic conditions, according
to the requirement of your environment.”
Oh, My Dear Ones, do you quite realize what
that means—that you as individuals within an
environment could call to that Presence and Power of
Light to regulate the conditions in the moisture, and
the withholding of frost and conditions that would
destroy your fruits and vegetables. And remember
as these great Calls go forth and the Maha Chohan
sends His Mighty Cleansing, Purifying Currents of
Energy to remove that which has been destructive
in the nature growth to mankind—remember nature
itself never grew anything that would be destructive;
but mankind, imposing its demands upon nature,
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compels it to produce these things that have been

destructive to mankind. Did you ever know that? Did
you ever know that nature never produces a thing
of itself that would be destructive to mankind, but
mankind’s feeling compels nature to obey.
The destructive forces of mankind are what have
made your deserts. And do you know that in the
coming time the deserts of the Earth will cease to be;
they will be garden spots of the Earth in the change
that will take place. You and I know you cannot fully
comprehend all this means, but try to realize what
these vast changes will mean. Oh, the happiness, the
beauty, and the Perfection! We see that surging in the
atmosphere already, and since this substance by the
intervention of the Goddess of Light was dissolved
and consumed, it is allowing the Power of the Cosmic
Light to begin to surge Its mighty Activity in Its
perfecting Power for that which must ere long come
into form. Such changes in your flower and vegetable
kingdom! We rejoice tremendously in Its perfecting
Power to you. The qualities of all this which you
require for use are steadily and surely changing into
Its greater and greater Perfection.
So today rejoice, Beloved Students. Oh, stand so
unyielding in your Calls for all that is being done;
and aside from the blessing of individuals, oh how
great is your activity for America. And Beloved Ones,
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could you see as We did yesterday the Power released

which went forth for the blessing and protection and
changing of the conditions of America—released
from your Student Body here in this Class—it was
tremendous. Therefore, it is not always in numbers,
but in the power and qualities that are released. And
while your Class is not as great in numbers as some,
yet you are releasing great power; and I congratulate
you, Beloved Friends and Fellow Students of Denver,
and those who are visiting here. Oh, it is magnificent.
We love you and bless you tremendously for your
staunch, firm stand to the Light; and oh, Beloved Ones,
put aside, refuse to listen to any gossip or disturbance
toward this Light. It is the glory of the ages. It is the
glory of your individual Freedom and the Freedom
of those who know nothing about it. Because they do
not, they feel unkind and make unkind remarks, just
repelling It and keeping It out of their worlds. Oh,
listen to no such thing; then go forward in the Call to
the Light, and the Victory of your “Presence.”
My Dear Ones, this is Life—it is Light, it is Reality, it
is Power unyielding! Remember, as our Beloved Lotus
has so wonderfully put it during this Class, “the Power of
Harmony”! Think of it! Then you can call all the Power
in the World into action, whereas in the past it was a
dangerous thing to do. But now in the Understanding
of your “Presence,” and knowing that It is the Power
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of Harmony, then you may call all the Power in the

Universe to your Assistance and only Perfection can
come. Power unqualified, in the past, caused people
to fear you; but today the limitless Power of Harmony
will cause people to bless and love you. You need not
fear to call this Power into action.
Oh, My Dear Ones, you have heard, I know, with
the intellect. You have heard to some degree with
the feeling. But these Qualities that the Ascended
Ones are sending forth into your feeling world to
strengthen, encourage, and bless you—the outer does
not comprehend but slightly all that this means. All
these Qualities They give you, Their Substance and
Energy, you cannot requalify by any discord. Therefore,
as that continues to increase, naturally in your feeling
world there goes out the command for the presence
of Harmony and Perfection; then you will see in your
Call how much more quickly will come this result in
perhaps a few years that might have taken years by
your own effort. Do you quite understand that?
Without Their Assistance your earnest, determined
Call to the Presence of Life might take years, owing to
the accumulation there has been in the past; but with
Their Substance projected into your feeling world by
Their Power of the Light Rays, it is hastening your
intensification and Call with a speed and power that
perhaps in most instances will make it sixty times
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greater than your individual effort. Can you conceive

of anything so great as that? Remember, sixty times
your own effort by the projection of Their Qualities
into your world.
Therefore, We rejoice as opportunity affords
to keep you informed about these mathematical
activities, if you please—because this is accurate.
We have a record of everything and therefore are
in a position to give you mathematically accurate
information, and We would not give it unless We
were. That is why you are just the same as in a great
schoolroom, and you were asked to find the answer to
a group of figures. When that answer is accurate, the
result is there. Just as certainly are you going forward
today with this mathematical precision in your Call
and with the Assistance of the Qualities of the Great
Ones—as certainly as anything in your mechanical
world of accomplishment today.
Therefore, feel all of this is very practical, and
there is not one impractical thing in all that you call
to Life for or Life wishes to give. I tell you, Beloved
Ones, It is beginning to take Its mighty action in
the official world today; and when It gains sufficient
action in the official world, what magnificent things
will take place. Then clearly Divine Order and Divine
Justice will begin to find Their full power of action
and expression.
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Just recently a set of the Books was placed in the

library in Capetown, South Africa, and the rejoicing of
those people! Oh, weeks ahead are those applications
waiting for those Books. I tell you, Beloved Ones,
you don’t comprehend yet; most of you enjoy and
appreciate them, but you don’t realize all that those
Books convey and what they mean to mankind. It is
the Glory of the Ages.
So today in this opportunity to talk to you
direct, may the fullness of the peace that passeth
all understanding enter into all-powerful action
in your world and the Dominion of the Ascended
Masters’ Consciousness, Substance, and Power find
Its immediate Action in your world. And as the
appearance of conditions arises before you, you may
speak to them and command them to dissolve and
disappear and in their place to come the Ascended
Masters’ Action of Perfection.
Remember, that in your supply, your Treasure-house
is your limitless supply—the Treasure-house of your
“Presence.” Call to It and It will govern the conditions
of persons, places, and actions of the outer world. You
cannot do it yet, My Beloved Ones; but as you call to
the “Presence” remembering that It is your Treasure-
house, while It does not hold so much coined gold for
you, yet It is the Intelligence, the Power that regulates
all out here that is in form, to bring it into use. Since
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the Presence of Life is the Owner of all, you are but

the custodian. Then if It wishes to shift from one to
the other, the “Presence” being your Treasure-house
will govern conditions. Then you are not deprived
of anything.
Oh, turn to your “Presence” as your supply. The
“Presence” will do the things that are required for you;
then all human responsibility is quitted. You see the
Messengers, how They never think of an individual
as the supply. They turn to Their “Presence” and the
“Presence” regulates the individual activity. You see
how beautifully and joyously is the release of what is
required to carry on the Work. If They looked to you
as Students, how quick it would all fail.
Therefore in conclusion, may I add just a word again
to the Group Leaders? Please, Beloved Ones, do not
criticize and condemn each other. Please do not do
it. If you do, your Groups will fail. Your Groups will
disappear, and you will have missed an opportunity
to serve. Since you have chosen to establish yourself
as a Group Leader, remember your responsibility to
Life: if you criticize and condemn, you cannot hold the
people to you. It is impossible. The fault of another is
not your concern; but if you pile criticism upon another
and then a wrong happens, you are responsible for it.
So feel your responsibility to Life.
Harmony is the need. Therefore, as you pour
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out Divine Love to bless each one, then will every

Group be full and running over; and there will be
a constant demand on you to find a larger place to
accommodate them. That is the joy of Life.
I thank you, love you, and bless you. And on behalf
of Saint Germain and the Others who are present—
Mr. and Mrs. Rayborn, Rex, Pearl, and Nada—and I
am very happy to say Our Beloved Mr. Gaylord and
His Friend are here, and Our Beloved David Lloyd.
How They rejoice! Can you feel, Dear Ones, since
Our Freedom is so recent, can you understand how
Our Enthusiasm is so boundless when We see you
daily gaining the Victory and nearing Our Goal?
Can you understand, no words can possibly
express Our Joy in this new Dispensation that is
being given which will make it possible for so many
Students to accomplish the Ascension that would be
impossible in this Embodiment otherwise. Can you
understand how magnificent that thing is to Us? Why
there is no one thing, Beloved Ones, anywhere in
this great achievement greater than that Dispensation
which will give the opportunity for so many to make
the Ascension that could not otherwise do it in this
embodiment. Why, do you realize for two and a half
million years when you have come and come in
embodiments like this—do you realize what it means
to be suddenly placed in a condition where with
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your Command you can be Free? My Dear People,

there is nothing so stupendous in the whole World.
Were you to suddenly recall the memory of all you
have gone through in those embodiments, then you
would leap in your feeling with the enthusiasm that
is Mine in seeing the possibility, the opportunity of
your Freedom now. Thank you so much.
 DISCOURSE XII
April 29, 1939
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
Thank you, Ascended Master Youth of America,
and I mean all of you. I love to greet you thus, for
that is how We see you always; and will every one of
you feel that Presence of Life which is the Ascended
Master Youth of Eternity, charging, electrifying your
bodies today while I speak to you!
When We realize from Our standpoint of Freedom
how each one today could—now notice, Beloved
Ones, when I say “could,” I mean just that—release
into your bodies, into your mental and feeling world
the full power and activity of the Ascended Master
Youth. Is it not almost pitiful that mankind has
accepted this appearance of age when such a thing
does not really exist? It but has an appearance, and
it is not a Reality. May I have the Power and the
privilege to impress that upon you today, so that you
who have the appearance of age may feel the full
Power of the Light within you to change that even
now.
It seems such an unhappy thing that mankind should
have allowed that to become the governing presence
just through its appearance, because I know many of

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you feel that same power of youth that you have always
felt. That is Life acting within you; and I am going to
try while the Messenger is voicing My Words to you
to so charge into your feeling world, every one of you,
My Feeling of the Eternal Youth, Beauty, and Perfection
so that It will find Its full power of anchorage there to
act within your feeling world.
You see, Beloved Ones, not one thing can find
expression, can appear in your flesh structure which has
not been admitted into your feeling world. That is the
cause of all outer things. And will you see this morning
in the Messenger’s earnest, tremendous endeavor to
have you see and feel the necessity of governing your
feeling world, how there is the cause or the removal of
whatever has been drawn into action there. Your feeling
world is your powerhouse, your strength, your courage
and energy by which there flows into the outer world
of expression what you would have there.
Since you realize you must govern your power of
feeling, which is qualification clothing that energy of
Life as it flows forth, then you become the chooser—
shall I say—of all that you wish to have done. Life
will not produce anything for you but Perfection of
itself; and when you determine to stop all discordant
qualification or limiting qualification of the energy of
Life as it flows forth through your body and out into
your world, or directed from your Higher Mental
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Body into your world of action—then you become

the master of every situation, of every condition
that touches your world, because that Light which
beats your Heart is the Governing Power, carries
the Invincible Intelligence, and is the Commanding
Presence of all energy that flows forth when once
your negative power of qualification is stopped. It is
a magnificent opportunity. And really, since mankind
has so long held itself in the belief of these limitations
of the appearance world—well now, since you find
you can change that and there is no opposition to this
Presence of Life, Its Currents of Light and Energy that
flow forth, and since your qualification is the clothing
of that which has produced these conditions—then
is it not quite easy to discontinue that and just let
this great Stream of Life and energy flow forth and
produce Its Perfection?
You see the transformation, the change that has
taken place in the Messengers in such a few years,
and how every condition that has confronted Them
has been governed by that Call to the Presence of
Light; then it is the same for all of you.
May I try to have you understand clearly what
the idea of a Messenger is? There has been such a
great misunderstanding concerning the Appointed
Messengers. An Appointed Messenger is one who
is given greater opportunity for the expression of
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Life, a wider opportunity. It does not mean that they

are not still subject to the same conditions that the
Student Body is. They are not perfect beings, and
your Beloved Accredited Messengers before you are
still not perfect beings. They are not Ascended so far,
and anyone who is unascended is not wholly perfect;
but Their dynamic Application has held Them within
the constant, almighty Radiance of Their Presence of
Life and the Ascended Masters.
Your opportunity as Students is an opportunity
to serve, to pour out a greater stream and power of
your pure, perfect Life, which is energy, to produce
Perfection in your world and where you move. Few
yet understand what magnificent opportunity there
is in allowing their “Presence” to pour Its Radiance
through them everywhere they move to bless
mankind with Its Blessings.
For instance, observe this lovely room you are in
today. The Radiance that is drawn here will forever
remain a Blessing to this room. (applause) If the
management of the beautiful theaters and auditoriums
of America understood what this Blessing would
mean, they would invite the Messengers there free
of charge. (applause) That is just as true as I am
telling you. There is no such Blessing ever offered to
this Earth as is brought forth through these Classes
of the Messengers and the Power of the Ascended
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Masters, the Legion of Light, the Cosmic Beings,

and the Cosmic Light; and just since the Messengers
came to your city has there been one of the greatest—
notice now—the greatest Releases for the individual or
Student Body that they have ever experienced thus
far. (applause) That is why We are so rejoiced in the
opportunities that offer, to call It forth.
And now shall I explain something to you which
the Messengers I believe have not explained. Take this
instance just now. While He is voicing My Words to
you and this Radiance is drawn here, that is directed,
My Beloved Ones, from your Presence of Life. There
is no human qualification in that. There cannot be,
because It does not flow through your bodies; but
that energy is released direct from the energy in this
room, and the power It carries is not touched by
human qualification. Therefore It is the pure Energy,
Light, and Power of Life. It is a magnificent thing; and
one day when mankind understand all that It does
mean to them, they will then feel and rejoice in the
privilege and opportunity which is theirs to have this.
Now that does not mean that It only flows through
the Messengers, but everyone and every Group who
will give their attention to the Presence of Life and
the Ascended Masters will have that flow; for We
have had and do have the record of many, many very
small Groups—say seven, eight, ten or twelve people—
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whose devotion and adoration to the “Presence” and

the Ascended Masters is so great that they are almost
lifted from their seats in their “little Meetings,” as they
term it. Well that is a magnificent Service, because
that is a release and power of Radiance poured forth
that probably covers miles and miles of environment.
Now take for instance the Radiance drawn here:
The Radiance drawn in the auditorium for the Classes
is a concentrated, definite Action and Power of Light;
but that Radiance spreads throughout the city and
touches the mental and feeling world of mankind as
few can understand in the outer so far. But if you saw
Its Action from Our standpoint, you would see how
magnificent It is, because as I said a minute ago all
cause comes from your feeling world and through it.
Therefore, when your attention is upon the Presence
of Life, you are having the Perfection of Life flow
forth because you are not qualifying it with discord.
Will any one of you tell Me that you can have your
attention upon the “Presence” and feel discordant or
unkind! Could you? I think not. If you were extremely
discordant and held your attention a few minutes upon
the “Presence,” the discord would not be there—therefore
showing that the attention to the “Presence” whose Light
is the governing Power, does govern even the human
feeling. That is how anyone can harmonize themselves,
still themselves sufficiently to allow this Power to flow
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forth and render whatever service in their body, in

their world of action is required.
The Messenger just had a letter He opened last
evening before retiring, that We have been watching
for some time. These individuals were having a little
difficulty in getting the full power of feeling into their
Application, but in answer to a letter—now notice this—in
the answer to their letter, not in the words that were
stated there but in the Radiance that went with the
letter, did their release come. And it came instantly as
soon as the letter reached their hands and the Radiance
contacted their physical structure. That is only one of
the thousands of instances where that same thing has
occurred; but these blessed ones’ words could not
convey to you their gratitude, their rejoicing, for they
had held steadfast, and yet constantly the wonderment
kept rising within them as to why they had not had
greater results. Then on the instant they realized that
their attention in spite of their effort had been somewhat
divided; and in the Radiance that went forth with the
letter that wavering in the consciousness, in the feeling,
ceased. And of course instantly flowed forth the Power
to render the Service.
May I try to convey to you just now in connection
with that, that in your endeavor, in your Call to the
Presence of Life you need to watch and guard that
your feeling is not divided in your attention to the
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“Presence” in your Application. And I know your

blessed Hearts still are not firm enough against
sympathy, against self-pity, against self-justification.
And shall I say something to you that is almost
startling? How do you think it is that individuals
sometimes turn aside from this Work, this Great
Light? Shall I tell you the secret back of most of it?
Self-justification. It is one of the most dangerous things
in human qualities. My Dear Ones, watch, guard
yourselves so firmly against human sympathy, which is
agreement with imperfection. Guard yourselves against
self-pity and self-justification. Self-justification is one
means by which the discordant qualities of mankind
will rush in upon you perhaps quicker than on most
any other thing, because it is so very subtle. And would
you believe Me when I say to you that it is even more
dangerous than anger, because it is so much more subtle.
That is why this morning I am taking advantage of this
opportunity to prompt you on some of the things which
I am sure most of you are quite unaware of.
Now there are three activities of Life when once
held in their Purity and Perfection that will produce
immediately any given result your attention is fixed
on. Few yet understand the infinite power of their
attention, and yet every one of you who has held
your attention fast, unwavering to the “Presence” has
felt and had the immediate results.
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Then may I add another thing that is so vital to

stand guard against: human suggestions. My Dear Ones,
you have no idea how tremendously you are affected;
and that does not mean just through outer expression,
but it means through the feeling acting in those about
you. You can take on suggestions from the feelings of
individuals quite as readily as from the spoken word,
because the feeling is more subtle and less on guard.
If something is spoken that you do not agree with, you
are immediately on guard; but not so in the feeling. You
many times feel a discordant feeling and of course you
do resist it, but you don’t hold that guard. Something
else takes your attention, and to some degree some of
that feeling has reached into your world.
Now that is why, Beloved Ones, the Messengers
have urged the Student Body throughout America to
use the Violet Consuming Flame and hold the Tube of
Light about them in their Call to the “Presence.” These
things could not occur, My Beloved Ones—I mean the
feelings from individuals could not enter into your world
if the Violet Consuming Flame was kept in action and
the Tube of Light drawn for your protection. Now you
only have to make the Call to your “Presence” and your
“Presence” will do that, but notice please, don’t be off
guard. If you have called the “Presence” to produce
the Tube of Light and hold It invincible, and then you
become violently discordant, you will break through
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that Tube of Light and make an opening, because you

are the one who called the discord there through the
discord in your feeling world, if your feelings are strong.
Call the “Presence” to hold Its full Protection about you.
Oh, My Dear Ones, please understand these are
not just words, but they are Laws of your Life in its
simplicity, in its glorious, almighty action; and if you
will give heed to these things in the requirements for
your Perfection, you will have it very quickly.
I never cease to marvel at Our Freedom, seeing
as We do from the unlimited standpoint. Oh, My
Dear Ones, just think, so few years ago we stood
in limited bodies just like yours. Can you wonder
at Our Enthusiasm, Our eternal Joy that now We
have this Freedom—still seeing what a short time
ago it was that we were here, as limited as you are.
Many times people have felt, “Well, if those Children
without any more effort than they made could have
their Freedom, why can’t we?” Are any of you the
choosers of the Wisdom of Life? Our Life Stream in
Its Wisdom saw fit to give Us Our release. I cannot
tell you why your Life Stream compels you to make
effort, but do you not see that it is necessarily the Law
of your being that has something there that compels
the necessity of your effort, which is your conscious
Application. I cannot tell you why your Life Stream
chooses to cause you to make Application.
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Of course I consider Myself one of the most

fortunate of beings, for good Heavens, Dear Ones,
I made so little Application. And if this Good
Messenger thinks He was fortunate in being taken
under Saint Germain’s wing, I think I am still more
so; for in the great service He has rendered to the
World, I feel I was rendering so little for My Freedom.
Do you not see, My Beloved Ones, in these
illustrations how it is the Wisdom of Life that knows,
that chooses? We cannot choose in the outer limited
understanding what the Presence of Life shall do
for us and through us, what It will do for one and
not apparently for another; but if there seems to
be the necessity of your Application, for Heaven’s
sake, make it with all you are. That is the thing that
counts, Dear Ones. How do you know—you who are
still in these limited bodies—how do you know that
when you finally achieve the Victory that you may
not go far beyond Me! How do you know that? You
might say to Me, “Well, how can We go beyond each
other in the Ascended State?” Only in the amount of
Service We render.
Do you quite understand, My Beloved Ones,
how it is that your Beloved Saint Germain still bows
in Adoration to the Great Divine Director? Try to
understand these things, because when a Service has
been rendered you, throughout Eternity there is that
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humbleness to that one through whom that Service

came. That is gratitude and it lasts forever.
My Dear Ones, I shall never forget through Eternity
that night Saint Germain came for me at the mine
and took me to the Cave of Symbols for the first time,
knowing that I could function clearly out of the body,
but in a tangible body. And when we arrived at the
Cave of Symbols and for a moment I stood there on
that table looking at those there—just as clear as I would
stand here in the physical body and look at you—can
you imagine the astonishment, the joy that it was to me!
I am saying these things this morning to try to
release you, relieve you of having any feeling or
trying to judge in the outer why this, that, or the other
thing is. Do not be concerned about it or someone
else. Just in your adoration to the “Presence” call Its
Mighty Powers into action. Your world is the only
place you should be concerned with. If someone
else has made a great leap ahead and has received
some great Freedom, rejoice; but do not feel, “Oh,
why can’t I do it too?” It might obstruct your way
tremendously, because your feeling of “why can’t
I be where someone else is or do what someone
else does,” is an obstruction in your way. Just put
everything aside and, turning to your “Presence,”
accept Its Invincible Perfection in your life and world.
Then pour forth Its Blessings to all your associates
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in every way, to all Student Bodies. Then you have

opened the door to the most rapid progress possible
for you.
Now for instance in the recent Ascension here
in New York: My Dear Ones, if the children of that
family, if the wife of that good man should feel all
puffed up about that achievement, then they would
have placed a great obstruction in their way. That was
his achievement, not theirs. Now this is what mankind
must understand. Because someone else has achieved
their Ascension does not relieve those of the family
from making the effort that will bring them to the
same point. It is Life within the individual that does
these things.
Now it might be thought that he had not made
as much Application as others. Well how shall you
judge what his Life Stream chose to do? And really it
was just a little too much for some in New York that
this man should have made his Ascension. Well, be
careful! Be careful, Beloved Students! Your Ascension
might be very close, and such a feeling might shut
your door. I tell you, My Dear Beloved Friends and
Students, if you have had such a feeling in your being
as trying to judge another, stop it this instant if you
want to be free.
I am going to say something that sounds quite
rude. You know you New Yorkers—and I do not
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mean just you Students—but the New Yorkers and

the Bostonians have felt that they were quite an
authority in the World. Oh, that is true, but I say
this very kindly because I want you to be free from
it. Who is authority in this World? Nobody but your
Presence of Life, and don’t make any mistake about
it.(applause—audience rising) My Dear Ones, the
people of wealth and social position who stand and
look upon the World and say to the rest of the World,
“You are crude, I have to draw myself away”—that
individual is drawing himself away from Life.
And to think that one day not so far distant all of
that foolishness and prejudice of mankind must vanish.
In the humble Hearts of mankind sometimes is that
great magnificent Light. When we wish to draw aside
from our fellowman, we are drawing aside and away
from Life. And I say to you, whatever your position in
Life may be, be kind to your fellowman. Be willing to
reach forth a helping hand through your mental and
feeling world to bless them in all their ways. Only thus
can you have Freedom, Beloved Ones.
Mankind, oh how We rejoice, is coming into an
understanding of Life that is changing everything
everywhere. This vast, magnificent change that
has occurred in your cities is glorious to behold.
Now this activity is taking place in the mental and
feeling world, Dear People; and you will see the
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outpicturing of it some more. And when We have

witnessed the attempt to ridicule this great Light and
the Messengers, what a pitiful thing it is on the face
of this Earth. Any person who tries to ridicule this
Work, this Great Light, or the Messengers is not fit to
shine Their shoes. (applause) This is a Mighty Truth
of Life, My Dear Ones; and you have observed no
doubt that We do not spare human beings’ feelings.
We tell the Truth and they may like it or not. That is
how mankind is to be set free. That is why We love
you so much, because We can tell you the Truth.
You will observe, My Dear Ones, that the Beloved
Messengers have never sought wealth, They have
never sought influence, because this Work, this Great
Light must stand upon Its own, and It has and always
shall. Of course the Messengers and We appreciate
every assistance and every endeavor to carry this
Light forth, but the Light must stand upon Its own.
It cannot stand through human influence. It cannot
stand through wealth, but It is Its own wealth and will
one day release from the Treasure-house of America
that limitless wealth so that every “I AM” Student in
America and the World will know what it is to be free
of want of any kind. (applause) That comes from the
Treasure-house of your individual Presence of Life and
the Treasure-house of America. If the Presence of Life
in Its great Wisdom chooses to use certain channels,
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then there is not anything can interfere with it. Do you

see that!
You know I want you to so clearly understand this
morning how in the very beginning of carrying forth
this Light, individuals all over America have wanted
to introduce the Messengers to people of wealth
to call forth that assistance to expand this Light.
Sometimes the Messengers refused to be introduced
because They saw that there was unknowingly an
attempt there to try to draw from outer sources to
carry on this Work. That would have meant its failure,
Beloved Ones.
All conditions and all activities of Truth have sooner
or later fallen into that feeling that they must look to
outside sources of supply to gain hold and maintain the
freedom of the power of that part of the Truth which
they conveyed. Each time it has meant the failure of
it. That shall not take place in this Work. What comes
forth through the Messengers to carry on this Work will
come through the Call to the Presence of Life, which is
the Treasure-house of this Universe. (applause)
Now then, please understand Me earnestly, sincerely:
if it were not that the Student Body must give in order
to receive their freedom, Rex, Mr. and Mrs. Rayborn,
Nada, and I could have released into the hands of these
Messengers the limitless supply of wealth for all that
They ever needed in carrying forth this Light; but We
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would have deprived the Student Body of America

of the necessary effort for their Freedom. There are
many ways in which mankind can give. If they have
not money supply to give, then they can give kindness,
blessings, and the Call to Life, which is sometimes quite
as important—that is the feeling of release within the
individuals, Blessed Ones.
Now let Me try to release everyone from the
feeling of financial fear. Your “Presence” is your
Treasure-house. Its Wisdom is the governing activity
of your individual world if you let It have a chance to
do it; but if your fear is too great, it acts within your
feeling world and constantly clothes the Stream of
Energy as it goes forth, holding sustained that fear.
Now this Good Brother, the Messenger, had
perhaps as great a fear of financial limitation as
perhaps any person; but when He found that He
could take His attention off of the appearances of that
limitation and put it on the “Presence,” which was the
Treasure-house of His world, then that vanished, and
it exists no more. That is how every one of you must
release yourselves. Every time a thought or feeling
comes of financial limitations, say: “ ‘Mighty I AM
Presence,’ I know this is not true. You know it is not
true! Take that feeling out of me and replace it by
Your Strength, Courage, and Assurance that You are
my Treasure-house; that in my Call to You will come
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the financial release and supply which I require.”

If you would take that firm, unyielding attitude,
there would not be one that would not be able to
call forth the financial supply they require for their
happiness and comfort and whatever they wish to
do in the Service of the Light. Why, My Dear Ones,
there is wealth waiting for you that would almost pay
the national debt right within Our Hands, within Our
Grasp, within Our Control.
Rex and I often go to the mine in Our Tangible
Bodies. The men do not know that We are Ascended
Beings, because We make Ourselves look as natural
as possible to them. Then you would perhaps say,
“Well, if You can come to those miners and ranchmen
out there, why can’t You come to us?” Do you know,
My Dear Beloved Ones, that the Wisdom of your Life
has something to say about that? Do you not think We
would readily and joyfully want to come! Do you not
see that? Do you think We would withhold anything
that would give you strength and encouragement?
Do you not see, My Beloved Ones? I am trying so
earnestly to have you see practically why these things
are. We cannot go against what the Wisdom of your
Life Stream requires, and I want you to feel that. I
want you to feel at ease, and rest in that. Just turn
and rest in the Arms of your “Presence,” and let Its
Wisdom govern these things that you may not wholly
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understand in the outer.

Oh, My Dear Ones, in all the magnificent
Splendor, Majesty, and Power of these Great
Ascended Ones, They are the most practical Beings,
so wholly unassuming. They would as readily go
within your so-called slums of the city and reach
forth Their perfect Hands and touch those individuals
and restore Perfection there. Then, is there anyone
in the pride of the outer world that should say, “I
am more holy than thou!” Oh, My Dear Ones, that
day when all human prejudice goes down and the
great outpouring of loving kindliness and helpfulness
comes forth from mankind, then how quickly will
all conditions of the outer world be transmuted and
mankind will stand in the supremacy of Life.
How We love you, Beloved Students. No words
could express that to those who are standing so loyal
and so staunch to the Light. Stand more firm than ever,
Beloved Ones. Stand unyielding in that firm, great calm
unyielding Call to your Presence of Life for what you
require. Hold your feelings harmonious that the Power
of Life may render that Service quickly for you.
There are thousands and thousands in America
today who are almost at the point of Instantaneous
Answers to their Calls. And let Me put this one point
before you here: When you see new Students come
into this Light, do not forget that your great work—
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don’t say this to them, however; but your great work,

your mighty Decrees have gone forth in the mental
and feeling world of those blessed ones and have
performed a certain preparation; and if they come
into the Light and apply the Law with an apparently
greater outer appearance of Power than you have
done, do not object to it. Do not wonder why it is,
because you have been a part in their preparation for
it—because do you not see the preparation must go on
in the mental and feeling world first before it can find
the outpicturing in the physical or through it. That is
a natural process—it has to be.
Therefore, if someone recently came into the work
and has great success in their Application, well rejoice
in it, but do not feel he or she is an upstart in your
midst.
Thank you for your loving Hearts. Thank you so
much, My Dear Ones. I feel it deeply. That great
love in your Hearts is the open door to the Perfection
of Life. Let the great Power of your “Presence” flow
forth that is the balance of Love, Wisdom, and Power
in perfect action to go forth in your world and touch
the people who touch your world, and lift them into
the Glory of Its Eternal Perfection. I thank you.
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