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EXCERPTS OF AN ADDRESS BY

BELOVED MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS

THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

December 1955

Beloved children, beloved friends, speaking to you brings to my mind and heart memories of a very sweet association which we shared in forming a Spiritual canopy for the life experience and flowering of a soul and spirit, the fragrance and perfume of whose Being still forms the hope for millions. He whom the world has called Jesus, and whom I call yet "my son." 

I would like to bring to your remembrance a little something of our application, in order that you may understand that all service to life is a discipline, a self-denial, an application and a consecration of one's own energies and the vehicles and instruments through which the soul seeks expression. It is not merely happenstance which places in the role of protectors and guardians of the race, certain lifestreams who are destined to remain in the memory and in the hearts and consciousness of peoples through the ages.

Before my son was given the opportunity to draw forth the Christ Nature and to incarnate as the Master Presence of the Christian Dispensation, many of us gathered together at Inner Levels and, seated around the table with the Beloved Lord Maitreya, we were shown how the consciousness and life of some son or daughter of Heaven could be woven into a mastery over form, substance and appearance. There were many brave and brilliant spirits who stood forth and asked Lord Maitreya for that opportunity, but my Beloved Jesus was the one who was accorded the honor. Then there were chosen from the volunteers those who would accompany him, and be the strength of his endeavor. I was given the opportunity to come and prepare a place for him through the manifestation of a physical garment fitting for such a God-being to wear.

You do not, perhaps, understand fully what it is to receive into your consciousness a Divine Image, in all the full freedom of the Inner Spheres, to see a Being who is the exact manifestation of the Father in grace, in dignity, in love; then to submit to the bands of forgetfulness, to take incarnation, and to live among the world of form where there is little to remind you of that perfection. You hope that at the Cosmic moment when you will be called upon to renew your vow and manifest it, that you will have held your consciousness free enough from the impregnation of the appearance world with its distortions, so that you might draw the actual substance of this realm, and man i rest a temple, perfect, pure and beautiful enough to house the son of God.

I had been trained in the Nature Temples for many centuries, in the drawing of elemental life, in the creating of flower forms, and in forming intricate designs of trees and birds. I was well along on the path of Mastery towards holding the form against the disintegrating radiation which like the wind despoils that form, unless will and strength and love encompass it around. Even with this momentum of accomplishment, I asked for greater assistance, and then it was that the Beloved Gabriel, the Archangel, promised that he would come and bring to my outer consciousness a remembrance of the full-grown figure of the Master, in order that I might hold that through the nine months required to bring that form into the world.

Do you wonder that I love him, and your Beloved Saint Germain? He also offered to give the strength and power of his momentum of gathered concentrated energy, and as Joseph he gave me not only protection but the stimulus of inspiration in my service. So, I was enabled to bring forth the vehicle for the Master, and my work was then only well begun.

All during the course of his incarnation constantly were projections directed toward us to destroy our Faith, and to destroy the picture which we had drawn of the God Image. It was required of us in the small hours of the night, after the world had retired, to recreate that Divine Image and hold it, pure and perfect, in order that the fullest manifestation of the God Power through Jesus might bless the race.

I tell you this for one reason alone that is, because you, each one, have an opportunity to receive into your own consciousness the Divine Pattern of your own Christ Self that Image which was made in the beginning by the great Eternal Father of Life and his beautiful Complement, your own Eternal Mother. This Electronic Body is fashioned out of fire, eyes as brilliant as stars, hair filled with sunshine, the entire form manifesting the perfection and symmetry of Universal Beauty, and within the heart the pulsebeat containing within itself all the Power of Creation that is the REAL YOU. You have forgotten that Image, you have forgotten that Pattern. The forms you wear today, the limitations in which you find yourself, are manifest proof to Life that you no longer hold within your concept and consciousness, the Immaculate Form created from the Heart of the Father.

When the Beloved Serapis endeavored to secure a dispensation to allow certain members of the race to become the Christ, I vowed within myself that if given the opportunity, I would bring to the remembrance of man the power to hold the Divine Concept. Then looking upon it, training the thought to accept it, training the feelings to rejoice in the freedom and perfection which it is each man can externalize it.

I do not speak from afar off. I do not speak from a star or sun. I speak as a woman, who wore a body like your own; who knew privation and want; who felt the fear and uncertainty of having the one she loved most walk forth each day in the knowledge that before him lay a trial, the like of which none of you nor your loved ones will ever be called upon to pass through. I knew the way my son must walk. I heard the sound of the nails within his hands and feet. I saw the water and the blood gush forth from his side not once, but all the thirty-three long years of his Blessed Life. Yet despite that, I was required to hold the concept of the Master Form - victorious, triumphant over death!

I was required to Mother every lifestream that he brought home the disciples, the apostles, the homeless, the unwanted. I was required to maintain that peace, to hold that serenity which gave confidence to those who wished to believe, but who at the slightest tremor of uncertainty, would rush back again into the security and sanctity, so-called, of the orthodox temples.

So, when I speak to men I speak as one who knows that by trust and faith and confidence in God, the God Image CAN be externalized if you are constant. I saw a Being I loved more than life, rise from death Triumphant, and ascend in the presence of hundreds of individuals, into his God Estate. This you can do, for yourselves, for your loved ones, for your fellow servers, and for the race. It is all a matter of how much you love God. It is a loyalty either to Divinity, which has waited for millions of years to externalize itself through you and your families and those in your environment-or it is a loyalty to appearances.

I am desirous, through those individuals who are willing at least to experiment with the endeavor, to direct into your consciousness, as Gabriel did for me, the Divine Concept of yourself. I am asking that daily, before you start on the course of your outer living, you think for a moment of God's intent for you. It is surely not of a decaying form, a limited consciousness subject to every passing feeling and thought. Certainly, the God that made you desired perfection for you and through you, and this is the IMMACULATE GOD CONCEPT. If you can FEEL this, beloved friends, you can externalize it, for yourself first, and then in your dealings with others help them also, for there are many types of individuals that you contact along Life's way in your family life, your business life, or your great Cosmic service. They are no different from the types of individuals with whom I lived and with whom We walked.

And may I say we had one room, one small room in a humble cottage in which to live-for thirteen men and myself. So, I know what it is to brush shoulders with individuals!

(Continued in April 1954)