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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MARY LEHANE INNOCENTE
Who departed this Earth plane on March 7th, 1960 at 11:13 p.m.
It is our privilege and joy to announce to our gentle readers, and the student body, that Mrs. Mary Innocente has made her Ascension on Monday March 7th. As some of our readers know, she was the mother of our beloved President, Miss Geraldine Innocente. Mrs. Innocente was one of the founders on the physical plane of The Bridge to Freedom Activity and was an early collaborator of "The Bridge" Journal under the pen name of D. T. Marches.
In previous embodiments she was Job, who embodied faith and patience; Aaron, the High Priest, brother of Moses; Isaiah, the prophet and scholar, and Dante Alighieri, the great Italian poet. Later, to fulfill an important mission, she was George III, King of England. And curious enough she lived now in Charlottesville, Virginia which was named for the mother of George III, Charlotte, and whose wife was also named Charlotte.
Before her Ascension she resolved to continue dedicating all her energies, from the Ascended Estate, to the Cause of The Bridge to Freedom Activity.
Our devotion, love and gratitude go to Mary Lehane Innocente, now the Goddess of Happiness, the Ascended Lady Master Dawn, Divine Complement of Lord Ling.
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HOW TO LET THE PRESENCE ACT
An Address by beloved Jesus
The Ashram
December 25, 1959
On this Day, celebrated as the anniversary of my humble birth, I give Honor and Blessings not only to Angels, mankind and elemental life, but particularly to those who made my Victory possible. I refer to my blessed Mother, who held throughout her lifetime the Immaculate Concept for me, to my good Father (Saint Joseph) now the Ascended Master Saint Germain who leads you and succeeding generations into permanent Victory, and shall bring forth the magnificence of the Golden Age upon this Sweet Earth.
Beloved Ones, the Angelic Host are truly a part of that Victory, coming in their God-free Estate, closer and closer to the Earth plane. In every one of my own personal experiences, wherein there was temporary trial, the Power of my own Holy Family and the Angelic Host gave me the feeling of Victory. Even on that Thursday in Gethsemane, when I offered back my Cup', the strength of the Angels helped me to hold my Cup that I might fill it on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
You too, now have a cup, filled with the gifts of God and many times, even like unto myself, you desire to place your Cup in the hands of the Father, not choosing to pour forth the fullness of its Gifts to all mankind! What good is a Cup, filled with the Gifts of Life Eternal, if that Cup, filled to the brim with our Love, does not reach the souls of men, giving to them the essence of Divinity, the encouragement required to progress upon life's way and the power (latent within them) to expand their own Divinity so that each one shall stand in the fullness of their own God-stature, which is the Divine plan of the Father of Light for everyman? I was but one example of what all men shall become, here on this Earth, even before the glory of their Ascension. Accept that in your feelings. NOW!
Carry your Cup in Honor
That Holy Christ Flame within your Hearts is able to render this service through you. Utilizing this Power, requires great humility of the outer self, so that the human personality shall lessen and the Christ within, always be given credit for doing the good works. Now is the hour when THAT accomplishment is required. Carry your Cups in Honor that all who are athirst may drink thereof'.
Again, again and again have I said, I have been but an Example of what all men shall be, here on this Earth even before the Victory of their Freedom and the glory of their Ascension. Can you not accept that in your feelings that it would be a very foolish Godhead who would create but one Divine Son and many sons and daughters of clay! No, everyone from every Star and System has a bursting Christus waiting to expand, but it takes great strength to allow that Light to expand into and through you; it takes great humility for you to understand that in the expansion of the Light you become less and the Power acting through you becomes more. It takes great discrimination to cognize that the gifts and virtues and blessings that flow forth are of the Father within you, acting through you true, but not to glorify the self. How often have I said, even in my Ministry on Earth, it is not I, it is the Father within that doeth the works'.
That Father-life is within you, too, willing to accomplish the works if you let it expand its power. What I have done, you can and shall, do. Now is the hour when that accomplishment is required because mankind, everyone everywhere, desire the example manifest of the Christ in order to, in themselves, have the encouragement necessary to make like endeavor.
We are in days and hours of change, true. Here upon the Earth there are many human appearances that frighten those who are not anchored in the Power of God. Yet those appearances are no greater than the appearances manifest in my Ministry. In fact, except for the fact that they are televised, they are less. Where is the Christ that says unto them 'Peace be still' and then calls forth by the power of love and light the God-victory and manifestation that is required to make each and everyone of you that manifest perfection, not only today but so long as you shall remain on Earth and that will be part of your crown in Heaven.
What your crown is
Many individuals have wondered about that crown. That crown is made of all the good you have done through all the ages that you have lived. It is really the Causal Body which we wear, which the great Elohim wear, which those at the Teton wear, and which is a part of the jeweled magnificence of your Victorious Presence.
There are many mansions in the Father's home. Let your mansion be one of great Light! Your mansion began when first you took embodiment upon the Earth plane and into that mansion has been built all of the good you have done through the ages. You often remember visiting them upon awakening in the morning. Through the gift of projected consciousness enter into your Mansion of Light and abide therein, feeling the play of Light in and around you, enjoying the gardens of Flame-flowers, and the general perfection of those Realms of Love in those mansions which are your own!
We are cognizant that the service rendered on the Earth plane is great and that the energies involved in the sustaining of that service are many but think you that you could even accomplish that much service were it not for the intervention and sustenance of the Ascended Host of Light! Ah no, you live truly by the power of Light and the gift of Love and the energy of OUR PRESENCE acting through you. So when you fold a sheet of paper, when you raise a hand in service, remember that it is the Father within and our Presence that is giving the benediction and the blessing through you and practicing that you become the Christus manifest here on Earth.
Magnify the Power of the Lord
From the time of my earliest recollection, my mother taught me to magnify the Power of the Lord to bless life. If we had not practiced that Law of Love we would not have become the Masters of energy and vibration. Even in the secular world, if one does not practice any power, he or she does not become Master of its gifts and powers. Practice standing aside, humanly speaking, to allow the Power of God, through you, to Act! Remember, always, it is God, through you, who renders the so-called miracles, even as I constantly reminded my people that 'It was not I, but the Father within which did all the works'. The SAME opportunity is yours NOW. Utilize it as I did and do not let that God-power wither on the vine. Allow it to wax strong and active within and through you TODAY.
That is the activity I used in my own Life, simple as it was, though it has been glorified by succeeding generations yet while I walked the ways of Earth there were not so many in our number, yet we practiced the using of the Power of the Presence of God "I AM" in everything that we did. In that practice when our public Mission began I was able to utilize the momentum and the power of that Christ Presence to do the service that had to be rendered.
Practice Daily
Beloved ones, if you sat as some of the blessed worshippers in the East, with your hand behind your back for forty years, it would wither nature's way, until it was permanently crippled. They think it is a devotion, yet the hands were given to utilize lilt in practical service and those men and women in India and China, particularly in the East, could do more with their good hands expanding the power of practical secular cleanliness and understanding and instruction than they could in allowing the arm or the foot to wither in that which they call asceticism. NOW, where is your practice of the Presence of God? You know when you have practiced, say in anything, you are proficient at it and you can do it almost automatically, whether it is playing the piano, using the type-record machine, as beloved Morya says; whether it is using the automobile, whatever service you are rendering becomes almost automatic and you can render that service without any consciousness of it. That is how the practice of the Powers of the Presence becomes until they are almost automatic in their service in and through you, for the blessing of all life.
I say this truly, as one who is among you, not one who has come forth from you but one who has come to you; I lived always by the practical power of using the Ever Presence of God.
May the blessings of this Holy Season be upon you, radiating forth through you to your loved ones and all upon this sweet Earth.