"Remove your Christ from the Cross"

It is always a pleasure to have unascended humankind within the focus of my attention and so I greet you now in a spirit of felicity.

It has come to my attention that the chelas do not yet realize the communion they have with their Christ Self. This Being of Electronic Light vibrates at a rate where it remains One, in Light, with the "I AM" Presence, but also where it can appreciate humanity - his strengths and weaknesses. Since the Holy Christ Self can see iniquity, do you not realize that you expose your own Christus to every negative thought, feeling, word and action that passes through your vehicles? You parade all this before it.

The Christ is the Divine Mediator, who volunteered to bridge the great abyss of consciousness that formed between humanity and God — the "I AM". But I ask the chelas, "Does the Christ in you yet need to be ridiculed, defiled and debased because of an out of control human ego?" Like the Master Jesus Who exampled so perfectly the Christ Self, your Christus does not feel pain, as It remains mercifully detached from the lower vibration. But like the Master Jesus, It takes the brunt of human ego; in this case your own human ego.

In a certain fashion, your Christ is still on the cross, that point where the Divine Consciousness intersects the human consciousness. We have previously asked you to visualize every crucifix as a radiant, Arisen Christ. Now I ask the chelas plainly to remove their own Christ from the cross. This is done through purification and giving power only to the Divine... being in the lower world, but not of it... not of its lower thoughts, feelings, words or actions, but calmly detached, dwelling in a vibration above the human by conscious choice and self discipline. Thus you arise with your Christ to a point above the cross, above the plane of human consciousness and dwell forever in Peace.

As was asked of the disciples 2,000 years ago... "Will you deny the Christ?" I know that is not your intention, so prove that you love the Christ. Prove it!

Loving you Always,

Serapis

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15

The Temple of the Golden Lotus opens gently to receive the chelas' Light. In that Light I may perceive the advancement of the chelas during this year of experience and growth enfolded by the Compassionate Buddha.

The Temple of the Golden Lotus is dedicated to the Enlightenment that brings development of Buddhic Consciousness. Though much has been written and spoken concerning Buddhic Consciousness, this Gift becomes available only to those who Love God and their fellowman more than self. In fact, there eventually can be no thought of self, even of the self's spiritual progress, for this must become totally secondary to the necessary loss of preoccupation with self. The only way to truly know "I AM" is to have no thought of self but rather only of God and his service through you.

"I AM" is the State of Pure Being, directed outward. It is a state of becoming the Fire of Illumination and Love, knowing that it sustains itself, because it is "I AM". Therefore, all attention can be directed toward Loving God, which is the Flame, and Loving your fellowman (who does not yet know himself as Eternal Flame). The Flame cannot be extinguished! Therefore what need of fear; what need of preoccupation with self?

I stand before you (even as you read these words) as a Sunshine Golden Flame, opening as a Lotus opens; slowly, carefully and only when warmed by the rays of the Sun... or in your case, the rays of the son, the Christ Self. You know intellectually that the Son is the Sun, for the Christ Flame is the actual Fire Substance of the Sun, the God Parents. But beyond this knowledge, is the experience of the opening of the Lotus of your own God Illumination, by way of warming it with continual Love Rays of the Christ.

When the Love Nature of the Christ Self has come to the fore in daily activity, then the Cosmic Illumination of the Presence is allowed to open and unfold in the prepared outer consciousness of the chela. This is the Enlightenment that brings Buddhic Consciousness. The "I AM" Presence is ever vigilant in watching for the development of such sufficient Love Nature in the outer self. It is watching you even now.

Like the Blue Lotus Retreat before us, we are yet a Retreat high in the Himalayas, for we carry on the tradition that states that if a chela is worthy and ready to be exposed to the full force of the Golden Lotus Flame of Illumination, they would have already developed the Christ qualities of One-pointed tenacity and courage to do whatever needs to be done and go wherever one needs to go to find such Illumination.

This is symbolic of Spiritual Tenacity and Courage which does not require going any physical place, but rather overcoming the Initiations of the outer self. Because the Christ Self prepares the way for Buddhahood, I would like to review with you the Seven Initiations of becoming the Christ, so you may take inventory of your own development in approaching Enlightenment.

This was exampled perfectly by the Master Jesus in his experiences at Luxor and have been described to you previously.

1. SINCERITY (in learning to Love as the Father Loves, doing his Will against all temptations to do otherwise);

2. JUSTICE (following the Law, the right Path; Mastering the deceit and the tendency of the little self that would suggest that you need not follow all the Law all the time).

3. FAITH (to proceed onward to the Source of the Light and not to be drawn off the Path, enamored by some new found knowledge or power).

4. PHILANTHROPY (unselfishness, the ability to be in the world but not of it, the pleasures of the outer self-holding no power over you, rather being one-pointed on the Spirit of life, giving all of yourself to It in others);

5. HEROISM (the courage to shed your own God Light on all the illusions of fear, all the manifestations of fear, until all fear is seen to disappear before that Light);

6. LOVE DIVINE ( a most difficult test of giving impersonal Love priority over personal love even when such personal love is prompted by an excellent motive; rather, giving up even that to the Divine Plan and the Father's Will being fulfilled);

7. THE CHRIST (the degree of conquer over all the ways of the human consciousness, no longer a seeker or learner or chela, but a Master of Love).

The Christ does indeed prepare the way to Buddhahood. Be careful though, of the human tendency to translate this into a comparison of two Paths, of two Ages, of two Masters. We speak here of the development of the chelas' consciousness, not of religious Paths. To the Western mind that has spent the last several embodiments in ‘Christian Lands' there is yet a strong hidden habit of denying the full Christ Consciousness to anyone but Jesus, the Christ.

I caution you about this for we have asked you before not to compare experiences of Consciousness. Simply put, the Consciousness of the Christ is an ability to Love to such a degree that the "I AM" Presence of that individual, in all its universal Wisdom, allows the opening of Cosmic Illumination into that ones outer awareness! The flow of that Cosmic Illumination is the beginning experience of Buddhahood.

The Master Jesus was an embodiment of an Avatar, who had long before Mastered both Christ and Buddhic levels of Consciousness. But the Edict was given for a living, physical representative of the Christ, revealing the possibility of man becoming Divine and bridging the gap back into God Consciousness, while overcoming the enemy of fear which caused the separation (including the fear of death itself); and having conquered that, Ascending into Cosmic Consciousness.

For this the Master Jesus was well prepared and we know him now as the beloved Micah, the Universal Spirit of Unity. There have also been countless other examples of individuals living in Christ Consciousness but without the unfolding drama that gets woven around a major Avatar. You each are to become such a Christ in your own life.

The purpose of my sojourn with you now is for you to be aware of the possibility for you of such Cosmic Illumination or Buddhic Consciousness by showing your own "I AM" Presence you are a fit Christed receptacle for such a Gift, measured only by your ability to Love... Loving God and your fellowman above self, always and forever. We here at the Temple of the Golden Lotus await those of you who feel you are prepared or are becoming prepared for such Enlightenment. We will assist you in every possible way in opening up to Cosmic Illumination, knowing yourself to be the pure state of Being "I AM".

The Holy chant "OM MANI PADME HUM" will invoke the opening rays of your own God Illumination when that Lotus has grown strong roots in a Loving Consciousness. It invokes the opening of the Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus. It has a tremendous momentum of God Enlightenment and Illumination, but only when understood in the feeling world of a Christed Soul an Anointed One.

The Love, Liberation and Compassion that has flowed during 1985 greatly assists this preparation for the Cosmic Illumination of the chelas' Consciousness. I remain at One with your "I AM" Presence, ever ready to dispense this Divine Experience into your outer consciousness, awaiting the signal of sufficient Love from you; mastering the initiations of Christ Consciousness.

It has been said that the endpoint of the development of such Love is True Wisdom, the inability to even conceive of separateness. At that point you and your Presence are One; you and the Human Family are One; you and I are One... in a State of Pure Being  "I AM".

Offering you the momentum of Illumination on the Second Ray of which it is my privilege to serve...

"I AM" Soo Chee,

Chohan of the Second Ray,

Hierarch of the Golden Lotus Retreat.

Footnote: For a full description of the Master's experience please see "Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ" Pg. 87 -97.