BE NOT afraid: desiring those
things which profit the spirit ye have made haste according to my words. Making
use of the Paradise trinity Endowment given unto humanity for their upliftment
and progressions into the greater life everlasting…
Know, beloved, that I have said
unto men: Let your ways be of good report, let all your paths be peaceful, let
your manners be appropriate to your station and status. Men have said unto me
throughout the centuries and in the quiet of their own prayerful adoration of
the Father God: Michael, we go to and fro calling on Thee, we ascend to great
heights and proclaim Thee, we go down into depths and testify for Thee, verily
we are of great speech concerning Thee: why therefore comest Thou not in men's
hearts as we have prophesied? I say unto them: Truly have ye prophesied, but
from whence came your prophecies? did I not say of old, Many shall prophesy in
my name? and was it not said of old that those who came prophesying were
prophets?
What availeth it that men should be
prophets if their prophecies come not true? I tell you, beloved, prophets are
of two kinds: Those who prophesy concerning the world because they have a ‘humor’
that the world hath done poorly by them, therefore do they offer woes, and
those who prophesy that their Lord reigneth and it is He who sendeth them. There
are prophets, and Prophets: there are those who have a selfishness to serve:
there are others who serve Me; prophets are ever grouped in two classes, there
are those who serve, there are those who rant.
He who serveth, saith: Behold all
things work together for good; he who ranteth saith: Behold all things are abomination,
lo, the times are evil, therefore eschew them in that they are Satan's. Makers
of calamities are never prophets: behold it is the law that no true prophet
foretelleth destruction! Thereby
shall ye know the false prophet from the true. The true prophet telleth of goodly works: he
singeth a song of gladness whereat is a song of rejoicing: he saith unto the
multitudes, Behold your Lord reigneth and all things that ye see are excellent,
except yourselves and the evils that ye do; Ye be not excellent in that ye hear
not His voice telling you to be of good report, one unto the other.
The true prophet hath this in
common with the false prophet, that he prophesieth of things to happen
affecting men's lives concretely, but the true prophet saith: That which
happeneth is sent of the Father for your good.
O ye of little faith, but great
perplexity! The false prophet saith, the earth is the Lord's, get ye hence out
of it, ye defilers of it, for ye do make it abhorrent unto the Host. This is
the difference: one saith, God loveth, the other saith, God despiseth. God neither loveth nor despiseth as those
terms are known of men: the Father sendeth gifts in that man deserveth them for
his continuance; man taketh and is ennobled; Lo, more is sent and man is
ennobled more; the Father maketh no mischief to man, ever.
We tell humankind as prophets, Be
ye lifted up even as we are lifted up, be ye longsuffering and faithful in
devotion and great good accrueth unto you! That is prophecy in purest essence.
Prophets verily have foretold
events, but that was because the event was potent with goodly works, even as ye
have been told of goodly works about to happen. Prophets are those who see or
hear the Father's will conveyed by servants of Light to their brains and who
speak accordingly that men may hear and be enhanced. I tell you, beloved,
prophecy is not a gift but an accomplishment; it cometh to those who have
served long and been faithful in that service so that they know the voices of
the angelic ones informing them.
Prophets verily have foretold event in
disaster, for verily did they read the signs and omens of disaster portrayed
all about them and did warn those who harkened when they spoke; but this was
not prophecy, it was only augury.
Make no error in this, my beloved, prophecy
is not augury nor omen of evildoings that will occur…and nothing else: prophecy
hath in it the eternal values…the everlasting verities or truths that lead men
unto greater works and lives, feeding the human spirit and making it to delight
in such nourishment; Augury merely foretelleth event, even as the charlatans
who do the same for hire, being served by those who think in error,
spiritually.
Now I say unto thee further
concerning prophecy. . . .
When two men have a grievance each
toward the other, they do oft times meet and feel ashamed of that which hath
goaded them to anger; they do sit down one by the other and say, wherein have
we erred? Have we no interests in common by which we can make proceeds accrue,
each to the other, absolving our spirits from this delinquency? Verily they
find such interests: they come to understanding, making no mock of each other
further, even to embracing in agreement.
Know that they do naught that is
exceptional, except to wicked men: they fasten upon each other the golden chain
of altruism and all goeth well with them thereafter. But the enemy hath seen
such from afar off, and is troubled; he saith unto himself, Behold two men have
had a quarrel and now they sit at meat; whence cometh such understanding? is
not a quarrel worthy of continuance else why was it begun? So saith he and
moveth to cast enmity of glance and word between them that their quarrel may
continue.
Those who witness say unto
themselves: Behold what evil spirit pursueth these two, that they thus behave,
one unto the other? He who but a moment ago spake of loving understanding now
is maddened by a fury.
I tell you, beloved, those who see
these things happen, drawing earthly conclusion of cause and effect, may
rightfully call themselves prophets; but do they not prophesy what will be the
outcome if the men be compatible? Do they not say, Behold a good trend
succeedeth? If those men continue in their anger, do not the prophets say: Lo,
anger is victor and quarrelings rise to strikings and slayings?
Is it prophecy that he who looketh
on can say: Thus and so is the outcome? I speak in a parable in truth, yet do
ye not see that he who looketh when they are peaceful would spread a good
report of the ending of the quarrel, and when the men be wrathful perhaps he
will say, Lo, they are wicked and behold they do damage?
These are commonplaces of judgment;
but men come to this world who sit in high places with vast multitudes spread
below them: instead of two who quarrel they behold races at odds, or creeds, or
rulers; Kings and potentates do they discuss unto such audiences: behold they
make prognostications, having greater knowledge of facts than those beneath
them; So they say, Behold this happeneth and it is good, knowing that it will
be well with the sons of men to know that good happeneth. But cometh one who
saith: The world is iniquity in act and in deed for I have seen powers striving
together;
Lo, he telleth the truth, though he
doth a woe to the hearts of those harkening. The first telleth of a goodly
thing and when it happeneth in circumstance, men remember it in gratitude:
loudly do they sing the praises of him who thus employed their ears: thus is he
of renown which goeth forth to many lands and the children's children hear of
it. Lo, the other prophesieth equally but the message is of woe and men turn
from him saying:
Our hearts are sickened, let us hear no more of this man for
he defileth us with sorrow; In fear do they flee from the sound of his voice;
no music proclaimeth him; he is not of moment to the generations even though
his words do come true in fact;
For men have a humor to turn from
that which displeaseth them and listen to tidings bringing them hope. So I say
unto you, beloved, thus are born the prophets. Judge ye well which ye wouldst
be: those who sing anthems unto the races, or those who spread the desolation
of despair in men's hearts; prophets are godlike in this, in that they ennoble
men by tidings of high fortunes: thus are they honored and held in loving
memory. I bid that ye take heed to this simple lesson; tell the earth of goodly
tidings, of great benefits to happen, and it shall listen to you and give you
substance in its gratitude;
Speak ye alone of calamities to
happen and ye but handicap yourselves with an obstruction that is grievous;
verily an obstruction that is built upon a falseness. The prophets were those
who told goodly tidings of great joy to peoples or to persons: they did not
listen to little voices seeking like children to commit acts of mischief; They
did mark great trends, listen to great messages and impart great truths; they
did give up all hope of profit thereby, seeking only to inspire the race to
whom they thus addressed themselves. They did say, Behold we have perceived
great signs, we have listened to great intelligences, we have sat at the feet
of many Elijahs; we do therefore pass along to you that which is too beauteous
for us to keep selfishly. Therein they were godlike; therein are they ever godlike;
therein do they bless those who sit and hear their wisdom.
I say these things to you in that
ye have besought me for instruction that ye might distribute it, being
distributors by vocation and servants by election. I say these things not that
ye may be great in the eyes of the world but that ye may have knowledge and a
goodly message to incline men toward you, causing them to say, Behold these
tell us a prognostication of beauty which benefits us, we do honor them because
we love the message they do bring to us, making our hearts to sing in a chorus.
These things do I tell you that ye
may be efficient in your ministries, not arguing foolishly of things that
happen not, or, happening, drive men despairing into hurt of their hopes.
The times are ripe, ripe; the
harvest hangeth on the bough; the autumn winds blow and the leaves are heavy
with the wisdom of the tree which nourished them; Come I unto you, my beloved,
telling you how to gather that harvest.
Await my presence as you invite My
Holy Comforter Spirit of Truth into thine own Selfhood to add vigor and harmony
. . . and to feed thy urging for peace and constructive tendencies . . .
for I may come nightly in My true form of the Pure Light unto those who seek to lay claim to their inheritance in nature and divine identity . . . .
In the Eternal Majesty of His Love and
Mercy which Endureth throughout Eternity
Thy Sovereign Son Michael
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