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Newsletter 1014.Cdr VOLUME VII ISSUE #9 OCTOBER 2014 Community of Light NEWSLETTER (A Publication of The University of Melchizedek) Initiations (into the Circle of Light) Email: [email protected] UNIVERSITY OF MELCHIZEDEK P.O. BOX 2481 http://www.melchizedeklearning.com GRANTS PASS, OREGON 97528 USA 2014 University of Melchizedek IMMORTALITY Initiation and the Solar Self The University Papers Volume 7, # 23 The greatest step that man can take is from human to Solar Self. The beast leaves the system and the heart glows with the Christ Self, the illumined being I AM. You are in the midst of this Great Initiation — from human to Divine. This is what has been called in Christian literature the Second Coming of the Christ. This time, O My people, the Divine Appearance is you. In the book Initiation, Human and Solar by Alice Bailey and under the chapter heading “Diversities of Initiation,” pages 176-177, you can read of the significance of the Solar step into the God Man or GodSelf. Alice Bailey uses the word “individualization” to denote “the great moment when man passed out of the animal kingdom into the human.” This she calls Initiation. Today, in this moment of writing, humanity is facing the next great Initiation: the call to the Divine where he or she must pass through the gates of mortal existence into the folds of Consciousness that we know as “I AM,” or the creative circuit of the Son of God. “In the one case,” Alice Bailey continues, “we have initiation into self-conscious existence, in the other, initiation into spiritual existence.” It is interesting to note that Mrs. Bailey has dedicated this particular book of wisdom to the Master K.H. (Kuthumi) whom we know with great love and affection as the Sponsor with the Master Saint Germain of the University of Melchizedek. It is pointed out within the pages of this book that these initiations come under natural law and will be experienced by every soul without exception. All must be Awakened. All must come to the Light. CONTENTS More About the Second Coming Page The moment the Heart Center (chakra) opens to reveal the Christ Light, you have become a new being. The Light of the Christ 2. THE BODY OF LIGHT becomes your being. This is called the Great Awakening and pertains to the Second Coming in you. Kundalini, or the Spirit 5. THE EASTER OF THE SOUL Mother that has been waiting to rise and give birth through the Heart, is now actively engaged in bringing forth the “I AM Presence,” 7. THE UNIVERSITY OF the Son or PRESENCE of God in and through you. At this stage of MELCHIZEDEK development you face a crisis within the self: a giving away of the creature we call human and a pushing out into expression of the EDITORIAL TEAM Holy Self, that which is not separated from the God Spirit. The Solar union is complete when the Heart is open and the Sun bursts Editors: Okey Ibezim Susan Hunt through the Heart as the individualization of God or the Divine. Karen McOuat Elizabeth Hunt What I am explaining here is the next step in man's evolution, as he or she vibrates the Son (expression) of God Being. This is the great step from human into Solar Being, the resurrection of self. Higher Design/Arrangement: Okey Ibezim continued on page 3 Page 2 Initiation and the Solar Self Mind takes over then and directs continued from page 2 Master was teaching through the consciousness into the that Sermon, we will consciously Creator's Divine pattern of University of Melchizedek open to a whole new realm of Be- wholeness and unity with all life. Teachings are concerned with the ing where God in expression, I Every thought becomes in accord evolutionary birth and the AM That I AM, vibrates as our with All That Is. The concern for self awakening not only of you as a world economy, as divine is gone and in its place is the rhythm spiritual being, but of the God healing and righteousness, as of I AM That I AM - the spiritual Be- Seed within your heart. For there justice and rhythm of All Be-ing. ing we know as the Second Coming lies the Christ, the hope of a New Such a world is waiting for you! of Christ, the emergence of the World, the degree of God Man. spiritual man. We, in our human life, have When Spirit becomes alive in you learned much in the study of From Human to the there is no turning back. The metaphysical law. We know that resistance you may be feeling is Like attracts like and As we think, so it Divine of the human self. Behind the is. All has been going well for human self is the emerging Christ us—up to now. (I am speaking I have awakened you from your sleep I d e n t i t y , t h e c o n s c i o u s to those of you who have been and now I must become you. individualization of God as you! successful in your metaphysical This is Initiation. This is the Second Coming and studies and practices.) Yet this great Initiation is touching suddenly we find that what we many who have waited eons for have discovered as cosmic law Humility defeats the ego. (The meek this moment in time. The no longer works! We are shall inherit the earth.) It is critical to Melchizedek Teachings through puzzled and seek deeply of the retain humility as you pass from the t h i s U n i v e r s i t y u n d e r t h e Spirit to know more. We are on awakening into the movement of supervision of the Masters the path of individualization, Spirit in you as a tremendous Kuthumi, Saint Germain and our looking north and south, seeking power. The Dalai Lama speaks Divine Director Lord Sananda are help anywhere and everywhere. often of developing and practicing focused on the Incoming Christ Then it comes, like a burst of compassion and kindness towards Spirit and Its focus in you as the Flame, the Consciousness of “I all life. To kindle and sustain such a Solar Son-Daughter. For this AM.” selfless love demands humility of reason, all courses and lesson the soul. Without this humility, presentations carry within their Now the Spoken Word becomes compassion cannot be expressed pages the Spirit of the Living God our Truth. And It tells us to look and compassion is the Seed of the and the Melchizedek Order. The within, to seek the Kingdom soul, the very root of your secret decoding of these lessons, the within our heart before all else. Self, the Life I AM. given teachings of Jesus, comes And we do this. From the path — through the heart where the mind the burning pattern that Jesus A l i c e B a i l e y d e f i n e s rests with the Spirit as the Higher has made through the Heart - we “individualization” in this manner: Self. feel the Truth of Being and the “Individualisation is the conscious individualization of God, the apprehension by the self of its Divine within us. I AM you. You relation to all that constitutes the Live Prosperously are not-self, and in this great initiatory My beloved son in whom I am well process, as in all later ones, the In a time and age when the whole economic pleased. Arise and walk with Me. Have awakening of consciousness is system on earth is being threatened by turmoil, the courage to walk in My footsteps. Have preceded by a period of gradual greed and loss of balance (loss of the courage to lift others by your development; the awakening is consideration of the whole), the Mind of the consciousness. We are One. instantaneous at the moment of Heart awakens to the realm that the Master self-realisation for the first time, and Jesus taught as the Sermon on the Mount. Now you sup with God. The is always succeeded by another world as you have known it period of gradual evolution.” The If we can understand what the continued on page 9 Initiation into the Order of Melchizedek The University Papers Volume 7, # 24 I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life The purpose of this Initiation is to bring into the consciousness of man the oneness of all life - that God is present within all life and is consciously realizing Himself as that state of being. He rests within. WHEN THIS CONSCIOUS REALIZATION OCCURS as God knowing Himself within His - Her Creation - the I AM THAT I AM - all life changes and becomes the formation of the BODY OF GOD THE SUPREME. The Melchizedek Brotherhood carry forth in His Name. Melchizedek goes through and Energy will accomplish this initiation. this unification of Life by its The Original Sin master teachers on this earth. The word “evil” means empty, vacant, without compassion They are the ones who will The word “sin” means without. and love. When the heart begin the surge of Christ Thus “original sin” means chakra/center opens, the t r a n s p a r e n c y , t h u s without God. To be born in sin presence of Love is made encouraging the Planetary is to be born without the known. What was evil or Logos as movement of God parents conceiving of the God empty now begins to be filled Presence within the child to be B e - i n g t o v i b r a t e t h e with the eternal love of the b o r n .
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