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Calls and Affirmations.Archangels Book Fold Calls and Affirmations of the Lord through the Archangels Archangel Michael and Faith! (3x) Archangel Jophiel and Christine! (3x) Archangel Chamuel and Charity! (3x) Archangel Gabriel and Hope! (3x) Archangel Raphael and Mother Mary! (3x) Archangel Uriel and Aurora! (3x) Archangel Zadkiel and Holy Amethyst! (3x) Archangel Uzziel and Your Twin Flame! (3x) [Words in bold indicate text adapted from the dictation.] Archangel Michael and Faith, 2-21-93: 1. In the name of Archangel Michael I say: Be thou removed! O mountain of human karma, O mountain of karma of humankind, be thou removed and cast into the sacred fire this night! O mountain of human-adversity/perversity consciousness, be gone! Be thou removed and cast into the sacred fire! For I know that I am a son, a daughter of God and I walk the Homeward path. You shall no longer stand in my way, for I am in the heart of Michael Archangel and Michael Archangel is in the heart of me! Copyright © 2014 Summit Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 15 2. In the name of the Universal Christ that does dwell in me, I say consciousness and the subconscious world of the energies of to the force of Antichrist dwelling in me: fear. Come forth with a light of wholeness and reestablish Be bound this day, you force of Antichrist! Be bound, you dweller-on-the-threshold! those coordinates between spirit and matter for the direct flow Be bound, you not-self! of cosmic consciousness into the cells of the brain, the heart and the entire temple of man and woman which are necessary for the transfer of the light of the I AM Presence to the patient for the reestablishment of the currents of flow. 10. In the whole armour of God, I AM the faithful one who will be Archangel Jophiel and Christine, 2-20-93: a healer of earth because I have elected to be the electrode of the flame of healing wholeness. 1. From the dispensation from the Great Central Sun I call for reinforcements of legions of angels of Divine Wisdom to impart an understanding of wise dominion in the earth. 2. I take wise dominion over myself, my emotions, my body, my mind, my soul, my spirit, my destiny! Let the Wisdom of God reappear! 3. Beloved Jophiel and Christine, I empower you to go after those who would destroy the children and the youth, through child abuse—the physical abuse of [their brains and] their bodies— or their abuse by drugs, [alcohol and nicotine] in any form. 4. I AM THAT I AM and I desire to be, O God, thyself in form, for I see such suffering that nothing that I could want or have could ever be more important than my desire to alleviate suffering and bring all sentient life back to thee. Archangel Chamuel and Charity, 2-19-14: 1. I call for the Sacred Heart of my own Christ Presence to descend over my heart. I call to my Lord Jesus Christ that his heart may know my heart as one with his. I prepare my heart Copyright © 2014 Summit Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2014 Summit Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 3 3. In the joy of the hosts of the LORD, I purify all levels of to receive the heart of Christ—Christ within me, Christ consciousness to hold within the chalice of my temple that light without. which will stay the oncoming darkness, which will transmute it, which will laugh at the fallen ones and release the joy of the 2. I call fearlessly for the purging fires of Divine Love and the angels that will consume all of the fallen ones’ darkness and Archangels of the Third Ray to come as exorcists on the path their mechanization. of the Buddhas of the Ruby Ray and to take from me my fear and doubt as I have the courage to replace these with unending, 4. I return to the state of wholeness and reject the concept of the unmitigated love. lie of original sin, and realize that all that separates me from the source and from wholeness is obedience to the Law. 3. I call to the Seven Archangels and especially to Michael, Prince of the Archangels and for legions of angels—the 5. In the moment of Servatus’ coming, in celebration of Life that exorcists of Divine Love—to bind the demons who have taken is universal and triumphant in the temple of being, I know the our children into the streets—into gangs and into troubling presence of the LORD’s Hosts whereby there is no situations of the souls of parents everywhere. condemnation, no downward energy upon the head, the heart and the shoulders of those who bear the testimony of the light. 4. I call for the binding of the forces of anti-Love and for the protection of the youth as the legions of Light of the Central 6. I come for the healing in the New Jerusalem, the healing of the Sun go forth in this hour for the rescue of the youth of America nations and of consciousness for the restoration of the flow of and the world that these rebel angels shall not have their day, life to this nation and to every nation. shall not destroy the souls of youth and children and age alike, but that [these souls] shall be restored to the sanity of the Mind 7. In the name of my I AM Presence and Christ Self, I would be of God they once knew. By Divine Love we enter! the healer of the nations because of my love for humanity, and I will be the healer of myself and the healer through the teaching, through the sacred fire, through the thrust of the Archangel Gabriel and Hope, 2-26-93: mantle of responsibility upon the shoulders of the one who asks for healing. 1. I come to herald the day of Christ’s appearing in me! I bend the knee in 8. "Physician, heal thyself." I would become the physician of my profound humility and seek the own body and soul and mind. Wholeness is my goal as I fight reconstruction of my soul’s association the good fight and overcome all that I have sown that is the with the Rock of Christ for now is the hour and the day of the reaping of those conditions which are less than the harvest of many thousands of years of earth’s karma. I seek consciousness and the body of the Christ. early the consolation of my soul and my heart by violet flame’s saturation. 9. I call to Servatus and Ray-O-Light to invoke the fearlessness flame and the legions of Ray-O-Light to clear the 2. I AM not afraid! I AM not afraid! I AM not afraid, for I AM come with the annunciation this day of my opportunity Copyright © 2014 Summit Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2014 Summit Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 13 for eternal Life. I can be made ready in this life for my side with them. I defeat Death and Hell today and get on with ultimate union with the Lord and his Christ. I denounce hell living the Life everlasting here on earth. and the anger of hell and the fires of hell and I put out once and for all the red flames of pride and anger and arrogance that leap 6. I call to Justinius, champion of the soul of Light, the seraphim out of unconscious realms of the mind. I quell them and seal and the angels of Victory to accompany me from this day them and give them no more voice, no more entrée into my forward to the hour of earth’s victory—and my own. And I being. I do not deny the voice of my Inner Christ, but prefer it bow to the Light of my Father-Mother God, I AM THAT I over the voices of the night. AM. Amen. 3. I will not be a victim of an astrology (and the karma it foretells) but I conquer by the Light of the Great Central Sun and the Sun of my I AM Presence. And blessed Hope comes with her sword to separate me from the un-reality of wishful thinking, dillydallying in the doldrums, allowing the days and years to pass without marking my spiritual progress or lack of Servatus, 4-6-77: it. 4. In the name of Archangel Gabriel and Hope: 1. I, Servatus, come by dispensation of the Lords of Karma to anchor certain radiations in the City of the Angels [Los I AM made in the image and likeness of God! Angeles] to be the healing Mecca of the earth. I AM the image of Christ stamped upon my soul. It is the inner blueprint. 2. I, Servatus, healing angels and Archangel Raphael, come to Out of that image I was made: answer the call of Lightbearers that they might be infilled with Unto that image I conform myself once again. greater light to be electrodes for the twelve-month period beginning April 23 when the misqualified energies of the Fifth I seek early eternal Life! Ray of Healing and Science and Truth, as well as the I celebrate it each day at dawn! perversions of the hierarchies of Virgo and of Pisces will be I do not postpone it unto the morrow. upon the planetary body. These energies are the perversions of I increase the sacred fire breath.
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