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The Word of the Ascended Masters is the ultimate Authority in any question relating to Truth.
As a young child, I avidly read various accounts of Mother Mary's appearances at Lourdes and Fatima, classical mythology, and Theosophical books. When I came into contact with the Ascended Masters' Teachings in 1968, I was filled with joy that what I intuitively knew to be true was now being confirmed in The "I AM" Activity and The Summit Lighthouse. Over the next 30 years I attended Conclaves and Conferences of both organizations.
At the end of August 1998, I learned of the existence of The Temple of The Presence organization. My first reaction was a cautious but open minded interest in determining the validity of their Messengers, Monroe and Carolyn Shearer. I had heard of many false hierarchy and psychic counterfeits over the last 30 years of being a student of the Ascended Masters. As I called to various Ascended Masters with Whom I had gotten close, I was assured that this was a True Ascended Master Activity. This was the first and only time in the last 3 decades that I had gotten such assurance from my own beloved I AM Presence, Holy Christ Self, and the Ascended Masters!
I decided to go to the next quarterly conference of The Temple of The Presence and do in person what our beloved El Morya recommended in "The Chela and the Path" as a means of determining the Truth of a True Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood. I received the proof that Morya promised would be given. The Call compels the Answer!
The Fall Conclave was held in Chelsea, Vermont on October 7 - 11, 1998. I assure you that it was a Joyous and Awesome Release of Light, Love, and Life from our beloved Ascended Brothers and Sisters. During this Conference, Discourses on Ascended Master Law and Teachings (inspired by The Ascended Masters) were presented by Monroe Shearer. Dictations were given through Carolyn Shearer from beloved Gautama Buddha, Kuan Yin, The Goddess of Light, Lanello (yes, Lanello!), The Great Divine Director, Cyclopea, Pallas Athena, Maha Chohan, Mother Mary, Zarathustra, and beloved Vesta.
Beloved Vesta announced an unlimited Dispensation granted by Cosmic Councils to beloved Morya and Saint Germain for The Temple of The Presence, and noted the increased activity of our physical sun in recent weeks. She said:
" . . . There are those who are very aware of even the physical sun's new dimensions and activity. I tell you this is as a result of Our Dispensation being released from the Great Central Sun, for there must be a preparation for the holding of that Fire that would be released. Therefore there had to be an organization and a repolarizing of the axis of the Earth and of the Sun to inhabit that Fire. Therefore as We release this into the Center of the Earth, know that all is well, and know that it is not a sign of doom and gloom, but a sign of Victory. For Victory is here, and there is a New Day and the Golden Age has come into manifestation as We stand. For you are the beginning. You are that Spark of Light that will light and ignite the world. And you will carry My Torch and My Fire from the Heart of Truth and the Heart of the Sun. . . . "
Following the Fall Class, Acropolis Sophia was held October 12 - 18, 1998. This one week session follows each of the quarterly conferences of The Temple of The Presence, and is comparable to Summit University sessions. During this session, Discourses on Ascended Master Law and Teachings were again presented by Monroe Shearer. Dictations through the Messenger, Carolyn Shearer, were given from beloved Sophia, The Angel Deva of the Jade Temple, Meta, El Morya, Maha Chohan, Jesus, and Saint Germain.
An example of one of the Dictations is the following excerpt from beloved El Morya on October 16, 1998 through Carolyn Shearer:
" . . . The Blue Flame, the Will of God, is for your ability to propel into Action the Love of God, guided by the Wisdom of Illumination's Ray, that you might have the Fullness of the Opportunity to be the Christ in Action. As these times and cycles move forward, there should not be one concern by any of the Lightbearers who are true students of the Ascended Masters as to the Reality of God in Action. For if God were not in Action, if the Ascended Masters were not sending forth the Balance of the Action of the Ray of God into the Earth, there would already have been such cataclysm as to have started a cycle of transferring Lightbearers to other parts and other galaxies to continue to balance their karma.
"But We, in the Ascended Octaves, see the Vision, see the Potential, see the Light that is manifesting in the Earth. And the Great Central Sun is sending forth Currents of Light and Cosmic Rays to hold that balance. The Sun of Even Pressure is meeting that Balance with a corresponding Action.
"There is the anchoring into the Earth of Cosmic Currents of Fire from certain Ascended Masters to help hold this Balance. The students who are the true devotees of God are holding a Balance. Do not always expect that when something occurs in your life, that it is a personal reaction to one another. You must understand that many times you as a Lightbearer, as one who has consciously vowed to hold the Balance for the Earth, are holding a Balance for a particular need from Cosmic Levels.
"Not always is the circumstance of your lifestream dealing with something on a personal level. But you tend to personalize every action. Wake up to the Reality that you have vowed at Inner Levels, you have said 'I will hold the Balance. I will be a Whirling Sun of Light.' Understand, beloved ones, that you are doing just that, and there is great merit, - and the Ascended Masters do not forget Their Friends of Light!
"And where there is the Opportunity to intercede for and on behalf of those Friends of Light who have helped throughout the ages, believe Me, We stand for your Victory! We know who can be counted on. We know who We can depend upon. And We know the level of your commitment. We know the Fire that you can hold. We know just how much you can hold and no more. . . . "
Most are not aware of the history of disagreement between Ascended Master organizations. Beloved Lotus (Edna Ballard) actively confronted The Bridge to Freedom when it was formed by beloved Morya as a complement to The "I AM" Activity. The Lords of Karma saw the difficulty with world-wide outreach by The "I AM" Activity after its reputation was severely distorted in the media. Lotus wrongly judged The Bridge to Freedom to be false - based on her human reactions and perceptions, which were born out of her sincere desire to be true to Saint Germain. When Lotus learned that a number of students at the Philadelphia Sanctuary headed by Francis Ekey were expressing an interest in The Bridge to Freedom, she made a surprise appearance on September 7, 1952. She angrily demanded that the students there choose between her and Geraldine Innocente, the Messenger for The Bridge to Freedom. She then actually ordered the demolition of that building, which had until recently been a very active "I AM" Activity Sanctuary, but had predominantly switched allegiance to The Bridge to Freedom.
A number of key individuals left The Bridge to Freedom during its July 1958 Summer Conclave. Soon afterwards they joined The Summit Lighthouse - which was formed one month later on August 7, 1958. They had in their possession the mailing list of subscribers to The Bridge to Freedom Journal.
With the founding of The Summit Lighthouse (originally called "The Summit Lighthouse of Freedom"), a mailing was sent out by The Summit Lighthouse to announce the new organization and new Messenger, Mark Prophet. For months afterwards, The Bridge to Freedom Journal, published warnings about "fraudulent representatives of Morya" - implying that no other Messengers were authorized to receive Dictations. Here again was a case of human reactions and perceptions ruling, instead of true Christ Discrimination.
According to the following article from The Bridge to Freedom Journal, March 1959, 99% rejected Mark Prophet's new organization as being not authentic after The Bridge to Freedom did its own mailing of a referendum!
"The Ascended Masters expect that those who have found Their Teachings, as expounded through the Bridge Activity channel, to be GOOD, to HOLD FAST TO THEM, as Paul directed; and They are very pleased with the referendum made on November 15, 1958, through Notice No. 2 of THE LIGHT BEARER, because 99% of the Bridge Student Body have expressed their gratitude, their love, their support and their loyalty to Them and to The Bridge Activity, as will be proved when these testimonies are published.
"The Note at the end of 'Our Scope' is not to be interpreted in the sense that it is permissible for our sincere and loyal students to mix the teachings of the Ascended Masters, given through the channel of The Bridge Activity, with other presentations of Truth, true or false. That only creates confusion.
"Our sincere and earnest students are not eclectics, that is, they do not pick and choose, like butterflies, what they like in the Bridge teachings, according to their understanding, limited or unlimited, patching them up with other real or false presentations of Truth.
"It is evident that if you go to a university you will never graduate if you mix the teachings of your professors with the opinions of others who do not belong to your university. Moreover, you cannot have and use a dollar bill, by merely accepting one side of it and rejecting the other. To be able to use a dollar bill, you have to accept both sides, the front and the back. To be or not to be, is the question.
"Furthermore it is audacious to claim that there is, or that there can be a new Activity for the purpose of the expansion or improvement of the present Bridge Activity, because anyone dares to say so. That is merely a masquerade. When the time comes for that expansion or improvement, - and it is already going on - it will spring from our own Activity, and not from an outside organization, old, established, or dissident. Any endeavor to mystify the Truth can only have one effect and we all know what that effect is."
The July 1959 issue of The Bridge to Freedom Journal contained letters from readers who complained about mailings that were being sent to them from Mark Prophet and The Summit Lighthouse. Here's one example of such a letter:
"We have received letters from a source which, in an unusual spirit of competition pretends that what they offer is 'more well done' than the Ascended Master Instruction. We have paid no attention to this in our Group but we are sending the letters to you so that you may see how someone is trying to mislead the students."
The following note was published as being from "El Morya" in response to these letters:
" . . . We know, of course, all that is going on. You are right in not being concerned about what those who unfortunately have not been able to subdue their personality say. The Ascended Masters avail themselves even of those who have taken the wrong road using them to test the strength, the conviction, the loyalty of the Students. We are happy to see that you, like many others, have passed the test Victoriously. . . . quot;
The Theosophical Society rejected any legitimacy to The "I AM" Activity, The Bridge to Freedom, or The Summit Lighthouse. Over the past decades, The "I AM" Activity has maintained unswerving opposition to The Bridge to Freedom and The Summit Lighthouse. The Bridge to Freedom had rejected The Summit Lighthouse. All, except for The Summit Lighthouse, had ignored The Agni Yoga Society.
As we study the history of the Messengers of the Great White Brotherhood, we can see how previous Messengers continued delivering Dictations at the very same time that others were beginning their Missions as Anointed Messengers. For example, Edna Ballard (now the Ascended Lady Master Lotus) continued delivering Dictations from Ascended Masters, Cosmic Beings, Archangels, and Elohim in The "I AM" Activity until her last Dictation on November 18, 1970 (from beloved Saint Germain) - just weeks before her Ascension on February 12, 1971.
This was at the same time that Ascended Master Dictations were being given through Geraldine Innocente in The Bridge to Freedom, and through Mark Prophet in The Summit Lighthouse. On the day that Geraldine passed away on June 21, 1961, El Morya appeared to Elizabeth Clare Wulf and asked her to go to be trained through Mark Prophet to be a Messenger, saying: "I have need of a feminine Messenger."
So during the years 1958 - 1961, Ascended Master Dictations were being given through 3 different Messengers in 3 different organizations (Lotus in The "I AM" Activity, Geraldine Innocente in The Bridge to Freedom, and Mark Prophet in The Summit Lighthouse). During the years 1964 - 1970, Ascended Master Dictations were being given through 3 different Messengers in 2 different organizations (Lotus in The "I AM" Activity, while Mark Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet served in The Summit Lighthouse).
Cooperation is the way the Masters work. There must be some way that we can work together. This has been a pressing issue for some time now with many long-time students who know the history of the different organizations. Maybe if we could agree on basic Cosmic Law, and put the other stuff aside, we could work in Harmony as the Masters do.
Additional Articles On This Subject
A History of Ascended Master Activities by William Travis
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- Top of page: Athena, "Patroness of Messengers"; Detail from the cover of Athena: A Biography Copyright © 1993 Oxford University Press
- Bottom of page: Charles Sindelar's portrayal of the Spirit of the Ascension Flame
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