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ASCENDED
MASTER TEACHINGS
Kuthumi,
1-27-85:
"Beloved,
I underscore and bring to the fore of your
attention now our order, the holy Order
of Francis and Clare, which has long been
the underlying motive and purpose of many
who serve here and throughout the field.
I wish to inaugurate this order in this
hour in a more organized way, that you might
identify yourselves, whether on the celibate
path or married, with the works that we
strove to accomplish in the rebuilding of
the Church on the cornerstone of purity
while being servants to all life.
"I
would speak to you of our motto, which I
would say today as Obedience, as Poverty,
as Chastity. May I speak upon these for
a moment. For the obedience of our order
is to the one we call Love-Christ. Obedience
to Love in the person of Christ in every
Ascended Master and not Jesus alone. Obedience
to the inner Light and the inner Calling-the
foundation of those who walk in commemoration
of the World Teachers.
"The
Order of Francis and Clare takes its name
from a quaint period in history which was
fraught with the personal Armageddon and
vicious forces every whit as nefarious as
they are today. It also harks back to a
limited understanding of Christ; yet, in
the inner mysteries of our hearts, we knew
far more than we dared say.
"The
order today goes beyond that which it was
to a new birth in the Aquarian age. And
as you receive the mantle and the perception
of the office, you forge that order and
create out of it what must needs be. Thus,
beloved hearts, chastity itself is purity.
It is the purity of the chakras. It is the
purity of the heart. It is the path of the
Sacred Heart. It is the purity of the soul
and the purification of body. Above all,
it is the transmutation of all past karma.
It is the dedication to the path of the
ascension by the raising of that Kundalini
fire.
"Poverty
is the self-emptying, that one might be
filled. Every day give the light away that
is yours to give. Thus, know the true way
of Mother Poverty. The emptying that one
might be filled is the nature of the Path.
Poverty is a love that is greater for others
than for oneself.
"To
these three virtues I add a fourth: it is
the defense of the Mother Church."
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