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ON LISTENING GRACE
An Address by Beloved Mother Mary
The Ashram
December 24, 1959
BLESSED and beloved of my Heart of Love! Again we and you too, re-live the Christmas Season, a Season in which there is born every year the magnificent Powers of my own blessed son, Jesus! I give to you, the love of Heaven and I bring to you all of the Spirit of the Christ, having seen beloved Jesus go through so many trials, true, but he always passed through those trials in a God-Victorious manner, through the use of the Power of Divine Love and the Light which was within him and which is also, of course, anchored within your dear Holy Christ Flames!
It is one of my opportunities to see you, each one, passing through similar trials and giving to you, through a dispensation of the Cosmic Law, similar protection and blessing which I gave at that time to one boy, whose birth date mankind chooses to celebrate on the morrow. As your mother, it is my desire that you shall accept and use the Power of God "I AM", particularly the gifts of the Angelic Host, of whom, "I AM" a Member and who shall be such an activating Power in the year 1960. Let us not spend so much time on the intellectual theories of the past! Let us, rather, accept the glorious feeling of God accomplishment in the present, right here and now!
1960, an important year
The first beginning was small, beloved ones; only two of us, Joseph and myself; then the third. Think how the Christ religion has expanded through those centuries because it was anchored first and foremost in Love Divine and we were guarded constantly because we remained always in a state of listening grace from the human creations of the outer world that would seek to destroy the Messiah or that would seek in any way to cause him lack of power and authority to gain God victory as he did and he has gained through the thousands of years that have been since that time more victory, for everyone that enters the Ascended Master Realm gains the victory not only of what they have been that is good but then they become part of the great whole which is the Great White Brotherhood. That victory then is the gift returned to any unascended being endeavoring to expand the Light wheresoever he or she may be.
The Year of 1960 will be a year of tremendous import to you all. As you know, it is the year when the Angels come close to men. Belonging as I do to the Angelic Host, I AM very familiar with the power of the Angels; very familiar with the activity of their feeling and the pressure that can enter into your feeling from them. We of the Angelic Host seldom take embodiment but the Angelic Host that is around at Christmas time, they are those who have never taken embodiment. Therefore they know only the feeling of God, the very Nature of the God that made you and made me. That feeling can be transferred into your mind, consciousness and outer self with so little except the acceptance by your precious hearts of the feelings of the Angels of Faith, and Illumination, Love, Purity, Perception, Healing and Freedom.
These are the gifts that are repeated over and over again to you, as they are the gifts of the mighty Chohans whom you love and whom you have served. But a gift unused is a gift forgotten or a gift etherealized again into the Sphere from whence it came. Now let us take for instance a piece of paper - beloved ones that paper represents our Light given to you; our Life and Energy woven into the substance of your life. I can offer that to you or any of the Ascended Beings can but if you do not accept such a gift, it goes through a process of etherealization and returns again into the unformed, just as that paper does through the power of the Sacred Fire. (A piece of paper was lighted and allowed to burn to ash.)
The Gifts of the Angelic Host
Let us be among those who can and will receive, joyously and happily, the gifts and powers of the Angelic Host and the glory of freedom that is part and parcel of your being, and the Divine Radiation which is that of the Holy Season and make of it whatsoever you require to manifest God-perfection. Will you do this? As your mother it is my desire, my hope, my prayer that you shall so accept by the power of my love for you those gifts we all have for you, particularly the Angelic Host at this time.
"Oh, yes, you say" but the years take toll; they show and I yearn for the 'Over there'. Have you thought, beloved ones, why they have no mirrors or calendars at Luxor and that your 'Over There' is just what you make here! So straighten your spines and BE like Sanat Kumara, the Youth of Eternal Summers! If you do not like what you see in the mirror, through the power of acceptance do not look upon it, but you can feel the radiation and gifts which are ours at all times. NOW, beloved ones, accept that feeling, that healing essence which is the Gift of my Life flowing into, through and around you and around all in distress, removing the cause and core of that distress and replacing it by God Happiness, right here and right now!
Be rid of imperfections
When at Lourdes or Fatima, people have Faith enough to accept Healing, throw away their crutches, and Be Free of Distress, yet in those Holy Shrines is only the Luminous Presence of myself; here "I AM" in Person. In God's mighty name “I AM". LET GO of imperfection and become myself in action in the world of form! We would not continuously remind you of the possibility of such manifestation of the gifts of God acting through you if they were not possible of accomplishment. True, your worlds seem to be filled with many tasks, but in my unascended state, so were mine! One of the peculiarities of the human mind is to allow it so say "yes that is all right for me or my son but not for me (which is a repellant shell around you) rejecting the blessings which can be yours today! Jesus' Mission was to manifest God through man! It is your mission also. From Jesus, the Angelic Kingdom and all mankind, as well as the Spirit of Christmas, I give my Love and Gifts to you.
I worked alone in the power of beloved Maitreya with the help of blessed Jesus and Joseph but it was not an easy task all those years, except for that wonderful illumined faith; that illumined faith in the goodness of God which drew me forth from the human creation and helped us hold the Immaculate Concept until that Concept was manifest in human form. Now that Concept I hold for you; take it or not. One day I shall meet you, here or there, and I shall again remind you "beloved child, I have been holding for you that Immaculate Concept, now we must learn to hold it for ourselves and for each other".
Grace defined
One of the peculiarities of the Angelic Host is the capacity to read the minds of the students and I see repeatedly although we speak in simple terms and powers that your consciousness says "oh yeah, but" and it is that "but" that is a shell repelling God's Goodness from you.
Why should people who associate with Divine Beings, who have the privilege and honor of our Presence EVER feel for any reason whatsoever that there is not a Power of Resuscitation, there is not a Power of Healing in this universe that can act here in this physical world and that there is no gift greater than that of God to manifest through man. That was Jesus' Mission - God manifest through man. It is your mission. It is the mission of every soul on every Planet, and particularly the children of our beloved Saint Germain that they manifest that Godliness which of course is never accomplished through human will but through the Gift of Grace.
What is Grace, the mind will say? It is the capacity to listen to the Power of God and consciously and positively reject the powers of evil and that Grace enables you to become the fullness of itself. That is how I learned when the Angels came; when the messages came; when the various and sundry warnings came, by staying in that Silence within although I worked as a woman. I carried water from the well. I worked in the garden. But I kept a certain portion of me constantly in that State of Grace and that is my reason for suggesting to you that you develop a Listening Grace through the Power of the God that made you and be wise enough to know what that Grace is; be wise enough to know what the human creation that speaks also to you is and be wise enough to be POSITIVE, until you have manifested perfection.
What is required of chelas
Think you not that we were not positive, Joseph and I. We could have fled from Herod's army; spent that time in Egypt in that heat; returned to ordinary living. Think you not Jesus himself was not positive when he made that long trip over the Himalayas to see the Divine Director to learn those magnificent words “I AM the Resurrection and the Life". Think you he was not positive when he went into Jerusalem himself and knowing the trial that was to come, was willing to give the physical body temporarily to the powers of evil to PROVE there is no death. THOSE ARE THE POSITIVE QUALITIES that are required of the worthy chela of Light. There is no such thing, beloved ones, as lukewarm chelas. There is no such thing as the individual who is negatively good. We must have the positive qualified by love, understanding and manifesting that in every experience of life.
So from Jesus himself, from the Angelic Kingdom, from the Spirit of Christmas, from all that it represents, I send and give my gift to you. Shall it be like the paper, burned away, or shall it be a living, breathing enthusiasm in you, to make you truly a Christus! Many sermons will be spoken today; songs will be sung, but they all feel the one Jesus did the entire job. Oh, beloved ones, that is not a Truth; every Being must become a Divine Being himself.
COME NOW, AWAKEN AND BE that Christ wheresoever you are. Right Here, be still, and in my Presence let go of distress and accept perfection, for yourselves and all living things! This is our Christmas Gift to you. Your acceptance of our Reality is your gift to us.