by Brian Grattan

Excerpted from Mahatma II

The life in every individual is God, and only by the self-conscious effort to understand life and to express the fullness of good through oneself can one transcend and eliminate the discords of the outer experience. Life, the individual and the law are one, and so it is unto eternity. This law is immutable and whatever people think to the contrary can only cause them to become further lost in matter, creating their things as an outer expression that can only be termed illusion from a Source perspective.

The ascended masters have all learned the Law of the Circle the Law of the One. They impose upon the pure life substance only the quality they wish to use for the work at hand. If they desire a manifestation to express a certain length of time, they set the time, give the command, and the substance of which that manifestation is composed responds accordingly.

The masters have learned that if any discord is imposed upon the life-substance of the universal levels, the electronic energy becomes temporarily dammed up within it. Ultimately, discord can never endure, for when its accumulated energy reaches a certain point of pressure, expansion takes place, shattering the discord and limitation. Thus, the great Law of the One, expressing God in action-the ever-expanding, luminous essence of creation-over powers whatever seeks to oppose it and goes on its appointed way with the ruler of the universe, Melchizedek.

If humans could watch their thoughts, feelings and words go out into the ethers, gathering more and more of their own kind before returning to them, not only would they be shocked at what they give birth to by way of their negative alternate realities, but they would cry out for deliverance. If their cries for help had no other motive than escape from facing their creations, they would still find themselves at the necessary point of looking at their own divinity and entering into it.

Because thoughts and feelings are living, vibrating realities, the individual who understands this can use his/her higher mind to control himself and his reality accordingly. When one decides to manifest and experience through consciously directed visualization, one becomes the Law of the One, God, of whom there is no opposite. As a being with free will!, one must make ones own decision and then stand behind that decree with all of one's power, making an unshakeable, determined stand. In order to do so,one knows that through oneself, it is God desiring, God feeling, God knowing, God manifesting and God controlling everything concerning it. This is the law of the One - Source and Source only.

Until this is fully understood, the individual cannot and never will succeed in manifestation, for the moment a human element enters the scenario, it is taken out of the I Am Presence, Source, neutralised by the human qualities of time, space and a myriad of other illusory conditions which God does not recognise, conditions created by man and man alone.Interestingly, when one decides to consciously bring about a manifestation, even discussing the desire or goal with other people brings in enough of the human element to significantly weaken the invocation; thousands of desires, ideals and ambitions would have been already brought to fruition in the outer experience if individuals had not spoken about them to others.

Only the force of God Exists

When one acknowledges Source as self-the One, the I Am Presence-one has only perfection manifesting instantly, in a state where there is nothing to oppose or neutralize it and no element of time. When one expresses oneself as God, there is nothing to oppose oneself and one's desire. Only when one truly desires perfection and ceases to acknowledge any power outside of God can one hope to improve one's condition. Humankind will remain in a state of lack and limitation as long as they continue to acknowledge a condition that is less than the Wholeness of God.

This choice of imperfection is deliberate on the part of humanity, who are using their God-given free will on some level of themselves, albeit not consciously by the personality. It certainly takes no more energy to think about or visualize perfection than imperfection!

You alone choose which qualities and forms you wish to place in your world. You are the only energizer of your life; whenever you think or feel, part of your life force goes out to sustain your creation. You are the Creator represented on the universal level, and if you desire to express Its perfection and dominion, you must know and acknowledge only the Law of the One. As the One exists and expresses everywhere in the universal and on monadic levels, you are innately part of the One Supreme Presence, the Great Flame of Love and Light which is the self-consciousness of life.

With the full acknowledgement of your self and your world as the expression of God, hold that focus as you go about your Earthly life. Make no distinction between your self and your Creator; live in the now. When you are doing visualization, always remember that you are God doing the picturing, you are God-intelligence directing, you are God-power propelling, and it is your substance, God-substance, being activated. Have no set time in your mind except to know that there is only now.

As you realize this and contemplate the fullness of it constantly, everything in the universe rushes to fulfil your desire, your command, your picture. This discipline manifests an irresistible power that cannot and never has failed, for it is all constructive and therefore agrees with the original Divine Plan of life. When the personality level agrees to the Divine Plan and fully accepts it, there can be no failure or delay. Perfection is the prerequisite; and since all energy contains the inherent quality of perfection, it is naturally attracted to your perfection and rushes to serve you as the Creator.

When your desire or picture is constructive, you become the Source of your I Am Presence, Mahatma, seeing your own plan.When the Source sees, it is an irrevocable decree to appear now,when God created the physical universes, He simply said, "let there be Light," and Light appeared; it did not take any time to create Light.

The Oneness of God Is Acting through You

When you, the individual, have accepted the oneness of God, then the same Divine Power is within you, in the now, when you see or speak; they are His attributes of sight and speech acting in and through you. If you realize what this truly means, you can command His full power and authority, for you are then His life consciousness; and it is only the self-consciousness of your life that can desire, imagine or command a constructive and perfect plan. Every constructive plan is His Plan; therefore you know that it is God acting through you, commanding: "Let this desire or plan be fulfilled now," and it is done.

We use the name Jesus simply as one of recognition. For example, a degree of the energy that you reference as Jesus was embodied in the energy that became Apollonius of Tyana, Greece;and the energy that was Apollonius is now heightened and referred to as Sananda. Thus, we refer to Jesus simply for identification purposes.

Upon the path to mastery, one eventually comes to realise that what the Christ, through Jesus, referred to as "the Father's house" is attainable by all who are willing to accept the Law of the One. And once one has experienced, for even a fraction of a second, the indescribable bliss radiating from an ascended being, there is nothing in the human experience that he will not endure or sacrifice in order to reach that level. There is no work that is too difficult when one truly desires to experience and express the dominion and love of ascended mastery.

Maitreya, the Christ, is the most welt-known Hu-man/God-man to gain his experience on this Earth as a developing God-self. He revealed and demonstrated the Master Record to the outer world and is still the popular living proof of its availability to humankind and the ability of the individual to free himself from all limitation and to express divinity, as was originally intended. Maitreya recognised the great truth that humanity's first existence on Earth was a completely harmonious and wholly free condition. He embodied this illuminated reality to help mankind to reidentify with the pure electrical body that Hu-man expressed during that Golden Age.

In ancient times the individual's devotion to his/her Source was very strong, for he knew and consciously acknowledged the power of the Great Central Sun. Because of the understanding this great truth, these peoples used the Sun as the symbol of the Godhead. In their deep inner understanding, they acknowledged the fullness of the power of this Great Central Sun, which today we call Christ Consciousness, as it is the heart of the Christed activity on the Earth and on her astral level. This is your I Am Presence, Mahatma, from the Source level now expressed in physicality through the tenth ray which embodies the spiritual microtron for all univenes, including the Earth and humanity. So many members of the New Age community, among others, have misunderstood the Central Sun to be the physical location of God in the ethers and have not realised this to be the symbol of one's Christed self.

When the Christ said to humankind, "'Verily, verily, I say unto you, the works that I do shall ye do also, and greater works than these shall ye do," his aim was to stretch them out of their limitation and to reveal the conscious dominion, the mastery, that is available for each one to achieve and express while still here on the Earth. In showing the dominion of the Ascended master, he proved to humanity that it is possible for everyone to call forth his God-self and consciously control all aspects of physical life.

The beautiful beings who guard and help the evolving human race are called the Ascended Masters of Love, Light and Perfection because as humans themselves, they learned to bring forth the love, wisdom and power of the God-self within. When each mastered all that is human, the ascended into the next expression above that of the probationary human, which is a state of divine freedom and relative perfection On this level of activity, the ascended master is able to change the etheric Lightbody as you would change your clothes; the etheric structure is always under conscious control,and every permanent atom obeys a master's slightest direction. Masters are free to use one or more bodies if their work so requires, for their ability to materialise or dissolve an atomic body is absolutely unlimited The ascended masters are all powerful manifestors of substance and energy, as the forces of nature-the four elements-are their willing and obedient servants.

One Can Choose to Express in Limitation or in Divinity

Although all of life contains the Divine Will, it is only the self conscious life that is free to determine its own course of expression. If only mankind realised that inherent in each and every human being is the power to express as an ascended master, if he but chooses to! The individual has the free will to choose to express in either the limited human body or in the superhuman divine body; he is the self-determining creator of his own reality.

When one chooses to individualise within the absolute, all-pervading life, one chooses to express as an intensified, individual focus of self-conscious intelligence. One becomes the conscious director of his future activities and is the only one who can fulfil that destiny-which is not inflexible, but is a definitely designed plan of perfection, a blueprint one chooses to express in the realm of form and action. Every human being can rise out of his/her human qualities and limitations when he chooses to dedicate all of his energy, his life force, to that goal.

Through the power held in the thoughts and feelings of mankind, each individual can raise himself to the highest level or sink to the Lowest. By taking conscious control of his attention or by allowing unconscious control, each person determines his own experience. Without care as to what he allows his mind to accept, man can become as low as the animals, sinking his human consciousness into oblivion. This is not as in metempsychosis, where in theory the human soul would move into the body of an animal or plant, for neither of these has free will; we are referring to the unconscious behaviour of humans who allow their consciousness to revert to that of animal-man.

The self-conscious intelligence, understanding the power behind thought and feeling, uses these constructively to achieve manifestation; this is how "the Word is made flesh." The ascended being understands the atom to be an entity-a living breathing thing created by the breath, the Love of God, through the will of self conscious intelligence.

Destructive thought and discordant feeling act upon the atom,rearranging the ratio and rate of motion of its electrons so that the duration of the Breath of God within its pole is changed. Because the duration of the Breath is decreed by the will of the consciousness using a particular kind of atom, if this consciousness is withdrawn, the electrons lose their polarity and fly apart, intelligently and naturally seeking their way back to the Great Central Sun, man's Christ Consciousness. There they receive love and the never-ending Breath of God; and their order, the First Law, is eternally maintained.

Love and Order

All constructive desire expressed by the individual is actually the God-self within pushing perfection forward into the use and enjoyment of the outer self Since the divine life force flows continually through all, it is simply up to you how you wish to use it. If you direct it to constructive accomplishment, you will receive joy and happiness; and if toward gratification of the physical senses, it cannot produce anything but misery because it is an impersonal life energy, reflecting only the action of the law.

The nature of the unconscious personal self is such that it constantly tries to claim power of its own, when the very energy through which it exists is provided by God, through the individual realized God-self. The outer personal self does not even own its own skin! The very atoms of its physical body are loaned to it by the Supreme God Presence from the great sea of universal substance.

When the individual learns how to obtain obedience from the atomic structure within his own mind and body, all atomic structure outside of his mind and body will obey him also and the personality will no longer feel the need to falsely justify its place or power within the All That Is because it will understand its divine beingness.

Many of you already realize that great natural, physical changes will take place on your planet during the opening which will last until the year 2028-this period of assistance and intense outpouring of Light by the Mahatma, your ascended teachers and the five higher rays - and which have come to the aid of the children of Earth. Many thousands of humanity will find during this time that their physical bodies are being quickened by the rapid raising of the vibratory rate and that as this is completed, the human, physical limitations and discord have dropped away like a worn-out old garment. And what is left? Themselves, as Children of Light, forever at one with the flame of life-everlasting and perfection.