Copyright © 2021 Summit Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Elizabeth Clare Prophet lectures on the mystical path inherent in Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism and Islam. Since 1958, The Summit Lighthouse has published the Teachings of Ascended Masters, the mystics and sages of East and West. These teachings bring to people their personal message of their inner divinity—a message contained in every spiritual path of the world.
Mystical Path of Confucianism, Eastern Mysticism, Confucius' Formula for Family and Community Building
Mystical Path of ConfucianismConfucius dedicated his life to teaching others how to bring order into their lives, their families and the empire. His vision has been described as a "social order in communion and collaboration with a cosmic order." Confucius believed we could bring order into our lives by tapping into the divine order of heaven and conveying its love and wisdom through culture and its ritual and music. We will start with Confucius' statement: "To assimilate wisdom and put it into practice, we must first investigate and reflect upon all phenomena and cull out what is true." Join Elizabeth Clare Prophet in this spiritual journey into the path of Confucius and Eastern mysticism for the Western mind. | Download Confucius Lecture:Confucius' Formula for Family |
Confucius’ Life and Vision
Confucius’
Formula for Family and Community Building
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, published in
Pearls of Wisdom, Vol. 41 No. 32,
August 9, 1998
Welcome to San Diego! We have gathered to
celebrate family as the keystone of community building.
There are many kinds of
families--our immediate family, close friends who become part of the family and
the inner family archetypes of our psychology. We also enjoy our spiritual
family--the Ascended Masters, the angels and the elementals. And, as
bodhisattvas, we all need to see ourselves as father, mother, sister and
brother to everyone on earth.
But who are we and
where are we in the midst of all of this?
We understand that there are many
roles that we play in family, whether we are married or single. We seek order
and patterns of order to bring harmony into our lives and the lives of our
families—spiritual patterns, etheric patterns, hologram blueprints if you will.
And the only way we can uncover and follow these patterns is through developing
the intuition of the heart and the soul.
The heart and the soul will always
speak to us, always tell us where we should be, how we should contact someone
who needs us right now but is living somewhere on the other half of the world.
And when we are in tune with our hearts we will be in tune with these patterns
and allow them to guide our lives into true happiness and fulfillment. That
attunement with our hearts is the all and the everything of who we are.
Confucius’ Formula
Let us enter this process by
holding in our hearts and souls the following “thoughtform.” This formula comes
from the teaching of a very special Master, Lord Confucius. Confucius gave us this
basic formula for family and community building twenty-five hundred years ago.
It is taken from the first chapter of the Great
Learning, one of the four principal books of Confucian teaching. 1
Here is the formula in Confucius’
words. It is a formula for enlightenment, for family and for the victory of
each one of us. So as you go about your daily lives, please hold this
thoughtform in your hearts.
The ancients who wanted to manifest
enlightened virtue in their empire first healed and brought order to their
states.
Wanting to heal and bring order to their
states, they first
established
equanimity in their families and made them whole.
Wanting to establish equanimity in their
families and make them whole, they first cultivated themselves.
Wanting to cultivate themselves, they
first got themselves in line and in tune with their hearts.
Wanting to be in line and in tune with
their hearts, they first became honest with themselves and purified their
motives.
Wanting to be honest with themselves and
purify their motives, they first assimilated wisdom and put it into
practice.
They assimilated wisdom and put it
into practice by investigating and reflecting upon all phenomena and culling
out what was true. 2
Confucius—The Champion of Families
The Ascended Master Confucius has
a profound understanding of family as the vital unit for building community and
a new society in the Aquarian age. He is the hierarch of the Royal Teton
Retreat, which is congruent with the Grand Teton mountain in the Teton Range
near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is the key retreat of illumination of the
Great White Brotherhood in North America. In this retreat, Confucius shows us
how to take etheric patterns and use them in tangible ways to improve our
everyday lives. These patterns are like blueprints and they contain the keys to
our self-reliance in God, to the ideals of the sacred family and to
God-government. We tie into the etheric patterns and precipitate into the
etheric ideals into the physical through creations of beauty, harmony and
order. This is why the flame of precipitation-Chinese green in color and tinged
with gold--is enshrined at Confucius’ Royal Teton Retreat.
Confucius’ presence and the
presence of his Causal Body in the United States has inspired the practical
side of our culture. Let us see Confucius, then, as the architect of community
building and the champion of families.
Confucius wants us to regard him
as our loving and supportive grandfather. And, like a grandfather, he also
desires to pass on his dreams to us that we might fulfill them in his name. He
longs to build a society on a foundation of love, wisdom and the will of God in
the individual and in the family.
Confucius has said that many
souls from ancient China have reembodied here in the United States. In 1976, he
called them “the quiet Buddhic souls, the diligent ones” who have a spiritual
mission to lay the foundation of the family in America and beyond. He points
out that they understand the importance of “the code of ethics, the gentleness,
the sweetness and the desire for learning as the means to God-awareness.”
Furthermore, Confucius said, “They
have come that their wisdom would be fired with freedom and that they might
assist America” as she enters the twenty-first century. Their aim is to turn
around a “false materialism” and to manifest instead “an etherealization, a
spirituality,” and the mastery “of self, of society and of the energies of time
and space.”
Perhaps you are one of these souls
who has come from ancient China. So let us call to Confucius for his mantle and
guidance, and let us pray that we may commune with him at his Royal Teton Retreat
as we discover the true meaning of family.
Confucius’ Dedication to Divine Order
Confucius has always been
concerned with harmony and divine order within the family and within society as
a whole. He was born in 551 b.c. in China during a time of great turmoil and
upheaval. His father, an elderly soldier, died when he was three. So, in the
midst of his country’s social chaos and his family’s disorder because of the
loss of his father, we see the little boy Confucius drawing Chinese characters
in the dirt.
Here we see his soul finding
consolation in the inner patterns of the Christ consciousness and yearning to
bring these patterns into the world.
Painting or
writing Chinese characters is a meditation and a comfort to the soul. Lord
Lanto has told us that these characters portray in graphic form the image of
the Christ consciousness. Thus you can understand why painting characters is
one of the most important art forms in Chinese culture.
Confucius dedicated his life to
teaching others how to bring order into their lives, their families and the
empire. His vision has been described as a “social order in communion and
collaboration with a cosmic order.” 3
Confucius believed we could bring
order into our lives by tapping into the divine order of heaven and conveying
its love and wisdom through culture and its ritual and music.
Confucius was often moved by the
etheric patterns and the beauty of music. One day when he was traveling, he saw
a boy skipping and dancing while carrying a full pitcher. He found out that the
boy had been listening to the ancient music of the sages. Impressed, Confucius
hurried to hear the rest of the performance and was so moved by it that he went
into a trance for three months. The original Chinese text says literally, “he
did not know the taste of meat for three months.” When Confucius finally came out of the
trance, he said, “I never imagined that music could be so sublime!” 4
The followers of Confucius became
known as Knights of the Arts because they mastered archery, poetry, math,
history, dance, religious rituals and etiquette.
The Duke of Chou
Confucius grew up in poverty, but he
managed to educate himself and work at a number of odd jobs. When he was
fifteen, he set his heart on studying the ancient wisdom. It just so happened
that he had access to the archives of ancient literature and archaic writing
systems in his home state of
Lu, where he
worked as a clerk at the memorial temple of the Duke of Chou.*
The Duke of Chou, one of the
greatest statesmen in Chinese history, was Confucius’ hero. Five hundred years
earlier, the Duke of Chou, his father, King Wen, and his brother had
established the Chou dynasty. They were the leaders in overthrowing the corrupt
Shang dynasty and its alcoholic and psychopathic ruler.
The architect of the new
government, the Duke of Chou, wrote manuals on governmental organization,
ritual and propriety. He also composed music. The Duke of Chou once said, “I am
only concerned with heaven and the people.” 4 He and his family introduced the concept of
“heaven” to the Chinese people and also established the idea of the “Mandate of
Heaven,” or the divine right to rule.
Those who were granted the mandate
to rule had the responsibility to uphold it with integrity and honor. Thus it
was their sacred duty to rule with kindness and justice. And if they did not,
they would be overthrown and their high office would be taken from them.
The Duke of Chou, King Wen, and
Confucius are considered to be China’s three greatest historical figures.
Confucius believed that his mission was to reestablish the principles of the
Duke of Chou and he often dreamt about the Duke instructing him in the ancient
wisdom. Thus he recognized the Duke of Chou as his guru. The Duke was an
embodiment of the Ascended Master Lord Lanto.
It is believed that Confucius was embodied
at the time of the Duke of
Chou and helped him
implement his ideals for God-government. When
Confucius
reembodied in China five hundred years later, he edited the six Chinese
classics, including the I Ching,
which had been written by King Wen.
The I Ching’s
Original Purpose
Confucius said, “If I could add
fifty more years to my life, I would spend them studying the I Ching. Then, I would not have any
major faults.” 5 Since then, the I Ching has been seriously misinterpreted and even today is used
primarily as a fortune-telling text. But that was not its original purpose. Its
original purpose was to convey an understanding of etheric patterns for
Godgovernment as well as for individual spiritual development. King Wen had composed
the core text of the I Ching, which
is also known as the Book of Change,
when he was imprisoned for being a threat to the corrupt dynasty he and his
sons eventually overthrew. The Duke of Chou later elaborated and filled out the
text.
King Wen, being in prison, had to
be careful of what he wrote as he compiled the I Ching. On the surface it appeared to be a compilation of oracular
folklore, but embedded in it was a manual for strategy and statecraft. When you
take it on a deeper level, it is also a spiritual manual for developing one’s
intuition and becoming attuned to the inner order, or etheric patterns, of
life.
The hexagrams in the I Ching are depictions of etheric
patterns found in nature. Schools of martial arts that focus on internal power,
such as T’ai Chi Ch’üan, express the principles of the I Ching in their forms. And their movements can instill and
reinforce etheric patterns in the soul and in the mental, emotional and
physical bodies.
The Etheric Pattern of the Soul’s Immortality
In
the very beginning, when our souls were completely bonded to the Universal
Christ, we were clothed in the original etheric pattern in which we were made.
This was the etheric pattern of the soul’s immortality and freedom. There are
etheric patterns for our souls, our families and for our communities, and they
exist in nature all around us. We can call to Confucius and other Ascended
Masters to reveal and reinforce these patterns so that they may be our
empowerment and guiding force.
The Ascended Master Paul the
Venetian has explained that just as a flower opens its petals according to its
preordained pattern, so we also blossom into our divine identity and destiny by
getting in touch with our divine blueprint.
Some years ago, Gautama Buddha gave us a thoughtform
that included a type of etheric pattern that he called an engram. An engram in
this sense is a formula of light and geometry. Gautama said that this engram
resembles a Chinese character and it represents an individual’s personal
formula for the victory of love. Lord Gautama said, “It is a yantra. ** It is a
mantra. It is a focus of light.” 6
The Elohim Apollo and Lumina have
told us that spiritual engrams are crucial for the work of the Elohim and the
Bodhisattvas in anchoring the Light of God in the earth. These lines of force
penetrate as grids, energy keys that the human consciousness cannot conceive of
nor understand. They are like configurations, ancient writings, tablets from the
etheric plane, and inscriptions in Matter.
They are coded to compel the piercing light
of illumination to descend
deeper and deeper
into areas that normally could not receive the Light of the Mighty Elohim. And
Apollo and Lumina will nourish those thoughtforms and will transfer
illumination into the earth and the astral plane through coils of light. This
is key to the saving of souls and the planet.
The Maha Chohan has also explained
how we can use engrams to increase our spiritual energy. In 1973, he said:
Each moment and each hour, you are
impressing upon the energy of the Holy Spirit identity patterns and
thoughtforms. It takes less effort to create beauty than to create ugliness, to
create truth than to create the lie, to create immortality than to create
death.
Therefore, if you will consciously
establish patterns of perfection and send them forth into the wind, into the
water, into the fire, into the earth, you will find that each kernel of light
that is a perfect engram will return to you with the energies of cosmos
magnified for your use.
Etheric patterns and engrams hold
some of the secrets to fulfilling your spiritual destiny and the destiny of
each member of your family. Your family can then amplify the blessings of love
and grace and, like ripples on the water, affect and uplift every soul in the
family of God. This is truly bringing heaven to earth.
Developing Confucius’ Formula for Our Empowerment
Let us return to the formula
Confucius gave us long ago. By using this formula, we can begin to discover our
etheric patterns and those of our families and community and become empowered
by them. We can anchor these patterns in the physical plane so that they will
help others, and in this way we can help uplift the planet and prepare it for
the coming golden age of Aquarius.
We are going to look at the phases
of self-discovery, beginning with our personal experience. Let us place our
right hand over our heart so that we are connecting with our heart chakra and
are giving out the love of our heart and receiving love into our heart. Then we
can intensify this love as we continue on with these teachings.
The First Step of Confucius’ Formula
We will start with the concluding
statement of the formula and work back to the beginning. Thus we begin with the
final statement:
To assimilate wisdom and put it into practice, we must
first investigate and reflect upon all phenomena and cull out what is true.
Reflecting upon all
phenomena and culling out what is true corresponds
to Lord Maitreya’s
teaching on the three ds—discernment,
discrimination and determination. Maitreya has taught us that a disciple of the
Cosmic Christ uses the three ds “to
implement his own divinity.”
In his series on initiation,
Maitreya tells us that the faculty of discernment is “the exercise of the
yellow fire of the second ray. It is to separate with the mind, to recognize
mentally, to detect with the eyes of the mind. Discernment is a faculty of the
mind that enables the soul to understand the shades of difference as it
examines manifestations in the relative plane of life and death, good and
evil.”
Maitreya explains that once we
have discerned the elements of a given situation, we can exercise the pink fire
of the heart through discrimination.
“And by the penetration of the
Holy Spirit,” he says, you isolate the distinguishing characteristics—the
differences between qualities, personalities and choices in the planes of
Matter. Discrimination is the assessment by love that results in the exercise
of good judgment.
Thus the faculty of discernment in
the mind becomes discrimination in the heart. And the resulting manifestation
is the wise and judicious implementation of the best plan for the best results.
...The assessment, then, of mind
and heart becomes the judgment that is carried out through God-determination.
By determination the disciple in the way of initiation delivers the thrust of
the will of God, of action that becomes precipitation—good works bearing good
fruits for a good harvest in the Lord. 7
Thus, investigating and reflecting upon all phenomena and culling out what is
true is our first step. It is the process of taking in all the factors, all the
alternatives, in a given situation.
As Confucius once said: “Do I
have knowledge? No, I have none. Let a
simple bumpkin ask me a question and I am all empty. And so being, I tap away
at the alternatives until the issue is resolved.” 8
The Second Step of the Formula
Next, we sort through all
phenomena with the fingers of the mind and call for the quickening of the Mind
of God within us during this process. Then we give the entire matter over to
the intuition of the heart and continue to pray for guidance and confirmation.
And when we reach our conclusions, we take the next step of the formula:
If we want to be honest with ourselves and purify our
motives, we must first assimilate wisdom
and put it into practice.
How do we do
this?
We do it through self-discipline.
I am talking about the discipline that comes because we truly love ourself—our
God Self and our precious soul. In this sense, we can see how the word discipline comes from the word disciple. I am not talking about the
self-discipline of holding ourselves to some rigid standard imposed upon us.
For that is a form of self-punishment and codependence.
Saint Germain relates an incident
about El Morya and Kuthumi when they were in embodiment. They were making their
trek up the mountain to see their guru and they were in a hurry to get there.
Saint Germain says:
You remember the joke that is told by
Morya and Kuthumi making their treks to the home of light, to the feet of the
Masters—Morya being so intense about getting there and Kuthumi a bit more
peaceful. And when they had arrived and when they had returned, for all of the
perspiration and energy expended by Morya, it was Kuthumi who retained the
message of the Master. 9
Both El Morya and Kuthumi had the
necessary self-discipline, but Kuthumi allowed himself to receive the reward of
his efforts and remember the Master’s message.
After El Morya ascended in 1898,
he imparted his teachings to Helena and Nicholas Roerich, the founders of the
Agni Yoga Society. In book two of Leaves
of Morya’s Garden, El Morya tells us:
“One must manifest discipline of spirit; without it one cannot become
free. To the slave, discipline of spirit will be a prison; to the liberated
one, it will be a wondrous healing garden. So long as the discipline of spirit
is as fetters, the doors are closed. For in fetters one cannot ascend the
steps.” 10
The Ascended Lady Master Clara
Louise shared some of her thoughts on self-discipline with us in 1991. She
said: “True self-discipline is never rigidity but it is Love fulfilling itself
by the intuitive powers of the soul, by the discernment of the heart, by true
discernment of the mind. These are inner qualities of the five secret rays that
sensitize even the soul to the understanding that though all the rules be
followed, yet without Love the disciple cannot succeed.” 11
A Psychological Approach to Self-Discipline
In their book The Essence of Parenting, Anne Johnson and Vic Goodman give us an
excellent understanding of self-discipline. Johnson, a social worker, and
Goodman, a family counselor, live and work in Wisconsin. They base their work
on more than thirty years of experience as parents, educators and
counselors.
Johnson and Goodman believe that
love is the inner essence and foundation of self-discipline. They say:
Self-discipline is knowing and
remembering our own value and worth when every cell in our bodies is believing
otherwise. It requires the willingness, the strength and fortitude to pick
ourselves up and keep going when all we want to do is give
up....Self-discipline is having faith in the knowledge that we are good people;
we work hard; we deserve to be happy. It is knowing that any thoughts or
beliefs to the contrary are self-defeating, demoralizing, and only lead us away
from truth....
All of us make mistakes. We all end up
feeling guilty about one thing or another. Self-discipline is the willingness
to accept our own shortcomings and failures. It is the gentle touch of
forgiveness when we’re screaming for retribution. It is knowing that our anger,
the poison pumping through our system, the feeling we’re about to unload on our
children or spouses or friends or co-workers, is ours and ours alone.
Self-discipline is remembering that there is no one to blame; there is no one
making us feel the way we do; there is only our own anger. It’s knowing at
those times when we’re pointing the finger, drowning in self-righteousness
ready to condemn, that it’s all a play of consciousness. Who are we really
angry at? Why are we so hurt? Who is the one burning with these feelings?
Self-discipline is about remembering the
truth when our minds are filled with doubts. It is the willingness to reach
again and again and again for the love and compassion, the gentleness and
kindness that lives within our heart. 12
I see self-discipline as
remembering that we have a threefold flame of Love, Wisdom and Power in our
heart. We can visualize this flame any time in the day to help us keep
centered. For self-discipline is knowing that at all times God lives within us
and that God is Love. Self-discipline is accepting that our true nature is
love. And when we understand this, we become sensitive to our needs and fulfill
them.
So, if it is late at night and you
are completely exhausted, don’t worry about the dirty dishes or about the house
being a mess. Go to bed and get the rest you need. Then clean up the mess the
next day. Now, that is selfdiscipline.
When you have a false sense of
self-discipline, you can become addicted to work. You may tend to overdo it and
abuse your body because you have believed the lie that you do not deserve to be
loved just as you are. The Divine Mother loves you as you are. And you are
worthy of her love just as you are. The point is to be centered and to act and
work because it pleases the God within you to do so.
Johnson and Goodman explain that our inner awareness comes into balance through self-discipline. And when we become
conscious of and accept our true worth—and when we love and respect the truth
that lives within our heart—then we are able to extend this essence of our love
to others.
The Third Step
of the Formula
As we accept and apply the wisdom
of our heart, we embrace the next level of the formula:
If we want to be in line and in tune with our heart,
we must first become honest with ourselves and purify our motives.
We all need to become more honest
with ourselves. And the spark of wisdom in our heart gives us the courage to
really look at ourselves and be able to see what is real and what is not. In
this way, we can engage in selfinquiry and self-reflection lovingly and
nonjudgmentally.
Master Tseng, a principal disciple
of Confucius, said: “I examine myself three times a day. Have I been unfaithful
in my plans and transactions with others?
Have I been unreliable in my conversations and interactions with
friends? Am I preaching what I am not
practicing?” 13
Johnson and Goodman call this
process “becoming the witness of our thoughts.”
They tell us that we need to slow down enough to see what is going on in
our minds. For, they point out: “We are
not our thoughts but the witness of our thoughts. The witness forms no
opinions, judgments, or criticism about what it sees....The more diligently we
practice being the witness, the easier it will be to identify and ultimately
replace or let go of unwanted thoughts.” 14
When we realize that our true
nature is loving wisdom, we have the foundation we need to begin looking at
ourselves objectively and observe our behavior patterns, our motives, our
psychology and our past records. Then we can get the psychological help we
need. And we can do the spiritual work with the violet flame to free ourselves
and become the loving persons that we truly are.
Step Four of
the Formula
When we become honest with
ourselves and realize that our true essence is love, then we have entered the
next phase of the formula:
If we want to cultivate ourselves, we must first get
in line and in tune with our heart.
In Buddhism, getting in tune with
the heart is known as mindfulness. Mindfulness is being aware of our thoughts
and feelings and, most importantly, it is being mindful of the intimations from
our Christ Self and Buddha-nature.
One Zen Buddhist
teaching on mindfulness says: “At the
start of
sneezing, during
fright, in anxiety, above a chasm, flying in battle, in extreme curiosity, at
the beginning of hunger, at the end of hunger, be uninterruptedly aware.” 15
In the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche explains
mindfulness as the prolonging of the meditative state of calm and centeredness
through everything we do. He recalls the Zen story where the disciple asked his
Master: “Master, how do you put enlightenment into action? How do you practice it in everyday
life?” “By eating and sleeping,” replied
the Master. “But, Master, everybody sleeps and everybody eats.” The Master replied: “But not everybody eats
when they eat, and not everybody sleeps when they sleep.”
Rinpoche explains that to “eat when you eat
and sleep when you sleep means to be completely present in all your actions,
with none of the distractions of ego to stop you being there.” And he sums it
up by saying, “This is integration.” 16
Johnson and Goodman call this the
state of being conscious, being grounded in a state of inner love. We
understandand accept that love is our inner essence, our natural inner state.
And once we have accepted the truth that our inner essence is love and we have
experienced it (even a little taste of it), then we have started the process of
becoming in tune with our heart.
To maintain this state requires
grace and self-effort. Johnson and Goodman say that the keys to unlocking the
heart are “becoming conscious, being willing to make the effort, opening
ourselves to grace.” 17
Step Five of
the Formula
Once we have become in tune with
our heart, we enter the next phase of the formula, self-cultivation:
If we want to establish equanimity in our families and
make them whole, we must first cultivate ourselves.
Self-cultivation is becoming
sensitive to our spiritual senses as we develop the secret rays within
ourselves. When we cultivate the secret rays, we can attune to the etheric
patterns, bring them into our lives and empower our holy endeavors.
The five secret rays are the high
energy and power of the nucleus of life, the nucleus of the atom, the nucleus
of our heart. They are the sheaths of the inner white-fire core of the atom.
The five secret rays form the core and essence of primary fire within us. 18
The secret rays are the secret
power for creation as well as procreation. Lord Sanat Kumara has told us that
the Ascended Lady Masters use the five secret rays to help the formation of the
child within the womb. He said that it is important for parents to meditate and
visualize the five bands of light within the womb and around their baby
throughout the period of gestation until he or she is born.
The Queen of Light has said that
if we want to help mothers and fathers who are preparing to receive a holy
child, we should invoke Mighty Cosmos’ secret rays. 19 In giving the decree “Mighty Cosmos’ Secret
Rays,” we can support our greater family, God’s family on earth, by helping to
raise the vibration of the entire planet. In so doing, we can magnetize
spiritually advanced souls to this world. We can also give the decree for our
selftransformation and the transformation of our families and community.
Our beloved Nada explained to us
why the secret rays are crucial for this age. She said in 1973:
You are living in an era that will be
marked by...the saturation of the earth with the five secret rays released from
the hand of Mighty Cosmos...so that mankind might go within to establish the
tabernacle of the Holy Spirit, to perfect the blueprint, the inner keys, and
the devotion to the Holy of holies. This is necessary to bring forth the
kingdom of God into manifestation upon earth in preparation for the
two-thousand-year reign of the Christ Consciousness.
During the period of the secret rays, the
precipitation of the culture of the Divine Mother, of heavenly patterns
perfected on earth, shall come to pass. And only that which is perfect shall be
allowed to remain.
The secret rays are also essential
for the future of our community. In 1973, beloved Lanello told us that he had
many etheric patterns he wanted to impart to us for the building of our Church.
He said: “Every cell, every facet of activity that is a part of this Church,
the true Church Universal and Triumphant, is a pattern that shall endure
through the millennia if it be founded upon that five-pointed star of Cosmos’
secret rays that is the cell pattern of the fiery core of being. And that star
center, that flaming presence, is an idea held in the Mind of God.”
Mighty Cosmos’ secret rays are
effective in dissolving chaos and confusion. They can pierce through negative
behavioral patterns, misconceptions and all manner of psychological obstacles
that try to sabotage our loving and harmonious interactions with one another.
So the secret rays are an important ingredient for community building.
When we cultivate the secret rays,
we are cultivating sensitivity. We must ask ourselves, are we sensitive to our
neighbor? Are we sensitive to our own soul?
Sensitivity is
something we need to cultivate or we will not enter into the
five secret rays.
It is almost as if those rays are such a fine filigree thread that unless we
are also refined we cannot enter in.
We begin by listening. We sit back
and abide in the secret chamber of our heart as we listen to others. And we
learn to listen to the inner voice in our own heart. It is no coincidence that
Kuan Yin’s name in Chinese means “one who observes the sound.”
When we observe the inner sound,
we become sensitive to our needs and the needs of everyone around us. The trick
is to fulfill our needs and not just be aware of them. Then we can tap into our
own wellspring of love and wisdom and be sensitive to and meet the needs of our
family.
Maitreya has said that by
cultivating the five secret rays in the delicateness of Kuan Yin, the Mother of
Mercy, we can also learn etiquette. Confucius emphasized the true spirit of
etiquette in his teaching thousands of years ago. Etiquette comes from the
grace and gentleness of the East and gives us a sense of deference to the
Christ within each family member. Giving Kuan Yin’s Rosary 20 is a
wonderful way to develop sensitivity and gain mastery in the secret rays.
Our recently republished book Quietly Comes the Buddha is a great
handbook for cultivating the secret rays. In it Gautama Buddha introduces the
qualities of the secret rays through prayers, meditations and poetry. 21
The Final Step
of Confucius’ Formula
The secret rays are the keys to
our wholeness and to our families’ wholeness. This realization brings us to the
point where we can begin to understand the last phase of the formula:
If we want to heal and bring order to our state, we
must first establish equanimity in our families and make them whole.
When we cultivate the secret rays
and extend our mastery of them to help our families, we bring balance and
wholeness to our loved ones. We accept that their true nature is love. Then
when we support and nurture their loving nature, we have shifted from doing to
being.
Johnson and Goodman tell us that
to succeed in parenting, techniques are not it; our state of mind is. They say,
“Our job as parents is to find and stay connected to our inner essence so we
can always see and respond to the beautiful inner essence of our children.” 22 This is true whether we are a parent or we are
parenting the inner child within us.
By focusing on our true nature as
love and shifting from doing to being, we can find wholeness for ourselves and
then we can extend this wholeness to our families. It is an evolving wholeness
that can attain new levels and rise to the expression of divine love.
Now we have the essential units to
build a solid foundation for ourselves, our families and our community. And
this is the way to bring divine order back into our nation.
In
conclusion, let us meditate again on the words of Confucius:
The ancients who wanted to manifest
enlightened virtue in their empire first healed and brought order to their
states.
Wanting to heal and bring order to their
states, they first established equanimity in their families and made them
whole.
Wanting to establish equanimity in their
families and make them whole, they first cultivated themselves. Wanting to
cultivate themselves, they first got themselves in line and in tune with their
hearts.
Wanting to be in line and in tune with their
hearts, they first became honest with themselves and purified their
motives.
Wanting to be honest with themselves and
purify their motives, they first assimilated wisdom and put it into
practice.
They assimilated wisdom and put it into
practice by investigating and reflecting upon all phenomena and culling out
what was true. 23
Thank you.
“The Summit Lighthouse Sheds Its Radiance o’er All
the World to Manifest as Pearls of Wisdom.”
Elizabeth Clare
Prophet delivered this lecture, “Confucius’ Formula for Family and Community
Building,” at the six-day conference Family--The
Heart of Community held July 4 through July 9, 1998, at San Diego,
California. The lecture has been edited for publication in the Pearls of Wisdom.
For more
information email TSLinfo@TSL.org,
or call: U.SA.: 1-800-245-5445,
Outside of
U.S. (US access code) +406-848-9500
* pronounced joh
** a sacred
geometric design
1.
The four principal books of Confucianism
are the Analects of Confucius (the Lun-Yü), the book of Mencius (the Meng-tzu), the Great Learning (the Tahsüeh)
and the Doctrine of the Mean (the Chung-yung).
2.
Confucius, Great Learning 1:4, translated by Karen Y. LeBeau.
3.
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth
Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven Rays
(Livingston, Mont.: Summit University Press, 1986), Book Two, p. 81 (overleaf).
4.
Confucius, Analects 7:13; James Legge,
The Chinese Classics, 2d ed., rev. (reprint of the 1893 edition), 1:199,
68.
5.
Confucius, Analects 7:16, translated by Karen Y. LeBeau.
6.
Gautama Buddha, December 31,
1983, in 1984 Pearls of Wisdom, Book
1, no. 4, p. 35.
7.
Lord Maitreya, “Integration
with God,” On Initiation, no. 2, in 1975 Pearls
of Wisdom, pp. 269-70.
8.
Confucius, Analects, quoted in Robert Eno, “The Art of Truth-Making: Method in
Early Chinese Philosophy” (Lecture given at the Department of Philosophy,
University of California, Los Angeles, March 4, 1985), p. 4.
9.
Saint Germain, “May You Pass
Every Test!” in Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven Rays (Livingston,
Mont.: Summit University Press, 1986), Book Two, pp. 250-51.
10.
Helena Roerich, Leaves of Morya’s Garden, bk. 2 (New
York: Agni Yoga Society, 1952), p. 8.
11.
Ascended Lady Master Clara
Louise, “Self-Discipline on the Path to the Ascension,” 1991 Pearls of Wisdom, no. 55, p. 607.
The Ascended Lady Master Clara Louise was
embodied as Clara Louise Kieninger (1883-1970). In 1961 Saint Germain anointed
her as the first Mother of the Flame of the Keepers of the Flame Fraternity.
For years she had devotedly served in the field of nursing, taking as her motto
Ich Dien (“I serve”). Later, as a
dedicated student of the Ascended Masters, Clara Louise kept a daily prayer
vigil for the youth of the world, the incoming children and their parents and
teachers. She would begin every morning at five and decree for two to four
hours, and sometimes till noon. She made her ascension at the age of 87 from
Berkeley, California, on October 25, 1970.
12.
Anne Johnson and Vic Goodman, The Essence of Parenting (New York:
Crossroad Publishing Company, 1995), pp. 166, 167.
13.
Confucius, Analects 1:4, translated by Karen Y. LeBeau.
14.
Johnson and Goodman, The Essence of Parenting, pp. 24, 155.
15.
Paul Reps, comp., Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen
and Pre-Zen Writings (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Anchor
Books, n.d.), p. 172.
16.
Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,
ed. Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), p. 79.
17.
Johnson and Goodman, The Essence of Parenting, p. 16.
18.
Secret rays. In 1977, the Ascended
Master Padma Sambhava said: “Note the burning in your palms. Note the tingling
in your feet, in the thymus. Whether you experience this with the five senses
or the senses of the soul, the activation comes by dispensation of the five
secret rays from the heart of Cosmos.”
19.
Mighty Cosmos is a being who has
attained cosmic consciousness and ensouls the energies of many worlds and
systems of worlds within this galaxy and beyond with the power of the secret
rays. The Queen of Light is a Cosmic
Being who has “majored on the one-pointed goal of focusing the intense Light,
or Christ consciousness, of God.”
20.
See Kuan Yin’s Crystal Rosary: Devotions to the Divine Mother East and
West directed by Elizabeth Clare
Prophet, published by Summit University Press, 3-audiocassette album of hymns,
prayers and ancient Chinese mantras that invoke the merciful presence of Kuan
Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
21.
See Quietly Comes the Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha-Nature, by
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, introduction by Karen Y. LeBeau (Corwin Springs,
Mont.: Summit University Press, 1998).
22.
Johnson and Goodman, The Essence of Parenting, pp. 81-82.
23.Confucius, Great Learning 1:4, translated by Karen
Y. LeBeau.
Mighty Cosmos’ Secret Rays
In the name of the beloved mighty victorious
Presence of God, I AM in me, my very own beloved Holy Christ Self, Holy Christ
Selves of all mankind, beloved Helios and Vesta and the Great Central Sun
Magnet, beloved God Harmony, beloved Mighty Cosmos, beloved Lanello, the entire
Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother, elemental
life--fire, air, water, and earth! I decree:
Mighty
Cosmos’ Secret Rays, (3x)
Expand thy Light
through me always! (3x)
Mighty Cosmos’
Secret Rays, (3x)
Bless and heal,
illumine and raise! (3x)
Mighty Cosmos’
Secret Rays, (3x)
Transmute, consume,
release, and blaze! (3x)
Mighty Cosmos’
Secret Rays, (3x)
For thy Love, O
God, we praise! (3x)
Mighty Cosmos’
Secret Rays, (3x)
Raise the earth,
thy flame expand! (3x)
Mighty Cosmos’
Secret Rays, (3x)
Thy balancing power
I now command! (3x)
Take
dominion now,
To thy Light I bow;
I AM thy radiant Light, Secret rays so bright.
Grateful for thy
rays
Sent to me today,
Fill me through and
through Until there’s only you!
I live, move, and have my being within a
glorious, victorious focus of Mighty Cosmos’ Secret Rays from the heart of God
in the Great Central Sun, focused through the Five Dhyani Buddhas and
Vajrasattva, my very own beloved individualized I AM Presence, beloved Helios
and Vesta, and beloved Mighty Cosmos which blesses and heals, illumines and
seals me and all mankind in the Victory of the ascension in the Light. Beloved
I AM! Beloved I AM! Beloved I AM!
Copyright
© 1998, 2002 2007 Summit Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved
