Expresses
Ancient Wisdom & Illumination
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PRELUDE
“2Sometimes the flame [of a lamp] can leap up and burn furiously. At other times it burns gently and quietly. Sometimes its light leaps up and emits a great radiance. At other times its small flame gives out only a dim light. This is how it is with the lamp [of grace in the soul]. It is always lit and giving off illumination, but when it burns with special radiance, it is as if the soul were drunk with love for God. At other times, as God himself decides, the light is still there but is only a dim glow.”
—Makarios the Great
MAKARIOS THE GREAT
Makarios the Great is an anonymous Syrian master of the spiritual life. His works attracted some controversy in his lifetime and were opposed by writers such as Diadochos of Photike. As a result, his name has been forgotten and the works themselves were somehow “fathered” pseudepigraphically onto another writer—the famous Macarius of Egypt, who had, in fact, left no written texts behind him. This was a common way the early Christians had of recycling material that had been officially censured if it struck them as of continuing importance. Makarios was active in the late fourth and fifth centuries in the border regions between Cappadocia (Turkey) and Syria. He stressed in his teachings the need for a “felt experience” of God in the spiritual life, and his works enjoyed a great vogue in their own time and again in the medieval period in Constantinople, where they exercised a formative influence over Hesychasm.
Hesychasm defined is:
“3Hesychasm, in Eastern Christianity, type of monastic life in which practitioners seek divine quietness (Greek hēsychia) through the contemplation of God in uninterrupted prayer. Such prayer, involving the entire human being—soul, mind, and body—is often called “pure,” or “intellectual,” prayer or the Jesus Prayer. St. John Climacus, one of the greatest writers of the Hesychast tradition, wrote, “Let the remembrance of Jesus be present with each breath, and then you will know the value of the hēsychia.”
When I think of Illumination, I think of the Intelligence which is all Light permeating inside my mind and body as this luminous Presence of all life glows and flows to allow Gods Perfection to shower my being and world with its Love saturating all of me to stimulate me into submission and allow it’s magnificence to shine through me in assisting others and all life everywhere I move and abide!
I also attribute the Heavenly Host on the Second Ray Band of Light serves mankind by developing the consciousness of those gifted to impart WISDOM AND TRUE KNOWLEDGE through all the avenues and channels which serve the human race. This is the ray of the teachers and educators. Those associated with the Second Ray endeavor to give the people of every nation and every race a better and greater understanding of one another.
PRAYER INVOCATION
Mighty I AM Presence, Beloved Lord Lanto, Archangel Jophiel and Archaea Christine, blaze through and around me the purifying Illumination Flame, thy Illumined White Fire. Purify, transmute and rectify all energy ever misqualified by me. Keep this flame sustained and powerfully active.
I ask My Mighty I AM Presence for Illumination now, I ask that a constancy of reverence for all life and service in whatever capacity that I may be in at this time, to direct the illumination now received through me.
MAKARIOS THE GREAT conveyed to us all that:
Illumination is also “1The desire for Light and Truth to shine as the Presence of God is active in YOU and in your desires —propelling Itself forth into action.”
-MAKARIOS THE GREAT
ILLUMINATION SPOKEN WORD OF LIFE
For illumination use this Mantra or Affirmation:
“4BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE”! As I go to rest tonight, let me kneel at the Altar of the Sacred Fire of God’s Immortal Love in the Throne Room of Creation! There I become the Master Presence of Divine Love and Patience, of Forgiveness and Healing, of Illumination and Mastery! I bring these back into my outer affairs in the morning, and They hold Command forever!”
INTRODUCTION
The day your eyes are opened to see some of these Marvelous Ascended Beings, the joy will last through eternity.
There are some who are struggling now with themselves in the area of looking at the reflection in the mirror. The personal struggle with the SELF! Some are tussling with the RAGE of something that was done to them or something that they in fact did to themselves, the DOUBTS that plague their minds about I should have, I could have, I would have…permeates at the back of their minds like a record player repeating the same song! Then there is the FEAR of not wanting to take the next step, or stage, or phase of your life but you must push through and BLAST, BLAST, BLAST OUT ALL FEAR, it’s the only way to combat it and change the course of direction for you to make a way out of no way, push through and level set the things that are like mountains in your mind that you cannot see clear through to the next step. You may even REBEL against the very thing that could have helped you but you can’t see it as a help because your nose is to far up in the clouds and you ignore the very thing that could have gotten you to that next step! YOU MUST NOT GO INTO THESE AREAS OF RAGE, DOUBT, FEAR, or REBEL because if you do fall short of going into these areas of life at any moment throughout your life, you must take the road of SELF-CORRECTION to change your thoughts into positive reactions and overcome those desires because what that does is opens the door to your Mighty illumination and Freedom from all limitation that is going on inside of your world outwardly.
“2When the face of the soul has been unveiled, it will gaze upon the heavenly Bridegroom face-to-face, illuminated by the unspeakable light of the Spirit. . . . On that day the soul is worthy of the heavenly life and becomes the bright dwelling place of the spirit of God.”
—Makarios the Great
When you look back on your past for a moment, let’s walk down the path of yesterday and think back to all the many mistakes that were made back then… let us pause for a moment on that….
You begin to have an inner standing of all the things that others may have done to you that changed you in some way, the source of that bad outcome… limited you in some way or let’s take a look at the things that you have done to other people in your life who are no longer apart of your life…..
In the revelation of that is where the correction needs to be aligned and adjusted because this is the source of you being despondent maybe towards people, towards your husband or significant other, your children, the people in your office setting…
These feelings of despondency take on the definition of being blue, broken-hearted, dejected or depressed, sad or gloomy…
This is how others may see you also but you won’t know that because others won’t tell you that they don’t want NO BOTHER because your low-spirited and you may bring others spirits down also!
You must not walk the path of this because it is not pleasing to Yourself as a King or Queen of your being and most importantly the God within you is not pleased also. This is the great mistake!
In the revelation of the SELF coming forth to you today, everything that is revealed to you wherein you start to analyze yourself and see for yourself the lonely disparaging ways of coming into this knowing of all the mistakes that you have made from yesteryears gone by which causes the mistakes of today brings forth new inner standing of these patterns plaguing the mind.
Once you have this inner standing looking at your face in the mirror, the reflection looking back at you is more clearer, you are able to rejoice in that knowing, the mistakes will need to be corrected and it takes time because you must start to Love yourself enough to get out of the mess your in.
Inner standing the depths of YOU is the clarity that is needed to make change happen. Once you inner stand that God is the Power to think, then you will know you have the Power to correct the things that need to be fixed in your life and once this happens, go about making change joyously!
“1The Power of God’s Life which beats your heart is absolute proof that you have the Intelligence and Power of God within you by which you may dissolve and consume all the mistakes and discordant creation you have consciously or unconsciously drawn about you. You may say to this undesirable creation: ” ‘I AM’ the Mighty Consuming Flame that now and forever consumes all past and present mistakes, their cause and effect, and all undesirable creation for which my outer is responsible.””
THE ANCHORAGE
The God within you is the Anchorage to restore, to replenish, to revitalize the changes to take place in your life. Once you give recognition to this source of all life, of the Limitless Power you can direct these two words, ‘I AM!’ It releases within you a charge that goes into action – activating your intellect to release upon your world of activity the necessary changes that your heart desires to manifest in your world of form. Start to increase your calls to the great ‘I AM!’ Residing within you, where all your power is stored up with your feelings of this divine truth to activate its energies within to spring forth and shine its true essence into you!
You must utilize this Power of Dominion that you have come to inner stand at this appointed time in your life as the Masters and Heavenly Host are happily waiting to assist you on your path to Self Mastery! You must free yourself from the chains that bound you so long in lack and limitations over your life.
You must NOW ACT and be determined to put your divine life in order – Order is the first LAW of Heaven and our life and world must be organized to change the scope and trajectory of our divine destiny. This activity requires your full attention everyday for (15-30 mins) of time to send your heart calls to your ‘I AM’ Presence. It is vitally important to make preparations for your day by doing this activity before you start your day, make preparations for this Great Prince of Love and Peace—the Prince of Consuming Fire that dwells within you and controls the element of fire.
“1When one thinks of Oromasis, Prince of the Fiery Element, it is the Flame of Creative Fire within that is calling to Him for Assistance in the quickening of this Creative Power—and brings results unimaginable.”
The time is now in requiring the company of Heaven to help assist all of us when we make the calls to Heaven through our beloved Mighty ‘I AM’ Presence wherein the natural assistance will help the entire planet and all life evolving on the planet earth to increase our calls and our prayers to Heaven, We as Children of the Light must utilize this assistance to use now during this time, and all of us who are on this spiritual quest to find our divinity should take advantage of this with joyous intensity. Every Day, Minute, Hour….
Closing Decree:
“4BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE” AND BELOVED QUEEN OF LIGHT! I accept the Cosmic Light Substance and Cosmic Flame of Love from Your Heart! I command It to remold everything in my being and world into the Perfection of the Divine Plan! While I am away from it during sleep tonight, I demand that my body be wrapped and sealed within the Cosmic Flame of Cosmic Love and Peace from Your Heart, Beloved Queen of Light, and illumined before I return to it in the morning; and expand Your Illumination through me forever!”
“4BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE,” GREAT HOST OF ASCENDED MASTERS, AND GREAT COSMIC BEINGS! CHARGE me with more Light, Light, Light, the Cosmic Light as of a Thousand Suns which is Its own Defense—“The Light of God That Never, Never, Never Fails!” Charge me with more Illumination and Directing Intelligence while I am away from my body during the night! Charge me with Your Perfect Peace and Rest when I awaken in the morning, regardless of how much sleep I have, and sustain It forever!”
Love and Complete Adoration Towards Humanities Purpose,
Tammy Dennis, Founder
Destiny The Open Door & Spiritual Life Teachings
Works Cited:
King, G.R. (1939) I AM Discourse, Vol.1. Saint Germain Press, Schaumburg, IL. pp. 22, 40, 41
2McGukin, J. A. (2013) The Book of Mystical Chapters; Meditations on the Souls Ascent from the desert Fathers and other early Contemplatives. Shamballah Publications, Boston, MA and London. #47, #49, Bio.
3Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2020, July 22). Hesychasm. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hesychasm
4I AM Decree Book Two. (1987). Saint Germain Press, Schaumburg, IL. #60, p.22, #123, p.41, #124, p.41
5Background Music by Peder B. Helland
6Article and Audio Presentation by Tammy Dennis
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