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Darjeeling Council. A council of the Great White Brotherhood consisting of Ascended Masters and unascended chelas headed up by El Morya, its chief, headquartered in Darjeeling, India, at the Master's etheric retreat. Members include Mother Mary, Kuan Yin, Archangel Michael, the Great Divine Director, Serapis Bey, Kuthumi, Djwal Kul and numerous others whose objective is to train souls for world service in God-government and the economy, through international relations and the establishment of the inner Christ as the foundation for religion, education, and a return to golden-age culture in music and the arts.

Decree. n. a foreordaining will, an edict or fiat, an authoritative decision, declaration, a law, ordinance or religious rule; a command or commandment. v. to decide, to declare, to determine or order; to ordain, to command or enjoin; to invoke the presence of God, his light/energy/consciousness, his power and protection, purity and perfection.

It is written in the Book of Job, "Thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways." The decree is the most powerful of all applications to the Godhead. It is the "Command ye me" of Isaiah 45:11, the original command to Light, which, as the "Lux fiat," is the birthright of the sons and daughters of God. It is the authoritative Word of God spoken in man by the name of the I AM Presence and the living Christ to bring about constructive change on earth through the will of God and his consciousness come, on earth as it is in heaven-in manifestation here below as Above. The dynamic decree offered as praise and petition to the LORD God in the science of the spoken Word is the "effectual fervent prayer of the righteous" that availeth much. The dynamic decree is the means whereby the supplicant identifies with the Word of God, even the original fiat of the Creator "Let there be light: and there was light." Through the dynamic decree spoken with joy and love, faith and hope in God's covenants fulfilled, the supplicant receives the engrafting of the Word and experiences the transmutation by the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit, the "trial by fire" whereby all sin, disease, and death are consumed, yet the righteous soul is preserved. The decree is the alchemist's tool and technique for personal and planetary transmutation and self-transcendence. The decree may be short or long and is usually marked by a formal preamble and a closing or acceptance.
(Job 22:28; Gen. 1:3; James 1:21; 5:16; I Cor. 3:13-15; I Pet. 1:7. See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Science of the Spoken Word. Jesus and Kuthumi, Prayer and Meditation. Prayers, Meditations and Dynamic Decrees for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness, Sections I and II. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, chaps. 38-40. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Science of the Spoken Word: Why and How to Decree Effectively, 4-audiocassette album. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "I'm Stumping for the Coming Revolution in Higher Consciousness!" 3-audiocassette album. For audiocassettes of decrees, songs, mantras and rosaries, including decrees to Archangel Michael, El Morya and Lord Lanto and violet flame decrees, see pp. 465-66.

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Desire body. See Emotional body.

Deva. (Skt. for "radiant being.") Member of an order of angelic beings who serve with the elemental forces of nature, assisting them to perform their various functions. Angel devas are the guardian spirits of the mountains and the forests. They also ensoul and hold the matrix for the Christ consciousness to be outpictured by the people of a particular locale-city, state, nation, or continent-or for a particular race, nationality, or ethnic group.

Diamond Heart. A concentration of the sacred fires of the will of God that coalesce as a diamond matrix in the hearts of devotees of God's will, his divine plan and his inner (etheric) blueprint for all life. Hence, a term used to describe the heart of the Ascended Masters, angel devas, and chelas who embody the will of God; often associated with El Morya and Mary the Mother of Jesus. The Diamond Heart of God possesses the quality of the diamond, its hardness resisting every sinister strategy of the anti-Self and the anti-Will. At the same time it reflects the brilliance of Love/Wisdom throughout the creation-magnifying and projecting the prismatic virtues and charismatic powers of the Holy Spirit embodied by the ascended and unascended sons and daughters of God.
(See Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons, pp. 90-91. Mother Mary, "The Order of the Diamond Heart," and Jesus, "The Hour of Thy Victory Draweth Nigh," in Pearls of Wisdom, 1987, vol. 30, pp. 629, 633-37, 640-46, 237 n. 9.)

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Discipleship. The state of being an adherent of the Christ and of the Teachings of the Great White Brotherhood; the process of attaining self-mastery through self-discipline in the initiations of the Buddha, the World Teachers, and the Ascended Masters.

Steps of initiation in discipleship under the Living Word: (1) Student: Under this phase the individual studies, becomes a student of the writings and the teachings of the Master. He is free to come and go in his community, enjoying fellowship with his followers and the fruits of their dedication but has declared no particular responsibility to the person of the Master. He has taken no vows, made no commitment, but may be studying to "show himself approved" in order to be accepted as a servant, or co-server (otherwise known as "chela"), sharing the joy of the Master's world mission. (2) Disciple (chela): The individual desires to enter into a bond with the Master-to be taught directly by the Master rather than through his published writings alone. The disciple answers the call of the Master to leave his nets of karmic entanglements and worldly desire and follow him: "Come leave your nets, I will make you fishers of men." The disciple receives the initiations of the Cosmic Christ in the course of his service to the Master. His heart, mind, and soul have begun to unfold a greater love as appreciation and gratitude for the teachings received in the previous level of student. This love is translated into action as self-sacrifice, selflessness, service, and surrender to the Person of the Christ, the Sun behind the Son of man of the Master; when this step has been accelerated to the level of the "acceptable offering," and the chela is engaged in balancing his threefold flame and his karma, he may be considered for the next step. (3) Friend: Those counted as friend of the Master enter by invitation-"Henceforth I call you no more servants but friends"-into a relationship as companion and co-worker, bearing increased responsibilities for the Master's path as world saviour. The friend bears the cross as well as the burden of Light of the Master; he demonstrates the qualities of friendship as in the life of Abraham and other chelas who have risen to a level of understanding the very heart and the experience of the Master-providing comfort, consolation, advice, and support out of loyalty to both the purposes and the person of the Master. (4) Brother: The degree of brother is the level where the oneness of the Guru-chela, Alpha-Omega relationship is complete through the horizontal figure-eight exchange heart-to-heart; the Guru has actually made his disciple a part of his own flesh and blood and offered to him the full momentum of his attainment and portions of his mantle and authority in preparation for the Master's ascension and the disciple's assuming of the part or whole of the Master's office. This is the love relationship exemplified between Jesus and John, his Mother, Mary, and perhaps his own flesh-and-blood brother (or cousin) James. (5) Christ, or Christed one: the Anointed of the Incarnate Word.
(II Tim. 2:15; Matt. 4:19; Mark 1:17; John 15. See Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons, chaps. 25-30.)

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Divine Ego. Awareness of true selfhood in and as the Christ Self, the God Self, or the I AM Presence; the Higher Consciousness; the Source or Origin of man. One's sense of selfhood at the point of origination; Divine Monad.

Divine Manchild. The Manchild born to the Woman clothed with the Sun is the incarnation of the Universal Christ for the Aquarian age in the one and the many sons and daughters of God whose destiny it is to focus the Christ consciousness to the evolutions of earth. Lowercased, the term "manchild" refers to the child who has the Holy Spirit from his mother's womb, e.g., John the Baptist and Jesus.
(Rev. 12.)

Divine Monad. See Chart of Your Divine Self.

Divine Mother. See Mother.

Divine plan. The plan of God for the soul's individualization of the God Flame ordained in the beginning when the blueprint of life was impressed upon the white fire core of the individual I AM Presence. The divine plan determines the limits of the individual expression of free will. As the acorn is destined to be the oak, so each individual soul is destined to realize the fullness of his preordained (but not predestined) potential drawn by free will from the Tree of Life-the I AM Presence and the Causal Body. What that potential is and how it is to be self-realized in this life is known of God and can be released to the outer consciousness through application to the individual Christ Self, the I AM Presence, and the Great Divine Director.

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Dweller-on-the-threshold. A term sometimes used to designate the anti-self, the not-self, the synthetic self, the antithesis of the Real Self, the conglomerate of the self-created ego, ill-conceived through the inordinate use of the gift of free will, consisting of the carnal mind and a constellation of misqualified energies, forcefields, focuses, animal magnetism comprising the subconscious mind. Man's contact with the reptilian anti-magnetic self-that is the enemy of God and his Christ and the soul's reunion with that Christ-is through the desire body, or astral body, and through the solar-plexus chakra. The dweller-on-the-threshold is therefore the nucleus of a vortex of energy that forms the 'electronic belt', shaped like a kettledrum and surrounding the four lower bodies from the waist down. The serpent head of the dweller is sometimes seen emerging from the black pool of the unconscious. This electronic belt does contain the cause, effect, record, and memory of human karma in its negative aspect. Positive karma, as deeds done through the divine consciousness, registers in the Causal Body and is sealed in the electronic fire-rings surrounding each one's own I AM Presence. When the sleeping serpent of the dweller is awakened by the presence of Christ, the soul must make the freewill decision to slay, by the power of the I AM Presence, this self-willed personal anti-Christ and become the defender of the Real Self until the soul is fully reunited with Him who is the righteous LORD, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, the true Self of every lifestream on the path of initiation.

The dweller appears to the soul on the threshold of conscious awareness where it knocks to gain entrance into the 'legitimate' realm of self-acknowledged selfhood. The dweller would enter to become the master of the house. But it is Christ and only Christ whose knock you must answer-him only must you bid enter. The most serious initiation on the path of the disciple of Christ is the confrontation with the not-self. For if it is not slain by the soul who is one in the Christ Mind, it will emerge to devour that soul in the full-vented rage of its hatred for the Light. The necessity for the Teacher on the Path and for the Guru Sanat Kumara with us, physically manifest in the Messenger of Maitreya, is to hold the balance both spiritually and in the physical octave for each individual initiate on the Path as he approaches the initiation of the encounter-face-to-face with the dweller-on-the-threshold. The planetary dweller-on-the-threshold is personified in the forces of Antichrist.
(See Jesus Christ, "The Awakening of the Dweller-on-the-Threshold," and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "Christ and the Dweller," in Pearls of Wisdom, 1983, vol. 26, nos. 36, 38. Pearls of Wisdom, 1985, vol. 28, Book I, pp. 84, 85-93, 97; 1986, vol. 29, Book I, pp. 199, 203, 210-12; 1988, vol. 31, Book II, pp. 422, 456-57. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "The Lost Teachings of Jesus: On the Enemy Within," 2 audiocassettes.)

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Elementals. Beings of earth, air, fire, and water; nature spirits who are the servants of God and man in the planes of Matter for the establishment and maintenance of the physical plane as the platform for the soul's evolution. Elementals who serve the fire element are called salamanders; those who serve the air element, sylphs; those who serve the water element, undines; those who serve the earth element, gnomes. See also Body elemental.
(See Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Climb the Highest Mountain, 2d ed., pp. 444-70, 548-55. Saint Germain On Prophecy, Book Three. Jesus and Kuthumi, Corona Class Lessons, pp. 371-76. Violet Flame for Elemental Life-Fire, Air, Water and Earth 1 and 2, audiocassettes of decrees and songs.)

El Morya. The Ascended Master. Lord (Chohan) of the First Ray of God's Will, Chief of the Darjeeling Council of the Great White Brotherhood, founder of The Summit Lighthouse, teacher and sponsor of the Messengers Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The Master's extraordinary devotion to God's Word and Work is a powerful stream that runs throughout his soul's incarnations on earth as he has stood staunch in the role of Advocate, Teacher, and Exemplar before our spirits soaring unto Love.

As the Rajput prince El Morya Khan, he worked closely with Kuthumi, Djwal Kul, Serapis Bey, Saint Germain and others to found the Theosophical Society in 1875. He was Abraham, the ancient patriarch who emerged from Ur of the Chaldees to become the prototype and progenitor of the twelve tribes of Israel. Returning as Melchior, one of the three wise men of the East, he followed the star that portended the birth of the best of his seed who would fulfill all the promises of God unto his spiritual descendants.

As Arthur, king of the Britons, he summoned knights of the Round Table and ladies of the court of Camelot to quest the Holy Grail and to attain through initiation the inner mysteries of Christ. Appearing again on Britain's soil as Thomas Becket as well as Thomas More, both martyred, he twice played the role of defender of the Faith and challenger of King Henry-also twice born (Henry II and VIII), and twice the oppressor. In the sixteenth century, his soul's journey took him to the East in the person of Akbar, greatest of Mogul emperors, and in the nineteenth to Ireland to be her poet laureate Thomas Moore. In 1898 the renowned "Mahatma of the Himavat," El Morya Khan, ascended to the heart of God.
During the 1920s and 1930s the Ascended Master El Morya worked with Nicholas and Helena Roerich, who set forth his writings in numerous published works. In 1958 he called Mark L. Prophet to disseminate the Teachings of the Ascended Masters as Pearls of Wisdom, published by the newly founded Summit Lighthouse. With Saint Germain and Mother Mary, he also trained Elizabeth Clare Prophet as his Messenger. Through the embodied Messenger he delivers the Teachings of the Universal Christ for the Aquarian age and conducts retreats on practical spiritual techniques for meeting the personal and planetary challenges posed by the prophecies of Saint John's Revelation. El Morya's musical keynote, capturing the frequencies of his Electronic Presence, was set forth in part by Sir Edward Elgar in his Pomp and Circumstance.
(See the following works by El Morya: The Chela and the Path; The Sacred Adventure; Morya: The Darjeeling Master Speaks to His Chelas on the Quest for the Holy Grail; Ashram Notes; Ashram Rituals, booklet and 2 audiocassettes; El Morya: Chohan of the First Ray, 2-audiocassette album. Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Lords of the Seven Rays, Book One, chap. 1; Book Two, chap. 1. El Morya, Lord of the First Ray: Dynamic Decrees with Prayers and Ballads for Chelas of the Will of God 1-4, audiocassettes. Hail to the Chief! A Salute to El Morya, songs on CD and audiocassette.)

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Elohim. (Plural of Heb. 'Eloah,' God.) One of the Hebrew names of God, or of the gods; used in the Old Testament about 2,500 times, meaning "Mighty One" or "Strong One." Elohim is a uni-plural noun referring to the twin flames of the Godhead that comprise the "Divine Us." When speaking specifically of either the masculine or feminine half, the plural form is retained because of the understanding that one half of the Divine Whole contains and is the androgynous Self (the Divine Us). The Seven Mighty Elohim and their feminine counterparts are the builders of form; hence, Elohim is the name of God used in the first verse of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Serving directly under the Elohim are the four beings of the elements, "the Four Cosmic Forces," who have dominion over the elementals-gnomes, salamanders, sylphs, and undines.

The Seven Mighty Elohim are the "seven Spirits of God" named in Revelation and the "morning stars" that sang together in the beginning, as the LORD revealed them to his servant Job. There are also five Elohim who surround the white fire core of the Great Central Sun. In the order of hierarchy, the Elohim and Cosmic Beings carry the greatest concentration, the highest vibration, of Light that we can comprehend in our state of evolution. They represent, with the four beings of nature, their consorts and the elemental builders of form, the power of our Father as the Creator (the blue ray). The Seven Archangels and their divine complements, the great seraphim, cherubim, and all the angelic hosts represent the love of God in the fiery intensity of the Holy Ghost (the pink ray). The Seven Chohans of the Rays and all Ascended Masters, together with unascended sons and daughters of God, represent the wisdom of the Law of the Logos under the office of the Son (the yellow ray). These three kingdoms form a triad of manifestation, working in balance to step down the energies of the Trinity. The intonation of the sacred sound "Elohim" releases the tremendous power of their God Self-awareness stepped down for our blessed use through the Cosmic Christ.

Following are the names of the Seven Elohim, the rays they serve on, and the locations of their etheric retreats: First Ray, Hercules and Amazonia, Half Dome, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Second Ray, Apollo and Lumina, western lower Saxony, Germany. Third Ray, Heros and Amora, Lake Winnipeg, Canada. Fourth Ray, Purity and Astrea, near Gulf of Archangel, southeast arm of White Sea, Russia. Fifth Ray, Cyclopea and Virginia, Altai Range where China, Siberia, and Mongolia meet, near Tabun Bogdo. Sixth Ray, Peace and Aloha, Hawaiian Islands. Seventh Ray, Arcturus and Victoria, near Luanda, Angola, Africa.
(Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6; Job 38:7. See Spoken by Elohim, Pearls of Wisdom, 1978, vol. 21. The Seven Mighty Elohim, "The Chalice of Elohim," in Pearls of Wisdom, 1989, vol. 32, nos. 9-15; 5 audiocassettes. The Seven Elohim in the Power of the Spoken Word, 4-audiocassette album.)

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Emotional body. One of the four lower bodies of man, corresponding to the water element and the third quadrant of Matter; the vehicle of the desires and feelings of God made manifest in the being of man. Also called the astral body, the desire body, and the feeling body.

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Etheric. Of or relating to the highest plane of the Matter cosmos, i.e., the heaven world. The etheric frequency and its correspondent plane of consciousness is the repository of the fiery blueprint of the entire physical universe.

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Etheric body. One of the four lower bodies of man, corresponding to the fire element and the first quadrant of Matter; called the envelope of the soul, holding the blueprint of the divine plan and the image of Christ-perfection to be outpictured in the world of form. Also called the memory body. Sanat Kumara announced on New Year's Day 1985 that the earth received a new etheric sheath containing the record and blueprint of the planet's original divine plan and that the opportunity for the world to renew the golden age had never been greater.
(See Sanat Kumara, "The Turning Point of Life on Earth: A Dispensation of the Solar Logoi," in Pearls of Wisdom, 1985, vol. 28, Book I, pp. 60-61.)

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Etheric plane. The highest plane in the dimension of Matter; a plane that is as concrete and real (and more so) as the physical plane but that is experienced through the senses of the soul in a dimension and a consciousness beyond physical awareness. The plane on which the akashic records of mankind's entire evolution register individually and collectively. It is the world of Ascended Masters and their retreats, etheric cities of light where souls of a higher order of evolution abide between embodiments. It is the plane of reality, free from the sordid, sin/sick society men and devils have made of the earth planes. Here the golden age is in progress, Love is the fullness of God's presence everywhere, and angels and elementals together with God's children serve in harmony to manifest Christ's kingdom in the Universal Age, worlds without end. As such it is the plane of transition between the earth/heaven realms and the kingdom of God, Spirit, or the Absolute. The lower etheric plane overlaps the astral/mental/physical belts. It is contaminated by these lower worlds occupied by the false hierarchy and the mass consciousness it controls, including its matrices and emotions of the mass consciousness (i.e., e-motions, "energies in motion").
(See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "On Dealing with Death, Discarnates and Malevolent Spirits, Part III," 4 audiocassettes.)

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Evil. Energy-veil; the veil of misqualified energy that man imposes upon Matter through his misuse of the sacred fire; maya, illusion. The consciousness of relative good and evil, embodied by lifestreams moving against the current of God's will, is the consequence of the freewill experiment adopted by souls who chose to descend in plane and consciousness below the level and frequency of the Christ Mind. Absolute Evil, embodied by fallen angels, is the state of those who declared war against Almighty God, his Christ and his offspring in the Great Rebellion, who have not ceased their warfare against the seed of the Divine Mother, will not bend the knee before the Light and will be defeated in Armageddon by the LORD's Judgment through his hosts-the forces of Absolute Good, God-identified in heaven and earth. As a consequence of the victory of Light over Darkness, souls who have lost the Edenic bliss may be saved from all evil and the Evil One by conscious freewill election in Christ to return to his reign under the Law of God.
(See Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch: Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil; "Keys from Judaism: The Kabbalah and the Temple of Man," Part 4: "The Origin of Evil," 1-hr. TV show on video.)

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Four lower bodies. See Bodies of man, Physical body, Mental body, Emotional body, and Etheric body.

Free will. The freedom to create; the option to choose the right-or the left-handed path, Life or Death, the positive or the negative spirals of consciousness. Having the gift of free will, the soul may choose to dwell in the plane of the relative, where good and evil are relative to one's perspective in time and space; or she may choose the plane of the Absolute, where Good is real and Evil is unreal and the soul beholds God as living Truth "face-to- face." Free will means that the individual may accept or reject the divine plan, the laws of God, and the opportunity to live in the consciousness of Love.

God's gift of free will carries with it a certain span of consciousness known as the life span, a series of embodiments, and the "bounds of man's habitation." The soul, therefore, is not only confined to time and space during the period of her experimentation with free will, but she is also limited to a certain number of life cycles. At the end of this opportunity (compartmentalized in days, years, and dimensions), the use that the soul has made of the gift of free will determines her fate. The soul that has chosen to glorify the Divine Ego (Reality) ascends into the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM. The soul that has chosen to glorify the human ego (unreality) passes through the second death, her Self-denying consciousness permanently self-canceled; and all of her energies, simultaneously passed through the sacred fire, are returned to the Great Central Sun for repolarization.
(Rev. 20:6, 11-15; 21:8; Acts 17:26.)

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