This section of the book contains a discourse given by the ascended master Saint Germain through his messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
God has always had messengers and prophets. For almost forty years, Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been a messenger of God, and throughout her career, she has received messages from many saints and angels, East and West, whom we know as the ascended masters.
In The Astrology of the Four Horsemen, Elizabeth Clare Prophet describes her role as messenger:
“My calling is to be a prophet of God. Prophet means one who speaks for God, hence a messenger. Coincidentally (although I don’t believe in coincidences), my name matches my calling. Prophet is the surname of my late husband and teacher, Mark L. Prophet. It was the family name that had been carried through generations from France to Ireland to Canada to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
“Mark was a prophet and a messenger, called by God through the ascended master El Morya to found The Summit Lighthouse in Washington, D.C., in 1958. He was and is the most amazing person I’ve ever met—the most humble, the most holy, the most human.
“We were together for twelve years, were married, had four children, wrote many books, lectured around the world and built our movement. And then he passed on in 1973, his soul now one with God, yet ever with me.
“In 1964 I received the ‘mantle’ of messenger, including gifts of the Holy Spirit. And throughout my ministry, by God’s grace, I have built upon the foundation of prophetic teachings already laid by my husband.
“As a messenger of God, I see myself as the servant of God’s light within you. And the servant is not greater than his lord.[36] My Lord is the Christ of Jesus and the Christ of you, who are one and the same. For as John the Beloved wrote, that Christ was and is ‘the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.’[37] Therefore, I come as a servant of that light—your light, my light, your Christ, my Christ.”[38]
Mrs. Prophet describes the process whereby she receives messages from God, the masters and angels:
“I receive this prophecy through the power of the Holy Spirit in the manner of the ancient prophets and apostles. When the transmission is about to take place, I enter a meditative state and attune with the LORD God or his representative. The LORD’s Presence or that of an ascended master, a cosmic being or an archangel comes upon me, and the words and the light flow in a power and a personality not my own.
“This congruency of my soul with the living Word of God I call a dictation, for the words are being dictated to me even as I am speaking them in the vibration of the divine speaker. It is truly a divine happening of which I am but the instrument. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit and not something I can make happen.... The only way to describe this experience is to say, in the words of the prophet: ‘The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me.’”[39]
The dictation you are about to read contains the words of the master. The words are his teaching, but they are also cups for his consciousness—his light and energy. The spiral of light within the words is for your quickening and spiritual initiation. As you read the words, ask for the Presence of the master Saint Germain to be with you and guide your understanding and help you to apply his teaching in your life. His teaching is vital to the times in which we live.