Wisdom Teachings on the Inner Path

To Thine Own Self Be True - Following the Inner Truth and Way

And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:
   For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
   And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
  For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
 But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
   And the gospel must first be published among all nations.
   But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
   Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
  But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: Mark 13:5-14

by Lorraine Michaels

December 23, 2003

Our Father has spoken to us and He wishes me to speak to you as well. And so I speak on things known through the heart. I honor the light in all, and I especially love that souls are speaking out in what they believe to be the truth. That is our right in a free society, to witness to what we believe in. But also when we have that freedom, we are given a grave responsibility—we must speak out. For the ones who usually speak out and are heard the most, may very well be the ones sent by those who have long ago decided their enmity with God and his own.

And so I witness that what has been spoken from some is not true, but very misleading. Some words are spoken in the frame of great intelligence and speak volumes in that they are "right words" and make sense to our outer minds. But we must remember that truth is only discovered and held on to, from the seat of our God selves in the innermost part of our being.

I witnessed that a chela of the light read the words of our beloved Jesus through us, and understood them and believed them to be true, until she started to doubt her discernment. She then sought out another person who she believed carried a greater discernment to confirm and give her feedback. And in that process, she lost her victory of passing that initiation. And it was a big setback for her soul because she turned her back on the truth she knew inside, believing the other who discounted the deliverer of the words of Jesus. And so that was her right and the right of all involved to believe what they so believed. But the unfortunate result was the chela failed her test.

You see it was not so important whether the words of Jesus were true, as much as the chela made the decision whether these were his true words from within herself. Some are so afraid to make a mistake, that they always ask and follow other's opinions. And so sometimes their whole lives they are afraid to move and Be. And I had a profound lesson in that by a simple picture El Morya showed me in my mind's eye many years ago.

Get off the Fence
I was going through a period of trying to balance as much personal karma as I could and to heal my psychology. And since I was a trained healer, I spent time every week working on my own psychology. During one of my sessions on myself, El Morya gave me the sign that he wanted me to meditate and open my mind's eye to the past. And so immediately flashes of lifetimes went before my inner eye. I saw people I had given treatments on in various relationships with them.

Sometimes I was a daughter or son, and in one scene I saw one of my clients killing me. And then the last scene I saw was myself in a
time period of hundreds of years ago, in what looked like the days of the three musketeers. He was fighting a battle with his sword, and he was happy. He believed in what he was doing and it seemed that he believed in the cause he was fighting for. But most of all, I noticed he was happy. Immediately afterward, El Morya showed me by some sign that he was fighting on the wrong side, not the side of good. But I also was given the impression that God was pleased! I could not imagine why God would be pleased with my mistake! The choice I made was wrong, but I made a choice and I believed in it and fought with all my being to do what was right in what I believed in. And so God was pleased.

The impression I get from this lesson El Morya showed me, was that it was the joy in serving and fighting for a cause that I believed was right, was the most important thing on the path. And so if we sit on the fence and do not make a decision for yea or nay, we are as Jesus said,

15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Re 3:16

And hopefully in that lifetime I discovered that I erred and learned how to make a better decision in that or a subsequent lifetime. And I am sure I was tested on the same issue again.

Following the Inner Direction
Because I fearlessly did things in the close community of Light that I lived in and many challenged me on, I won my victory and passed initiation after initiation.

And that was because I followed the voice and prompting of my Higher Self within, not the voices from without who condemned me for following my inner direction. And sometimes that direction went against what we were admonished to guard against or not do. I am not talking about sinning acts, as in lying, stealing or even engaging in the poisons of judgment, condemnation or control issues. I am talking about trusting in the Spirit to go outside the boundaries set by the Brotherhood for the community. So if we were recommended not to eat meat, or not to listen to rock music, or not to wear red, there was a reason these were given and we needed these outer laws to help us.

But at some point on the path, we must transcend those outer laws and follow the laws set by our God self. This does not come early in the path of initiation and Christhood, but after long and many initiations where you have already followed the outer laws of spiritual communities, the Ten Commandments and many other religious laws given to us for our protection and disciplines for lifetimes.

And we are mature sons and daughters of God whom our Father, El Morya has said, go Be! And when we were set free in 1997* from the outer laws established by El Morya and Mother for the community, I continued those laws in my daily life. I was not following the laws because someone made me, but because I loved God and El Morya and Mother and the community we had established and believed those laws were for our victory.

To thine Own Self be True
From that point on the tests changed and became more subtle. And I share with you this story. I had been working with the beloved Maha
Chohan on following the Holy Spirit wherever it listeth. And so he asked me to go to the East coast, and thus followed the trip. The Maha Chohan asked me to go to the East Coast and he set me free to go to this huge coast of America with only the direction to visit the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument. And so I went, with my children and grandchildren. And each and every day I would awake and say, "where to today, beloved Maha Chohan?" And I would get in the car and drive. And sometimes he would say, turn here and turn there and I would find myself in places from past lives and special places of beauty.

And one day he said to me, I want you to go to Newport News and make some victory calls. And so I drove to the city line, got out of the car and made calls, not knowing what he was wanting me to do. And then proceeded on to drive to my next destination. I soon found myself in the worst part of the city, where I was told from some locals, that many bullets fly around from gangs and such and you needed to be careful.

And then in the midst of this ghetto area, I look to my right and there was this Victory Arch, a war memorial to World War II victims. There was an eternal flame burning above the arch and a commemoration plaque and all the names of the soldiers who had lost their lives for the cause of freedom. And I knew this was the place the Maha Chohan was testing me on, could I find it by the flame of my God self without his even telling me what I was looking for. And so I got out and with tears in my eyes, made calls in this beautiful place of Victory amidst this decaying part of the city where once it was a beautiful area.

And on the way to our place of rest that night, where I had been one time before, I turned in what I thought was the road that led there. Immediately I get the prompting from the Maha Chohan that this was not the right road, so I turn around and head off. One half hour later, I discover myself back at the same road, and knowing this was the right road I should have turned down in the first place. I was not upset with the Maha Chohan, I thought he had a logical reason why he wanted to delay me.

The next night, my family safely put on the plane to return home, and I alone driving across country to return home, I decide to sleep in my van rather than get a motel, to save funds. But what does the Maha Chohan tell me? Get a motel. Well, I spoke out to him and said, "No!" It is just me, why should I waste the money when I am quite comfortable sleeping in this van? And I went to sleep. (Albeit a little remorse that I could have made a decision against the recommendation of the Master.) But lo and behold, he tells me the next day I passed my initiation! And then he proceeds to tell me the many initiations that he had given me on this trip and passed. And one of the failed tests was turning off the road that I knew was right. And so they were teaching me how to follow the intuition and God Self against even the Master who we honor and obey.

As a beautiful sign that this was truly happening, and the voice within that I heard and followed for two weeks across country and up and down the East Coast was the Maha Chohan, when I neared home in Utah and was coming into Colorada, he manifested a huge white dove in the sky. It was complete with feathers and every aspect of a dove. The only thing was I only had a movie camera with me, but managed to get a picture transfered to digital, albiet losing a lot of detail and quality. I was so touched and honored for elemental life and the Maha Chohan for the gift. He then took me to the top of a mountain outside Denver, at 12,000 feet or more. He said he took me up there so that I may always remember what it is like to be on top of the world. I received the understanding that whenever I might be discouraged or troubled at the weight of the world trying to pull me down in the future times to come, that I should always flash back to this memory and time of what it was like to be on top looking down, and seeing the perspective from the forests, not the trees.

I came not to send peace, but a sword
And so I share this from my heart. Many tote the right words that all is
well and the leadership of the Church have done no wrong. They state all the right words and they speak of peace, and harmony and unity, and to work together and honor the leaders. They speak that all is all well and good in their words and we should not speak out. But in reality, we have been taught to take up the sword of truth as the scriptures say Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." Matt. 10:34

And so he stood up and challenged the lies and the wrong interpretation of the scriptures (in our case, dictations). And we are expected to follow in his footsteps. When the intellectuals in our community speak out (as they have every right to do) but in defense of the wrong doings we know in our heart is not the Christ standards we have been taught, we need to take up our pen and sword of the Word in defense of the Christ. And so we notice that the newly elected are the very ones who speak up in defense of the leadership who have put them in their positions. And it is easy for one to stand up in defense of the very ones that have backed them already. So each one pats each other on the back.

There is more than meets the eye here. We are just seeing the tip of the iceburg. And I speak of the situation with the Russian Keepers and the split off of groups and leaders. There are enemies in both sides of the camp in this issue. We must not side with either side, but only with truth and right action. As Hamlet states: "Something is rotten in Denmark!" The God Self knows what action needs to be taken and how to do it. Trust your Selves! Let him Be through you and allow him to act. With God all things are possible. Let us demand that the truth be exposed. Let us claim the victory for God that Church Universal and Triumphant be returned to the ethical standards of the Christ. And above all, claim your own victory in Being who you really are, Christed Beings!

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