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CONSIDER YOURSELF A MEMBER OF A BOARD OF DIRECTORS. For if you are a New Age light worker, a Mark-Age Family member, you are directing thoughts into mass consciousness which will help to eliminate much of the error in race thought patterns. You are 
cooperating with those in the higher planes who also are on this Board of Directors, whose function it is to help lift mankind out of the material, third dimensional environment into a spiritual, fourth dimensional existence.
To bridge these two levels of consciousness, let us take current topics and terminology and build them into a spiritual premise or broadcast. By using these familiar thought patterns and activities, we can help man improve his life on both levels. Dwell on these analogies and expand on them in your own meditations. In doing this you not only put your personal flavor on the original ideas but you relay the thoughts to all of mankind, and multiply them.
BUDGET: This does not apply to just a limited amount of income, where most of us have tried to live within a prescribed amount, but, as in the budgeting of corporations and governments, it applies to allocating a certain supply for a particular period of time, usually a year.
Think in terms of how much in the way of spiritual supply you have to spend. How do you intend to allocate it for this year? Will you budget so much in positive thinking, so much for good and proper spiritual expenditure of time, energy, deeds, thoughts?
When you have a budget, it is not always a question of just trying to keep within it. Many times you have to develop programs for using up your budget, that particular series of allocations. There is plenty of spiritual supply. How will you use it? Will it be wisely? Don’t worry about spending all of it, because you know there is that same amount or more for the budget next year.
Think not only in terms of budgeting your time and spiritual expressions in every respect. Don’t think in terms of just limiting your expenditures, but how you can use the vast budget of spiritual wealth each of us has to spend, individually and collectively.
In the coming weeks and months, dwell on how much you have to budget of energy, ideas, infinite wealth from God within. Try to think: “How can I expand my expenditures so I can fulfill spending all of this spiritual supply which Spirit through my high Self would want to put through me?” There is no need to limit your budget in this respect.
COST OF LIVING: We are thinking here in terms of the cost of living, not how much it costs to buy things in today’s inflated market. What is it costing you to live as you are now? How are you spending your energies, your time, your ideas, your actions?
Is there anything you are doing that harms your living at this time? Is too much time spent on negative thinking, negative actions? Are there things you still indulge in which harm your health? Is too much time spent on idle conversation, nonproductive activities? Is there anything you are doing which adds to the cost of your living? Are you putting undue stress or wear and tear on your physical, mental, emotional aspects?
A wise steward of Spirit’s supply does not add unnecessarily to the present high cost of living. The wise manager who expects to keep his job or to be promoted to even a more responsible one continually looks for ways and means to cut down the costs of living in this complex environment called Earth. Constantly contemplate whether the cost of living a certain way or with a certain attitude is beneficial to yourself, to others, to God or Spirit who created you.
CORPORATION BUSINESS: You are a corporation. Your members are God and your own consciousness: your high Self, your mortal or personality expression for this lifetime, your subconscious records. Within the entire Hierarchal Board’s plan and program you are a single corporation in a huge conglomerate.
Corporations are formed for issuing certain products or services. Their health depends on how they balance their various departments and functions, how they save by eliminating duplication or unnecessary and unproductive activities, how well they delegate responsibilities, how pioneering they are in exploring new products and expanding their special services. Is your corporation a healthy, growing business with a future?
CHECKBOOK: In order to keep track of your expenditures and income, you need a checkbook. This allows you to double-check your expenditures, to review the wisdom of expenses, and to know when to add more supply to the bank account. It is good to have a reserve supply so you can write additional checks, make new expenditures, when unforeseen needs arise.
Every checkbook must be balanced. You cannot spend more than you have, in terms of energy reserve of ideas, expressions, time, supply. You have to keep within your allocated budget if you expect your checkbook to balance. But there always is the possibility — in corporations, governments and our spiritual lives — to increase the budget if the program warrants it. Unwise, impulsive, inexperienced managers may dream up projects which not only would break the allocated budget but would use up the reserve supply.
AUDITOR: Spirit has an unlimited supply, which It administers through the executive administrator of our corporations: each one’s individual high Self, the I Am.
Your high Self is your auditor. Turn the auditing of your books over to your high Self. Let your I Am Self step in and audit your books, and relay intuitively the information as to the condition of your checkbook. Have you stepped out of bounds in one way or another? Have you spent too much in any department? Have you been spending unwisely, inflatedly?
ASSETS & LIABILITIES: Many of us are concentrating too much on our liabilities. We are piling up liabilities in the way we think, the way we act, what we have done in the past, creating conditions in our corporate lives that are not an asset to our business but really are liabilities.
Learn to recognize what your liabilities are. Compile a balance sheet, and reduce those liabilities. Endeavor to close them down one by one until they have been eliminated.
To offset your liabilities, you have untold assets within your spiritual nature. For we are sons and daughters of God, and therefore have a wonderful spiritual heritage, talents, powers; an inexhaustible supply from Spirit, through our individual high Selves. These are our greatest assets.
But also you must examine your individual corporation and recognize your special talents, functions, experiences, knowledge, soul records and thus contemplate the additional assets you have. Examine your balance sheet of assets and liabilities now. Don’t you have more spiritual assets than you have mortal liabilities?
Build up and spend from those spiritual assets. Cut down, decrease, eliminate as much as possible those mortal liabilities. Otherwise, you are going to have to work on a basis of deficit spending. You don’t really want any deficit spending in your spiritual corporation, in your I Am state of consciousness. It is not necessary. There is plenty of reserve in your spiritual bank. You do not need to work from a deficit budget.
What would be deficit spending? Exhausting your energies, your time, your physical action, your mental planning on projects not worthy of those expenses are examples of deficit spending.
Make a complete financial analysis, a prospectus, in advance. See just what you do spend, and on what. There is no need to go into debt at any time, if you check with the auditor as to what is available to you in the reserve supply. There is no need ever to overdraw your account, if you work in cooperation with your auditor. You are entitled to all the spiritual supply you need, provided you use it in a proper, productive, healthy way.
Spirit has invested tremendous stock in each of Its corporations. The more of spiritual supply you can spend properly, usefully, creatively, the more your spiritual stocks will rise.
Start building up the inventory of yourself. Feel your own worthiness. Know the true value of yourself; and of others, too. Remember, as much as you help build up the stock of other corporations, that is how much you build up the need for your own corporation to supply that many more businesses with your specialized product and services. Each corporation is individual, unique, needed. Each one serves each other corporation. Joined together, we create a conglomerate of I Am corporations.
Revised from Mark-Age Meditations audio broadcast #67A, released in December 1974.
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Photos: (1) El Morya/Mark, 1967, Mark-Age Archives. (2) El Morya/Mark, 1961, Mark-Age Archives.
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True workers of light do not employ the denouncement method of indiscriminate attack against persons, organizations or concepts. Never will anyone see or hear any such attack by a master.
There are many constructive criticisms, pointings-out of error thinking, actions and methods. This analysis is a sample of such. But in Christlike manner of correction, we state the spiritual principle involved and throw the light on the less-than-perfect manifestation of it in an individual, in an organization or in an idea.
It has been said many times in many ways that peace must begin with the individual. There is a well-known inspired song that beautifully expresses this: “Let There Be Peace on Earth; Let It Begin with Me.” So, the first step toward the use of pronouncement is to eliminate the error in one’s own thinking. For truly is the War of Armageddon now being waged. But it is a mental war, with the battleground being in the thoughts of men.
Should it seem strange that we speak of the cleansing of Christ consciousness, let me remind you that until the very last moment the son of God who was Jesus, and is only one son, as you are, had been helped, reminded and torn by these same doubts and needs when he too had to bring about the final demonstration and culmination of his entire soul mission, nearly two thousand years ago, upon the Earth. That we who knew him then, worked with him then, stood by him then, even ourselves doubted and wondered why he had to be taken through that is proof enough unto you that such is required of you, and shall be many times, before the end of this time cycle.
You are required to use the blueprint set forth by him who is Sananda, but who lived many lives in order to fulfill that mission as Prince of this planet. Yours is, as the chorus in that orchestra, to bring it about consciously, simultaneously and in unison. While he is the solo part and the primary factor and instrument in God’s plan for Earth, you are the backup team, the orchestration that shall repeat the theme and bring it to its beautiful and wonderful climax that God has decreed and seen fit for this place and this time and this solar logos. . . .
Many of you were with us in those days of the time when Jesus walked his last years upon the Earth planet in that particular form and frequency. Many of us are on the etheric and continue to fulfill that same demonstration and part in the role he has been assigned and has accepted. Many others are now upon the Earth and remember this . . . and see it occurring in the demonstrations of their lives today. . . .
For until that approach has been reached and desired in the minds of men, the hearts of men cannot be opened. For it is definitely the mind that accepts and the heart that produces it. You have been told that the mind represents the male aspect within you and the heart represents the female aspect within you, or positive and negative polarities. Therefore, let the positive polarity, which is the Father in you, bring forth the seed of this idea and let it be nourished by the negative polarity, or the Mother-heart self, and come forth into manifestation. Let burst forth the son of man. Let God be born on Earth as a whole unit: mankind Christed and brought forth in these Latter Days as a worthy Son of God, the body of Christ.
However, it is in the cleansing stage when all of this, in certain aspect, has to be reviewed. . . . The facts must go through the consciousness of mankind in order for him to separate that which is good and that which is error. As each man, and as the race as a whole, reviews these various acts and experiences from the beginning unto the present time, he must learn to judge each act; for this is the Christ judgment. Man must raise himself up into his Christ being and say: “This is of good and this is of error; this I will promote, and this I will eliminate and return unto the void from which it came.” This must be done by each soul in the evolutionary process, and especially in these Latter Days.
Let me put it in a very simple Earth plane term by saying that you have amongst your schoolchildren places of a very high achievement that you introduce them to in order that they be excited or stimulated by the future possibilities of that growth. You take them into museums and into places of worship and into places of execution, or of government, where they may see the workings of these higher methods and of these higher plans that they may understand them. But as each soul walks through or participates in any place or touches any other soul, he leaves something of himself there; just as a bee touching a flower is carrying pollen from one to another. It attaches itself. He leaves a vibration of his own upon the flower he wishes to impregnate, and he takes with him something of the flower to the next place upon which he alights.
You may not take the history of one race, of one religion, of one nation and separate it from the history of all other nations, religions and civilizations. It is not possible. Nor can you separate the history of this planet from the history of this solar system. . . . The history of this solar system is but a mystery and an unknown quantity to the average person and to the majority of those who are upon the planet; though it will be brought forth by those who come from other spheres, other places, other dimensions and other planets, in due time during the Latter Days. . . . This is essential to your understanding and evolution. For you must see your interrelationship with the other planets in the solar system and your interrelationship and intertwining of dimensions with those who evolve and who have incarnation and expression through other spheres and planes of action.
“A main purpose of the Hierarchy’s program for this Latter-Day period is to give you the standards, the qualifications, the requirements, the needs, the spiritual laws in effect for this planet, for all mankind upon it, and for all the other kingdoms which reside on the planet. These teachings and guidelines are given so you will judge fairly and discern clearly where you are and what you must do in order to help lift all men into spiritual consciousness for the coming of the fourth dimensional frequency vibration. . . .
First and foremost I ask only that the Christ Self of the other person reveal to my Christ Self, Nada, what the truth is in the matter and how to correct any error. Often what seems weak actually is strong; what seems wrong really has been the righting of a wrong; what seems to be a violation or an aggression actually is retribution for a past action, perhaps even worse than what is presently inflicted. God always is good and merciful.
In reviewing our evolutionary history we can see the thread of golden Christ consciousness that the light workers have woven on Earth from the beginning till now. Between 206 million and 26 million years ago the Elder race, or golden giants, were expressing in fourth dimensional, light-body consciousness. They enjoyed interdimensional and interplanetary travel, past-life recall, and other light-body talents. I Am Self expression or natural, spiritual way of living was embedded in the very fabric of the Earth.
What did Jesus do? He healed the sick; raised the dead; walked on water; commanded the elements; recalled and projected (was transfigured by) past incarnations; teleported; materialized and dematerialized, and more. He demonstrated love of God and love of one another to its fullest. He triumphed through death of the mortal to resurrected life in Christ consciousness.
On June 25, 1968, Sananda channeled this key to anchoring the light body: “The I Am consciousness is in effect wherever men will give it that place of honor in their experience and in their lives. This spiritual know-how and realization then become the actual fact of existence. That form that develops from these thoughts and desires and dedications builds up in and around the focal point a pivotal function through the conscious and physical body.
But where you are given functions and responsibilities you cannot shirk them. So, it is to you now that we turn and say: this is the hour; the time has come for all that you have learned, and all the experience that you have accepted as being good, to come forth and to manifest its achievements. What and how these works will be given for you to perform are not outlined in advance, nor can they ever be. For the situation that arises gives the need, and it also brings forth the power. What you must do is to be aware of all situations that require change and cleansing upon the Earth and in yourselves for the moment.
So, each one who has been aware consciously of this program and of this plan to uplift all men upon the planet into spiritual consciousness must go to work about our Father’s business immediately. It is up to you to tune in to your own individual Christ Self to find where and how this can be accomplished. We are not outlining your function. That is not our job, any more than it will be your job to go forth upon the planet and say to this individual and to that one: this you must do in order to become a more perfect individual, to demonstrate your Sonship in the God consciousness.
Now all men everywhere have been given this information. We must have a multiple demonstration of this same principle in order for it to grow and to expand. For nothing in Spirit is static; all things forever are being expanded. Your own consciousness, for one, is being expanded. Therefore, Spirit’s good is expanded unto all Its creations, and multiplied over and over again. There is no end to creation or to God’s power and love. This, of course, you understand in generalities and in parable. But now will you execute this very simple proclamation and bring it into manifested form? For it is not enough for God the Father to give the idea; but God the Mother must bring it forth and God the Son must live it. This is your function and your purpose. That which is of Good, God, is good for all, not just a few.
Let us see these greater or expanded works begin. Let us know that we are one in the Christ body and have each other to support one another. Let us know that we all are sons of God and that each one has the same ability to receive and to demonstrate the powers that any other one has done. This is the heritage which I have left. This is my gift unto men of Earth. But I cannot return and say that I will open the gift and use the gift if you are not willing to take it yourselves.
However, those who have brought forth ideas or concepts that were of a spiritual nature, that were derived from the mental aspects or mind concepts rooted in and received from the spiritual nature of the universe, have left indelible marks upon the race consciousness, and upon the pattern of racial structure, in its everlasting growth and evolvement process. If this be the case, and the proof already is there, then why not heed the example that is set forth via this? Why continue to waste time and energy by doing things backwards and upside down and inside out? If this is the pattern that has been set down and is obvious to any thinking individual, then why continue to stir up the situation by putting forth only physical energies or combining physical energies with some proper feeling that does not resolve itself in the essential mental activity and consciousness that go behind it?
Think negative things about it and you add further problems and weight and troubles to the situation that exists perhaps thousands of miles from you. Think positive, constructive, loving and bountiful thoughts about it and you begin to sway and to change and to rebalance the scale as it is analyzing that which is going on those thousands of miles away from you. Add to those thoughts the proper feeling, the feeling of love, the feeling of upliftment, the feeling of union, the feeling of peace, the feeling of enjoyment, the feeling of good, and the thoughts have that much more energy to work with in that situation. If then you are guided and put in the position where certain actions on your part are required in that situation, though it be thousands of miles away, you know that you have given it the proper thought, the right emotions; therefore, the actions in themselves must be correct for that situation in which you become involved.
We are the spiritual government, you might call it, of this hierarchal plan. A spiritual government is that which is governed by Spirit and governs for Spirit. So be assured, when we use this terminology, that it has this definition in your thoughts predominantly. Those of us who are guiding and guarding you to become part of that spiritual government are concerned that you understand that everyone is part and can be part and participate in the hierarchal system of Spirit’s plan for man.
So, what does all this lead us to conclude? These rapid and oftentimes jarring changes have caused us here at headquarters to renew our deep and abiding spiritual commitment to I Am thinking, speaking and acting. This is our key to survival — spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically — in these horrendous Latter Days.
If you were incarnated, where were you when this happened, and what were you doing? Think back. Do you remember exactly how you responded? What were your first thoughts and emotions? How quickly did you respond with the proper spiritual treatment? Were you too stunned to react spiritually, or did you immediately start sending out thoughts of protection, balance, understanding, love, compassion and peace?
Next, let’s expand our thoughts to others, whether our family, friends, work associates or others. Are we sensitive to their needs? Are we a positive force in their lives, helping them to secure their own commitments to spiritual demonstration? Or, are we so caught up in our own world that we haven’t taken that extra bit of effort to find out how our neighbor is doing?