Lótus
Uppstigni kvenmeistarinn „Lótus“ birtist síðast sem „Edna Ballard“, boðberi Saint Germains í ÉG ER starfseminni, sem var stofnuð snemma á fjórða áratugnum. Tvíburalogi hennar er boðberinn Guy W. Ballard, nú uppstigni meistarinn Godfre. Í gegnum þá miðlaði Saint Germain fyrst þekkingunni á fjólubláa loganum til heimsins.
Fyrri jarðvistir
Gullöld í Sahara eyðimörkinni
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Lótus, Godfrey og sonur þeirra Donald voru öll í jarðvist fyrir meira en fimmtíu þúsund árum sem börn Saint Germains, yfirstjórnandi gullaldarsiðmenningar á svæðinu þar sem Saharaeyðimörkin er nú.
Jóhanna af Örk
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Lótus endurfæddist siðar sem Jóhanna af Örk (1412–1431), sem fékk þá köllun frá Guði að safna saman frönskum herjum og reka burt enska innrásarherinn.
Síðari endurfæðingar
Hún endurfæddist einnig sem Elísabet I af Englandi (1533–1603) og sem Benjamín Franklín (1706–1790), sem lék mjög áhrifamikið hlutverk í stofnun bandarísku þjóðarinnar.
Lokaæviskeið hennar
Edna Ballard, often called Mama Ballard by her students, used the pen name of Lotus Ray King. She went through tremendous trials and persecution during her time as messenger. In Los Angeles in 1940 (the year following Godfre’s ascension), federal criminal indictments were brought against Mrs. Ballard, her son Donald and others for alleged fraudulent solicitation of funds through the mail. Despite strenuous objections by the defendants’ attorney, a jury was in effect given the task of deciding whether the Ballards really believed what they taught and wrote about their messengership and the ascended masters.
Over a period of six years, United States vs. Ballard went through two trials and an extended series of appeals, during which Mrs. Ballard was at one point convicted and sentenced to a year in prison and fined $8,000, although the prison sentence was later suspended. Soon thereafter, the Post Office Department issued an order denying use of the mail to the I AM Activity. In the face of adverse media coverage and extreme prejudice within the criminal justice system, Mrs. Ballard and her students fought on, and their efforts culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court throwing out the conviction in 1946. The written opinion from the case has often been cited in subsequent litigation to prohibit judicial inquiry into the truth or falsity of religious beliefs.
The ascended lady master Magda spoke of the service of the Ballards and of their persecution. She said that we would not have the opportunity to give the violet flame and ascend “if Saint Germain and Godfre and Lotus had not been willing to bear the utter persecution, the trial, the lies in the newspapers regarding the I AM movement. You have also been persecuted in your time, but those days of the I AM movement were horrific and without parallel.”[1]
Þann 18. nóvember 1970 flutti Edna Ballard sinn síðasta fyrirlestur fyrir munn uppstignu meistaranna áður en hún fór yfir móðuna miklu. Þann 12. febrúar 1971 steig hún upp og varð uppstigni kvenmeistarinn Lótus.
Köllun hans í samtímanum
Lotus spoke in 1973 of her service and of the ongoing mission of the messengers:
Some of you here knew me in my last embodiment, and you called me Mama. I desire that you should address this salutation to the Mother of the Flame; for I transfer to her this night my momentum of victory with the legions of light, and I give to her the mantle of my authority and my messengership under Saint Germain....
I speak now directly to those students who were with me in the I AM Activity, and I say to you, regardless of all evidence to the contrary or of anything that might have passed from my lips while I was in embodiment, I do espouse and back with my total heart flame this activity and this messenger as the continuing outpost and release of the Great White Brotherhood and of Saint Germain to this age.
For I understand from ascended levels of consciousness the nature of the ongoingness of hierarchy. And although there are only two messengers of the Brotherhood, the two messengers constitute the office of the two witnesses spoken of in the Book of Revelation. This, then, is a high and holy calling to which twin flames are ordained in every age.
Thus, as there is only one Christ, so there are many manifestations of the office of the Christ; and as there are offices in hierarchy, so the opportunity to serve in those offices is given to ascended and unascended sons and daughters of God as they evolve in the hierarchical scheme of the Great White Brotherhood.[2]
See also
Sources
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Lotus.”