The Mighty I AM Presence
"Your Divine Self"
There are three figures
represented in the Chart, which we will refer to as the upper figure, the middle
figure, and the lower figure.
The upper figure is the I AM Presence, the I AM THAT I
AM, the individualization of God's presence for every son and daughter of the
Most High.
The Divine Monad consists of the I AM Presence surrounded
by the spheres (color rings) of light which comprise the causal body. This is
the body of First Cause that contains within it man's "treasure laid up
in heaven"-words and works, thoughts and feelings of virtue, attainment,
and light-pure energies of love that have risen from the plane of action in
time and space as the result of man's judicious exercise of free will and his
harmonious qualification of the stream of life that issues forth from the heart
of the Presence and descends to the level of the Christ Self, thence to invigorate
and enliven the embodied soul.
The middle figure in the Chart is the Mediator between
God and man, called the Holy Christ Self the Real Self, or the Christ consciousness.
It has also been referred to as the Higher Mental Body or one's Higher Consciousness.
This Inner Teacher overshadows the lower self, which consists
of the soul evolving through the four planes of Matter using the vehicles of
the four lower bodies (the etheric, or memory, body; the mental body; the emotional,
or desire, body; and the physical body) to balance karma and fulfill the divine
plan.
The three figures of the Chart correspond to the Trinity
of Father (the upper figure) Son (the middle figure), and Holy Spirit (the lower
figure). The latter is the intended temple of the Holy Spirit, whose sacred
fire is indicated in the enfolding violet flame. The lower figure corresponds
to you as a disciple on the Path. Your soul is the nonpermanent aspect of being
which is made permanent through the ritual of the ascension. The ascension is
the process whereby the soul, having balanced her karma and fulfilled her divine
plan, merges first with the Christ consciousness and then with the living Presence
of the I AM THAT I AM. Once the ascension has taken place, the soul the nonpermanent
aspect of being, becomes the Incorruptible One, a permanent atom in the Body
of God. The Chart of Your Divine Self is therefore a diagram of yourself-past,
present, and future.
The lower figure represents the son of man or child of
the Light evolving beneath his own 'Tree of Life'. This is how you should visualize
yourself standing in the violet flame, which you invoke daily in the name of
the I AM Presence and your Holy Christ Self in order to purify your four lower
bodies in preparation for the ritual of the alchemical marriage-your soul's
union with the Beloved, your Holy Christ Self.
The lower figure is surrounded by a tube of light, which
is projected from the heart of the I AM Presence in answer to your call. It
is a cylinder of white light which sustains a forcefield of protection 24 hours
a day, so long as you guard it in harmony. It is also invoked daily with the
"Heart, Head, and Hand Decrees" and may be reinforced as needed.
The threefold flame of Life is the divine spark sent from
the I AM Presence as the gift of life, consciousness, and free will. It is sealed
in the secret chamber of the heart that through the Love, Wisdom and Power of
the Godhead anchored therein the soul may fulfill her reason for being in the
physical plane. Also called the Christ flame and the liberty flame, or fleur-de-lis,
it is the spark of a man's Divinity, his potential for Christhood.
The silver (or crystal) cord is the stream of life, or
"lifestream," that descends from the heart of the I AM Presence to
the Holy Christ Self to nourish and sustain (through the chakras) the soul and
its vehicles of expression in time and space. It is over this 'umbilical' cord
that the energy of the Presence flows, entering the being of man at the crown
and giving impetus for the pulsation of the threefold flame as well as the physical
heartbeat. When a round of the soul's incarnation in Matter-form is finished,
the I AM Presence withdraws the silver cord, whereupon the threefold flame returns
to the level of the Christ, and the soul clothed in the etheric garment gravitates
to the highest level of her attainment where she is schooled between embodiments,
until her final incarnation when the great law decrees she shall go out no more.
The dove of the Holy Spirit descending from the heart of
the Father is shown just above the head of the Christ. When the son of man puts
on and becomes the Christ consciousness as Jesus did, he merges with the Holy
Christ Self. The Holy Spirit is upon him and the words of the Father, the beloved
I AM Presence, are spoken, "This is my beloved Son in whom I AM well pleased"
(Matt. 3:17).
A more detailed explanation of the Chart of Your Divine
Self is given in The Lost Teachings of Jesus and Climb the Highest Mountain
by Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet.