Teaching on the Portrait of El Morya

 

In doing an end of the year purge of old emails, I came upon a lovely message from a friend from years ago, wherein they shared a teaching which has most likely been long forgotten by many--or never heard in the first place, depending upon one's age.

As El Morya was embodied as Saint Thomas Becket, who was known for his love of "the honor of God," it is with gratitude for the honor of God and the honor of El Morya that I share these words that were shared with me and many others.  The portrait of El Morya referred to is the portrait above and the one to which the Messenger refers in the Darshan DVDs:

El Morya Portrait 

"The Messenger unveiled a new portrait of El Morya, made from the late-nineteenth-century likeness released to Madame H. P. Blavatsky. 

The Messenger said: 'It has been our great desire in working on this painting to bring El Morya into the physical octave and this has been El Morya’s goal. And so, we have taken great care to allow this matrix to be the most physical representation of El Morya that we know of in the form of a picture or photograph of the Master on earth today. Most of the renditions of El Morya and other Masters are somewhat ethereal and somewhat apart from the way he would look if embodied. And since this is a picture of him in the years before his ascension, you can see the highest manifestation of the Master in the flesh and therefore call to him to come to you ‘in the flesh’ through this portrait.'” 

To the best of my recollection, the portrait was unveiled in 1992, if not earlier.

El Morya on Where to Look

 

                                                                             

     "Dark things are in the earth, but I choose to look at the greater, the Light, the Sun and the God Star."

                                                                       

Scintillation of the star Sirius.

Pearls of Wisdom, Volume 40 No. 48.  

Attribution.

Attribution: Video.

On The Last Darshan: The Guru-Chela Relationship

   When you look at El Morya’s portrait, what do you see? Do you see the love in his eyes or do you see the sternness? Do you see that twinkle?  

~ Elizabeth Clare Prophet

         I just finished a 16 week “home study” course that I highly recommend to anyone interested in progressing on the path of personal Christhood as taught by the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood, through their Messengers Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet:  The Darshan with the Messenger series.  This 1996-1997 DVD series offers the unique opportunity to experience what it was like to sit at the feet of an embodied Guru, the Messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet, now the ascended Guru Ma.

          The last darshan, The Guru-Chela Relationship, occurred on February 20, 1997, and little did any of us who were in attendance realize that, in a few short months, the Code of Conduct set by the Great White Brotherhood that the Messenger mentions numerous times during the darshans would be dropped, (not by the Messenger), and that the Ascended Master El Morya would withdraw his sponsorship of the organization on April 30, 1997.

During the February 20^th darshan, the Messenger addressed how important it is for us to resolve our psychology, especially with our parents, so that we do not make the karma of projecting upon the Messenger, the embodied Guru, or upon an Ascended Master, such as El Morya, our hatred or fear or distrust or whatever unresolved problems with any parents we have ever had. 

Even though El Morya removed his sponsorship of the organization and it is no longer “his organization” as the Messenger describes in the darshan, the teachings regarding the need to resolve your psychology while pursuing chelaship still apply, and, it is important to note that El Morya’s worldwide Ashram still exists.  As the Messenger said:

“If we fear the father image, we may anticipate that El Morya will treat us just as the bad father treated us. It could be the indulgent father. It could be all kinds of things. When you look at El Morya’s portrait, what do you see? Do you see the love in his eyes or do you see the sternness? Do you see that twinkle? What you are able to see in El Morya depends on your psychology.”

Interestingly, the portrait of El Morya (above) that is visible during the darshans and to which the Messenger often refers, was done under the Messenger's direction and approved by the Master himself, and it is the last of its kind.  

     During the January 15, 1997 "Initiation and the One Initiator," darshan, (1:45:12), the Messenger makes a definitive statement about the portrait:

   

     "When you see El Morya the last thing before you go to bed and he is looking at you, you know you have to write him a letter, you know you have to do all these things before you can go to sleep because this particular rendition of him (as seen above and during the darshans), he's, you know, he's alive and there and standing right there."