Motah Chronicles

by Nada-Yolanda

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WHO IS THE SPIRITUAL WORKER who has not cried out: “How long, O Lord, how long is this misery going to continue?” No matter the religious faith or dogma one follows, no matter the level of development — student, teacher, leader of spiritual activities — the cry is the same: “How long is it going to take for the pain to end, for my loved ones to wake up to truth, for mankind on Earth to stop plummeting toward self-destruction?”

There is no one answer. But there are several things we, the New Age enlightened, the charter citizens of the I Am Nation, should consider.

A primary guideline based on scripture that we have given repeatedly to spiritual students is: no man knows the hour; God alone knows the time. To the dedicated spiritual student or teacher this means that whatever the problem or the blockage or the negative condition, after we have changed our attitudes, after we have changed our expectations to good instead of evil, after we have let go of the condition and have let God bring forth the manifestation, no one knows the time when that decree and visualization will come to pass. God alone knows the hour.

Many things, many persons, many planes of existence are involved in significant changes. We are not qualified, therefore, to decide on the timing of certain definitive changes. God alone — Spirit, which is in all things equally — must determine this. So, it takes a great deal of patience and true spiritual faith to await the new octave of expression in ourselves, our loved ones, and all groups and societies.

But there is an additional consideration for the spiritually dedicated in this age of marks, this Mark Age transitory period between the old level of material consciousness and the new Aquarian Age to come. It is derived from another scripture, credited to Jesus as the Christ representative to return and lead us into fourth dimensional living on this planet of material, third dimensional expression: “The time shall be shortened for the elect’s sake.”

The time he refers to is the “wailing and gnashing of teeth,” the agonies we all feel when we have broken through the first few veils separating us, in our mortal ignorance and blindness, from true spiritual joy and freedom.

Who are the elect for whom this time shall be shortened? Obviously it is we light workers who are aware of and enlightened about the ending of this age of mortality and materiality; who have been elected, through the grace and mercy of the God Self within, to be awakened sufficiently to encourage us to work for love, enlightenment, truth, beauty, goodwill, peace for all mankind everywhere on Earth.

So, in effect the promise by the Christ representative two thousand years ago was: for our sakes — we who do the work unselfishly and in the midst of the greatest pain and disillusionment — the all-merciful Father-Mother God shall shorten the time of “wailings” about our mistakes and foolishness, the time of “gnashing of teeth” because we feel frustrated that changes are not fast enough to save millions more from errors into which we once had fallen.

Perhaps this also means: keep the faith, keep working according to divine principles; Spirit will find Its just way to ease the law of cause and effect. Jesus showed us the only way, the only key to overcome the long and laborious, exacting measurement of cause and effect: forgiveness and love.

This is the key and the code of the light workers for the New Age: forgive the old sins, prepare with love for the new images. No man knows the hour when our thoughts, prayers, visualizations and decrees shall be made manifest. But our Prince of Love and Peace has promised us, “The time shall be shortened for the elect’s sake.”

Laying Foundation Stones

Those of us who participate in the Mark-Age programs — including our meditation network, Project Power and others — are entitled to ask why, and to bewail the fact that, not much seems to be happening on the outer levels, even when we are joined together in these powerful linking-of-lights broadcasts. But, overriding this, we are obligated to remember that if we do not link together and do this — sincerely and to the best of our ability, through the personal and the collective stress and strain — it is not going to be done. Thus, the hierarchal plan and program would stretch out through another seemingly endless eternity, for the principles are exacting and unequivocating. But the promise of relief comes from the spiritual leader of Earth, Sananda/Jesus.

Do not become prey to false illusions and wishful, fantasy thinking. For we are not speaking of idealism without practicality or realistic comprehension. Too many so-called spiritual workers and occult students fall into that category. At Mark-Age we apply with practical common sense the divine principles by which we live and teach others to live.

A wonderful Persian proverb states, “One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.” It is going to take the entire two thousand years of the Age of Aquarius to learn and to apply all that we have been given and will be given of hierarchal plans and programs, through Mark-Age channelings, in these end days. No one at Mark-Age headquarters is deluded into thinking the Latter-Day program, from 1960 into the first decades of the new millennium, is going to change radically everyone and everything on the planet Earth. We are laying foundation stones for the I Am Nation to come, not completing the structure.

The same principle applies to laying the foundation stones of our I Am individualities and natures. There is no one on Earth who is going to be in full Christ consciousness in this current transition period prior to the New Age. Each of us is laying foundation stones, tearing off the veils that separate us from the I Am Self and its multitudinous talents and powers.

What is critically wrong and horribly frightening concerning many spiritual teachers, leaders and New Age schools today is that they profess instant cosmic consciousness, total and eternal nirvana, with one decree or a single mantra. They are blind; and if you wish to be blind or deluded, they happily will lead you into the ditch with them.

This Earth is a schoolroom in a vast university of living throughout eternity. None of us are here — not teachers, leaders, students or totally negative skeptics without a purpose and an opportunity to learn something of lasting soul value for externalizing our I Am Selves.

History Reveals Steady Change

If we be realists, all of us can look at the recorded history of life on this planet — as long as we have had such; which is not long, as eternity measures time — and see progress, changes and whole new octaves of expression manifested here.

In your meditations, review a few examples of progress and change so you can gain renewed courage, strength and optimism. For instance, examine the relationships between: rich and poor, haves and have-nots, employers and employees, masters and slaves. Though all things certainly have not become equal in the working/management/ownership classes, review the ten-thousand-year history of labor-management relations. It has changed for the vast majority, and is changing still.

The same applies in male-female relationships: the attitudes, the concepts of roles and functions, the development of family responsibilities.

Other meditations can center around governmental and political scenes. Try to follow the sequential developments from absolute monarchies, based on a belief in the divinity of kings; to various forms of dictatorships, using physical force and violence for control; until our present attempts at self-rule through democratic and socialistic rule by the people, in spite of faults, failures and inadequacies.

Change on this planet — in fact, throughout all of creation, on all planes and planets — is the basic principle of life, of Spirit, of God in action. All mortal affairs and expressions are being transmuted to new octaves because life is a continuous experience of learning, growing, changing. Spirit is manifesting form not through revolution but through systematic evolution.

What has this to do with light workers, with the ending of our age, with the time which shall be shortened for the elect’s sake? Every historical step in change and transmutation occurred not by accident or uncontrolled passions but by deliberate prayer, decreeing, analysis, plus tremendous efforts.

Another favorite adage proclaims, “Any worthwhile work of art or creative effort takes ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.” Nothing changes without dedication, application of truth principles, overcoming of obstacles of the majority or so-called establishment, steady and persistent efforts.

We, the workers in the light, with the light and for the light, change the thought temperatures of those around us. The atmosphere of thought is like the air we breathe. Everyone shares it equally. None can live outside it. Our fellow beings on this planet inhale our thought forms just as they inhale the air we share equally. That is our sole responsibility and obligation. The rest is up to God, the Spirit which is in all things.

No man knows the hour when the light of the Christ shall be anchored permanently in each person. But we are promised, “The time shall be shortened for the elect’s sake.” For this we give our thanks.

Revised from Mark-Age Meditations audio broadcast #155A, released in April 1978.

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Photos: (1) Nada-Yolanda, 1960, Mark-Age Archives. (2) Nada Overshadowing, original charcoal drawing (colorized) by Sira/Gerry Libonati; Mark-Age Archives. (3) Nada-Yolanda, 1997, Mark-Age Archives.