ONE OF THE GREATEST SERVICES every group, no matter its size, can perform is collective prayer. Prayer is a positive thought or a divine decree, stating a spiritual truth about a matter which is imbalanced. No request is too small, no problem is too insignificant for the Christ Self to be concerned about.
But uppermost in the minds of all must be that no person is required to ascertain or to give the answer. It is each one’s responsibility to know that Spirit alone has the knowledge and the power to do all things. We are the instruments of Spirit. Through us as instruments the answer may be given or the spiritual power may be directed to correct the situation.
Following is the form Mark-Age uses for requests for healing. Healing means to make things whole or to bring conditions into balance. The condition to be worked upon may involve: (a) physical or mental health; (b) personal relationships; (c) specific needs; (d) the transition of a soul from one plane to another, including birth of the soul onto the Earth plane; or (e) decrees for a group, community, state, nation or the entire race of man on the planet.
Through the power of Spirit within
we see the following condition manifested now:
______________________________________
within
Name______________Address________________
As we see it, so be it. We give our thanks.
(1) Never state the error condition that exists. Only state the spiritual or balanced condition you wish to see come into manifestation. Sometimes a person is so involved in his problem he does not know what the proper or spiritual state should be. You, on the impersonal and detached level, should go into meditation and ask Spirit through you to make the decree or the request.
(2) It is best to have a name or a description or the relationship to a known individual, with an address, clearly stated.
(3) Write it down; fold the paper and put the date of the request on the outside; place it in a sanctified vessel, such as a box.
(4) Eliminate each request at the end of thirty days for that request.
(5) In your daily meditations and prayerful moments remember to send love, blessings, power, good to those who are in your prayer chest.
(6) Remember there are higher beings on the inner planes, who work with you in all your spiritual efforts, who also are aware of those requests. Know they are helping in their own way to bring the condition into balance.
(7) If you or the group desires to be aware of results, ask those who make requests to give you a periodic report on the progress of the problems. But do not keep digging up, looking at, examining, questioning while the spiritual work is going on. This is like the gardener who plants a seed, then digs it up to see if it is growing. Have faith. God hears, and God is in action.
(8) If after thirty days the person requests continued prayer for his problem, repeat the procedure. But know that Spirit knows all needs even before we make our requests. Spirit is balance. Therefore, It works eternally toward harmonious conditions and relationships. Only man on the physical, emotional and mental levels needs the discipline of repetition in order to fortify his faith.
(9) Some groups desire to develop a strong prayer circle. They set aside a definite part of their meeting time for concentration and collective prayer. One of the members or the group leader can do this immediately after reciting the Lord’s Prayer and building the light of protection around the group, just before the period of going into the long silence of meditation.
This would be the appropriate time to make formalized spiritual statements or decrees for mankind, the lesser kingdoms, world leaders, countries, and the evolution of the planet from third into fourth dimensional frequency.
Reprinted from Group Guidelines (out of print), published by Mark-Age in 1971.
Supplementary Reading: The Lord’s Prayer
Photos: (1) El Morya/Mark, 1960, Mark-Age Archives. (2) Christ at Prayer by Carlo Parisi.
February 7, 2024. DREAM. 
February 22, 2024. DREAM. In Nada-Yolanda’s apartment, I had a productive conversation with her about the hierarchal program while I cleaned her stove top. First, I used soap and water, then switched to Windex because I found it more effective on the enamel finish.
June 3, 2024. DREAM. At home in Lufkin with Mom, I showed her my well-worn copy of 
September 3, 2024. DREAM. I was visiting Di C. in Australia. When I departed, as I passed through an outer room, I came across Ken. He was sitting in a chair, intently reading a book. I sensed it regarded important research, or projects and plans he was involved with, so I did not disturb him (he was not reading for leisure). But I noted that he looked so much younger, appearing as in his early forties. With that observation, I awoke.
September 7, 2024. DREAM. (That night, before going to bed, I had prayed to El Morya for spiritual protection.) Entering my house, I saw my mom, dad and Aunt Katy talking with one another in the kitchen/living room area. Then I met Theon, who was there with three others. They had come as a protection squad or detail. All four of them were wearing slacks, dress shirts, and white hard hats. Intuitively, I knew the hard hats meant spiritual protection, not some function with construction work.
September 17, 2024. DREAM. Nada-Yolanda was writing a new book on the I Am Self. I was her editor. In our editorial conference, we had gotten as far as Chapter 10. We both were happy and enthusiastic about the project, planning our schedule going forward. On a mundane note, Yolanda remarked that I would prepare the salad for all of our meals, and she would arrange for the rest of the meal; meaning, others would prepare that. I happily agreed.
November 29, 2024. DREAM. Jim Parker paid me a visit upstairs at my home. We had a brief but very pleasant exchange. He appeared to be happy and doing well. Cathie Bird also was present. When Jim left, as he was going down the long staircase in the building, I realized I needed to give him a copy of the November-December issue of our newsletter. So, I went bounding down the stairwell and caught up with him as he exited. I said, “Hang on a minute, Jim. I have your copy of the latest newsletter to give you.” When I hurried back inside to get it, I awoke.
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.
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.
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I never divulge publicly whom I vote for, as that would not be appropriate within the context of my spiritual work at Mark-Age. As directed by 
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.