(v.2, #13, published by The White Lodge, copyright 1979) "'I AM an archangel, and I live to serve humanity!' This is Jophiel's greeting to us. He continues, 'And I radiate forth the wisdom of the Christ mind to each and every one! I come and I stand in this place to rehearse the grand choir of the victory of the light within you. 'Man is the creation of God. Created in love and endowed with great wisdom, he has been given the means of tapping the secrets of power both in himself and in nature. These secrets, like stairways into eternity, are relative--one following the other. Thus, the great attainments that many have made are as nothing to others who have passed beyond them.' This teaching of Jophiel is understood in Buddhism where we are told the story of the raft wherein a man builds a raft from logs and binds them together with vines and creepers. He and his friends then proceed to cross the river; but upon reaching the shore, they pull the raft out of the water, leaving it on the bank and go on their way with no thought of carrying the raft with them upon their shoulders. They have now successfully crossed the river and have no further need of the raft. However, to a new pilgrim along the way, that raft may be necessary to ford the stream which those men have already crossed. Christine is the archeia of the second ray of illumination, Jophiel's divine twin flame. She introduces herself to us: 'My name is Christine because I have enshrined the light of the Christ in the energies of Mater. I ensoul the eternal Christos in the fiery core of the atom as my service to the Cosmic Virgin. I keep the flame of cosmic intelligence as the intelling love of God, as the indwelling wisdom, as God telling the ancient story of the Word and of the law and of the power of his name in the hearts of all the creation--in elemental life, in the plants and the trees and the gentle creatures. For although they have not the Christ-intelligence of the threefold flame, they have that inner intuition of the intelling of the Lord God. 'Wherever there is a glimmer of the light of the Christ, wherever there is a flickering in the consciousness and then a bursting-forth of a facet of the mind of God, there the angels of illumination are magnetized to enhance that energy, to enlighten minds and hearts and souls already one in the mission of the Lord and Savior. 'To acknowledge him is to open the door to your own Christ-identity, and to deny him is to close that door. And this is the message of the Spirit of the Christ unto the churches: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him, and he with me."' The function of the angels of illumination is to continually direct and redirect their energies into the chalice of human life. They seek to improve life from on high. When they dispense truth to man, it is as a prescription for all our ills, as a means of breaking the chains of our bondage. Jophiel says, 'We are progressive and ongoing, but we cannot destroy the human will. Man may, if he wishes, ignore all of the mandates of heaven, all of the wisdom of God and dwell in the tents of darkness. He has done it successfully for centuries, for millenniums. But then there are two kinds of success: men succeed in expressing the transitory, oft-imitated patterns of humanity, with all of their foibles and propensities to senseless change and style--for that has been their goal. Then there is success in God, the success of the holy men of the ages who have penetrated the veil and beheld the mysteries of the Spirit and the overcoming of mortal density. 'The density in the minds of men is being fed because humanity look continually to the outer. They look to penetrate from the without to the within, whereas the real way to eternal progress is to penetrate the divine idea from within. And if at first you do not understand this method and plead ignorant, I say to you, you are not ignorant of the means to petition God that ye might receive from with knowledge about the plan.' The responsibility for divine illumination has been placed squarely upon our shoulders. We need but to ask, and angels of Jophiel's band are only too happy to enter our world and teach us while we sleep. Jesus said, 'Ask and ye shall receive.' It is just that simple, but the first requirement of the law is that we must ask for this gift of wisdom as well as give the angels the authority to become a part of our lives again after these many hundreds and thousands of years of ignoring the heavenly host and their ministrations to men. In our so-called sophistication men are prone to judge by worldly standards and to follow the styles of the day rather than the principles of the ages. We have forgotten the earlier golden ages on our planet when ascended masters and angels walked and talked with us face to face. Holy wisdom is being released to man continuously as a flowing stream if one can only recognize it when we hear it. Sometimes it even comes to us from the lips of a small child. Out of the depths of God's love/wisdom, Jophiel speaks to us: 'Do you see now why man must learn to be as a little child, to listen to the voice of God, to heed conscience, to revel with delight in the great brooding Spirit that contemplates man's release from bondage and pain into happiness and joy? As the sky changes, as the seasons come and go, as outer manifestations vanish in the light of cosmic progress, step by step the hand of God will guide you through hierarchy, through the angelic hosts, and through the greatest complement of God that is the humblest expression of himself.' Jophiel has been appointed by God to minister to the mind of man so that we might forsake that carnal mind and put on the mind of Christ. He and his angels have rendered that service unceasingly for millions of years. A mind that has been transformed by the mind of Christ can serve as a catalyst for the illumination of the entire race, a continent, even a planet. Paul said, 'Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus.' Paul saw the diamond-shining mind of God become congruent with Jesus' mind, and he saw the healing and the great focus of light released through that one man of Galilee because his mind was totally one with the mind of God. At one time the archangel Jophiel and his band of angels came to us bearing a gift of yellow diamonds from the flaming heart of God. He placed them in the hearts and minds of humanity as a lodestone to draw down the perfect pattern of their blueprint. If we can only accept this gift, our minds can be quickened and our brains and our chakras of illumination's flame can be healed by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a great blessing, for how can mankind enter a golden age if they do not know the law? And how can they know the law if they do not have the capacity to understand the law when it is spoken to them or when they read it? This great archangel of wisdom's ray has offered to allow his angels to remain with us for as long as we will invite them to stay. They are very polite and sometimes even timid and will not intrude themselves upon us unless invited. He says that all that is necessary is that just once in each 24 hour cycle someone will offer a prayer to the angels of Jophiel's band to tarry here until all mankind have the wisdom of the golden-age teachings. The invitation of just one lifestream is enough, and they will gladly remain if they feel that at least one among mankind has recognized their presence. Angels are filled with joy in their service, and they have a fierce loyalty to God which has kept them from swerving from their path of light. Anchored within their hearts--even though they be angles of illumination--is a tremendous love for mankind which keeps them working constantly in an atmosphere that is most uncomfortable to their pure vibrations. However, their only motive is to glorify the Father and raise his sons back to their true estate which they once knew and enjoyed. 'I would like to point out to you then,' Jophiel says, 'that there is a method whereby you can keep your own consciousness high. That method is to feel God's love anchored in your heart simultaneously while you feel God's love and wisdom anchored within your mind. It is possible, then, for you to utilize the center of your heart as a sun of divine love and to use your brain as a radiant focus of the power of illumination's flame so that all density is indeed removed from your consciousness. The cerebrum and the cerebellum are as the great Milky Way is in the vast starry universe. These are intended to be mighty continents of power anchored within the head area of every man whereby great currents of illumination may flow through those wondrous folds of your precious brains, creating therein a golden flame of illumination and removing the so-called gray matter from human consciousness. This is but the distortion of the pure white light into the qualities of gray by reason of the addition of flecks of shadow, created by human ideas of great density and opacity.' If you call to the angels of illumination, they can release to you mighty currents of light which are the mercury diamond-shining mind of God. These light rays can flow across your brain, scintillating as the sunlight upon the water and remove from you the density that has been created by reason of human thought and feeling which has become the vibration of jealousy, doubt, fear, dishonor and a lack of integrity. Jophiel explains to those who are addicted to smoking that the use of nicotine creates a tremendous density upon the surface of the brain so that the dura mater and the pia mater are not able to flash forth the divine intelligence in a proper manner. Anyone who is able to conquer the habit of smoking will find an increase in his flow of spiritual illumination. Smog created in the atmosphere of our planet through all the distortions in the burning of energy in chemicals today also acts to render the golden flame of illumination inefficient in our brain consciousness. Jophiel tells us that when men understand the proper use of atomic energy and when they apply themselves to the heart of God with a greater diligence, they will be able to terminate all the action of smoke and that discord that causes so much misery to millions. You may recall that it was Archangel Jophiel himself who made that fiat in Los Angeles several years ago that was destined to create in the news media of the world a release of the truth concerning cigarette smoking. You may also remember how the doctors who were attending this emergency meeting to determine the possible dangerous effect of cigarette smoking on the lungs were themselves deliberating in smoke filled rooms. This absolute God-determination of the Archangel of Illumination eventually was outpictured in the warning by the surgeon general that is now printed on every pack of cigarettes and attached to all cigarette advertising. Jophiel and Christine are determined to release to all who will listen the precious words of holy wisdom that can show the way of escape from all those unhappy darkened conditions now manifesting in the minds and worlds of men."