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At our center, members study and practice the teachings of the Ascended Masters. By so doing, we beli The Summit Lighthouse is a non-profit organization.
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For 50 years, The Summit Lighthouse has published the Teachings of the Ascended Masters - the mystics and sages of East and West who have graduated from earth's schoolroom and attained union with God. It provides each a unique spiritual path embracing many faiths and nationalities. Our community of spiritual seekers is dedicated to the study and application of the Ascended Master Teachings. Throug

h devotion, study, and worship, students of the Ascended Masters experience the loving presence of the masters in their daily life. Our community is based upon Divine Friendship, Unity, a common journey and experiencing the path of life as one of helping each other along the way. Join others in prayer, meditation, informal discussions and social functions for individual and collective spiritual exploration. Experience community, a place where you can come apart from the stresses of everyday life. Experience Church Universal and Triumphant.

06/02/2026

Quote for the Day
“You Can Change the World”

06/01/2026

Compassion is…
“I AM my brother’s keeper” is the fulfillment of the law, but not in blind attachment or sympathy; for the latter phase of human error is a mechanical tie, a pull upon the passions of men who see in the failures of others the possibilities of their own personal loss and, by the bond of sympathy, they are pulled in a downward spiral into the maelstrom of imperfection.

Compassion is otherwise—�
It would extend assistance to those who�desire it and seek to rise�
And mercy to the fallen, but not at any price—�
For there ought to be some longing or desire in all,�
Some spark of hope or faith�
That answers call�From God on high.�
For men were born, not to die�But to live—
and live again on higher plane�
Until the soul, no longer vain,�
Might pierce the veil of human pain�
And see the clearer counterpane—�
The window to a heaven above�
Where reigns the Father of all love,�
Whose holy breath does ever flow�
To all mankind here below�
And sees within their heart of flame�
A Christly banner, never vain,�
Whose every act will men redeem�
And lift them to a fairer scene.”

Vol. 8 No. 24 - The Great Divine Director - June 13, 1965

05/31/2026

Nine Gifts of the Holy Spirit
In Corinthians 12, Saint Paul lists nine gifts of the Holy Spirit.
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant....
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another ... gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

The nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are complementary, and they come upon the seeker gradually. They’re like nine potted plants; they grow and blossom together. And they grow and increase in you as you become closer and closer to God, closer to the Holy Spirit, closer to Jesus, and all the saints robed in white whom we acknowledge as the ascended masters. So as your light increases throughout your body, throughout your chakras, so these gifts are growing. As your spirituality increases, as you define what is important in your life, the gifts increase in you.
When you truly have the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit dwells in you bodily, it is an indication that you have attained oneness with your own Holy Christ Self and the I AM Presence.

Ascended Master Encyclopedia

05/30/2026

Jesus, the High Priest (and Saint Germain)
The New Testament, specifically the Book of Hebrews, details that the old Levitical priesthood was temporary. Jesus is described as the permanent High Priest in the line of Melchizedek. The book of Hebrews says that Jesus was "made an high priest forever after the order of Melchisedec."

The akashic records reveal that both Jesus and Saint Germain studied in the retreat of the Archangel Zadkiel when they were in embodiment on Atlantis. Both completed their initiations and training in the order of the priesthood of Melchizedek before the sinking of the continent. They stood before Melchizedek and the great Archangel Zadkiel, who said upon these two blessed ones, "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec."

Once one receives that training and initiation, it carries over to succeeding lifetimes. Thus, Jesus was already a priest of the Order of Melchizedek before his birth in his final embodiment. The book of Hebrews specifically explains that Jesus replaced the old Levitical priesthood, becoming our eternal "high priest" after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 5:1-10).

05/29/2026

Embodiments of Guru Ma (Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
Guinevere of Great Britain– 6th Century
Guinevere was the wife and queen of King Arthur. Her lifelong relationship with Sir Lancelot (an embodiment of Lanello), who rescues her from being burnt at the stake for adultery, eventually brings about the downfall of Camelot. In 1977, Church Universal & Triumphant purchased from the Claretian Fathers the beautiful 218-acre Gillette estate in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu and named it Camelot, a return to the mission of the previous Camelot.
�Yeshe Tsogyal of Tibet - (757AD–817 AD)
Yeshe Tsogyal was the closest disciple of Padma Sambhava and the mother of Buddhism in Tibet. She attained Buddhahood in one lifetime.
�Saint Clare Assisi of Italy- 1194 AD – 1253 AD
Clare was an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi. She was credited with miracles during her life and even after her death. In 1212, when Clare determined to follow his way of life, Francis started a second order that was for women. It became known as the Poor Clares (or the Order of Saint Clare). Clare's order flourished and spread to other parts of Italy, France, and Germany. She became so revered that her advice was sought and accepted by popes, cardinals, and bishops. Next to Saint Francis, Clare was most responsible for the growth and spread of the Franciscans.
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05/28/2026

Kuan Yin
Kuan Yin is considered to be the bestower of children, and so she is often depicted with an infant. In Taiwan, there is also a legend that in one of her embodiments she was a mother and therefore is shown with her own child. Call to her when desiring children.

05/27/2026

Resurrection Temple for Raising Your Vibration
The Resurrection Temple is located in the spiritual realm above Jerusalem in the Holy Land. This sacred place focuses on the resurrection flame and is guided by Jesus and Mother Mary.
Angels of the resurrection flame serve there. They care for souls who are brought to this retreat. Students are taught how to raise their spiritual vibration, balance their threefold flame, and bring their four lower bodies into harmony. This prepares them for the ascension, which is the spiritual initiation that comes after the resurrection.
There are also special areas in the retreat for those who have died suddenly or before their expected time. These souls are brought there to recover from the shock of death. They rest in a peaceful, sleep-like state in their etheric bodies. The resurrection flame gently restores their awareness, removes the pain of death, and allows them to awaken when they are ready.
Once awake, they begin learning and participating in the retreat’s classes. After they adjust to their new state and understand their opportunities for service and learning between lifetimes, they may be sent to other spiritual retreats or etheric cities for further training with the masters.

05/26/2026

Mother Mary
In her final embodiment, Mary came forth to bear Jesus the Christ. In early childhood, she was placed in a temple for training in the science of the immaculate concept. Her twin flame, Archangel Raphael, together with members of the angelic host and the God and Goddess Meru, assisted her in the development of the Mother principle in order that her consciousness might become a womb for the seed of the Christ. Mary fulfilled that role for Jesus, and therefore, through her consciousness came the purity and the power and the love that enabled him to fulfill his mission.

After the forty-day period during which Jesus appeared to the apostles and the holy women in the upper room, Mary gathered together the inner circle of devotees who had made themselves ready to partake of the initiatic mysteries, gathering often to receive instruction, to receive the sacred Word of Jesus Christ. Mary the Mother was the acknowledged head of that community of lightbearers—the center of the circle of apostles, disciples, and holy women.

It is believed that Mary spent the last years of her life in Jerusalem and made her transition from the Holy City about the year 48. According to local tradition, John took Mary to Ephesus for a time to escape persecution in Jerusalem. Examining the various traditions surrounding the passing of Mary, we find that evidence takes us back to the Cenacle, the upper room in which the Last Supper was held and in which the apostles met after Jesus’ departure from their midst. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read that the apostles “all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.”

Saint John of Damascus describes how at the close of this magnificent embodiment of service and initiation, Mary ascended from a tomb in which the apostles had placed her body after her passing. Upon opening the tomb three days later, they found only twelve white lilies.

The Ascended Master Encyclopedia

05/24/2026

The Training of a Messenger
Mark L. Prophet (1918-1973), now the ascended master Lanello, was called by El Morya in 1958 to found The Summit Lighthouse and to set forth the teachings of the ascended masters for the Aquarian age. Mark was also a messenger in prior embodiments. As the prophet Noah, he received the prophecy of the Flood and exhorted the people for over a hundred years. As the Egyptian pharaoh Ikhnaton, messenger of Aton (the God of the Sun), he introduced monotheism. Mark also served as a Messenger for the Brotherhood in the capacity of poet laureate when he was the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939-2009) attended a meeting of The Summit Lighthouse in Boston and met its leader, Mark L. Prophet. She recognized him as the teacher she had been looking for all of her life. Within six weeks, the ascended master El Morya appeared to her in a park in Boston and told her to go to Washington, D.C., where Mark Prophet would train her to be a messenger.

El Morya said this about Mrs. Prophet’s messengership: “Beloved ones, it was not only I, it was the Maha Chohan, the Blessed Mother, Jesus, Kuthumi—yes, we all pitched in because the messenger-to-be was determined and we were determined. And therefore, we all knew that the stakes were high and that this planet must be saved. And even the messenger at the tender age of twenty-two could see that all things would go into ultimate oblivion and darkness if there were not a messenger. And I told her point-blank, there was not and would be not another messenger; did she want the job or not? And she said, “I'll take it.”
Vol. 46 No. 17 - Beloved El Morya - April 27, 2003

Three years later, she received Saint Germain's anointing to be a messenger of the Great White Brotherhood. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, she began delivering prophetic messages from the ascended masters.

The training of the messenger Elizabeth Clare Prophet was not limited to the arduous training she received in this lifetime. The training of a messenger takes place over thousands of years of the soul's incarnations on earth. It is something acquired not through human effort but through illumined, loving obedience to the law of the Inner Self and the word of the Teacher.

The conclusion of the training is the gift of prophecy and more; it is the bestowal of the mantle of the Great White Brotherhood and the empowerment of the Word by the Holy Spirit. It is a commission from the Brotherhood, a divine ordination—and a dispensation, or grant, of energy and sponsorship to carry on the activities specifically accorded to the office.

In a lecture on July 5, 1976, the messenger said: “The ascended masters function at the plane of our I AM Presence. When we are one with the I AM Presence, we are one with the ascended masters. The messenger stands at the level of the Christ Self, or the Real Self, of mankind. The messenger is the one who assists the soul to make contact with the Christ Self so that the Christ Self can release to the soul and to the outer consciousness the teachings of the I AM Presence and the ascended masters. Hence the messenger stands representing the Christ Self until there is no longer any need for the messenger and all mankind behold the I AM Presence and the ascended masters face to face” - The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History and Religion of America, pp. 61-62

For more information:
Receive My Messenger: There Will Not Be Another - Only Sacred Fire Can Transform You - Part 1 - Vol. 46 No. 17 - Beloved El Morya - April 27, 2003

05/23/2026

The Blessed Mother
After the forty-day period during which Jesus appeared to the apostles and the holy women in the upper room, Mary gathered together the inner circle of devotees who had made themselves ready to partake of the initiatic mysteries, gathering often to receive instruction, to receive the sacred Word of Jesus Christ.
Mary the Mother was the acknowledged head of that community of lightbearers—the center of the circle of apostles, disciples, and holy women. She was the veritable fountainhead of Christic energies that flowed throughout the Holy Land, the Mediterranean, and Asia Minor, wherever the good news of Christ, the light of the world, was spread abroad. From Mary’s heart concentric rings of fire—the fire of the Holy Ghost—moved outward as the ever-widening embrace of the Father-Mother that holds all of humanity in the geometry of love.
It is believed that Mary spent the last years of her life in Jerusalem and made her transition from the Holy City about the year 48. According to local tradition, John took Mary to Ephesus for a time to escape persecution in Jerusalem. Examining the various traditions surrounding the passing of Mary, we find that evidence takes us back to the Cenacle, the upper room in which the Last Supper was held and in which the apostles met after Jesus’ departure from their midst. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read that the apostles “all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brethren.”
It is said that the Mother of the early Church kept the flame of the Mother on behalf of earth’s evolutions on Mount Zion in a house overlooking the city and the temple, the Cedron Valley, and the Mount of Olives. There in the upper chamber that became the gathering place of the disciples and where the first Christian church was established, Mary served the Logos during her final years of glory. It is in this place that Christians guard the memory of the dormition, or “falling asleep,” of the Blessed Mother.

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