During the first three months of 1975, I attended
Summit University along with 76 other students. Our ascended-master
sponsors were Hilarion and Mother Mary. It was an exciting quarter
because we learned about the power of visualization and the spoken
word, using the healing thoughtform.
I remember during the first month of that session,
Mother came to class once to teach and two-thirds of the students,
including me, were absent. We were in our dorms with a terrible
flu. I was told Mother was not too happy about thatwe weren't
practicing what we were learning!
So that evening Mother and a group of staff
members dressed in full regalia came charging through the sick bay
dorm rooms. Someone was carrying a lit torch - a big torch. Someone
had incense burning. And Mother had a blue cape on and she was swinging
one of her spiritual swords like a Kung Fu master. And then the
staff with her were doing decrees (a form of chanting) at about
300 miles an hour. I was totally awestruckit didn't even seem
like they were breathing between their decrees. If this was practicing
what was being preached, I was a little scared!
I was very new to all of this. In fact, I had
never attended a conference, nor was I even a Keeper of the Flame
(the spiritual fraternity of the church). Anyway, I will just never
forget this. The four girls in my dorm were all lying in bed sicker
than ever when the door burst open. The group came charging through
and I remember looking up from my bed at that big torch of fire,
thinkingwhat in the world is going on here? I thought I was
done for!
Well, no sooner had my jaw dropped to the floor
than the group was out of there and on to the next room. The next
morning I thought it must have all been a dream, and I wasn't sure
whether it was a good one or a bad one. But sure enough, within
48 hours, half the students were back in class. And I was just starting
to understand a little bit of the more-than-dynamic nature of Elizabeth
Clare Prophet.