The Fellowship Primer

Excerpts from the
Paul Solomon
Source Work Readings
for the
Fellowship of  the Inner Light

Compiled and Edited by Grace de Rond

One excerpt from chapter, The School of the Prophets

Paul Solomon Source Reading #822 5/18/76

There is provided here a storehouse, a treasure of understanding. All the world about you is starving, requiring answers, requiring attunement, requiring understanding that has been given. Yet, those given responsibility for taking the message so rarely attune to the Source of it. Use the opportunity before you so that many will be touched.

Understand the law concerning it in this way. Where there is seen a need and one has the ability to provide or respond to the need, that in itself is the calling of the Father to do so. Then, take those promptings, urgings, the calling of spirit within you and respond to those who need what you have. It is the time.

The day is at hand for the re-establishment of the community of the Essenes like unto Carmel. There will come the time for the establishment of the School of the Prophets. Not the establishment of a college or university, or that you would see as a teaching institution at all. The School of Prophets was not that in the beginning, and will not be in this day.

Rather see it in this manner. The School of the Prophets was, and will be, a place set apart in the mountains, in the valley of the mountains, for the gathering of those who would join themselves together in the study of the nature and will of the Father, for the specific purpose of ushering in the dawning of the new day.

Then, let it become a part of your purpose in this time to study the community of those who were called the Essenes, the Expectant Ones, who ushered in the day of our Lord. See that there is in this time a dawning of a new day. The focus of that will be a group of those set apart, loving, caring for one another—and establishing such a central purpose as will be lifted to the dawning of that new day, or establishing the laws thereof, providing not only for self, but for others. They will become a center from which the Therapeutae will go forth, having learned the laws of healing, the laws of the living Christ.

Study those Records as have been given and respond to them according to will and abilities. Use the talents and that you have learned in this time, being ever responsible for those.

Ideal for the development would be the area of the Shenandoah valley for the purposes of setting those apart—those who would live in harmony with the land and would provide for the time of the changes by raising food and such. But more importantly, let this not become a place for escape from the challenges that are a part of the changes themselves. Let it rather become a center of energy and light to which those might go for the preparation for going out into the world. Not a place of escape, but a place of attunement. So will it become then the School of the Prophets.

Seek a place and dedicate it, and let it be for the Master’s use and directed of him, and in no other way. Let it not become a place for those who would escape, setting themselves apart and enjoying communion on the land. Rather let it be for those establishing a center and encouraging those who would come and learn. Not that the School of the Prophets will become actively a public place, open to all of those who would come and study. Yet, a portion of the community may be set apart even for that purpose.

The greater School of the Mysteries or the School of the Prophets should be known to no man save those who are called of his name and come, those who have no other desire or purpose in this lifetime than to set the self apart, developing in the highest manner all talents and thoughts. Becoming, as it were, monk or brother set apart, having no other desire of life than the development of self for his service. These will then become the healers, the teachers and the prophets who will go out. That is, those who apprentice themselves to one in a particular field and for a particular purpose. Those who are drawn out to the Schools of the Mysteries whom no man knows. These types of education will begin to evolve.

The traditional institutions of this day will fall into the center of themselves. Then, let not your concern be so much for degrees, as will have no meaning shortly after they are received. Rather let your concern be for the understanding of life and its purposes.

How will this be developed? Get yourselves about those men who were taught of the Master and speak of him. Touch their lives. Touch their flesh. Be touched by them in this time, for there is a great gathering in this day, in your generation, a calling together of men who touched the wisdom of the ancients. These things may be given from one to another, not only in the words from the lips and the teachings and the studies, but in the shakti—that is, the touch of the hands, the meeting of the eyes, the opening to the consciousness. Touch a few of these and bring the understanding of it to the School of the Mysteries, as will become established there in the mountains. Quietly then, bringing these things together.

Allow that these words come to those who have ears to hear. Put a great portion of that energy and concern in the publishing of that already given, that men may begin to understand. Begin the establishment of the community of Expectant Ones in this day, bringing together with it a hospital and a school. You will be a part of the ushering in of the dawning of the new day, the establishment of a new set of ideals and values.

It is not so long until the structure of government in this land will begin to change and collapse. That you know as money will be changed in nature and in means of exchange with the collapse. But those who have established for themselves a system of values based on that which is of true value will be called "the people of the mountains." It is to them that those with less, those who have lost all else, will come for healing, for meaning, for guidance, for the establishment of a new order of things for the new age.