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"Christ taught that as He was, so would we be in following the way He led us."
-Flower A. Newhouse, The Quest

The Living Christ

Lord of Angels and of Man

Lord Christ Jesus of Nazareth, known as our Lord Emmanuel - God with us - is a living presence. He is the only begotten son. No one else from our humanity is worthy of so high a calling. Our Lord had the power of excellence, that supreme ability to surrender himself and give to that which is higher. This excellence, developed through a tremendous cost of self-sacrifice and overcoming, qualified our Lord to become the Christ Officiant of our planet.

Our Lord Christ is Hierarch and the model of our own becoming. His service is the broadcasting of the Divine Light, the light of redemption. His influence awakens in us the Christing of our own natures. He is the example of what it means to think, feel, live, and aspire from the soul plane. This Prince of Peace has unlimited love, force and instruction with which to regenerate our civilization. The Lord Christ, as the beacon of this age, has jurisdiction over the spiritual evolution of all peoples, even those who do not revere him. Within his keeping are the keys for the development of this humanity, for he is the Hierarch of all religions in this world.

The Christ ideal is taught by every Adept, for that ideal stands for human brotherhood, human development, and human perfection. Were we to fully understand the revelations of the Spirit of Wisdom, the many religions and movements in the world would be seen to complement and fulfill one another. Through the widespread application of the Christ principles the world's unrest can be quieted and mastered.

Excerpts on The Christ

Flower A. Newhouse on Who Our Lord Christ Is, 1973

Flower A. Newhouse on The Christ Spirit, 1973

Flower A. Newhouse on Christ's Mission, 1969

Flower A. Newhouse on Lord Emanuel, God With Us, 1969

"The awakening of the soul comes as a result of mysticism and having touched it."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Joys of Christian Mysticism", 348-2

"What is mysticism but the desire for conscious union with God."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christian Mysticism and What It Is", 694-1

"The orthodox emphasizes Christian character development; the mystical path stresses the way of Divine union with God through illumination; the occult teachings stress knowledge of God's plan. To be wisely and deeply unfolded we need the balancing as well as the development of all these particular aspects of Truth. Our character growth needs to be steadfast. Our mystical inclinations toward empirical (or first-hand) experiences must be daily nourished and our knowledge of God's underlying plan for life on Earth needs to be understood in all its occult aspects."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Here Are Your Answers, Vol II"

"Mystics stress meditation and its importance in linking one up with the eternal world."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Adventures in Christian Mysticism", 107-2

"A mystic is interested primarily in loving God so completely, so wholeheartedly, so beyond and above everything else, that a very direct, first-hand attunement is made with the world of the everlasting, with the Divine Spirit of the ever-present God."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Adventures in Christian Mysticism", 107-2

"When we touch the real depths of Christianity we will be mystics whether we know it or not because our greatest desire will be to love God in a self-forgetting way."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Adventures in Christian Mysticism", 107-2

"Only a renaissance of the great Message of Christ can guide humanity to safety and progress."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Quest-Regeneration Through Christ"

"Your highest tribute to the Lord Christ is a worship of His Spirit through the living of His Spirit. Think His thoughts, be reverent before the fountain of His reality, for then you will realize His love and His pleasure throughout your whole being."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Here Are Your Answers, Vol III"

"Disciples of the Way of Christ know in this body and this incarnation the blessedness of communication with the Highest they can reach."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Quest"

"Disciples of the living Christ apply the laws of evolution to their own inner selves. They strive to think purely, to act helpfully, to live with faith, to worship God ever more deeply, and to apply themselves creatively in the application of spiritual truths to daily life. All this involves a maturing process that develops the best that lies in men."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Quest"

"It is the masks of our unconsecrated selves that obscure God's Presence... Our Lord taught man how to rid himself of this mask that he might live and walk in the freedom of his true being. With what spiritual Christ power shall we remove the masks we have worn? The force we shall use is like tranquil water--it may appear gentle, but in time it shall wear away the hardiest barrier. This force is Humility. Genuine humility is like a hinge on the door of God consciousness. It is only a small apparatus, but without it the door cannot swing open."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Quest"

"There is but one thing that we are here to do, and that is achieve Mastery. That is our paramount mission. Our task, our service to the world, is secondary. Fidelity to the first requisite - our development of mastership - will bring us into the line of our service as a natural sequence. We must never forget that mastery has precedence over service, even though each of these expressions complements and strengthens the other."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Christward Way"

"The Christ constantly endeavored to teach everyone to remedy, transform, recreate, and master himself. He spoke out of the ancient archives of wisdom that have nurtured Him in long seasons past. He spoke as every great soul who achieved masterhood speaks, and will speak. That evolution is working on us, chiseling and refining us, bringing all its tools of experience to bear on us."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Path of the Masters", 116-1

"Many persons believe in spiritual truths and realities expressed by our Lord Christ, but they stand at the fringes because they don't want to surrender the ego of selfish freedom. Someday all of us will reach the utter sincerity, that complete self-giving, that strength of trustworthiness, that will enable us to be a receiver of instruction."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Path of the Masters", 116-1

"God consciousness is the need and goal of our existence."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Christward Way"

"A Christian who believes in reincarnation would realize that he is responsible for everything that as happened to him to date. God gave him the gifts of life, spiritual opportunities, work to do, and people to love. Aside from these conferred gifts, whatever one has known of good and bad times and incidents, has come as a result of the law of compensation."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Here Are Your Answers, Vol II"

"New hues - both soft and brilliant - are everywhere, radiating their qualities into space. Great swells of music are heard constantly."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Christward Way"

"Living in the physical world can be enriched by the consciousness of eternal life. Death is looked on as a happy and necessary change. By following as fully as we understand Christ's priceless teachings of spiritual love and active faith, we shall be ready and willing when our moment of release arrives."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Journey Upward"

"Open your vigil of prayer with worship of the Christ. Greet him as the Hierarch of all spiritual efforts and attainment."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Wellsprings of the Holy Quest"

"When Christ enters us with His spirit fully we shall know a gladness, a transcendence, and an enlightenment which will be more enduring than anything we have yet experienced."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christ: The Great Hierarch", 238-2

"At the midnight hour of Christmas, the Lord Christ stands in meditation and reviews the world aware of all who are seeking Him and bringing Him their gifts of self. And with Him is a transcendent host who stands for 24 hours in perfect stillness, in meditation, and in self-giving, helping to bring into earth the frequencies which their Lord emanates."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christ: The Great Hierarch", 238-2

"Without the birth and the teachings of this mighty Hierarch, we would not know ennoblement and refinement of character. Without Him there would be no higher business ethic, no better form of living standards."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christ: The Great Hierarch", 238-2

"Our Lord’s message has gone through various phases. The first phase was the age or time of evangelism. The second was of superstition and ignorance. The next age was of suppression. The fourth age was one of reason. We are in the fifth age, which is one of spiritual quickening. Another shall come to pass which is the age of enlightenment. The seventh one shall come into being which shall be the age of attainment."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christ: The Great Hierarch", 238-2

"When we prepare the way of the Lord and rightly achieve a receptivity, an openness, a listening, an inner obedience, and a great desire for Him, we are conscious of the fact that there is a movement all around us of the same type of attitude, the same enlargement of spirit that is awaiting His coming throughout the whole globe. We are part of this mystery, which is upon us. It opens us, it purifies us, it gives us a foretaste of glory."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas in the Year 1961", 167-2

"Remember, in our adoration of Christ and in our reception of the energies, through all the dimensions that are active usually only on the soul plane, we partake of a mystery which adds light to us. It has an alchemical influence upon us, and makes us know, even when tried, the degree of trust in goodness to overcome the negative of the world within and the world without us."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas is an Initiatory Reminder", 268-1

"We need Christmas more than food or money or even one another. We need it because it brings us into living touch with the One to whom we are responsible spiritually, and who is also responsible for us, and for changing us and bringing us into higher elevations of being."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas is an Initiatory Reminder", 268-1

"Christmas is a time to adore the living Christ, the Hierarch to whom we are all pledged, who is the highest initiate that mankind has produced. We owe Him a great debt, for He is the archetypal man. He is the model of our own becoming; He taught that as He was, so would we be in following the way He led us."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas is an Initiatory Reminder", 268-1

"When you step into the Christ current, you are made whole. You are transformed. Something drops away from you and you are emptied of a weight that you carried earlier, but that the Christ spirit lifts."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christ's Contribution to the Preciousness of Life", 143-1

"He (the Christ) loves us each one so greatly, and His love is universal. It applies to those who are not Christian, just as much as those who are, and that will be forever true. His love, like the love a parent gives a child, can look beyond the rebellion, the disrespect, egotism, whatever is present, to those moments when we yield to the great blessing within us."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christ's Contribution to the Preciousness of Life", 143-1

"Christmas is an event of spiritual empowerment. It is a gift that is given to us from on high. It is a bestowal from great cosmic glories. A bestowal of the type that lifts men."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas in the Heart", 122-1

"The winter season is said to be the season of inbreathing, just as the summer season is said to be the season of exhalation, of the spiritual forces. Indeed we sense the inbreathing of spirit. In order for us to realize Christmas in the heart, we need to climb. We need, through this inbreathing to reach the uppermost portions of our innermost beings, just as we take a deep breath, we pray that it will course all through our body, up to the head first, and down to the soles of our feet."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas in the Heart", 122-1

"Truly, the light shineth always and the darkness cannot extinguish it. The light is from the consciousness of one who sees and knows God and all the great and tremendous experiences that are ahead for those who are unfolding and progressing and moving Godward. He has told us with such comfort and challenge, I am with you always. Remembering that, let us so live in the holy moment now."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas in the Heart", 122-1

"Next to love, when we have the Christmas spirit, joy is a quality that is realized. We cannot be good Christians without being joyous... Spiritual joy comes to us when it is not sought directly, but it comes as a gift given because we have fulfilled the requirements of celebrating Christmas inwardly."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "Christmas in the Heart", 122-1

"During the Christmastide there is always the moment when we present ourselves to Christ as our renewed gift...The more we worship Him, the more He dominates the center of our consciousness, not through any force of His, but because we choose in our highest selves not to be self-led but to be Christ-led and to be Christ-centered.  Therefore the gift we give Him each year is our self; deepened, widened, opened more receptively, made more sympathetic, made more appreciative to the far-flung reaches of His vast and eternal ministry."
–Flower A. Newhouse, "The Heart of Christmas", 036-1

Questhaven Retreat is dedicated to serving one's vital need to prayerfully repledge themselves. Here, in the quiet haven of peaceful hills, individuals from all walks of life may come to reconsecrate themselves to God and Christ, and find answers to their innermost quest. Sunday Services 10:45am.

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Christward Principles

The Living Christ is the Lord of angels and of men and the model of our own becoming. His service is the broadcasting of the Divine Christ Spirit, the light of redemption. His influence awakens in us the Christing of our own natures.

Christian Mysticism is simply a method of reverence and devotion to God. It is a path of attainment which leads to the Divine Reality - to first-hand knowing of God. The mystical path stresses the way of Divine union with God through illumination.

The Way of Discipleship is a way of drawing ever closer to the Divine Presence. It is a voluntary surrender of the entire self to the service of God. It pays great attention to spiritual realities and goals inspiring us toward inner growth.

Meditation and Prayer are the disciplines that most directly draw us Godward and into the inner worlds. During these moments, we consciously purify ourselves of worldly or personal preoccupations and center ourselves wholly upon consciousness of God.

The Angelic Kingdom consists of beings created by God. They, like mankind, press toward the goal of perfection and union with the Supreme Spirit. Angels are purer and more spiritual than man. Their very spirituality readily makes them mediators between Heaven and Earth.

Nature provides healing and enlightenment. When wisely trod, the path to God through nature employs every faculty inherent in man. In nature, beauty shines in all its pristine essence before us. It is for us to newly discover and translate this beauty to our spirits and our senses.

Recommended Reading

The Collected Works —The Life of Christ —The Living Christ

Wellsprings of the Holy Quest —The Lord Christ

The Christward Way —The Mystery of the Christ —Serving the Christ Cause

The Quest —The Mystery of Christhood

* View lectures by Flower A. Newhouse on Christ.