What is an engram? Why is A the first letter of the Alphabet?

Destiny: Deity established in you.

“…every letter of the alphabet and every phonogram is an abbreviation or a symbol for a vast conception in the mind of God, …In the realization of this, we see that these, which are called engrams, single letters and groupings of letters that form special sounds relate to ideas of the mind of God that are actually each one in itself, a complex geometry….

But the engram of the letter A … takes the child back to Alpha. That is why “A” is the first letter of the alphabet and it has to do with all kinds of manifestations of Alpha…”

The following text is an excerpt of Elizabeth Clare Prophet (December 1988) taken from Restoring Literacy (Part 4 of 4), available on Ascended Master Library.

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This audio file contains the concluding remarks by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on Reading and Language to Montessori International Faculty. (December 1988)

I would like to get down to the 70 phonograms and their place and I would like to tell you that there are three key languages on the planet that are very important for the children we teach because they have to do with higher realms, and those languages are Sanskrit and Hebrew and English. The alphabets and the phonograms of these languages are so powerful that the mere pronunciation of them and the sounding of them and the intoning of them creates a chalice for a certain vibration, tone, quality, note, chord, of light to descend and the science of the use of these letters — and they are called engrams in that they encapsulate within themselves, much as in chemistry, a molecule will encapsulate matter of a certain vibration so that we recognize it. The alphabet letters and these phonograms encapsulate a certain, very precise quality that is, putting all these things together, make up the composite identity of God;…

I have learned in my meditation on the word and in the things that Mark taught me is that every letter of the alphabet and every phonogram is an abbreviation or a symbol for a vast conception in the mind of God, which when sounded, keys the individual into that conception even if it’s not a conscious awareness, it comes at the soul level of the Seat of the Soul Chakra, which is below the threshold of outer awareness, of inner soul knowing.

In the realization of this, we see that these, which are called engrams, single letters and groupings of letters that form special sounds relate to ideas of the mind of God that are actually each one in itself, a complex geometry.…

It is a process that precedes the child learning to read whether by the neurological or the auditory functions. It is establishing in the child building blocks of identity. When the child then sees thousands of words that you show him, he has an inner ordering process so that’s not simply a masked information but there is an ordering of categories by vibration. The child will order the words you show him by vibration and the sequences of the verbs, the action, sentences, and the stories you put together.

But the engram of the letter A, as it is a block print, takes the child back to Alpha. That is why “A” is the first letter of the alphabet and it has to do with all kinds of manifestations of Alpha and as we know that when Alpha is perverted which is the power of the masculine ray we get our Martian “A” words that we insert and it’s not by coincidence that they are all A’s Books are written because authors know how to manipulate the energy that is carried by a combination of phonograms that create words that immediately, like violence, tells you that violence and mayhem is going on and that is communicated to you not because you have simply had an experience that has been violent in your life but because you are connected to the thought forms and the chalices, the molecules behind the words, and the combination of V – I – O-L – E – N – C- E communicates the vibration of violence that is why the Ascended Masters have chosen to dictate in English because this is exactly what this language has and the masters have told us that the very words we use are abbreviations for conceptions and we no longer have the conceptions or the larger statement of it. We have it whittled down to where a word is now a formula. …. Well, that’s actually what has happened to the words that are already in our language. They are already those abbreviated words that we are using for something else and the something else we have now forgot. We no longer know what H – I – M “him” is an abbreviation for, but we have a little bit of understanding of the letters, we know that “H” always has to do with the Holy Spirit, “M” has to do with the mother, and the “I” has to do with the internalization of individualization of that God flame and so that combination together creates a masculine sound so we know we’re speaking of a male gender when we say him and her has the opposite effect because it carries a more Yin vibration.

Language then is a communication of ideas in the most articulate precise razor’s edge to geometry. Language is a mathematical formula. You always must take the trouble to speak complete ideas. You must speak clearly and distinctly and pronounce your words as far as you are capable without area accents and without slang, so that children have a foundation of good English. … and every time you create a book for children, it should contain the who, what, when, where, why so the child is used to looking for those fundamental components that make up a complete statement which is a complete idea.

…And so when you have a child in the womb, you can take those same bits you used for your other children and you can show those bits to your child in the womb and you can make those statements on what you should be doing is, before you’re giving the child in the womb words, you should be getting that child the components of language which are the building blocks of his body which are being formed. Those three alphabets plus the 70 phonograms but don’t spend 9-1/2 months doing that. Do it once a day and then go on and give your children direct conversation talking about themselves where they are, what they are doing, how we are building this body together, how we are supplying the nutrients, give them a picture of the chart, and you must show the child as if the child is looking through the very skin, the very womb itself, and seeing because as you look at this, and you are showing it to your child, you see it, your eyes see it for the child, the child sees what you see, and the child is like he’s listening to a radio. He is visualizing what you are telling him about and he’s beginning to form images in his mind by your very precise prescriptions, but do not ever think that that child may not also see, see right through the wall of the mother to that image because we are speaking to the soul. …

There was a comment by someone familiar with the Doman program and the children that were 9, 10, or 11, how these children were very arrogant, and how they consider themselves superior beings and how they were rude to their parents and how they did not in a sense have the quality of inner Christhood. If you follow his teaching and his method to the letter, you will rear that exact type of child who is in fact a Luciferian, who has this tremendous development of brain power, but his soul has been left behind because the education of the soul has not been an integral part of this all-out attempt of Doman … and if this mind and this mental body is not a servant of the developed soul and the developed spirit, you will be rearing monsters in the school and in their families.

And therefore, the teaching of the teaching itself, if a child is capable of learning anything, the child should be learning the stump message. The child should be learning the words. The child should be internalizing his Christhood, his causal body, his I AM presence and the profound training that is involved …the child must read stories based on moral principles, based on deeds of sacrifice and heroism and selflessness and that the soul must be carried forward so that the soul is the master, that the brain is not the master of this child but the soul is the master and the fiery spirit of that soul is drawing down every moment from the time of conception is what emerges as the master in the temple who has this marvelously programmed brain and mental body that you have learned how to assist him to train … I don’t consider Doman successful in the ultimate sense because I know that where — he is teaching the wealthy and those who didn’t start out with the God flame to begin with and whose parents’ chief goal was not at development, that you are dealing with the most dangerous force on planet earth which is the educated carnal mind so the content of what the child learns and understands can be just as advanced in the esoteric sense of understanding the hierarchies of heaven from which he has descended and you should look toward the training of those words, those concepts, those teachings along with the child’s environment, his home life, all those basics he is doing in his physical body.

The first thing that Morya reminded me of when I approached him about this subject is that Glenn Doman is neither an Ascended Master nor a chela of the Ascended Masters. … we must remember that the teacher of the child is the Holy Christ Self, the Ascended Masters, parents, and teachers who reflect that. … we need to say this is the goal we have for our children and this is the means to that end and be sure that we do it right for the Christed ones coming in because they will come in, they will come tumbling down when you do it right.

Comments on Reading and Language to Montessori International Faculty by Elizabeth Clare Prophet (Decenber 1988) taken from Restoring Literacy (Part 4 of 4), available on Ascended Master Library