“On your planet, pearls are a symbol of achievement, and we do not mean class achievement. We do not mean achievement because you have made enough money to afford pearls. We mean pearls are a symbol of achievement because true pearls come from a creature, the oyster, whose consciousness does not match the grandeur of what you possess in consciousness, yet it has learned how to make something beautiful out of something that is an irritation. It has no hands to pick the grain of sand out of its mucus membranes. It has no legs that it might stand upon and shake, shake, shake itself while trying to get the sand out. It has no way to put up a netting thin enough to prevent something as tiny as a grain of sand from coming through its shell into its soft inner self, but it found a way on the inside of its being to bathe the pearl in something that would make it not be irritating, to turn it into a part of its being. It added more and more substance to it so that it became so beautiful humans wished to adorn themselves with it. That is the “why” of choosing to call each lesson of a Grand Secret a Pearl of Enlightenment, Beloveds, because what you are doing in these classes of Spiritual development is finding those hidden irritations in your life and altering them so that you no longer have an undesired reaction to the thing which irritated you. By the time you have reached your own Ascension Gate, you each will have your own strand of “pearls” that will represent what you have mastered while living on planet Earth seeking the raising and purifying of your consciousness.”