07/08/2026
Mark L. Prophet
Mark was born on Christmas Eve, 1918, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. As a child, his mystical nature was already visible — he communed with angels and nature spirits, and built a private altar in his attic where he prayed for hours.
As a young man, he was approached by the ascended master El Morya, who came to him because the Brotherhood was in need of a messenger. Mark could not yet reconcile this Eastern-robed figure with his lifelong devotion to Jesus, and he dismissed the encounter. El Morya returned later, and this time Mark accepted him as his teacher.
In 1958, El Morya called him to Washington, D.C. to found The Summit Lighthouse. That same year, Mark began publishing the Pearls of Wisdom — weekly letters carrying the teachings of the ascended masters to students around the world.
Mark passed on February 26, 1973. He is known today as the ascended master Lanello.
Mark had served as a messenger in earlier lifetimes. As the prophet Noah, he warned his generation of the coming flood. As the Egyptian pharaoh Ikhnaton, he introduced the worship of one God to a culture built on many gods.
His soul has moved through many other significant embodiments, including Mark the Evangelist, Origen of Alexandria, Clovis, Saladin, Louis XIV, and the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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