When the Master was on earth He said something to the effect that He had not come into the world to be ministered unto but to minister. Obviously there were those at that time who extended assistance and hospitality to Him, so He was not particularly referring to ministry of that nature but rather to what He came to deliver into the world.
If we agree with Him, if we follow Him, then obviously our attitude is the same. We did not come into the world to be ministered unto but to minister. In order to reach a point where a person is in position to minister there must be a period of being ministered unto. There is this necessity of awakening to the consciousness of the fact that one is here on earth not to be ministered unto but to minister. Back along the way I was concerned to find someone who could minister unto me. I found that individual in the person of Uranda. However there came a point when he was no longer present with me and others on earth, so in that sense I had lost the one whom I had previously found to minister unto me. Fortunately, during the latter period of Uranda's presence on earth I had learned something about ministering; I had gained some experience in this regard. Clearly then, when Uranda was no longer here, as far as I was concerned there was no one here to minister unto me, so I was forced to take the attitude that I did not come into the world to be ministered unto but to minister. The same thing should be true for each one, without the necessity of any such drastic experience. It should be true for all of you for instance.
As I say, there is properly a period of time when one is being ministered unto for the purpose of learning what it means to minister. The idea of course is not to become a perennial student but to graduate, to grow up and to and to minister. When there is such an awakening there is a recognition of relatedness to others who are ministering likewise, but we no longer require anyone to minister to us. I suppose I could ask two questions, indicating alternatives insofar as you are concerned: Must I minister to you in the name of the Lord? Or will you stand with me and minister to the world in the name of the Lord? I have indeed over the years ministered in various ways to many people. I am thankful that there are those who do stand with me to minister to the world in the name of the Lord. Each one needs to consider these questions with respect to his or her own field of living.
There has been a platitude repeated in the world many times, something to the effect that when the need arises the teacher will appear, as though teachers would be appearing indefinitely over the period of our life cycle. You know that this properly is not true. Sooner or later, to keep one's integrity, there must be the acceptance of the responsibility of ministering without being ministered unto. If I have ministered to many over the years the purpose was not particularly to benefit those concerned but to find the ones who would stand with me. If anyone gives evidence of the fact that they are not so willing they have little further interest for me because, after all, there is only one reason why I am here and why any true person is here, and that is to serve the Lord on earth in providing a facility for the positive action phase of the One Law at the level where human beings are in the world. Nothing else has any meaning. Only when this is done is there the power present by which the world may be restored.
Over the past twenty thousand years there has been a creative process at work to allow the restoration of man to occur. If one were to judge by appearances it would not seem that very much was being accomplished, and yet the One Law is at work. Twenty thousand years is quite a long time from the human standpoint but just a moment from the divine standpoint. When man violated his integrity and set in motion this tragedy which has been in effect for the last twenty thousand years—a little comedy thrown in here and there—it could only be a temporary state of affairs; in other words by reason of the working of the Law a conclusion would come to this temporary state of affairs somewhere along the way. There were two possibilities insofar as the conclusion was concerned: the first and foremost, the one of deepest concern, was that man might be restored; the second, which would inevitably occur if man was not restored, would be the elimination of man. The elimination of man involves the elimination of much more than man. So there are these two possibilities which have always been present.
In the outworking of events over this lengthy period of history the main concern has always been that man might be restored. This is as much so today as it was at any other time. However the only way by which man can be restored is as the positive action phase of the One Law has opportunity of expression at the level where man is—or where human beings now are, because human beings in the collective sense are no longer man. This is why there is need for restoration. But the way this task is accomplished is based in the positive action phase of the One Law. Actually either the restoration or the elimination of man is consequent upon the same thing: the positive action phase of the One Law. The elimination of man occurs when there is no means for the positive action phase of the One Law to operate at the level where human beings are. To whatever degree we have awakened to this awareness and have awakened to our responsibility in relationship to it, there may be the facility for the positive action phase of the One Law to operate at the level where human beings are. This requires that we be at the level where human beings are.
There are those who have been concerned apparently with rising to some other level, ascending up into some mystical heaven somewhere, but what earthly value would that be? I don't think it would be of much heavenly value either. The point is that we need to be here where we are and we are not interested properly in trying to escape, to get away from the circumstances as we find them. This is, after all, part of the level where human beings are, so our concern is to let the positive action phase of the One Law operate where we are. Insofar as we are concerned it will only operate where we are because of us. It may operate somewhere else where we aren't, because of somebody else, but observing what is going on in the world we have not, I am sure, been very much encouraged on this point. We have an awareness of what it is that is required and because we have this awareness we consequently have the responsibility of letting it happen. Obviously those who do not have the awareness are not going to do anything about it. Always, increased vision carries with it increased responsibility. Woe unto those who attempt to possess the increased vision for themselves without assuming the increased responsibility that goes with it.
If the positive action phase of the One Law is to work effectively there must be a CORE of human beings who have accepted the responsibility for letting it happen. We do not have to make the One Law work; it never stopped working, fortunately. But we may participate in this working at the level where human beings are to the extent that we share the responsibility in our own expression of living for the positive action phase of the One Law. Another way of putting that is summarized in the words "spiritual expression."
I presented two alternatives in the form of two questions: Must I minister to you in the name of the Lord? in which case I would be left alone insofar as the positive action phase of the One Law is concerned. Or will you stand with me in ministering to the world in the name of the Lord? I assume, with respect to everyone who participates in any way in this ministry, that here is a person, male or female, who is offering him- or herself to participate in ministering to the world. As I say, initially the individual is usually looking for help personally; he wants to be ministered unto; but no one can rightly assume the attitude which requires being ministered unto indefinitely. There must come a point somewhere along the line where there is sufficient wakefulness and integrity to accept the responsibility of ministry—one's own personal ministry; no guru is required. Yet this does not mean, as you well know, that everybody scatters in all directions, setting up their own little areas of ministry here or there, because what we are talking about certainly is not children's games. This is the positive action of the One Law here on earth, the same Law which is present and operative throughout the whole universe. It is not really a little thing.
The positive action of the One Law is the expression of the creative spirit of God and it produces a reaction in what may be called the creation. The negative reaction phase is automatic—it can't help itself; there must be negative reaction. All that is necessary is to allow the positive action phase of the One Law to work at the level where human beings are, because the reaction aspect is sure. There will be transformation. The state of incompleteness, the state of evil, will change; it will be transformed. If there is the clear positive action of the One Law it will be transformed perfectly. Now it is quite true that the world is a jumbled place at the moment because human beings have messed things up very thoroughly, but it does not really matter how messed up things are, when the positive action of the One Law comes to bear, things will immediately begin to sort themselves out. They can't help sorting themselves out. Human beings may object, they may rebel against what is happening, they may be very disturbed because things are not going the way they think they ought to go, but no matter what they do they are quite incapable of preventing the transformation which is occurring. Part of that transformation relates to the restoration of man; in other words once there is a CORE PATTERNon earth capable of permitting the positive action of the One Law at the level where human beings b are, the results are absolutely inevitable. There will be the restoration of man. Lacking that positive action of the One Law at the level where human beings are, the results will be equally inevitable: the elimination of man; because the One Law is working anyway whether human beings like it or not, and it is not possible long to maintain something which is at variance with the operation of the Law. The distorted factors get swept out of the way. Human beings over the millennia have ample experience in this regard individually and collectively; much has been swept out of the way.
Much is in the process of being swept out of the way right now. Even from the standpoint of what might be considered to be the natural processes of decay, artistic monuments of all kinds in the world are disintegrating. Immense sums of money are being spent in an endeavor to prop them up, an endeavor which must eventually fail in any case. Why bother? "Oh these works of human culture, the achievements of human beings! How could one dare to suggest that they profitably might pass away?" This is a terrible thing to say, isn't it, in a world where human beings everywhere seemingly are trying to preserve their precious cultures. Who pays any attention to the true culture, to the true state of man on earth, and what would be engendered by reason of that true state? It seems that few are able to envision anything more than the glorious things which this unfortunate creature on earth has produced.
To what extent are those of you here present, and many more who are associated with this ministry, to what extent are you and they willing to relinquish any desire to be ministered unto? I suspect all too many would feel that they would perish if they were not being ministered unto: "What would happen if I didn't get my attunements? What would happen if those who carry particular responsibility didn't include me in the scope of their responsibility?" Such questions might arise in the minds of some. But how about agreeing with the Lord whom we serve, in acknowledging that we did not come into the world to be ministered unto by anyone but to minister, to be the positive expression of the One Law on earth. One can remain in a state of limbo indefinitely by insisting that there are occasions when it is most important that someone should minister unto you. I have been most fortunate in this regard because I had nowhere to turn. Who was going to minister unto me? Oh lots of people have provided many things for me in the external sense, but from the standpoint of my ministry on earth, the responsibility which I carry in the world, who was going to minister to me in that regard? There was nobody on hand.
"Well," you may say, "there is the Lord"; but that is true of you just as much as it is true of me. Yes, we all have parts to play. I have my particular responsibility but you have yours, and to carry that responsibility requires exactly the same thing of us both: to acknowledge that it is unnecessary to be ministered unto, that we are totally capable of ministering. As always there is a little questioning possible here because, as I have said before, initially speaking a person needs to be ministered unto to come to the point where he may minister. But where is the point where he may minister and no longer require any ministering unto? Where is that point for you? Did it possibly occur last year? Or is it going to occur next year? Or maybe even tomorrow? When? When is the point reached? One can put it off easily: "Oh I need some more training. I need some more information. I need some more understanding. I need some more ability. I need to develop this and that to a greater extent. And then, then I will minister." But when is then? Is there an examination that you are going to pass? "You have graduated now; you are responsible for ministering"—is someone going to tell you that? Obviously one could continue as long as life remained in the student position, taking the attitude, "One day I am going to graduate."
The fact of the matter is that one may accept the responsibility now. I presume that over the last, what is it? twenty-three years, since I was put into the position of having to acknowledge that I was here to minister rather than to be ministered unto, I have learned something. My state of experience now is different to my state of experience twenty-three years ago. Obviously. I could very easily back there have said, "Well I need more of somebody ministering unto me." But there wasn't anyone to do it. Just because there is someone to do it insofar as you are concerned, does that mean that you can put it off, put off the acceptance of that responsibility? Clearly, if everyone puts it off we have no CORE PATTERN by means of which the positive action of the One Law could be brought into effect at the level where human beings are. And it requires more than one person or just a few people. It was suggested somewhere that it might require 144,000 to handle the world, 144,000individuals who have accepted the responsibility to minister and have relinquished any idea that they need to be ministered unto. There may have been occasions in the past, in my own experience, when I felt that I needed to be ministered unto, but as I say, most fortunately there was nobody on hand to do it and consequently the responsibility had to be taken. There was no alternative insofar as I was concerned, unless I violated my own integrity. This was the only way I could evade the necessity. I didn't think it was worth that. How about you? There is always a seeming excuse because there are other people around ministering. "If I need to be ministered unto I can go to so-and-so." Yes you can, and you will continue to need to go to so-and-so until you have accepted the responsibility of your own ministry. It is yours and nobody else's.
As I say, this acceptance of responsibility does not carry you off into left field somewhere. It does not scatter everybody to the four corners of the earth. We find ourselves holding together because we are all part of the positive action of the One Law, and it requires all of us and we all have different parts to play. From the standpoint of my particular position one would presume that it is not really any longer ministering to individuals as such. There are still quite a few people who come along wanting to be ministered unto. There are those who properly have a responsibility to take care of what is necessary in this regard but I doubt if it should continue to be me forever, because how could we ever get down to business in the positive action phase of the One Law as it relates to the larger picture of the world? We may say, "Well we serve the world by ministering to the individual." That is true up to a point but there are many things to be done of which there is virtually no consciousness as yet on the part of most, and these things cannot be done as long as there is an insistence that those who should be doing these things are required to minister to this individual and that individual in an endless round which has been going on for as long as this ministry at least has been on earth, but long before that no doubt. There are always people, seemingly, who think they need to be ministered unto. Okay, that may be all right up to a point, but there comes a time when one acknowledges the fact that one came into the world to minister and not to be ministered unto.
When this is the accepted responsibility of a sufficiently sizable COREgroup of human beings then there begins to be power, because that experience is the experience of the Holy Ghost coming upon those concerned. They have accepted the responsibility. They are not anticipating that their own field of service is going to be handled by somebody else. It is only then that we begin to have the experience of what it means to become a man or a woman. Otherwise we continue to be, in some measure at least, puling children—that's right, isn't it?—expecting to be taken care of. We did not come to be ministered unto but to minister. There are those whose ministry may particularly be concerned with matters pertaining to education, education of people who are learning to minister. There are those whose special concern will be in the field of healing. Others will handle the affairs which are of immediate concern in our environment. There are many areas which require people to handle them, people who are capable of ministering and are not demanding anymore to be ministered unto. But above and beyond all this, these areas of responsibility, there is a field of what might be called vibrational responsibility which may be handled by those who are allowed to do so because no demand is being placed upon them by this person or that person requiring to be ministered unto. You can see that there are many levels of operation insofar as the positive action of the One Law is concerned and there is the need for those who can handle these various levels of operation, but it will not be handled by those who are demanding to be ministered unto, only by those who are capable of ministering. The only way one can learn to minister is to minister. One can never learn to minister merely by being ministered unto.
The immediate concern is that there should be this CORE composed of human beings who are ministering, who are providing the facility for the positive action of the One Law at the level where human beings are. That is the experience of the Holy Ghost coming upon you and it is stated: "Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." There is the power, the creative power of the positive action of the One Law, and it is this that transforms the world. We begin to allow that positive action of the One Law which is already in operation to be brought to focus and to find release in radiation, in action, in living, because we have assumed the responsibility for letting it be so. Then we might say the job is done. Oh there is a lot to work out, but it will all work out; it can't help but work out. The transformation occurs because the reason for its occurrence is present, present and in operation. Having some vision and awareness of these things, the self-centered state dissolves because we let it dissolve. And here we are together, standing together, to minister to the world in the name of the Lord. How else shall the world be transformed? There isn't any other way. Do we really recognize how much trust has been placed in us? Keeping our integrity we cannot help but be true to the trust.
I am most thankful for the opportunity of speaking of these things to you who are here present this evening, and by reason of what you have made possible in this regard many, many others are included. The Lord is good and greatly to be praised.
James Wellemeyer — Martin, I don’t feel we can really walk out of here this evening without acknowledging the wonder of what has been shared, to sense the power that has moved through your word and through us and to recognize that we are here to get the job done, that we are here to stand with you, not just in theory as undoubtedly it has been many times but to stand with you in fact. How I delight in what has been shared this evening and with you. Praise God that it is so. Thank you, Martin.
Martin Cecil — Your word of response, Jim, is an evidence of the working of the Law: positive action, negative reaction. We need to understand the working of the Law so that we may participate in its working in a fitting and proper manner. Jim brought to focus something of the response which properly is engendered by reason of the positive radiation. We need to understand how these things work so that we may intelligently cooperate with that working. It is only by reason of such direct participation that the power is allowed to be generated and released in radiation. Where there is positive radiation there must be negative response in the fulfilment of the Law, and only as we play our respective parts in cooperation with the working of the Law are we of any particular value in generating what is required insofar as intensification of positive radiation is concerned. We have shared an opportunity of radiation this evening. I am thankful that the Law has been allowed to work in your experience, in our experience, as much as it has.
“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.” Here is a portrayal of what should rightly be your attitude and experience this morning. “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south.” Here is an acknowledgment of the working of the Law—positive action, negative reaction—with which you must be directly associated if your presence here this morning is to have any real meaning. So there is an acknowledgment of the Law. “Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.” Only as your living is a revelation of the working of the Law do you know the reality of your garden. Are you aware of the sacred place in which you dwell and which you would never violate? By reason of your living in harmony with the Law the winds of the spirit blow upon your garden and the spices thereof flow forth. Here is the evidence of the generation of spiritual substance. It is only possible as you have a garden in which you dwell because your life gives evidence of the working of the Law.
The first great commandment brings to point something with respect to the working of the Law: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all… And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Most people spend their lives condemning their neighbors, evidencing little love, understanding, enfoldment, little blessing, which of course gives abundant evidence of a failure to keep the first great commandment. Living the Law, the garden is known. It seems that most live in rather barren and desolate places—no garden, no association with the Law, no living, merely dying—but here these words portray the attitude and the experience of those whose lives are of such quality that spiritual substance is constantly being generated and flowing forth. It is only as this is so that a genuine invitation may be offered: “Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.” There are many people who in fancy invite the Lord to be with them, but for the most part there is little real substance available for this fulfilment to be known. Response, the generation of substance, is essential if the reality of the positive radiation phase of the One Law is to be experienced. The positive radiation phase of the One Law is the coming of the Lord. Those who have called themselves Christians look hopefully for the day when this will happen, failing to recognize that it is their responsibility if it is to happen. Without response and the substance of response the fact of radiation cannot be known. There may be some fancy in the consciousness of people, some imagination, but the fact remains unknown.
There always has been radiation. There would be no universe if it were not for the fact of eternal radiation, to which there is response or the universe wouldn't exist—an easy, natural response which allows all things of creation to move according to the design inherent in the radiation. But insofar as human beings are concerned they have the ability to contend with the Lord. That contention of course has put in an appearance on the basis of the endeavor by human beings to determine what shall happen here on earth, and that endeavor is brought to point on the basis of the human intellect, that so wise creature which assumes that it is in position to be as God. That assumption has brought some terrible things into the experience not only of mankind on the surface of this planet but of all living things that are present here also.
Only to the extent that there is genuine response with a consequent quality of living which permits the generation of spiritual substance can the reality of the radiation be known, the radiation which is the source and the sustaining power of all things in the dimensional world, of which human beings are aware and of which they are not aware. Incidentally there is far more of which they are not aware than of which they are aware. In spite of delving so extensively in the bottomless pit of knowledge, what human beings know or think they know is almost entirely make-believe. Nowadays such things have the confirming tag of science placed upon the knowing. This is supposed to make it valid, but the truth which is inherent in this radiation of the One Law can only be known as there is response in living, so that the quality of life experienced permits the generation of spiritual substance.
The extent of spiritual substance that you have brought this morning into the Chapel will determine exactly the extent of radiation that you will experience. There is no limit, there is no restriction to the radiation, but it only has meaning to human beings to the extent that there is spiritual substance to give it meaning, and the spiritual substance is the responsibility of the individual to generate. That generation comes on the basis of a quality of living, so it isn't just a momentary thing in the Chapel now. You brought something in with you. I wonder how much. It is possible that there may be a further generation while you are here, but what happens when you leave?
In this particular verse which I read to you there is, as I say, a portrayal of what is properly and naturally true of you in this particular setting at this particular time. The next verse, which is at the beginning of another chapter, is an indication of what is properly true of me: “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.”
Where there is the substance, the spiritual substance of response, there is the abundant experience of what is available by reason of radiation. You this morning in this setting are responsible for the response aspect of the unit which we together form, and I am responsible for the radiation aspect. You cannot have one without the other in experience. You cannot know the radiation without the response, and it isn't just a matter of mental agreement; it is a matter of living; it is a matter of fact. What is the actual fact in your own experience moment by moment, day by day? What is the quality of your living? If that quality gives evidence of true spiritual expression, of the fulfilment of the One Law in you, then there is the generation of spiritual substance and there is the experience of whatever arises by reason of the radiation in the moment.
Yesterday evening Grace spoke to those who were present here in the Chapel.[greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-increase-melchizedek-is-here.html]Her words and the spirit of them were indeed most exquisitely beautiful, and I am sure that those who were present with any substance of response were touched by her spirit. Something flowed forth from you to her. According to that flowing forth, so was her expression, so was the radiation which she offered. Consequently there was a certain intensification in the experience of all concerned.
Subsequently, as seems to be customary in Emissary circles, snacks were served in the dining room and most of those who had been at the service were present there no doubt, but at least to start with we were not. When we arrived we came into the room and were met with a roar of sound—people talking. This is supposed to be quite natural for people; they do it all the time. The very level of noise that was present was an indication of the fact of what had occurred in the Chapel. There had been an intensification but then it was channeled back into the usual and customary human structures of expression and it came out loud and raucous. Lillian said something about it and it calmed down a bit. I draw attention to this not in condemnation of anyone but merely to indicate what tends to happen. If there begins to be something of experienced radiation in a service there is an intensification insofar as all present are concerned which, unless the quality of living is right and has become habitual, will subsequently be mistranslated in the factual experience of those concerned and the substance that was present, that had been generated, will thereby be dissipated, and the radiation will tend to vanish. Where did it go? What happened? The individual finds himself right back where he was before.
There are these two aspects, both of which are essential: the positive and the negative aspects, the response aspect and the radiation aspect. Now these must be brought to point in experience, human experience, on earth if they are to have any meaning to human beings. They may be operative, and are—the Law is operative everywhere in the universe but not presently in the experience of human beings. They do not consciously know what is happening, what they are doing, why they are here, or anything else. They try to make meaning for themselves in various ways because of this yawning chasm in their experience, this emptiness, this lack; and people rush hither and yon trying to fill it. This happens in the physical world, doesn't it, with respect to the disposition of the garbage: Find a chasm somewhere and fill it up with garbage and it will make a good building site. The way this is handled is very much the same as the way human beings handle the holes in themselves. They fill them up with garbage and then neatly cover the garbage over with a little surface appearance of something worthwhile. Negative response is the essential element that has been lacking insofar as human beings are concerned, that they might experience the truth inherent in the radiation of which I have been speaking. Positive and negative aspects—sometimes this is thought of in terms of male and female.
In the field which we have just been examining there is a tendency on the part of people, in their attitude and approach to the Lord, to try to play hard to get. “Well if you really want me, Lord, come after me.” [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/my-lord-i-love-you.html] This has been the general approach for a long time in human experience; but they have never tempted the Lord to the point where He came after them. You either offer the response or you go away empty. The Law works. It's absolute. It is the quality and nature of God; and human beings, no matter how hard they try, can't change it. There has been a lot of weeping and wailing on the part of human beings about their sad, miserable lot. What a cruel God to have things this way: Please, God, change things around to suit me so that I'm happy! And while that was endeavoring to tempt God, God was never tempted; He never fell for it. If human beings want their misery they can have it as long as they last. It is entirely a matter of human choice. The alternative has always been present, the radiation has always been there, but virtually no response, and human beings have been trying to get God to come after them. It doesn't work that way.
We see the same sort of thing in this matter of the male-female relationship too, don't we? I am speaking of it in a general sense; perhaps it's not true of you individually; but the idea is that the woman goes after her man, maybe quite subtly, but she plays hard to get. This has cast the male of the species in the role of the hunter. He has to chase her; otherwise he's not going to get her. But when he gets her he finds she's got him! And the male of the species has fallen for this. In fact it's become so habitual that very often manhood is equated in these terms, when it is exactly the opposite of manhood.
Insofar as the male is concerned the first great commandment applies: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all.” It doesn't say, “Thou shalt love a female with all; worship her; set her up on a pedestal; try to please her.” Not at all. “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” That's the truth, because only so can there be generated the substance which will permit the experience of what real manhood is. If there is no spiritual substance there's no manhood; there can't be; just a pretense, just a counterfeit.
Manhood is not experienced by the male of the species because of the female;
it is experienced because of God.
And when there is a man around maybe that will inspire a woman somewhere to stop playing these childish games. Nowadays it seems that because men have not been men women are trying to be men—a woman can only be a woman and a man can only be a man, but neither one has known what this would mean for a long, long time.
“I am come into my garden.” To what extent is this true this morning? Of course first of all there must be a garden here to come into. There must be the substance which makes it possible. We can fool ourselves; we can jump around with evangelical fervor and generate a good deal of emotion, but it means absolutely nothing. It probably dissipates any substance there might have been to start with. I am come into my garden to the extent that you are willing to let me. “Let my beloved come into his garden.” The only way you can let me is because the spices of the garden are flowing out, are flowing to me. Then we are connected up; then there is substance in which the beautiful expression of the spirit of the living God may be known by all of us. This has been called the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but there have been some very limited concepts in this regard. It is a real experience, not a fanciful one. Human beings have for so long been content with their imagination, excluding the reality. But we have parts to play; there is a design. Things work the way they work and they don't work any other way. Human beings have been trying to make them work all kinds of ways for millennia, but they won't. They only work the way they work, and the way they work includes an aspect of creation that is called man—at least insofar as this planet is concerned—but man has been absent for a long time, absent without leave. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/man.html] He's been on the run. That's right, isn't it?
Long ago something happened, and the story is portrayed in the Book of Genesis. There was a moment when the Lord God came walking in the garden in the cool of the day and there was no one around, no one there. So the question was asked, “Where art thou?” And the answer came which indicated that those who should have been man were experiencing something that was not the evidence of real manhood and womanhood. They were ashamed and afraid—shame and fear are two very prominent experiences insofar as human beings are concerned, yourselves included. This is not the experience of man. This is not the experience in the garden. This is the experience in the state which has become habitual to human beings, but it's not the true state. At the point when the question was asked, “Where art thou?”—here is an analogy, but there was an actual happening—when that question was asked there was the opportunity for those who were present to say, “Here am I.” Obviously that opportunity wasn't taken. They were all wrapped up in their shames and their fears, as though they had somehow been imposed upon them, and that is the attitude most people take, isn't it? “I didn't ask to be born. All my miseries and troubles have been imposed on me and I can tell you specifically who some of the people are that have imposed these things on me.” Amongst them of course are our forebears; “original sin” they call it. Poppycock! There may be something there to which human beings have insisted upon being subject but that's their own choice, the choice that is made by each individual for him- or herself. There is no necessity. We can respond and allow our quality of life to generate some spiritual substance, which would cause us to be aware increasingly of the truth of ourselves instead of this shameful, fearful creature which a lot of people have the temerity to call man.
So the Lord God came walking in the garden, and that opportunity was rejected. So the way things worked out, the garden vanished from the experience of human beings. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-garden-called-to-remembrance.html] There is nothing to say that the garden was dissolved; in fact a cherubim with a flaming sword was put there to keep the way of the tree of life which was in the midst of the garden, so it's still around; but if there was a rejection of that nature at that point there must be in the returning cycle an acknowledgment of the truth when that point is reached. The truth. There have been those down through the ages who brought to specific focus a point of representation in this regard at the level where human beings are. One of them was mentioned yesterday evening in the person of Melchizedek, the King of Righteousness, Prince of Peace, a positive expression of radiation which Abraham recognized. Apparently very few others did. He was the Priest of the Most High God, a point of radiation not understood, not understood even to this day. Why? Because there wasn't adequate spiritual substance to make it understandable. It's not a matter of wanting to understand: “Oh I wish I could understand. O God let me understand.” He will let you understand if your quality of living will generate the required substance which makes understanding possible. He's not holding out. How many people have blamed God for the condition in which they find themselves: “It's His fault!” No, it's one's own fault, in concert with about four billion other people.
The only way by which the truth can be brought to human beings is through human beings. We have taken note of one in the person of Melchizedek. Another obvious one I suppose is Moses, and more recently the one called Jesus. He wasn't understood—He isn't understood because to all intents and purposes there has been no spiritual substance which would make that understanding possible. There has been a lot of imagination. There have been a lot of concepts developed, a lot of beliefs, a lot of ideas; but the truth, what's that? There is no way of knowing it, certainly not on the basis of belief; that's not the truth. Belief is always in a human concept about something. What of the truth of the something about which there is a concept? That truth can never be found by conceptualizing it. It only becomes known by living it, and one will live it to the extent that there is a generation of the essential substance which connects one with the truth. Then you know it; otherwise you don't; and no amount of human effort will produce anything except more confusion.
Let us extend the invitation to the Lord,
which He will not hesitate to accept.
Let's make Him an offer that He cannot refuse, that He will not refuse, because it is the offer He has been waiting for, the offer of the essential spiritual substance generated by our living. “Let my beloved come into his garden,” because I have made that coming possible. Now in this particular setting together here we have the opportunity of exemplifying something, because all these requirements remain theoretical until they are accepted into the situation here and now. As long as we keep them out there somewhere—Jesus is coming one day—it's all nonsense. He will never come one day on that basis, because He will have no means of coming. There are the essential clouds of heaven in which He comes, but human beings are responsible for the clouds of heaven, to provide the facility for His coming. He came as an individual certainly, exemplified something as an individual, and there were those who were willing to make that coming possible. He was born into the world just as all the rest of us are.
Now we have this situation, together here this morning, where you are extending some sort of an invitation to me, or you wouldn't be sitting there. I must have some sort of a place in your hearts. “Let my beloved come into his garden.” Is that what you are saying? Well make sure that your garden isn't a counterfeit, make sure that it's the real thing, because if what I offer is the real thing I can't come into a counterfeit, only the real thing; and I can come in to the extent that that real thing is there. Then I may say, “I am come into my garden,” and I have something to offer, and we all become aware of what that is because we have substance which allows understanding. If we don't have the substance we don't have the understanding. Simple. In effect I say, “Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved, my sister, my spouse.” That's the way it is in this particular situation.
The truth, the reality, can only come through human beings. That's the only way it comes. People may hopefully gaze into the sky, looking for the coming of something or other. If they gaze long enough they may see signs, but no coming. We only experience the truth, the reality, to the extent that we are in position to do it; and that isn't by fancy; it's by participating in the actual design. I am come into my garden to whatever extent there is a garden here this morning, and to that extent I have offered something to eat and to drink, that there might be the increased experience of the real nature and quality of life, that that nature and quality of life might be carried with us. Then when we leave the Chapel we do not revert immediately into the old state again, the old conventions, because if we do that we are saying in effect to the Lord, “Come get me. Come get me, next Sunday maybe”—playing hard to get.
The Lord always provides what He does in radiation. It's always there, but a person only knows it to the extent that he maintains and sustains and generates the connecting substance in his momentary living; but he won't sink back into the same old state again. That same old state usually involves a lot of running off at the mouth in momentary living, idle words which fall to the ground, idle words which if they are expressed by someone in the descending aspect of the cycle carry the individual down with them. Down he goes, down, down, down. Every word proceeding out of the mouth of God, which should be the word falling from the lips of man made in the image and likeness of God, lifts up, up, up. Ascension. There are two ways to go: up or down; and each person makes the choice for him- or herself. Nobody else can or does do it for you. You can never blame somebody else.
You can make a right choice exactly the way things are. Let's not fool ourselves. Let's not deceive ourselves anymore. How much self-deception there has been in the world. It's obvious everywhere. Everyone is blaming everybody else. Nobody has the manhood or the womanhood to stand up and say, “It's me! It's my responsibility, nobody else's responsibility. I'm not going to try to palm it off on somebody else.” What wishy-washy people there are in the world. Let's grow up. Let's experience the reality of maturity in the current of the spirit of the living God as we move in harmony with the working of the Law and as the expression of our living exemplifies the beauty of the angelic character which is the truth for each one.
There are many critical vibrational patterns in the world. We had atmospheric disturbance yesterday evening, and human beings are inclined to respond even to atmospheric pressures. We had rain here, which was very welcome. I do not know how many of you know that there was a very severe storm in Denver—a cloudburst with almost four inches of water falling at one point, and less at other points of course; but there were the severe convection currents and atmospheric pressures and changes. Human beings are inclined to respond somewhat to such things. We need to reach a point where we do not; we may feel them but we should not respond to them.
Another aspect of world pressure that is at work is the struggle that’s going on in Soviet Russia. Beria, the man who has headed the Soviet secret police for so long, sent so many tens of thousands to the firing squad, many times more to prison and Siberian exile, and so on; probably is directly responsible for the death of upwards of several million people at least’ it runs into the millions, and the suffering of other millions, has been stripped of all his authority and imprisoned, and the stage is set for a nice big trial, to prepare to liquidate him. So Malenkov has, as they say, won the first round with the Soviet big three. One is definitely on the way out, already in prison—a man who has wielded much power over the lives of others, and used it with heartlessness, comes at last to his own pattern of difficulty. These things all have a part to play in the world vibrational pattern, and fear factors are projected into the mass consciousness, elements of uncertainty, so that human beings under some attunement to these things, touching them and not being aware of their sources, tend to accept some little immediate thing, something at hand, something that can be seen, as the trigger which starts the reaction pattern. Sometimes the triggering acts very much like an atomic bomb. The process in the atomic bomb has to be triggered to get it started; a comparatively little thing, and then the larger explosion, the greater reaction, the greater influence.
We have these things far and near, with human beings everywhere suffering from various patterns of futility. We have a gigantic struggle going on in our own country. President Eisenhower is in the midst of it, attempting to hold the line, attempting to hold a basic sensible pattern for the welfare of our nation; but the pressures of all sorts exerted which tend to confuse many issues, for human beings have not learned to function outside of the patterns of selfishness and greed, and general patterns of uncertainty. There are the various reactions which center around the situation in Korea. We have the spectacle of a nation divided, and a civil war and conflict that drew in the great powers, and now all the great powers on both sides trying to get out of it. And both more or less manoeuvring for position in relationship to it, but seeking for some kind of a truce agreement. And then there are, in relationship to that, the projections of the vibratory patterns into the mass consciousness of those who have loved ones in that conflict who have met with accident, or who are numbered among the casualties, or the prisoners of war, etc.
And everywhere there is a sense of great futility, a sense of the senselessness of so much that goes on in the world. And unless we watch ourselves we tend share those feelings when they come within the range of our perception—we tend to become subject to this sense of futility and senselessness and, feeling it, the human mind is inclined to search about, perhaps unconsciously, but to search about for some reason. What is it that makes me feel this futility, this senselessness? And so, the human mind sees this thing, and sees that thing, recognizes something someone had done over here, etc, and forthwith the individual finds the reasons which he assumes to be the cause of what he has perceived—the futility and the senselessness. And the so-called reasons, the things he has assumed to be the cause, have actually little or nothing to do with it. He has merely identified his feelings with something or someone, and consequently there is more confusion. Instead of clearing the pattern, that adds to the confusion, adds to the difficulty, because it projects into the world consciousness concepts, ideas, attitudes which are not based upon fact, they are based upon fiction. And so there is more confusion.
All of this emphasizes the vital importance of learning to hold a vibratory pattern. Now we can take an attitude, I suppose, saying that we will hold this pattern for ten minutes, or a day, or a week, maybe a month if you are feeling real generous—and if everyone concerned doesn’t clear the deck in that time we are going to quit. I see, right here on Sunrise Ranch, patterns of confusion, unnecessary stress and strain, because things perceived are identified with those aspects which the mind has assumed to be cause, and they are not. Therefore there is no real way to correct the thing. The individual has to continue to feel, or perceive, the vibratory patterns presented and must reach a point where he is willing to relinquish the fictional aspect of the matter before he can make any step. But generally speaking human emotions and feelings are so tightly bound up in such matters that they want the fictional causes corrected, straightened out to the individual’s own satisfaction before he will consider accepting the idea that the pressure can be dealt with. In other words, the human being arbitrarily takes the attitude that God must deal with these things according to the individual’s own human concepts of what should be done, what should be corrected, where and how, and when, and with whom. That defeats the pattern of our progress. It injects things that increase the load, increase the problem in various ways. We undertake to hold the pattern for such individuals as long as possible, but sooner or later each one must reach a point where he or she is not identifying himself with the wrong thing, and where there is a willingness to admit the fictional nature of what has been assumed to be the cause. This is one of the favourite tricks of the devil; it’s a very clever and effective trick that has worked with untold billions of people. Let’s examine it just a little.
If there is pressure which the individual perceives and he can be caused, on an emotional basis, to accept the idea that the cause of this pressure is with some circumstance, some thing, some person, on a fictional basis, then the individual is in the position of demanding that this circumstance, thing, or person, must be corrected in order to permit the individual himself to feel freedom from the pressure. But because that is a fictional pattern in the individual mind and heart it can’t be corrected. The human being demands of God, or of the LORD, or of His servants, “You clear this and I will function thus-and-so.” But that to which the individual looks is a fictional thing. It cannot be corrected except to eliminate it or to give the appearance of something on a fictional basis. If I, for instance, were to disregard the basic principles of reality, I could in such a case produce a fictional set of circumstances which would apparently correct the fictional difficulty and the individual would for the moment be satisfied, but for the moment only, because immediately that individual would, the first time pressure came, develop another fictional pattern, and I would be under the necessity of producing a whole set of fictional outworkings to make the individual feel that he or she was being given adequate consideration, that I was adequately doing my job, etc. Whereupon, for the moment, everything would be lovely. But it wouldn’t last; it wouldn’t hold; and we would soon have our whole program based, not on the rock of reality but upon the fictional patterns devised by human minds—and that is sinking sand. Sooner or later there would be a pressure come along and the whole house would fall, because the fictional patterns would extend into a range beyond my ability to produce a fictional pattern that would seem to correct it. And all that while I would have to be violating the Laws of Being and my own basic Calling and Principles of Life. So that way leads to ruin, absolute ruin!
It is on this point, generally speaking, that there are those who leave us in the wrong way; they decide they can’t take it any longer, that they are going to have to leave, they are going to quit in some fashion, and so they decide it’s time for them to pull out if they are not given adequate consideration, adequate appreciation, etc. And so, if I and those who may be working with me are not able to establish the right vibrational pattern and the acceptance of it in such individuals, a parting of the ways comes, and that’s that. As servers in the field you will be faced with this sort of thing over and over again, not just once in a while, but many times. Are you going to try to shift your foundations to fit the arbitrarily projected structure of another? If you do you will soon be so far off your foundation and into the sinking sand that it is all gone, hopeless, and you fail. No, we cannot afford to shift our foundations.
We cannot shift the true Foundation; we cannot afford to shift our contact with the foundations. So often human beings will come along and say, “Look at this nice little structure over here; I’ve built this very carefully; I’ve spent a lot of time on it; this is what I like. Now, I’ll let it be included in what you’re doing if you’ll just move over here, move your structure right over and fit into it. I’ve already got this here, fit into it!” And sometimes the human being who is attempting to serve thinks, “Well that would be a nice addition. I certainly would like to have that. Maybe if I shifted over there and got it in, then maybe I could shift back. But before he gets that operation done someone over here says, “Well now that’s fine. I’ve got something over here. Come shift over here and include this too, and you’ll grow much more rapidly. Things will really take on form if you’ll just shift over here and take this in.” And pretty soon you’ve shifted so far, and the burden has gotten so heavy, that you have absolutely not chance of ever getting back on your foundations. It won’t work. We cannot afford to shift.
That which is to take part in the building of the Temple not made with hands must come to that building. We are not going to shift the building to the material, no how matter how pleasant or fine it may appear to be; no matter how slowly the structure may seem to rise. That which is to take part in the building must come to the Foundation and fit into the building. There is no other way. We are not going to be trying to shift it around to please human desire and fancy—no matter who may come or go. I would rather one or two who are faithful and true than many who are pulling this way and that, and refusing to share in the building of that which is of the Divine Pattern.
Someday, sooner or later, there will be those appear out of the world’s pressure and turmoil who have the capacity, the willingness, to accept a stable dedication. I can afford to wait. I don’t know how many others can. I can afford to wait. And someday, there are going to be those who provide a stable core vibrational pattern. It is to this that I have been long inviting you, according to your capacities, according to your ability, that you may share in the building of a structure not made with hands—a structure so stable and so sure that there will be something manifest in the world to give assurance that there is something dependable on earth, something of God, something that lasts, and that is not pushed down by the pressures that come and go, the storms that pass, the atmospheric storms around us, or the vibrational storms, or anything else.
In the testing of the material, I do not have to arbitrarily produce conditions which will test. I work to the end that the Temple may be built, but the daily outworking of circumstances tests the material to see whether it will check, whether it will break under the pressures, how it will withstand the wind and the rain, how it will withstand the heat of the sun, and all the rest; perhaps sometimes there’s a little hail. In any case, we have to remember that while we work with individuals, the world body of mankind is our servee. Unless we have that vision, sooner or later personal factors of love, concern, for individuals will break the pattern. Unless we remember that we serve a KING who is worthy of our uttermost devotion, and that our pattern of service extends to the world body of mankind, we will tend to get involved in personalities—those whom we love, those for whom we have a high regard, those whom we would like to see sharing in the true outworking of the Divine Pattern, and who begin to break from the field, who begin to violate the basic principles of polarity and become subject to world pressures whereupon they identify individuals or circumstances or things as the cause of these pressures on the fictional basis. And then the individual is lost in an emotional conviction that if this person that did so-and-so, if that situation were different, if this thing were not there, or if we had the other thing, then all would be well and all the troubles would be over. That is one of the worst snares of the devil because the changes of that nature that supposedly would make one content, will not. And, even if those changes were achieved the same thing would happen all over again—the insatiable pattern of human desire, wanting this and that to be thus-and-so, and then I will serve God, then I will be true to the KING, then I will devote myself to serving the body of humanity. Oh you will, will you?
If it takes those specialized conditions to make you a server, you will never be one. You must learn to take it as it comes, without saying, “This condition, and then I will serve; that person change, and then I will serve; give me the other thing, and then I will serve.” As long as the pattern is thus, you are a servant of the devil. The time comes when we have to face the facts, and look squarely at the fundamental principles of being, and realize that if persons and things and circumstances can push us around and make us serve or not serve, then we are not under the control of God. Oh, there are many things we would like with respect to persons and things and circumstances that would be pleasant, and perhaps desirable, but if we are controlled on that score we are not controlled by God, we are not controlled by the truth, we are not being honest with ourselves, with God, or our fellow man—and it takes integrity, it takes honesty.
What is this matter of holding a vibrational pattern?—and how long shall we hold it? How long? Our LORD has been holding it for twenty thousand years. Perhaps He should decide to quit tomorrow. Wouldn’t that be nice for us! Suppose He were to say, “I’ve held it long enough. Let them take the consequences.” I’ve had a little experience along that line myself. I don’t think there are many here that would like to see me step out of the picture and go on a vacation for three or four years; and say, “Well, I am going to quit holding the line for you. I will come back some day and see what’s left.” I wonder how much would be left? There would be those who would valiantly seek to do the job, but I have a job to do too! You’re not supposed to be able to do my job. Or are you? If you can do my job I will go on a vacation. Please step forward. I am not supposed to do your job either. It works both ways. I am perfectly willing to fill in, and I have and I will—but I am not supposed to do your job and you’re not supposed to do my job. Together we all have a pattern of service to the Glory of our KING and to the blessing of mankind. And the question is, “What does it take to turn us aside?”
Holding a vibrational pattern—this is not something that can be easily outlined for clear understanding, but it is something that you have to learn to do. Some of our servers in the field have learned to do it and some of them haven’t. Those who do it are making progress, and those who haven’t learned to do it may still be on the scene but they’re not, they’re not really getting the job done. Underlying factors break the vibrational pattern, and external things produce reactions. When can we learn to hold steady? Suppose there are pressures, things we do not like, things that should be changed—if we become subject to those things we’re no better than they, whether they be persons or circumstances or things. We are going to reveal who is our god—to worship false gods or God Almighty? If we are a part of the body for the manifestation of God Almighty, then let’s act like it. AllMighty, not just partly mighty.
Does than mean then that we’ll have the power to go out and smash things and turn them around, and force people into this pattern, and say, “If you don’t do as I say, I am going to kick you out, etc.?” Is that what it means to be all mighty? You are going to shape things real fast into the pattern of your own desire? No! But when human beings think of power and the Almighty, that tends to be what they think about. They say, “Oh, I wouldn’t be a dictator, but this ought to be so, and that ought to be so, and my neighbour over here should be thus-and-so; this person should change; this person should change; all these folks, we could make a little adjustment and get along much better. So, if God’s power is Almighty, let’s make these changes.” The same approach the devil used in testing the pattern of our LORD, “If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread.” And it doesn’t work.
No, its not that the Almighty power of God is going to enable us to shape things around to please ourselves! It is that the Almighty power of God is going to make us able to stand and hold the line in the right vibrational pattern, while this chaotic mass swishes back-and-forth and up-and-down until the parts that belong come and stay, and become a part of the Almighty. But meanwhile, we are going to have the ebb-and-the-flow, the ups-and-the-downs, the things that ought not to be, and the things that are in the process of changing. We begin to show whether we belong to the pattern of creation or the Pattern of the Creator—the Pattern of the Creator is thus! If we are a part of that then we are Almighty to hold that pattern, hold the line while these things swirl about in the realms of the creative action. We are inviting all who will to come out of the swirling into the stable pattern of the Almighty.
But, which will it be? Not to arbitrarily be able to change things! No, that is not what signifies power, to make things be what you want them to be—but to hold the line on the right vibration while everyone else is trying to make things over to suit themselves, and that’s the mess! We have fifty people, and each one wants it his own way, and each is going to make it over to suit himself, more or less, exaggerated just a bit so we can see it. And I’ll stand on the sideline and just hold the pattern while you’re wearing yourselves out trying to make each other over, and to make circumstances be thus-and-so, and things be thus-and-so. I’ll wait. Here’s the Pattern; here’s the Design; here’s the Foundation; here’s the Power, to make you a part of this. When you get tired of trying to make each other over, if you are not yet exhausted and ready to die, come over, come over and join us—and I’ll wait. I’ll just wait. I’ll hold the pattern. It’ll be here. Oh, I know, you must make each over a bit more, you must make yourself over a bit more. You’re not quite ready to fit in, so you’ll make yourself into some certain design, you’ll make your neighbour into some certain design. It won’t be worth the snap of your finger when you get here—but take your time, work on it hard, wear yourself out, spend the days of your years doing nothing. The Almighty can wait. He can afford to. Can you?
Just to hold the pattern, the pattern of Truth, the True Design, offering it, but not trying to jam it down anyone’s neck. Not saying, “Well, I am going to make you over.” No, but when you respond you find that you are made over, changed. But you can’t change yourself in advance. You can’t shape this to fit your fancy! So if you are going to shape something to fit your fancy, go on back down into the mess and take your chances—that’s all. This is the Design. Here is the Foundation. And there is the Power here to cause you to conform to this. Hesitate! For what? Because you haven’t made yourself over enough, or made someone else over enough? It won’t work. You must be a part of this, or you’re a part of that which the creative force is acting upon—and that swirling morass out there is being acted upon. That is not where you find the stability, the sure things. You say, “Well, I thought I would grow to the point where, in my contact with this that you’re talking about, I could then go out and I can make things over. I can do this! I am going to have Almighty power so I can go out and be little dictator number three-million six-hundred and ninety-eight. No! Not at all. You hold the line.
Geographically, you may be here or there, if you’re a part of Center—but if you go out trying to carry the Almighty power to shape and mould and do according to what you think ought to be done, it will not work! You’ll just fail. Millions have tried it and failed, and brought the things of God and the power of God into disrepute among the children of men. They say, “Oh, so-and-so has tried it; all of these people get fanatical; they get this-way-and-that, and look!” Sometimes people are called faith healers. People will even tend to classify you as a faith healer, which isn’t true at all if you are functioning correctly. But you’ll have all kinds of tags hung on you. If you have a diamond, say a nice three-carat diamond, and someone comes along and hangs a tag on it, “Cut glass.” Now does the tag make the diamond turn into cut glass? No. But, if it is cut glass instead of being a diamond, it’ll be terribly offended, because it wanted to appear as a diamond. Tags do not change you unless—unless you let them. I’ve been called all kinds of things; and my LORD before me was called a servant of Beelzebub. But the tag doesn’t change you, unless you let it.
And I’ve been informed at various times along the way that carrying the business of holding the line, and insisting that this be thus-and-so can be carried too far, that if I just yield a little bit, if I just say, “Yes, well, maybe we can altar the Divine Design to include this little habit pattern of yours, or this little attitude, or… We won’t insist that you clear completely. I know God love’s you so much that He’ll take you right in, if you are just a little bit off; we’ll have a special colony for people who are a little off, and we’ll make it nice for you in heaven.” You want to be a little off, in the colony? There isn’t any such, but if that’s your aspiration, OK—you’ll never get there! Why be a little off? Why not say, “I recognize that our LORD and KING has held the line for the Pattern of the Original Design. All the negotiations, all the pressures, all the rebellions and revolutions and pushings-and-pullings have not caused Him to budge from that one iota. Not one iota. It’s still, after twenty-thousand years with human beings existing in misery and dying, it’s still the same thing that it was in the beginning. Either this, or! It’s just the same. No change.
How is it put in the Bible? “My word shall not pass away.” My Law—not one jot or tittle of the Law. It’s just the same. No matter who dies; no matter who suffers; no matter how much misery anyone has—all of this will not change. God, or the Pattern, the Design—it’s exactly the same for you today as it was twenty-thousand years ago. It’s exactly the same as it will be in the future. So, if we’re true to the truth we hold the line! Of what? Of the Divine Design. And say, “This is it. Come and share it.” We reveal it, and do our best to present it so that it can be seen in it’s true beautiful light, so that it can be as appealing to the human consciousness as possible—but it’s the same thing, and its not going to change. And you cannot negotiate with God and say, “After while, I am sure that God will be willing to sign a truce.” He will be willing to modify His terms a little, after enough of us die on the battlefield of life, enough of us suffer. I am sure that He will say, “Well, its time to call a truce. And we’ll begin to work out colonies for all the distortion factors. Some of you can have this part of the earth, and some of you can have that part of the earth, and we’ll take a little part over here; it won’t have to be very big, I know, but we would like to have a few hundred acres for those who would really like to reveal the Divine Design, with nothing off, nothing distorted—the real thing.” No truce! No truce. No negotiation is going to work. There is the invitation, “Come and share it.” But don’t imagine that you can put enough pressure on God to make Him compromise, and say, “Well, I’ll accept some of your ideas if you will accept some of mine.” It doesn’t work that way.
Holding the line! On what? On truth—the Divine Design. Do you think you won’t feel pressures? Do you think I don’t? Do you think I don’t know what it is to feel sadness at human beings pulling and turning away, or doing a thousand-and-one things that they ought not to do? I’ve had people go so far as to try to make me compromise a bit by saying, “Well, do thus-and-so or I am going to quit.” Well, if you’re going to quit you’re going to quit; that’s a fact. I am not going to change! Like it or not, I don’t compromise, like it or not! Is it just my way? Am I being some kind of an arbitrary human being? No. I have pointed you to the truth. I’ve pointed you to our KING. I’ve pointed you to the Divine Design. And its that way! Now if it isn’t good enough for someone, well that’s too bad. It’s good enough for me. And that is what I stand for. And it will be the same whether this human form violates the principles or not. It doesn’t change it any—for that which appears as the man would go down as well as anyone else, by reason of a violation. So why do it? What’s the gain? Nothing.
And until you begin to have this realization and this basic attitude, maintaining at the same time a willingness to conform in the patterns of the Divine Design, you can’t really serve. It takes flexibility, great flexibility. I think I have revealed that flexibility, moving from point-to-point in various ways, serving here and there and everywhere. Sometimes human beings take an inflexible attitude, and they say, “You’re flexibility is going to have to take care of this, because I won’t budge.” Well then, of course, when it’s put like that, I get inflexible—then I begin to be inflexible, not because I can’t be flexible but because to yield on a point like that would be to damn the one whom I seek to serve; to increase the idea that if we struggle hard enough, press hard enough, work hard enough, and suffer enough, God will compromise. But, Blessed Ones, God will not compromise, and that’s that! And anyone who hopes to secure a compromise pattern with God has a vain hope. It’s a vain desire.
The LORD is your shepherd, you shall not want. Stop your wanting! Yield to the Divine Design, to the truth, and stay true to the truth. Be honest. Reveal the basic integrity, and the Almighty Power of God will be in you and express through you, to help you to hold the line while someone else pushes-and-pulls, and goes back-and-forth, and decides, “Well, maybe some day I’ll yield too. First I must do this; first I must do that, and the other thing. I’ll probably yield some day, when I get tired enough. But please just wait. Hold the line. I hope that there’s a place for me in the Temple. I’ll get around to filling it some day.” Some day! Some day. And so, we wait, letting the light shine, revealing the truth. What shall it be? What shall it be; when and where, and with whom? What shall it be? We shall see what we shall see.
