Sex #3 — The Male And Female Principles Of Being

Sex  #3

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The Male And Female Principles Of Being

Uranda  April 29, 1954 a.m.

In our meditations we have been considering together the basic principles of being in relationship to what we have called sex. In one sense we can say that the word "sex" relates to the distinguishing characteristics of the male principle and the female principle. If we limit our concepts to the distinguishing characteristics physically we are bound to enter into a great many distortions in consciousness. But if we consider the distinguishing characteristics in relationship to the male and female principles of being we can see the application, extending all the way from the amoeba, which we were considering yesterday, to man, to man's relationship with God, and into all spheres of creation, the solar system and the universe. So it is vitally important that we understand these principles in their relationship to the One Law—the basic Law of Being.

In relationship to principle we have recognized law—principle, creative law. We were brought forth on earth in the image and likeness of Deity, of God, to express exactly the same principle as that which expresses through God, under exactly the same laws. God is subject to the same laws to which you are subject. To try to imagine that God is somehow superior to the laws of His own Being, and that He arbitrarily imposes law here and there, would be a very serious error, and it is an error in consciousness which is very prevalent throughout the body of mankind. But once we begin to realize that God functions under exactly the same laws that we do, we will realize that we have no more business rebelling against those laws than God has, and we realize that if God did not accept those laws He would not be God. It is because God does accept those laws in relationship to Himself, and in relationship to all creative action, all Divine action, that He is God. We are to share with Him the expression of that which He is on earth.

The means by which we may share that expression must necessarily be seen as something holy and sacred, partaking of the nature and the being of the Divine. This means by which we as human beings may share is basically the physical body. Inherent with the physical body, in this means of expression, we have the mind and the emotional nature—and remember that includes the subconscious aspect, or the memory aspect, of being. The means of expression must be as holy and sacred as that which is to be expressed. The means of expression cannot be less sacred, less holy, less Divine, than that which is to be expressed. We say and accept, at least theoretically, that man is the means by which God is to express in action on earth, and yet man, in self-active function, having separated himself from God, has produced an evil state in himself. Evil is the result of tangent function, function at a tangent with the Law of Being, or the result of incomplete action. All evil is incomplete action actually, and we need to realize that—incomplete action either because it is impossible for it to complete, because it is on a tangent, or incomplete because the human being did not persevere or maintain the cycle, remain centered, and let that cycle complete.

All evil, without any exception whatsoever, is the result of incomplete action. But there are two primary causes of incomplete action: tangent action which is self-active function at its worst, or action more or less in the correct direction in relationship to law but not properly sustained and maintained so that the cycle may be completed. This failure to have something maintained and properly sustained comes about through the absence of some of the factors which should be in action in relationship to the cycle. Human beings do not pause to consider their own lives with as much wisdom and sense and understanding as they approach the planting of a garden. And the Garden of God, or the Garden of Eden which is planted eastward in Eden, is a means by which this pattern of relationship between man and God has been illustrated in the Biblical portrayal.

Now if we remember these things, let us go back for the moment to the amoeba, back to the point of the basic manifestation in form of the male and the female principle. Here in the nucleus there is that which allows the focalization and function or action of the male principle. And what is the basic aspect of this male principle? It is the positive aspect of the One Law. And then we have the form which permits the focalization and action or function of the female principle, which is the negative aspect of the One Law. We see that the two aspects of the One Law are absolutely interdependent and that if either one—if such a thing were possible—if either one were absolutely separated or segregated from the other, it would be meaningless. We can see that it is completely wrong to imagine one aspect of the Law as being superior to the other.

The human mind, discolored by all of the false concepts in the mass consciousness, has tended to imagine that somehow the positive aspect of the Law was better than the negative aspect of the Law, and if someone in the negative aspect of the pattern could just get over into the positive aspect of the pattern it would be a better place, a better condition or something of the sort, which is not true. Each aspect is equally important, and that is the point that we need to bring to clear focalization in consciousness this morning. In a successful marriage, for instance, there is a pattern of wholeness because of the factors which each party to the marriage brings into the picture—a pattern of wholeness. And true wholeness results in the manifestation of wholesomeness. To whatever degree there is a lack of wholeness we begin to sense a lack of wholesomeness, and if that lack goes to the extreme there is a marked lack of wholeness and a marked lack of wholesomeness. That which is wholesome speaks of life in action.

We realize that every cell in the body functions on the basis of this Law, so with respect to every one of the billions of cells in your body there is the positive and the negative. Therefore the positive and the negative are in you, just from the standpoint of the cellular structure of your body. But it is more than that. You have the positive and negative aspects of being in many, many ways. And we see the application of the same principle, over and over again, in the body which appears in the solar system, which needs to be remembered at this point—the sun, positive to the earth; the earth, negative to the sun. But the moon is negative to the earth, and the earth is positive to the moon. The earth as a planet has a dual function here which connects the moon and the sun—the earth, positive to the moon but negative to the sun. And so we begin to see that every form of manifestation is in actual fact both positive and negative.

We have the terminology of the positive and negative aspects with respect to the level of being; but you, the human being, in relationship to your consciousness, your self-awareness, you are positive to the body, shall we say, the physical body as such. But the physical body in its turn has to be positive to something else. So the negative aspect, even in the amoeba, must be positive to something. Remember, in the portrayal of the amoeba as we witnessed it in the movies, there was a foreign object which came into the picture, entered through the skin or outside portion of the amoeba, but there was no action upon it other than repelling. Now suppose this foreign object had gotten into the body of the amoeba—something that did not belong there—and suppose the nucleus, the male principle, the core, undertook to be positive toward this foreign element, and suppose the female part of the body of the amoeba decided to be negative. "I'm negative," says the little amoeba body. "I'm negative, so I am going to be negative to this. I will not let it be cast out. I am going to retain this; I think it's pretty good. I think it looks nice; I think it ought to be here." And suppose the negative part of the little amoeba said, "I will keep it. I am going to be negative to this. I am negative anyway, and I will hold it here." The moment the little female part of the amoeba became negative to this, it became positive to the male part of the amoeba, because it undertook to do something contrary to what the male part intended to do. The male part of the body wanted to repel this foreign object which had no real place in the body of the amoeba. If the female part shared that attitude, remained negative to the male part, and therefore was positive to the foreign object, the foreign object soon slipped right on out and was gone. The foreign object, then, didn't hurt the body of the amoeba. But if the female part had failed to function properly under the Law, the foreign object would have remained in the body and in time would certainly, just by its presence, have hurt. But the presence of the foreign object would not have been the primary cause of hurt in the body of the amoeba, because we see that it would have been the change in pattern.

The negative aspect of the amoeba, in order to be negative to the foreign object, would have had to establish a tangent pattern of purpose, a pattern of purpose at a tangent in relationship to the purpose of the male part of the body, and consequently the female part would have become positive toward the male part and the life of the amoeba would have been destroyed. A foreign object would not have been the cause. It would have appeared, perhaps, to the consciousness of the female part of the amoeba that it was the cause, but it would not have been the cause. The cause would have been the change in attitude, the change in the vibrational factors at work in the amoeba.

We noted that oxygen was received into the body of the amoeba and the poisonous gas, carbon monoxide, was cast out, it moved out. Now can you duplicate that? You want oxygen in and you want this other gas out, one trying to move one direction, the other going to move the other direction. You say, "Well, I can breathe. I can take a deep breath. I can bring air in." But can you make the oxygen go into your body? Not by intellectual gymnastics you can't. So the amoeba can't, and you can't. What is it that causes something to come in and something to go out in the amoeba? What is the secret of life? Is that not what we are studying here?—a consideration of sex in relationship to the basic form of life, so that we can begin to more clearly understand what life is and how it manifests. If we can begin to understand the secret of life in the amoeba, we can begin to understand it in relationship to ourselves in the more complex organism. But here is an instrument that we call the amoeba, that has for its purpose the manifestation or formation of the Law in action, a form through which the Law may operate, the basic Law, the Law of the positive and the negative.

Now we have mentioned that Life is a child. We say that the Spirit of Love and the Spirit of Truth brought to union give birth to Life. Truth includes the elements of design and control, the means of comprehending purpose and principle. We say, principle is God Principle. God Principle must have some means of action. God Principle in action we call Love. God principle in action in the sense of the positive or cohesive elements, the working of the Law, is Love. But Love, or the positive aspect of God Principle, must have a means of action—a means of action—and the means of action we call Truth. The power of action we call Love; the means of action we call Truth. The result of the working of the power of action through the means of action produces Life in that which is acted upon. So there must also be not only the power of action, not only the means of action, but that which is acted upon. And that which is acted upon we call substance.

"How did substance come to be?" the mind might ask. "What was before substance?" I think the subject will be cleared in your other classes, but I believe we should bring it in for a moment here. Where there is to the human mind nothing—if it be truly nothing and not merely the appearance—it is a vibrationless state. If there are no vibratory factors at work it is unformed, and the unformed in space is that in which there is no vibration. If this that is without form in the deep of space is acted upon, in the sense of the One Law, the positive and the negative, vibration is established in that which is vibrationless, and the nature of the vibratory pattern will determine the nature of the substance that is formed. So the original creative action in relationship to the planets, or the solar systems for instance, was not an attempt on the part of God to make something out of nothing. It appears to the human mind to be nothing; but it is the vibrationless, that which is, in other words, static. The static condition of the unformed can be changed into a vibrant condition. As rapidly as the vibrant pattern begins to be present in the realm or region of the unformed, it will no longer be unformed, because form begins to appear as soon as the vibrant expression is established.

Everything is vibration, the vibrations of which we are aware, for instance, in relationship to light, the long, slow vibrations or the highly speeded-up vibrations in the range of light. The same principle applies in the range of form. As soon as the vibrational intensity in relationship to physical substance reaches a certain point, it is beyond the range of the physical vision to see, and so we classify it as the invisible realm of being or form, the invisible vibrational pattern. This invisible realm relates to ourselves, as we have noted from the standpoint of the mind, for instance, because you can't see mind and yet it is there. You can't see your feeling or emotional nature. You can see the results of it, but it is invisible. So we are definitely related, as physical forms which may be seen, with invisible vibratory patterns which cannot be seen with the physical eye. This vibratory pattern goes on up, and if there be a means of perception in the higher range of vibratory pattern, then the form of that pattern is not invisible.

In order to avoid a great deal of unnecessary confusion or tragic confusion, in order to make the different parts of creation have real meaning, God provided that there should be a means of perception at each level, a means of perception peculiar to that level, and that would allow a definite division point with respect to function on the different levels. For instance, here in what we call the physical world, the world of humanity, we have the means of perceiving in a certain range, a means of perceiving by vision, by touch, etc., and whatever vibrational substance is in that range may be seen or perceived by us. And it is the limit of perception, particularly visual perception, which establishes the limits of our realm of living. But for the next higher vibratory level there is likewise a means of perception just as real in relationship to that level of form as our means of perception is real to our level of form. This establishes the different levels—not because there is a separation between the two levels, for the two levels are in absolute contact; there is no break between them; they move into each level, or the vibratory patterns move into each level, without any break whatsoever. It is one thing.

The differentiation comes in relationship to the perception and not to the reality of form, and to the degree that we see that, we can realize, intellectually at least, that what is invisible to our eyes, or our other methods of perception, is not absent—it is there. There is not a dividing line in the sense of separation. There is simply the extent to which we may see. I can see to the top of yonder rimrock, and if I were to say there is nothing beyond that, it is the end of the world, you would know I didn't know what I was talking about. But if you go to that point, you can see beyond; and if you go the limit of that point, you can see beyond, and so on. And there is no point of division. So that which is established by reason of the limits of our perception tends to confuse the consciousness and establish a feeling of separation, and the feeling of separation establishes an attitude toward that which is above which is the same as the little female amoeba body here forgetting about the positive center of its own being and becoming negative to the foreign object which has penetrated into it.

So the vibrational patterns extend all the way up and down, from the base in the unformed to the Central Point of Being in the Cosmos, and there is no break, no dividing line, in the sense of being or form or function, from one point to the other. From the base of the unformed to the Center of the Cosmos it is one, all connected up, all unified, but the various aspects of it are distinguishable on the basis of the levels of the ability to perceive. If we see that, we can cease this attitude which causes us to forget the Core of our own Being.

Tonight we have a service continuing the one begun on Sunday evening [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/father-and-mother-aspects-of-god.html], and I am bringing all of this to focus in relationship to our anticipated meditation this evening. But you begin to see that Mother God, the female aspect in relationship to our level of being, has been ignored so thoroughly because She was not there. And that is why we don't have a Home, why we don't have a Paradise, why we don't have an earth in its perfect state.

Where did Mother God go,

and how can we get Her back Home?

The point is that the Core of Being, as far as we are concerned, is, as we have noted before, Father God. We say, "Remain centered in God," the Core of Being, the Center of Being. But the Core of Being, as perceived, can have no meaning except as it functions on the level where there is perception; in other words if function is not permitted in the range of perception it is as if it were not. We need to realize that the meaningfulness of God must be allowed to manifest in the level where we can perceive it before it can have meaning to us, for the meaning to us must be in the level where we can perceive. We do not deny that God is somewhere else, in the invisible realm or heaven, or whatever you want to call it. But that which is of God, that which is of spirit, that which is of heaven, can have absolutely no meaning to us, no real value to us as far as our intelligence is concerned, our self-awareness, our pattern of direction and function, unless it manifests in the level where we are.

Now we begin to see how it is that human beings, sensing, perceiving, that the adequate manifestation of Deity was not in form and active in the level where they are, have wanted to get to some other level. They wanted to go to heaven, because the human consciousness did not perceive the means by which God could be allowed adequate action in the level where they do perceive. Now here is one of the vital points in relationship to clearing of consciousness and effective function in the days to come, because we have seen that the realm of form extends all the way from the base in the unformed to the Center of the Cosmos. There is no place in that range where form is not. Form is there, real form, form just as real as any that we know. But we do not perceive form other than within our range of perception, so meaningfulness of that is limited to its manifest influence in the range of our perception.

Clearing this, we begin to see that we have been like the foolish body, the female body of the amoeba, that neglected to keep centered with its Core, and a foreign object came in, and instead of ignoring the foreign object, in the sense of not responding to it, in the sense of remaining centered with the Core, we have established a division between ourselves and the Core, a division which is not real in the sense of reality but is real in the sense of functional patterns. Now there is the difference—not a division in the sense of reality, not a division in the sense of form, but a division in the range of functional patterns, and that includes perception. So the female body began to act as if the foreign object were a part of the divided nucleus. It began to act as if the foreign object were a part. Then the foreign object was contained, and this that had been negative to the nucleus became positive to the nucleus and would be separated from the nucleus, and life could not continue. The manifestation of life would cease. And there we have the basic cause of death.

We are interested in life, that life may increase in ourselves and in those whom we serve. Life, we remember now, is the Child of the power to function [Love] and the means of functioning [Truth]. The means of functioning at this particular level we see as the body of the amoeba, including the nucleus. Now how does it function? What is this jellylike substance in the cell or in the amoeba? What is that jellylike substance? What should we call it? What is it called? Protoplasm. And what does that mean? First form, or first substance. Protoplasm. In other words this that is in the jellylike body of the amoeba is one step further along the way than what we ordinarily think of when we say pneumaplasm, isn't it? Just one step forward into the realm of what we call the solid. It is essentially, then, pneumaplasm in its nature, isn't it? Now this more solid substance, instead of having the nature of spirit, as pneumaplasm does, begins to have the nature of substance. When we get many cells together on the basis of what we call flesh here, we say, "Now that is solid." But what makes it solid?

Isn't there jellylike substance in all those cells in the flesh? Isn't that what you have been realizing in your considerations? When you go to give an attunement, what are you doing? You are attempting to do what? You are going to make this person get well, or "I see this person well." You are going to visualize, or what? Actually you are setting up a vibratory field on the basis of what? God principle—the power to act and the means of action, Love and Truth, which must be in yourself: a dual pattern here, positive and negative, which gives birth to Life. But if you see this dual pattern of yourself which is positive and negative, then to the person whom you are serving, if you are really serving, you are what? You are all positive. Even the negative aspect of you is positive, just as the negative aspect of the amoeba had to be positive toward the foreign object. And if the nucleus was positive, and the negative aspect of the amoeba remained positive with the nucleus, the foreign object passed right on through and was gone. But that meant that the negative aspect of the amoeba had to be positive toward the foreign object, not negative.

So it is the control of the direction in which we are negative, or responsive, that is going to determine the results in our lives, control of the direction of response. "According to your response, so be it unto you." That is the basis on which the pattern functions here in the amoeba. All right, as a server, and a servee is there, you may be ever so gentle, you may be ever so considerate, you may be ever so patient, but you are positive. Here is a part of the body of the amoeba that has a foreign object in it; it is sick, ill, not functioning right; something is there that ought not to be, and there is an absence of something that ought to be. So you are a positive, you are a part of the nucleus, and if this person who is supposed to be a servee is positive toward you, what is going to happen? If in his consciousness, in his identity of himself as a person, he is positive toward you, he is going to be repelled out of you, away from you. But if in consciousness, in functional pattern, he remains negative to you, a part of the Core of Nucleus, then he is a part of the female body of the amoeba, and the foreign object which relates to himself, or disturbs his pattern of function, is going to be cast out of him.

Now he is going to be cast out of the body of the amoeba if his identity of self-awareness is established in relationship to his ill condition, because he is going to be responsive to that, and this foreign object is going to be cast out. So he is cast out with it in such a case. But if his identity of consciousness is established in relationship to the Core, by being responsive to you as a server, and he remains steady in that, and you are truly—not just claiming but in actual fact—a part of the Core or the nucleus, then the foreign object, that which does not belong in other words, is cast out of his body and thereby cast out of your body. But remember that the person whom you serve is a part of your Body. You are not dealing with someone else over here. There is a differentiated form, yes, a different focalization of identity, but if you are a part of the Core, the nucleus, then that which is in the field here, the person who has come to you, is a part of your Body, not just someone else's body that you are going to do something with. Every one of you here, you are all a part of My Body. If I had not received you into My Body you would not be here. You may say, "Well I came of my own free will." You see, My Body is like the amoeba. It might go around, it might withdraw, it might look unshapely sometimes, but you would not be here if I had not received you into My Body, the body of the amoeba.

Now we are getting down to where we belong, aren't we? If someone comes and I receive that person into My Body, and there is a beginning of response, an acceptance of centering, of sharing as the female body of the amoeba has to share with the nucleus if the foreign object is to be repelled, cast out, then the individual identifies himself with the Core, and that which is unreal in himself begins to be dislodged and removed step by step. But if at some point along the way he finds his attunement of self-awareness more securely established in something that is being cast out than it is securely established in the nucleus, then he becomes the foreign object—not because I wanted it so, but because he made the choice. And so the person is repelled out of My Body, my amoeba, instead of just the ill condition in consciousness or body or whatever it may be.

Now you begin to see more clearly the application of the principle which the Master used when He was talking about His Body. Human beings have imagined that He just meant the body of the man that was called Jesus, and somehow the physical body of the man Jesus was all of this mysterious something—but His Body includes us all, whether we know it or not, whether we perceive it or not. We have to begin to perceive it before that fact can begin to have meaning to us, because He is the Center of the Core of the amoeba in which we live, which is this earth, because this is an amoeba in the Body of the Cosmos. We are not amoebas; we are just a part of an amoeba.

He is the Center of the Nucleus and we are all in His Body

As you consider these factors and we continue with our meditations, you will be, step-by-step, in a better position to begin to see what life really is and how we can with intelligence and understanding function in relationship to it. Function? Oh, the power to function, and the means to function. Now the Master said, "The means to function is here. And ye shall know the truth, the means to function, and the means to function shall make you free to be what you ought to be in the body of being."

© emissaries of divine light

Sex #2 — The Female Principle — Negative Response

Sex  #2

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The Female Principle — Negative Response

Uranda  April 28, 1954 a.m.

Yesterday morning we began a consideration of the basic sex principle. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/sex-1-basic-principles-of-being.html] We recognized that the sex principle as we think of it is actually God Principle in action in all levels of being. Last night, and I understand again this morning, you looked at some pictures which revealed something about the amoeba and the principles of cellular function. Yesterday we concluded our meditation with a brief consideration of the Core Principle, the Core which has meaning in relationship to the periphery of life action. And we noted that all that is brought forth in any way, shape or form must manifest through or by reason of the female principle.

In the processes of division and multiplication of the form of the amoeba we saw this in action. First there was something that took place in the male principle present in the amoeba, the nucleus, and then the female principle followed that pattern that was so established. We recognized that the vibrational factors, or what we might call the principles of attraction, were at work. We come back to the basic principle of response: "According to thy response, so be it unto thee." And as soon as the male principle divided, you will remember, the form which was in the general pattern irregular became circulatory, round, as far as the amoeba itself is concerned, and then there was a division in the nucleus and the two positives repelled each other, didn't they? The two positives repelled each other, and as soon as they were stabilized in that pattern near the outer surface of the amoeba, the negative pattern began to respond to the positive and we witnessed the picture showing how there was the drawing together, the split, separation, and then pulling apart. As soon as the two halves of the female substance had responded to their respective male points of control and the female substance had closed around the male focalization here, the male principle, the two parts began to separate, two positives again began to be repelled, and the completion of the separation pattern was the result of that. Here we see one of the most interesting, fundamental aspects of the application of the One Law where it can be readily recognized and understood, that we may see how it works at all levels and in relationship to all things. In any case the important thing is to remember that the One Law works at every level. We can see it in certain places and ways, but having seen the visually portrayed illustration of the dividing of these one-cell forms of life, we saw the application of the One Law at the lowest form of life, as we speak of it. But we recognize that the more complex forms of life are dependent upon the so-called lower forms of life, and this principle applies in multiplication of cells in the body, the process by which growth takes place.

A diagram here portrays a single cell, with positive nucleus and negative body;

secondly, a picture of the cell dividing into two

Now if we see how the female aspect here follows the male aspect, we can also see that if the male aspect is right and the female aspect refused to follow the male aspect, this process of division or reproduction would not appear. In this sense we recognize something creative; something that was one became two. In the more complex pattern of formation in the physical realm as we know it we have the two halves here in separate bodies. Instead of their being contained in one body to begin with, they are contained in two bodies. But according to the principle as it finds fulfilment, in the ideal pattern the two become one: "They two shall be one flesh." In the processes of reproduction, then, at the level of the more complex form of life which we call the human being, we see that in actual fact the process of multiplication or reproduction does not take place until the two parts which are in separate bodies become one body, and when they do become one body in actual fact the process of reproduction becomes possible. The convenience of function is greatly multiplied in the more complex pattern as we know it in our own body, but the principle remains the same—the application of the One Law, the working together of the male and the female principle in the actual manifestation of God the Creator in action. We cannot have bringing forth, we cannot have reproduction, we cannot have any truly creative expression, without those factors being present. And even if we utilize our capacities to bring forth distorted things, emptiness, sorrow, what is called evil, it is still the same principle in action: the God Principle brought within the range of man's control, reversed in relationship to its nature and used on a destructive basis. All true evil comes from this one point.

Now, you have begun to recognize the difference between "evil" and "evol." "Evol" is a word that we have more or less arbitrarily developed in relationship to the true pattern of what is called evolution—evolving. All growing is a process of evolving, but in the world consciousness there is an idea that evolution by processes of transmutation over a period of millions of years allowed the amoeba to finally appear in the form of a man or a woman—interesting conjecture, requiring more faith than I possess. Man's idea is so complicated and difficult, and God's way is so simple and easy. In any case, there is evolution in every cycle. The moment any cycle ceases to evolve it becomes a circle. Here is one of the most vital points that you will consider in your entire period of meditation here. That which is supposed to be in a creative cycle which ceases to evolve begins to move in a circle, and here we have the secret of life and death as man knows it.

A diagram here shows a curve spiraling out from a central circle, with division points labeled

"Inception," "Birth," "Maturity, so called," and "Ascension" — also "Any Residue Left"

We will use that to illustrate a cycle, a spiral. Actually this might be considered as being more or less all right if we see that as the far end and recognize that the near end is no larger than the far end, although the perspective makes it appear to be so. So we will consider this the starting point, here inside of the spiral at the bottom, and you are looking down through the spiral on the inside. Here we have, then, the starting point with respect to any creative cycle, every creative cycle. There is a beginning in manifestation in form, and that beginning must be the result of God in action. Somehow the male and female principles were coordinated to make possible at that level, whatever it may be, the inception of a cycle, conception in the sense of reproduction of the human race, or the inception point, whatever it may be. Now the inception point does not generally allow anything particular to appear in form; in other words there must be a gestation period. So we will illustrate here, draw a line across to indicate the point of emergence into recognizable form; the gestation period from inception to birth; and at the point of birth we have the beginning of the manifestation of the form that is to be, the baby, or whatever else in whatever level.

All too often human beings who share in making possible the inception of a cycle do not hold true to the principles involved and allow the gestation period to work out correctly, and most of the difficulties human beings have in life relate to the manner in which they spoil that which is taking form during the period of gestation, the evolving that takes place from inception to birth into form where physical vision may perceive the result of correct function. Many human beings blind themselves continually to the results of their own ill action by the simple process of allowing their capacities of being to be utilized in the inception of a cycle but, because they can't yet see what is taking form by reason of that inception, a cross-vibration appears that destroys that which is evolving before it has taken form so that they can see it, and leaves them in a position where, when it is destroyed, they are not aware that anything was either coming into form or destroyed and prevented from appearing in form. Do you begin to see what I mean?

It is there that the breaks in the vibrational pattern do their most damage, because even though human beings tend to let themselves be used creatively, constructively to some degree, that which is conceived at the inception point is all too often destroyed or caused to be subject to abortion before it reaches the point where it can be seen, and being seen, be appreciated. Human beings seem to think that everything, outside of the human baby, ought to manifest in nine seconds instead of nine months. And that period of holding steady, of being true, of letting the cycle work in the early stages of the evolving process, is the thing that is absolutely essential—the gestation period. But the human being, not having the realization that something was actually begun back here at the inception point, proceeds to so function that it is destroyed, and he doesn't have any awareness of the fact that he destroyed something. So he deludes himself into thinking, "Well, you see, nothing comes forth. There was nothing to begin with. There couldn't have been or it would have come forth." He doesn't realize that he himself destroyed it before it came forth into the realm where it could be seen.

Now "evil" as against "evol." Many things that are spoken of as evil are not in any sense wrong; they are merely incomplete; they have not yet come to the fulness of their formation, and the limited human vision, seeing the incomplete thing, says, "Oh, that is evil," when in actual fact it is evol, that is, in the state of evolving, and under proper care and consideration it will evolve to its true expression of being. Without that care it won't. And we have the responsibility of providing the care.

If we begin to see this, let us note what happens when we carry it out here to the point of maturity of the physical form, as we think of it. Actually it is still immature. But considering a human being, the cycle of inception, gestation, birth, development in form and consequently what we call physical maturity—not mental maturity, not emotional maturity, and in actual fact not physical maturity; but the human being is not aware of the fact that he is not mature and so he assumes that he is mature among a lot of other immature manifestations of human beings. Now if this creative cycle is allowed to continue to evolve, in the growing process the individual is able to, in the cycle of maturity, keep ascending and go past his inception point on a higher level—he has been coming up. But as human beings are, they reach the point of what they call maturity, and perhaps begin to follow out the cycle to some degree, and then it begins to divide and they don't know it. As soon as it definitely begins to divide they say, "Oh, now I'm getting old, I'm feeling my years. Just think, I have lived for fifty-five years and I'm getting pretty old. I'm nearly sixty." And instead of continuing on the cycle—the divergence has come—he begins to move not in the ascending spiral of true evolving but back to his point of inception. Instead of carrying on up the spiral, it is turned into a circle. He manifests for a little way, but then—have you ever heard it said of people who were past forty-five? and I am, you know, and so I'm being generous—"They are moving into their second childhood. They are getting old. They are getting childish," and so on. "They are moving into their second childhood." What do they mean?

They mean that that person has diverted from the true cycle of his own being in the ascending spiral, and instead of moving up in the pattern so that he gets past his point of inception on a higher level, he has remained on the same level, or is getting back to it. And so, in extreme cases we have known from the standpoint of case histories, the individuals reached a certain point where they didn't want to do anything but just curl up in bed. They even went back to the state of the fetus in the womb before physical death overtook them—a returning to the womb. Now that is the result of immaturity. That individual was never mature, and the fact that human beings work in the circle instead of the cycle of the creative spiral shows that human beings today, in the overall sense, under these conditions, are not functioning on the level of maturity, because maturity at this point, or at any point, allows the individual to remain on the ascending spiral, to continue to evolve. But the moment he fails to continue to evolve he begins to diverge from the ascending spiral and will gravitate back to the point of inception, and then we say, "Oh, it was a natural death." No, it wasn't a natural death. And it is because of that that we have so much confusion with respect to death.

Many things that are not death are classified as death, and much that is called death is assumed to be natural. Death, so called, is not death when the level is moving upward from the lower scale of life as we think of it. Remember that is relative; lower and higher is relative to the complexity of the organism. So the higher scale of life is sustained by the lower scale of life. The higher evolution is made possible by that which is below in the complexity of the organism. And that which is finding fulfilment of itself by sharing in the formation of the more complex organism, whether it is one type of fish eating another type of fish, or whatever, along the line, is not death. It isn't death at all. In the processes of nature, all around us, we see this, and human beings have falsely called it death because they themselves have become entrapped in the pattern of death and they don't see the distinction. But that which is not sharing in evolving is that which begins to disintegrate and decay. Even in nature, for instance. Consider the leaves of the tree. We say the leaves die in the fall. Actually they don't. To say the leaves die in the fall is evidence that we are ignorant of what is taking place, because those leaves as such have fulfilled their purpose and the degree of disintegration that is involved in allowing them to return to the soil, to be picked up in a new pattern of life in the following spring, is not death for the leaves. Death for the leaf would be to have the leaf picked off the tree and preserved in a form where it is not permitted to share in the evolving processes of life expression. But that leaf doesn't have consciousness, so that it says, "Now I'm alive and now I'm dead." It is a perfectly natural cycle that is not death, and we need to begin to realize that. It is in relationship to the divergence from the true cycle of the thing that we have death, and that is the only point where we have death. And it is only in relationship to that that we have evil; for back here where there is the beginning of the divergence, just beginning, something may appear.

Now that can be either evil or evol. If the individual maintains his pattern in the creative cycle, ascending in the pattern, it will prove to be evol. If he breaks from his cycle it will prove to be evil, because then it will be the lack of what ought to be, not the fulfilment. And it is the lack of what ought to be, the absence of something, that brings about the final break in the cycle and permits the form to move into the circle of return to the point of inception, instead of remaining true to the ascending spiral of creation. Now this is basic in relationship to our understanding of many, many things in life, and until we see that distinction we cannot begin to truly understand ourselves or others, and we must do both if we are going to truly serve humanity.

Here, then, we see that the continued expression of the God Principle in creative action means that there must be a continual function in an evolving process—not evolution in the sense of transmutation from one particular type of thing to another, but a movement into a higher vibrational pattern of the thing itself, until this spiral reaches the point here that becomes invisible to the human eye. It has reached an attunement with the complexity patterns of the inner realm. It is moving upward; it is in the spiral; and it crosses over from the physical realm of form as we know it into the invisible realm, and there is the step of ascension. Now at this point there may be a certain amount of residue left behind without there being a condition that can properly be called death. Just as you leave certain residue behind day by day, a certain amount of residue may be left behind at the time of that ascension, but here is the distinction between true ascension and the disordered pattern we know in the world that is called death.

Scientists do not understand why certain cells go wild in the formation or development of what is called cancer. It is a lack of control. Isn't it? Cells wouldn't go wild without a lack of control. Control is a part of the pattern: principle, purpose, design and control. If we have enough control to maintain the whole body and all of its capacities centered in the current of the spiral nothing is going to be hurt. But if the control is not adequate to hold the formation in the pattern of its design in the ascending spiral, and there begins to be a divergence because of subjection to wrong control or the lack of right control, we have the development of all kinds of disorders, and if that pattern relates to cells as such, then cells go wild and we call it cancer. Now there are many factors involved, but we can see that the basic factors of the male and female principles are involved in relationship to cells going wild or cells remaining in the design under control so that they may be used according to purpose for the fulfilment of principle. And yet, if we simply attempt to bring cells as such under subjection, without considering the pattern of allowing our cells as human beings the opportunity to come under control, we will never succeed. The basic essential, if we would have the less complex forms of the organism come under control or remain under control, is obviously that the more complex organism must be under control. We cannot say that we, being human beings, having a more complex form, do not need to be under the control of principle, purpose, design. According to our beings we can be out from under control, but we expect the simple forms of the organism, the cells, to remain under control regardless. We expect the simple organisms to be wiser and better and stronger, more intelligent than we, the more complex organisms in the realm of physical creation. There is the breakdown in the pattern.

Until man is willing to allow himself to come under control he cannot establish a vibrational pattern within himself which permits the cells to come under control. And this is the very keynote of our work in "pneumatology"—to establish the pattern of control in the complex organism that we call the human being, to the end that there may be a means by which the cells and the organs and the parts may come under control. And as they come under control, we have what? Healing. Because we heal? No. Because the natural processes of growth or evolving in the body will take care of it. If the complex organism as a whole is under control, then the parts come under control. But if we try to control the cells first, we will fail.

This consideration of the male and female aspects of creative principle in action—and that is what I mean when I use the word "sex," at all levels whatsoever—the male and the female principle in action in the expression of principle according to purpose, within the scope of design, under control in the creative cycle, that is sex—at all levels, at any level, from the amoeba to the highest level which man is aware of.

In the amoeba, we noted that the male principle, or formation of principle, divided first, but the female aspect did something, responded, yielded, on the basis which would permit the male principle to function in such a manner. The irregular forms of the amoeba, whatever that form, the process of division in the nucleus could not take place, in the sense of true expression at least, until all of these irregularities of form in the female phase of the amoeba were cleared away and the form became round. That means that there had to be a process of responding on the part of the female formation of the principle before the male part could act in any effective sense. Here we see how it is that both men and women—of course they have their responsibilities in relationship to right fulfilment—but we see how it is that, no matter how perfectly any man or group of men on the face of the earth might function, no matter what level of attainment they might achieve, it would be impossible for the fulfilment of God's purpose and design to appear on earth without the cooperation and correct function in the female aspect of mankind.

The actual development—no matter what the desire may be on the part of the male, no matter what urge he may feel, no matter how well equipped he may be—he cannot begin to really develop into that expanded expression of being until the female aspect of mankind begins to respond and yield to that urge, to share it. That takes response. It takes positive radiation. That must be there on the part of the male, and we will have to admit that in relationship to mankind many who are classified as males are a far cry from providing that positive something. But in the correct state, then, after that initial urge has been felt and allowed release in radiation, if the female aspect responds in the level of the amoeba—the formation becomes round and it holds steady, just stays put; it provides a place of being while the male aspect does something—there is a division and the two male factors then are repelled, because they are both positive. They find their positioning in relationship to the female factors, and all this while the female factor has remained steady, held still and steady, allowing the male aspect to do something. Then, once this positioning has been established, the process of dividing begins and the female principle begins to respond and yield and become a part of the new pattern in formation.

Now I have known men who began to see something of this principle as it is presented in our work, and who developed the idea that women were just supposed to arbitrarily conform, period. Whatever they wanted, whatever they decided, the woman was supposed to just arbitrarily conform, as if she didn't have a share in intelligence, as if she didn't have a share in all the different capacities of being. But if she didn't have a share in these different capacities of being she couldn't be a means by which the male could have an help-meet, shall we say, a balance point, something that would provide an equal pattern in the cycle. Suppose woman actually had the intelligence level of a good, faithful dog. Now remember, I am not suggesting that; I am just supposing here, for a moment, for the sake of illustration. And we have here the male pattern, we will say, of potential, and the female pattern of potential. If she is supposed to work on the level of the good, faithful dog, there would be absolutely no means by which the male could have fulfilment. The male who attempts to relegate the female into some sub-level, as if she had no ability to share in the levels of intelligence, the levels of understanding and all the rest of it, is establishing a pattern which absolutely prevents any real fulfilment on his part, because it means that he must either die or shrink to the correlating size of that which he himself undertook to establish. He did it himself, utterly. But until there is a balance pattern between the male and the female aspects, they cannot function correctly in relationship to each other. So the male has a very definite responsibility here, but so does the female.

We are in a pattern of chaos out here in the world. There is discord, there is every sort of ill thing. There is evil, that which has failed to carry through on the basis of this cycle evolving. We do not have, then, any of us, an ideal starting point. Any human being, every human being, must begin under a limited circumstance. Some imagine their circumstances to be more limited than others. But remember this: In the world as it is, it is utterly impossible for any human being, anywhere on the face of the earth, to have an absolutely ideal starting point; it is all involved in the realm of chaos. But we wish to move from this realm of chaos into the realm of the Christ Kingdom, the Christ pattern of design, the Christ control, the manifestation of principle and purpose. It is obvious, then, that there must be a special manifestation—and a basis for it of coordination, trust, faith, of tolerance, while the parties involved work back and forth. If we consider it in relationship to a particular couple, in order to simplify the process or see it more readily, we see how both male and female must function on a give-and-take basis if that marriage is to be successful—the same pattern on a different level, a different pattern of relationship, but in principle this design moves into all spheres of life, all patterns of manifestation. We have it here.

For instance, here, in this case I represent the male principle and all of you together represent the female principle of our particular amoeba or sphere of function. We see that if I didn't provide the right vibratory radiation which would permit the reshaping, if I didn't allow time for the various cycles and steps, if I arbitrarily took the attitude, pounding the table here this morning, "Well now, tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock you are going to prove that you are absolutely perfect or I will quit," you could well come back and say, "What would perfect be?" You see, it would be utterly foolish. In other words I have to have a certain tolerance with respect to your phases of evolving, and you have to have a certain tolerance in relationship to what seems right in relationship to me and what you think: "Well maybe that isn't right for a while; maybe he is wrong," and so on. All right, if you get too involved in that sort of thing you are going to become doubtful and leave, and it wouldn't do any good. If you have the right attitude toward me and I have the right attitude toward you we can work it back and forth until we clear the vibratory pattern of consciousness. We find that our minds meet, our hearts meet, we are here together with one accord in one place. We begin to have a controlled, unified pattern of being which we share, and then the outworking of the cycle can begin to appear.

But since the formation is irregular in relationship to this Body with which I am dealing, and its formation tends to be this way one day and that way the next, and so on, suppose here, at the point of the nucleus, I said, "Now we must have a round formation by such and such a time," a time that would not allow the proper cycle from inception to birth—an arbitrary pattern, like some man might say to his wife, "Now you are going to conceive and I expect that baby to appear in nine weeks. If you don't, I'm going to…" Nine weeks—it won't work. She couldn't do anything about it, no matter how hard she tried. There has to be a cycle from that inception point to the birth. So we are working through it. That is what we are doing now, isn't it? There was an inception, and gradually the pattern of the formation with which I am working is changing, and I have absolute confidence that if I continue to do my job correctly, on the basis of the response that is in you, one bright day the shape of the Body will round out and we will begin to be able to share truly in creative action.

And the creative action in which we are interested is not reproduction of the race. It is the salvation of the race, the healing of the body and the mind and the heart; but still the same thing in principle, because unless we work together in the right pattern, there will be no creative results. Here is the reason why, in the patterns of the world as they are known, they do a certain thing, they shape something thus and so, to stay there for a few minutes, and they say, "Well we have done something wonderful." Actually it doesn't amount to anything, because they never allowed it to emerge from the state of disordered form to the state of ordered form where the creative process could begin. And the creative process can't begin in the amoeba, in the sense of the subdivision first of the nucleus and then of the whole form, until the outer form here has changed to a particular pattern, that which is round. And so it is with us. The Master said, "And ye shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you.”

“And they were with one accord in one place." The amoeba had become round and the power began to appear, and to the degree that they held steady it began to manifest through the form. But then the human mind interfered and they spoiled it, so it didn't work, and there was not subdivision after subdivision until it covered the whole earth. But if we have one correct cell in the body of humanity, and we hold true and let it subdivide and subdivide again in the true creative pattern—there are wild cells all around us out here, but if we refuse to be under the control of them, of that wildness, and are functioning according to the patterns of being—the first thing you know, the other cells in the body stop going wild, the wild cells are eliminated from the body and the body begins to get well; not because we used a chemical agent to try to kill wild cells without killing the tame ones, the domesticated ones, but because in the natural processes of being, that which does not conform to the control pattern is eliminated as waste and the true pattern becomes dominant. And there is a return of health, of life, strength, vigor, worthwhileness, the creative expression of the principle in our own lives, God in action on earth, because we live.

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