The Magic Of Creation #2 — The Four Forces

The  Magic  Of  Creation  #2

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The Four Forces

Uranda   July 30, 1953  Class

Our basic theme is the magic of creation, the magic of the creative life. We are beginning to review something of the basic principles by which God's creative work is carried forward, so that we may understand more clearly how we can share in that creative activity. We began yesterday to note something of the working of the Four Forces—water, air, earth and fire. These words, or names, are of course symbolical of something. They are names of something with which we are familiar. Water we drink every day—or at least most of us; we all should. And we all breathe air or we could not be sitting up here. And the earth is important—the earth of our own bodies, and the earth from which the vegetation grows, the earth upon which we live. And then the fire—the creative fire, or the flaming fire of God's love, symbolized by the fire of the sun, or of the suns which we see.

It is very intriguing, interesting and instructive to note the meaningfulness of these four terms in the symbolical sense. The nature of truth is revealed by the nature of water, the symbol of truth. It evaporates and it is gone. We have a lovely rain and then, if it is too long before the next rain comes, the earth becomes dry, the vegetation parched and wilted, and we lose the effectiveness of our crops. That is why we have the sprinkler system running. We had a little rain recently but it only moistened the top surface of the soil. If that water is going to be truly effective it has to penetrate deeply. And this is true with respect to truth and you. If the water of truth gets on the surface only and doesn't penetrate deeply into mind and heart, we do not have that which will withstand the fire. The fire is important; without the fire we would freeze and life would be impossible. But with the right balance of fire and water we begin to have the conditions essential to life. Just as water becomes stagnant when it is confined, so does truth. As water evaporates, so can truth. We have to let it be a flowing fountain within us and let it penetrate deeply and have meaning to the depths of our own beings if the fire of love is not going to produce some abnormal condition within us.

And then we note the air, the symbol of the spirit. You cannot see air; you can feel it however. You cannot see the spirit but you can feel it working within you. We recognize, in relationship to spirit, that there are many evil spirits, in old-time terminology sometimes called devils or demons. But these evil spirits are not entities, just as the devil is not an entity, not a creature with horns and a forked tail, carrying a pitchfork, determined to send you to hell if possible. Man has created his own devil. There is the devil of the mass consciousness of man, the devil of the individual's own self-active mind, which when it becomes the instrument of God's spirit is no longer a devil but becomes the guardian angel which guards the way into the subconscious mind, so that only those things which are true and real, beautiful, creative, can enter into the subconscious realm of our beings. The air of the spirit. Sometimes the wind comes, the air is in motion, and it becomes destructive. If the human being distorts the pattern of the working of the spirit within himself it becomes destructive. There is no such thing as an evil spirit of and by itself, as a segregated state. In order to have an evil spirit human beings must take the spirit of God and give it an evil form, distort it, spoil it. But all spirit is of God, without any exception.

If man uses the spirit of life, for instance in his own body, to take the spirit of love for instance, and cause it to work through himself in a distorted fashion under the control of his self-centered mind, he can turn it into something ugly, something destructive. The spirit of hate is a distortion of the spirit of love. Then there is the spirit of envy, the spirit of greed, the spirit of jealousy. The spirit of jealousy is one of the most devastating spirits, and in some ways the spirits of hate and jealousy are, almost without exception—I think I could say without exception—present when the cells in the body go wild in the production of what we call cancer. These evil spirits, which human beings themselves produce, are very destructive of the individual who produces them. Sometimes a person feels justified in hating another, and he destroys himself. Hate, fear, envy, jealousy, all disrupt the normal function of the endocrine system, begin to produce adverse situations within the individual, spoil the potentiality of his own life. Jealousy is the cancer of the heart, or the emotional realm. It is just as much cancer in the emotional realm as what we call cancer in relationship to the physical, and if allowed to develop without being restrained or cleared out it will eventually strangle the individual's life and destroy the person who indulges in it. Jealousy is one of the most devastating of all the evil spirits, one of the most horrible. It causes the individual to do such unreasonable things, when he becomes subject to this evil spirit.

So there are many evil spirits which man has made, not in the sense that he can make spirits, but he has taken spirit from God and forced it into an evil pattern of his own making, distorting, spoiling, destroying. Now we are considering the magic of creative activity, the magic of sharing in God's creative work. If we would be creative we must of necessity eliminate from the patterns of our function those things which are destructive. Any destructive spirit has no part or place in the equipment of the individual who would truly share God's creative work. And so we see how beautifully air symbolizes, by representation, the reality of spirit. And then the earth is a little more easy to see—the symbolism here. You know something of the physical substance of your own body, and you more or less naturally correlate all physical substance with the basic substance of the earth itself.

And then the fire. We all know that love is a fire. The nature of the fire that burns in the sun, for instance, is something that has been of great interest to human beings. Generally speaking, the concept is that it is a nuclear fission process, atomic explosion or atomic burning. I do not want to argue the point this morning, but from the standpoint of God's creative processes we do not need to worry about the sun going out, even a few million years from now. But we do find that planetary systems become suns. Now that is the reverse of what human beings imagine. They think that planetary systems are produced by reason of the explosion of suns and the going out of the fire. We are inclined to believe just the opposite. I do not bring that in particularly to emphasize the point of the popular concept but to emphasize the reality of fire. How beautifully love is symbolized by a fire.

If the fire of love burns in your heart it is something that is constant; it isn't just a flickering thing that is turned on and off. One may have a fluctuating pattern of human affection. One can feel affectionate toward some individual one moment and hateful the next. But that is not love, and we must not confuse the mere affections with love itself. The manifestation of the affections as they appear through human beings is a limitation, or a distortion, in the field of love—perhaps sometimes touching into love, but it is what human beings attempt to produce as a substitute for love. And substitutes for love are of no more value than would be a substitute for fire. You need fire to help prepare food, keep you warm. That fire must manifest in some form—the generation of heat. We may have an electric range for our cooking, but it is still the principle of fire.

So, here in these four words with which everyone is familiar, we begin to see the real significance—the significance that is contained in what we might properly classify as the allegorical story of creation. When I call it allegorical I do not mean to say that the processes of creation were not more or less as outlined. But consider the fact that the happenings of one day, in a very small city, or a comparatively small city, occupy a large newspaper—pages and pages of happenings, and not all of them get in the newspaper. One day's newspaper, giving something of world news, something of national news, and something of local news, and we have pages and pages—huge newspapers. The news story—and it is a news story—of the creation of the world, with all of its incidents, all of its outworkings, is portrayed for us here on how many small pages? One chapter, thirty-one verses, tells the story.

Now in the second chapter, we have something about the creation of man, the crowning creation; but everything—and most of this page is taken up by footnotes, which are not of any value as far as I am concerned—but here, just a few words in the middle of this page, just the top half of this page, the top third of this page, a few words here, and you have the record of the story of creation, utterly incomplete insofar as detail is concerned: a simple revelation of basic principle that was utilized in relationship to that creative process. We cannot properly call it, in any true sense, the story of creation unless we modify and say "as contained in the Book of Genesis," because it is little more than a headline, a few subdivisions, but the story isn't there. An outline of basic principle—and that's all we really need. The story of creation, no matter how interesting it might be in an historical sense, would be of very little real meaning to us. But the thing that does have meaning to us is here, the outline of the creative process on the basis of law and principle. That we can use today just as surely as it could be used at any time in the past. So we study this, calling it more or less an allegorical story, because the incompleteness of it tends to produce wrong concepts, wrong beliefs, in the minds of human beings. But once we begin to see it for what it is and realize that all of the books in that set of encyclopedia volumes over there would not contain, could not contain, the whole story of creation, once we realize that you could not tell the whole story—if you knew all about it and wrote thousands of books it still would not tell the whole story. So here we do not have anything like the whole story. We have a revelation of principle and that is important to us today.

We noted yesterday in our meditation that we had reached a point in the outworking cycles where we were in the first phase of the third day, or the third cycle of creation, insofar as this Class pattern is concerned. There is the necessity of gathering the waters into one place. We started out with water, the water of truth. We have considered the air of the spirit. But considerations of truth and spirit have been our primary occupation. In relationship to truth we have looked at the design factors and the control factors for the body, but the physical substance of the earth has not yet really appeared. We have these bodies with which we work, with which we identify ourselves, but they are not the true appearance, the true manifestation of that which God designed us to be. These bodies are limited. Nevertheless we must remember that the body is the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in us. There is one of the key points to be remembered always in relationship to our service to humanity, our function from the standpoint of attunements. The physical body is the Temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in us and dwells in all who live. As long as that spirit is not driven out completely the individual has life; but as soon as the spirit is driven out of the body, the body is dead and is ready to be buried. We need, then, to realize that the body is the Temple of God—the Temple of the Living God, not the dying God. The body is the Temple of the Living God, and the spirit of God dwells in us.

When we are working from the standpoint of attunements and ministry we are working on the basis of those two fundamental facts. The reason for attunements is that the body is the Temple of the Living God. Just from the standpoint of the human being as such, separate from God, what good would healing be? Very little gain, if any. Most people tend to enjoy their miseries, and a great many people deliberately bring illness upon themselves to gain attention or, having developed some illness, they hold it in order to be babied or so that they can be the center of attention or something—all kinds of ridiculous patterns. But the body is the Temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you. So on that basis we make our approach to the reality of attunements. And if we are going to give an attunement we must be functioning on the basis of Heavenly Magic, the magic of creative processes.

That same pattern holds true with you as a Class. You are here to be members of one body, and this body needs to have a new appearance. I am not thinking of it so much as seeing to it that all the women become beautiful according to their own concepts of beauty, or that the men become handsome according to their own concepts of what it is to be handsome, but that we have a new appearance of the earth. For in the third step of the creative process, which begins to let us have a relationship with the Fire, the Fire of God's Love, we must let the water be divided into one place and let the dry land appear—not just mud. It may be muddy at first; as it first begins to appear it is muddy. And then someone sees the muddy surface of the earth and says, "But this is not what it should be. I expected to find dry land and here it is all muddy. I don't like it." At first it is muddy; we cannot expect it to be anything else. But the dry land must appear, and that means the definite formation or manifestation, appearance, of you as a new person. We remember the creative Word that is given in the concluding portion of the Book of Magic, “Behold, I create all things new.”

The pattern of degeneration is not adequate. The ill conditions that exist are not satisfactory for the new state of being. There is the necessity of creating all things new. If that creation is going to have any meaning to us it is vitally important that we begin to have a consciousness of personal relationship with the magic of creation. And following out this step, we come to the point where it is not enough just to talk about it, just to learn some new principles with respect to the water of truth, not enough just to get some new ideas about the air of the spirit. We come to the point where the waters must be gathered together unto one place so that the dry land may begin to appear. Unless you are a fish—poor fish—you cannot live in the water all the time. You need some dry land if you are going to live. You stay too long in the water and you become fish food, and then you are a fish. It is the truth! It is all right to have water; it is very important; but if you are going to live in the true sense—not just existing in a dying condition—if you are going to live, there must be the appearance of the dry land. The dry land must appear. And then, in this third cycle, something begins to appear on the dry land.

Let us note: “Let the earth”—the earth that has appeared out of the water. It must emerge, and that is the only way it will emerge for you, is out of the water. If you insist on having no truth, you won't have any real earth. “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.” That is the creative word of God's command in relationship to you. Are you going to let the waters be gathered together into one place so that the dry land can appear? How about it? This is the reason why human beings have been perishing. They were willing to let the water inside themselves be gathered together into one place; and then they had water on the brain and could not function. No good! It is the truth with respect to all of us put together that must be brought together into one place, into a place of harmony, accord, mutual understanding, correlation, cooperation.

Human beings are inclined to say, “Well I'll do this, but I won't do that. I'll go so far and then I'll quit.” All kinds of limitations, petty limitations. Did you ever see a limitation of the mind or heart that was not a petty thing? I never did. Some people keep them for pets; but they are still petty and most of them have a pretty bad odor. They stink, even if you try to keep them perfumed up. The water must be gathered together unto one place; there must be accord, harmony, coordination, so that the truth of you may function effectively with the truth of someone else. And those things that divide and separate are preventing the gathering of the waters unto one place. Whatever you do—at any time, in any moment—that hinders the gathering of the waters unto one place is preventing the appearance of the dry land; and without the dry land, you yourself cannot live. You may say, “But I am justified. So-and-so did thus and so, and I don't like it.” You don't! “So-and-so has done something to prevent the dry land appearing, so I’ll do something to prevent the dry land appearing and we'll all die together.” What a marvelous portrayal of nobility that is! Noble men and women. No. What is the opposite of nobility? It is pettiness! And it is pettiness that maintains these separations. I don't care how justified you may think they are. Just because someone else tries to condemn everyone to a state of fish food is no reason you should. Let us do the right thing no matter what anyone else does. Let us begin to realize that we are not creatures designed to be denizens of the deep. You are not supposed to be an octopus, or a shark, or even a minnow. You were not created to be a whale or a dolphin, or any of the other peculiar creatures of the ocean. You are supposed to live on dry land. You may muck around in the shallow water a little, but it still is not dry land. Let us have some dry land and live; for we cannot live until there is dry land. The grass, the green pastures, cannot appear until there is some dry land—not too dry, but it has to be dry land. It cannot be under the ocean, or there will be no green pastures for you to come to rest in. We want to walk by the still waters, but we do not need to try to imitate the fish; for if you do it too long you will become fish food.

The dry land must appear—in you, in our whole Unit, in relationship to this Class. There must be a getting together of the truth of your being with the truth of other people's beings; and if you are looking for that which is not the truth in someone else and emphasizing that which is not the truth in yourself, and trying to get the limitations together, well then you can say you have two limitations instead of one. But what good is that? It is the truth that must get together, the truth in you that must get together with the truth in your neighbor, the truth in the husband that must get together with the truth in his wife, the truth that must get together between friends, that must manifest here in a true togetherness which all who will may share—the beginning of the gathering of the waters unto one place. It is the truth that will meet, the truth that will blend, and if you try to get together on the basis of the things you are not, the things that are yet absent, the things that have not yet taken form, you will find it will not fit; it does not work. One absent spot in your makeup added to one absent spot in someone else's makeup may result in friction—a little abnormal heat, a little difficulty, a quarrel, a misunderstanding, some more pettiness—but it will not produce the things of God on earth. We must begin to let the waters be gathered together unto one place, and then the dry land can begin to appear. And when the dry land appears, so that it can be said, “It is so”—and it is said here, “and it was so”—we are beginning to be in position where we can see something else appear.

What is the next step? “And God called the dry land Earth.” And what was man made out of? Earth. Your body was made out of the earth. “And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.” It is good to have the seas in relationship to ourselves; and it is good to have the dry land, the earth. But either one without the other is not good. Some people say they like to go to the seashore. In Colorado we have everything but a seashore. It is all we lack in Colorado from the standpoint of scenery—everything else. But we can have our own sea if we will, and have our own seashore. You would be surprised how wonderful it could be if you would let the waters be gathered together unto one place so that we would have a sea; and I am not talking about just a little reservoir that runs dry every once in a while. I am talking about a sea.

“And God saw that it was good.” Now do you have any better vision than God has to say that it is not good, or that you can do better some other way? Let's not be arrogant! “And God said, Let the earth bring forth.” There is a statement for you. “Let the earth bring forth.” The earth is to bring forth something. What? If you read these verses and say, “Oh that just meant God created the grass and trees and vegetation, and so on”—your body was made out of the earth, wasn't it? Certainly. Physical substance. “Let the earth bring forth.” Now reproduction of the race has its part, I suppose, in that bringing forth, but it is supposed to be more than that. What do you bring forth in the words you speak, in the acts, the things you do, the atmosphere you produce, the attitudes, the influence upon others? What do you bring forth? Something that tends to crush them down, or something that lifts them up? Let the earth bring forth, according to the Divine Design. Every human being is bringing forth all the time.

In this perhaps we ought to remember one of the mysteries, or secrets, revealed in the Book of Magic. We remember that verse. I suppose you could all repeat it. Remember it? “Here is wisdom.” And what is wisdom? The sense of the fitness of things. Are you wise? “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding…” Without understanding it doesn't do any good. “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” 6-6-6. You have seen some of the most fantastic concepts about what the 6-6-6 is supposed to mean. We will not take time now to go into a dissertation on the symbolism of figures, but all through the Bible, numbers, figures, digits, are used to signify something as symbols. A number of itself has no power, no meaning; but as a name, it signifies something. All the way through the Bible we have this pattern of symbolism, over and over again, and six is the symbol signifying the processes of bringing forth, or the revelation of the womb and birth principles: bringing forth. Six is the symbol used to signify the womb principle and the birth principle, the process of gestation and manifestation, or simply bringing forth. And one of these commands is: “Let the earth bring forth.” Bring forth what?

For the moment let us consider the earth of man, the reality of man's own body. “Here is wisdom.” Wisdom—the sense of the fitness of things. “Let him that hath understanding” do something, but let those who have no understanding leave it alone, because they certainly will not come up with the right answer. “Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 6-6-6.” We immediately recognize that this is symbolism in relationship to the processes of bringing forth something. And it is brought forth on a trinity basis—three aspects. It is the number of a man and the number of a beast. God created man in His own image, after His own likeness; male and female created He them. But man took the thing that God had created and made it into a beast. Sometimes you hear people talk about some person. The idea was out that Hitler was the beast carrying the number 6-6-6. Well, he was; but he was not alone. It applies to every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, without a single exception—everyone: 6-6-6—the vibratory pattern of bringing forth. And it is the number of a man and it is the number of the beast.

If your body is used to bring forth beastly things, then it is the number of a beast as far as you are concerned. If your body is used to bring forth the noble, beautiful, lovely, creative things of divine man or woman, then it is the number of a man. Six: bringing forth. And remember, it was on the sixth day that man was created. But six—bringing forth; the vibratory name or symbol of the process of bringing forth. Remember, numbers of themselves have no power, no meaning, no influence, but they are the names of something in the symbolical pattern of the portrayal of truth as contained in the Bible.

And here we have the third day. The third day God said—His third command, by the way, the third command on the third day. His first command was what? “Let the waters be gathered together unto one place.” The second one was “And let the dry land appear.” And the third one is “And let the earth bring forth,” and that applies to us. The third command on the third day: “And let the earth bring forth.” But man was not created yet. So the process of bringing forth related to the manifestation of those things which would let man be created. God did not try to do the impossible—to create man first. He created other things and created man as the crowning creation, to be man and not a beast. But you would imagine, from the standpoint of the general pattern of function in the world, that God had really intended human beings to be beasts; the women to be cats and the men to be wolves. And when you get them mixed up, oh boy, what comes forth! No. The beast does bring forth something in all three planes of his being of body and mind and spirit. But what do you bring forth? You have to come under the classification of man or beast. You must make your own choice and let the earth bring forth something. And if you are going to share the creative process, you have to share it in the same cycle as we see it outlined here. If something is going to bring forth and appear, it must be in relationship to the earth. “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,” etc. And each thing brought forth was established on the basis of bringing forth seed after its kind. “And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.”

So we begin to see the vital importance of letting all things work together to perfection; not causing them, by reaction, to work together to more turmoil and misunderstanding and difficulty, but to let all things work together to perfection, as they do for those who love and serve the Lord. But for those who love and serve the devil, or some false God, all things work together toward more turmoil, more difficulty, more misunderstanding, more misery, more darkness. What shall it be? All things work together to perfection for those who love and serve the Lord. Blessed ones, what shall it be? Man, or beast? The choice is yours.

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Allow The Creative Currents Of Life To Move

Allow  The  Creative  Currents  Of  Life  To  Move

Ascending  Substance  In  Sex

Martin Cecil   April 20, 1979  Assembly

It’s amazing how human beings have resisted the richest blessings that have been offered by the Lord. It seems that there is the endeavor to keep the impure heart, no matter what it costs. It costs plenty. The hour that has just been shared opened the door to a more intimate experience of the pure heart. What a delight this always is. A most vital aspect of what we may know together is this mutual trust, the yielding of an open heart without fear because there is a setting where this may be done with safety.

Mention was made of the hurts that have been known heart-wise—the wounds and the traumas. This has been magnified into a big deal by human nature. Amongst other things, they have seemed to provide a most excellent excuse for not yielding to the Lord—in other words for retaining the impure heart. How very contradictory. Why should there be any desire to maintain that state? After all, it was the state where all the traumas and the wounds occurred. “Let’s hang on to it, so that we may really enjoy our suffering.” And there is a certain amount of one-upmanship in this field, isn’t there? “I’ve suffered more than you.” I think we should be a little reluctant to admit it. “My heart is more impure than yours. Of course it wasn’t my fault. Others imposed this upon me.”

We would have to admit in the human nature state of affairs there is a lot of imposition goes on, but it is so because those concerned are willing to be imposed upon, as much as they are willing to impose upon others. If you ever impose anything on anyone else you are open to be imposed upon. That’s something to remember. If you complain about people imposing upon you, why is this so? I don’t mean the complaint, I mean your attitude toward an imposition. You are imposed upon because you impose. Most people don’t like to look at this; they are so badly done by. But what are they doing unto others? What do we do unto others? We could easily tell by examining what we think others are doing unto us.

You may recall the statement the Master made in this regard, something to the effect, “Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.” The implications of this haven’t really been acknowledged. It’s merely the statement of the Law. What you find being done unto you is what you are doing unto others. “Come out of her, my people. Forget the impurity of heart, which maintains the wounds and the traumas.”

Now it may be that there are some scars around because of the wounds. In the realm of physical experience there are those who maybe lose a limb. Does this mean that you have to quit living? It’s remarkable what adjustments many people have made even though they lost more than one limb. When this does happen, sometimes it makes a man out of the person, so to speak, so his manhood was not dependent upon his limbs. We can be ourselves as angels in expression regardless of any scars there may be around in the emotional realm. The very fact of those scars may be helpful. They may allow us to have a greater understanding of others, for instance.  And the necessity of living regardless of those scars, of being true to oneself regardless of the scars, is what makes for strength, increases the valuable evidence of angelic expression. It may do so.

Of course there are those who get under it and never come out. We’re not interested in making lists of our scars. This is like the operations that people boast about: “I’d like to show you my scar sometime.” The emotional scars are much more evident as a rule than the physical scars; we’re exposing them all the time. So we can live and move and have our being in creative expression in one sense regardless of these scars and in another sense because of these scars. We needn’t be inhibited by the scars, and we can use them to advantage. The Lord is capable of using all things to advantage and, as His angels, so are we.

We have been considering the matter of the essential generation of spiritual substance that we may be in position to use all things to advantage. There is the need for a generation upward (the substance of connection) and the generation of substance beyond ourselves (the substance of action). As men and women we have our dominant roles to play in this regard. I suppose, for the sake of illustration, one could say that a man has the responsibility of generating 75% of the substance generated in the outward sense—action substance—and 25% the substance of connection; and the female 75% the substance of connection and 25% the substance of action. Then there is 100% substance of action and 100% substance of connection. Of course these are merely arbitrary figures, for sake of illustration. But it does indicate that there is need for both male and female, whether we are considering this within our own individual beings or whether we consider it collectively.

God didn’t make any mistake creating man, “male and female created he them.” It doesn’t say that God created man neuter—neither one thing nor the other. There is a need for men and there is a need for women. The dissatisfaction known by men and women is based in the fact that there has been a lack of the experience of manhood and womanhnood. There are those apparently who have decided that such an experience is not possible, therefore we’d better have a substitute, the unisex. How pitiful. What a pitiful world it is that human beings have produced on earth—lots of tinsel but virtually nothing underneath. An insubstantial world.

It rightly is a substantial world. Therefore let’s generate the substance. This is the restoration, isn’t it?—re-creation, the re-creation of the substantial world, the world which includes all the dimensions, the spheres, which compose God’s creation. Yesterday I was speaking particularly of the necessity for individual acceptance of responsibility. I don’t know that this is any different to anything that has been said before; it just has been emphasized in relationship to this field of sex, as human beings have understood it at least, because there isn’t any field that isn’t sex in actual fact. The positive and the negative prevail. So we all recognize, or should have recognized for a long time, that we have individual responsibility. The whole emphasis in our ministry is related to this, isn’t it?—individual integrity, individual responsibility.

This ministry has nothing to do with imposition—the imposition of human nature ideas and concepts and beliefs about what’s going on in the human nature world everywhere. There are things happening that shock a lot of people, apparently—but I wonder how much events cause them to look at themselves and look at their own experience, and look at all the areas in the world where horrific experience is in operation, where people are being instructed to destroy themselves. Isn’t that the state of the human nature world? Isn’t that the basis for the educational system? To teach people how to destroy themselves. We all learned in that school, and we have practiced some of it in our existence. But if we have seen something different, praise the Lord. But we have no sense of association with all that stuff anymore, rightly. If we have no sense of association for it, could what anyone says make us feel guilty or make us wonder as to whether we are associated with something that is going to destroy us? We have been associated with something that has been busy destroying us. I suppose you could say in that sense we couldn’t be any worse off. But you know, in your own experience, what has been brought to you relative to the acceptance of individual responsibility.

Of course, there has been a lot of imposition present in the external sense in our Emissary ministry, because, as I say, human beings are reluctant to relinquish their impure hearts. So they keep going on the same old basis, as long as possible apparently. I trust the fire will get so hot that it will be found to be quite impossible. And if there is this fire being kindled on earth, the intensification of the furnace, it starts rightly first with us, so that the heat rises to the point where human nature can no longer exist in our own experience. That is in fact what we’re here to let happen, because when we let it happen in us, that is the re-creation of man, isn’t it? So we can look forward to that heat: a delightful cool experience in the angelic sense, but a fiery furnace from the human nature sense.

Is your attitude described by the words “Lay on the coals”? Or is it rather, “Well, wait a moment now. Let me prepare myself a little more for what’s coming.” Who is going to prepare whom? Can human nature prepare you for the elimination of human nature do you think? Hardly. The angel is present, so what are we waiting for? The acceptance of individual responsibility. We see this now in a very central way, in a core awareness, relative to this field of sex, because here is something that relates to the very core of things. And the starting point is the focus point at the physical level in our own immediate experience  It is by reason of this focus point that there is the possibility of the generation of the required substance—the required substance which  begins to emerge at that level and proceeds subsequently at each succeeding level as it is allowed to do so, as there is a willingness to let it rise up. Human beings in human nature have seen something of this; they have talked about sublimating sex somehow—magic, black magic. There is a rising up in the generation of substance certainly, and they have talked about various things like the Kundalini, and all this. Let us relinquish any concepts that we might have had in this area and allow the reality to be the experience, allow the generation of substance individually speaking.

We have to take the responsibility individually, obviously, the only starting point we have. We can’t start with somebody else. That’s what many people have tried to do. They thought that by involving somebody else, somebody else who was presumably willing to be involved, that some magic new state would be known. But it isn’t. One is still oneself, and the other person is still himself or herself. There is only one starting point, and that is in relationship to oneself. You may see the implications of this as it emerges in the various patterns of relationships with others, but there is nothing to emerge unless it starts with oneself, unless one has taken the responsibility of handling this particular necessity of generation for oneself. Somebody else is not going to handle it for you. Nobody else can. Each person is responsible for him- or herself in this regard.

I sought yesterday to emphasize the nature of the generation that is required as this is seen relative to male and female, because there is a distinction, there is this difference in essential requirement for generation—generation of substance to connect and generation of substance to act. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/generation-generation-martin-cecil.html?m=1] Now you can’t act in any creative sense unless you are connected. In the human nature state human beings try to act without that connection. The result is destructive chaos. By manipulation it may appear to be orderly for a few moments, but very shortly it is seen in its true colors as being destructive chaos. It becomes plainly evident in the world in these days, and the more people try to stem the tide, so to speak, the worse it gets.

So our primary concern is the substance of connection. Now, whether male or female, we all have a certain responsibility in this regard in the individual sense. The male certainly can’t act, can’t generate the substance of action, without the substance of connection. The generation is initiated and maintained by Spirit, and spirit cannot reach the realm of action without passing through the realm of connection. So there must be the substance of connection. Now in the individual sense we have seen that the ladies have a primary responsibility for the substance of connection, the Substance of Being. The men’s primary responsibility is the substance of action, the Substance of Achieving; but they don’t have any basis for that achieving without the substance of connection. Now if we look at this from an individual standpoint then we can see a collective pattern of men and a collective pattern of women—a collective pattern of women who have the responsibility for the generation of the connecting substance, and a collective pattern of men who have primary responsibility for the substance of action. Both are needed. And the initial stages of generation is based in the correct individual approach.

Obviously, you can see the implications extending beyond that. We could take the intimate association between a man and a woman and see that here is another unit of generation, but such generation as occurs will only occur on the basis of the fact that the man and the woman concerned are functioning correctly for themselves. And it isn’t a matter of an endeavor to find something that is mutually satisfactory. There is no motivation in the approach to the creative expression to try to please each other. That’s not the point. The fact of pleasing each other is a result, and it should not be brought into the realm of cause by human nature. This is the human nature approach: “Let’s enjoy this together”—a little isolated pocket. “Exclude everybody else; we’ll enjoy this together.” That is self-centered. That is also selfish, incidentally. “Oh, but I’m being so unselfish to my partner.” But if you put the whole thing together you have a selfish situation, certainly a self-centered situation.

Angels are intelligent. They know what it means to live. They understand what is required in the creative process, and so they handle the situation accordingly, as angels. As angels they recognize that this generation can be valuably increased or magnified by working together. They work together as individuals and find a sphere of generation that is greater than if they had merely been working separately. But they cannot work together until they know how to work separately. I’ve emphasized this matter in relationship to marriage, haven’t I, particularly with respect to young people—and it applies to older ones as well, because human beings are not usually spiritually mature—but emphasizing the necessity for each of the partners to become sufficiently mature for him- or herself, regardless of the other, so that we do not have a situation of two people leaning on each other, neither one of them mature, each trying to prop the other up because they are not mature. And one pulls out from that situation, they each fall flat. We need to be able to stand upright for ourselves. Then there is the possibility for oneness.

So the function of male and female together is seen as an expansion of the male and the female function separately. But there must be that male and female function separately if there is anything to be brought together. Because this hasn’t been so, the expectation was that if they got together then they’d find out what it was. But that’s putting everything backwards, and it simply doesn’t work that way. There may be, in some instances, a certain amount of human nature satisfaction, but it is a destructive thing. So I place the emphasis upon an adequacy of maturity in this field, as well as in other fields, on the part of the individual, whether male or female, before there can be the experience of an expansion of that maturity because there is a blending of the two maturities. If you blend two children all you have is a continuing child, an expansion of childishness. And this is the human nature experience: the creation of more chaos and destruction, because all these effects arise out of this area of function because of its very potency.

What we see all around us in the world is there because of what human beings have been doing in this field.  If—this would be idle speculation—all sex ceased on the face of the earth all the works of man would collapse. Of course they’re going to collapse anyway—but not because of that—because the true nature of sex begins to be experienced by some. Without that the operation of sex in the human nature sense would bring destruction, entire destruction. This certainly emphasizes the importance of being a bit cautious in this field. It’s extremely potent. Now we don’t wish to become so fearful that we become of no value whatsoever, but it is wise to be careful and to be cautious.

If there is a recognition that in the true working of this sex principle there is an increase of creative potency, this certainly does not indicate that there should be some promiscuous experience in this regard. Angels are not promiscuous. Their concern is with the creative process—what is fitting and right in the unfoldment of that creative process. A true creative process is always under control. It is a governed process, a process that is certainly not governed by the fickle and impure human heart. It is governed by the Spirit of God. It is very specific and very exact. Let no one ever imagine that individual motivations, even the best of them, should take precedence over the motivations that properly control in the whole.

One of the freedoms that I don’t think has been written into the book yet but which human beings assume anyway is the freedom to go to bed with whom you choose. Of course there are certain legal factors here which may enter into the picture perhaps, but basically human beings feel that they have a right in this regard, isn’t that so? I’m sure that many of you have utilized that right. It isn’t a right; it’s a wrong. As an angel one is very much aware of the potency, the creative power, that is made available by reason of the generation of this substance for right use. If it is to be used rightly it must be generated rightly. Most people have imagined, apparently, certainly in the human nature world, that the ends justify the means. This is never true. The ends are a revelation of the means, so that if wrong means are used you will have a wrong end, no matter how much you may claim that you have the fulfilment of divine purpose in mind.

In the human sense we have no freedom whatsoever in this field, rightly, and most people would take the attitude, from the standpoint of human nature, “You’re taking away one of my God-given freedoms.” God didn’t give it; the devil did. There is angelic freedom but no human freedom whatsoever. The angelic freedom, however, is a governed expression. There is no freedom without government. There is no freedom without control. The freedom is the expression of the Spirit, which is One Spirit, concerned with one thing. In the achievement of the purposes of God there may be said to be a multiplicity of purposes, but they are all included in one purpose. And as angels we have responsibility for a certain range of purposes. Now we handle those purposes in whatever the most fitting way may be, and in the handling of them there is the necessity to generate the substance by which they may be handled.

I talk of these things both from the angelic standpoint and from the human standpoint because, somehow or other, these two aspects have to come together. If the human aspect is claiming freedom it can never come together with the angelic attitude, which is based in dominion, in government, in control, so that all things that occur occur to make possible the creative fulfilment of divine purpose. If some human desire supersedes what is required for the fulfilment of divine purpose then the divine purpose can never be achieved. And this is what has been occurring in human experience the world around. One of the evidences of this lack of control is the immense population in the earth today, based in the fact that everybody has the right, in the human view, to have intercourse with anyone, at any time, according to the human choice. And who has the manhood or the womanhood really to face these things and to see what the state of affairs is, and to stop going along with the human nature approach? Because only as there is the emergence on earth of the true expression, the right use of the essential substance, can anything but doom and disaster be anticipated. Well who is going to let it change? “Oh, let it be by the hand of another.” But who is the other?

Now, of course, there have been various human nature views about this matter of sex. In the Roman Catholic Church the priests are supposed to be celibate—impotent, in other words. I think in fact they may not be always; otherwise the church would be even more impotent than it is. So it is considered by some that non-use is right use; others, uncontrolled use is right use. But as long as human nature controls it’s all wrong use. We’ve come again to a recognition of the reality of right use, under the hand of the Lord, by His angels. There is no right promiscuity in this. The Master said something about there is no marrying and giving in marriage in heaven. Some have assumed then that the angels of heaven must be sexless on the one hand or promiscuous on the other. Of course it isn’t either. There is the design of what is required in the creative process, that’s all. And that can’t be set up by human nature. Human nature marriages don’t really mean anything in the sight of God unless those concerned let the marriage be a means of right use.

Now, as I say, it is necessary to accept the situation as it is, whether one is single or whether one is married. At the moment these are the two main alternatives. Therefore if one accepts it as a single person, individually for oneself, accepts the responsibility of right function, it will also be accepted in the marriage on the same basis, individually speaking. But there is also the recognition that here is a socially acceptable union which, if the individuals concerned will accept individual responsibility in the matter, can make possible a magnification of the generation of substance, and therefore of the connection and of the action. So everything is included. I haven’t just been speaking to single people. Those I’ve been speaking to are individuals. But it doesn’t really matter what the social pattern may be—it is still a matter of the individual acceptance of responsibility for right function. And until a person does that there is nothing.

There’s also a recognition that there is a need to allow the creative currents of life to move, and we can’t just stifle them and be right. There is a need for them to move. But when I say that, obviously there is the necessity for a great deal of care, that if they are allowed to move more intensely, then we must already have accepted responsibility for this matter, so that it doesn’t become an uncontrolled sort of explosion. You know this has occurred in various groupings of people in various ways, where there has been an intensification. There is a need for control; that’s an individual matter. The angel may be allowed to have a hand in the matter, and the human nature ideas and desires may recede into the background.

You know, the illustration of the male sex organ is the scepter of the king. Would you expect the king to be governed by his scepter? Or would you expect the king to make right use of his scepter? The answer is obvious. If there is a scepter there is a king on hand. The king needs to become aware of his right authority and of the right use of that scepter. I introduce that part for the men particularly, although the ladies can take note too, so that there may be a greater recognition of the reality of true dominion. The dominion is of the king, not of the scepter. Now insofar as human nature is concerned the dominion has been mostly of the scepter, which is ridiculous.

Obviously, insofar as the female is concerned the generation of substance is supposed to be upward. The clitoris has been considered to be a focus point in the woman of the intensification, but something needs to rise up and not just be kept there, because here we would see something that is a very immature nature, a little girl still on hand, whereas something needs to rise up. That may be a point of focus, a starting point, but something needs to rise up, which will ultimately properly include a woman’s whole body, because it includes, rightly, all the spheres of vibrational substance. It requires all those spheres to provide the connection. If it’s kept down at the lowest point then nothing much is happening. In all of this it can be seen that in the physical body there are the symbols of what is needful from the standpoint of all the spheres.

There are starting points, but let’s not finish with the starting points. Let’s allow something to be generated, something to rise up that “there may be meat in mine house,” as it was put. “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,” that there may be the meat, which we need to eat if we are to give meat to our fellows.  The Master said he had meat to eat that his disciples knew not of, but he also gave meat to the multitudes. Here are the two kinds of substance—the substance of connection, the meat to eat, and the substance of action, the meat to give. We have no meat to give if we haven’t had meat to eat. So both are essential. And we begin to see how essential the male and female aspects are in the creative process, whether within the individual or whether between individuals. It is in relationship to these things that we become aware of how the creative process may be handled as we assume our responsibility as stewards of the Lord on earth.

We begin to have a whole new area of creative living, which doesn’t mean that we become intensely sexy, as it might be put in the human nature world, although there is an intensification in that regard—but it doesn’t just stay there, as I have indicated. It doesn’t stay just at the point of initiation. Then we have a very narrow and meaningless experience in existence, if it does. But here is something that begins to be generated that permeates all the spheres of our living, so that we have connection with the Spirit of God at every level and we have something to offer of the Spirit of God at every level, and we’re not caught in some meaningless little pattern of sexuality, according to the human nature view. And yet we can’t ignore it. It must be there as the point of departure.  Then something massive expands out of that. If we don’t have that point of departure nothing massive can expand. But let’s not get stuck at the point of departure, which is what human nature has done.

So again we’ve had opportunity to consider these things together in a little different way, at a little different level—I trust at a little expansion of awareness, so that there may be a greater understanding. And we may find ourselves in position to become increasingly sensitive to what is back of the initial starting point, and what is beyond that again, so that we don’t settle for the minimum.

© emissaries of divine light

The Magic Of Creation #1—In The Beginning

The  Magic  Of  Creation  #1

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In  The  Beginning

Uranda   July 29, 1953  Class

We have been considering the magic of life. And I would like in this hour to change our theme. I believe we have reached a point where we can do so and make it mean something. And so let us begin a little series of meditations on the Magic of Creation. When you first began your studies in this Class, we considered some of the principles of creation: creative power, creative patterns; but you were just beginning. Now do you suppose if we go back and make an approach from a little different angle it can mean something more to you? Because when you are giving an attunement you are sharing God's creative power. If you are not, you are not giving an attunement. But you are beginning to know the reality of the working of the power of God through you, beginning to know the reality of the working of the spirit, or the Shekinah Pattern of Being. So let us change our theme, and we will make it so difficult for those who have to go. We will make it just as tough for them as we can. I see some heads shaking. Well bless your hearts, better to have a little of it than none, so we will make a start. The magic of creation, of sharing on earth in the kingdom that is at hand, the reality of God's creative power. To make our start I am going to go back to the beginning of the record as we find it in the first chapter of Genesis. We will not dwell perhaps quite so long on some of these points, but I trust that you will find things that we have studied before connecting up in our present meditation.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”  In what beginning? In any beginning. Now human beings have tended to get into a state of mind where they think of the beginning as meaning merely the beginning of the creation of this earth and the things that are in it. That was the beginning of the creation of this earth; but the beginning of the creation of your body, the time of your conception, the beginning of anything that is to appear: “In the beginning God created …” If we would begin something or let something begin, we must start where we are. We cannot go back to some past point to begin. We may observe past points which have meaning in relationship to the present, but if we are to begin, it must be now. There is no other place to begin but now. If you say, "I will begin in the future," the future has to become now; and if you are always putting it off in the now for the future, it keeps getting put in the future and never gets here. “In the beginning God created …” If we are going to share God's creative activity we must make a beginning. There must be a starting point. And we must accept it in relationship to ourselves in this present moment.

In the beginning, what did God create? He created the heaven, and then He created the earth—not the earth and then the heaven. We have recognized in past meditations that if we are going to have something created in form, in the sense of physical substance, there must be a heaven created for it first. It must have a heaven. We have begun to realize that every physical form has a heaven—a heaven! All of these heavens put together make the heaven, unless we are talking about the heaven of a specific form. In the overall sense there is the heaven, but every form has its own heaven. There cannot be a form come into manifestation from the standpoint of God's creative power, or from the standpoint of anything growing, or gestating in the womb, without the heaven taking form first. There must be the heaven.

Now the heaven takes form on the basis of the truth, the elements of design and control, and on the basis of the pneumaplasmic substance which makes the heaven meaningful. You remember that after the reality of conception, that which is formed at first in the womb is alike, whether it is for a human being, a bird like a dove, a horse, or a lizard. Some of you may not have heard that before; but that which is first formed in the womb, or as with the bird, in the egg—that which first takes form is so much alike that even an expert cannot tell for certain. If you take that embryo at about, say, three weeks and put these embryos—from the human being, from the horse, from the dove and from the lizard—in a box without any label to indicate what they are, the expert will have trouble telling them apart, telling which is which, identifying them. There is meaning in this, vital meaning for us. Why?

We recognize that this first form that is generated is for one purpose: to make possible the generation of the pneumaplasmic substance, pneumaplasm, and that the pneumaplasm that is generated properly takes form according to the pattern in spirit as established by the design and control factors of truth. Like begets like. Very soon that embryo of the horse or the human being begins to look very different; but at first, during the period of the development of the pneumaplasmic substance, they look very much the same. Now there has to be the reality of the heaven for this early embryo before it can take form in substance, and that is achieved through the sperm and through the ovum. So the actuality of the mechanism to permit the manifestation of the pneumaplasmic substance is there right from the start, and it must be handed down from generation to generation. Then after enough pneumaplasm has been generated to make possible the development of the heaven of the form that is to be, there is the beginning of the change of the embryo; because the embryo is the starting point, moving from the known to the unknown. So after the pneumaplasm is generated, the physical substance of that early embryo begins to be the starting point for the formation of the physical substance which is being caused to conform to heaven. Every development on earth that is to have any meaning must conform to something in heaven. If it does not it will not have real form; it will not be a living thing.

So in the beginning, any beginning, in the beginning of you, in the beginning of any cycle, in the beginning of your ministry—it has already begun; we have been generating the pneumaplasm of your future pattern of ministry; we have been generating something of the substance of it; the embryonic pattern has been taking form and it will be born one bright day. But even when you are a server out there you will be still one of my servees, and the pattern that has been generated here, and is established in pattern, will tend to extend out through you, and the attitude that you have toward me will tend to control or establish the pattern for the attitudes of others toward you as you serve, as you minister. Everything must be started this same way. It cannot be done any other way. And so you can look back now, through the weeks and the few months that we have been together and you can see how I started out on the basis of the design, on the basis of the control factors in spirit, in truth, generating the essential pneumaplasm so you could begin to feel yourself related to me and that which I was offering you. Gradually it began to take on some meaning in your consciousness, in your awareness, and then step by step, after this pneumaplasmic body was provided, it began to take form and it began to have meaning inside of you.

Every creative cycle must work on the same basic principle or it will not come to fulfilment in life. There will be an abortion. Either there will be nothing or there will be an abortion, unless the laws and principles are followed. No man can change them; they are absolute, whether the human being thinks he likes it or does not like it. We must share God's creative function in bringing forth that which is to appear. So “In the beginning God created …” But let us not project it back to some vague distant beginning of this earth. Let us recognize it in relationship to ourselves and our present patterns of living. He created heaven first, and if you do not create heaven first you will not be successful in bringing forth the form by which the earth, or the physical substance of the thing, may appear, no matter what it is—your ministry, your pattern of life and living. We must create the heaven first. The Master emphasized this. He said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God," the kingdom of heaven that is at hand, "and his righteousness”—right function, right control under that divine design—and all of these things of heaven shall be added unto you in the realm of form. So the Master used these principles. He taught them, exemplified them, and there is no other way. And do not ever try, because you will just be wasting your time if you try to do it without regard to these laws and principles.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” To start with, what was the state of the earth? It was not; it just was not. And that is true with respect to all the things you start to bring forth. You do not have something yet in form that is to appear in relationship to your life and ministry. “The earth was without form, and void”—it was an empty place—“and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” And for us, what is the deep? It is the deep of the future. Insofar as the earth was concerned it was the deep of space—the deep of space. But for us at the present time, in these cycles of outworking, it is the deep of the future. And darkness was upon the face of the deep of the future. But in relationship to this, we are to start something, doing something, letting the creative cycles work.

“And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Water is the symbol of truth, the symbol of the design pattern. Movement suggests the reality of control. Spirit, the power, the intelligence, the reality that is being brought forth, moving upon the face of the divine design in truth—that movement relates to control. “And God said, Let there be light.” Now remember, it is presented in the first chapter of John in a way that makes this so clear: “In the beginning was Shekinah, and Shekinah was with God, and Shekinah was God” [in manifest action]. And Shekinah, the same, was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Shekinah; and without Shekinah was not any thing made that was made. In Shekinah was life; and the life was the light of men.”

“In Shekinah was life; and the life was the light of men.” Now the starting point with respect to the actual processes of manifestation here is: “And God said, Let there be light.” But all things were made by Shekinah, the Presence of the One Who Dwells, and the evidence of His Presence: the Fire that Burns, the creative Fire of God's love; and the Light that Glows, the truth, the design and control factors relating to intelligence; and Life, the Cloud of Glory. And the life factor in Shekinah is the light of men. Now as soon as human beings begin to respond, you, as an instrument in the hand of God, or as an extension in the hand of God, begin to act on earth, or you let God act through you so that you act so that God acts. You let the divine action appear. And what are you doing? As you begin to help any person, giving an attunement, doing any creative thing, whatever it may be—of course there is the pattern in reality, the Shekinah Pattern of Being—but the first step in actual manifestation is “Let there be light.” And what is this light? “The life of Shekinah is the light of men.”

As you look back along the way, how did I start with you? Try to jam you into some pattern or other? Make you be thus and so? Give you rules and regulations to follow? Some of you were quite tantalized because I did not give you enough rules and regulations, tell you what to do. Oh you wanted to know what to do, and you were bothered about it because I did not. No. What did I do? I began to let light be for you. Generally speaking it was something I said, perhaps coupled with something I did; but it was something I said. There was an openness of mind, an inquiringness, and I said something to you so that you could understand it, so that it would have meaning, logic, reason—something that would be sensible, something that you could comprehend. And so as you began to have light in your mind in relationship to the point I was talking about, so that you could understand it, we had begun the creative cycle in you and through you.

But the first step of the first cycle is “Let there be light.” That is the first step in actual action. But now: “And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” Have you found that being true here, having light divided from the darkness in your own consciousness? Has it been a process at work? Yes. In other words if I had not functioned according to these principles, we would not even have this Class. You would not be here. If you had come you would have gone away again; it would have been scattered and it would not have had any meaning. But you find that everything I do is based upon these same basic laws and principles. And it is up to you to learn to share God's creative action on earth. The more of us that do it in actual fact, the more the manifestation of power will be.

“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Now this was not a twenty-four-hour day, as we have noted. Some people tried to say that it was. But if they say that, they say that God is a liar. Remember this point, because there will be those who will try to convince you it was a twenty-four-hour day; but if they say that, they take the position that God was a liar. For God said to Adam, according to this story—we recognize its allegorical significance—but God said to Adam and Eve, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” “In the day.” Now Adam lived to be nearly a thousand years old, so obviously God was not talking about a twenty-four-hour day, because if He was talking about a twenty-four-hour day, then Adam should have died within twenty-four hours from the time he let Eve persuade him to bite the forbidden fruit. We will get to a little further study of that later. But consider that, and remember that, because there will be those who try to confuse you. God was not talking about a twenty-four-hour day. By day here, He means a cycle of time. We do not need to go into that too much at the moment, but you know, as you recall, that that cycle of time in the first creative day was roughly speaking 28,850 years, as we count years today. We will not go into the whys and wherefores of that for the moment. But no one can say that it was a twenty-four-hour day without calling God a liar, because He likewise said, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,” and Adam did not die in twenty-four hours. So here we have the manifestation on the basis of what? Light, the light that glows relates to what? The truth. And truth is symbolized by water.

Now let us recall to mind the reality of the symbols of the Four Forces. We recall water, air, earth and fire as the symbolic names of the Four Forces. The first is water, and water relates to truth, and truth relates to light, the Light that Glows. So we begin to realize that this is the step with respect to water. Every creative cycle must start with water dominant, which is to say, truth dominant. In every creative step all Four Forces are always in action, but one of the four must be dominant. And every creative cycle must begin with water, or truth, dominant. Water symbolizes the nature of truth. Man cannot pick up the ocean and carry it away in his hands. Neither can he do so with the truth. So the first step in the manifestation of light is with respect to truth, which is symbolized by water. Here we have the dominance of water, the beginning of the creative cycle. Remember that every creative cycle that is opened must, without exception, begin on this basis, or it will fail; if anything manifests, it will come to an abortion. These are absolute laws and principles which cannot be successfully violated by man.

Under this water pattern, “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”—upon the face of the vibratory patterns of truth—“and God said, Let there be light.” As you began to respond to the creative cycle that we are sharing in this ministry there was the beginning of the manifestation of light because I presented something to you in some way that would let you begin to see something more clearly, so that you could begin to understand something with respect to yourself or someone else. And as you serve, remember to keep it in this pattern. Now there are those who imagine that they have to start with the fire of God's love; but remember, that is the fourth of the Four Forces. If you start with that, trying to emphasize it, trying to love people into this state or that, as the saying goes in some religious circles, you will fail! Many people try to start with fire and it fades. You must start with water. Of course fire is there, as are the other four forces, but it must be water, or truth, that is dominant. And with the recognition of truth there begins to be light. The light begins to be divided from the darkness for you today, and in the cycle of your service to others there will be that which they cannot yet see, which is yet darkness, but they will begin to see the light and they will begin to distinguish between the light and the darkness. So, “The evening and the morning were the first day.”

Now God did not say, and it is not written here in symbolical portrayal of creative principle, that the morning and the evening were the first day. Remember that. Never. “The morning and the evening were the first day.” In every instance it is “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Everything that is going to work out on the basis of a true creative cycle starts in the evening. Now that does not necessarily mean that, in the recognition of our cycles of day and night and so on, that you should never start anything in the morning. This could be carried to some kind of ridiculous extreme. But if you are really going to open up a creative cycle, it will start in the evening of our days. You may not realize that it started in the evening; you may think you started it in the morning; but if it is true, it will have started in the evening. Why? Why is it written here, with respect to the situation after man was created, that “the Lord God came walking in the cool of the day”? What is the cool of the day? It is the evening—in the evening. The vibratory patterns of attunement for the beginning of things, the beginning of the coordinated outworking of cycles and patterns between heaven and earth, are always in the evening. We could take a whole hour on this one point without any difficulty. So do not jump to any conclusions, but recognize the point.

“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.” Now what is the firmament? It is the air, the envelope of the earth's atmosphere, the earth's air. And air is the symbol of spirit. Here we have the second of the four forces. First, water; second, air. And so in the second cycle air must be dominant; that is, spirit must be dominant. And what does spirit do when you begin to let it be dominant in the creative cycle according to the divine plan? It separates the waters from the waters—the waters that are above, from the waters that are below. Now, there are some clouds in the sky, so from a physical standpoint we can say there is some water up there. And there is water down here. And what is between? The air. Man has, revealed—with respect to every one of these basic principles—he has revealed for him right here in nature the basic principle itself, and the reason for it, and man has consistently ignored it. But, the waters that are above from the waters that are below—immediately our minds revert to that remarkable examination.

How many of you would like that examination today, the examination that the Lord presented to man through Job? How many of you would like to take it today? Let us see your hands. You are smart to keep them down. But in this examination He said, “Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?”—the ordinances of heaven, the laws, the principles, the governing factors of heaven: “canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?”—their control patterns in relationship to physical substance. That is one of the points.

Now when we begin to think about the action of the second force in dominance, the dividing of the waters from the waters, and we know that water is the symbol of truth, we recognize that there is a level of truth with respect to the heaven—I am not just talking about the sky—a level with respect to the heaven and a level with respect to the earth. It is the air of the spirit that not divides but connects, not separates but unifies. Actually, in the process the waters that are above are divided from the waters that are below, aren't they? By what? By the firmament—the air, which is the symbol of spirit. But if we have something that divides, it also unifies. If it separates, it also connects. Let us remember that. So the truth with respect to the invisible realms of so-called heaven and the truth with respect to the earth and the physical substance of being are not a different truth, but that which separates them is the air of the spirit. So we begin to see that God said, as the second step, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters.” Not to divide. God made the firmament and divided the waters, yes—a heaven and an earth—but the heaven came first, every step of the way. And it must with you.

So there is the firmament in the midst of the waters—the reality of spirit, with truth above, the truth of the heaven, and the truth of the earth below. And it is the spirit that connects them up. So in our cycles we begin to establish what? A firmament. Why do we give an attunement? What is an attunement? It is a process by which we begin to establish the firmament—something that has been said, that has already begun to give a glimmer of light somehow, to the individual. There must be some light before there is the action of developing the firmament. Why would the individual even come to you for an attunement? Even if you do not stop to talk about it very much, you probably say a sentence or two to clarify something. But there is the light, and then the attunement itself begins to establish the firmament of the spirit in the individual, so that the waters, the truth of his reality, may have a correlation with the truth of his body.

Now the ill conditions do not reveal the truth. They are the evidence of the presence of a distortion, something that is spoiling the true pattern. But there is a pattern of truth for the body, a pattern of truth for the invisible reality. And you begin to project, by reason of an attunement, the reality of the firmament, the air of the spirit, which is in the midst of the waters, so that the water that is above and the water that is below may be connected up, and the reality of the Divine Design that is in the realm of heaven may manifest through the pneumaplasmic layer without distortion on the underside of the pneumaplasmic layer and have meaning on earth in relationship to physical substance. Is that not simple? See how easily it all connects up? You begin to know what we have been studying about for so many months. Now some of you have not heard all of it, and that does not sound simple to you. Do not jump to the conclusion that it is not really simple. It is—and easy. Take it easy and you will know what we are talking about. But you can begin to see something of it, because here is a revelation of the four forces. Water. Now there is Air. And then we come to the next step: “Let the waters under the heaven …” Not under the sky! Physically it works out here, in pattern, so that we can say that it is in relationship to the sky; but it says “under the heaven.”

Never confuse the sky with heaven. People talk about "the heavens" sometimes, when they are talking about the sky and all the stars that are beyond the sky. But how far out is the sky? How far out do you have to go before the sky is no longer blue? Not very far. Not very far! You get out there twenty-five or thirty miles and there is no light, in the middle of the day. You only have to go out from the earth's surface twenty-five or thirty miles and it is night in the middle of the day. A hundred miles out it is just plain black night—in the middle of the day! You can check that from a scientific standpoint. Why? Because there is nothing to reflect the light. You do not actually see the light that is coming from the sun. Of course you contact it, because it is already being reflected by the earth's atmosphere. So you have the sense of seeing it coming from the sun. But you go out beyond the earth's envelope of air which extends out and it is very thin out about seventy-five miles, and you have no air, nothing to reflect the light, no earth there to reflect the light. Though you might conceivably see a spot up there that looks something like a star, the sun would not have the same appearance to you one hundred miles out from the surface of the earth. It is dark night! You go straight out there, toward the sun even, and it will be dark night one hundred miles from the earth's surface. You can check it up for yourself if you wish, but that is the way it is.

The light has meaning on the basis of reflection. It is being reflected by the earth's atmosphere, and we begin to have the sense of sky when we look up toward the sky, because of the pattern of the light. There are various explanations as to why it is blue; we will not go into that at the moment; but blue is the symbol of truth. In the color range, blue is the symbol of truth, so whatever scientific explanation you choose, why that is all right; but blue is the symbol of the truth. But you get out there very far, you get even five miles above the surface of the earth, and do you think the sky is blue anymore? No. Five miles above the surface of the earth and the sky is not blue anymore. It begins to be black. Up where the jet pilots fly, it begins to be black. So you begin to realize that in this earth and up in the sky, the earth's envelope of atmosphere, we have some very interesting things—very interesting, fascinating. And they all mean something in relationship to our life function, our relationship to God—the creative forces. So the sky is black when you get out just a little ways; it is not blue anymore. The blue of truth, the design, the living factors, are all right here on the surface of the earth. If you go up five miles you had better take oxygen with you. From the standpoint of movement out from the earth's surface, you get ten thousand feet above sea level and you begin to need oxygen, if you are going to maintain the same pattern of coordination and control that you have at sea level. From the standpoint of the airlines, they start the air pattern change at nine thousand feet. They do not wait until ten thousand. These pressurized cabins that are used in the big airliners function on the basis of air as of nine thousand feet above sea level. Well now, the light, then, depends upon reflection. You cannot see the light from the sun until it is reflected. It must reflect somehow before you can see it, and if you were out a hundred miles from the earth's surface it would be dark midnight in the middle of the day.

"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven"—under the heaven; that is, in relationship to the earth, or what is to become the physical form—“be gathered together unto one place.” Now what have I been working to do here? One of the primary factors through the entire period of this Class has been to get the truth of you gathered together in one place. As it is put with respect to the day of Pentecost: “They were all with one accord in one place. And there came a sound as of …” It was not a rushing mighty wind. “And there came a sound as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto each of them as if it were cloven tongues of fire.” Now it was not fire; it only appeared as if it were. It was not wind: it only had a sound as if it were a rushing mighty wind. And all of this happened when they were with one accord in one place. We have been letting the light shine; we have been gaining a deeper understanding of all the principles. But here we come to the third step. It is the step with respect to the third force, which is symbolized by Earth. But what must take place before the earth appears? Earth is dominant in this third step, yes, in the outworking of the cycle; but it is beginning to refer to the physical substance of your own body, or of the world around you, physical substance as a fact. But that physical substance appears after something happens. Let me read you the text: “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.”

“And let the dry land appear” is a creative command that follows something else: “Let the waters be gathered together unto one place.” Until we get the focalization of truth in relationship to the physical realm of things drawn together unto one place we are not going to have the manifestation of power, and we are not going to have the real manifestation of earth, the substance which is to provide the form for the beauty of design established in truth, or “the waters.” Now here God used, right in the beginning of the creation of this earth—and it must be used in relationship to every true creative cycle—the same pattern that we find appearing in relationship to the manifestation of power, the beginning of the manifestation of power, at the day of Pentecost. But how quickly it disappeared! They violated it. They did not follow out the creative pattern; and so instead of that being the beginning of the manifestation of God's power, that it might increase and become greater and fill the earth, almost immediately we see impulsive Peter rushing out to use it according to his own concepts. And within a very few years, what had happened to that Pentecostal power, as it is called? That power was gone, so that the Christians, as they were called, were thrown to the lions and burned at the stake and all kinds of terrible things happened. And people look back and think about what wonderful days they were when there were martyrs! It was not our LORD's intention that there should be martyrs like that. If they had not violated this cycle, they would not have been thrown to the lions or burned at the stake. It was a violation of the laws of God that permitted the manifestation of these atrocities. They were not required by God. They were not a part of the plan. They violated it and lost the power.

The power manifests on the basis of the laws and the principles and the creative cycles. And here we see how it begins to work; that which is required of you, yes, here. You have been gathering toward one place, the place of being with one accord in one place. But you have not reached it yet. This creative command is still sounding for you. And when will you let it have meaning? We shall see. “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven”—under the heaven. The waters—the truth of heaven that is at hand, available, as the Master said, that which is good news, to remind man that this is true. The waters are under the heaven; they are available, within reach, something that you can accept in relationship to yourself. And He said, “Let the waters under the heaven be gathered unto one place.” After that is done the second command will take effect: “And let the dry land appear”—let the earth substance appear. Now the earth substance is not going to appear until we have the gathering of the waters. They must be gathered unto one place. We see the symbol of it in the ocean, but seeing the symbol of it is of small avail unless we know the reality of it at work in our own lives. When are you going to let this creative command of God that relates to the third day of creation have meaning in you? It needs to be done in this Class, before you go your several ways. Unless you let the waters be gathered together unto one place you will be going out there not fully equipped, not equipped the way the Lord wants you to be, the way I would like to see you, the way you can be. That is the command that is established for you now, God's command to you. And when will you obey it? When will you let it take form? "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,” so that you may be truly with one accord in one place, and then the dry land of the physical substance will begin to appear and the power manifest; for this is the third step. And the fourth one comes after the third one.

This is where you are as a Class, in this third step. I am waiting for you to obey that Divine Command: "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place." And when you do that the next command will take over and the dry land will appear, and then we will be ready for the fourth step. Let us touch for a moment on this fourth step: “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years …” and so on. The earth's atmosphere had cleared to the point where the light of the sun could begin to reach the earth for the fourth day of creation, in the actual cycle of the development of the earth. But what is the character of this? The sun symbolizes what? Fire. And fire is the symbol of God's love, the reality of power, the reality of the creative power of what we sometimes call the Creative Fire. And that comes on the fourth day.

Now what do you suppose is on the fifth day? What is dominant on the fifth day of creation? It goes back to water. Water is again dominant on the fifth day. What is dominant on the sixth day of creation? Air again. And so forth. Every creative cycle has these four forces working out over and over again, and every particular step in a creative process has one of these four dominant. That is the story here in Genesis. It is the story in life. It is the story wherever you turn. And this Class has reached the point of the third step. Not the fourth; the first half of the third step. What are you going to do about it?

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