Howard Goodman Sunrise Ranch David Barnes Salmon Arm BC
David Karchere Sunrise Ranch
September 13, 2026 a.m.
Keahi Ewa —I want to welcome you this morning. My name is Keahi Ewa, for those I haven't met yet.After my prayer, we're going to have a karaoke hymnal, “The Beauty Way,” hot off the presses, last week, I believe, David Karchere created it. So please sing along if you'd like.Howard Goodman from Cape Town, South Africa will be speaking; and David Barnes, from Canada will be offering his gifts; followed by David Karchere closing our time together.
I invite you to close your eyes if you'd like and breathe this in as we deepen our practice of giving and receiving in this breath.Let us take a breath together and allow ourselves to arrive fully in this moment. Let the activity that brought us here begin to settle. Let the mind soften, the heart open, and the body remember what it belongs to—to the living rhythm of creation.There is beauty here. There is beauty in the breath moving through us, in this life stirring within us, and in the unique presence of every person gathered. This beauty is not something we have to manufacture. It is not something we have to earn. It is the inner pattern of being already present, waiting to be seen, welcomed, and given expression through us.As a flower opens naturally to the sun, may we open to the creative power that is here now. May everything within us say, “Yes, come here. Come into this heart. Come into this body. Come into this gathering. Come into the words spoken, the music offered, and the silence we share.”
May we see beyond the outer forms of one another and recognize the essence shining through. Beneath our different stories, personalities, cultures, and experiences, we are already connected. We are already belonging to one another, belonging to one another within the greater constellation of being. May we meet there. May we meet in the sacred place within where nothing needs to be defended, where no one needs to prove their worth, and where the beauty of who we are may move freely among us.May this service be an invitation to life, an opening through which love may enter, creative power may move, and something more beautiful may be born. May we be present enough to receive it, open enough to embody it, and generous enough to offer it into our world. The beauty of being is here. The power of creation is here. And we — we are here together. Let us be here. Aumen.
The Beauty Way
I walk with a beauty before me
I walk with beauty behind me
I walk with beauty below me
I walk with beauty above me
I walk with beauty all around me
I walk the beauty way
May all my thoughts be beautiful
May all my words be beautiful
May all my acts be beautiful
I walk the beauty way
— David Karchere —
Howard Goodman —I don't know how to speak when it's beyond words. Walking the Beauty Way, being in it together; flying across the globe, over the beautiful continent of Africa, moving into the west of it across the Atlantic, coming into this valley, coming into our ancestral home. Anne-lise and I are very glad to be here—for the recovery of our courage.
If we remember somewhere in the deep, beautiful, untroubled waters of our heart of remembrance, that we signed up for this work; and so we join hands, join hearts, and honor and hold each other to the task—the task of letting beauty be born. Why does it take courage for us? Loosen the grip, my friends, the survival grip. For ultimately we wake up and come to understand that who we are is both beauty and power, and the restoration of true memory.
I too call in the presence of our ancestors to join us in this ancestral home—the ancestral home that is born from the future, not from the cultures and the structures that are generated out of the past. We are his, her story, His story, Her story, the creation from the future, from this place of the secret, internal domain of the Most High. We laugh. Whether we know it or not, we begin to remember that what joins us at hip, belly, heart, throat, head, body, spirit, is the fire of our ancestral legacy. The legacy that is, in fact, our destiny. We stand here together—seated, standing, it matters not—to honor the present moment. The present moment is a cosmic portal, wherever we may be in the universal scheme of things. We are not strangers. We may feel we're in a strange land, but we are pioneers of restoration, remembering this beautiful body of humankind, cluster, constellation, pod by pod, as we are gathered by the mystical power of love. For the presence of who we are is speaking in and through us all right now.
This is not a solo form behind a microphone disseminating something separate from what you know already. All of us know from the inside. But we are here like a flower to reveal, to let flourish our remembrance, our joy, to know that we are receiving what has already been given, and it takes courage to loosen the grip of what we have come to believe erroneously is a long walk of struggle! Eh? No, it's the beautiful long walk to freedom, to claim the freedom that comes into the present moment amongst us now. All of us here in the Mountain View, with the beautiful paintings, the artistry, the gorgeousness of how we are constellated as all of nature is. And I'll finish off before handing it over to Brother, powerful Brother David from the north, by sharing how when we are focused in our truth, knowing that truth is beauty, the power of our influence in this natural, extraordinary creation, planet Earth is profound.
And this is—I need to do this very quickly, so I'll do it this way. A gathering, music conference, late 1970s, Sunrise Ranch, two weeks together—amazing! what a generation of unified experience. What joy. We end at Eastview down the road here, and we sit in the garden, and our beautiful ancestral guide, Lillian Exeter, says, “Go now and pray your thanksgiving for what we have generated. Commune.” So I do, by the canal, and I'm sitting, and there is silence, and it's the middle of summer, and I say to myself, “Where are the sounds of nature? Where is this beautiful symphony I'm expecting?” And suddenly, from the left comes a battalion of swallows, swooping past me, and the crickets are sounding, and everything is coming alive, and it's all happening. And then my little mind gets in there, and asks a silly question of doubt, and everything returns to silence. Let us let life, the beauty of who we are, be born constantly through the presence of our ancestral ones, by whatever name—father, mother—who are proud of us. Let us make them proud of us by being really fully present together. David, over to you.
David Barnes — Good morning everyone. I live in south-central British Columbia, Canada, about five hours to the northeast of Edenvale. There has been such a wonderful intensification of the current of the Spirit moving since Gary opened the service this morning. There was a powerful movement through you Howard. And of course we must all let our spiritual substance increase to meet the challenge of the intensification that is with us, both now in this morning meditation, but also in the cycle of expansion that we're in, spiritual expansion in the world, and more particularly in the cycle of expansion that is coming to focus at Sunrise Ranch over the next couple of weeks. All of us are a part of that.
I wonder if you know and remember that it is 94 years ago this morning—September 13th, 1932—that Uranda began to move through his great awakening process. And so this is the completion of the 94th year, and we are moving into the 95th year in the cycles which relate to the initiation of the Third Sacred School on earth, and the founding of the ministry of Emissaries of Divine Light; which led 14 years later to the founding of Sunrise Ranch. So here we are on a journey related to the Commission that Uranda received way back, but it was to be shared by all who would take part in it. And it is to this end that we are all called to share in the fulfillment of this Divine Commission, which relates to the restoration of the consciousness of Divine Man and Divine Woman on earth. Now is this not a most beautiful Commission, and beautiful anniversary remembrance! And remembering, is it not the most wonderful and beautiful and glorious opportunity to provide the substance and the spirit and the presence, which allows it to continue.
Something most beautiful occurred here last Sunday; and David Karchere established it under the name “The Secret of Life”; and he identified that as the qualities of beauty, the Beauty of Truth. I thought that the record of that service, those words spoken, pretty much said it all. If you want to look at it line by line and paragraph by paragraph, you will see that everything necessary to the outworking of the Perfect Plan was identified in essence. It's a very wonderful thing for me to be able to say that; and so it should be for all of us in recognition that this Perfect Pattern was articulated in words by our brother and our friend, who did not come alone. He came with others who spoke, and others who gathered from around the world to be with him—all of us together for this purpose.
I thought I would read a few words by Uranda that relate to the matter of beauty, partly to share some of Uranda's spirit and words on this anniversary morning, and be thankful for his presence and what he brought; but also to show you how perfectly David spoke his words of beauty, in exact attunement and alignment with the spirit of Uranda. And you can check this out for yourself—maybe after the service you can go back and read or watch what David said and you can reread these words by Uranda. Uranda wrote a short piece titled Beauty, excerpted from his 1936 masterpiece, “Steps to Mastership”:
“The best way to enter into selfless service in Life is found in Beauty. He who looks for Beauty in all people and all things soon finds that which he can truly Love. The blending force which draws one into a realization of Oneness is Love, and the Presence of Love in people and all creation is discerned through a perception of Beauty. Beauty is not to be confused with surface prettiness. Beauty is that deeper quality which partakes of the Divine. The Inner Being of all things is Beauty. Look for Beauty and you will find it. When you find Beauty, you will have found the Key to Love [and I might add here, the Secret of Life]. When you have found Love, you will blend with that in which you find it. Thus is Oneness attained.
“The selfless [impersonal] expression of Life depends on the ability to perceive Beauty everywhere. Everywhere present, Beauty will attune you with Love, and Love will blend you with God. Beauty and Truth are One. The Essence of all things is Beauty. The Essence of all things is Truth. Through the Pathway of Beauty, you can ascend to the limitless heights.
“Set yourself to the pleasure of looking for Beauty. Beauty is Reality. Behold It, and the clouds of darkness and illusion will vanish away. Fill your mind with Beauty and there will be no room for the ugly things of the personal life expression. The Christ is Beauty. The Way of the Christ is Beauty. The Truth of the Christ is Beauty. The Life of the Christ is Beauty. You cannot Love that in which you do not see Beauty. Therefore look for Beauty and you will find Love. Look below the surface in contemplation and you will find Beauty. He who hurries sees not Beauty. Follow Beauty and you will find Love. Enter into Love and you will find God. In God you will find the ALL in All.”
I watched the video of the expansion session held after the service last Sunday. I wasn't able to be on it directly. There was a flow present of wondrous beauty in expression through every individual who spoke—a seamless flow of meaning and beauty and power, with substance gathering. Quite amazing, really! It made my whole body tremble to receive it. There was something portrayed, for example, through Lana—to single one out—which was astonishingly beautiful and intelligent and wise and radiant. And to single out another—I could point to each one really—but I want to mention the words that Maria Zayas spoke. It is such a fulfilling thing to hear the Word of truth and love, of vibrancy and life, spoken and revealed with understanding, and knowledge, and richness of expression, such as came through Maria. And I watched the Wednesday night service from the Ranch, focused by Gary Goodhue in the revelation of his vibrant presence. It is so wonderful Gary, to watch you and be with you and hear you in action. And then, of course, there was this most wonderful, beautiful revelation through Cese Foster. I mention these things because all this happened during this past week, in our midst—an expansion of truth and beauty and love and light.
I have just a couple of minutes left, so I want to read—I could speak my own words very easily, but I want to read Maria's words. They came right from the center of her being, out through my heart, moving out through my consciousness in oneness. Here's what Maria had to say, which I think was such a wonderful expansion and complementary expression offered in relationship to that morning service, and particularly the words expressed by David, his words on the theme of beauty, and the Secret of Life. Maria emphasized the marriage between Mother God and Father God; and the spirit and substance, and the engagement that is available within each one of us through this marriage internally. She said:
“The marriage between Mother God and Father God—that is available within each one of us. It is the source of energy and creation when there is this blending. When we are in our correct place, functioning through the design, there is the emanation of Light and Beauty and Truth, and it happens automatically. We don’t need to look at external qualities in the distorted state. It is an inner experience of Beauty and it expresses everywhere—we see it in manifestation in form. We could call these Father and Mother aspects Electrical and Magnetic: the Electrical penetrates and the Magnetic draws. [Father: Love, Electrical. Mother: Truth, Magnetic.] We can think about how these forces are balanced in different configurations, in anything, and in any one. So, the Beauty of Design and Geometry is perfectly in order, and balanced and functional. To be in the Secret of Life is to be available to fulfill these functions at all times—to let that process of engagement occur within me [and within us all together as a collective body], the Electrical and the Magnetic, the Masculine and the Feminine, the Radiant and the Responsive. It is like a little nuclear reactor when these forces come together, and they generate Substance, they generate Light, they generate Vision and Knowledge. So WOW! Hopefully that’s not so much a Secret to us, increasingly. But it is a Secret in the world. I love the power to bring the Truth of Love in this Generative Way.”
So here is an expression through one of our sisters, speaking the Word, so that if Uranda was here in person he would rejoice to see this magnification of what he initiated, occurring now, referring to what our brother David spoke and wrote, and what Maria brought, and the beauty of what you brought Howard, and you Keahi. We could go on and on and on in these generations, through this little “nuclear reactor”, the Ark made flesh. So, David, I'm going to turn this over to you, recognizing the beauty of your name, which means “beloved”, and how David in the Bible was once called “a man after God's own heart”. Here we are with you, men and women who come with a revelation of God's own heart, a heart of courage. Over to you, David.
David Karchere —Thank you, David. It was a supreme pleasure to hear you speak.And I want to give back to you what you have given so generously to us, which is recognition, a seeing, appreciation. There can be no doubt that here is an uncommon man. And of course there's something unique and uncommon about each of us, unique to us, a unique spirit, unique combination of factors, unique creative abilities. And one by one we get to receive that and appreciate that from others—and then get to bring our gifts. What we've already shared here this morning is so monumental, and for me just such a joy to be with and to receive. Thank you all.
I too want to acknowledge the anniversary of Emissaries of Divine Light. Uranda called what he was undertaking and what Emissaries of Divine Light is all about as the Third Sacred School. And he spoke of it as the spiritual plane approach—an interesting turn of phrase, the spiritual expression plane approach. He was making a distinction there, and using that word spiritual; he wasn't referring to the ultimate reality of spirit. He was talking about that dimension of us as human beings that have the ability to bring the spiritual into the human experience and into the human world—our spiritual nature, the spiritual nature of human beings. And he was saying that the work that he was undertaking, and that those who were with him were undertaking, was the work that was of that level of things that came to focus there.
And what we know is that what happens in our spiritual nature as human beings affects everything else. So it isn't limited to there. What's happening in our spiritual nature affects how we think and feel, and what we do and what we say. I don't know how fully people who have been associated with this Program have appreciated the significance of what was being said. That level of things in human experience has been taken over and largely occupied by, prevailed over by worldly priesthoods, and spiritual and religious institutions. And you have people who are followers of all that, and all the dogma, and all the disciplines that come out of that. And then increasingly in our day you have people who say, enough of that noise, I'm out of here—and by the way I'm going to reject any kind of spiritual approach because it's obviously awful, because it's taken over by institutions, and it doesn't have life. Not realizing that in the process the spiritual is being thrown out, which is not really owned by any institution, or anything of human culture. It's owned by the divine, and ultimately us in the name of the divine. But a sad state of affairs if you think about it.
So to put it this way, this ministry is about a takeover. We're not interested in overthrowing the Roman Catholic Church or any other religious institution. Not a takeover in that sense, but a takeover of the space. Throwing out all the old idols, all the old dogma for or against. Not relevant. Not relevant. What's relevant is this tremendous capacity for spiritual expression that we have, that we are owning. But if you don't have the courage to confront all the religious ideas, the doctrines of the dogma, and all the rites and rituals and disciplines of worldly spirituality, in the name of the creator being that you are, that we are—that we are, that we are, in the name of the reality of spirit—then that area lies dormant in human experience. And then we settle on other things. Are Emissaries of Divine Light are an elevated social club? An alumni association? That's not what Uranda created. And I dare say for any of us who came to be a part of what this is, we didn't come for that. No, we came for something vital. The vitality of our own spirit, the vitality of what we knew and then what we touched. In people for whom it was real. People in whom there was, in fact, spiritual expression. Well, it's a nice phrase.
Last week especially, and again this morning, we are going into depth on some of the factors that are involved in spiritual expression. It's not all monotone, one thing: “Spiritual expression; yes, I flipped the switch. It's on. I'm expressing spiritually.” There's all kinds of—wha —colors to the expression of spirit. David was highlighting truth and beauty. We could well say, as I believe David did say, truth is beauty and beauty is truth. The pattern of creation. The essence of it. The shape and the color and the rhythm of it. And then there is the power of creation, the ultimate value of creation, ultimate reason, which is love. The creative power that moves through the patterns of truth.
Last week I was saying that truth is like a flower. In the beauty of the flower, it attracts creative powers. It attracts the sun. It welcomes the rain. And that's how beauty is. When we know the beautiful, we are calling in the creative powers which all ultimately originate and center in love. And in that there's life, the power of life, the pattern of life. We're alive and it's beautiful, and we know it. All those things are happening in spiritual expression when our spiritual expression is open and alive.
I think of another term, which is spiritual fluency. For talking about expression, I think fluency is a valid word to use. So how is our spiritual fluency, our ability to express—and express whatever color of spirit, whatever dynamic of spirit is called for in the moment? What is called for from us? That electricity that David spoke of, that magnetism that he spoke of? Is that what's called for? What is called for? And do we have the emotional fluency and the spiritual fluency to give it expression? Or are we somehow embedded in some facet of human culture, embedded in some facet of human personality, that constellated as what we think of as ourselves? So we're embedded in that personality or culture, which tells us that this is who we are, this is how we express, this is how we come off, this is the impression we want to give. And even though the moment calls for something else, we're chained in that culture, in that personality. No fluency.
I have an unusual topic for Sunday morning: gender fluidity. We're not going to get into all the political and social ramifications of those words as they're known today. That's not for me to get into, not for us here this Sunday morning. I’ll make only one comment about it. A good place to start is being thankful for what you have, I think. Whatever we have, however we think of it, being thankful for what we have allows us to use what we have as a human being to, you know, bring the optimal pleasure and creativity. But I really want to speak of something else.
We could be embedded in our culture, we could be embedded in our gender as we think of it on a cultural basis. So that even though the circumstance, even though the person is calling out for the love of Mother God, we can't go there because we don't have the fluency, spiritually, to go there. The fluency to open up our arms and allow our arms to be the arms of Mother God that could hold that person or that group of people in the arms of the Great Mother. And if there's a lack of spiritual fluency—and from a spiritual standpoint, gender fluidity—we could be unable to do that. And if a circumstance calls for the power of the Father—the nobility of the Father, the assurance of the Father, the confidence of the Father—but we're stuck in some kind of phase of personality, concept of our own gender identity, we can't go there. That's sad. And the same thing is true for us together. Are we spiritually fluent? Can we go where we need to go? Can we bring the dignity and the power and the nobility of the Father; and the loving arms and the patterns of truth of the Mother? Can we go where we need to go spiritually and allow for a spiritual expression that is called for in this day?
In the last book of the Bible, the Revelation of the Apostle John, John had all kinds of fantastic imagery, dragons and beasts and all kinds of things. And in chapter 18, he speaks about the Babylon as the fallen state, and all of the demons of Babylon. And he was colorful in his language. And I won't use it, you know, read all that. We don't need it all. But in the middle of all that, describing all that, he said something which is so powerful and memorable. “Come out of her, my people.” Come out of her, my people. Come out of your cultural identity. Come out of your personality identity. Come out of her. It's portrayed as coming from a great voice out of heaven. Come out of her, my people. We're not supposed to be living in all that! In a humanly defined state of consciousness, or culture or world. Coming out of it into a place of higher awareness and expression, an appreciation for beauty, which is truth; and speaking out of truth, speaking out of love, spiritually fluent, knowing an abundance of life.
Is this spiritual bypassing? Come out of her, my people. We're just going to take off to some place in some heavenly realm. No, actually quite the opposite. Come out of her, my people, so that you can go into her, and express into her authentically as who you are, with the authenticity of spirit that is unaltered by the cultural state into which you're speaking. It doesn't originate from there. It isn't changed by that. It is speaking into it, and then is embodying itself through it in expression. Come out of her, my people, so you can go into her as me. I think you could say that that's what spirit is telling us.
We're reaching the end of our hour. There's so much more. I'd love to speak about it. And I want to say just a word to give you the territory. In the Book ofJob, Chapter 38—some of you probably familiar with it; it's thought of as the examination. And I'll read the first couple of verses. “Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I'll demand of thee and answer thou me. Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare of thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof? If thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof? When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”
So here is apparently, through this Chapter, reference to astronomy and astrology, and cosmic factors related to creation. You might say up there, out there. So the examination is about having some awareness of all that. But then it goes on to talk about Job's ability to allow those factors to be manifest through his own experience. “Who hath laid the measures thereof? If thou knowest, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof?” Yes, these things relate to cosmic factors related to creation. But then they relate to us. Who has stretched the line upon this creation? How is this creation established? Where are the cornerstones of it? Who knows? Who is one of those cornerstones?"
There are lines between people that allow for creation to occur. Something heavenly being known, but in the flesh as human beings. That establishes a line, a creative line of agreement, we say. A creative line of energy, of awareness, that builds a grid. We are speaking of a constellation, the constellation of being. There's the constellation of being up there, you might say, in the invisible. But who knows the constellation of being here? And if you know it, and I know it, there can be a line between us of knowing each other. And that line allows the powers of creation to move. And if that line is not present, no creation, human struggle. Anyway, maybe next week we'll get into that.
I thought I would begin by reading a few verses from Revelation, Chapter Eight: “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.”
There is a rather dramatic, symbolic description of something apparently going on in heaven. Prior to those verses there is a description of seven seals being opened. This no doubt correlates with the Seven Spirits that are focused in every human being, and the opening of different levels of consciousness so that finally there is full consciousness in heaven, where angelic action is then initiated.
When people contact us they are invited to share in a process of awakening the outer consciousness to union with the Angelic consciousness. You could put it this way: where seal after seal is opened, level after level of substance is generated as the focus of Identity is known in each succeeding level. We have that experience as one of ascension. Our consciousness is raised. The first level relates to the physical level, and that is where babies and young people are identified. I won’t go through the progression of the seals, but suffice it to say that the opening of each seal does relate to the ascending focus of consciousness of Self as levels of substance are generated.
Is it not so that we and others have aspired to experience heaven? We’ve had our problems, troubles, frustrations, anxieties and resentments, and have thought, “Oh, to be free! Oh, to ascend into heaven and be an Angel there—that would be lovely!” And even after people have substantial spiritual education, there is still the aspiration in many to get into heaven. There is the matter of opening the seals, of letting Identity ascend as finer substance is generated. And there does come a point where there is adequate fine substance generated because of the quality of our living, moment by moment.
When the seals are opened adequately, so that we find ourselves living in heaven, an Identity is known in an eternal quality of Being, and we express ourselves as best as possible through whatever substance is available in our human forms.
There’s silence for half an hour. We become aware of the power of stillness. This is not just a cliché but awareness that external activity is not really what is required to achieve what we are here to achieve. In fact the whole process changes. Instead of the Identity trying to get into heaven, we find that we are an Angel seeking to get into the earth. That’s the real creative challenge before us. God has been excluded from the earth (I won’t say has been trying to come into the earth), and that is our creative challenge. The Angels in heaven experiencing the fulfillment and delight of Being, no matter what is going on in the external levels of substance, address the challenge of coming into the earth.
This is symbolized in the passage I read about the sounding of trumpets. Each Angel is responsible to sound his or her trumpet in the earth or, as it is alternatively phrased, to let the incense of their Being be released in the earth. Incense always relates to essence. The Angelic Presence, when released out of the heaven, has effects in the earth, not by sweat of the brow, organizations or organizing. A little bit of all that may be done in the very peripheral reaches of our Being. But the vast majority of Angelic function is experienced in the heavenly levels of Being, not the external ones.
Every Angel is a focus of Divine Being, the Spirit of God, and has the full range of Spirit with dominant and subdominant factors—differentiations of the One Spirit. Each of us is a hologram in the spiritual sense. This is significant because when people contact us, you often hear the moan go up at some point or another, “I’ve been moving in this program and gave up certain talents, a certain career. There are certain essences of my Being that I know are dominant.” In the early stages of our program one is somehow encouraged to forget that talent as the pathway to fulfillment and wash dishes, weed gardens, clean toilets, etc. Invariably in the human consciousness there is a certain amount of rebellion, resistance and argument about that, because, “What about my particular essences? Unless I have the chance in life to develop these dominant essences of my Being, I will not be fulfilled. How can I get into heaven unless I fulfill these essences?” Before I talk seriously about this, often people who say that are deluded about their level of talent and were never going to do anything much anyway in that particular field.
Speaking for myself, and I suspect for you too, I’m aware of many essences of my Being that I know will never be fulfilled. I’m very musical and like listening to music. I suspect I could have been a wonderful pianist if I’d had the musical education, parents that pushed me into it perhaps to start with, and the time and the money to do it. The essences are here in me. But that didn’t work out. I could have been an artist, I think. I feel artistic essences. That didn’t work out either. I could rehearse a long list of careers and areas of self-expression that I would have loved to do, where I feel the spiritual essences are present.
From the Angelic point of view (and very often our external capacities come along semi-consciously to go along with this), what is required is an outer capacity, because the outer capacity of the human form is very flexible. It could have done all these things—from businessman, to musician, to politician, to gardener—I love doing all those things in essence, and you would say the same in some way. This facility, the outer form, is very facile, very flexible, and could accommodate many of those essences. But from the Angelic standpoint, what is required in the overall creative process where I am?
If we can let our outer consciousnesses yield to what the creative process, the Whole, brings to us to be done, and release the essences of our Angelic nature into what actually comes, interesting things begin to happen. For one thing, we are able to lead a far more varied and balanced life than most other people. Angels do that. Angels, you see, are quite capable of creating heaven through virtually any form of activity. A human ego can’t do it. But an Angel can and does and, therefore knowing the eternal nature of its Being, is in no hurry to lose the unique opportunities to express the particular blend of essences that are required in this short cycle of a life in this form. Whatever our circumstances are, it is a unique artistic challenge to create the experience of heaven out of the raw material of circumstances. We naturally accept that challenge with delight, not wanting to change some of the raw material and say, “I’d rather have more of this, and less of that.” It’s the futile habits of the outer consciousness to think that way, because the Angel can very easily create heaven with the raw material that is at hand. And there’s no frustration, because every circumstance affords the opportunity to express the creative genius and essences of one’s Being.
We must know the experience of heaven before we can offer much leadership on earth. Unless we are experiencing the creative fulfillment that is natural in heaven, our service on earth is limited. We can still serve even with our frustrations, anxieties and fears and know we are still playing a part. But we must also know that it is a natural part of the cycle for us to generate the fine substance required to come into the experience of Self in heaven, fulfilled. Then we find that certain of our essences can be expressed in every moment of our living. Then after that generalized expression of Self, it does happen that there are certain dominant essences of our Being that can move into focus so that we can sound those trumpets on earth. We have particular areas of essences that we are individually responsible for sounding in the body of mankind. It’s important that those do come around (and they will if we do it right), because the expression of these Angelic essences is the means of control and government within the larger body of mankind and beyond.
I’d like to look at some areas where people tend to experience frustration because they feel they are not expressing the essences of themselves in that field. One is sexual relationship. I think we can all relate to feelings of frustration. We have essences of love within ourselves, and may feel there’s no one in our vicinity that we can see who complements these intense currents of love that are essences of our Being that we long to release into the Earth. Much of the frustration generated in human beings is because they are focused in the level of form. The art of arriving on earth is to begin to release the essences, the currents, and the incense, with the forms that are actually available, even though a person may not be married or have some physically intimate relationship. Well, that’s tough then. That’s the situation. Must we be frustrated? No.
The Angel in heaven, one with his or her own essences (that’s who they are, after all) feels these currents emerging and looks around in the earth for someone to complement the current of love that may be moving. Now it would hardly be appropriate to jump on the first person of the opposite sex that one clapped eyes on—it’s not the creative way to do it! However, one can find in one’s world a symbol of the Beloved—perhaps a person sitting at a dinner table, and smile and converse with them appropriately in the current of the essences of one’s Being—and know that one is releasing into the earth, with this particular contact point, a complementary factor. It’s a complementary factor in heaven but looks as though it is someone out here. An Angel relates to them fittingly, creatively, and those essences are released.
There’s a progression of form available to release these essences: holding hands, giving a hug. If it is done artistically in the pure essences of your Being, you will find that you are releasing these essences of your Being, sexual factors, through the contact point on earth of someone you can hold hands with. The power is being released and the fire is being released through that small symbol. If it is the pure, clear essences of Spirit that you release through that small symbol, it moves out and achieves what it needs to achieve, and is also part of the creative process whereby a more substantial form or symbol is being created, through which greater intensity may in due season be released as needed in the creative cycle. We have to use the symbols that are present now, exactly as they are—and release the essences of Spirit ourselves through available forms, as part of the creative process for the achievement of larger purposes.
So we need never be frustrated in that field if we realize that fulfillment is always primarily in the experience of essences. I’m sure many of you have on occasion experienced communion and fulfillment sexually in essence, when you’ve held hands with someone, and can contrast that with having sexual intercourse with someone where those essences were not in focus. One experience is delightful, thrilling and fulfilling; the other is an empty husk. Form is not the dominant factor, ever. That’s not to say that there are not fulfilling factors related to all levels of form, but that is not the core factor of fulfillment.
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Let’s take another relationship: children. There are many people who feel that they will never be fulfilled on earth because the essences of parenthood cannot be fulfilled. They’re either not married, or not likely to have children, so they feel frustrated. It’s because they don’t know how to live. Their identity is not in Angelic Being, with their essences; because there are children around all over the place! Those essences of parenthood may be exercised if they really need to. Opportunity abounds for the release of those essences.
How about money? Some people feel they would be fulfilled if they had lots of money and could show their expertise in handling it if they had enough to perhaps play the stock market. The essences of stewardship and money management can be released through a welfare check, in the same way one handles all physical form effectively and efficiently.
Fulfillment is in the level of essence, of Spirit, handling that more intense level of substance. The outer levels of substance are less intense, with less dense substance. The most intense experiences of life are known when one is consciously engaged in the denser levels of substance, living and acting from them. This is the art of creating heaven. Heaven, in all its dimensions, is created through handling spiritual essences. As soon as you become aware of a spiritual essence on the move and allow the careful release of that essence—the fire that is moving into the earth—and let it come precisely into the other levels of substance, fulfillment will be known.
This is how Angels begin to sound their trumpet in the earth. If I had read on in Revelation, you would see that when the Angel began to sound the trumpet, all sorts of results occurred in the lower levels of substance. Our crudest awareness of focalizations of Spirit, the presence of Angels, has always pertained to whatever level of substance our own Identity was focused in. Therefore when we were children, humanly speaking, or spiritually, our experience of focalization or leadership was an external control through someone else.
There’s a need to move successfully through the experience of focalization in all the different levels as they appear. Usually there’s no need for rebellion. There’s a wrong rebellion that is resistance to the Divine Design, taking the form of a naughty child or rebellious human ego. Then as one comes to the successful filling of the vessel with substance of a certain level, one naturally feels that that kind of control, external perhaps, is no longer quite fitting. There is a sensing that one has generated finer substance that transcends that level, and so the old patterns of focalization—yes sir, no sir—don’t feel quite right, and therefore there’s a change. There is no need to feel rebellious about it just because there’s change, and one naturally explores in a creative Spirit what the new patterns of interaction are. The crude experience is the teenaged thing. We know the same sort of machinations go on spiritually. So let’s be more graceful in our awareness of what is going on.
As the Angels do appear in the heaven and sound the trumpet, in order for a creative experience to occur, there has to be response to that. In one sense, the Angel doesn’t care. The Angel is always in heaven. It might be said by the Angel, “I Am always fulfilled.” I know I speak for all the Angels present. As the Angel actually appears in heaven on earth, the Angel doesn’t try to impose control. There’s no need. You might say the human consciousness’s experience of focalization is being imposed upon by something so-called higher than I am. Coming out of heaven, there is no need to try to exert control over anybody or anything. It’s a different process altogether. It’s just the presence of the focalized essences with their particular authority, and as that presence manifests more and more intensely through the levels of substance that have been generated in the earthly form, then the radiance does the job. Resonant substance in other people or objects throughout the body of mankind or the planet simply respond as the radiance is present, and find union in the experience of heaven, union with the Spirit.
Any substance that resists or doesn’t want to be unified, well that’s fine. It doesn’t matter to the Angel because we know that the process is under way. You might say that the beauty of Angelic focalization is that it is all done by love. It’s All Love. An Angel doesn’t want anybody or anything to respond, and doesn’t want anything. Government is maintained by the working of love. As the quality of the Angelic Presence appears, and its particular focalization of essences, then that which should be unified simply responds out of love. Anything that doesn’t love the point of focus from the Angelic standpoint doesn’t find union there and is not included in that part of the heaven, anyway; maybe they are orienting somewhere else, and that’s fine. It doesn’t matter. This takes a lot of the anxiety out of “who is responding to me” and “who isn’t.” Only a human ego would be bothered by such a thing. From the Angelic standpoint, ultimately everything is unified in love, and that’s where we begin to sense our Being is.
As we sound our trumpet out of heaven, things begin to happen in the earth, and the Angel uses available symbolic objects and situations through which to sound the trumpet. The essences, the power, the fire must have a medium, contact points into the various levels of substance. Thoughts are things. Thoughts are objects. Thoughts are symbols. They should no longer just flit through our minds. They are contact points with the whole consciousness of the body of mankind. When an Angel thinks, then that substance resonates throughout the whole consciousness of the body of mankind. No sweat. It just is so.
There’s another aspect to this matter of Angelic Presence that I would like to just touch on. I think we would say that Spirit is animating all the earth forms that exist throughout the whole Cosmos, wouldn’t we? There are some rather interesting implications to that generalized statement, because human beings usually think of the universe as an impersonal machine. We look up into the night sky and see all these solar systems, the galactic systems. We look out on the surface of the planet and see all the vegetation and other systems. It’s a very impersonal world that human egos live in. As far as the Cosmos goes, they live in the midst of what is thought of as this huge machine, and think only they have this intelligence and heart, and that everything else is machinery supporting this consciousness capable of experiencing love. It isn’t so. That’s the isolated human that has come to that pass.
As the subsequent seals are opened sequentially, we begin to find that the universe is not an impersonal place. If Spirit is Love, which is animating everything, it’s the Spirit of God. It is love. Well, what is this love? A sort of electricity? No. For love to be meaningful, identity must be involved, so that as Angels we begin to meet each other as focalizations of love. I know that I am a focalization of love—my real Self that my outer consciousness is beginning to know. I know my nature. I love to love! I’m beautiful. I’m noble. I’m honorable. Yes, I am this Angel! The outer consciousness begins to be aware of the presence of an Identity—the true Self, a focalization of love.
Whether I like it initially or not when I look out, I see other focalizations of the one Spirit of Love. It’s true of everybody. We know that theoretically, but in experience we should become increasingly capable of knowing communion with the essences of a person, even if they have some kinky human characteristics that we don’t care for much. If the Angel is increasingly present, we can disregard oddities, knowing that that’s not the eternal part. We can begin to connect with the essences of the Angel that is present. That in itself opens up a vast new world of communion. If you, as an Angel, begin to have control over your external consciousness and heart such that you can begin to forget the garbage that is spotted on various human beings and relate to the Angelic Presence, well then you can begin to be in a totally different world.
Even objects—trees, flowers, everything—are evidence of the Presence of an Angel who is coordinating that particular aspect of Spirit. I’m not saying there’s an Angel in every flower. I am saying there is a differentiation of an Angel in every flower. There is a point of Angelic Focus, a Divine Being, whose level of responsibility is to coordinate the creative field that, we’ll say, includes flowers or plants. That is a differentiation of a focus of Love. There is a point of Angelic Focus, a Divine Being for every species. The Angel’s Identity isn’t focused in that form, but the Angel’s Spirit is present through that creative field for which he or she has responsibility.
Now this has implications, because there is the possibility of communing. We think we’re just communing with nature. People go out and say, “Well, I sense God.” Who’s God? God is focalizations of Angels, Divine Beings who have particularized responsibilities of focalization in the Divine Design. There is a whole network of focalization. That opens up a whole level of communion, not just with a flower. You can commune with a flower, there is a differentiation, but increasingly we may find that it is not an unintelligent, unloving universe in which we find ourselves.
Coming back to the human-nature way of doing things, if a human being doesn’t like their neighbor they will maybe kick their neighbor’s car or, if they’re really nasty, their dog. Let’s put it this way: damage the neighbor’s car, you damage the neighbor. Now we, in human nature, do that all the time. There are people who we don’t realize we are attacking when we criticize their dog. It’s not really the dog, it’s a person we’re getting at—the way “their child is an ill-mannered twit, if ever I saw one,” and so on. And when the child goes by, some ill thought or word passes through us, maybe not even to the child, but in spirit we do our dirty stuff. There’s the person over there, and the differentiation of that person’s world (like their car) is contacted over here.
We have thought ourselves to be in an impersonal universe with flowers, trees and objects. It isn’t that way. We are connected in Spirit, in essence, to actual Beings, so that when we interact with any symbol, object or life-form, we are not merely interacting with that. That is a contact point with a Focus of Love, in fact. Here is an opportunity for communion at various levels, in Love, with a particularized Focus of Love. Heaven is not only vast; it is very personal. And you will find that as you begin to relate, at first you don’t know who the Being is that’s coordinating a pattern.
What I described is just an outline idea for something to begin. As you begin to relate to every object and connection in the current of love, releasing the essences of your own Being, you will find, for one thing, that you are beginning to generate spiritual intimacy in many dimensions. It is communion and the sharing of love. When you start doing it with objects, just expressing that tone of love, respect, cooperation, releasing the true essences of your Being in this interaction—although it may be high in the heaven yet and the outer consciousness is not yet capable of being aware of it—you are, in fact, communing with another Being, Beings. The world, the Cosmos, is actually only animated by Divine Beings. And their radiance is what we have called natural laws. It’s not just inanimate, unconscious power. It is the radiance of Beings. There is no other power except the presence of Angelic Beings. It is not impersonal.
So the experience of love begins to be much more intense, varied and omnipresent. It is a totally different universe than the human consciousness has known. Heaven is full of forms of union in Love. And we are here to provide a focus for this re-creative consciousness that experiences this. This is the Truth of Love. Above all else, we have all longed to love, to know love. As we awaken in heaven, we find (speaking of the outer consciousness) that just as we suspected, love is everything and everywhere. It is very intense, it is mild, and it is all the different nuances to be experienced.
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And it is all very personal. The caressing of a flower is the caressing of a Divine Being’s hand somewhere. The healing touch on something that is ugly, with the intent to clear up a mess, is soothing to some Being somewhere; it is of assistance to a Being somewhere. It is not an impersonal act. It is an act of love. And as we begin to function in this world that I have just described, we will find love appears in myriad forms all around us.
Ultimately, the focus of this pattern of Divine Being is what we have called the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. It is the expression of Love to Him personally. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matthew 25:40) And that’s not just other human beings. “The least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Communion in love is available to us in every moment.
