Sometimes silence is spoken of as being pregnant. There is an awareness, surely, in these moments of a fulness characterized in the external sense by silence. But it isn't dead; it is living and vibrant. Mention was made of the invisible this morning, the invisible which is one with the visible but which all too often is ignored because of the activity and noise in the visible realms. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/awaken-to-oneness.html]
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We might again take note of the mist which went up on the face of the earth. This is the occurrence immediately before the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Whatever may have been involved in that original creation, we have the present state of affairs. The dust of the ground evidently has already been assembled into the form of man, so that presumably does not need to be done over again. But the mist which went up on the face of the earth, while it may still be present, has not been within the range of human experience for a long time. There has been another state. The first necessity has been to generate this substance within the range of human experience, that the mist might go up upon the face of the earth once more and water the ground.
The distinction in these days to what it was before is that man is already formed but, as we have noted, in a state comparable to coma, a coma state in which he dreams unpleasant dreams. Sometimes the dreams become a little more pleasurable but it's all the unreal state. There is the necessity for re-creation. We have referred to this as restoration, or resurrection. It isn't really a re-forming of man of the dust of the ground. He is already formed but exists in this coma state, dreaming his nightmares the while. We saw the need for awakening, restoration, resurrection, the breathing once again of the breath of life through man's nostrils, or through the facilities that are available for this experience. Man, being formed, is composed of those factors of design within the form which make the breathing of the breath of life possible. Restoration, or resurrection, relates to the living soul experience, a new state.
We have spoken of the present state in terms of a dying soul. If the form is left to its own devices in the coma state it will die, but it may be recalled to life by reason of the breath of life. There are those, you amongst them, who have some awareness of the breath of life, consciousness beginning to return; it is not altogether a state of darkness. There is a natural state of darkness and an unnatural state of darkness. The unnatural state of darkness is this coma state, but there is what might be called divine darkness. Darkness is an essential factor in the creative process. In the beginning darkness was upon the face of the deep. Out of this condition light came. Does that mean to say that when the light came there was no more darkness? The light related to a specific creative process. Where that specific process was not in operation it was dark, and even when it was in operation there was also darkness as a part of the creative process. It was said that light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehends it not. There is a natural darkness which does not comprehend the light.
We have taken note before that the conscious mind only occupies a rather thin surface layer of the total mind composition. The vast majority of it is subconscious, so called: below the level of consciousness. The conscious mind rightly is the enlightened aspect of the mind, which is capable of seeing and understanding. Do you suppose that each individual is supposed to see and understand everything? If a person were capable of seeing and understanding everything then there would be no need for everybody else, would there? It might be said that the extent, the natural extent, the real extent, of the seeing and the understanding of the individual conscious mind is properly somewhat restricted. It would be appalling if consciously we saw everything. That would drive us crazy. We see enough rightly. We don't need to see everything. There are a few others around who can see the things that we don't see. So the conscious mind of the individual is somewhat restricted in its awareness, rightly so. People fuss a good deal about what they don't know, but let us be thankful for what we do know.
Of the total mind the conscious mind is a very small layer. There is vastly more other than the conscious mind, and that is dark. It is supposed to be dark. Of course nowadays human beings are inclined to try to pry into it. The psychiatrists and psychologists are interested in unearthing things out of this darkness, but there is nothing wrong, really, with the state of darkness. And there is a tendency to stir up a hornets' nest if we become too much involved in exploring the dark alleys, so to speak, with our conscious minds. The conscious mind doesn't belong there. Obviously there is something wrong with thesubconscious minds of human beings, just as there is something wrong with their conscious minds, but this is because of a faulty operation, not because the machinery couldn't work the way it was designed to work. It isn't a matter of trying to cause what is properly dark to become light. That messes things up worse than ever. Let us keep our sticky fingers out of the depths of that pie and be willing to let what God created—without understanding what that means either—be the way it is designed to be without human interference. What does need correcting is the manner of operation of this equipment. It wasn't intended to be in human hands when that human state is unreal.
There shouldn't be any unreal state. The real state is something different. We are becoming somewhat aware of the reality, so that we might feel safer in relinquishing the unreality. The question might be asked, "Is it safe to wake up?" That is the question that seems to be posed to human beings, and they are inclined to say, "No, it's safer to stay asleep." Of course it isn't put that way: "It's safer to hang on to what is known than to open the door to something that is unknown." How interesting!
So there is natural darkness and natural light. I suppose this is symbolized by day and night insofar as this planet is concerned. I don't think any of us particularly wish to get rid of night. Even if you live in the high Arctic you still need to go to bed, even though the sun is above the horizon; sleep is required. Then the conscious light goes out temporarily. The sun rises again in the morning, and there we are. So we need to recognize that there is proper darkness and proper light; but there is also improper darkness, and the improper darkness includes the conscious mind which thinks it sees but doesn't. It simply sees something which is imaginary, unreal, a part of the dream experience.
We all know the difference between what is our state when we are dreaming and what our state is when we wake up. If you are wise you let the dream just simply vanish away. Some people get to trying to analyze dreams, find out the deep, dark significance of them. It is deep and dark and should be left that way. If we actually accept the opportunity to wake up into the state of reality the former things pass away, and no one in the state of reality would be in the least interested in trying to revive the former things or clothe them with some great significance. They had no significance at all, and fundamentally that is true of human dreams. People like to make their experiences seem significant somehow, but in the unreal state none of them are significant. They don't mean anything. I suppose that could be a rather shattering realization if one came to it and remained in the unreal state; then there is no point to anything. Of course there are people who come to this recognition. It's a valid recognition but they don't really understand why it is so and why there is another experience possible then.
So there is light and there is darkness in the true state. The present human experience, the unreal experience, the dream state, is occurring within an already existing body that is to be recalled to life, recalled out of the coma. Within the scope of this body there are those, ourselves perhaps and others, who are beginning to awaken. Consciousness is returning. Just to us? No, to the body of mankind. Do you think that when you wake up in the morning you are totally awake instantly? It may be true that some people wake up a little quicker than others. There are some who claim that they are never awake until after their fifth cup of coffee. Well they're not awake then either! But regardless of the rapidity with which we may seem to awaken there is always a cycle of awakening. It never is instantaneous. Some cells related to the conscious mind are animated first and so the light dawns, the sun rises and conscious experience comes again.
Of course we need to understand that our present experience in the human state may be used as an analogy for what really needs to happen. As long as it's the human state and we are under the necessity of using analogies, we are not yet awake—partially awake perhaps, so that there is sufficient light to observe the analogy. Then we can say to ourselves, "Oh yes, I see," without really seeing yet, because the analogy merely refers to something that is to be experienced and is not the thing itself. But there is an awakening here occurring in the consciousness of mankind at various levels, and this awakening relates to particular people. After all, the consciousness of mankind is the collective consciousness of all the individuals who compose it, and we are amongst those individuals. So as the dawn comes and there is some measure of awakening, there is a new consciousness of breathing the breath of life. If you are asleep you are still breathing but you don't know it. Other people may, who are within hearing distance, particularly if snores arise. But when you awaken, while you may give no particular thought to the matter, you are capable of thinking of the fact that you are breathing. While you are asleep you can't. You may think of yourself as breathing in your dream; that's not the same thing, is it? So breathing in one's dream state, in the human nature condition, may be analogous in some way to breathing the breath of life, but it isn't breathing the breath of life.
Beginning to awaken we sometimes stretch and breathe deeply. Even in the human state it's not a bad idea to do that when you wake up. There begins to be then, as there is awakening to the reality in experience, an awakening to the breathing of the breath of life; and even our individual breathing of air, which is necessary, begins to be seen as the breathing of the breath of life when we are awake to the reality. A person may say, "Well you're just breathing the way you were breathing before." No, not if you are awake to the reality. Then you are breathing in a new way. All that we do is made possible by the fact that we breathe, not only from the standpoint of the oxygen that we take into our lungs but also, as we are aware, from the standpoint of the ingestion, so to speak, of what has been called the negative life essence [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-from-steps-uranda-1936-there.html], so that there may be generated within us the essential current that moves over the nervous system, for instance. This also relates to mental activity. You know very well that when you have a head cold you don't think too well. You are not only clogged up in your sinuses but you are clogged up in your mind. There is an inadequate current being generated for essential mental activity. At least this current is one aspect of what is required to permit mental activity. It is the negative aspect. There is another aspect also.
So we may see all this if we begin to live on the basis of the expression of the spirit of God. Because we have awakened to this, our breathing is for a different purpose. Most people just breathe to stay alive and to enable them to do whatever it is they want to do. That's the unreal state. We awaken to a new state, where breathing is not included in our experience for the purpose of enabling us to do whatever we before thought we wanted to do. It is included in our experience now so that we may do what we are here to do, and that's something quite different. Our breathing is required for our thinking; obviously it is required for our physical aliveness; it is required for whatever we may experience in the way of emotion; and it is required for whatever may be possible in the way of spiritual expression. We begin to breathe for a purpose. Purposeful breathing we could call it. Maybe this was the idea back of what has come to be thought of as yoga, at least in the breathing aspect of it. So human nature tries to breathe in some special way, but to what end? Well the mind thinks up something or other that looks spiritual and formulates various ideas which may be included in the human nature paraphernalia. It's all thought of as being great and meaningful. It's all part of human nature still. The awakening doesn't come because the conscious mind gets busy and follows out some technique. If there is a genuine awakening it comes because of the movement and the action of the creative cycle, the creative cycle that is working through what was described as the mist, fine spiritual substance. Therefore our first concern has been to allow the generation of this substance within the scope of our own experience.
We are already here, so we don't need to get the dust of the ground together or have anyone do it. Somebody did it already. All that's been done, but there is the necessity for breathing the breath of life if the living soul is once more to be restored. I'm not speaking of personal, individual restoration. This relates to mankind, and our participation in this process is only meaningful because we are a part of mankind. It is something that is happening by reason of the creative cycle that is moving and comes within the range of the awareness of those who have generated sufficient spiritual substance, sufficient mist out of the earth of their own flesh bodies, to have this awareness, or to begin to have it.
The mind of course gets to questioning: "Well why should some people generate more than others? And why should some people come to this understanding therefore and others don't?" The individual human mind is not supposed to understand everything. Let it stay out of its usual self-active endeavors, because the only way that the substance will be generated, so that whatever understanding is necessary may come, is as the mind occupies its proper position, which is not that of God. So all these inquisitive questions can be flushed down the toilet, because what's going to happen is going to happen. How we will be included in that happening depends very largely on our own choice in the matter, and if we insist upon retaining a busy mind the happening may not be all that constructive in our experience.
This movement, this creative cycle, is moving relative to the conscious mind, which, as we have seen, is rather a thin layer. It is also moving relative to what is below that layer of consciousness, and there is a far vaster field there for it to move in. The majority of what is to be achieved by the movement of this creative cycle, spiritual movement, occurs below the level of the conscious mind. Again, the conscious mind, involved in its old habits, will be inclined to look over its shoulder so to speak, or down into the depths, to try to find out, "Well what's going on down there? Is anything happening down there?" What difference does it make to the conscious mind? What is occurring is occurring, and what the conscious mind thinks about it is not going to make much difference, is it? So why bother! Why not let what is happening happen?
Of course this creative movement is doing something in the depths, and occasionally, by reason of that, something pops up to the level of the conscious mind out of those depths. We might perhaps refer to that as a factor of earthly heredity, which puts in an appearance and we become consciously aware of it. Then there's something for the conscious mind to do, if it wants to do something. But that certainly is not to become subject to what it is that arose to the surface and began not only to involve the thinking processes but also the feeling processes. So there is something that the conscious mind can do: avoid becoming enmeshed in whatever it is that is occurring, refrain from becoming identified with it; just let it occur. If it was occurring deep down enough the conscious mind wouldn't know anything about it. It's only when it begins to come up into this twilight zone, close to the surface, that the conscious mind becomes aware of it. But fundamentally the same thing is required in either case: Let it alone; don't become involved with it. But people are inclined to; they get all involved with these emotional experiences and with their mental activity, and it carries them away into outer darkness once again. They sink down into the coma once more and become a part of the state of unconsciousness. To the extent that our living includes the right control of thought, feeling, speaking and acting, then there is the breathing of the breath of life.
In times past I have suggested that it is or may be helpful, particularly if one has breathing problems, to consider that the exhaling of the breath is the offering of a blessing. We are concerned to offer a blessing. Recently there has been a little elementary chanting done. Now you don't chant, very effectively at least, while you're breathing in! The blessing occurs because you are breathing out, and the accompanying sound, when it is fitting, enriches the blessing that is being breathed out. As has before been noted, people who have difficulty with their breathing usually think of it as difficulty with their breathing in. If they would stop being so concerned about breathing in and simply breathe out a blessing the inward breath would be more or less automatic. But people fight for breath, and it's a battle. Breathe out a blessing. One may deliberately do this. It's something that may be done on many occasions, certainly for instance in the attunement field. There is a blessing even in the very air we breathe out. The plants love it.
So we have an increasing consciousness that everything that finds expression and release through us carries a blessing. When it does, here is the experience of the living soul. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/prana-from-steps-to-mastership-uranda.html] Man was created to be a blessing. He has been a curse to himself and to everything else. Well the restoration is the restoration of man to be a blessing, and that blessing is available to the extent of the living soul experience. The living soul experience is dependent upon breathing the breath of life. Breathing is an essential pulsation if we are to live, and when it is the breath of life then every thought, every feeling, every word, every act, is a blessing, an outbreathing of a blessing. We don't need to stop blessing our environment when we breathe in. We don't think too much about breathing in and out when we are busy doing whatever it is we are doing. We don't have to stop doing what we're doing in order to breathe in; so the pulsation is there, but the blessing is continuous. We've seen something of this represented in our unified chanting—the sound never goes away, even though all of us are still breathing and from time to time have to take a breath in without sound.
To the extent, then, that we are participating in this awakened state, the state of reality, there is the experience of the oneness of the invisible and the visible, of God and man, and so the breath of life is breathed into the nostrils of mankind by reason of our breathing. As we noted before, it isn't some external God somewhere who is coming to offer this artificial resuscitation. It is a breathing from within the body of mankind. Are we in it? We can't help ourselves, can we? Well when we begin to breathe the breath of life the body of mankind begins to breathe the breath of life, and there is the initiation of the resurrection in a more specific sense. There are those who are awakening and taking responsibility for the awakening. The restoration is to consciousness, real consciousness; not the phony consciousness which human beings have had until now, but real, the awareness of what is real. What is real is present, so it is the awareness of what is present.
Part of that awareness relates to what is spiritually present, what is vibrationally present, what may be thus sensed so that we may touch in feeling what needs to be touched. This is only possible when the heart is pure. The heart which participates in the circulation of the bloodstream or the lifestream in the body is an essential aspect of the mechanism by which the bloodstream is purified. There are various ways by which the bloodstream is purified. One of them relates to the lungs: the breathing, in other words. But the blood must be purified; when it is purified there is a pure heart. When the lifestream is purified the heart is purified. The lifestream is purified by reason of its movement. If it becomes stagnant it gets filled with sludge and pretty soon it quits circulating. So there must be movement, there must be action. What's that? God in action on earth! Jehovah, isn't it?
Movement, action, purification, breathing, steady breathing, a natural pulsation—all this begins to work within the body of mankind, and on this basis the cycle of resurrection occurs. This is rather a different endeavor, if one could call it that, from those undertaken by human nature schemes in the world the way it is. They don't achieve anything in the end, whereas what is undertaken by the action of the spirit of God gets the job done, so that the coma may vanish by reason of the restoration to a state of consciousness of the real world which is already present, the new heaven and the new earth which have always been here but have been unknown to human consciousness in the coma state. So here is the restoration occurring, to the extent that we are willing to participate in the cycle.
The cycle in which we participate is not another cycle from what is happening in the whole body of mankind. It's the same one. It's all one. But we have a certain experience because of a certain level of consciousness restored, which may not be true of other people. The fact that it isn't true of other people is no reason for judgment. Obviously there is a proper field where it is dark. We have taken note of that fact. There is improper darkness and that passes away, but there are those who participate in allowing the proper darkness to be a reality in the experience of the body of mankind. In other words all people do not need to function at the conscious level. It would be an impossible expectation for all people to do this. It's not necessary. There are those who rightly function at the conscious level, and this perhaps may be seen as relating to what we have called the priesthood. But the priesthood is not something separate from the body of mankind. It is an essential part of the body of mankind, the body of mankind which is man in the image of God, one with God. Here is the restoration. Here is our field of creative responsibility.
Praise the Lord! Thankfulness surely fills us this morning as we have this, another special opportunity of being together with one accord in His presence. In the spirit of thankfulness we may find ourselves in agreement with His spirit and with the expression that is to be brought forth by reason of His spirit in this hour. We are here to let His will be done, assuming individual responsibility for this. Seldom has it been true, of those who were gathered together in a particular formation of human beings, that all have been willing to accept their individual responsibility. The wandering of human consciousness, the failure to come to point, has characterized even those who have offered themselves to the Lord for His purposes. Is it so of us this morning? Or is it conceivable that this number of people, each one individually here present this morning, is capable of coming to point and staying there? There is no other reason why anyone should be present. In the spirit of thankfulness then we stand together in agreement with the Lord in spirit. In form you are sitting, but in spirit, standing.
There is a familiar passage that I would read to you, from the 2nd chapter of the Book of Genesis: “But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
This has produced a rather strange picture in the imagination of many: probably of a large person assembling some dust, dampening it down perhaps, and forming a little clay figure, and then somehow providing artificial resuscitation so that this figure came alive. Of course there wasn’t anyone around with hands, to get the job done along these lines, and the whole exercise is based in the concept of separation: the Lord God on the one hand, the dust on the other. This ignores the fact, the truth, that heaven and earth are one, that God is not some kind of figure separate from His creation, or His creation separate from Him. Oneness prevails: this is the truth. It might be said, using human language, that creation takes place from within; but then here again other strange concepts are engendered.
Again, using human words, we have taken note of the undimensional and the dimensional, the invisible and the visible, the unmanifest and the manifest. Here are two aspects of one thing: the manifest takes form by reason of the unmanifest; the unmanifest is revealed by reason of what takes form. There is no separation. There are not two separate things: the Creator and the creation. It is only in human consciousness, where the state of human experience is that of separation from himself, that the concept of separation exists. It is unreal. The reality is oneness. If we do not know that in our own experience we proclaim our ignorance, we proclaim the darkness of our state; and even though the light may be present the darkness comprehends it not.
There has been an inclination to see the external things around us from the standpoint of the unreal state, which beholds what is seen as being separate. The person sitting next to you tends to be seen as being separate from you. The world, beyond these walls, seems to be separate from us, within these walls. What has been called the Emissary ministry is looked upon as being separate from the various forms of human composition that exist in the world. Very often the population of the earth seems to be divided in the consciousness of Emissaries as being composed of Emissaries and non-Emissaries, but the fact of the matter is that there is only one composition. This composition not only includes mankind as a whole but everything else as well. If this is so, then the futility of trying to manipulate separate things into a state of oneness may be seen. It is an attempt to do the impossible, because oneness already exists. We cannot make the state of oneness. It is already made. It is already the fact. It is already the truth. It is a matter of knowing the truth for ourselves, individually speaking and all together. When we know the truth the concept of separation previously held vanishes away. It is unreal. Separation never really existed.
Again, we are impressed that the condition in which human beings have been existing is a dream state, just as insubstantial as the dream from which you may awaken in the morning. As the awakening comes, the dream vanishes. As the reality is known, the unreality is found to be nonexistent. We have some understanding of these things but how much experience? How real is reality to us? Or, on the other hand, how real is unreality to us? In the human state unreality seems to be real; consequently, attempting to exist in this unreal state, we must be living a lie. As long as we are living a lie we are excluded from the experience of the truth. This has been the worldwide condition of human experience. The truth has remained unknown except perhaps as an intellectual concept, which is not in fact the truth. The truth is not an intellectual concept. It is what it is, whatever that may be.
So we come this morning once more into position to acknowledge the reality, the truth that is. To the extent that we actually do this the unreal dissolves. While we may still be aware of the dream state in which human beings exist, and in which we ourselves have existed, it is known to be unreal. As long as human beings have existed in this unreal state they have been useless. Most people are not in favor of acknowledging their own uselessness. Hopefully, they anticipate that if they are not useful now, one day they will be; evolution may take care of this. Of course most are un- willing to admit that they are useless now, but it is the fact of the matter to the extent that one is existing in an unreal state. One is not very useful about one’s daily tasks if one is asleep and dreaming, and this is the condition in which human beings are. So there is need for awakening out of sleep, that the dream state may automatically dissolve. Most are inclined to think of the present dream state as some sort of nightmare, which it indeed may be; but usually when human beings become involved in nightmares at night they are quite anxious to wake up. Not so in this nightmare state of unreality in which human beings exist. Very few seem to be anxious to wake up. There is anticipation that somehow the nightmare can be turned into a delightful dream if we work at it hard enough.
If we have seen the necessity for awakening and have undertaken, ourselves, to experience something of this, we become increasingly aware of the necessity as it relates to the whole body of humanity. We become aware of our own responsibility to provide what is necessary to allow for this awakening. It may be that there are those who are in too deep a coma to experience any awakening, but we would not make any assumptions in this regard but offer what is necessary to allow this awakening to be made possible.
We need to see this in perspective. If we ourselves have experienced any measure of awakening to the truth, this certainly didn’t happen because we put our minds to it. What is happening, to bring to pass the awakening within the body of humanity that is now occurring, did not happen because someone, somewhere—the Lord God presumably, whoever that might be—is laying this trip upon the human race. That would imply a state of separation, a state which doesn’t really exist. Anything that is occurring is occurring because of the state of oneness. I mentioned the idea of something happening from within. Whatever word is used to describe what takes place will inevitably produce in human consciousness some misunderstanding, because human consciousness doesn’t know the truth. Human consciousness is still in the dream state. But words may be used as reminders of something that is naturally known when one is awake. So if I use the word within, don’t translate it literally, as the human consciousness is inclined to do, according to its own structured state. If we use the word invisibleit doesn’t merely mean that we can’t see it with our physical eyes; it means that it is not a part of the manifest world, and yet is one with it. There is no separation between the invisible, in this sense, and the visible. They are one. But there would be no visible if it wasn’t for the invisible, and I suppose you could say that the reverse is also true. The whole exists, and the composition of the whole includes invisible and visible, heaven and earth. It is impossible, in actual fact, to separate the two. If it seems as though they are separate, such a view is unreal; and yet it is the view held in human consciousness by all people—the unreal state, the sleeping state, the dream state, crying out, in a way, for awakening.
So the means of awakening is present because of the state of oneness. The invisible is present in the visible. So the opportunity to awaken is actually present, actually working, actually part of the creative operation. It is there, whether human beings know it or not, like it or not, or are in agreement with it or not. Because of this creative movement some awakening is beginning to occur. If we ourselves experience something of this it shouldn’t give us fat heads, because it could well be said that from the human standpoint we didn’t do it. It happened by reason of something humanly unknown, certainly unknown in the unreal state. It is unknown in the unreal state because it is reality. But obviously something is happening in this invisible sense, not only here on earth in this little speck of dust but throughout the whole universe—and who knows what that means?
Human beings have a very limited view of the universe. They postulate certain theoretical understanding on the basis of that view, which is much like the gentlemen who were examining the portions of the elephant, you may recall, and all describing the elephant differently because they couldn’t see the whole creature. They only saw the little part and assumed that because they saw the little part this was evidence of what the whole creature was like. Of course it wasn’t true in that instance and it isn’t true from the standpoint of such observations as human beings make of the very large, as they think of it, or the very small, as they think of it. Nothing is seen accurately, because it is seen from the standpoint of the structured state of separation. After all, the person who is observing is standing over here, and that’s over there. But it isn’t; it’s all one thing, and the observer is not separate from what he is observing. This has been discovered in certain instances, where the very observation alters what is being observed. And, in any case, what is being observed is not understood, altered or not.
Awaken! Emerge from the coma, from the dream state, from the nightmare state, into the real world. People are accustomed to thinking of the real world as being what has been built on the surface of this planet. That’s not the real world at all; that’s a phony state. But there is something moving creatively which is designed to restore the awakening state of consciousness to human beings, who now suffer from the sleeping state of consciousness, or the coma state of consciousness, which doesn’t amount to a row of beans, although it is thought of as being so grand and great. So there is this invisible creative influence, one with the visible, and therefore producing in the visible what has been set in motion from the invisible.
One of the things that has been set in motion is the awakening of human consciousness to the truth. This has been set in motion, whether anyone wants to know the truth or not. Of course it makes a difference from the standpoint of the person concerned, as to whether he is willing to know the truth or not so willing. If he is not willing to know the truth, ultimately there is no state possible, because there is only one state and that is the state of the truth. There is a little interim in human experience because human beings are still alive, in other words associated with the invisible, but in a coma. Their capacity of consciousness is filled with dreams rather than with reality. When these dreams become extreme in nature, people of course are put in institutions; but fundamentally there is no difference, only in degree of craziness. Sometimes those in institutions are inclined to take the attitude that the crazy people are outside, and they are not far wrong either!
So we have an awareness of what may be described as a creative cycle moving in the invisible, which is reflected in various ways by the visible. It is reflected in our own experience by what has occurred in our own states of consciousness. There has been the beginning of an awakening, and we have immediately seen that we have a consequent responsibility in the matter of the continued unfoldment of the awakening process. What is happening is going to happen anyway, whether we are on hand to do anything or not; however if we are on hand and beginning to awaken, then we have a particular responsibility for making the awakening a creative and constructive experience for those others in the world who are in the process of awakening also. We can’t pick and choose. We can’t go around looking into everyone’s eyes, or wherever you would want to look to find this out, and deciding that this person is awakening and that one isn’t. There is no need. The process is at work. We don’t have to do anything about that.
But there are those who will reveal the fact that they are beginning to awaken, and these are the ones who are of primary concern to us if we are to be obedient to the instruction that was given long ago: “Feed my sheep.” Incidentally the instruction was not given: “Starve my goats.” That would indicate separation, wouldn’t it, and judgment, as though we were capable of determining who was a sheep and who was a goat—using these terms to describe those who were willing to awaken and those who were not willing to awaken. It is true that there is what might be called a sorting-out process involved, but in a sense that’s none of our business. “Feed my sheep.” While it may not be so true in the animal world, sheep in this analogous sense eat a different diet to what the goats do. So it may turn out that the goats starve, but not because we deliberately withheld the essential food. If they were willing to awaken and classify themselves as sheep, then there would be plenty of food; and we have a responsibility for providing this food so that the awakening may occur in a controlled way.
It is quite obvious that the world is teetering around these days a good deal; and there is a certain amount of fear, some conscious, some subconscious, that everything is completely going to fall apart. There may be some truth to this, because the unreal certainly is going to prove itself to be unreal. But the reality needs to be on hand in human consciousness. It is on hand in actual fact but hasn’t been on hand in human consciousness. When it is on hand in human consciousness then the state of oneness is known, the truth is known. As it was put, God is not willing that any should perish. He has gone to a lot of trouble, after all, in the creative process, to produce human beings, and He is not going to write them off if He can avoid it.
So there is a creative process involved here, which in a very specific sense was initiated some nineteen centuries ago, and it has been in operation ever since, below the surface, within, invisible. It begins to push out toward the surface now, so that the surface consciousness of some human beings is beginning to awaken. One might call this resurrection, something that is occurring in the overall sense. Some people imagine somehow that God is particular about certain people: “Well I’ll awaken you and you and you, but all the rest, go on slumbering.” No, there is oneness, isn’t there, and while it may prove to be selective in one sense it is not because of anything that is happening from the standpoint of the invisible but merely from the standpoint of the choices which human beings make. They either select themselves or exclude themselves. They are capable of doing that. Thus far it has been exclusion principally, obviously not completely or no one would still exist on earth. So there have been the life signs, so to speak, in the body of humanity; but there has been a state of coma, an unawareness of the real world and only an awareness of the dream world, which is associated with the state of coma.
This creative cycle is working and there are those who are in the process of awakening. I rejoice, and I am sure you do too, that this is happening. It has happened with respect to ourselves, in whatever measure, and we begin to know that it is happening. We begin to be able to see that this invisible creative cycle is at work and is the fundamental cause for everything that is occurring on the surface. The things that occur on the surface occur there by reason of the reaction in human consciousness in the coma state. Of course that doesn't provide a clear reflection of what would be true if human beings were awake and participating in the process; then obviously the results made apparent in the world would be quite different. At the moment that is mere speculation but we can see how it would work that way. We do not know what would be produced. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard” It’s not necessary. The invisible is quite capable, actually, without our help. But there is something we are here to do, related to what is occurring on the surface, in the visible sense, and we have a part to play in this to the extent of our wakefulness. If we try to play the part while we are still asleep it won’t be very effective. There may be the appearance of movement and of action—there are sleepwalkers, after all—but it won’t provide what is really necessary. Awake! Arise! In one sense the alarm is sounding.
As it says here: “But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.” This has been thought of in terms of the need for the garden which was to put in an appearance: there needed to be irrigation; it was dry. But here is a symbolic presentation of something, which may have some literal meaning too. But the literal meaning relates to the truth, doesn’t it? Not to the fantasy, not to the dream. We have a lot of people in the dream state who have been busy trying to interpret the Bible, for instance, and doing it, as they suppose very often, literally—fundamentalists. They say that this that the Bible says is what we should pay attention to. Yes, we should perhaps, but we need to see what is said first.
The mist went up from the face of the earth. We know something about that. We know that there is a generation of spiritual substance from physical substance. Here it is being said in specific words for those who are capable of understanding. If you see only droplets of water arising upon a dry land, then you don’t see very much. But if you see an invisible substance which at the level of mist presumably is somewhat visible—but water vapor in the air is not necessarily visible; there always is some water vapor in it anyway—then we may be able to recognize the spiritual substance that is being described. And it waters the ground; in other words it is the means by which animation occurs physically speaking. It is the connection between the invisible and visible; it relates to the heaven in between. So by reason of a generation of this substance something could begin to happen in the creative process to bring forth man. And it wasn’t someone manipulating the dust of the ground into clay and producing a little human figure, but something from within, something occurring through this mist, the undimensional taking form dimensionally on the basis of the true creative process, the natural creative process which occurs in the state of oneness.
Whatever actually happened, we don’t need to concern ourselves with that back there. We are quite aware of the fact that it happened: we’re here! We don’t need to go back there. What is required is required right here, and what is required now operates on exactly the same basis but there is a different situation. Human flesh is around. The earth is already present in the sense of the flesh body of mankind. Well a mist needs to go up on the face of the earth. There needs to be the generation of the essential spiritual substance, which in turn waters the face of the earth, brings a greater animation. We see this in various ways, mostly destructive; but it is all based in the same creative movement. There is the generation of this substance, and if in our own living we find ourselves associated with this generation we begin to be in agreement with what is happening, and being in agreement we begin to awaken and we begin to see what is happening.
We begin to accept responsibility in the happening, because heaven and earth are one. We are not separate from it. We are not going to stand back somewhere and say, “Well now I am coming in the name of the Lord for all these people out here who are beginning to awaken.” That wasn’t the way it worked in the creation in the first place. The Lord God was not over here and the creation over there. Oneness prevailed and it was by reason of the presence of the Lord God in the invisible sense that something happened visibly, and it happened visibly because there was the connection present—obviously it would be there if there is a state of oneness—to allow for the creative process to work. That connection is described as a mist which went up on the face of the earth.
Now, this is happening; and if we awaken to the happening we find ourselves to that extent one, both with the Lord God and with the happening. In other words it is not happening merely to those miserable people out there who need to be awakened. It’s happening right at home, and the reality of the Lord God only emerges, in fact, to the extent that the happening is known in our own experience. The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground; well this is what He is doing now in the sense of restoring man, or re-creating man, who is not separate from Himself: man, made in the image and likeness of God, as it has been put. That merely describes the state of oneness, that man is not in fact separate from God. He is only seemingly separate from God in his own view in this dream state. Awaken and the truth is known, the truth of oneness. And so, in awakening, the Lord God is then known to be present within His creation, if you want to put it that way, but as an essential element of the creation. Nothing would exist at all but for this fact, and we awaken to this truth in our own experience. Because we so awaken we are associated with the Lord God increasingly in a conscious sense relative to the creative process by which this awakening happens. In other words the process becomes more specific, more direct; and we have a responsibility in this. This is the realm of our integrity.
So we rejoice to associate ourselves with this creative process, in the increasing awareness of the reality, the Lord God and His creation. We are aware of the oneness because it is one in us. It’s the only way we can know it. If we think it is going to be a oneness somehow in the future, well the state of separation still exists insofar as we are concerned and we are of no value. Whatever is useless proves, sooner or later, its uselessness. So we share this immediate awareness of responsibility in the expression of the Lord God in oneness with His creation, which includes our own physical forms, our own minds, our own realms of emotion, our own ability to allow the invisible to be made visible. In this way the fulfilment of the creative purposes of God, by which all things are made new in the realm of human consciousness, comes to pass.
O Lord, Thou who art present always in the midst, we would acknowledge this truth and, being one with Thee, let this invisible truth be made visible in all the ways of our living. Thereby we are filled with thankfulness, filled with joy, filled with an increasing awareness of the creative power of Thy spirit and of the creative processes now occurring in which we may, and necessarily must, in oneness with Thee, play our part. The enfoldment of Thy love extends forth by reason of our presence with Thee on earth, that all who will may awaken to the truth and be restored to life. Aumen.
Our meditations this morning [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/giant-stature.html] emphasized the fact that all that is to be creatively achieved must be consequent upon the working of what we call the Spirit of God. At the same time we were, I am sure, very much aware that we have very little understanding of what those words, “the Spirit of God,” really mean.
We are capable of observing and examining whatever is present at the level of consciousness where we are, and what is below that level. The spirit of Godrefers to something that is higher than man, certainly very much higher than the present self-centered condition of human consciousness, so it is quite impossible to observe and to examine the spirit of God. The spirit of God is capable of observing and examining us, because we are at a lower level than that at which the spirit of God freely operates, that spirit having been excluded from human consciousness, and it remains excluded as long as human beings are self-centered. However, it is working just the same. There has never been a time when everything that is occurring, not only in this very small corner of the universe but everyplace else, was not under control. Within the scope of human experience it seems as though many things are far from being under control, but this is merely within the scope of the self-centered human consciousness; it has nothing to do with the truth of the matter. All things are under control and all things remain under control. It is because of this fact that it is possible for the state of human consciousness to be restored to what it should be, and it should be governed by the spirit of God. It is useless, as I say, to try to find out what the spirit of God is, to put it under a microscope, so to speak, so that we can dissect it and discover what makes it tick, because where would you look? It isn't within the range of possible human examination.
According to the record in the Gospel according to John, our Master made the statement that it was necessary to be born of the spirit. He said something about the wind, which is the symbol of spirit, blowing where it listeth. So is it also with the spirit of God. It is working as it should work; it is moving as it should move; it has never ceased to do so. This movement of the spirit of God, which is universal, comes to focus in relationship to mankind; it comes to focus in relationship to this whole world. It is working here creatively, even though human experience seems to indicate a rather chaotic state. We have noted something with respect to this which is happening in human experience, that there is a disintegrating aspect to the occurrence, and also an integrating one.
Looking at the state of affairs in the world historically speaking, we might be in position to observe at this point that the working of the spirit of God has been playing something of a delaying action because, in spite of all the opportunities that have been offered to human beings, the disintegrating experience remains paramount. If it was a matter of letting the spirit of God rip, so to speak, then everything would disintegrate insofar as the human world is concerned and that would include the inhabitants thereof. This is why I say there has been something of a delaying action, to permit the development of a manifest integrating aspect of the cycle. This relates to the various opportunities that have been offered to mankind to experience restoration to the true state. The opportunities were to make possible the beginnings of a manifest integrating aspect to the creative cycle. This integration could have occurred within historical times through the children of Israel, for instance. It obviously didn't occur, the opportunity was lost; but then, again, it could have occurred when Jesus was on earth. Obviously, it didn't. In spite of all the doctrines and beliefs that have been developed in Christianity, the world remains pretty much its usual mess, more of a mess these days because there are so many more people and it is the people that are messy.
So while the opportunities were provided, very specifically, relative to the whole human race, in fact very little occurred in any manifest sense which would give evidence of integration rather than disintegration. So things have been held in abeyance, disintegration has continued, but not in any violent sense, waiting for the development of something on earth which would allow the integration to be experienced. If it were all disintegration, obviously, nothing would be left. So it has been important that there should be something in the process of integration. We, ourselves, have begun to be aware of something with respect to this aspect of the creative cycle. Here is something, in which we are present and which is of an integrative nature. Something is beingdrawn together.
“Not by might, nor by power” — not by any human effort or endeavor,
not by any human organization — “but by my spirit, saith the Lord.”
By the spirit of God. This is the only thing that is capable of generating the integrating aspect of the cycle. Now, of course, human beings observe something of the disintegration on every hand. They have observed disintegration all down through the ages and they have undertaken various methods to try to prevent it or turn it toward integration, so that we might have a better world, as it has been put. And, apparently, hope still springs in human breasts along this line. Perhaps if we in Canada, now, give the Liberals a working majority or elect another party to power, maybe the Conservatives, then this will really start things integrating! I personally find it difficult to comprehend how anyone could believe any such hogwash, and yet many enthusiastically follow along the political trail, as though this were going to be the answer. Well, if nothing else is seen, I suppose there are those who have this as their highest vision. So it's not a matter of criticizing, but from our level of understanding we should easily be able to see that the answer doesn't come that way. It's child's play, really, children's games. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.”
By the way, when I was speaking this morning, I hesitated a moment before using a certain expression, and I sought to qualify it so that it wouldn't be taken as though it was an indication of what was really true. Consequently, I was a little surprised—not altogether, I suppose, or I wouldn't have been so careful in saying what I did—when this expression cropped up in a number of letters of response I received, as though it was some sort of a central theme. The words I did use were “divine herd.” As I say, I was rather hesitant in using those words, because I was a little concerned as to what might be done with them. The herd pattern really relates to the animal kingdom, not to God. There are animals that operate in herds and packs and flocks; but this isn't the way man moves, rightly. A herd is made up of a number of separate creatures, and with all of them put together you have the herd pattern. But insofar as man is concerned, there is what is describable, rightly, by the term “oneness”. There is the sense of a shared identity. That shared identity was described in the Old Testament of the Bible by the words I Am That I Am.
There is One Spirit, the spirit of God. The spirit of God actually relates to the whole universe, but in its various fields of operation it is brought to specific focus. It is here insofar as this particular pattern is concerned. But our true identity relates to this one spirit, the spirit of the Lord, we may say. This is the spirit of God brought to focus insofar as we are concerned, and our experience of true identity is within that one spirit, not separate from it—it's not as though there were little isolated globs of spirit handed out to individual human beings. The individual human beings, as we know people in the world at the present time, are the varied evidences of one spirit, but, of course, the sense of self in human beings has not been included in that one spirit. There has been a separate ego developed by people which seems very real to them and makes them feel that they are apart from everybody else—"I'm me and you're you.” But the fact of the matter is, in true identity we are one. It seems a paradox that in true identity there is identity, individual identity; if we are one, how could it be? Well, we'd better find true identity and then we'll know. It's useless merely to discuss it, talk about it, theorize about it, and develop concepts about it, because that is not what it is. The only way to know what it is is to experience what it is, to experience the reality of our own true identity. When we do that there's no problem; we do find what oneness is, and it isn't a divine herd!
The spirit of God finds expression, this one spirit finds expression, in a variety of different forms; but it's still just one spirit. And when we are identified in that one spirit, we have the experience of oneness. The experience of oneness is describable by the word “love.” Human beings have misinterpreted that word in a host of different ways, but to know what it means the state of oneness must be experienced, and in that state of oneness we discover how we are related to each other—all connected, all springing out of this one spirit. However, I don't particularly wish to talk about that; I only mention it so as to dispel the idea of the divine herd.
All that is to be achieved is achieved by the spirit of God. Human beings trying to make an integrated state, fail. They can't do it. It is an attempt to do the impossible. The integrated state is consequent upon the working of the spirit of God, the one spirit of God—well, of course, it's integrated—but in order to permit this integrated state to be restored to human experience a good deal of disintegration is necessary. All that smacks of self-centeredness must be dissolved. Of course, if we individually smack too much of self-centeredness, then we ourselves find that we are dissolved. We must learn how to relinquish self-centeredness. This has been indicated by two little words, “Let go,” but just to use those words doesn't get the job done. We need to be aware, however, of the necessity of relinquishing something. To the extent that we have been self-centered, this idea of relinquishing self-centeredness looks like a rather tough proposition, because it seems as though pretty well all of us has got to go. If things are worked out by the spirit of God, with the individual cooperating in the process, all that needs to be done can be done. However, here again, we should recognize that it is not just an individual matter. The spirit of God is not operating just through you but through the person who's sitting next to you, too, and it is something that is unfolding on a collective basis. It isn't a competitive thing, in other words. The individual can't say, “Well, now I'm going to forge ahead spiritually and leave everybody else behind.” We all move together.
This doesn't mean to say that all those who are moving in the integrating cycle are at the same level. Recently I have been using an analogy of a staircase [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-stairs.html] leading up out of the cellar. Of course, the staircase that leads up out of the cellar also leads down into the cellar; but we are concerned with going up. This staircase has a number of steps, and a person who is rising up out of the cellar will move from step to step.
Then everybody is not on the same step.
So there are differences in this sense, differences of level. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/factors-of-heredity.html]Again, this analogy provides a picture with respect to what I was talking about before, namely the ability to observe. If you're on the cellar floor all you can observe is what is on the cellar floor; if you're on the first step of the stairs leading up, then you're a little higher and you can overlook what is on the cellar floor just a little. You can begin to see things with a different perspective and you can recognize what is present on that particular step. Yet, while you may sense that there are steps leading up higher, you can't really see what those steps are; all you can do with respect to the steps that are above you is to develop concepts about them, and that is a waste of time. It's much easier not to develop concepts about them, so that we can experience what they are. As we noted this morning, if you develop a concept, that concept is going to stand in your way until you're willing to let it go. A lot of people prefer their concepts to the truth. We see this very much the case in the religious field, but not only there; in the scientific field, too; everywhere, in fact. People prefer to espouse their concepts, even in the political field. We need to learn not to develop them.
Now, there's a Class gathered here, and the tendency is to develop concepts—but first of all, to compare them. You have some already, so when something else is brought up, you compare them and say, “Do I like this, or do I like that?” Well, we get into a hassle on that basis, because human likes and dislikes enter into the picture, when they have no business there. So the idea is not to develop concepts; the idea is to develop an increasing sensitivity to the spirit of God, to the movement of the spirit of God.
If we are to develop that sensitivity, the spirit of God must be moving, of course. Well, the fact of the matter is that it is moving. We wouldn't be alive, we wouldn't be sitting here, if it wasn't. It is moving, but it needs to be brought to specific focus, so that it becomes intensified, and therefore there can be a much clearer discernment of what its quality is. That discernment comes not by the development of concepts but by feeling; the heart is a very important instrument. I'm not just speaking of the physical heart—that's important, of course—but of the ability to discern through feeling.
Of course, if one is all involved in problems and worries and troubles and all these sorts of things, the heart is fully occupied and there is no facility left to discern anything of the spirit of God. But most people think the things they are worried about, the things they are all concerned about, are more important than the spirit of God. The proof of this is in the fact that they get all emotionally involved in these things—the heart is turned in that direction. As long as it's turned in that direction, the individual has his back to the spirit of God. But he may say, “This is a pressing problem here; I've got to deal with it.” Well, how are you going to deal with it? If you try to deal with it in the usual way, you may seem for the moment to solve that problem, but when you turn around you find, “Oh, there's another one over here.” Then you have to rush over there and start solving that one. You're harried from pillar to post, and none of the problems are ever solved, because human beings trying to solve problems are attempting the impossible again. They may push something down here—"Well, I've got that under control now”—but something bobs up over there. It's all connected. There was a world war not so very long ago which was intended to defeat the nazis principally, “So we'll put fascism down,” but communism springs up over there. Nothing is solved. Do you think the world will come to an end if you're not on the job solving problems?
The only way that what needs to be done can be done is by the working of the Spirit of God
Therefore, this is the first order of business—that we may be associated with that working. We find, when we are associated with the working of the spirit of God, that we rise up a step and then another step, and we begin to see with a different perspective, so that what we thought were such pressing and terrible problems before are not so pressing and terrible anymore. The thing may still be there but you see it differently. You know, all these things with which human beings struggle are maintained by the very fact that they are struggling with them. As long as you are wrestling with the devil, the devil will be right beside you, won't he? As long as you have the devil in your grip, you are in his grip, too.
So there's no answer in that direction. Let go! Because only so can your feeling realm begin to settle down so that there may be a state of calm. Then you may hear the word spoken, “Peace, be still,” and there is a great calm. The heart is not frantically grappling with all the external things that seem so pressing. And only then does there begin to be a sufficiency of facility to discern the movement of the spirit of God, to sense something.
What is sensed I have spoken of as a tone, a tonal quality. The spirit of God is powerful. When we come right down to it, it is the only power in the whole universe. There is no other power. There is no evil power, or devilish power, except in the consciousness and consequent experience of human beings. That's the only place it exists, and it's a state of fancy; it isn't real at all. It is the human experience, and seems to be real to human beings, but it is only that way because human beings are contending with the spirit of God. Contention with the spirit of God spawns trouble, and if we notice any troubles around, we know why they're there. Because human beings have been contending with the spirit of God. Well, there's no sense to that. We're surely no longer interested in spawning more trouble; there's enough already.
We have the opportunity of associating ourselves with the working of the spirit of God as we become aware of its nature, of its quality, within the scope of our own experience; and this, as we move with it, is an integrating power insofar as we are concerned. It is also a disintegrating power insofar as human contention is concerned. But, at last, if there are those who are consciously, deliberately, consistently, moving with the spirit of God, there is something emerging into manifestation that is of the integrating aspect of the cycle. Then the disintegration can proceed because integration is here, and consequently the delaying action is no longer necessary. Let what is contending with the spirit of God be disintegrated. Now, of course, there has to be reached an adequate point of manifest integration before that would be safe, because I suspect that if we were to take the attitude here, now, in this moment, “Let all that is contending with the spirit of God disintegrate,” there might be some dust around, with no one to sweep it up! So the integrating development has to reach a certain point before the outworking of affairs in the world can be brought to a point of final issue.
Now this development is what is going on right now. We have not reached the point of final issue. It is indicated in the Divine Blueprint, the Book of Revelation, that there should be 144,000 people who are participating consistently in the integrating aspect of the cycle before the issue can be drawn, before it is safe to do it. Now, we've got a way to go yet; but that must come, and it will come as there are those, and there are, who are beginning to move more easily and effectively in the current of the spirit of God. It is the movement of that current which gets the job done.
It is not because we, for instance, are brighter than other people or more capable of doing what needs to be done. The only difference between those who are of the integrating cycle and those who are overly involved with the disintegrating cycle is that there is, for whatever reason—there is a reason; let's not pat ourselves on the back about it—a greater openness to the spirit of God. But it's not by our efforts, it's not by our might and our power, but by the spirit of God, that what needs to be done is done ...
and it is being done!
We ourselves have some awareness of the fact that it is being done in our own experience, and that spirit is working through all; it is working through all peopleeverywhere on the face of the earth. As there is an increase in the integrating aspect in manifestation, the intensification of the working increases. It increases to integrate more speedily, more effectively, and it also increases to disintegrate more speedily and more effectively. It works in both directions. And somewhere along the way it comes to a point of climax, a point when the issue is finally drawn. Then let him who is righteous be righteous still, and let him who is filthy be filthy still. In other words, that's it, the line is drawn. And wherever there is a predominance of self-centeredness, disintegration is sure; wherever there is a predominance of movement with the spirit of God, integration is sure. Now, we may recognize that this integrating process has a lot of implications. We don't need to examine them at the moment because all we are concerned with is to let our own experience be mor firmly associated with the spirit of God and the integrating process; then we'll become aware of some of the implications here.
This is rightly the concern of those who will be attending this Class; but not only them, of everybody else, presumably, as well. Changes are coming. These days they come more quickly than they used to come. In the earlier years of this ministry there was a great deal of plodding, and we all may be thankful that there were those who were willing to plod; otherwise we wouldn't be at this point. What we do now and what we experience sets the stage for those who come after. But we need to remember that all that is to be done is achieved solely by the spirit of God, not by the intelligence of human beings, not by the efforts of men, our own or anyone else's. This is not to say that we do not become active or that we sit around twiddling our thumbs. Obviously, the spirit of God is not interested in this sort of action. There are other things to be done as we become increasingly aware of the True Tone of the spirit of God, and we find ourselves impelled because we can't help it. In the external sense, we can't help it and we no longer would wish to help it anyway. Just let it happen, and behold all things work together to perfection. The integration takes place naturally and easily. Something is built according to the true design, a design of which we as human beings have no particular consciousness; we don't know what it is, so we would be incapable of building it. But it will be built, and we see something of that design emerging within the range of our own present awareness.
Let us rejoice that these things are occurring, and willingly move in the unfolding cycles which are initiated and maintained by the creative working of the spirit of the Living God. And so, tonight, we have had the opportunity of sharing something of a consciousness of what it is that is working, not merely on the basis of the words that have been spoken but on the basis of the current of the spirit that has been touched. It is working; let us let it continue to work in our own experience. It will continue to work, but let it work in our own experience. Aumen.
