Animal Life Ray, Good and Evil, Sea of Glass,
Fourth Plane Attunement
from a Special Session with Uranda
March 15, 1947 Riverside, California
I have used animals to work out vibratory cycles in a good many instances when human beings failed me, and it has worked particularly with horses, although the same thing has been true with dogs to some degree. Animals function on what we call a Life Ray from the corresponding positive manifestation of the Inner Planes. There are not incarnations with animals as there are with human beings. The human being takes on the aspect of animalism, sinking below the animal in fact, when he cuts off the Current between the outer manifestation and the incarnate Being, with the exception that the same Current of Life remains.
The animal does not have an incarnate soul, so to speak, in the sense that human beings have. There are various degrees of intelligence and self‑consciousness in animals, with varying degrees of ability to think, as, for instance, with some dogs; but animals, or the animal kingdom, speaking of it in general terms, was created to have a manifest relationship on earth to man very comparable to the relationship of man to the God‑Being. The Life Ray of the animal, of course, was independent of Divine Man, but the animal kingdom was supposed to be subject to, or under the domination of, the vibratory focalizations of Divine Man, so that the animal kingdom should co‑ordinate with Divine Man as the manifest form of Divine Man should co‑ordinate with God‑Being. After man fell, the focalization or Radiation of self‑active consciousness which impinged upon the animal kingdom produced various changes and destructive results in the animal kingdom.
In the Orient there is
a wide‑spread development of function with respect to the negative aspect of
being which permits focalization of consciousness in the upper layers or strata
of the Third Plane where, according to the consciousness so focalized, the
individual feels that he has reached the ultimate where man, as a drop of water,
blends into the Ocean of God in Nirvanic bliss. The development along the lines
followed in these Oriental philosophies (though they may have a genuineness of
principle in them) permit a high degree of coordination in the three phases of
man that function from a focalization of consciousness in the upper levels of
the Third Plane, which permits a high degree of attunement with nature and can
be utilized from that standpoint to exercise control over wild animals to make
them tame, or make them be obedient to the will, and to cause birds or animals
to come peacefully into the focalization of Radiation and to harmonize on a
peaceful basis; but such power, exercised in the animal kingdom, from that
standpoint, while it is conceived to be evidence of great control, attunement
or attainment, does not, in fact, signify that which it seems to signify,
because it leaves the individual without unification in the Fourth Vibration
where he may have the Firm Foundation.
All the ideas
concerning the transcendental states of consciousness of union with the Divine
in the state of Nirvanic bliss never allow the individual to reach the point
where he is conscious of and, to a considerable degree, harmonious to the
emanations or Radiation from the Inner Planes at the point of the Veil which
separates the Third and the Fourth Planes; but such development does not permit
the individual to penetrate through the Veil and achieve a state of oneness in
relationship to the Fourth Vibration. He does not go the three days and one-half.
In the upper levels of
the Third Plane, inharmonious vibrations cannot penetrate or remain. They
cannot exist, and the states of Being, shall I say, with respect to the
vibrational realm indicate these various upper levels are either that which is
like a sea, or the various distinctions that have been utilized in attempting
to convey an idea of that which is contacted in Nirvana, or in those realms
even above the level spoken of as Nirvana, and that is simply contacting the
level from which Divine Man is supposed to function with His attunement based
on the Fourth Vibration. But these processes of development as practiced in the
Orient never penetrate the Veil and, therefore, also remain fully and
completely within the range of the Negative Triune World, although the
Radiations received or attained to in these upper levels that emanate through
the Veil permit such individuals to utilize, according to their concepts and
states of consciousness, a high degree of Spiritual Power.
I might mention here,
because it is a very important point, although it does not bear directly on our
consideration of animals, the fact that such focalizations of consciousness
which penetrate to the upper levels of the Third Plane from a standpoint of the
self-active function of man, or growth and development according to these
various philosophies, is that which maintains the Life Currents by which the
world body of evil is permitted to be sustained. In other words, the
disintegration that would naturally work out in the world mass is hindered and
reduced by the fact that a comparatively few individuals in the world, by
reason of what is generally classified as extremely good, contact and harmonize
with very fine and wonderful Spiritual principles and are able to go through a
process of lifting themselves, so to speak, or project this attunement by human
effort, for a so-called good purpose, into these upper levels of the Third
Plane where they become channels of the Life Current which flows through them
into the world body.
All these individuals
who have so attained come under the classification of what the world calls
"masters" and they are good; they are wonderful, and in the world
they do a great deal of good. They are invariably dedicated to the purpose of
uplifting mankind, and their purpose, as actually fixed in consciousness, is to
be a blessing to man, but because their attainment has been on a self-active
basis which does not penetrate through the Veil and harmonize with the Fourth
Plane, it is, in fact, a source of great evil, although they themselves are
very, very good according to the highest and noblest classifications of the
outer world.
That may seem like a
startling statement but, nevertheless, it reveals the basic principles carried
to the very nth degree in
relationship to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The highest good that
man can attain through his eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil always produces, regardless of man's intent and purpose, the
greatest evil, not because that individual is basically evil and not because he
has any intention that his function should be evil, because he is devoted to
the good. He thinks to eat only of the good fruit of the tree but, in so
achieving on a self-active basis, (and only through eating of the fruit of the
tree by which he thinks to attain and be as God) he permits the Currents
released in Radiation to be focalized in the specific channels of expression
which such individuals are, and they are carried in strong Currents into the world
body so that the world mass receives a high degree of the pure Life Current
through such channels. And the decay and disintegration which would naturally
result from the self-activity of that mass body, if the mass body had to depend
upon the Currents of Life to which it may be attuned, is reduced to a
tremendous degree because of the addition of the Life Currents through those
individuals who have achieved to such a high degree of what the world
classifies as mastership.
I shall leave that
point there, but it was important to recognize these fundamental principles in
relationship to a consideration of our relationship to animals because, when it
is remembered that the animal kingdom was to be to man what Divine Man was to
be to God-Being, it is seen that the Life Currents received in the animal
kingdom through the Life Ray from the Inner Planes and focalized in outer
manifestation constitute one side of the triangle by reason of which Divine Man
was able to participate in creative activity in the realm of Nature; and so on
that basis the animal kingdom was supposed to be enfolded in Man's Love, coordinated
according to the Truths of Being, or the Pattern of Truth, and projected into
the world through the consciousness of Divine Man.
The breaks between
fallen man and the animal kingdom have had different degrees of influence upon
different manifestations of the animal kingdom. For instance, the dog, as an
outstanding and specific example, chose to go with man in the fall. Those wild
animals which refused to accept the vibratory influences of fallen man and
refused to be really tamed and domesticated are those which made a complete
break, as far as such a thing was possible, from man's vibration and rebelled
against man, developed ferociousness and meanness, and from that time onward
depended upon their instinctive impulses received from the Life Ray and
sensitized through the field of experience; but the dog, to illustrate, chose,
as it were, not to break with man but to go with man in the fall. Of course,
the animals that did not respond to man and are not subject to domestication
were subject to the fall in any case, as much as the dog for instance, but it
was a vibrational separation from man's focalization of consciousness. The dog,
accepting or remaining attuned to man’s focalization of consciousness, is a
remarkable example of faithfulness and devotion even under extremely trying
conditions. The dog was permitted to remain that man might have an evidence,
and an indication from out of the animal realm, of the manner and nature of
devotion which the outer manifestation of man was supposed to give to his
God-Being. Of course, the conflicts and breaks in the Current have produced
many mongrel manifestations among dogs which do not provide any purity of evidence
of this particular principle but, nevertheless, it remains to a remarkable
degree in a large number of dogs; and that faithfulness and devotion to man
carries forward even on the disturbed vibrational basis, giving man something
of an example of the vibrational pattern which was supposed to exist between
man and the whole animal kingdom, and also serves as an outer evidence to man,
if he will but see it, of the faithfulness and devotion which the outer man is
supposed to give to his Lord. Various aspects of this can be enlarged upon, but
I think the basic principles have been touched upon.
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The masters who have
reached a high degree of attainment through self-activity cannot see beyond the
Veil, though they think that the level to which they have penetrated is the
ultimate. That is what they call the Absolute. These higher levels of
consciousness to which they have penetrated are still within the range of the
Third Plane, but they think that they have penetrated to the Absolute. They have
no focalization in the Fourth, outside of the fact of Life. Until those
channels which permit the Life Currents to be released into the world mass for
self-active purposes are cut off, the world mass of evil is sustained. I am
talking about the highest development in the Oriental philosophies which have reached the acme of development that is called
mastership.
Until those channels
which permit the Life Currents to be released into the world mass for
self-active purposes are cut off, the world mass of evil is sustained. It is
the highest possible attainment of the individual who eats of the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil; and all of the Oriental philosophies use the same pattern. The individual tries to lift himself
according to certain laws and principles, and arbitrarily penetrate into the
Realm of God. If they remain obedient to certain laws, and remain balanced,
they can penetrate to the upper levels of the Third Plane, but not beyond—just
on the inner fringe. I
wonder if I could convey a picture to you. We will draw a line at the Veil between the 3rd and the 4th.
Three Inner Planes
+ positive triune world +
------- 4th Plane -------
heart realm
Veil -------------- vibrationless --- formless -------------- Veil
upper levels of 3rd Plane
Sea of Glass or Nirvana
differentiations
------- 3rd Plane -------
spiritual expression plane
differentiations
------- 2nd Plane -------
mental plane
differentiations
— negative triune world —
Three Outer Planes
This is the Veil, the
final point of distinction between the Third and the Fourth Planes. Here is the
Fourth. In what we may call a layer here, the emanations of Radiation from the
Inner Planes are so absolutely of the nature of the Inner Planes, and coming
through with such solidity that, here, after the perception penetrates to this
level, there is no stream, no ripple; there is nothing but just that. Do you
see what I mean, in this layer? In this layer it is described as the Sea of
Glass. It is absolutely without any vibrational influence.
Here, the
differentiations appear, and there is in here what we would call an Ocean of
Consciousness, or the place that in the Oriental philosophy is called Nirvana,
where those who penetrate to this level enter into Nirvanic bliss, so to speak;
but they have not reached this level. There is that on beyond that. This
differentiates more and more until we get clear down here, so to speak, where
we have the range of the so-called good people.
I do not know what
words could be used except "Sea of Glass", and that Sea of Glass that
is mentioned here [in the Book of Revelation] is this level at this point. These adepts penetrate up into
this range. They may get to the lower edge of that but that is as far as they
can go. This is what is described by them as "vibrationless" and
"formless". There is quite a gulf
between the higher range of the world's good people and this. There is a gulf
in between, so to speak. Those are the people
who have to be cut off—those who reach into this level, and maintain these
Currents or Radiation into the mass, because they themselves attune to it
self-actively and allow the current to be used for self-activity into the world
body.
That is the reason for
so much evil. It is in itself good, because it takes the higher qualities of
good to achieve it; but that greatest good produces the greatest evil, not
because of any intent on that person's part but because of the Currents of Life
that they have allowed to be self-actively utilized in maintaining the world
mass of evil; and if that could be cut off, then the disintegration of the
world's evil would be much quicker. Down here in these levels they are limited
to whatever degree of Life Current may manifest from within themselves, and
limited to that the results of evil would manifest very quickly.
They call it white
magic, but what they do not realize is that this results in evil. The general
idea is that black magic is something that is done through vibrational currents
for selfish purposes without consideration of others or the rights of others,
and white magic is supposed to be based upon motivation of Service and blessing
to others. But the thing that they
fail to take into consideration—although they claim that they are not selfish
and, actually, according to their own concept, they are not—is that they have
lifted themselves, and the product of it in their own efforts is still there,
even though it is done on a basis of being a means of blessing to the mass; and
it is because of that high degree of devotion to Service and so on, utilizing
the principles of Reality just barely within the Law, so to speak—it is not
really within the law in some instances, but it is so close—which makes it so
difficult. That is the highest
point to which evil could rise. No evil or anything of the self-active mind can
penetrate beyond that line. It cannot go through the Sea of Glass. That is all
they can see, and that is why they think it is the ultimate. That is the
highest point which can be attained by the adept.
[Above the Veil would be] those who are
functioning from the standpoint of Reality, walking on the Sea of Glass.
Let us see what it says
here in Revelation 21 in connection with the New Jerusalem. "And he
carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain [high levels of
consciousness] and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God." It is constantly descending here all the time,
and if the individual permits himself to be so attuned to Reality that he has
gone the three days and one-half, or is established upon the Firm Foundation,
then this has meaning, but as long as this which he receives is utilized
according to self-activity, according to his concepts of good, he cannot
function from the standpoint of Reality. He thinks, having reached this point,
that he has done what God said he could not do. "For God doth know that in
the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil." So all of this function is to attain oneness
with God. In other words, all of these things are efforts to prove that the
devil was right, but they all come to the same thing.
Uranda read Revelation Chapter 21: 11-18
"… pure gold, like unto
clear glass …" From the outer standpoint, do they [these words] have any meaning? Who ever saw
pure gold like unto glass? The two do not correspond. That would seem to the
outer consciousness to be a contradiction, but we have to remember that we are
utilizing mystical language. It is pure gold, and that symbolizes the Radiation
of the pure expression of Divinity. In other words, that relates to this right
here. That is just one. "… and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were
transparent glass ..." Again the same thing is emphasized. It is the
failure to comprehend that which has brought about the failure of all the
efforts of man to bring about real salvation.
"And before the
throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal …" Does that help to clarify
in consciousness this matter of distinction between function according to God's
Plan and the function that man has utilized down through the ages? He attempts
to eat just the good fruit, and the highest possible attainment with respect to
the good fruit achieves great evil. That is Spiritual
wickedness in high places, but principalities and rulers of darkness are
classified by what we call black magic; but anything self-actively done, even
this so-called white magic, falls into that classification, even though there
is a marked distinction between the two.
"Enoch walked with
God and was not; for God took him." And we have Elijah and the Master—three
instances in the Bible who saw beyond that. There is no focalization of
consciousness anywhere in the world, outside of the Third Sacred School, which
understands those particular distinctions and the manner of working in
relationship to them. They will all tell you
that when you reach a point where you contact nothing that you contact God.
The
negative Life Essences are the particles of that Radiation from the Fourth Plane
as it manifests in our atmosphere. The point of origin is here in relationship
to the Sea of Glass. We are moving into a realm
of the Fourth dimension—not as Einstein spoke of it, but through the
dimensional function as natural to Man in relationship to these three outer
planes; but those that may be classified as the Fourth, manifest in
relationship to his true attunement with the Firm Foundation.
We remember that the
first plane vibrations are found in the first plane; the second plane
vibrations are found in the second plane but interpenetrate the first. The
third plane vibrations fill the third plane, but interpenetrate the second and
the first, but not the fourth. The fourth plane vibration interpenetrates the
three planes below, although it has its pure manifestation of essence in the
fourth plane which is penetrated by the fifth and sixth. The next can penetrate
the seventh, although the seventh is contained in all. With respect to the
whole, there is a definite location, and yet with respect to the different
focalizations of being, all those things are equally true without respect to
distance or what we might call physical elevation as up and down. It applies to
the whole, or to the individual, or to the Unit in focalization. It is not
limited to time, space or distance. We do not have to go from here to there to
function in relationship to it, because Heaven and earth are one. The Master
said: "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand", and we see how that is
true.
The Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand. Heaven is the environment of the God-Being. It is that which is
present by reason of the Presence; so the Kingdom of Heaven is present wherever
the God-Being is present, but the Kingdom of God would include the whole of the
Cosmos. "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand", is what the Master said.
That was true because of His Presence, but because He left it, it does not mean
that what He said ceased to be true. The word "gospel" means the good
news of the Kingdom. As far as the Master Himself is concerned, the only gospel
which He mentioned was the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. "The Kingdom
of Heaven is at hand." That is the gospel, and He represented the
revelation of the Truth with respect to that, and the manner of function in
relationship to it.
In relationship to the Veil, to what levels have the saints penetrated—St.
Thomas Aquinas and such people? I would hesitate to make any blanket statement. Each individual case would have
to be examined on their own merits as to the levels to which they may have
penetrated, or the levels to which they may have been attuned. I would like to
take one specific example as an illustration of principle. Let us consider
Bernadette of Lourdes, France. There was a case of innocent, child-like,
constant, devotion of Response to the highest that she could conceive of. The
accuracy of her conception is, with respect to the principle, beside the point,
except that her concept would become the channel through which the
manifestation of consciousness would appear for her. Do you follow me? To the
highest concept of which she was aware she devoted herself. That concept, then,
had to be the channel of the manifestation to her, so the devotion and the Love
Response permitted her to become attuned to these higher levels of consciousness;
but the manifestation of that attainment of power appeared in her consciousness
as a vision shaped according to her concept of that to which she had been
Responding. As long as she remained polarized in that, so that distractions or
reactions around her did not break her attunement, she permitted that power
which is of this Sea of Glass level to manifest through her. We have [John] the
Revelator who obviously saw beyond, but by and large those called Saints never
penetrated, insofar as direct consciousness of attunement is concerned, beyond
that Veil.
Right here, in
manifestation with respect to the Third Plane, is all the power, all the force
and all the energy that would be necessary to accomplish anything under the sun
from the standpoint of Reality. It is a matter of attunement to that Current
and utilizing it properly with respect to the Will of God, but he who attunes
to it because of self-active will is not in position to use it according to the
Will of God, so whatever he gets from there is used according to his will. In this other case [Bernadette of Lourdes], her attunement was established on
the basis of Love Response, which is a fundamental principle. It was not her
self-determination that made it so. We have to remember though that here on this point there is in manifestation all the power of the Cosmos in
relationship to anything that might need doing on earth. The only thing is that
in order for us to be so attuned that that power may be used according to the
Will of God, we must be attuned to God, and in order for us to be stable we
have to have a base on the Firm Foundation, which means attunement with respect
to the Fourth Plane. That is why I have insisted that we are not going to try and operate and do
these things until we have the machinery. So many say: "This should be
done and that should be done," as if they knew, but to try without having
fulfilled the principles of Reality would again be self-activity, and there has
been enough of that. The Kingdom of Heaven
is at hand, and that can manifest providing the instrumentalities for its
function are in evidence.
The LORD of Lords has
truly been good to all human beings, and the reward wherewith they have
rewarded Him has been, for the most part, utterly contemptible; and He Himself
spoke the Word of Truth: "As ye; sow, so also shall ye reap. And we let
Him do the works—not in human strength. The
way is open and the provision is made, but for the last time.
Three Inner Planes
+ positive triune world +
------- 4th Plane -------
heart realm
Veil -------------- vibrationless --- formless -------------- Veil
upper levels of 3rd Plane
Sea of Glass or Nirvana
differentiations
------- 3rd Plane -------
spiritual expression plane
differentiations
------- 2nd Plane -------
mental plane
differentiations
— negative triune world —
Three Outer Planes
Three Outer Planes
[Above the Veil would be] those who are functioning from the standpoint of Reality, walking on the Sea of Glass.
Uranda read Revelation Chapter 21: 11-18
The negative Life Essences are the particles of that Radiation from the Fourth Plane as it manifests in our atmosphere. The point of origin is here in relationship to the Sea of Glass. We are moving into a realm of the Fourth dimension—not as Einstein spoke of it, but through the dimensional function as natural to Man in relationship to these three outer planes; but those that may be classified as the Fourth, manifest in relationship to his true attunement with the Firm Foundation.
In relationship to the Veil, to what levels have the saints penetrated—St. Thomas Aquinas and such people? I would hesitate to make any blanket statement. Each individual case would have to be examined on their own merits as to the levels to which they may have penetrated, or the levels to which they may have been attuned. I would like to take one specific example as an illustration of principle. Let us consider Bernadette of Lourdes, France. There was a case of innocent, child-like, constant, devotion of Response to the highest that she could conceive of. The accuracy of her conception is, with respect to the principle, beside the point, except that her concept would become the channel through which the manifestation of consciousness would appear for her. Do you follow me? To the highest concept of which she was aware she devoted herself. That concept, then, had to be the channel of the manifestation to her, so the devotion and the Love Response permitted her to become attuned to these higher levels of consciousness; but the manifestation of that attainment of power appeared in her consciousness as a vision shaped according to her concept of that to which she had been Responding. As long as she remained polarized in that, so that distractions or reactions around her did not break her attunement, she permitted that power which is of this Sea of Glass level to manifest through her. We have [John] the Revelator who obviously saw beyond, but by and large those called Saints never penetrated, insofar as direct consciousness of attunement is concerned, beyond that Veil.
The LORD of Lords has truly been good to all human beings, and the reward wherewith they have rewarded Him has been, for the most part, utterly contemptible; and He Himself spoke the Word of Truth: "As ye; sow, so also shall ye reap. And we let Him do the works—not in human strength. The way is open and the provision is made, but for the last time.
