A Sacred Period

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  A  Sacred  Period

Bill Bahan   September 13, 1980

This evening I present myself before the LORD, and my soul feels totally inadequate. But I am not my soul. What a wonderful thing it is to stand before the LORD naked and unashamed, having one's mind filled with the LORD, unclothed with concepts as to what to say or what to bring forth, and allowing the mind to be used by the LORD with all of us participating collectively. I'm sure you are all familiar with these words which have been repeated and repeated and repeated for two thousand years:

After this manner therefore pray ye:

Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

This is our LORD's prayer. It was His prayer that His will should be done in earth as it is in heaven. Human beings for these many thousands of years have been unable to allow His prayer to be answered in their living. Repeatedly there have been those who have been on earth to assist human beings to know the fulfilment of that prayer in their living, but strange as it may seem, they have been reluctant to accept the one who came in the name of the LORD to assist them in this fulfilment. Over and over again the LORD's servants have come on earth to assist human beings to know the truth and let His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And, as I say, there has been a gross reluctance to let it transpire. 

Our LORD and KING Himself came on earth in order to say it directly, but He was rejected. To our minds today it may be unimaginable that that Great One being present in form on earth should be rejected as the LORD, but He was. He did open the door for all of us, first of all through this prayer with the instruction, "After this manner ... pray ye," as to how we might allow His will to be done. There has been the need in the earth for leadership to assist human beings, even with their reluctance, to let His will be done. We know in our own experience that there has appeared a prophet of the LORD on earth, to those who were aware, to let His will be done and, in turn, to assist all human beings into this true consciousness. 

Today is September 13. This actually is the anniversary period. The 13th of September, 1932, was when the focus of enlightenment came into the consciousness of Uranda. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/2019/08/from-focus-of-enlightenment-2-martin.html] In that outworking, in three successive days—September 13, 14 and 15—this enlightenment took place in his consciousness. He became aware of his responsibility on earth, and all of the questions which his mind had had before then were answered during that particular time. He became aware of the truth that heaven and earth are one, and how to let the LORD's will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

Also this is the conclusion of the sixth year of this seven-year-cycle of the seventh cycle which we are in since that momentous experience took place in the consciousness of Uranda forty-eight years ago. When Uranda received his commission he thought that he could go and bring this good news to thousands and thousands of people. He said it was a lack of outer experience on his part which led him to believe that. He found out that human beings have a deaf ear to the truth. But he knew the truth. He accepted his commission, but the acceptance of that commission was not just for him. That commission was available to every man, woman and child on earth. He sounded the note of that commission; he went from one end of this continent to the other sounding the note of that commission, bringing the good news that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He found that there were those who did respond to that offering and some who came close, but when it got right down to cases and they had the responsibility of accepting the commission he had accepted, they went their own ways. But the LORD will out. Those who have accepted the commission of the LORD do not know failure. They may in their service see many fail around them, but failure is not included in the vocabulary of those who have accepted the commission of the LORD. So regardless of all the pressures and all the sadness experienced by him, he continued to sound the note, and we know what happened. 

Finally one emerged who would agree with him in that commission. A line was drawn on earth between two who had accepted the commission, and the time came in the evolving cycles when Uranda left this sphere of things. The commission, and the note of that commission, the mantle of it, fell into the hands of Martin. Since 1932, in an outer sense, that note has never stopped sounding; it has been consistent. You and I find ourselves here tonight because of the continuation of that note by Martin. What is our responsibility? Well, we know that Martin's responsibility is not the same as ours. Within the commission there is design; he has a particular design within that commission, and we have a particular design within that commission. Our responsibilities are not the same, even though we carry the same commission.

The two titles of Martin's services last Sunday indicate everything that is required. The morning service was entitled "Alignment With Original Cause"—that's the commission. The evening service was entitled, "The Responsibility of the Unified Body." Now, we know that the responsibility of the unified body is absolutely impossible without alignment with original cause, without the acceptance of the commission of the LORD. When that commission is accepted and is actual in our experience, in our living, we begin to find that we are a part of this unified body. To be a part of the unified body without accepting the commission of the LORD is an impossibility. We kid ourselves if we think we can do it. It is alignment with original cause which allows what needs to be done to be done. So where's the great problem in accepting that alignment? No problem at all! The kingdom of heaven is at hand; we're in it constantly as long as we are alive. All that is necessary is to stop violating the laws of the kingdom. Human beings have not been aware of the kingdom because they violate its laws.

You and I have had the finest spiritual education available, so we have been made aware of the laws of the kingdom. "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?" Well of course! If the ordinances of heaven are broken in our experience it's something deliberate. As our love for the LORD and His ordinances is paramount in our living, so that they transcend anything in the personal sense, we keep the ordinances of heaven. In the keeping of them we know the truth that heaven and earth are one, and we may sound the tone of oneness so that others may come and live in the kingdom with us. How blessed we have been. And yet there does seem to be reluctance present amongst those of us who have had this great gift offered to us. If any of us in our experience find ourselves out of a consciousness of the oneness of heaven and earth, we are deliberately doing it. There is a deaf ear present.

When the commission of the LORD has been accepted the LORD is present because we are there; we're not looking for some representative of the LORD out there. We are there in His name; we are there to represent Him. Then the thing that means more to us is our representation of Him, not that circumstance. Representing Him is the thing that counts. If it counts in fact with us, and our agreement with the LORD is the vital thing to us, then the LORD comes into that circumstance because we're there. His spirit is there and, as has been emphasized recently, He is Almighty. 

One-pointedness, discipline, a challenge that's loved—this is the spirit that is actually required if the unified body is to be a fact on earth. If there was the spirit of one-pointedness in the LORD, the spirit of delight in the challenge that lies before us, what would our experience be? One of quibbling, one of doubt, fear and apprehension? No. It would be consistent with the LORD, consistent with His nature, so that we in fact exemplify His expression.

 

I have had opportunity before to approach this anniversary period, but never the experience like I have had, coming to this particular weekend. I am sure you share that with me. We may all recognize the absolute sacredness of it. It is a very significant time. There is a great shift taking place actually. This shift is pointed right at us. The LORD is expecting us to reveal the truth in fact, the revelation of the truth of human beings who have accepted the commission of the LORD. That is why, as I say, when I presented myself before you this evening I felt, as far as my soul was concerned, completely inadequate. Absolutely! What a wonderful feeling really. One recognizes the absolute nothingness of the human soul in and of itself. As long as the human soul still thinks that it can do it, that it can be the way, the truth and the life, we're lost without a doubt. But because you and I have been nurtured, yea, these many years by the LORD, we come to the point where we may in fact accept our responsibility. And in that acceptance of our commission we may do what we came on earth to do.

This body which has been taking form is an indestructible body. We saw that the body of our LORD and KING on earth was absolutely indestructible, regardless of all the things that were forced upon it. That body did not destruct. Now we may look back and recognize that it was our LORD and KING's body, and because it was His body it was indestructible. Well, whose body are we in? Whose body are we responsible for? It's the same body. It's the same body because there are those in it who accept the truth which our LORD and KING brought on earth. Then it is in fact an indestructible body. What a miracle to find this body at this particular stage strong and pliable in the midst of all the turmoil and strife in the world. The tone of the LORD is sounding on earth and those who are receptive are coming.

 

Recently we have been talking about the immovable mass. You know, in some respects it would appear that the immovable mass has been on earth for many years, immovable by the spirit of God! But out of that immovable mass have come those who are movable. You and I responded to the spirit of God that was moving and have come to the point where we recognize what is required. We have a particular opportunity for the fulfillment of God. In the acceptance of the truth we accept the reality of ourselves, which is in heaven. What is received from heaven on earth, the forms that appear on earth, are not separate from our doing. It is our doing, it is our expression, which allows that which would be given from heaven to be given; and our total concern is to allow what needs to come from heaven to come.

I speak to you tonight not of the earth but of the heaven, of that which is above. And we know that if that which is above is sounded on earth it is not heard by those who are earthy; it is heard by those who are responding to the heaven. So in our experience we can know in fact that we speak from heaven. The understanding that we know is from above. All of us who have had the privilege of sitting at the feet of the LORD know a great victory and have established our friendship with the LORD. We have come to the point where we may speak from above and we may handle the responsibility of the body of which we are a part. A lot of things have been said about friendship with the LORD. It's a beautiful thing we share, to allow that friendship to be a reality. We know that friendship with the LORD is impossible to human beings in human nature. It is agreement with the representation that allows the reality of friendship to appear. And how easy it is to find friendship with the LORD through His representation. That representation has faith in us.

Do you think that we can know friendship with the LORD and His representation, true friendship, if we don't accept our commission? It is in the acceptance of what the representative of the LORD accepts that we know friendship. Knowing friendship, we know the reality of faith. We know that what needs to be done will be done, and we know that in friendship we may come in the name of the LORD—but until the one who comes in the name of the LORD is accepted nothing transpires. The one who comes in the name of the LORD has come. We have all said, "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord." In that growing friendship which we know because of our recognition of that one, we come to the point where we stand with that one. If we ever distort that spirit which he represents, our friendship is broken. Heaven forbid!

In the days to come in our service, many things are going to present themselves. In the strength and the power of the LORD we will know what to do in any circumstance, in any moment. I'm sure that all who are here during this very sacred period, which calls forth the truth from all of us who have been moving, would recognize that no circumstance or situation could ever provoke us to distort the spirit. In our hearts and minds and, yea, all of our souls, we long to maintain our agreement in spirit, and in turn, our friendship with the LORD. I delight in what is going to be in the days to come. I delight that all of us have in fact—and don't say we haven't—come to the point where we know that we are responsible for the spirit of the LORD in form on earth. We know this, and we know His spirit.

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Communion of Friendship

Communion  of  Friendship

a  profound  influence  on  heaven

Uranda   May 24, 1953

In our most recent periods of meditation we have recognized certain of the basic factors concerning friendship; something of what friendship signifies; something of the opportunity we have that we may be friends to God even as God is a friend to us. Once the qualities of friendship, the capacities of friendship, begin to develop in the individual, the relationship so established between God and us makes possible the divinely ordained position for which man was first created. God created man in the image and likeness, the same design, the same principles, the same laws, the same capacities and qualities as are found in God Himself, to the end that man might be the means by which God could reveal Himself in action on earth in relationship to the rest of creation. 

Man was supposed to be the connecting link between Creator and creation. Man violated the basic principles of friendship; he lost the position of being a friend to God and became the missing link, allowing the appearance of separation between heaven and earth. In that divine position as the connecting link between Creator and creation man was, before the violation of friendship, a friend to God. God has never ceased being man’s friend; and with patience and love and infinite care He has sought through the generations since that day to reestablish a pattern on earth by which man might receive the friendship of God and become a friend to God. 

In the pattern of true friendship there is always, without any exception, to whatever degree it may be experienced between human beings on earth, a particular quality of communion. Those who move toward the state of true friendship—which has been in fact a very rare occurrence—began to experience a state of communion, of vibrational companionship—which might at times use words for the interchange of ideas—was not limited to words, for in friendship there is understanding, and there is a communion of spirit which is unknown to those who have never touched the true Spirit of friendship; a quality of comprehension of the inner play of the vibratory field of the One who is counted friend. And this quality of communion is one of the crowning marks of friendship. 

Once we begin to see that the true state of friendship is the true state of heaven on earth the idea of the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand does not seem so vague, so uncertain; once we begin to glimpse the reality of what friendship means, or what it means to be a friend to God, there is a new vision of heavenly things made manifest, for we have noted that friends make no demands upon each other. 

God is our friend and he does not make any demands on us. He offers us something; He invites us to share something, but God makes no demands. We can trust Him. He is not inclined to take something from us. And we learn, in the pattern of friendship, to make no demands upon God; for as long as man makes a demand upon God, whether he thinks it to be in prayer or some other form, he is violating the principles of friendship essential to the correct relationship with God. 

So, as we begin to comprehend the principles of friendship we make no demands upon God. But we have recognized in our meditations that where the state of friendship is established, those who are friends, without making any demands upon each other at the same time exert a powerful, profound and lasting influence upon each other. Man, in the limited realm, having failed to know the truth and let the truth make him free, could well experience this profound influence from God. 

But you may say: “What profound and powerful influence can I exert upon God?” Friendship is based upon qualities of equality. That is the point! For God first created Man, male and female, in the image and likeness of God, having qualities of equality; and it was never God’s intention that man should be in a limited, dwarfed, subservient or weak position. It was God’s intention that Man should be made manifest on earth as the image and likeness of God. 

There is, in the limited consciousness of man, a peculiar idea that in what is called heaven there is a sexless state of things. Angels are supposed to be creatures of neuter gender. This idea, developed out of ignorance and prejudice, has been one of the devil’s chief weapons to keep people from drawing near to the throne of God, for the suggestion of a sexless state suggests to man, whether he thinks it out or not, that such a state would be a realm without any particular feeling, without any particular joys of being, without any particular productiveness; a realm of virtual meaninglessness; and so the self-active mind of man has maintained a concept that here on earth we could accomplish certain things, have certain pleasures, be productive in various ways, and creative, but the moment we get to heaven there will be a static state. 

The idea of sitting on a cloud and plucking a harp, day after day, year after year, century after century, millennia after millennia: that is the picture of hell! unmitigated hell; boredom in the 9^th degree! So, by the very nature of the situation we see that this is a lie about God, that this concept maintains a state of consciousness in man whereby he is not privileged to know God, or to know the true state of things with respect to God. 

Perfection in heaven would require right function in the heavenly state, and God is a creator; God never ceases creating! God is a creator and God could no more stop creating than you could by holding your breath stop breathing; and there is no static state in eternity. We are in eternity. We couldn’t get out of it if we tried to. We are in eternity now; and once we begin to realize with absolute certainty that our God is a creator, that He is continually creating, and we are made in the image and likeness of God, then we too have the capacity to let the creative spirit work through us. 

I am talking about a creative life, so that man begins to reach a point where every thought, every word, every act is dedicated, under the control of the spirit of God to creating something lovely, something beautiful, to bringing into manifestation something that carries a blessing to others, or to the creation as a whole. Made in the image and likeness of God, it is our business to share the creative work of God; and God does not need us particularly in some other realm to share this creative work. God would like to have men and women on earth share the creative work; right here, to the end that paradise may be restored, to the end that heaven and earth may be seen as one, which in fact they are. It is only an appearance that makes it seem to man that they are separated. Heaven and earth are one already in fact. They have never been anything else. 

This quality of friendship with the Lord was supposed to be on a basis of equality, the manifestation of God Himself. The very moment any man or woman has the courage to face the truth, and let the truth make him free, there begins to be a recognition of the basic truth that man was created to be a means by which God could reveal Himself, so that man might be God in action on earth. We begin to see that friendship with God is possible. Friendship requires factors of equality. 

Man has imagined that God wanted him to grovel in the dust. Man has interpreted meekness as weakness, humility as a doormat attitude. Humility is necessary, but only the strong can be humble. Look at a weak person and you will never find humility. The weak person in the first place does not have the capacity for humility while he is weak, and in the second place he is afraid to be humble. He may manufacture an imitation of humility and pass it off as humility, but it will not be the genuine article. The weak feel that they cannot afford to be humble. Only the strong ever dare to be humble. Meekness does not properly suggest weakness. Humility and meekness simply suggest that man as such has let go of arrogance, wherein he is trying to be superior to God. He is willing, in his attitude, to accept God on the basis of the divine design, the qualities of equality. 

The point is that if man were not so insufferably arrogant, if he would begin to be humble and stop trying to act as if he were superior to God, he would begin to enter into the pattern of friendship with God and he would begin to have the privilege of communion with our Friend, our Lord and King. The privilege of communion with our Friend. That communion does not always require words, although it may utilize words. Communion between friends is not limited by distance or space. Man imagines that God is far, far away. He imagines that He could not possibly produce a state wherein there would be true communion with God. 

Some people try to order God about. I have heard many ministers on the pulpit do what they called praying, which in actual fact was a presumptuous, blasphemous attitude in which they were telling God what to do and how he should do it, making all kinds of demands upon God as if the master-mind of man was necessary to direct divine activities in heaven in relationship to the earth. Such presumption, such blasphemous attitudes, cannot be called prayer. And so man has failed to recognize what true prayer is. Millions of people do what they call praying when in actual fact it is not prayer, and they wonder why God doesn’t answer their prayer. The simple point is they never prayed! They only thought they did. We should begin to learn how to pray; which is to say we should reach a point of communion with our Friend. 

Would it not exert a profound influence on heaven if heaven were no longer shut up and denied the opportunity of manifestation on earth? Would it not exert a profound influence on heaven if we proved to be the friends of God and let heaven, the atmosphere of friendship—What is heaven? Heaven is the atmosphere of true friendship—if we let heaven appear on earth. The way is easy. It is the only easy life available to man on earth. All else is hard. 

Until we begin to let the friendship of God have meaning in our lives here on earth, so that we can let our friendship for God have meaning in heaven, and refuse to let God and the things of God out of heaven into the earth, we cannot possibly know fulfillment. We stop trying to do the impossible and accept the simple, easy task that God has offered to us—the simple process of working with the positive laws of being, the simple process of changing from dying existence to living fulfillment, the simple process of changing from the paths of defeat to the realm of victory—simply accepting the invitation to be on earth the friends of God, that we may stop believing so many lies about God, stop having false attitudes toward God, and begin to be the friends of God.

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There  Is  No  Level  Of  The  Spiritual

That  Is  Not  Physical

Uranda   July 21, 1953

Some people say, "Well I thought it was only supposed to be spiritual. I want a spiritual life. I want to live a spiritual life. I want to see spiritual things. I don't want to look at physical things. I don't want a physical life. I want to rise above physical things." God made physical things. God put them here, and they are a part of God. God made these things. They are a part of God. 

The physical flesh, the physical substance, it is spiritual. You say physical things aren't spiritual? Then you are ignorant of the truth, because until you can see the spirituality of physical things, you cannot see the reality of spiritual things, not really. You can have a shell of concept and idea and belief, and live in a realm of delusion, a prison of your own making, but until you are capable of looking outside or inside of it somehow, you will never know what the truth is. This shell of delusion, it is a shell that everyone more or less has developed in relationship to himself. "I'm so and so— and yet you don't know yourself. "My neighbor is so and so"—and yet you don't know your neighbor. It is a shell. It is not physical things. If I talk about the shell, I am not talking about the fact that there is physical substance. My body is not the shell. My body is something more than a shell, and so is yours. 

Your physical body is spiritual. Until you begin to see that, you cannot really comprehend what spiritual is. You will have a fantastic idea of what it means to be spiritual, and you will try to do something that is impossible. Look inside. Look to the Father within. Looking to the Father within, yielding, responding, whatever, causes you to begin to do what the Father within is doing. And what is He doing? Well He is responding to His point of focalization, for one thing. So if I say to people, "Respond to our Lord and King," then immediately they want to ignore the Father within; they want to ignore all the focalizations in the pattern that God has ordained; they want to individually reach to the King. He would have to be a rather busy King, wouldn't He? He is going to have to do it all. One Being is going to have to take care of personal contacts with every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. What a busy Person! Foolishness. It doesn't work. But these ideas of religion and belief and concept have been so thoroughly embedded in consciousness that human beings have created this shell. If I say, "Look outside," they don't; they look at the outer edge of the shell, inside the shell, and they see what is there. I say, "Look inside." They don't; they look to the inner edge of the shell and see what is there, and they say, "That is the fact of the case." It is not the fact at all. It is a lie, it is a delusion.
 

Finally the individual begins to accept the idea that truth is beautiful, that there is no such thing as an ugly truth, never. Truth is never ugly, and if anything is ugly it is not truth. You cannot say, "That is an ugly truth," because there is no such thing as an ugly truth. There may be ugly temporary facts. There might be an ugly fact, but not an ugly truth. We may say that the shell is a fact, a temporary fact, the thing that you have been living in. It is the limit of the range of your consciousness and awareness, but the shell is not a truth; it is a lie. The shell is not a truth; it is a lie. It may be a fact but it is not a truth. All truth is beautiful. There is no such thing as an ugly truth. 

Then the body. We have to recognize that there is a body. Some people have tried to say that there is no such thing as a body; it is just an illusion; there is no matter; there is no physical substance, it is just illusion. Well they are in a realm of illusion, I will grant them; for to say that there is no physical substance is an illusion. There is physical substance. And then the human being says, "Well that must contrast with the spiritual. I see the physical, and I don't like what I see. I want to be spiritual, so I will get away from the physical and get to the spiritual somehow." And the spiritual is somehow supposed to be separate from the physical. But God made the physical, and the physical is spiritual, just as spiritual as anything else. If you take the attitude that you want something more spiritual than the physical, then you are complaining against God and saying, "I want something that You did not create. You didn't do a good job. You didn't supply me with all that I need. I don't want the physical; I just want the spiritual." 

Well the spiritual is on every level physical. This aspect of the physical is recognizable on this level, but you take the next higher level of the spiritual and once you are on that level, or can perceive on that level or function on that level, you will find that that level of the spiritual is physical to itself. There is no level of the spiritual that is not physical, not anywhere. Every level of the spiritual is physical to itself, to the highest point of Deity in the center of the cosmos. If you are going to get away from the physical, you can't do it, no matter where you go or what you do, up or down. 

The mansions in our Father's house are the levels of being, the mansions for this earth for instance, this world, within the scope of our immediate comprehension. We have the mansion of the mineral kingdom, we have the mansion of the realm of gases—the air, the atmosphere for instance—we have the mansion of the vegetable kingdom, we have the mansion of the animal kingdom, we have the mansion of the human kingdom, or the human realm, the body of mankind. And there are other mansions up and down the line. Mansions are realms of being in particularized form; but if any particularized form is seen as not being spirit, it killeth—that belief, that concept. It is spirit. If we say something about the mineral kingdom being spiritual, people immediately start saying, "Well, then, it must be just an illusion. We just think there is some mineral here. We just think this is wood. We just think that is a blackboard." No, they are there. This is wood. That is a rock out there. That is not an illusion. But if you say that is not spiritual you don't know what you are talking about. If you say, "But the spiritual couldn't be like that," then you don't know. It is spiritual, and it is a rock, it is physical; for every level of the spiritual is physical. It must have a relationship to itself. Certain levels are grouped together as having interrelated meaning. You get below that level and you don't comprehend; you get above that level and you don't comprehend, you don't see it immediately. 

The physical is spiritual, and as long as you are trying to separate the physical and the spiritual you are attempting to do the impossible. You will never get anywhere doing it. If you are trying to reject the physical in order to get to the spiritual, you are wrong. The physical is spiritual, and the spiritual is physical, and you can't separate them. You say, "Well I would like to get out of this realm of physical into the realm of spirit." If you could actually do it, and see it and know it, what would you find? That that next higher level of the spiritual is physical to itself. It is physical to itself. There is no level of the spiritual that is not physical. You cannot get out of the physical and into the spiritual; it can't be done. If you fight too much against the laws of life your body dies, and it returns to a spiritual state, free of the limitations that you imposed upon it, the spiritual state of the substance of the soil, because that is spiritual. But your body has the capacity of living a different pattern than the clod of dirt. You say that substance is not spiritual? Of course it is spiritual. The dust of the ground, isn't that spiritual? Oh yes it is. The physical substance of your body—is there some part of your body that is not spiritual? No! Is there any function of your body that is not spiritual? No! You can use some of those spiritual things without regard to the divine Law and produce an ill condition, but that physical body is spiritual, every organ in your body is spiritual, now, already. It doesn't have to become spiritual. 

What do we mean, then, when we start talking about the development of the spiritual? The control factors as they relate to your intelligence and to your function have all too often been of an evil spirit; that is, a spirit of action, attitude, etc., which is contrary to the true nature of the physical organism. Well, then, as soon as that spirit that you have produced arbitrarily—that attitude, that belief, that idea, that concept, that has been imposed upon a physical organism without regard to its laws and principles of being—is removed, then it has returned to the spiritual, the spiritual in the divine sense, no longer subjected to something imposed by man but freed from that imposition to the pattern of being which God has designed. And the pattern of the spiritual, in the sense of spirit as we speak of it in relationship to the physical, is in perfect correlation. The spirit and the physical are one. Earth and heaven are one. They do not have to become one; they are one now. 

There is a little layer in here which human beings have produced, which is all they see, looking in or out—it makes no difference—which is a realm of illusion, a realm of delusion and distortion. And the human beings who dwell there look at a human being and they think they know that human being. They don't. They only know their idea about the human being, their concept, their peculiar belief. You cannot understand others until you understand yourself, and you cannot understand yourself until you know the truth about yourself. As the Master put it, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." As long as people imagine that they must get away from the physical in order to be spiritual, they don't know the truth about the physical. And they think they are going to be spiritual when they leave the physical behind. 

I have heard people say, "Well this body doesn't mean anything to me. If I'm all right and my body dies, I don't care what happens to my body. I just don't care what happens to my body." I have heard how many people say that? But you know they are liars when they say it. They may not know they are liars, but you know it. If they say they don't care what happens to their body they are lying. Why do they eat? Why do they sleep? Why do they utilize the capacities of their body in any way? Why do they live? You cannot live without your body, insofar as this world is concerned. Without your body you are meaningless to this level of being. 

Our Master, who lived on earth, had a body, and He had meaning on earth at that time. But His body ceased to be a physical body. How that worked out is for the moment beside the point, but He has no meaning on earth at the present time, in any direct sense. Why? Because He has no body on earth. He can have no meaning on earth except by reason of a body on earth. That which does not have a body on earth has no meaning on earth. I don't care what it is supposed to be.That which has no body on earth has no meaning on earth. If I didn't have a body on earth I would not have any meaning on earth, except as others, perhaps, gave body to my spirit, to that which I represent; but they would have to be themselves, they would have to be themselves individually. They could not be me. Any being, to have meaning on this earth, must have a body on this earth. God Himself—why doesn't God have more meaning on earth? Because He has not had a body on earth. 

Would God with a body be less spiritual than God without a body? Or would the body be not spiritual somehow? No! The body is spiritual. Heaven and earth are one. And when we begin to see that we do not have to get away from the physical to know the spiritual, in fact we cannot know the spiritual except in relationship to the physical, we can begin to understand the principles of magic, of being, of living, letting the kingdom come, letting the will of God be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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