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Nature and Work of Shekinah
What
was it the Master said? "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain
mercy." And is there one among you who has no need of mercy? "Blessed
are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." Actually the Beatitudes,
properly recognized and understood, portray the basic principles essential to
coming to the point where you can be a cherubim, a cherub, a servant of God, an
angel of God—whatever you want to say—standing upon the mercy seat. But you may
be standing upon the mercy seat and if there is not someone else who stands
upon the mercy seat somewhere, somehow, with you, you, standing there alone,
cannot make manifest the conditions essential to the revelation of Shekinah.
There must be two, one at each end of the Ark of the Covenant, with the mercy
seat between. And it is above the mercy seat, between the cherubim, that there
is the centering, the beginning of the centering, of the forming, of Shekinah
in that particularized pattern.
Perhaps it would help you to begin to see this more clearly if we did a
little supposing within the range of reality. Just suppose every man, woman and
child upon the face of the whole earth were centered in God, completely under
the Kingdom Control of the spirit, letting life truly manifest—the Shekinah Light is the life of men—there would be then, around the entire surface of the
earth, wherever there is land at least, the manifestation of millions and
millions of particularized focalizations of Shekinah. There would be a
particularized Shekinah Pattern between any given individual and each of his
true friends. Suppose some person had one hundred friends. There would be one
hundred balls of fire and glowing lights and manifestations of cloud in
relationship to that one individual who centered the hundred friends; but they
in turn would have other friends, and each might have anywhere from, what shall
we say? one to a hundred, more or less, in some cases many more of course,
manifestations of Shekinah, and it would cover the earth's surface, and
everything that would be done, every word that would be spoken, every action,
would be on the basis of the expression of Shekinah in actual fact. The earth
would then be a sun, glowing, shining, in its place in the solar system and the
cosmos—a sun, a manifestation of the Only Begotten Son of God. How often back
through the months we have shared have I told you that Shekinah is the Only Begotten Son of God? Did I not say the Christ Spirit, Light and Love and Life,
or however you want to put it? What is Love and Light and Life? What is the
Christ Spirit? What is the Only Begotten Manifestation of God, that which gives
evidence of the Presence of the One Who Dwells? Shekinah. For the Christ of the
New Testament and the Shekinah of the Old are one and the same, and Christ
should not be thought of as being any individual, not even our LORD and KING.
We can speak of Him as Jesus the Christ, the centering and manifestation of
Shekinah; but to call Him Christ is a statement which reveals a lack of
understanding.
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