Shekinah — Vibrational Factors of the Motherland
from
Shekinah Fire
Uranda
June 15, 1953
Carrying forward in the current of our
basic theme of Heavenly Magic, we
have reached a point where our attention has been introduced to the reality of
the Shekinah Fire. I might mention here something more than I brought out in
the meditation last evening, that the original Hebrew word from which this word
Shekinah
was derived used the a sound instead
of the i sound, something after the
order of Shekanah; and bringing this
out in relationship to the particular pattern that I suggested from the
standpoint of the vibrational factors of the Motherland, the short
pronunciation, as it is used, or as I have used it, is really a bit on the
inadequate side.
There is more of the vowel emphasis if we utilize all of the
vibrational factors possible. You will notice that you can prolong vowel
factors, if you have the breath to do it, and the e sounds here in the three-syllable word, concluding with the ah sound, provide us with an
opportunity to begin to feel the vibratory factors in sound. If you have
thought of the vowels primarily simply as letters or particularized sounds
utilized merely to convey the sound of a specific word, you need to begin to
realize that the vowels, particularly, have the peculiar quality of conveying
the current of feeling. Now what is conveyed will depend upon what you are
feeling. Assuming that the heart has become attuned to the divine source, we
have the current of that divine source moving through the vowel sounds.
You
should bear this in mind in your exercising, from the standpoint of speech, in
the development of your capacity in breathing, the control of the air which you
use in breathing, the proper pattern of inhalation and the proper controlled patterns
of exhalation. If you try to get all of your air, while you are speaking,
inhaled through your nose, you will not have a good speaking voice. The air
must be received, partially at least—some of it
will come in through the nose—but received through the mouth, at the top of the
mouth, along the roof of the mouth, the manner which you learn to utilize
without interfering with the expression through speech. It is interesting that
we have the privilege and the opportunity of beginning to practice these
exercises from the standpoint of vowels right at this time when they should be
emphasized from the standpoint of our basic meditation, the Shekinah Fire.
One thing we will begin to note as we
proceed, and that is that you can come to a certain definite limitation when
you are speaking audibly in the sense of the ordinary vocal expression, but
that certain possibilities are present from the standpoint of expression,
somewhat audible of course, in what we might call whispering. Now there are
times when whispering is not considered to be good manners, but the use of the
voice conveying sounds vibrationally in what might be conceived to be a whisper
is something that is important to our attunement with the powers of reality,
and it is important to our ability to convey.
You notice that I used these
patterns when I introduced to you the mystical significance and expression of
the two words commonly spoken as Jesus and Jehovah—the speaking on the breath,
in other words. Whispering of course suggests the idea, but it is speaking on
the breath on a basis which modifies the more harsh aspects of the word and
allows the peculiar qualities of the vowels to come into play. And you will
find this to be of great importance as we move along.
Now, there are seven different
vibratory levels. Just as we have the octave in relationship to music, and the
eighth being the repetition of the first in a higher or lower scale, so we have
the seven vibrational factors in this realm of being of which we are aware. The
seven colors of the rainbow gives another illustration. According to the level to which we relate
words, currents of feeling, etc., they will have different forms. Sometimes the
word itself will seem to have a very definite change, and other times not. In
any case there will be differences of pronunciation, differences of the feeling
current released through the words.
Now it would hardly be practical to
undertake at this time to introduce the vibratory factors of the Motherland tongue.
Perhaps sometime we can consider a little of that, but you have much growing to
do spiritually, vibrationally, before that could mean so very much to you. However, we can use intermediate steps, which
begin to convey the idea, begin to let you have an opportunity to experience
that which is possible to you.
I suppose some of you must have been
aware of the silver Cloud that was in form last night, that was taking form
during the service as we considered the mysteries of the Shekinah Fire. And if
you couldn't see it, I am sure that you all must have felt it. But surely some
could begin to see it, because it was visible for a portion of the time. You
are beginning, then, as we study these things, to share the experience of the
reality of them. And as we have noted the different pronunciations possible in
relationship to the name or term utilized to signify this Fire, the evidence of
the Presence of the One Who Dwells, you can see something of what I mean with
respect to the proper changes in the current of expression, depending upon the
levels of the expression—Shekinah,
Shekenah, or Shekanah, just to illustrate.
Now there are many variations
which tend to appear as we work in the current of the spirit, and you will find
that while we give reasonable consideration to dictionary patterns of
pronunciation and meaning, we cannot abide within the limits so set and allow
the limitless to have expression. We have to utilize the factors of a play on
words, and a play on the sounds of the words, some variations in the
expressions of pronunciation, and certainly some changes in consciousness with
respect to the meaning that is expressed by the sounds that are made with the
voice.
The Shekinah Fire—How long did I talk to you before I ever mentioned it? Someone
mentioned that I was talking to the group here about this particular point a
couple of years ago. I don't recall just how long it was, but that was the
statement made, "about two years ago." In other words it is not
something that I just suddenly thought up or discovered or heard about, or
something. I have known about this Fire all the way through. I use it all the
time, every day; and in actual fact, every time I come before you, in a class
or a service, I begin to work on the basis of developing that Cloud and letting
you be in it to whatever degree your response will permit—you will be in the
Cloud, the Cloud of Glory of the Shekinah.
You may not see it, but you can reach a point where you can see it and it is
wonderful. Sometimes it may become so dense, shall we say, so thick or full,
that it simply blocks out all vision of the people around you; you cannot see
the far corner of the room. I have many times known it to be so thick that I
could not even see my own hand that far from my eyes—the Cloud.
And the Cloud
you feel, you sense through feeling, to start with. Finally you begin to have
the ability to see it, and to hear it; for there is a sound in it. But don't go
trying now, because if you try to see it you will not; if you try to hear it
you will not. You have to let it appear. And remember well what I pointed out
to you last night, and that is that wherever there are vibrations of conflict,
resentment, any ill attitudes whatsoever, you keep yourself shut out of the Cloud of the Shekinah and contain yourself in the cloud of darkness.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
