Silence  in  Heaven

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Seven  Steps  In  The  Way

Uranda   September 14-16, 1932

John, the beloved, tells you how to open the seventh seal of spirituality. This you can do when the first six seals have been opened within you. "And when the seventh seal was opened, there was silence in heaven for the space of about half an hour." All of God's laws work both ways. So the wise will comprehend that silence for half an hour a day will bring about the opening of the seventh seal. 

Remember that to find the kingdom of God, or heaven, which is your Astral Body, the dwelling place of the Soul-God, you must turn within yourself, even as your Master instructed. "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly." 

Thus are you to find a quiet place where you may be undisturbed for half an hour a day—fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes in the evening. And there relax perfectly, consciously letting go of all muscular and nervous tension. Then shut your door; that is, close your eyes, for the eyes are the doorways to the secret places of your Soul. Then remember that "your Father knoweth what things you have need of, before you ask Him." Therefore in the silence seek not to talk to God but rather let God talk to you; for this is true prayer. 

Besides this, seek in all things to be moderate. Conserve your energies by directing them wisely. With every organ of the body under perfect control will come the ability to control all things. You are allowed to control forces outside of yourself only to the extent that you do control the forces within. Thus will the secret sin find you out; that is, it will keep you from enjoying the perfect happiness of the perfected expression. Thus do you bring into your life all that you experience, whether it be complete (good) or incomplete (evil) in its expression. Nothing is forced upon you. You receive only that for which you truly ask.

Seek then to ask perfectly and you will receive the perfect. Learn also to let the breath of God flow through you by breathing rhythmically and deeply at all times. 

Learn to select with care those atoms which you take into your bodies. The atoms which have reached the development of ripe fruit and leafy vegetables will be very easy to control when they have entered your body. The atoms of low vibration, such as are found in all processed foods and meats are very unruly and you will therefore find much difficulty in making them obey you. Choose, then, whether you will make your way easy or hard by the foods you eat. 

Remember now the words of James, for he recorded a great truth: "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven of the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Soul." Ponder this well, that you waver not; for he that wavereth now will be caught in the wave of destruction that is loose in the land.

This brings to a close the Seventh Step in the Way, and there are two Steps more that remain for you. 

Step Eight in the Way brings you to a true realization of yourself by the means of personal analysis, which will guide you in making personal application of these great truths and mysteries to your own needs, that you may be a true success. 

Step Nine in the Way carries you to the completion of the Way, for it reveals to you the means by which you can gain true spirituality by the Way herein revealed; for he who will may hear with his physical ears the words of God as they are uttered by those who dwell not in flesh. 

For these two final Steps in the Way seek out one who is spiritual, who has been taught in the supreme science the manner in which he may understand the inner needs of his brother, that he may teach them to you. Such a one is he through whom I have written these words. In all love and humility will he seek to serve you, because for this purpose came he into the world. By these words do I exhort you, and by these words do I guide, that you be not a partaker of the sufferings now creeping upon the worldly who scoff at my words and heed not these my instructions. 

With love I greet you as my beloved, for I am the Speaker of the words of life.

© Emissaries of Divine Light