The Identity of Your God Being is Beside the Point
from Evil and Destruction Spring from Self-Centeredness
Uranda November 19, 1950
I have pointed out that all forms of evil and destruction spring from self-centeredness. In the Spirit of the Living Christ we find that which moves toward unification, the establishment of harmony and coordination, something that is selfless. Now, it is the nature of God to give, and if the true expression of service is selfless, the spirit of self-aggrandizement is eliminated, cleansed away, and each one shares a joy in the fulfilment that comes to others.
That givingness which allows a true spirit of satisfaction in seeing the progress of
others, and in knowing that the spirit and attitude of one's own expression has
lent something to that manifestation of progress, establishes that frame of
mind, that nature of the heart, which allows the manifestation of greatness of
service within oneself. The Master said, “He that would be greatest among you,
let him be the servant of all.” The more we help others, the more our attitude
consistently encourages and builds, the more we share in that fundamental
nature of God on earth. If each one is trying to get some certain thing, trying
to achieve some certain thing, to obtain recognition, to establish a state of
consciousness in others wherein one may be somewhat magnified, there is a
fundamental condition within the individual which prevents any true expression
of the Spirit of the Living Christ.
We
cannot look upon any certain individual anywhere at any time and say, “There is
the individual who will fill such and such a place,” because to arbitrarily put
someone somewhere in the sense of expecting that individual to arbitrarily fill
that position would be attempting to build according to the concepts of man,
the development of human organizations. In this we are building according to
the patterns of the Cosmic Plan and the way is the Way of God. That which finds
consistent manifestation through the individual determines what placement, if
any, there shall be, but we cannot at any time just appoint someone to a place.
I did not arbitrarily, from some outer standpoint, appoint Martin Cecil to any
place. He is in his place because he allowed a consistent expression of Reality
to appear in manifestation on earth which allowed focus in that place where he
is.
What
your God Being is inside, or ever was, is absolutely and utterly beside the
point. The only thing that counts, that has any weight, meaning or value in any
way, shape or form on earth is what manifests through you now. Nothing else
counts. That is all that we can count on; that is all that has any meaning in
relationship to the thing that is developing here. What form of manifestation
your God Being may have had at some past time means nothing, absolutely
nothing. What the identity of your God Being is, is absolutely beside the
point, something you do not need to know and it would not matter the snap of
your finger if you did know. The only thing that has any value at all is what
is there out here on earth in form?—consistent expression that can be depended
upon? That is all. Everything else is nothing as far as we are concerned out
here. The inner God Being—oh yes, that is all right in the inner realms, but
the inner realms have no meaning out here except as we let them, and the
unreality that manifests through the individual is nothing. So, what is there?
Only that which consistently manifests from the One Source, that comes into
outer form and can be used here on earth—only that.
There
have been so many foolish, ridiculous ideas come into manifestation within the
range of our own Service about the value or importance of an individual because
he or she supposed that his or her God Being was such and such. I do not give a
snap of my finger what the identity of your God Being is, or what
manifestations that God Being had in the past. It has no weight, meaning or
value whatsoever in relationship to that which we are doing. The only thing
that has any value is what you let come into manifestation in consistent outer
form. That which so comes forth is that which can be used in the development of
the Cosmic Plan. That which so comes forth is that which determines what place,
if any, you shall have in the pattern as it now manifests, and the place that
you may have does not necessarily guarantee or say that it is the place you
will always have, because others will come into the pattern, and if you are
growing there will be an increase and there will be perhaps some other place
that is best for you then and at that time. Any time the human mind tries to
get these things fixed on some arbitrary basis, to know exactly what and where,
growth stops.
“He
who would be great among you, let him be the servant of all.” The attitude
involved in such service conditions one to the Patterns of God and opens one,
so that the Currents of God can come forth—and from whence does any greatness
spring? It springs from God and not from the human self. The human mind, the
human form, the human talents and abilities, in and of themselves are nothing.
They have a potential in relationship to the things of God, and that is all.
That which we allow to come forth from God is that which gives us value.
How
does an individual become a specific focalization in some sphere of our Body?
How does one become a leader? By consistently letting something of God come
forth, so that the individual can be depended upon to always be thus and so, at
least with respect to some sphere, be it ever so small. There is something that
can be depended upon, something that is always there.
If the individual, with his human mind, tries to determine that: “I have such
and such talents and abilities; I ought to be recognized because of those
talents; I ought to be allowed certain freedoms,” or “I ought to have this or
that. I have lived a certain number of years and done a certain number of
things, etc, etc,” that does not have any meaning, at least not until it is
coupled with something else. The talents an individual has are important, but
when the outer mind tries to determine what they are and how they should be
used and developed, nothing worthwhile results. In a true process of evolving
from the state of the fallen world to the state of the Restoration, nothing, at
any point along the way, can become fixed in relationship to the outer
manifestation of form until it has reached a point where it conforms absolutely
with the Inner Pattern.
There
is a state of change. The one thing that is fixed, properly, is our Love
Response to God, so that in the fulfilling of the Law the various phases of
Truth may be revealed by the cycles of our daily lives. Every day is different.
Every pattern of manifestation is different. Things change, and we praise God
that they do—either change and movement toward elimination for that which does
not Respond, or change and movement toward a higher assimilation for that which
does Respond. This process of letting go is something that must be in operation
all the time. There are human tendencies to try to pre-determine the nature and
extent of one's own value and to try to impose that upon others. It will not
work that way.
Why
have I had the degree of value that I have had to you? Because I set up certain
fixed forms and arbitrary attitudes and said, “Well, now, under such and such a
condition you will come to me, or I will see you?” No, because, regardless of
anything, there was something there within the scope of my expression which
could serve you, could help you move along the Way and accomplish that for
which you are here. It was because there was, and is, an expression of service
that is not confined to some narrow sphere but that is able to extend into
every situation, into every aspect of our function. That is not a claim on my
part. It is something that has been demonstrated, and that you know. That
example should inspire you—to what? Go and do likewise? How would you go and do
likewise? By trying to imitate me? No. There is not room at my point for both
of us. One or the other would get pushed out. I do not want to try to fill your
point, and I do not think you want to try to fill mine. I have suggested a few
times that if any of you wanted to try it I might take a vacation, providing,
of course, that you could prove you could do the job. What is “doing likewise?”
What is it for you? It begins with doing all the things that are at hand.
Living
in this present moment, as we have emphasized, letting the Current of the
Spirit manifest now, not holding back, not running ahead of the Lord, we begin
to find certain qualities of the Spirit expressing through ourselves in
relationship to all circumstances, and if we keep oriented, open, fulfilling
the Law, that Current increases day by day because we are opened more fully,
cleansed more fully, allowing the things of God to have greater meaning. Sooner
or later there is a consistent manifestation of something that is of God
appearing through the individual. The moment that becomes absolute, consistent
and dependable it becomes a point in the Creative Field. It cannot be
considered as a point in the Creative Field until it has reached that state of
consistency in the manifestation of the things of God; but once it is there,
whatever it is that is of God manifesting through the individual, so that it
stands—no matter who comes or goes, what is said or done by anyone, it is
there—then that becomes a focalization in the Creative Field with respect to
the Unit or the One Christ Body. The full use of that focus may not immediately
appear in the eyes of the individual involved. There may be a lot of waiting,
doing meanwhile, but waiting for the greater fulfilment, while points manifest
here, there and everywhere, while the cycles work out, because all of these fulfillments depend upon the degree of response to Reality made manifest in
those involved.
I have pointed out that all forms of evil and destruction spring from self-centeredness. In the Spirit of the Living Christ we find that which moves toward unification, the establishment of harmony and coordination, something that is selfless. Now, it is the nature of God to give, and if the true expression of service is selfless, the spirit of self-aggrandizement is eliminated, cleansed away, and each one shares a joy in the fulfilment that comes to others.
That givingness which allows a true spirit of satisfaction in seeing the progress of
others, and in knowing that the spirit and attitude of one's own expression has
lent something to that manifestation of progress, establishes that frame of
mind, that nature of the heart, which allows the manifestation of greatness of
service within oneself. The Master said, “He that would be greatest among you,
let him be the servant of all.” The more we help others, the more our attitude
consistently encourages and builds, the more we share in that fundamental
nature of God on earth. If each one is trying to get some certain thing, trying
to achieve some certain thing, to obtain recognition, to establish a state of
consciousness in others wherein one may be somewhat magnified, there is a
fundamental condition within the individual which prevents any true expression
of the Spirit of the Living Christ.