Shapes and Forms of the Mirage World
from Magic and the Mirage World
Uranda June
2, 1953 Class
We have begun to recognize the
basic difference between white magic and black magic. There is another basic
difference, or we might say, a number of facets of difference. A jewel has many
facets but it is one jewel. So whatever aspects we may consider with respect to
the reality of divine magic, or white magic, we are considering one jewel with
many facets. But always there is a basic difference between these two types of
magic. One is that in divine magic there is always selflessness, and without
selflessness divine magic cannot appear in the individual life. With respect to
the workings of black magic you will find, even though it may sometimes be
camouflaged quite expertly, it is always projected on a basis of selfishness
and self-centeredness.
We recognize that all energy comes
from the divine source. All life, all of the forces, which under control and
directed in action become power, have their source in God. The power of black
magic comes from the misuse and abuse of the life forces granted to human
beings from the divine source. It is a process of stealing and
misappropriation, misuse and consequent abuse. When we realize that all of the
forces of the black magic realm, all of the energies of the mirage world, all
of the seeming powers of the realm of illusion, are stolen and they are
misappropriated, they have no true source of force, power and energy, we can
begin to realize that this contest can have only one outcome. It is utterly
impossible for man in his self-activity to win. Once we have a deep and abiding
realization of that central truth, the basis of fear is removed.
The reservoir of power, the
unlimited resources, are all on our side, in spite of the illusion in the
world, in spite of the fact that human beings seem to have the money and the
position and the setup from the standpoint of government programs or social
orders or what have you. We have all of the true resources back of us and all
of the material resources are seeking to escape from misuse and wrong control.
Note in the world of man how
quickly material wealth is lost, how unpredictably in the ordinary sense
position is lost, influence. The reason why human beings have such a hard time
hanging on to their material wealth is because material things are seeking to
return to the control of the divine design. Material things are not trying to
get away from us when we are functioning according to the divine design.
Material things are seeking to come to us as surely as a pet, like a dog, would
seek to come to its loved master or mistress. The things of this world are
seeking to get away from the wrong pattern of use and abuse. They are seeking
to come to us as long as we are working from the divine standpoint. So in
actual fact the stolen goods seek to return to the proper owner, proper use.
And all of the vibrational resources are back of us—not just some of them; all of them. Our adversary has to
depend on what he can steal from the divine source, because there is no
reservoir, no resource, except that which can be stolen. So once we begin to
actually realize this, to know it from the depth of our beings, the basis of
fear of the so-called power of black magic, or the world of the unreal, is
gone.
This brings to point the factors
with respect to selflessness and what is sometimes called faith, confidence,
the deep assurance with respect to the working of God and His powers and His
laws; and on the other hand, selfishness and that faith which is fear, for fear
is faith in the wrong thing. Let us examine these factors just a little.
Patterns of expression or form in
the outer sense, with respect to situation particularly, may vary tremendously;
but there is a very great limitation on those who work from the standpoint of
the unreal realm. They have only a few basic tricks, only a few basic patterns
that will work. They may manifest in a thousand different ways but there are
only a few basic methods and they all integrate, more or less—the attempt to
divide and conquer, confuse the issues, and in that confusion, attempt to
produce an appearance of superiority. We see the dictatorships of the world use
the same method, to produce confusion, to divide and conquer. And always in
this process there is the utilization of fear, and there is always a selfish
purpose, the seeking of some personal gain; not a genuine interest in the
welfare of the people involved.
You will recall that I emphasized
the point that the force of magic is possible only on the basis of deep
feeling, deep emotional influence. So we see here one of the very vital factors
with respect to the two types of magic. Divine magic uses the feeling pattern
of God's love. Black magic uses the feeling pattern of hate. The individual who
is subject to resentment can be made to feel that he is being imposed upon,
that after all he is a pretty good fellow; he really should not stop at
resentment; he should hate; he has got just cause for hate here. And so human
emotions of the baser nature, lower than the animal, are stirred up, stirred up
to a feeling pitch; and it is that feeling current which is utilized in the
processes of black magic, by reason of which the leaders can have a hold on the
people. Those who are subject to hate can be easily induced to have fear. So
whether it was Hitler's Gestapo or the Blackshirts of Mussolini's day, or the
secret police of Russia, they are instruments of fear and instruments of
torture.
Here we must examine for a moment
some of the basic psychological factors which appear in the distorted makeup of
human beings who have lost polarity in the divine source. We recognize that
there are people everywhere in the world who have a natural tendency to get a
great deal of satisfaction out of inflicting suffering on others. The only
pleasure which they have left in life is derived from causing other people to
suffer. But there is another side to this, because there are many people who
derive their only pleasure in life from suffering, and the two do their best to
get together: those who find pleasure in making others suffer and those who
like to suffer, looking for someone who will make them suffer. Often some
of the peculiar patterns in marriage that the ordinary person cannot possibly
understand come out of this basic fact.
People say, "Well why does
she live with the brute? Why doesn't she leave?" Well he naturally has to
have someone who will cringe, whom he can make suffer, and she would not be
happy unless she was suffering. Now sometimes it is turned around. Very often,
probably just as frequently, it will be the woman who has to make somebody
squirm in order to have any self-satisfaction, and there will be a man, a
so-called man, physiologically a male of the species, who is not happy unless
he has something to suffer about. He may talk about his wife, he may object
strenuously, to hear him talk—"Look how terribly she treats me"—he
will complain and fuss and fume and make all kinds of threats, and he loves it!
He would not give up that torture chamber for anything, not if it killed him.
Well now, when you are serving human beings you will run into many things that
you cannot understand unless you recognize these distortions in the human
makeup, human beings who like to suffer and who feel that when they are
suffering they have a purpose for living; they have a natural martyr complex.
This tendency in human beings is
utilized by all black magicians. We can see it perhaps more clearly in the
realm of gangsterism, whether it is a gang in Chicago or some other place, or
Russia; for the human being who has a natural suspicion of everyone else and
yet who is governed by greed, who is willing to make a "fast buck,"
as they say, wants to get something for nothing, is inside filled with shame.
By maneuvering a little—and here we have the basis of many of the con games
that are at work in this country—by maneuvering a little, putting on some kind
of an act, the man or the woman can be made to feel that he or she is guilty of
some particular crime or some particular thing that would discredit, etc. And
once someone gets something on someone else, the process of blackmail in one
form or another begins, and blackmail is not limited to the extraction of money
as such. It is used in producing a compulsion for personal services in various
ways, sharing in some kind of illegal activity, increasing fear and increasing
the pattern of suffering.
There is the old saying,
"There is a new fool born every minute." People like to be fooled. As
it is put in the vernacular of the, well, shady side, there is always a
gimmick, something, a little maneuvering proposition, by which you can fool
people, and people just love to be fooled and they are always looking for the
gimmick and take it on as a sort of a challenge—"I wonder what the gimmick
is?"—whatever it may be. As long as they can keep on being fooled,
searching for the gimmick, without really believing that there isn't any, they
can be quite happy. As long as they are convinced that there is a gimmick and
they just haven't found it yet, they don't mind being fooled.
But if you undertake to make a
straightforward approach to human beings on an honest basis, without any
gimmick, they will be so very sure there is one that they will distrust you;
they will be looking for the gimmick all the time, wherever you turn. The
people that come to you to get well, or anything else, they are always looking
for the gimmick. People just love gimmicks of various sorts; they love to be
fooled and they are so dishonest that they don't believe there is anyone on the
face of the earth who is honest. Therefore if you appear to be honest you are
dishonest, and if you would appear to be just a little dishonest, then they
trust you. This is the human creature we are dealing with. Oh yes, they are
peculiar things. All of these little quirks, tendencies, distortions, are the
prey of the black magician. They are the instruments of the black magician in
some way or other—fear, greed, selfishness, distrust, and so on.
Oh people will be honest; their
word is as good as their bond, you know. They will be honest up to a point, but
no one expects anybody else to be honest more than up to a point, and their
concern is to find out what that point is; then they can begin to do business.
People trade on weakness, in other words, and they are afraid of strength.
People trade on weakness, and if one does not show proper fear of some
particular outworking or threatened effort at blackmail of some sort—stop and
look at it, how many times have you acted on the basis of black magic? Maybe
you didn't think of it that way, but I am talking about being blackmailed into
doing something because somebody else was going to do something else; they were
going to say something, they just wouldn't be pleasant, unless you did. That is
blackmail.
The house was going to be grumpy
and an unpleasant place until you did thus and so. Well that is blackmail, pure
and simple. How many times in daily life are human beings subject to the
compulsion of blackmail. They are used to it. They are trained to it and they
don't understand, really, anything else. The good, honest citizens of our town,
or any city you want to go to, any state in the Union, they are so used to
being blackmailed into doing this and that, pressured into it: "It is good
business, you know, to let so-and-so have his way. Well I don't think I had
better buck so-and-so; I will just give in; I think it would be good
business." And so, back and forth, people are always looking for the level
on which others can be blackmailed, and once the keen operator, the good
businessman, finds out the levels on which he can establish pressure on his
fellow businessmen, salesmen, or something, so he can put on the pressure, he
is going to start going forward. Why? He has got blackmail, black magic in
other words.
I have outlined it this way so
that you could begin to see how people are trained practically from babyhood
either to exercise black magic or to be subject to it. The little one who
becomes a tyrant, all he has to do is yell long enough and loud enough and
Mommy and Daddy will give in, or this and that—blackmail, black magic.
Now of course that can be carried
to the other extreme, because sometimes human beings fail to consider the
feelings, the various factors that go into play in a certain circumstance. But
we have this distortion pattern, and it is a distortion pattern every way you
turn, as it is in the world. Whether you go to the Ladies' Aid Society and hear
the talk there, or function in relationship to it, an afternoon tea, whether in
the United States or Britain or anywhere else, up and down the line, the
innocent-looking affairs and those that are shady, there is blackmail pressure
being applied to force issues, to compel human beings this way and that,
everywhere you turn.
And the principles of black magic
are utilized in advertising—the principles of hypnotism, the principles of
black magic. So as long as we are in this world, and the world is as it is, we
are going to be surrounded with people who are playing a game, trying to get
something for nothing, trying to beat the racket, trying to get a break; in
other words gambling, taking the long odds and using the modified forms of
blackmail on a basis that is considered to be good business, legitimate,
ethical. Most people would be horrified if you called it blackmail. It is not
blackmail until you threaten someone's life if they don't fork over so much
money—threaten to expose some skeleton in the closet.
My first encounter with a black
magician as such, who deliberately set out to utilize the principles of black
magic to prey on other people, came back in the early thirties, when I was
first beginning to emerge into the sphere of my own ministry. He posed as
something of a psychologist, etc. He was quite a mixture really. But he had
quite a method of getting people under his spell—I won't go into it at the
moment—being very compelling and uncovering the skeletons in the closet, and
then taking that step into blackmail. I helped, finally, to set the stage that
caused him to get out of town real fast. It was something that he was working
quite effectively—a lecturer. His contact was free lectures, and then
classes, and so on, something that we might conceivably use in the outer
pattern. But there are a lot of those who are giving such lectures around the
country who, when it comes right down to it, have a gimmick and they are not,
some of them at least, averse to blackmail. Whatever this fellow's name was in
actual fact, he called himself Edheid at that time. In any case, he actually
got people, particularly women, to open their hearts to him, a supposed process
of psychiatry, and then when he found the skeletons in the closet, why he got
itchy palms.
Well we could go on and on, but
you will notice that all of these approaches, all of these patterns, have a
basic desire. We do not have to make an extended study of all of the criminal
activities and all of the shady, just-barely-inside-the-law patterns, and so
on, in order to see these basic patterns. We see it carried out in Red Russia
and extending out into the seemingly innocent sewing circles of the church,
Ladies' Aid groups, etc., up and down the line.
The basic thing is that until you
begin to realize these things you will say, "Well now, I will be alert; I
won't be caught in that kind of thing," and you will be looking for the
devil to stand out there with a fork and horns and a tail, and as long as the
devil doesn't come in that garb you are all right. Everywhere you turn, if the
devil doesn't show up just so, he is not there. He may appear as an angel of
light, so to speak, and can be very convincing.
Well now, you say, you had better
take another look at me, Uranda. Go ahead and do it. But you can't understand
these things in actual fact in relationship to others until you understand
yourself and have reached a point where you are not controlled by these things
that control human beings.
In this pattern of distortion in
the world, the mirage world, the realm of the unreal, the illusion, human
beings are not independent creatures; they are not living their own lives. They
are pushed this way and that; they are blackmailed into all kinds of
activities, when they never think of it as blackmail. Up and down the line,
those who are out to make others suffer and those who are, perhaps only
subconsciously, deliberately maneuvering themselves into positions where they
will suffer. If they couldn't suffer, if they didn't have something to complain
about, they would not be happy—if they didn't have their miseries. They just
can't imagine themselves without misery, without suffering, and they are going
to suffer one way or another; they will find someone who will make them suffer.
And some of the most fantastic outworkings, in married couples for instance,
both ways; friendships so called, acquaintances, experiences in life: human
beings reaching a point—they go along on a comparatively rational basis for a
while—they reach a point where if someone doesn't come along and hurt them in
one way or another they will start maneuvering, with all the deliberate cunning
of the devil himself, until they can produce a situation in which someone will
hurt them; they have got to get hurt and they find someone who will do it.
Usually they don't have to look too far.
But the fact that human beings
have lost a consciousness, a personal consciousness, of the meaning of life and
the purpose of life until it has become so colored that in actual fact they are
seeking either to hurt or to get hurt—bring it down to that—either to hurt or
to get hurt, either to torture or to get tortured, once you see that, you will
have a basis of understanding many things that look utterly unreasonable. Well,
they are, but you can understand that.
These are the shapes and forms of
the mirage world. These things are the paraphernalia of black magic. And until
we can help people to find a new vision in life, a new purpose in life, so that
they are not either trying to get hurt or trying to hurt, we cannot really help
them. Why do so many churches emphasize the point of hell, a burning hell? Do
you think people really want to get to heaven? That is just the sheep's
clothing on the wolf underneath. They don't want to go to heaven; they want to
go to hell, and want to be sure it is a burning hell, where they can really
suffer. That's right! People talk about, oh they don't want to go to hell; they
want to go to heaven. But examine the patterns of religion and you will find
that the real appeal is the prospect of going to hell. Think of all the
interesting people down there! Think of all the things they can do and the
devil will not mind! A wonderful place that, and they can suffer just
beautifully. And they want to be sure it is forever. Class dismissed.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
from
The Powerless Conspiracy
Martin Exeter February 2, 1986
Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, with all thy mind, with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength.
This is the first and great commandment.
It was given a very long time ago,
as a direction to human beings, but who indeed has kept it? It might almost
seem that there is a conspiracy afoot to make sure that this commandment is not
kept. Most people have a feeling that somehow or other there is a conspiracy on
earth by which they are being victimized. They have never been able, quite, to
determine who exactly the conspirators are. There have been some likely
candidates: the bankers, for instance, or those who direct the multinational
corporations, the Jews possibly, the Masons. From time to time there are
endeavors to pin this down, but they have never really succeeded, possibly
because the conspiracy is much more widespread, including all the rest of us as
co-conspirators.
I summarized the definition that
is provided in the dictionary, as to what conspiracy is, with these words: a secret plan or scheme to achieve an
illegal, treacherous or evil act. Human nature motivation is based in a
conspiracy, and who amongst the children of men is not subject to human nature
motivation? The conspiracy, of course, has been to seize power in the earth
from whatever God there may be, to utilize what is seized to the advantage and
benefit of human beings and their variety of ends. Who amongst those of us
present here this morning have not attempted to use the earth in this fashion,
participating in the ongoing conspiracy?
In effect, while it might not be
put this way by many people who have little awareness of the reality of divine
being, the idea is that God should stay in His heaven, wherever that is, and
leave the earth for human exploitation. This is fundamentally what has
happened. It may be that there are some who are more proficient and expert at
exploiting the earth, but I challenge you to find anyone, oneself included, who
has not been in that business.
Having a certain amount of mental
capacity, one may be able to excuse and justify whatever it is one is doing in
the earth, having excluded the heaven. Again the attitude might be, "What
is the heaven? Who cares? We have the earth here; let's get busy! Let's make it
the way we think it should be." So there indeed has been a human
conspiracy, and these days it certainly has reached a point where all those who
compose the human race participate in this conspiracy. It is hoped by everybody
that some advantage will accrue.
Surveying the worldly scene, we
see this maneuvering of the conspirators present everywhere. Some may deem that
they have gained an advantage of some sort; others are hopeful, not yet having
succeeded, that they will one fine day. Maybe there is a good deal of hopeful
expectation that the grand prize of the lottery will come one's way. Then there
will be, supposedly, sufficient money to do what one really wants to do, to
succeed in gaining power over the earth. This is the reason why people want
money, isn't it?—so that they will have power to do what they want to do, to
buy what they want to buy, to manipulate other people in the process, but to
seize power in the earth. The human population is interested in seizing power—all
of them, not just the bankers!
I suspect if you were acquainted
with the high echelons of those who control and manipulate things on earth you
would find that they are very much like you are. There has been some sort of
expectation that these sort of people might perhaps conceal horns under their
hats. Because being part of this conspiracy is the normal human condition,
other people look more or less familiar when one gets to see them, regardless of
their national or political affiliations.
This certainly is a conspiracy,
set in motion by human beings everywhere, to seize power in the earth—indicating
in effect that "God can do whatever He wants in heaven, if there is such a
place, but we are going to do what we want on earth." This attitude is
excused and justified in a variety of ways. Because this sort of behavior has
been known to human beings for so long, thousands of years, there has been
built up a strong motivation along these lines which influences everybody who
is born into the world. To be a conspirator in this sense is considered to be
normal. "As individuals we'll all endeavor to seize power"—usually
thought of in terms of money—"and all together in our various groupings
we'll promote what we deem to be the way to go in the exercise of such power as
we may have seized." This is the human nature state, isn't it?
There is this continuing influence
present, to which everybody who is born into the world is subjected; and
because for so long there has seemed to be little alternative—whether that is
the real reason or not is another question—everybody has fallen for it. There
has consequently been a rulership or government on earth of a secret nature, a
hidden nature, and most people feel this. There is a feeling that there is some
deep, dark plot somewhere to take us all over somehow and bring us into a state
of slavery. All this, as though it hadn't already happened, because of this
fact of the attitude present in people everywhere to do everything possible to
seize power.
Some may translate that in terms
of survival: "Well I just want to survive." But in order to survive
you have to seize some sort of power to do it. Everybody is in the same boat,
from the richest to the poorest, because the attitude is the same for all. This
is why the more lofty conspirators are able to control the more subservient
conspirators so easily. They know what the motivation is, and it's the same for
everybody. We have noted that it comes through the subconscious mind because it
has been in effect for so long and we have a heredity of this nature.
In excluding heaven from the
earth, in order that we might have power in the earth, we have created an
entity separate from God. We only need the word "God" because we have
created this separate entity. This separate entity is known as human identity,
whether of the individual or of the whole human race. This entity has been
given various names to identify it, seeing that it was humanly created: the
dragon, that old serpent, the devil, and satan; but insofar as human beings are
concerned it's a very real identity. After all, it governs their lives! It
establishes the nature of their motivations, springing out of the subconscious,
out of all that has been brought down from the past. It is a control out of the
earth, certainly not out of the heaven, all based in the attempt, on the part
of human minds and hearts, to seize power on earth. Back along the way human
minds and hearts have thought that they really had it made. It never quite
proved out that way. Of course not, because they didn't have it made. It is an
attempt to do the impossible!
However, in this separated state
there is a peculiar condition of stupidity which has prevented most people from
comprehending what it was that was going on. So satan has been going to and fro
in the earthly human consciousness, up and down in it, providing the motivation
for human behavior; and human behavior has reflected this. Satan is a very real
creation insofar as human beings are concerned, with God sometimes looked upon
as the other part of the act: the Creator. Nobody could quite understand how He
could create satan, or why. Of course, He didn't. That's a human creation,
based in the endeavor to seize power in the earth, which has proliferated over
the ages into what we now know as human nature, as the human state, as the
condition of the earth now.
This reminds us then, properly, of
that first great commandment to human minds and hearts: "Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all," seeing that a division has been made here
between God and the devil and it is deemed that there is some dingdong battle
going on between these two entities, both humanly created. There is the reality
which we may refer to as God, but that reality is not the god which human
beings have created, any more than the devil should exist either. Both are
human creations, and very convenient it is to have it this way, because the
control of human behavior continues on the basis of this division, the division
which ultimately tells people what is supposed to be good and what is supposed
to be bad. But of course that is a relative proposition anyway, depending upon
where you are, who you are, etc., in the earthly sense.
The true state doesn't require either
god or the devil, as they have been humanly created. There is just the way
things are. There is just the reality of being. One may call the reality of
being "God," but if this reality of being is confused with the human
invention, then there is further division, as is clearly evident in the
religions of the world for instance. "Let's all get together and agree
that our god is the god." Unfortunately at the same time human behavior is
being governed by the devil, and this produces a division, of course, between
the various gods of religion. The gods of religion are powerless to provide any
answer, simply because they are a human creation. But there is a reality of
being which has always maintained the way things are.
Anyone may accept the way things
are if they so choose, or they could get into this conspiracy and into the
battle which then ensues, with no expectation whatsoever of what would be
deemed to be victory. I'm not sure what that is supposed to entail: a fantasy—"We'll
all live happily ever after"—just a fairy tale. But there is no necessity
to be governed by satan, even though satan does walk to and fro in the earth of
human consciousness, up and down in it. And human beings follow this way and
then that way, and up and down, simply because their behavior is controlled
this way. Do you have your ups and downs? You may know immediately why. Do you
think there are decisions to be made this way or that way? You may know why you
may think that, but there are no decisions to be made. Things are the way they
are! This is all a fantastic human invention.
There certainly is, insofar as
mankind is concerned, satan and his minions, his powers, at work in determining
human behavior, in establishing human relationships amongst other things. There
are all kinds of details in the scheme of things which has been produced by the
conspirators in their endeavor to seize power. The government of satan works
through human minds and emotions, controlling human behavior. The humanly
created entity which works in this fashion is very real to human beings. You
may have noted that. You may say, of something that you did or said, "Oh I
didn't mean to say that, or do it." Well why did you say it or do it if
you didn't mean to? There must have been some motivation that caused you to
assume the attitude which was portrayed by what you did. Of course this has
been the ploy of satan, incidentally, in religion, to emphasize the point that
there is this shady character in the background there, trying to make you do
bad things. But there is also a bright character in the background there,
endeavoring to make you do good things. And you have these imps on your shoulders,
whispering this way and that way in your ears, controlling you sometimes to do
bad things and sometimes to do good things. But it doesn't really matter which;
here is satan.
Satan is often in the habit of
clothing himself in robes of light; he looks pretty good. But anyone who is
controlled by this government, this earthly government, without regard to
heaven, is in a very disintegrative condition. It's not that there is not satan
present; he surely is. We have defined that as human nature; and this
influence, control, of human behavior has been absolute heretofore. Now we are
just beginning to awaken to the fact that it really needn't be, that there is
another way in actual fact. But we cannot discover what that other way is in
any real sense without relinquishing the behavior engendered by satan, whether
we imagine that that behavior is good or bad.
So much of that behavior we love.
But it's all perverted! Humanly speaking, in mind and heart, there is the need
to come up with a statement: "I am a pervert! It doesn't matter what I do;
it is perverted." There is a reason for admitting this rather than
justifying it, which most people do. They have their justifications for their
behavior. They justify it because it's what they want to do anyway. So in order
to assuage the guilt a little bit they have to find reasons, excuses,
justifications, for behaving the way they do. And the devil was always credited
with the fact that he could use scripture pretty well to convince his victims
that they were quite justified in doing what they did.
We have that portrayal,
allegorical portrayal, of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. The devil
there gave Him every opportunity to justify Himself in doing what He shouldn't
do, in other words behaving according to the behest of the devil. Satan always
seeks human allegiance and most people just go along with it; and if they get
to thinking a bit, which occasionally someone does, then of course one must
produce some justifications for one's behavior.
But one must reach a point where
one honestly admits that one is a pervert, and that one cannot do anything
which isn't perverted as long as one's allegiance is to satan, as long as the
government is of this earthly nature, which is rather easily discerned, because
it always permits the individual to do what he wants to do. That's how the
devil has people by the short hairs, so to speak, because under his influence
and consequent human behavior everybody is interested in doing what they want
to do, satisfying themselves. What else would anyone want to do? The key really
is in that first commandment: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all." None of this human behavior do I love at all. ALL love should center
in the Supreme One in heaven. No other love, no other love before this One.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God...and him only shalt thou serve." There is no escape—and we are not,
when we come to experience the reality, interested in escape—but there is no
escape from the clutches of satan until that heavenly love is absolute, so that
there is no love left for earthly human behavior, which is summarized by the
words "I want." When you say "I want," it is indication of
the fact that you don't think you have—which is the truth of the matter. What
it is that you don't have is love for the Supreme One.
I rejoice that as we have moved
along the way there are those who are beginning to emerge into the place of
stillness, where there may be the experience of this one love that is needful.
This one love is essential. Most people try to get around that by saying,
"Well we have got to love our neighbor; we have got to love other people.
I pick this one." But the first commandment comes first, simply because
when that commandment is fulfilled there is no separate God; there is the state
of oneness, which is the state of love. But as long as love is being dissipated
by perverting it into human channels, the rule of satan is supreme on earth, as
it has been for thousands of years.
However, now there is the
opportunity, seeing we are moving toward the point of critical climax, for a
change to occur. There is no survival without it, and if one doesn't survive
one can't have what one wants! Trying to have what one wants ensures that one
will not survive. But to love the Supreme One—what does that mean? There have
been those who have earnestly tried to love the god of religion, and that may
be a step toward the experience of love, but in and of itself it isn't.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God." That is the direction in which it
is supremely natural to move, out of the earth into heaven. That's where
mentally and emotionally we belong. And being in heaven, the perverted
condition of human behavior becomes starkly visible. It's awful. It's filthy! And
the endeavor by human beings to justify it is sleazy.
But who is there who will love the
Supreme One, with all, in fact, not just in theory? "Well that's nice; we
love God. But of course we have these other things on the side." Satan is
still governing. But once there begins to be this absoluteness, the dragon is
cast into the earth. He is still there around, influencing, governing human
behavior everywhere, but at last there is a window opened in heaven through
which the truth shines. And the expectation is not that it should shine to
one's own advantage. It should not bring fulfilment of one's own human desires
and wants; it's not for that purpose at all, because there shouldn't be any
human desires and wants in the picture at all. Yet this filthy state has been
maintained and excused and justified by utilizing the principles expounded in
the Third Sacred School: "That must make our behavior right." Not
when satan is still dictating the behavior. It cannot be justified. Admit it,
that it is perverse. Repent! "It sickens me! and my love belongs to the
Supreme One in heaven." Then the Supreme One is on earth as well; there is
no division. I am the way, the truth and the life.
In the record of what Jesus said, He
never denied His own reality. He didn't seek any excuses as to why He shouldn't
reveal that reality. Here is an indication of the truth. Let us accept it, so
that the weights of this perversity are relinquished. We don't try to justify
them anymore. We move along through our experiences, we can't get away from our
experiences, but we have in a sense a detached view of what it is that is
occurring. We may say we do not know what will appear in the earth when our
hearts and minds center in love for the Supreme One in heaven, but we know very
well that it won't be at all what now appears in the earth consequent upon
human behavior.
So all the weights can be
relinquished. "Oh, but I would be naked then! I'm so accustomed to these
weights; I have been clothed with them for so long. I have behaved this way for
so long." Really? Well it's about time, surely, that satan should be given
the gate. The only way that can happen is because one's love is for the Supreme
One in heaven. Some are beginning to discover, in that stillness within
themselves, what that love is. It isn't anything that they could think up. It's
something of experience that emerges, unknown heretofore. If all that emerges
in your experience is what you knew heretofore, you certainly are not moving to
comprehend the hereafter.
So we share this wonder of love in
heaven by which all the perversions, the weights of the earth, are
relinquished. And we can no longer be governed by the arguments, the
justifications, the excuses, of satan. There will always be plenty of those to
justify the maintenance of the satanic state. Now something marvelous is to
happen in the earth, but not until there are those who are in heaven. We can
look around the earth and try to manipulate it this way or that way: we can do
it through raping the earth or we can do it through trying to restore it. But
who's trying? Satan. Do you think he's going to
succeed? Is that the real objective, do you think? No.
Let us
accept the opportunity that is provided to love the Supreme One in heaven with
all. That is ALL that is necessary. "Well, what about this, what about
that, what about the other thing?" A-ha-ha! Satan, always looking for
justifications: "Well you have got to take this into account, you have got
to take that into account." NOTHING to be taken into account! Just love the
Supreme One in heaven, and that's it.
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