Your Questions Answered #1

Your  Questions  Answered  #1

Uranda  1938

Uranda takes this method of answering certain of your important questions which are of vital import

to all the Earnest Ones who have chosen to Walk the Flaming Way

in Response to the Expression of Reality in the out-working Cosmic Plan.

Uranda’s Answer to a Question on Truth — Both by written and spoken word I have often expressed the Truth that no Truth contradicts another Truth, and if it were not so tragic, the conclusions to which many have jumped in this connection would be most amusing. The Truth about anything is the Essence, or the essential, Eternal Fact and Principle expressed in specific function, in and through that thing. Every Truth is harmonious to every other Truth, but Truth is not in harmony with many things which human beings think to be true. Human concepts of Truth are usually at variance with the Truth itself.

It is useless to try to harmonize the multitudes of human concepts with the Truth itself. When a person is willing to let go of all his pre-conceived concepts of Truth in a true Response to his Father within, he will find that the Truth remains as it is. Letting go of a concept of Truth is not a denial of that Truth. When the vision has cleared, it will be seen that whatever one had seen of Truth before is still to he seen; but because of the Expansion in Consciousness, that Truth is now seen in more nearly perfect perspective in relationship to all Truth. Until the Earnest One is willing to come as a little child, thereby being willing to let go of all his old concepts of Truth by closing his eyes to the old vision, it is not possible for him to allow his Eye to be Opened to the New Vision of Truth. The Changing of the Vision of Truth does not in any way change the Truth itself.

So very often, when a Responding One reaches a point where a New Vision is necessary, he struggles and tries to make his old vision conform with what he thinks the New Vision to be. The result is a meaningless tangle. Then it is that such an one is put to the test, for in such a case I ask that one to forget all that he thinks he knows of the Truth of Reality, that he may make a new approach and gain a New Vision. So very few are willing to do this. They insist on carrying their old ideas with them; saying that to let go of it all would be to deny the Truth that had already been seen. This is not true, but it is almost impossible to convince the struggling one that nothing will be lost by letting go. Whatever there is of Reality in the present vision will still be in the New Vision, though it will be seen in a very different Light; but it is not for the Responding one to try to determine what portion of that vision is the Truth, and what part is false. Let the Responding One let go, and the New Vision of Truth, and the New Understanding will appear in due season. Each must come as a “little child”, willing to let his Father’s Will be done. Let self-activity cease.

Question — I was taught that Heaven was a state of consciousness, in fact, that everything was a state of consciousness; so I supposed Heaven was a consciousness we attained to when we had reached a higher consciousness of Perfection.

Uranda’s Answer — This word “consciousness” has been used to attempt to cover up the appalling ignorance of some self-styled teachers. Any one who will look the word up in the dictionary will find that it relates primarily to an awareness of some thing or knowledge. If consciousness is a state of awareness of something, then there must be something about which one may be aware—and no one should confuse the thing itself with the awareness of the thing. You can be conscious of the sun without being in the sun. Heaven must be the Presence of the God-Being, individually and collectively, together with all the God-Created things which relate to God-Being. That would include this earth, and everything in it excepting the things which man has made. Those who are aware of Heaven as being here in this present instant of Eternity certainly would never confuse the consciousness of the fact of Heaven with Heaven itself. So it is, also, with every use of the word “consciousness” in relationship with Spiritual Truths.

Question — Is mind everything?

Uranda’s Answer — No. That which is called mind is the radiation of the thing itself. All substance has a radiation, just as the sun radiates light. That radiation, no matter from what substance, is the mind of the substance from which it radiates. Most vibrations of mind, insofar as the humanly perceived world is concerned, are in an unconscious state. In other words, in human beings the radiation, or mind reaches a vibration where it allows self-consciousness, or awareness of self, and consciousness of the presence of other people, and of many things. It is a very common error among students of widely accepted schools of thought to confuse mind and the form in and around which mind functions. Also, many confuse mind and consciousness—and many people confuse the brain and the mind. The brain is not the mind. The brain is made up of billions of tiny generators which have a direct part in the radiations from the human organism; and so the brain has a close relationship with the mind, but it most certainly should not be confused with the mind. Many would-be teachers are looking through such dark glasses that all they see is one big blur, and so they conclude that there is no detail in the picture—and they deride anyone who points out the lovely details which are required to make up the whole.

Question — In your paper you speak of the Union of the mind and body with the Higher-Self bringing forth—what? Is there still another phase we have to become aware of, or is it a creation of the Union?

Uranda’s Answer — That which is brought forth through the Union of the outer-self with the Inner-Self is the Release of Reality and Illumination in the Perfection of Being and Function in the state of Divine Man. The only other phase the Responding One must become aware of is the state of Divine Man in the Garden of Eden, or Heaven on earth, here and now for those who will let it be so, and for all the earth after the destruction of evil by evil.

Question — Insofar as human “knowledge,” which can be “learned” is concerned, is that which is taught at any one period generally applicable to all periods?

Uranda’s Answer — The answer is NO! Take an illustration within the span of one life time in the field of “modern Medicine,” as accepted by the world at large. A doctor who graduated thirty years ago, having “learned” all that was available at that time, has found that, while some certain fundamental principles have persisted, much that he learned has had to be unlearned to be replaced with new learning—in some instances a number of times.

However, there arises the point of those general principles of life which persist through all human expression, such as the need for Honesty, Courage, Faithfulness, Steadfastness, Friendliness, Ingenuity, and Love. Surely, if one learned such things in one life, the memory of that “learning” would be helpful in the next. But wait, there is another question: Does one “learn” these things? Are not these qualities which must be allowed to spring forth into manifestation from the Lord within? You may say, “But one has to learn how to let those qualities come forth.” Very well, but the value of such learning is in the actual experience, else there will be no result in the organism. You can read books telling of the value of these qualities, but that will not give them to you—neither will the memory of what you read cause you to be freed from such things as fear, as many can well testify. Many have struggled a whole lifetime with something like fear, and have never won, even though they read, and memorized, and repeated affirmations, and all the other things supposed to bring results. This is a point that has been completely missed by most teachers.

People who try to “learn” a quality must always fail. A quality has to be already present. The secret is to Release the Quality that is present. The learning of, or, I would rather say, the exploration of ways to Release Reality is the truly great thrill of Living. The Reality already Is. The human body and mind form the channel through which Reality may be Released into active Expression in this plane of Manifestation. That means that your particular body has to be tested and proven and harmonized and moulded until it allows the function for which it was created. That is much more than “memory,” is it not? It is evident that most people do not Respond to the Lord enough to begin to let the Transformation take place by which the Release of Reality would be made possible. The result is that most people suffer a great deal, and go through life struggling. Does that mean that they are learning anything of value by all of that suffering? No! If they were learning, their lives would be expanding instead of shrinking and crystalizing and disintegrating. That which “learned” in any past life is that which Ascended, to a degree at least. Lessons 11 and 12 of Steps To Mastership illustrate this point.

There is a general purpose in Life, and it would only be natural that all the life manifestations of any certain God-Being would be in the outworking of a certain vibration, or part, in the Cosmic Plan. Yet, I question, would it not be logical to suppose that each life manifestation is designed for a specific purpose at a specific time in a specific way? Certainly, and if this be true, I would ask: How could the memory of another person in a past time who was working for a very different specific purpose, be of any great value now? It is evident that such memory would not only be useless, it would be very harmful. If the God-Self knows all already, and the outer mind and body are to be obedient to the God-Self, letting the Father do the works, any idea held by the human mind, whether from supposed memory of a past life, or from memory of yesterday, in belief that it knows what it should do, and how, would cause self-activity and prevent the fulfillment of the Lord's purpose in that individual at that time.

All of this brings us to the Realization that the Responding One depends on his Father within, and not on memory, whether of the present or a past life.

Now, if this be fully Realized, it is well that we consider your question from another standpoint. What was left of the body through which your God-Self manifested in any past life was returned to the elements. That substance was scattered, and lifted into many forms. Some of it has already Ascended through Vegetation and Animal Life-Rays, and so that substance, because it refused to Ascend with your God-Self, has been received into the Inner Plane formations, but not into the state of the God-Being. Some has remained in the earth, and it is now scattered far and wide in scores of different forms. In all likelihood, not one single atom of any of your bodies in any past lives has ever been received into your present body manifestation. However, you have billions of atoms in your body, and each atom has had a distinctly separate history from every other atom in your body. Around each atom is an aura, and in that sura is a complete history of the experiences of that atom in all the forms in which it has had a part down through thousands of years. Each atom has a possible history which includes passage through scores of human bodies, through hundreds of animals, fish and birds; and through all sorts of forms in the vegetable kingdom. Here you have a “mental” vibration which “persists” from life formation to life formation.

Many people develop a “psychic”, or “mind reading”, vibration which allows them to begin to touch some of these billions of experiences which are focalized in their bodies. They touch the vibration of an atom that manifested in an Indian, and they immediately tell of how they were once in Indian life. Such an one, on another day, touches the vibration of an atom that was in an oriental body and at once he tells of being a Hindu, or something else. Out of these tiny points of fact relating to single atoms, great stories are woven which are supposed to apply to human beings—and the whole thing has to be classed as a figment of imagination.

You begin to see that there is a mental life that persists, as you suggest, but it is something that the Creator has very wisely shut completely out of consciousness, allowing the mind of the human being a perfect start toward Victory—but foolish human beings are not content, and they open up those vibrations which should have remained without power of expression until the day when they could be subjected to the Flaming Fire of the Christ Love which would burn away all the evil vibrations, leaving only that which was lovely and beautiful.

This is true of all people, and not just those who try to open their psychic centers. Attempts to open psychic centers are, to say the least, most foolish and without possible value. However, the average person is taught from childhood to respond to external things, and that vibration is dominant in the world consciousness. The result is that many of these ill vibrations of the atoms are let loose to play havoc in the life of the human being. Such things need not be; but they will be so long as man insists on eating of the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

No matter, after realizing that all these stories of different incarnations are based on the vibrations of an atom, and not upon the actual expression as such a person, it still is evident that even though a person could “remember” scores of past lives, he would not thereby be caused to be acquainted with his God-Self. He who first becomes acquainted with his God-Self, and is so received into Oneness with his Lord, can have outer consciousness of some of the life-manifestations of his God-Self, if and when such consciousness can be of value to the world—but such knowledge should never be sought after. Also, those who think that their Father reveals “who” others “have been” are only suffering from a delusion. Something of the Cosmic Identity of the true Teacher may be revealed to the Faithful Student, even as the Great Master asked his disciples, “Whom say men that I AM?” Let no one think to know the past lives of others; for out of such things come confusion and failure. Rejoice. One more point: Each atom has been in both male and female bodies—but the Feminine God-Self always incarnates as a woman, and the Masculine God-Self always incarnates as a man.

Question — Please tell me why I get a sense of separateness in thinking of the outer mind in conjunction with the Father within, or the God-Self. I know that the outer mind has to “Let go,”—but really they are all one; or are they two distinct phases? I suppose what gives me that sense is because I think I am that which is within. It came so clearly and vividly and remained with me all day. Then I lost it.

Uranda’s Answer — In the Perfect State of Divine Man as in the Motherland in the Beginning, and as will be in this New Age that has dawned, the manifestation of Mind in Man is really an extension of the Christ Mind of the Lord, or God-Self, within such Divine Man, and they are one. However, since the so-called “fall,” the manifestation of mind in man has fallen from its Conscious Connection with the Christ Mind which always Radiates from the Father within the individual, and so there are two distinct phases of mind in man at the present time. So long as the outer mind insists on being self-active, doing that which it thinks best according to human concepts, that separation cannot be changed into Oneness.

Just as soon as the outer mind begins to let go of its human desires and ideas and concepts, so that it begins to truly let go To the Father within in Love, that Responsive Love becomes the opening in the veil through which the Christ Mind of the Father may begin to manifest in the outer mind. The outer mind does not need to “try” to go in. “Behold, I stand at the Door and knock, and if any man hear My Voice, and Open the Door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me” (Rev. 3:20). Love Response to the Father within is the only door through which any person may let his God-Self come in to abide with him. The only way the Door may be opened in any person is through a steadfast, unwavering Love Response at all times. The proof of a Love Response is: “if ye Love Me, keep My commandments.” That does not mean just the commandments recorded in the Bible. It means the moment by moment commandments received from the Lord within—and in this does all self-activity cease, that it may truly be the Father within Who doeth the Works.

The human mind has been trained for so long to respond in love to things of the outer world according to human concepts that it takes a little time to re-train the mind, that it may be Lifted Up into Oneness with the Christ Mind of the Lord within. The sense of separateness comes when the attention is directed toward the outer mind, or the outer things of life in general, in an outer attitude. Rejoice in the Presence of your Lord within you, Responding to Him in Love; for this is the only Way.

Question — How can one keep his thoughts directed to the Lord within and still take care of the many duties that must receive the attention of the average human being?

Uranda’s Answer — To abide in a constant Love Response to the Lord within at all times is the great need of every Earnest One. Many become discouraged because they think that they have to think all the time of what they think Spiritual things to be. Here is a great Secret—all things are Spiritual when they are looked upon from the Inner Standpoint. The outer attention is to be directed toward the Lord within, that the Inner Attention may be directed by the God-Self through the Responding outer attention, and so to the doing of all things needful to the daily life of the Earnest One.

A person interested in Mechanics can, and should, use that interest to allow an Expanding Consciousness, and he should not try to fight against that interest. The points of your greatest interest offer you the greatest opportunity of true Release in Spiritual Understanding. It is necessary to look for the Cosmic Principle that is being used, no matter what application may have been made of it by man. Remember that man’s applications of Cosmic Principles are inspired by man’s concept of his own need, and not by direct Divine Inspiration as has been falsely taught by so many teachers of widely accepted philosophies. So it is that the inventions of man as widely used at the present time cannot rightly be looked upon as having directly Divine Origin. When this is Realized, the things which man has made no longer have a “sacred halo” around them in the eyes of those who view with understanding. This is the first great step in ceasing to worship false gods—the things that man has made. Most metaphysical and occult teachers have taught their followers to worship false gods; and to have an unholy reverence for the things which man has made all based on the idea that these things were special gifts from God to man, made possible under direct inspiration. When it is seen that this is not true, it is easy to look at all things, and to work with them, without reacting to them as if they were, in and of themselves, of great value.

In the new attitude, the things man has made are seen to be of value, true value, only to the degree that they help in filling man’s true needs—and they no longer carry false values based on man’s false concepts of his own needs. So it is that the primary interest of the Responding One is in detecting the Cosmic Principle that is involved in any specific man-made thing in which he may be interested, and then he considers that thing from the standpoint of its true values. If he finds it worthy of further attention and interest, he allows his expression in relation to that thing to be of a nature that helps to make it of more value in the filling of man's true needs. In most cases the Responding One will not be in position to do anything of a concrete nature in an outer sense toward changing such things—and though he does what he can in that direction, he uses all such things as object lessons, first for himself to himself in allowing everything he touches to permit an Expansion of Spiritual Consciousness; and then, secondly, to give expression to such object lessons to others when and as the way is opened to do so.

In the first instance, it must be remembered that every Individual Realization of Reality, in no matter what connection of life manifestation or function, is a true Release into the world consciousness to the degree that such Realization is in Harmony with Reality and is Released in a Love Radiance with an attitude of thankfulness toward the Lord within for Revealing that Truth. Therefore, all such activity has a Cosmic Value in helping to transform the world consciousness, even though the Responding One works in secret, unknown to the world. This same principle is true of every phase of life. With this Realization the Earnest One can see what we mean when we say that all things are spiritual when looked upon from an Inner Standpoint.

All things are not Spiritual when looked upon from the outer, or human, standpoint. He who responds to things, as the average human being does, is thereby worshipping those things. He who sees things for what they are, understanding the Cosmic Principle therein Released, and so uses things in a full Response to his own Lord within, is he who begins to experience true Release. So many people try to take their attention away from things of the outer world in an attempt to give full attention to Spiritual Realities, but remember this: A Vision of Spiritual Realities, no matter how perfect or beautiful, is utterly worthless, both to the individual who sees the Vision and to the world as a whole, until such Spiritual Realities are allowed Release in the outer world—thereby permitting Heaven to express in Earth; so that Heaven and Earth are ONE. There are hordes of self-righteous individuals who think that they think much of “spiritual things,” and who look with condescending pity on those whom they think to be asleep in the material world, who are in no sense better off than those they think to look down upon. Frankly, we are not interested in getting away from the world—we are interested in letting Heaven come forth in the world here and now. In this New Attitude is the Key to the Way.

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