Members Of The Unit Never Think Of Unit Failure
from Cosmic Fulfillment
Uranda June
7, 1947
The Power of God cleanses and purifies.
If the individual is responding to God, the impurities are cleansed from the individual,
but if the individual is responding to the impurities, so that he identifies himself with the impurities,
then the individual himself is purged and removed out of his place.
I have touched upon the point in various ways many
times, but we are just reaching a point in the Nucleus focalizations of
consciousness where there can be a beginning in the sense of attaining a deeper
comprehension or understanding of the central key point of our whole Ministry.
I have pointed out many times that all things work
on the basis of pulsation. We have considered recently, at various times, a
twenty-two year Cycle in relationship to our immediate necessities of Service. The expanding pulsation, which was made manifest in
its most dynamic form in 1936, just these past few months reached its highest
completion point in the contracting expression of the Cycle, and that
compressed point of contraction formed the end of one Cycle and the beginning
of another—or that which makes possible the launching of the New Cycle which we
have spoken about so often.
Under the pressures of that contraction, or the
completion of the Cycle, the Unit has been purged. We have recognized purgings
in each individual member of the Unit—and those who are members of the Unit
would be first to acknowledge the efficacy of those purgings—but the Unit
itself has been purged also, and it is essential that we always remember that
this Ministry is a Ministry for the Unit.
Our Ministry is never dictated by individual needs.
Individual needs may be utilized in relationship to individual function, and we
are concerned with individual function, but that which may seemingly be the
need or desire of individuals, as such, never determines the course of our
Ministry. That is something which, in the past, has been more or less confusing
to some individuals. They have imagined that, because of some peculiar circumstance
in relationship to themselves, the course of our Ministry should be controlled
or determined on the basis of those individual needs or desires. Whenever the
individual fulfilments could be worked out on a basis that was beneficial to the
Unit they have been recognized, but when they came to a point where there was a
clash, or where the course of Ministry, following out the individual desire,
would have been caused to deviate from the course of the Unit function, the
individual desire has invariably been ignored. Always the Unit function
transcends the individual function. Always the Unit function is more important
than the individual function, but the Unit function is made up of individuals
who function.
When individuals fail to carry through effectively—in
other words, when they are purged from the Unit—that leaves a blank spot for a
time which leaves it short of the wholeness of the ideal function, so that,
instead of adding to the effectiveness, such function detracts from the
effectiveness, and those who remain are forced to carry the added burden. They
are forced to carry the burden that is rightly their own and also to carry the
burden that rightly belonged to those that failed. But we remember always that
regardless of who fails, the Power of God is greater than the power of man. The
Power of God is sufficient for our needs. In other words, while the loss of a
member of the Unit is a loss that is felt, is a loss of which we must take
cognizance, and is a loss which brings an added responsibility to every
remaining member. It must never be construed as being a loss that is beyond
repair. It must never be thought of as a loss that might precipitate failure.
According to precedents set in the past we might
say that consideration of such a possibility as failure of the Unit should be
considered, but that I have steadfastly refused to
acknowledge or accept. While failure of individuals is something we have had to
deal with time after time, meet and overcome, there is, from our standpoint,
simply no such thing as thought or consideration or supposition of failure for
the Unit, and anyone who starts being concerned about Unit failure invariably,
without exception, reveals himself to be a focalization of member failure.
Those who are functioning as true members of the Unit never think of Unit
failure. They never think or speak or act as if Unit failure were even a remote
possibility. At times I have touched upon it merely to satisfy the questionings
of human minds but not because I, myself, ever seriously considered it.
All of this is important to a specific focalization
of consciousness that I am seeking to draw out. When, in the Unit, every member
of the Unit recognizes that as far as the Unit is concerned the thought or idea
or concept or feeling of failure is simply nonexistent, in other words that
there is no such thing, the whole consciousness of the Unit is established in a
Vision of Victory. If we did not have the Master's Victory as a precedent, that
would appear to the human mind as asking too much, but from the standpoint of
that which the Master did, and portrayed, and made evident and available to us,
it is not asking too much. In fact, we recognize that it is absolutely
essential that we ask it. It is required. Sooner or later, in order to become a
true member of the Unit, that Vision and Assurance must become an integral part
of the consciousness of the individual member. Then, in that case, the
individual is no longer a channel through which Life Currents are directed into
destructive activities.
I have been criticized many times by individuals
who thought they were in position to judge because, according to their idea, I had
not, either with respect to the Group or my individual function, achieved the results
that they thought should have been achieved. Their criticisms, their ideas and attitudes
simply revealed their own ignorance and showed that they did not understand the
working of the Law. When the members of the Unit have remnants of failure
consciousness within themselves, a portion of the Power that is released
through them, the Current of Divine Love, is channeled into avenues that bring
forth destructive results. Invariably those who have turned away and purged
themselves from our Unit function have, on one basis or another, become
fearful. That is without exception. They have become fearful of something or
other in relationship to our function. The smaller fears that they had harbored
within themselves over a period of time had not seemed to be very destructive, but
when the focalization of consciousness became centered around doubtings those fears
ballooned out, expanded rapidly, and produced almost immediate severance from that
which is Divinely ordained in function and service on earth.
Examining these failures, we see the operation of
the Law in reverse, that is, in relationship to that which violates the Law and
therefore brings destructive results. Conversely, when the conditions are right
and the Power of Creative Current is working according to the Law, it produces
the effect of drawing the members into a thoroughly unified Nucleus through
which the Current may operate in producing constructive results, that is,
constructive results for those who are truly responding to Reality.
There is no means under the sun by which we may
bring constructive results to those who are responding to unreality. Some have
thought that I should be able to produce constructive results for anyone regardless,
but that is not true. In any case, we can produce constructive results only for
those who respond properly and who maintain proper response. If it had been
possible to release high tension Currents of Power through the individuals of
the Group who formed the material out of which the Nucleus of the Unit was
drawn, most, if not all, of those individuals would have been destroyed by the
Current and we would have been defeated in our work of establishing a Nucleus
for correct Divine function on earth.
Impatience in relationship to fulfilment is one of
the greatest snares and invariably breeds self-activity in several forms, notably
in judging on a basis of a critical attitude. Impatience engenders doubt, impatience
engenders fear, and increased fear engenders impatience. So it becomes a
vicious cycle that destroys. When these things are seen we begin to have a
clear focalization of Unit consciousness in relationship to this expression which
I would quote from the letter of June 3rd, 1937, written to me by Dr. John
Oshanek:
"When we view these points of Realization from
the Mountain Top it all begins to have meaning. If we take each Emissary
separately each is like a part of a jig-saw puzzle. We may not appear to mean
very much to ourselves or to anyone else, but when we are placed in our
rightful Places according to the Lord's Eternal Plan, we begin to make a
picture—a picture that so many of us dreamed of quite imperfectly at times—the
picture of the Motherland as it used to be in the days gone by, and will be
again in the near future; and when we stop for a moment to think that we are
being privileged again to work in unison toward that end, and are privileged to
be partakers of this Service which many a prophet longed to be privileged to
participate in, we reach the height of gratitude that is only possible through the
medium of the Spirit."
When we begin to view these things from the
Mountain Top and see them in relationship one to another in true perspective
vision, in the Light of Truth, we begin to see that Pattern through which the
Power of the Creative Current of Divine Love may be released and made manifest
on earth in bringing life more abundant to those who respond according to the
One Law. Anything that tends to close or clog the channel, which would prevent
the free flow of that Creative Current of Divine Love, is foreign to the
function of the Unit. Because of our interest in Spiritual things, and our grasp
of what may be classified as metaphysical Truth, we have all, for a long time, recognized
that such things as fear and hate and resentment prevent the manifestation of
the Will of God on earth in and through the individuals who indulge in these destructive
trends of thought and feeling.
To some degree a victory in relationship to these
things was in evidence in the individual members of the Unit long before they became
members of the Unit, and the victory in relationship to these things has been increasingly
evident as we have come up to the present time, but now, in the beginning of
this New Cycle, we come to the time and the place where it is essential that
every member of the Unit should have a still deeper vision, a still deeper
realization, a still more effective function in relationship to these things.
Our Master, when He was on the cross and His Ministry
on earth was finished, with the exception of His Resurrection and that which
followed after, spoke the immortal words, "Father, forgive them for they
know not what they do." All too often human beings have imagined that His
expression related primarily to the soldiers who had thrust the spear into His
side, to those who had crowned Him with thorns, to those who had spat upon Him
and scourged Him, as if His Word in this matter was primarily an expression of
pity for those specific individuals who had had a personal part in committing that
heinous crime against God.
Any such idea fails to grasp the great significance
of the Master's Life and Ministry and Teaching, and the great significance of
what He said on the cross, and the great significance contained in the fact of
His Resurrection. Do you suppose that, because Jesus spoke those words on the
cross, all those individuals who had participated in that crime were automatically
and forthwith relieved of any ill consequence following upon their acts? Merely
because He said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they
do," did they have no further responsibility in the matter? I think not.
In the eyes of God that did not lessen their responsibility or their guilt one
single iota nor did it remove from them the consequences of their ill acts.
Let us consider. The Master came into the world to
bring salvation to the human family. The human family is one body. That body of
humanity has lived for thousands of years. The body of humanity has never died,
since the day that the body of humanity that fell was told, "Thou shalt
surely die." The body of humanity has lived through these thousands of
years. It was this body of humanity, through the members that we may call its
hands, that crucified our LORD and KING, not just the members of what we speak
of as that generation but the body of humanity since the day of the fall until
this present moment, for that body of humanity has lived through this entire
period of time and it has always been the body of humanity. The body or humanity
is guilty of that act, not just the hands of the body that perpetrated the act,
but the whole body of which the hands were but a part.
The Master's expression of Ministry never lost
sight of the body of humanity. He was not thinking merely of the individual
members of the body that perpetrated the action when He said, "Father, forgive
them for they know not what they do." He was thinking of every member of
that human body that was then or has been, up to this present moment.
Individual human beings are only cells in the body of humanity. The cells in
the human body of the individual change, but it remains the same body. The identity
of the body remains the same year after year, regardless of the cellular changes
within the body itself. So is it also with the body of humanity. This body of
humanity that we know in the world today is the body of humanity that crucified
our LORD and KING. The body of humanity has been under sentence of death for
many thousands of years, but the body of humanity has never paid that sentence.
Jesus Christ came into the world to make possible
the formation of a New Body, a Body renewed and reborn, which should be free of
that sentence of death. The world body crucified him and increased unto itself
its sentence of death, but, nevertheless, He made possible the birth of a New
Body, the Christ Body, that individuals who would let themselves be transformed
and reborn, that they might be members of this New Body, might have a part in
the Victory over the sentence of death. The world body is guilty of the murder
of our KING. The world body has imagined that it could get away with it. The
world body has imagined that it would not have to pay for its crime. The world
body will find that the sentence of death that has been imposed, will be executed.
All those who are members of the world body will have to share, or have a part
in, the death of the world body, but He Who was murdered by the world body made
possible the manifestation of a New Body on earth which should be free of the
death sentence, and He made it possible for any man, woman or child on the face
of the earth who should fulfil certain requirements, to come into that New Body,
the Christ Body, so that, being a member of the Christ Body, he or she should
cease to be a member of the world body under the sentence of death.
The only hope of the continuity of man on earth rests
in the Christ Body, because the world body must pay the price for its crime. If
every man, woman and child upon the face of the earth were to share in that
transition, if every man, woman and child upon the face of the earth were to
share in Rebirth and become members of the Christ Body, we would all rejoice
exceedingly and all would be well, for if all were members of the Christ Body
by reason of Rebirth, the world body would have come to an end.
This should be emphasized so that it may be clearly
realize that the death of the world body does not necessarily require the death
of any man, woman or child upon the face of the earth, for every man, woman and
child on the face of the earth is offered the privilege of Rebirth whereby each
may become a part of the Christ Body, and if that took place the world body would
be no more. "God is not willing that any should perish but that all should
have everlasting life"—but what is the beginning of that text? "For
God so loved the world"—for God so loved the whole human family, for God
so loved the body of humanity—"that He gave His only begotten son, that
whosoever believeth on Him might not perish but have everlasting life."
"For God so loved the world"—and almost
with His last breath, our LORD and Master Whom the world-body murdered, said,
"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." He did not say
those words to keep guilty ones from reaping the reward of their crime, but,
rather, to make certain that the guilty ones did receive punishment for their
crimes. He said those words to make certain that the sentence of death should
be executed for the world body. That statement may sound strange on first hearing
or at first glance, even to Emissaries, but let us consider.
Suppose the Master had harbored any hate. Suppose
He had carried any fear. Suppose He had focalized any resentment while He was
on the cross. He would have clogged the channel and would have prevented the
free flow of the Current of Divine Love into the world, and the Current of
Divine Love purges and cleanses away and brings to nothingness all that is
evil. He came into the world to open a clear channel for the flow and release
of the Current of Divine Love into the world. He did that. He proved, for those
who should understand, that He did that, when He said, "Father, forgive
them for they know not what they do.” He provided an absolute Focalization on
earth which, (regardless of what all the members of the human body had done,
and therefore regardless of what the human family as a whole had done), was
absolutely clear, absolutely free from fear, from hate and from resentment.
There was nothing to clog the channel; there was nothing to prevent the free
flow of the Current of Divine Love into the world as far as He and the Focalization
which Ho established, was concerned. That meant that He made certain that all
those who were guilty should die.
When the Power of God flows through any individual
it must of necessity flow through the channels provided by the consciousness of
the individual, and if that Current flows through channels of fear or hate or resentment
then the very Power of God is utilized to maintain the conditions of evil in
the world. Only when the members which comprise the Unit are free of fear, hate
and resentment can the Power of Love flow freely and fully, thereby fulfilling
its purpose, accomplishing that whereunto it is sent, uplifting those who
respond, and casting down those who respond not.
The Power of God cleanses and purifies. If the
individual is responding to God, the impurities are cleansed from the individual, but if the individual
is responding to the impurities, so that he identifies himself with the impurities,
then the individual himself is purged and removed out of his place. When there
is a clear recognition of these things, the focalization of consciousness in
the Unit will begin to be ready to let the Power of God truly work in the lives
and affairs of men, that all who will may leave the world-body and become
members of the One Christ Body, and that it may be certain, even as it is
certain regardless of what any shall do, that the world-body shall surely die.
If our Master on the cross had felt any hate or
fear or resentment He would never have come forth from the tomb, and it would
have been impossible for anyone to have become a member of the Christ Body. The
formation of the Christ Body on earth would have been an utter impossibility,
and the death penalty for the world body could not have been executed. The
world body would have died in season, but it would simply have been a gradual
disintegration into nothingness and nothing would have been left. No human
being would have survived. The whole earth would have been nothing but an empty
tomb—empty of life, that is, but containing the dust of the human body. But because
He went through what He did, without hate, without resentment, without fear, we
are privileged to become members of the One Christ Body, and all who will are
likewise privileged. God's crowning creation on earth has the privilege of
continuity on earth, and He made certain that the world-body should receive
execution of the sentence of death.
There is only one choice, actually, before the
children of men today—do they choose to remain members of the world-body, or do
they choose to become members of the Christ Body? All other choices are merely
incidental to this one choice, and every man, woman and child on the face of
the earth is faced with the necessity of making this choice, whether he knows
it or not and whether he likes it or not! There is but one Way of salvation and
that Way requires acknowledgment and acceptance of the LORD of Lords and KING
of Kings in a recognition that His Word is true: the Word when He said, "I
AM the Way, the Truth and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me."
When the individual members of the Unit have permitted
the work of cleansing to be completed in themselves to a point where there no
fear, no resentment and no hate, they will be clear channels for the work of
the Creative Current of the Power of Divine Love on earth. Then God's Will
shall be done on earth through them, and that is the only way by which God's
Will can be done on earth. So, we are privileged to see still more clearly,
still more vividly, in a still deeper realization, the secrets of Divine Love.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
