The Hem of the Garment

The  Hem  of  the  Garment

from  Shekinah Magic

Uranda   June 18, 1953  Class

When one really begins to let go in the trinity of the Shekinah manifestation with the whole trinity of one's own being, with open heart, we find some wonderful changes taking place, and the development of those changes in our lives is something which cannot be arbitrarily outlined or particularly prognosticated. But you have gradually been letting go to a deeper sense of the working of the Fire, to the reality of the Light that glows, and the Cloud that enfolds, and you begin to realize that this of which I speak is not limited by time or place or distance.

I might illustrate a little in this connection. Back through the years, as I have received letters of response from many places in the world, there have been those few who have by reason of response touched the hem of the garment. Now what is the garment? You used to think of it as a linen robe, and think that the woman who had the issue of blood just touched the linen robe which the Master wore. That may, insofar as the physical factors are concerned, be the case. It perhaps could be, insofar as her consciousness was concerned, the key that opened the door. The touching of the physical robe would accomplish nothing. She touched the hem of the garment of the Shekinah Cloud: "clothed with a garment down to the foot"—and it is this garment that was touched so long ago in relationship to our Master, and she was not the only one.

But there have been those letters of response which brought the focalization of qualities necessary to the process of touching the hem of the garment. And in those instances there have been many times when it was such that my whole body would feel as if it were vibrating in the magnificent current flowing forth to such openhearted response. There have been those men and those women who have occasionally shared in that. It is not something which I can impose—it is something which must be received. Once there is a realization that the blessings of the Shekinah pattern cannot be imposed, that they must be received, we begin to be in position to consider the conditions essential in that receiving.

In this pattern of illustration which I have used, the letters I have received over the years, there has not been a consistent pattern with individuals or in the School as a whole. Sometimes we have gone for perhaps even weeks without a single letter reaching me which had the peculiar qualities necessary to the true release of this current in power. Other times I have received in one mail several. I have received such a letter perhaps from some individuals once and they write other letters following and there is no touching of the garment. Once we realize that while there may be some specific radiation in each letter, there may be something that will give a pattern of response which allows some blessing to manifest, but that it has been so haphazard, we can begin to see why I say that innumerable blessings from God have been passed by and ignored, never received, simply because human beings did not allow them to manifest. The reality of Shekinah manifests according to response—but human beings trying to respond cannot receive it.

We recognize the basic factors, the fulfilment of the Law, the patterns of response, of centering; we recognize the importance of a spirit of thanksgiving, an attitude of praise, a willingness to acknowledge the blessings of God. But all of these things, looked at by the human mind and established in a pattern to which the human being attempts to conform, will not permit the actual experience of that of which I speak.

I believe that since this Class opened a little over three months ago I have touched the point of the channeling of the patterns of response.  Any blessing from God appears through some specific individual. This phase of the matter we were considering yesterday—the recognition that the needs of the individual must be filled by God through others. There must always be a complementing factor; there must always be a joining in the vibrational pattern somehow. The essence of that which is to manifest and fill a need in your life, or the life of another, may be present in you but it has to come to a point of joining, a point of the cycle, a movement, if it is to appear.

Now some of the things that are in essence, or in part, in you, may need to be expressed on a positive vibratory factor in relationship to a negative point of focalization in someone else. This works without regard to sex, male or female, in the physical sense. In other words it is not a pattern of determining whether you are a man or a woman particularly—you will be a man or a woman in the divine sense if you let it function correctly—but there may be that in you which needs to find expression because the positive pole is in you, the positive point which is to find expression. But that positive point cannot be just arbitrarily pushed out of yourself and injected somewhere. Somewhere there must be an individual who has the negative vibratory factor there. It may be a man or a woman—it does not make any difference, a child; it may be a group; it may be any combination. But somewhere, sooner or later, if the divine plan is allowed to work out, someone will appear who provides the negative point of polarity for the expression of this positive factor within you; and when they join and the cycle begins to move, something will take form, it will appear. It can be in any level. It may be in relationship to material things or it may be primarily mental or primarily emotional. It will have an overall pattern of course.

There are likewise factors in you, male or female, which are fundamentally negative poles of something, a half of something shall we say, and until the right person comes along with the right factor of positive expression which will allow that to come forth out of you, allow that vibratory current to join and move in a cycle, you cannot arbitrarily project it out of yourself and make it mean something. These vibratory factors which connect up are in all people, positive and negative in vibratory factor, and the living of life, the actual process of living, depends upon this connecting-up process.

You can no more make any positive or negative factor in yourself complete itself for yourself or someone else than you can hop over the moon on one foot, and yet human beings are forever trying to do something like that. They assume that they can produce for themselves the things that they need for themselves, etc., and they make forms, imitations, idols, and become idolaters, and may worship with great devotion, but they never know the reality of living.

Now here at this point I must of necessity inject a parenthetical consideration, because as soon as these patterns actually begin to move in relationship to association one with another, as soon as some vibratory factor in you, be it positive or negative, tends to connect up with some vibratory factor in another person, the human mind and the impure human heart tend to start discoloring it—and if it be between male and female, one way or the other—the female may provide the positive factor in a multitude of cases, remember, in this vibratory sense, and the male the negative factor—and if it happens between male and female there is all too often a tendency to jump to a conclusion which causes that to be interpreted or translated on a basis which is not a part of the divine design. Human beings aren't used to feeling vibratory attunement with others without attempting to make it into something.

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