In The Fire — Continuum

In  The  Fire  —  Continuum

Grace Van Duzen   September 12, 1999

Initiation—4,000 years ago—a real beginning in history as we know it. There was plenty that went on before that, but Abraham was a great pioneer, and it was the initiation of his ministry which opened the door for everything that followed. The word he received, which was his initiation, was the beginning of a Body.

In his classes, Uranda always emphasized the fact that Abraham accepted a great promise. He was capable of recognizing a great commission. This is true with each of us—or should be. There is a tendency to say, "Oh, not one person, insignificant me." He didn't say that. And what he initiated was the source of the religions we know today. No one of them can take the credit. They all came from that: Jewish, Christian, Muslim. It wasn't the way it was meant to be. It was meant to stay One Holy Thing—and there must come a time when it all comes together. This is the time. The word that Abraham heard was: "And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered." That's a lot of people!—without number. People may say, "Well, so many people would fit on this earth, and so many have to disappear," and all the rest. Nobody knows.

But my emphasis here is on the word seed. Here was a seed planted. A seed is a marvelous thing. Everything comes from a seed. It may not be one you can hold in your hand, but it comes from a seed. And everything is contained in that seed. It's a miracle. If it's a plant, the leaves, the flowers, fruit, all come from it. And the design is in the seed, the way it grows, everything.

This was true with the seed which Abraham brought. His seed isn't meant here as his children and grandchildren, and so on. "Without number" is true. His great-grandchildren included the twelve sons of Jacob, the children of Israel. No, this is the seed that would be magnified and fill the whole world. It was the same message Uranda heard sixty-seven years ago. Why is it the same message? Why was Abraham's initiation different from all others? Because it wasn't just for him; it was for the Whole Body. Here was the recognition and acceptance of the grand commission that a Body needed to be formed. Through every age and every generation there have been individuals who were attuned to the Lord, and they contributed mightily to what is possible now—every single one, every act of love—but this was a recognition that there had to be a Body.

There was a renewal of that seed 2,000 years after Abraham. Why a renewal? There was failure. But there was also Victory. There was enough substance to allow something to be there 2,000 years later so that the Greatest One of All could come into the earth. There was substance through that first endeavor, or it could not have happened. So I emphasize the victories. Yes, there were failures, and a sad failure. It could have carried all the way through, but something was there for another seed to be initiated. You might say the same seed, in essence, but on the next level of the spiral. And this is what we need to keep in mind: that there is movement, not just from that seed to the next seed, but now in this time.

To me there is a wonder connected with that second seed when our Master came. The wonder that He could come into the earth, of course—but the fact that substance was carried over from the first was shown by the presence of some here on earth who were aware of His coming and ready to welcome Him. And they were from the two extremes of the walks of life. This shows something of the substance that was carried through from the first seed. There were the shepherds of the so-called lowly station—working class?—and they brought the animals. At the other level there were what the Bible calls wise men but in other records are called kings. They brought great wealth with them. It was all there in response to the Lord. There was nothing wrong with any of it—it was there.

Jesus emphasized the Body, the Vine, which He was and Is. There were countless victories throughout the time that was initiated by the Master. Failures, oh yes, but something has been brought to this point 2,000 years later. So we had Jesus 2,000 years after Abraham, and here we are, 2,000 years after Jesus, the seed on the higher spiral. But there isn't time for seeds to be sown over and over. This is it, and it is shown in many ways in the Bible. There are parables. There is one parable of Jesus where he speaks of the last days—last of a certain thing that needed to disappear; not of the earth, not of its people—not if we have anything to do with it. Right?

There were victories as well as failures, not just during the time when Jesus was here but since then in every generation. And today, with our media, there is great emphasis on the wrong things—violence. But there is wonderful response in the Body, we could say the Vibrational Ark—the Vine. These three seeds are actually one seed—necessary initiations to bring something again to focus.

I shall read something from The Vibrational Ark, which was spoken 22 years after Uranda's Initiation, but it was given one month, exactly, before his departure from this realm—delivered on July 4, 1954, and he left on August 4, 1954.

"God planted a garden eastward in Eden. It does not say He transplanted something already formed from another place into the earth. We see those who neglect what God has planted, and with a frenzy try to plant their own seed and cause it to grow, and the seed from God never has a chance to sprout. The seed is already here. It is for us to provide the right atmosphere for its growing. It is for us to dress it, to give it form, to let it grow and come to the point of harvest, and keep it, not throw it away, not let it be meaningless in the days of our yesterdays."

That wording strikes me, "the days of our yesterdays." It is the time of harvest, and a harvest cannot appear without constant growth. The parable refers to the time of harvest, when the seeds that had been planted would come to harvest. There were wonderful seeds planted by the Lord in His fields. Also the devil planted seeds. And it was said that at the time of harvest the harvest for the Lord would be garnered into His barn and the rest would be gathered into bundles and burned in the Fire. A barn may not be a very exotic name. Another name for it is the Temple of the Living God. And the Fire is present in each one. That's where the Fire is. Do we look for it to come from the sky somewhere? The Fire is present and that Fire is Love. Where am I in the Fire? This depends on whether the gathering is into the Lord's Temple or burned in the Fire.

We have heard that there is a core where the Blue Flame is Cool, where man is created to be with God. There is a process of taking care of the dross, but man was never meant to be in that level. It has to do with eating of the forbidden tree. From the Center, the Core, there is heat, and it changes distortions. In the world and in all the Cosmos there has to be some balancing factor, but man's consciousness was never created to be there, but to abide with the Lord at the Core.

So, it is a time of revealing the harvest from the seeds. We are not to get out there and try to decide what the seeds are. We have no idea, none at all. Let them grow to the time of harvest. Let the seeds sprout. Let them grow together. The weeds will come up with the wheat. Then the Fire takes care of it in each one, and all together. Trying to do something about it would, to quote Martin, always make it worse. And it doesn't mean that we're sitting around waiting for something to happen. We are the instruments for God's action.

The Fire is burning. This is the harvest. It is the time of harvest, and I'm sure that that Fire is felt, not as heat necessarily but as an urgency—"I'd better get on with my life, I'd better do something here." There may be a feeling even of not having enough time to finish it. But this is the pressure. Welcome pressure in the Cool of the Fire, in the center of the Flame. And there are many in the world—we don't know how many, and we certainly can't figure it out, or need to—many in the heat of the Flame. It is called hellfire by those who are in it. You know, there is only One Fire. Where I am in it determines the nature of the Fire, and that Fire needs to increase to let the job get done.

I'm going to mention Martin's name in conjunction with Uranda. They were always in complete agreement. I'll go back to this Word at the end of what I quoted from Uranda on July 4, 1954, when he said not to throw it away, or let it be meaningless in the days of our yesterdays. To me, that's the key. It speaks of continuum. It speaks of something that is not sporadic, that is not allowed to lapse or fall down or fail again. This is a time for carrying through in the harvest. It must have meaning in the days of our yesterdays.

This reminds me of the last line in that beautiful 23rd Psalm: "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." That has always struck me, and years ago I thought, How can goodness and mercy follow me? Why? God isn't up there, saying goodness and mercy will follow you, now, all the days of your life. Isn't that nice? If something is following me, it has to be there. I must have put it there, if it's going to follow me. There is the continuum. What will follow me is what is trailing after me, what I did yesterday. That is what will follow me. So, do I allow it to carry over?

Anyone can respond and begin, plant the seed, anytime—now. There's no judgment if it took us a while. But the thing is, do we start again tomorrow? Or can it carry over? That is the only way it can grow, the only way the seed can come to harvest, the days of our yesterdays have meaning. And it isn't just hanging on to something, always being tempted. There comes a point where it isn't there—what was a temptation, and the spirit does it. Abiding in that place, there is the continuum. And the result of those words, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life," is: "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever," in the Father's barn, His Temple. Praise the Lord.

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