About the Space of Half an Hour
from Out of the Dawn
Uranda March 28, 1954
What is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? I have known some fantastic ideas on that score. However the minute that which is of God, that comes through the garden out of the east, actually begins to flow through you, be born through you in body and mind and heart, so that it can take form and move into the past, that is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But it does something. It does not come swishing through just to give you a little demonstration of what heavenly atmosphere is like, just a little bit of magic or something. It is something real, something that is to take form. Now if we imagined this layer to be—well how thick should it be? How far into the future? Ten minutes into the future? Oh, it is more than that. How should we measure it? Anything we say in illustration will be a bit arbitrary, but we will say an hour, sixty minutes in the future. Sixty minutes into the future. And we will say that from the physical form to that point an hour in the future is about three feet.
Here we have physical form. Next we have the intervening substance until it connects up with pure spirit. That is as far as we can go, to the range of pure spirit. And in between we have the intermediate substance. Now if we are functioning in certain definite patterns, attitudes, we keep projected out here for eighteen inches, eighteen inches into the future, at least thirty minutes, a pattern which constantly changes the future. You know, most of you are that close to the things of God. Just thirty minutes, or eighteen inches. If you keep something projected out there, that eighteen inches—"This is what I am; this is what I expect; this is what I am going to do; I am going to shape it"—then the garden is still eighteen inches in the future, thirty minutes from now, and heaven is still thirty minutes away. In other words we waste this thirty minutes, then the next thirty minutes, and the next thirty minutes, because we keep the human pattern projected out there. We never let it all back up to where we are. And everything from God has to screen through that which we project.
Thirty minutes! "About the space of half an hour." Do you think I was arbitrary when I said thirty minutes? That was the estimate utilized by the author of the Book of Revelation. So the space of half an hour is about what it would take for any human being to let the future pattern clear so that the things of heaven could start manifesting. But to get someone to do that. I have been working for twenty years to get someone to do that, and heaven is only thirty minutes away for hundreds of thousands of people, and I have not yet been able to convince people that the garden is really there, only thirty minutes away.
Thirty minutes to heaven! And who will believe deeply enough to do what must be done to prove it? Does it take too much faith, and are your own ideas too precious and your own feelings and attitudes too important? If you let that pass away, will everything be gone, with nothing worthwhile left? Are you afraid to let the unreal pass away? Yet this that you have projected out there for eighteen inches, that thirty minutes, is going to pass away sooner or later. You may be able to hold it until a day or two before you die, but then it will begin creeping back, and when it gets back you will be gone. That is the end of it. It is all over then. It is all over, and no resurrection. Life was spent and life was done, and what happened? Too bad! Perhaps someone else will listen.
Heaven, just thirty minutes away! Eighteen inches! If you could just let it back up—all your pet ideas, all the things you keep projecting into the future. You can't get it out very far. I doubt if any of you could get it quite eighteen inches, try as you may. I doubt if it is that far for any of you. But even if it is six inches, that is too far. It has to come back, and what you have shaped, and the thing you hold out there as yourself, must pass away. Now it will, sooner or later; it is mortal; it is going to pass away. It is so nice to let it do it while the body still lives, while you still have the ability to use your mind and your heart, while you have the ability to see all the beautiful things that God has made and do your part in letting the things of God come down out of heaven into the earth. It is so easy, but you have to trust enough to stop eating the forbidden fruit. You have to be willing to let what you think you are pass away, so that you may become what you really are. Now I doubt if there is anyone here who would actually let his heaven get to him in thirty minutes. It could be done—it could be done. It is possible to any of you here, but it is hardly likely that you would do it.
Thirty minutes to heaven, and how long is it going to take you to get there? If you try to get there through the thirty minutes, it will take your whole lifetime and then you will not make it, because as soon as your mind stops functioning, your emotional nature stops functioning, and your hard, determined will cannot hold it anymore, this that is stuck out here in the future for eighteen inches will start backing up and it will pass away and be gone. You will never get to heaven—even though heaven is only thirty minutes away—by trying to go through the thirty minutes to heaven into the future. You have to back up and let what you have made back up, let it pass away. You cannot see what is coming yet, but you have got to let it pass away. The human being must be ready to relinquish what he has made himself to be, willing to let God make him be what he should be.
Someday there are going to be a few people who come to agreement on earth as touching these things, and they are going to be willing to relinquish all the things that separate them from God, from heaven, from one another. They are going to come together with one accord in one place and they are going to start receiving the things of heaven into form together, and that is going to be a most glorious experience for those who dare to do it—the beginning of the manifestation of the spirit of God, the birth into form according to our Master's plan and purpose, according to His instruction given nearly two thousand years ago. Then it was only thirty minutes away, when He gave that instruction. Heaven was only thirty minutes away nineteen centuries ago. It still is. It is right there. And we are still looking to find someone who will let it connect up in this earth, in this world. You have let something of it get through, yes, but you have not let it connect up. It could be with you here, if you are willing to let it be so in the spirit of the living Christ.
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