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.
© Emissaries of Divine Light
