Stand Still
from Out of the Dawn
Uranda March
28, 1954 p.m.
This morning we were considering
that which is immortal. Trying to cause the mortal to become immortal is a vain
and futile effort. But we began to see that man has not clearly comprehended
that which is immortal and that which is mortal. We have recognized, in
relationship to those who have passed from this sphere of things, that all that
was noble and right, all that was truly lovable or divine which was made
manifest in that life, still remains—not necessarily in the visible realm where
we can see it, although each one who allows the divine to appear certainly
leaves, in the lives of others and in the pattern of circumstance, that which
is a continuation of being. But in the realm of the eternal, that which is
eternal remains. That which is eternal finds expression on earth through man to
the degree that man allows the eternal to manifest. As we comprehend these
things we are in position to re-examine the pattern of function as it applies
to ourselves and to others.
We have recognized that that which
is eternal comes down from God out of heaven into the earth, or to put it
another way, it comes to us from out of the east, from out of the garden of
God. And coming into the pattern of life, it manifests for the time in which it
should manifest, or for the time or period it is allowed to manifest.
We have given some consideration
to man and his capacities. We realize that human beings have for a long period
of time undertaken to penetrate into the realm of the invisible. There are
those who are engaged in what they call occult activities, and there are those
who classify themselves as mystics, because their primary concern is with that
which is invisible. Because such efforts are made on a basis of human concepts,
probing into realms where man is not really at home, such persons exert an
influence in a vibratory field where they produce for themselves that which
they expect to find in relationship to the fringes of the invisible realm. I
mention this so that we may the better understand the principle as it relates
to the ordinary processes of living. Those who, seeking to communicate with the
so-called dead, establish for themselves that which they desire or expect to
find. That which they contact, imagining it to be the spirits of the departed,
is something which they themselves manufacture; they produce it. To say that
they do not contact anything would be untrue. What they do not realize is that
they themselves produce that which they do contact, and then, because they
contact that which they expected to contact, they think they have proof that
they are right. These spirits, so called, which they contact are not the
spirits of the departed but spirits that they themselves have manufactured by
the processes of their own function. There are those who function in the range
of the extremes of black magic, for instance—which comes in the range of the
occult—and the evil spirits they contact and use presumably give evidence of
evil spirits; but what is not generally known is that they produce that which
they contact and use. Those who believe in evil spirits manufacture evil
spirits, and then proceed to contact them and find the evidence that they are
right in believing in evil spirits—it is always so with respect to those who
dabble in the fringe range between the visible and the invisible.
Now this range between is of vital
importance. It is the range by which that which is of a higher realm of being
may be brought into contact with our level of being. Spirit, God's spirit as
such, cannot directly contact the physical body. There must be a connecting
link, and in our previous meditations we have studied the nature of this
connecting link in the field of the pneumaplasm.
This is such a vast subject—and one which tends to be fascinating to human
minds—that we must be careful not to defeat our immediate purpose by delving
into it too extensively at the moment. But to whatever degree we realize that
we each one have a share in the forming of that which is in this range as it relates
to ourselves, we can surely begin to see our pattern of responsibility. If that
which is of the divine design, in the true current of the spirit of God, under
the control of His will, is allowed to extend into this range or borderland without interference from us,
it can take form in the vibrational realm of our own beings, and be in position
to have form in the physical realm of our beings. But man has for so long eaten
of the forbidden fruit, feeling himself to be justified in judging good and evil,
that he has developed a pattern, common to all human beings, whereby he
produces in this range many things of which he himself is not immediately
aware.
It is truly said, "As ye sow,
so shall ye reap." Now most people do not understand how this works out.
The only way we can reach into the invisible realm is through the feeling nature. The mental pattern of
our own beings cannot really extend into this realm except through the feeling
nature. An idea about which we have little feeling will not make any impression
in this range between the visible and the invisible, the connecting layer of
vibrational substance extending from the sea of glass clear as crystal into the
realm of physical substance. Most people do not even have an awareness, in any
real sense, of the fact of this realm. But any feeling which you have in a deep
sense is projected into this realm, and this realm is always causing something
to come to us from out of the east. Through it something is moving toward us
all the time. It is supposed to be the means by which the things of the garden
of God come to us out of the east and take form in our lives. But man, lacking
peace and serenity, lacking control, has been subject not to God but to all
kinds of things and conditions out here, ill things, and he has felt justified
in having deep-seated reaction to these ill things. What happens?
The reaction pattern through the
feeling nature projects out like a wave into this connecting range, and then
that which man has produced today by reason of his feeling reactions is
planted, as it were, in the east and then it is harvested out of the east; it
comes back to him. Whatever he projects into that range must come back to him.
It cannot go in any other direction but back to himself. No matter how justified
it may seem to be to have that reaction, regardless of the processes of
rationalization, whatever they may be, those ill things which the human being
establishes in the feeling nature, through reactions of various sorts, are
projected into this connecting link, because man projects on that basis into
this invisible range which connects him with the higher invisible range which
he cannot directly contact.
Because man is unaware of its
nature he produces in that range, by his own function, a discordant pattern on
a forceful basis, which prevents the shaping in that range of what should come
to him from God. Now if man would leave that vibrational realm alone, not
breaking into it, not disturbing it, that which he has fed into it out of the
past would soon all feed back and pass to the west—that is, to the past. And
then that which was of the garden of God planted eastward in Eden would begin
to have an opportunity to take form in that vibratory level; it would come to a
point where the human being could contact it, begin to receive it into form
through himself, through his actions, words, deeds, and then that would begin
to flow past him into the past and he would be expressing reality.
You are not supposed to express
into the future. You are supposed to express into the present, to establish
that which goes into the past. Man has so little trust in God that he tries to
produce in his future that which he thinks he wants to reap, and so, by his
various patterns of function, he is continually doing something with that which
is to come to him out of the future; he is reshaping it somehow, not trusting
God. He just must get his fingers on it and shape it in that range where it is
susceptible to shaping in the vibrational realm. He cannot just leave it alone.
But once you begin to trust God you cease trying to shape your future. As long
as you are bound and determined to shape your future you will. You will spoil
what God has prepared for you. You will upset it, change it, mar it, destroy
it, and establish something that you have produced yourself, and then that will
be what comes to you from out of the future.
Now you have a part to play in
this moment, allowing that which is coming out of the future to take form in
the moment so that it may be the form of the past, and moment by moment that
which you do becomes the past. Generally speaking, the past is not altogether
satisfactory to the individual. That which is extending into his past he does
not altogether like. But once we reach a point where we trust and, trusting,
centered in God's love, we are at peace, serene, tranquil—no violent emotional
storms disrupting the vibratory field of the future as it relates to ourselves—the
remnant of what has been sown passes by, comes to the present, takes form to
some degree, and goes into the past. Then we come to the point where that which
is coming out of our future is not spoiled, distorted by our own function. It
is of God.
At this point we need to realize
that the creative field as it relates to us in this future pattern, the
vibratory range, is not just our own. Once having established a path through,
so to speak, you may maintain that narrow path in relationship to yourself on a
true pattern, but that will not be the wholeness of that which comes into your
life, because your pattern is related to other people's patterns. You cannot
draw a line into the future and say, "Everything that comes to me from now
on is going to be just what God made." However you can hold steady and
keep a clear path through. If I did not do that we would not have what we do
have here. But that which comes out of the future in relationship to myself,
for instance, is not limited to that path. In this field we all have a hand,
each one of you. Whatever is there in relationship to us, and to many other
people, is never an altogether individual thing. Something of it is yours;
something of it is someone else's.
When we reach a point where we let
this connecting range to the east of us clean out—as it will if we just leave
it alone—when we let it clean out so that we are not producing anything in it
that is not of the divine design, we can begin to have a broad path into the
future. But the first contact you get through will be a very narrow path, just
a little band so to speak, a strait and narrow way, connecting you up with
heaven, the divine pattern of being. And along that narrow path you can receive
something of that which is of God's will for you, but those around you must
begin to function correctly before it can broaden out and permit the larger
manifestation of God's will. For as long as the vibrational field, the
emotional realm, as it relates to us, includes others—and unless it does
include others it is of no value—then that which others do relates to this
field; there is interference.
Every time I begin to feel that we
have an opportunity to get a broad conveyor belt, shall we say, from out of the
east cleared so that we can let that which is of God come through into the
realm of form, someone has some kind of a reaction pattern, and oh, they are so
justified—and there it goes again. Projected into the future, through which we
must receive whatever we do receive from God, is that which does not belong,
that which is going to mar the pattern of God's provision or prevent much or
all of its manifestation, and so we must reap that.
I have talked and sought in every
way that I could to inspire you to reach a point where you would cease
interfering with that field, and yet you have felt justified for so many
reasons, you have felt justified in doing that which projects into that field.
And once it is there we have to deal with it, we have to put up with it and get
it out, and it takes time. Now we can keep on projecting into that field until
we perish from the earth, if we are so inclined, and we will never receive the
pure current of what God has in store for us, His provision, that which should
take form. For most reactions are on the basis of displeasure at what is in
form in some fashion—displeasure at what
is in form. So the individual reacts to what he does not like and produces
more of what he does not like, and then what he does not like keeps coming. He
still does not like it, so he produces some more of it and refuses to let it
pass out of his life. The only way you can interfere in that range is by or
through your feeling nature, whatever controls in the feeling nature. Once the
heart or feeling nature is pure—that is, it is controlled by God—then your
connecting link with that layer through which the things of God must come is of
a nature that does not interfere with what God is providing, and the things of
God begin to get through to you.
We can look back to the time when
the disciples were attempting to develop what has become known as Christianity.
They had certain ideas, certain beliefs. They were going to obey what they
thought the Master intended them to do. But if you go back and examine the
pattern as it was you will see that they tended to project into this range
something which was not of God's design at all. There was only one who did not
function notably on that basis. Peter and Paul—just to illustrate—had a concept
of persecution against themselves. They expected persecution. They deliberately
did things to produce that persecution. When they could have modified
expression and been reasonable, they remained hard and unreasonable, and with
deep feeling projected into the future that which they and their followers had
to receive in the sense of persecution. They produced the condition which
caused them to be thrown to the lions and burned at the stake, and all of the
rest of it. The situation as it was in the world, difficult as it was, would
not have produced that if they had not established it in their own futures by
their own attitudes.
It has been said, "That which
I feared is come upon me." Why? Because the pattern of fear projects
something into the future and then it comes sliding out of the future. How far
do you think you can project something? A little boy with a squirt gun, who
makes it go ten feet or twenty feet? He gets it out there into the future.
Little boys and girls with the squirt guns of their own feeling natures,
shooting into the future! And then it comes flowing back to them and they do
not like it. So they play with their squirt guns all over again and splatter
all over the place, shooting it into the future, and here it comes sliding
back.
You cannot make anything stay in
the future. Whatever you project into the future of your own self-active
expression is going to come sliding right back out again. That is true, whether
we like it or not. You cannot make it stay out there in the future. Something
is going to keep coming out of the future as long as you are here to receive it—something.
What is it going to be? It depends on what is in the future, and on your
capacity to receive, and on your being in position to receive what is coming
out of the future. Many times human beings fail to receive something out of the
future which is right there at hand to come from God. They are too busy doing
something else, chattering about this and that, to receive it. It is there,
ready to be born into the realm of form, but they are too busy with something
else, following after their own fancies. They are not on hand to share in the
delivery into the realm of form.
Frankly, it is impossible for me
to establish and maintain a clear pattern out there in the future for you. I
can help you do it, out in the future, but I cannot do it alone. It takes you. And as we agree on earth as
touching these things, and stop projecting something unreal into the future
which must come back to us, we begin to be in position to receive that which is
coming out of the east from God to us. And then, as we begin to learn how to
receive that which is coming from God, receive it into the realm of form, we
can begin to let it flow into the past.
The things of God need to extend
into the past. That is what the Master was talking about. He said, "For as
the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be." Of course people have arbitrarily
taken that to mean various ideas about Jesus coming. It doesn't have anything
to do with that at all. But shining out of the east even unto the west will be
the coming of the Son of man; that is, the divine expression of man—which is to
say, the revelation of God, or the spirit of God. If we begin to let the spirit
of God get through to us so that there can be an outpouring of it, where is the
outpouring to be? Into the present, and then extending on into the past. And
where does it come from? Out of the east. That is what the Master was talking
about. The spirit of God must come out of the east; that is, out of the future,
into the present and on into the past. And when it extends into the past as far
as we can see, and into the future as far as we can see, and on both sides of
us as far as we can see, we will then be in the midst of the garden of God.
As it is, we are at the edge of
the garden of God. Man has been out of the garden, but at the edge of it, down
through all these thousands of years. It is there, but this little level of the
connecting pattern man could interfere with. He could project something into it
and prevent the manifestation of what God had made. He could produce what he
himself would receive out of the future, and he was not content to trust God.
"Oh, I know I must shape it this way and I must shape it that way."
He begins to see something taking form and he must get his busy little fingers
on it and shape it so that it will be better than what God could possibly make.
And then he receives it and it is empty. It is not what he thought it was going
to be, and then he blames God.
Before we can be in the midst of
the garden we must let it extend into the past. Generations before us have been
at the edge of the garden. Every step of the way since the fall man has been at
the edge of the garden. Every man and woman on the face of the earth has been
at the edge of the garden, and something has been coming to each one out of the
future. But man has had to make it, so he thought. Something of God got through
to most, at least, or life would have been intolerable, but it was not the pure
expression of God's gift, because man had to shape it his way.
Now I have suggested the proper
function before, and I have pointed out that the things of God must come to us
from out of the east, but perhaps tonight we can have a deep enough realization
of what actually takes place, so that we can deliberately stop spoiling—deliberately stop spoiling—what God would
give to us. Man can play in this field and produce all sorts of things. He can
demonstrate various things, he can produce fantastic things, but they amount to
nothing. Or he can learn to leave it alone—and let what happen?
Have you been trying to get through
the gate into the garden of God? Do you want to go through that gate? You never
will, in the sense of moving through it. Why? Because you would have to go into
the future to do it. How can you go into the future? Can you step into the day
after tomorrow and live the day after tomorrow before tomorrow comes? Can you?
Can you step into the future? No. Very well, then, stop trying to get through
the gate that leads to the garden of God. There is the sword, the flaming sword
that turns every way—the flaming sword, God's love and truth, that turns every
way at the gate. Now the gate will come up to you as close as you will let it,
and if you will really stand still and see the salvation of the Lord the gate
will pass by you and go into the past.
You stand still and let it come
out of the future, truly, and you will go through the gate, because the gate
passes back past you. But if you try to go through the gate you never will.
However if you will stand still the gate will come up to you and pass you and go
into the past, and then you will be inside the garden of God. It is the only
way. Serenity, peace, non-reaction, trust, faith, all of the ideas that have
been advanced and have been so ambiguous to most human beings—just doing that
in real trust, real centering in God, and it comes up to us. But we must do
something about letting it take form. We must share with God the work of giving
it form on earth. If you stop spoiling your future and let that pass so that
you are next door, so to speak, to that which God would give you, then you must
begin to dare to receive that into form. You have to have a little training to
learn how.
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