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Unveiling  True  Design

Uranda   April 16, 1954

The character which was revealed by our Master among men was simply the manifestation of the essences of His being according to the capacity established not only in the inner sense but in the outer sense of the physical form, the body, the mind and the heart, by reason of the design which was established in relationship to His form. The true character which He revealed was the revelation of the true design of His own being. That principle holds true with all.

To the degree that you reveal in the expression of your lives the true design of your own being, you are revealing on earth to the children of men your true character. To whatever degree you fail to reveal in form, in function, in action, the true design of your own being, you are asking others on earth to accept an expression of character which is not true to yourself, and consequently not true to God. You cannot know your own true character, in actual fact, until your own true design is revealed through the process of living.

All tragedies that appear on earth spring from this same pattern: the human imposition of human concepts, in relationship to design, which interfere with the divine design for human beings. The process of changing the future, as we use the term, is centered here.

If the individual is beginning to let the reality of his own design have manifestation, beginning to reveal his true character, but then by reason of wrong response to some form of stimulus that appears he develops a false pattern of design in his own consciousness and proceeds to impose that design upon the pattern of life manifestation, he begins to move toward tragedy. If having started in this direction of disintegration, decay and tragedy, the individual realizes what has happened, and he is willing to relinquish his humanly conceived design and let it go, if he is willing to trust, and he has a basis of love which provides a centering in God, the patterns of manifestation in relationship to the false design can be cleared away and the true design can once more begin to appear.

Here we have two steps in the changing of the future. First, the future was bright, moving in the right direction. The course was changed, so that the future held the potentialities of tragedy, and then, by reason of awakening to the danger of the situation, the individual responded, yielded, permitted a new centering, and consequently the future was changed again; the factors of tragedy were being eliminated from the future, and the factors of beauty of being were re-established for the individual. That which is of the future, coming out of the east, out of the garden of God, to the children of men, is of course of the divine design.

But we have noted how human beings project a little way into the future that which is of their own design, which disturbs the pattern of manifestation. The change in the future which we are interested in is achieved by inspiring the human being to the point where he may see the truth, see the facts as they are, realize what his own position is—not what he thinks it is, but what it really is—and then by inspiring him to relinquish the human concepts of design which he has developed, which he thinks to be valuable and important but which provide the switch, as it were, that turns him from the path of fulfilment into the path of tragedy.

Design—principle, purpose, design and control. This matter of design connects up with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good and evil provides the basis for the development of design. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is that which appears by reason of the formation of design. If the design is divine, then all is well. If it is not, tragedy follows.

The false design will always crumble sooner or later. It may conceivably extend beyond the life span of a given individual; the human being may be able to convey his design to someone else to carry on, so that it is maintained for a time. But the false design must crumble. From the standpoint of ancient history, we have what is called the rise and fall of empires, the evidence of this very thing. The empire that grew and developed on the basis of a false design crumbled. We see these ups and downs. Human beings think they design some pattern which can endure, and so all those involved go to work to make it big and great and important, and sooner or later it becomes so top-heavy that they cannot hold it up anymore and it crumbles.

Some designs inevitably crumble at the end of the life span of an individual who maintains them. When his body dies, the manifestation of that which he is projecting, the design for which he stands, passes away. Human beings are crucified on the cross of their own making by reason of false designs; they defeat themselves. God is not defeating them. God is doing exactly what the Master did. He let the pattern prove itself out. The point was to determine whether or not the divine design and the human design brought to a given point would be equally helpless. The human design crumbled and was gone. But out of that pattern of tragedy came forth the evidence that the divine design did not crumble.

The pattern through which it was made manifest changed somewhat, but the divine design endured and continued on, regardless of what man did and regardless of the fact that the human design crumbled and turned into nothing. The outer evidence of the idea or design of an earthly kingdom had crumbled and was gone. But out of this rubble, out of this ash, out of this debris, there emerged the evidence that the divine design endures and is not lost, is not destroyed merely because human designs crumble into nothingness.

And this is the great lesson which is offered to human beings, because it provides us with acceptable evidence that we can be associated with that which endures, we can let our pattern of life expression shift from the false design to the true. The effectiveness of living, the development of true character, the fulfilment of the individual, all depends upon this one thing: the manifestation of the true design. That true design is so covered up, so obscure as far as the human vision is concerned, that the human being of and by himself, in his own wisdom, cannot seek it and find it successfully. But he can seek for it and he can find it. As the Master put it, “He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” We must seek for it if we are to find it.

But here is the difference between the individual who is moving forward on the spiritual path and the individual who is moving toward tragedy—something that you can remember in relationship to yourself in the days to come and something that will help you to function effectively in service to others—the distinguishing point: One individual seeks to find that which he thinks will substantiate and maintain his belief in the patterns of his own design; everything that he hears, everything that he sees, he translates it, he twists it, he turns it somehow, into supporting evidence by which he may maintain conviction in his own rightness with respect to his own design. The other person is not interested in finding evidence to support his own design or anyone else's; he is interested in seeking and finding and unveiling the true design.

Now this basic differentiation in attitude will determine your success or failure in the days to come. If you are attempting to build a pattern of support with respect to an attitude, an idea, a concept, a belief, a desire that you have in relationship to a design which you think is pleasing to yourself, if you are quick to defend, if you are concerned about support for your design, you will inevitably fail. If you are careless of human designs, particularly your own, if you are seeking to find the design that endures, the design that is divine, and you are concerned about learning to participate in that design—not to support it but to let it have form in and through yourself—if you are seeking for that, regardless of what pet designs of your own making you may have to relinquish, if you are interested in yielding up your body and your mind and your heart, your capacities of being, to that true design, regardless of anything else, you will begin to reveal your true character. But no one can have or know or reveal his true character until he does that. It cannot be done.

Even at the time of the Master, when human beings had Him there in person and could hear the sound of His voice and accept His leadership if they would, they proved that point. Even the Master Himself could not sway, change or undo, in the direct sense, that which self-active, self-determined human beings established. It had to crumble and pass away of its own nature. So they did not reveal their true character. The true character with respect to Peter and Paul, for instance, is not revealed in the Bible. It was not revealed to the children of men.

The true character of the individual is hidden and buried, invisible, until these changes take place and the human being relinquishes his determination to use everything he sees and hears to substantiate his own concepts of design. Here is the point where human function divides one pattern into success and the other to failure, and it hinges on that which we have been studying—design.

It is not for us as human beings to try to learn how to be designers. It is for us to learn how to be discoverers of design, the design that God established, to see all of the different factors that enter into the design that is coming forth from God's hands. Not to try to impose this or that or the other thing into that design, not to try to get God to accept any design which the human mind may think to be pleasing, not to be designers, but to be discoverers of design, so that our capacities of being in body and mind and heart may be used for the true expression of the spirit in giving form to divine design, that the pattern of the future for us, and for all who will receive, may be changed, changed from the pattern of tragedy, failure, defeat, the ruins of the darkness of the tomb, changed to the pattern of success and fulfilment and victory, changed into the fulfilment of the heavenly womb out of which there is the birth in form of the right design. And as we so function we reveal our true character.

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